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ABOUT CHICKRx

ChickRx is a high quality health and wellness community for chicks - young women and women with a young state of mind. ChickRx is a place where you can anonymously ask health and wellness questions and get answers from experts and other members - young women like yourself, with relevant experiences and interesting insights. This is a community designed for you to frequent when you’re looking to be informed and entertained by juicy conversations, or when you have questions you want answered.

Our goal is to give you easier access to experts, to aggregate the collective wisdom of experts and peers around the health and wellness issues we worry or wonder about, and to create a fun and engaging community where you can access and contribute to this information. Aggregating multiple perspectives is particularly important when it comes to health questions/issues, since answers are rarely black or white, and getting multiple viewpoints provides significantly better information.
- We capture our community’s collective wisdom via the Q&A and Thoughts posted by experts and members and supplement this with entertaining, informative articles. Thought posts are a free form way for users to share helpful tips, personal experiences, links, photos, videos, etc.
Since this is a health community and people are often discussing personal information, we let people be as anonymous as they want, so that they can engage with the community freely. This does not, however, give people the freedomto post irresponsibly: with the help of our community, we will remove posts that do not meet our standards for quality or respectfulness. If a member is repeatedly disrespectful or spamming, we reserve the right to remove her account at any time.
Users can customize their site experience. Users can anonymously follow topics, questions, experts, and members that interest them, and be notified when there are new posts in things they follow.
The community is run by our members and experts, who, in addition to asking and answering questions and posting Thoughts, curate the community by voting up great posts, organizing posts by tagging them with topics and flagging posts that should be removed.
Content is well organized by topics. Users tag content with topics, and to augment this system of organization, we also utilize a smart tagging system, wherein parent topics are automatically added to a post, where relevant (for example, a user tags a question with the topic “Blackheads,” and the system automatically adds the topic “Acne” to that question, the parent topic for “Blackheads”). This helps make topic pages more comprehensive, capturing relevant content that might otherwise not have been tagged with that topic.

TEAM CHICKRx

photo of ChickRx founders: Stacey Borden and Meghan Muntean

We're the co-founders of ChickRx, and have been close friends since meeting in 2005. Like most girlfriends, we'd often seek each other's advice regarding our relationships, diets, beauty, workout routines, etc. One day we realized that, despite being well-educated, we and our friends were constantly confused, misinformed or worried about something health-related (you know, things like, "What the hell is going on with my skin - and is this normal?," "How do I get out of this unhealthy relationship?" or “Why am I suddenly getting unbearable cramps, and could this be serious?”...the list goes on and on).

So why wasn’t there a quick, easy and anonymous way to get expert answers to these questions? Importantly, why was there no health site for us, where we could have frank conversations with other young women going through the same things?

So we and our incredible team built ChickRx to solve these problems: to give young women a fun, cool and convenient place online to connect with health experts and peers who've been there. We designed the site to be exactly what we and our friends wished we had during all those frantic text messages, deep heart to hearts and lighthearted brunch convos. We and our team hope that ChickRx enables you to live healthier and happier, and to help some other chicks out too!

Stacey and Meghan

Gulus Emre
Editorial Intern

Jen McPherson
Comedian

Kendrick Taylor
Director of Engineering

Megan Cedro
Illustrator

Meghan Muntean
Co-Founder

Paige Panter
Marketing Intern

Salvador Vélez
Designer

Stacey Borden
Co-Founder

SITE HELP

Below you’ll find answers to frequently asked questions about ChickRx. If you still have questions about using the site, or are experiencing any trouble, please feel free to email us: help@chickrx.com.

What is ChickRx?
Just how anonymous am I on ChickRx?
What are ChickRx's standards for writing?
Why am I liable for what I write on ChickRx?
Who are ChickRx experts?
How does "following" work?
If someone's following me, what can they see?
Why should I vote up stuff in the community?
How old must I be to use ChickRx?
How do I delete my account?
Does ChickRx sell any of my personally identifiable information?
How can my company advertise on ChickRx?
What should I do if I'm experiencing a medical emergency?

What is ChickRx?

The About Us tab provides an overview of the site. On the Team tab, you can learn about our team and our story behind why we founded ChickRx.
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Just how anonymous am I on ChickRx?

Every question you ask, everything you follow and everything you vote up across the site is totally anonymous. When you submit answers, Thought posts and comments, you can do so either with your username (making these “public posts”) or you can submit them anonymously (by checking the anonymous box before submitting). If you submitted an answer or comment using your username, but would like to later go back and make it anonymous (or vice versa), you can do so by accessing the post from the relevant My Activity tab on the My Account page.

Note that if your username, your profile image and what you post do not reveal your identity, even your public posts are effectively anonymous, since your personal identity is not tied to them.

You cannot submit Thought posts anonymously—your username is associated with all of your Thought posts. If you’d like for your identity not to be associated with your Thought posts, ensure that your username, profile image and the content of what you post across the site do not reveal who you are.

What are ChickRx's standards for writing?

ChickRx is a high quality community. We reserve the right to either edit or remove any posts that do not meet our writing standards (if that doesn’t sit well with you, just remember that no one wants a janky community, now do they?).

Infuse your own personality and flare into your writing—we’re all about that. But we do ask that your questions, answers, Thought posts and comments:

Strive for correct grammar and spelling.
Use respectful language. No bullying or judging (i.e., no mean girls, please).
Aim to be helpful and accurate. We’ll remove anything that reeks of spam.

And since we’re talking about health and wellness issues here, it’s important to remember that you should not attempt to: seek a diagnosis (by asking something too specific to just you), diagnose others or recommend that others undergo any procedures, take any medications, etc. (though of course you can speak about your own experiences). Please be sure to read and understand our Terms of Use.
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Am I liable for what I write on ChickRx?

Everyone is responsible for what they write on ANY website, not just ChickRx (we’re talking legally, not just morally, my friends). That being said, you should read our Terms of Use to learn more about the advice you find on our site. If you’d feel more comfortable additionally including your own disclaimers with your posts, please feel free to do so.
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Who are ChickRx experts?

Users who post to our service are labeled an “expert” if they provide ChickRx with certain background information, and generally include doctors, therapists, dietitians, fitness instructors, and other health and wellness professionals. ChickRx does not verify or otherwise investigate these Users or any of the information they post.

All information provided by Users is the sole opinion and responsibility of that User, and provided to you for informational purposes only. In no event will ChickRx be responsible for any posts, comments, or other content submitted by its Users, or for your use of any of the foregoing. For more information, please review our Terms of Use.
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How does "following" work?

By following topics, questions or other people on the site (by clicking this symbol: to the left of the thing you want to follow), you can easily keep tabs on things that interest you. When there’s new activity around topics, questions, experts or members you follow, we alert you to that in the “Notifications” dropdown located in your member account box. When you ask a question or answer someone else’s question, you are automatically following that question, and as with other questions you follow, we alert you to new activity in that question via the “Notifications” dropdown.

You may also receive emails notifying you when new answers are posted to questions that you follow. You can adjust your email notification settings on the Settings tab of your My Account page.

Unlike on many other sites, ChickRx DOES NOT display what you follow to anyone—everything you follow is anonymous. So you can feel free to follow something you may be interested in, but that you don’t want other people knowing about (such as those embarrassing sex or bathroom-related questions that we know you love).
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If someone's following me, what can they see?

People may want to follow you because they think you have interesting insights, as you express in your public answers, comments and Thought posts. When someone is following you, they are notified only when you submit new public posts. This includes all of your Thought posts and any answers or comments you submit using your username. They never see what content you view on the site, the questions you ask, what you vote up, what you follow, or answers or comments that you submit anonymously. No one, whether they follow you or not, can see these things.
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Why should I vote up stuff in the community?

You can anonymously vote up questions, answers, Thought posts, and articles by clicking the button. We encourage you to vote on content that you think is helpful or interesting because it helps surface good content to the community, and it’s a way of expressing support to those who make quality contributions.
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CONTACT CHICKRx

Please feel free to email us, and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

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