By accessing the Medical Matters Network site, you signify your agreement, understanding, and compliance to the terms and conditions as outlined in this privacy policy. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions of the Medical Matters Network’s privacy policy, please do not access or use this site in any manner or form.

The information contained herein is our sole privacy statement in respect to this site. Any summary, modification, restatement or any other privacy statement or policy, in any form, is valid unless we post a new or revised policy to this site. Medical Matters Network reserves the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add to, or remove any portions of this policy at any time without any given notice.

Medical Matters Network is strongly committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that you have a positive experience with our site. Included in this policy is how we treat personal and non-personal information. We encourage you to read this privacy policy carefully and all of the privacy policies of any website that you choose to visit.

I. Personal and Non-Personal Identifiable Information: The Medical Matters Network
Website typically collects two kinds of information about you: (a) information, which personally identifies you, which you provide; and (b) information that does not personally identify you, which we automatically collect when you visit our website or that you provide us.

1. Personally Identifiable Information: Personal information is any information that can be used to identify an individual, and may include, but is not limited to: name, email address, postal or other physical address, title, occupation, and other information required to provide a service, deliver a product, or carry out a transaction that you have requested. When Medical Matters Network collects any personal information on our website, the need for the personal data at the point of collection will be expressed. Some of the reasons we collect your personal information include:
   • Provide registered users a more personalized and meaningful experience
     
   • Answer an email you sent us
     
   • To Fulfill a request by you to send an episode link to a friend
     
   • Deliver services
     
   • Complete a service or transaction
     
   • Fulfill the terms of a promotion
     
   • Ensure the site is relevant to your needs

    

   If you do not want us to have any of your personal identifiable information, please do not provide it to us.

   If you send us an email with questions or comments, we may use your personally identifiable information to respond to your questions or comments, and we may save your questions or comments for future reference. For security reasons, we do not recommend that you send non-public personal information, such as passwords, social security numbers, or bank account information, to us by email. However, aside from our reply to such an email, it is not our standard practice to send you an email unless you request a particular service or sign up for a feature that involves email communications, your email relates to purchases you have made with us (product updates, customer support, etc.), we are sending you information about our other products and services, or you have consented to being contacted by email for a particular purpose. In certain instances, we may provide you with the option to set your preferences for receiving email communications from us; that is, agreeing to some communications, but not others.

   If you send a friend an email from our website, the information you provide (names and email addresses) is used on a one-time basis to facilitate the communication and is not used for any other marketing purpose, unless we obtain additional consent.

2. Non-Personally Identifiable Information: Non-personally identifiable information can be technical information or it can be demographic information, such as your age, gender or interests. Non-personally identifiable information does not identify you personally. We may share non-personal information, such as aggregate user statistics, demographic information, and website usage information with third parties that are connected with Medical Matters Network in maintaining and updating this site. We use non-personal information in a variety of ways including:
   

   • Analyzing site traffic
   • Understanding customer needs and trends
   • Carrying out targeted promotional activities
     
   • Improving our services
     

    

   We may use your non-personal information by itself or aggregate it with information we have obtained from others. We may share your non-personal information with our affiliated companies and third parties to achieve these objectives and others, but remember that aggregate information is anonymous information that does not personally identify you. Here are some examples of the non-personally identifiable information that is collected via the our website and a description of how this information is used:

   • Internet Protocol (IP) Address: An IP address is a unique address that certain electronic devices currently use in order to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard (IP) – in simpler terms, a computer address. We use this information to deliver our webpages to you upon request, to tailor our sites to the interests of our users and to measure traffic within our sites. It is not our practice to link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. However, we reserve the right to use IP addresses to identify a visitor when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our website rules or to: fulfill a government request; conform with the requirements of the law or legal process; protect or defend our legal rights or property, our website, or other users; or in an emergency to protect the health and safety of our website’s users or the general public.
     
     
   • Cookie: A cookie is a small text file used to collect information about your activity on a site and is a standard feature in browser information. For example, when someone visits a page within a site, a cookie is placed on the user's machine (if the user accepts cookies) or is read if the user has visited the site previously. No other personal information is stored using cookies. If you are concerned about the storage and use of cookies, you may be able to direct your Internet browser to notify you and seek your approval whenever a cookie is being sent to your hard drive. You may also delete a cookie manually from your hard drive through your Internet browser or other programs. Please note, however, that some parts of our website will not function properly or be available to you if you refuse to accept a cookie or choose to disable the acceptance of cookies.
     
     
   • Demographic Information: Demographic information may be your gender, age, zip code and interests, which you voluntarily provide to us on our site. We use this information to provide you with personalized services and analyze trends to ensure the information provided by our site meets your needs.

 

II. Sharing Your Personal Information: We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes unless you have granted us permission. However, we may share your personal information within Medical Matters Network for purposes of data processing or storage. We may also share your personal information with authorized third-party agents or contractors in order to provide a requested service or transaction. For example, if we need to ship something to you, we must share your name and address with a shipping company. We only provide third-party agents with the minimum amount of personal information necessary to complete the requested service or transaction.

We may respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process by disclosing your personal information and other related information, if necessary. We also may choose to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We may collect and possibly share personal information and any other additional information available to us in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Medical Matters Network Website's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

While navigating Medical Matters Network Website you may be directed to content or functionality that is hosted by a third-party supplier, not on the Medical Matters Network site. This is typically done to host special events, such as contests. When information is collected on behalf of Medical Matters Network exclusively, Medical Matters Network’s privacy policy will be referenced on the site and will govern how your information is used. For other, non-Medical Matters Network sites, the site owner’s privacy policy will be referenced.

III. Security of Your Personal Information: Medical Matters Network is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. We utilize a combination of security technologies, procedures, and organizational measures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure the security of the information you transmit. Please be advised that, while we strive to protect your personally identifiable information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and are not responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your personally identifiable information.

In the unfortunate event that your “personally identifiable information” (as the term or similar terms are defined by any applicable law requiring notice upon a security breach) is compromised, we may notify you by email (at our sole and absolute discretion) to the last email address you have provided us in the most expedient time reasonable under the circumstances; provided, however, delays in notification may occur while we take necessary measures to determine the scope of the breach and restore reasonable integrity to the system as well as for the legitimate needs of law enforcement if notification would impede a criminal investigation. From time to time, we evaluate new technology for protecting information and, when appropriate, upgrade our information security systems. We recommend you to take every precaution in protecting your personal information when you are on the Internet. For example, change your passwords often, use a combination of letters and numbers when creating passwords, and make sure you use a secure browser. No data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. You should understand that any information that you transfer to Medical Matters Network is done at your own risk. We have implemented security measures we consider reasonable and appropriate to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.

IV. Data Retention
Medical Matters Network will not retain your personal information any longer than necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by applicable laws or regulations.

V. Linked Websites
Our website may provide links to other third-party websites, which are outside our control and not covered by this policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these (and all) sites.

VI. Third Party

1. Third Parties Providing Services on Our Behalf: We employ third parties to perform functions on our behalf; examples include hosting or operating our website, data analysis, marketing assistance and customer service. These third parties may have access to your personal information for the purpose of performing such functions on the website’s behalf.
   
   
2. Third-Party Sites: Our website may contain links to third-party websites. These linked third party sites are not under the control of Medical Matters Network, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the contents of any linked site, or any link contained in a linked site. We are providing these links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of a link on our website does not imply endorsement of the linked site by Medical Matters Network.
   
   
3. Third-Party Ad Serving: We reserve the right to work with third-party ad serving entities to supply advertisements. The use of advertising cookies set by third-party ad-servers is standard in the Internet industry, and third-party advertisers may assign their own cookies to your browser. Through these and other technologies, third-party advertisers may collect certain non-personally identifiable information about you from your visits to our website and to other sites where ads are served, such other advertisers, or their respective third-party business partners. We do not control third-party advertisers’ policies or procedures (including without limitation their policies and procedures for setting cookies and handling aggregated data collected from your interaction with those websites).
   
   Our website may use third-party network advertisers to serve advertisements on our website and may use a traffic measurement service to analyze traffic to those websites. These third-party cookies are set to, among other things, help deliver advertisements to you that you might be interested in, to prevent you from seeing the same advertisements too many times and to conduct research regarding the usefulness of certain advertisements are to you. Note that any images (or any other parts of a web page) served by third parties in association with third-party cookies may serve as web beacons, which enable third parties to carry out the previously described activities. Third-party cookies and web beacons are governed by each third party's specific privacy policy, not this one.

 

VII. Children’s Privacy: Medical Matters Network does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information on a child under the age of 13, we will delete that data from our systems. Medical Matters Network strongly encourages parents and guardians to go online with their children. Here are a few tips to help make a child's online experience safer:

• Teach children never to give personal information (name, address, phone number, school, etc.) unless supervised by a parent or responsible adult.
  
  
• Know the sites your children are visiting and which sites are appropriate.
  
  
• Look for website privacy policies. Know how your child’s information is treated.

 

VIII. Assignment: We reserve the right to transfer any and all information that we collect from users of the Websites to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, assignment, joint venture or other transfer or disposition of a portion or all of the assets (including without limitation any website) of Medical Matters Network or any of our affiliated entities (including, without limitation, in connection with any dissolution, bankruptcy, or similar proceedings).

IX. Contacting Us: If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of our website, or your dealings with us, please feel free to contact us at:

Medical Matters Network
1862 Akron-Pennisula Road
Akron, OH 44313 USA

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