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Insight Exchange, Inc. ("IE") has a firm commitment to safeguard your privacy online.
In general, IE will never share your Personal Information (as defined below) with anyone
without your knowledge and permission. We will never share with anyone the information
or opinions you provide us in any way that personally identifies you without your
knowledge and permission. Any of your information we share with clients will be in
the form of Anonymous Information (as defined below).
By using IE's website ("Site")
and participating in its operation ("Services"), you acknowledge that you have read our
Privacy Policy below, and you consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of your
information as described below. Further, this Privacy Policy is incorporated into and
subject to the terms of our Terms of Service Agreement.
By The purpose of our Privacy Policy is to inform you about:
- The information we gather from you when you register with IE
- How we may use and disclose such information (our policies), and
- What your options and rights are with respect to such information
The
purpose of our Privacy Policy is to inform you about:
Changes in this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to reasonably change,
modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. We will notify
you if we alter this Privacy Policy to change the way we collect or use Personal Information.
Please be sure to check this page periodically for such changes. IE will never use any Personal
Information you submit under this Privacy Policy in a new way without notifying you of such
change and giving you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prevent that new use of your
Personal Information.
This Privacy Policy was last changed and posted on our Site on February 7, 2001.
See your Opt-Out Choice.
Questions
If you have any questions concerning our Privacy Policy, the
practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, please contact us by email
at Questions.
Our Privacy Policy explains the following questions:
- What types of information does IE collect from you?
- What is Personal Information and how will IE use it?
- What is Anonymous Information and how will IE use it?
- With whom and how is your information being shared?
- Data Security: How does IE protect and keep your information secure?
- What usage and disclosure of information is IE responsible for?
- How do you change, delete or prevent the disclosure of Personal Information you disclosed to IE?
- Your acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy.
1. What types of information does IE collect from you?
When you become a member of the IE 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, 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 IE use it?
"Personal Information" includes (1) personally identifiable information, such as your name, phone number,
mailing address, e-mail address, etc., (2) demographic information, such as your age, gender, etc., and (3)
your responses to educational surveys and questions.
You may also, at your option, indicate to us whether we may contact you regarding promotional opportunities
or materials or provide you with other services provided by GROUP DCA, including market research surveys
and on-line promotional sessions.
Any information that personally identifies you is disclosed by you on a voluntary basis and only collected by
IE 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.
IE will not disclose any Personal Information with any educational sponsor 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 IE 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 IE use it?
"Anonymous Information" is information that cannot be traced back specifically to you as an individual. While you are
logged on to 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, IE 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?
IE 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 unless otherwise specified in this Privacy Policy.
We only report data using Anonymous Information. Your Personal Information and your individual
opinions and answers will never be shared with our clients.
5. Data Security: How does IE 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 to 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 IE 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 IE 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 it is
transmitted from your computer to our system.
6. What usage and disclosure of information is IE responsible for?
IE does not pre-screen any communications, emails, or any content distributed through our Site by our panel members.
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.
IE may also reference, recommend or provide links to third party websites, and will 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. Therefore, 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 IE 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, IE 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 IE's legal advisors in connection with a suspected violation of IE's Privacy Policy, Terms of Service Agreement,
User Rules, or any other rules and regulations.
7. How do you change, delete or prevent disclosure of Personal Information you disclosed to IE?
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 the privacy and security of your Personal Information, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before
granting you access to and making corrections to such information using a password-protected system.
If you do not want to receive IE's emails, future promotional mailings or notices, you may opt-out of 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 IE
at any time by sending an email to Questions.
8. Your Acceptance of The Terms of This Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into the terms of IE's Terms of Service Agreement. Your use of our Site is
subject to such terms and conditions, which constitute a legal agreement between you and IE. Each time you use the Insight Exchange Site,
you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by the Privacy Policy, 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 the
Insight Exchange 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.
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