Privacy Policy

The following privacy policy is applicable to Medivisor.com. We collect the following types of information from you, and use it as follows:

Demographic Information
When you register with Medivisor.com, we collect demographic information such as a job title, fields of practice, age, and income level. We also collect demographic information in other ways, such as when we administer online surveys and promotions (e.g., contests). Demographic information is used to tailor your experience at our site, so we can provide you with content that is likely to be of interest, and display that content according to your preferences. We share demographic information with existing and potential affiliates and advertisers on an aggregate and anonymous basis only, in a manner that cannot be linked to any particular individual user.

Contact Information
When you register with Medivisor.com, request information from us, or buy something at our web site, we collect contact information (such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, and registration number). We also collect contact information in other ways, such as when we administer online surveys and promotions.

We use contact information to verify your identity, send you the things you have purchased or requested, and to send you information and promotional material about us and our affiliates and advertisers. We may also use the contact information to contact you when necessary. You may opt-out of receiving such communications in the future, as described below. We also use contact information to generate aggregate, anonymous demographic information, which is used as described above.

We may enter into agreements with reputable product and service providers that, in our opinion, will provide benefits to Medivisor.com members. We will only provide individual contact information to these providers if they have provided us with contractual assurances to maintain all individual contact information in confidence. Apart from these providers, Medivisor.com will not provide any personally identifiable contact information about you to any third party.

1) What types of information does Medivisor.com collect from you?
By becoming an member of the Medivisor.com physician panel, you will fill out a Registration Form, which becomes your Member Profile and contains basic information about you and your practice. We collect both Anonymous and Personal Information (as defined below) from you as an Advisor, but only after you consent to such use of your information or provide it to us voluntarily.

We collect Anonymous and Personal Information from you as a panel member: (1) to allow you to have access to and participate in the activities of the Site; (2) for editorial and feedback purposes, (3) to analyze our users' behavior, and (4) to improve our Site operations.

Other than the uses described in this Privacy Policy, and unless we notify you in advance (through placement of a notice on the Site) and obtain your permission, we do not share, rent, or sell any of your information to any outside parties, except to the extent necessary to comply with applicable laws, police investigations, or in legal proceedings where such information is relevant.

2) What is Personal Information and how will Medivisor.com use it?
"Personal Information" includes (1) personally identifiable information, such as your name, phone number, mailing address, email address, etc., (2) demographic information, such as your age, gender, etc., and (3) your responses to promotional and educational surveys and questions.

As a Medivisor.com panel member, you will be given the opportunity to provide Personal Information so that we can determine which Site activities are most appropriate for your participation. For example, certain Medivisor.com clients may wish to interact with certain panel members, such as physicians with a particular specialty (e.g. cardiology) or those with certain demographic criteria (e.g. number of years in practice).

In order to become a Medivisor.com panel member and access the Site, you will be asked to complete our Registration Form, which will serve as your Member Profile. You may also, at your option, indicate to us whether we may contact you regarding promotional opportunities or materials or provide you with certain value added services, such as receiving product samples, scheduling a representative visit, participating in continuing medical education courses, receiving invitations to market research and symposia, being invited to speak for a Medivisor.com client company, or participating in surveys or other services or areas of interest yet to be determined.

Any information that personally identifies you is disclosed by you on a voluntary basis and only collected by Medivisor.com with your knowledge and permission. You may, at any time, permanently or temporarily opt-out of receiving such emails and future promotional mailings by changing your options in your Member Preferences. See your Opt-Out Choice below. You may also change any other information in your Member Profile at any time.

Medivisor.com will not disclose any Personal Information with any client or any other third party without your knowledge or permission. If you request or agree to receiving additional products or services (as described above), we will ask for your permission to disclose your Personal Information, such as your name and address, to facilitate such a mailing. In no cases will any of your individual answers or responses ever be made available to any of our clients or any other third party without your knowledge or permission. Your Personal Information and specific answers will never result in any solicitation or offer by Medivisor.com or any third party, including our clients without your knowledge or permission.

In addition, we collect Personal Information from you if you contact us with questions or requests for help (i.e. technical support), or to help diagnose problems with our server and to operate the Site. We retain such Personal Information as a record of such correspondence, but keep it confidential and use it strictly to respond to such requests or technical necessities.

3) What is Anonymous Information and how will Medivisor.com use it?
"Anonymous Information" means information that cannot be traced back specifically to you as an individual. The Anonymous Information we use comes from collecting data from you as a member of our panel (i.e. Site users) on an aggregated basis (i.e. categorized into groups of information) and converting Personal Information into Anonymous Information, which is also compiled on an aggregated basis. We use such Anonymous Information to study the behavior and usage patterns of our panel members, and report data from such Anonymous Information to our clients.

While you are logged onto the Site, we collect Anonymous Information about what website you came from, what parts of the Site you visit, the time of your visit, the type of web browser you use (the software you use to connect to the Internet and visit websites), the type of computer system you use, etc. This Anonymous Information comes from your web browser which sends the information to our web server in the form of URLs (website address known as the Uniform Resource Locator), referrer Ids (information from your web browser showing us what URL you came from), IP addresses (a number, known as an Internet Protocol address, that identifies your computer so that data can be sent to your computer), computer system information and logs of web browsing activities (known as "web logs").

In addition, Medivisor.com may use "cookie" technology to capture your activity on the Site. A "cookie" is a small file that is sent from our web server and stored on your computer hard drive while you are visiting our Site. Cookies store and retrieve information on your computer about your web browsing activities, such as what website you came from and what web pages you go to on our Site.

Using Anonymous Information helps us improve our product and service offerings, administer our Site, and diagnose problems with our server, services and software. Such information enables us to make better decisions about how we operate or improve our Site from both business and technical perspectives.

4) With whom and how is your information being shared?
Medivisor.com does not disclose any information that could specifically identify you as an individual unless we have your express permission prior to such a disclosure, or as unless otherwise specified in this Privacy Policy. If you do not want your Personal Information to be shared with or used by an outside party, you can choose not to allow this use by telling us when you receive and respond to our notice of such a disclosure. We only report data to our clients using Anonymous Information.Your Personal Information and your individual opinions and answers will never be shared with our clients.

5) How is your information used for online surveys or promotions? Medivisor.com conducts surveys and promotions through its Service to show selected physicians promotional and/or educational materials, and to better understand our panel members' wants and needs regarding the services and products which may be offered through the Site. For example, we may show you client promotional materials and ask your opinion about the advertising, or your practice patterns, treatment goals and objectives, etc. We will use your answers to customize and personalize your individual experience and tailor content for you in subsequent interactions between you and the Site. Medivisor.com will never share your personal information or your specific opinions and answers with our client. We will however convert certain opinions and answers into Anonymous Information to make available to our clients.

6) Data Security: How does Medivisor.com protect and keep your information secure? Our Site has industry standard security measures in place to help protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of information under our reasonable control, and safeguard the confidentiality of information personally identifying you. As a member of our physician panel, your Member Profile and Member Preferences are password-protected so that only you may access or change this Personal Information. We therefore highly recommend that you do not disclose your password to anyone. Also, remember that Medivisor.com will never ask you to divulge your password in written or electronic communications.

Please be aware that data transmission over the Internet is not always 100% secure, and we cannot warrant that information you transmit using the Medivisor.com service is 100% secure. We will, however, use all reasonable efforts to maintain the security of your information while it is located on our systems. Such efforts include using technology that encrypts any of your Personal Information while being transmitted from your computer to our system.

7) What types of use and disclosure of information is Medivisor.com responsible for? Medivisor.com does not pre-screen any communications, emails or any content distributed through our Site by our panel members. Therefore, by using the Site and any of the Advisor services provided, you acknowledge that Medivisor.com is unlikely to be aware of violations of law or other misconduct committed by panel members or any other parties which occur through our Site or third party websites and resources linked to or framed within our Site.

You also acknowledge that you are completely responsible for any information you send via e-mail, or any other form of communications to or through our Site. Medivisor.com may also reference, recommend or provide links to third party websites, and make all reasonable efforts to link to sites sharing our high standards and respect for privacy. However, whether we recommend such resources or not, we do not control and therefore are not responsible for such third party websites and their content, information or privacy policies. Consequently, please take the time to review the privacy policies and any other information practices posted on such third party websites.

Please keep in mind that Medivisor.com may be required by law, court order, governmental agency or law enforcement authority to disclose your Personal Information, including but not limited to email information temporarily residing on our servers. In addition, Medivisor.com may disclose a panel member's Personal Information to the extent necessary for emergency situations, public health activities, health oversight activities, or to comply with applicable laws, police investigations, law enforcement authorities investigating suspected illegal activity, legal proceedings (where such information is relevant) or to Medivisor.com's legal advisors in connection with a suspected violation of Medivisor.com's Privacy Policy, Terms of Service Agreement, User Rules, or any other rules and regulations.

8) How do you change, delete or prevent disclosure of Personal Information you disclosed to Medivisor.com?
You will have the opportunity to review and change your information in our Registration Form prior to completing the registration process. Also, you can, at any time, access all and change any of your Personal Information that we collect online and maintain by visiting Your Account to make changes and additions to your Member Profile or Member Preferences. To protect your privacy and security regarding your Personal Information, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access to and making corrections to such information (i.e. a password-protected system).

If you do not want to receive Medivisor.com's emails, future promotional mailings or notices, you may opt-out of receiving such communications from us by selecting the appropriate options during the registration process or by editing your Member Profile or Member Preferences located at Your Account. You may also terminate your relationship with Medivisor.com at any time by sending an email to Questions.

9) Your Acceptance of The Terms of This Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into the terms of Medivisor.com's Terms of Service Agreement and User Rules. Your use of our Site is subject to such terms and conditions, which constitute a legal agreement between you and Medivisor.com. Each time you use this site, you signify that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by the Privacy Policy, the Terms of Service Agreement and User Rules.

If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not provide us with any information and do not access this site. Your continued use of the Site after we notify you of any changes to this Privacy Policy will signify your acceptance of and agreement to such changes. Please review our Privacy Policy, the Terms of Service Agreement and User Rules, and if you do not agree to the any of the provisions, please do not use our Site, as you do not have our permission to do so under such circumstances.


© 2002 Medivisor.com. All rights reserved.
legal | privacy policy | email contact

:: design credit ::