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Policy on Privacy and Confidentiality Medical Education Group LLC ("MEG") understands how important the privacy of personal information is to our participants. MEG is committed to honoring your privacy and to offering special protections for any information you choose to share with us. The document you are reading describes what information we may collect about you, what uses we may make of it, how you can tell us what to do with your information, and what precautions we take against unauthorized access or use of your information. About this Privacy Policy Website Covered This privacy policy applies only to the Medical Education Group LLC website (www.megcme.com) (the "Website"). The Website is our website for physicians and allied health care professionals. However, it is open to non-professionals as well. The Website provides certified/approved continuing education for healthcare professionals. Privacy Policy Changes As our privacy policies change in significant ways, we will make every effort to notify you of the changes. When the privacy policies change in a way that affects the way we handle personal information, we will not use the information we have previously gathered without obtaining consent from the appropriate individual. We will post privacy policy changes on our Websites in a timely manner. In the event that a material revision is made, MEG will attempt to notify its users via the Website and by email, but, in any event, if you continue to use the Website following any such revision, you will nonetheless be bound by the revised Privacy Policy. Information We Collect Information We Collect from Unregistered Visitors Visitors to our Website can access the Website's home page and browse some areas of the site without disclosing any personally identifiable information. In some cases, when you visit the Website, MEG may, through the use of "cookies" (which are described in greater detail below), automatically collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. Examples of this type of information include the type of Internet browser you are using, the type of computer operating system you are using, the time and date of access, the domain name of your Internet service provider and/or the web site from which you linked to the Website. Information We Collect When You Register Users registering for services on the Website are asked to provide us with identifying information, such as name, contact information, and other identifying information. On our registration screen, we clearly label which information is required for registration, and which information is optional and may be given at your discretion. In addition, we gather information about you that is automatically collected by our Web server, such as your IP address and domain name. MEG will use this information to personalize its offerings and presentations to you, facilitate your movements throughout our Websites, provide personalized services, and to communicate with you individually. Use of any of the services on the Website is entirely voluntary; however, if you do not provide the personal information requested by us, then we may elect not to make the related services available for your use. If you have registered with MEG and do not want MEG or its partners to contact you in the future, please see Opt-Out below. When you do provide us with personally identifiable information, we will take appropriate steps to protect the information you share with us. In this regard, our policy is that we do not give, sell or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to anyone outside the MEG organization or selected MEG partners unless we first disclose to you at the time of collection that your personal information may be provided to third parties. However, there are certain limited instances where we may disclose or transfer personally identifiable information. For example, we may provide such information to appropriate authorities if we believe in good faith that the law requires it or to protect the legal rights or property of MEG. Additionally, as we continue to develop our business, we may buy or sell business assets. In such transactions, customer information is generally one of the transferred business assets. However, we are not in the business of selling customer information to others, and aside from certain exceptional circumstances, we will take appropriate measures to ensure the protection of the information you provide to us. Continuing Medical Education/Continuing Education When you register for a Continuing Medical Education ("CME") or a Continuing Education ("CE") activity through our Website, we collect certain personally identifiable information from you such as your name, email address and mailing address. If you are a nurse or a pharmacist and wish to receive CE credit, you are also required to provide the state in which you are licensed and your license number. In addition to personally identifiable information, we collect aggregated non-personally identifiable information about the activities undertaken by our users. We use the information that we collect through CME/CE activities in several ways:
Use of Cookies Cookies are a technology used by this Website to identify a user as the user moves through the Website. "Cookies" are alphanumeric identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your Internet browser. Cookies enable our system to recognize your browser and to tailor the Website to better match your interests and preferences. Your browser allows us to place some information on your computer's hard drive that identifies the computer you are using. We use cookies to personalize our Websites and to track your usage across the Website. Your Web browser can be set to allow you to control whether you will accept cookies, reject cookies, or to notify you each time a cookie is sent to you. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions. If your browser is set to reject cookies, Websites that are cookie enabled will not recognize you when you return to the Website, and some Website functionality may be lost. The Help section of your browser will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies. Although cookies do not normally contain personally identifiable information, if you are a registered user we may associate your registration information with cookies our Website places on your computer's hard drive. Associating a cookie with your registration data allows us to offer increased personalization and functionality. Children's Privacy The Website is designed and intended for use by adults, and is not intended for, nor designed to be used by children under the age of 18. Minors under the age of 18 may register for our Website only with the prior written consent of their parent or legal guardian, and then only under the direct supervision of that parent or guardian. The parent or guardian is responsible for providing supervision to ensure the minor's authentication information is kept secure and the credibility of the health record is maintained. We do not collect personally identifiable information from any person we know is a child under the age of 13. In addition, we will delete any records of such personal information that come to our attention. If it comes to your attention that your child under 13 has provided any personal information to the Service, we invite you to notify us so that we may delete the information from our records and discontinue any related features or services. While MEG's policy prohibits children under 13 from registering with the Website, parents should supervise their children's online activities and consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers that help provide a kid-friendly online environment. These tools can also prevent children from disclosing online their name, address and other personal information without parental permission. For additional information about parental control tools, please consult the "Consumer Assistance" page of the Direct Marketing Association home page (www.the-dma.org). Uses We Make of Information Aggregate Data We create aggregate data about visitors to our Website for product development and improvement activities. We may provide information from our Website in aggregate form, with identifying information removed, to third parties. For example, we may tell a health care partner what percentage of our registered users reside in a particular geographical area. When aggregated health information is provided, we pool it from many individual records and strip it of any data that could be used to identify an individual before it is used. Any third party that receives aggregated health care data must agree not to attempt to re-identify the people it belongs to. Protection of Information General Policies We have implemented technology and security policies, rules and other measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from unauthorized access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction, and accidental loss. We also protect your information by requiring that all our employees and others who have access to or are associated with the processing of your data respect your confidentiality. MEG uses security methods to determine the identity of its registered users, so that appropriate rights and restrictions can be enforced for that user. Reliable verification of user identity is called authentication. MEG uses both passwords and usernames to authenticate users. Users are responsible for maintaining their own passwords. Storage of Information Personally identifiable information you share with us is stored on our database servers at MEG data centers or hosted by third parties who have entered into agreements with us that require them to observe our Privacy Policy. We have a firewall to prevent individuals from accessing information without authorization. Data centers are physically secure and protected from unauthorized access by unauthorized persons. Physical access to the servers requires individual authorization and authentication. Information in our data centers is backed up routinely, in order to aid in the recovery of information in the event of accidental damage of information or due to a natural disaster. The backup media is stored in a physically secure storage facility. Opt-Out / Access to Information and Choices In this section of our privacy policy, we tell you how to obtain and correct information we have about you, and how to choose what types of information you may share with us. Opt-Out If after registering on or otherwise providing your personally identifiable information when visiting the Website you no longer wish to receive any commercial electronic mail messages, please send an email to ce@mededgrp.com indicating your preference to "unsubscribe" and we will promptly remove you from our list. Please be sure to include your name and email address in your email. Notwithstanding the foregoing, MEG reserves the right to communicate to you any changes to this Privacy Policy or the Website Terms and Conditions. Correction of Information We Have About You MEG will give you access to the personally identifiable information MEG has collected from you in order to allow you to review and update that information. Further, if you believe that registration information collected by our Website is in error, you may edit your personal profile any time that you like directly on the Website. Requests for deletion of your record may result in your removal from the registry, but we may keep certain non-personally identifiable demographic information about you for product improvement purposes. MEG Employees MEG employees are required to keep customer information private, as a condition of their employment with the company. Employees are required to sign a confidentiality agreement. All employees and contractors must abide by our privacy policy, and those who violate that policy are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of their employment and legal action. General; Privacy Questions or Concerns MEG will take appropriate steps to protect all information you share with us. We are dedicated to protecting your personal information and welcome comments and questions on this policy. Please send an email to us at ce@mededgrp.com or write to us at the following address if you have any comments or questions about this Privacy Policy: Medical Education Group LLC 7 Neshaminy Interplex, Suite 411 Trevose, Pennsylvania 19053 Terms of Use Our terms of use agreements can be found here. Revision date: This policy was last updated on April 30, 2005. |
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