Health Focus, Inc. is committed to honoring your
privacy and to offering special protections for the personal information you
share with us. We operate the following websites:
www.healthfocusinc.com,
www.expertinsightscme.com,
www.uc-education.com,
www.fibromyalgia-cme-online.com, and
www.osteoporosis-cme-online.com.
The document you are reading is the Privacy Policy for all of our websites.
Information We Collect
In this section of our Privacy Policy, we discuss the different types of information we may collect about you, and the ways in which we collect this information.
Information We Collect From Visitors
Visitors to our websites can browse our websites
without disclosing any personally identifiable information. We may track
information provided to us by your browser, including the website you came from
(known as the "referring URL"), the type of browser you use, the time
and date of access, and other information that does not personally identify
you.
Information We Collect When You Register
Users registering for a CME activity on one of
our websites are asked to provide to us identifying information, such as name,
email address, 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. We use the
personal information that you provide through registration to respond to
questions and email from you, and to contact you if we have problems or
questions.
Information We Collect When You Contact a Thought Leader Online or Via Email
When you submit a question to a thought leader by
email or on one of our websites, we receive your email address and/or name. We
share this identifying personal information with the thought leader so that he
or she can send an email reply directly to you.
Information We Collect When You Complete a Posttest, Evaluation, or Survey
When you complete a CME posttest,
evaluation, or survey form online, we collect the information we need to issue
a CME certificate to you. We also compile this information in aggregate
form, and may provide it to third parties with all identifying information
removed. Commercial supporters of CME activities on our websites receive
only aggregated data about CME activities that are relevant to their
interest and/or the courses they have supported.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are a technology we use to identify a
user as the user moves through one of our websites. 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 on them.
Children's Privacy
Our websites are not designed to attract children. Anyone under the age of 18 should not use our websites. We do not collect any personal information from children under 18 years of age. We try to comply fully with the laws and regulations relating to collection and use of information from children, including the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of the United States.
How We Use Information
In this section of our Privacy Policy, we identify the ways we may use information about you that we have collected.
Aggregate Data
We create aggregate data about
visitors to our websites for website development and to improve aspects of our
websites, such as ease of use, navigation, etc. We also create aggregate data
using data provided to us in CME posttests, evaluation, and survey forms.
We may provide this information in aggregate form to third parties, but will do
so only with identifying information removed.
How We Protect Information About You
In this section of our Privacy Policy, we discuss the security
measures we take to protect information that we have collected about you.
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 all our
employees and others who have access to, or are associated with, the processing
of your data to respect your confidentiality.
Storage of Personal or Professional Information
Any personally identifiable information you share with us is stored on our
database server at the Health Focus, Inc. data center 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. The data center is physically secure and
protected from unauthorized access by unauthorized persons.
Information in our data center 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.
Updating Your Personal Information
You can review or change your registration information online on our websites.
You also can review online on our websites your personal CME activity
history or histories. Finally, you can have your files permanently deleted from
our systems by sending an email to us instructing us to permanently delete your
records. Your request should be emailed to mpurdy@healthfocusinc.com.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
If we change our Privacy Policy, including any of the policies or practices described here, we will post the changes online and clearly identify them on a revised copy of this document. To draw attention to these changes, we will put a prominent notice on the front page of each of our websites that says, "Important Changes to Our Privacy Policy. Click Here."
Areas Not Covered by Our Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies only to websites owned by Health Focus, Inc. Our websites contain links to other websites that we do not own. When you leave one of our websites and enter a website not owned by us, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of that website.
Our Privacy Policy does not protect you when you send business communication, ideas, concepts or inventions to us by email or over the Internet. If you want to keep business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them to any of the websites owned by Health Focus, Inc. in an email or over the Internet.
Revised November 2008 |
