Our site PrescriptionDrug-Info.com ("PDI") operates an online community for our users to share their drug related questions and stories with one another. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our web site visitors; as such, this policy explains how we will treat your personal information.
PrescriptionDrug-Info.com is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build user's trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the Web site www.prescriptiondrug-info.com. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact us directly.
Contacting Us
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If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.
What Information Do We Collect?
PrescriptionDrug-Info.com is the sole owner of the information collected on the PrescriptionDrug-Info.com web site. We collect personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.
(i) In order to participate in the discussion threads, we request that you provide your name (it may be a pseudonym for anonymity) and optionally your email address; providing your email address enables us to notify you whenever somebody posts a reply to your message as well as receive our daily health newsletter if you choose to subscribe to it.
(ii) Healthcare professionals who choose to become a Registered Community Expert are required to provide contact information (such as name and email address), their web site address, and geographic location. Providing your email address enables us to notify you whenever somebody posts a reply to your messages, receive administrative communications from us, as well as receive our daily health newsletter if you choose to subscribe to it.
If you choose to subscribe to our newsletter, we will use your email address to send it to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you with a way to unsubscribe. Please see "Opting Out" for more details.
We may collect and store certain information automatically. This information will not be shared with anyone beyond the web site support staff, except when required by law enforcement investigation (such as to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or subpoena), and will be used only as a source of anonymous statistical information. This information may include:
· Internet Protocol (IP) address of the domain from which You access the Internet, either Your individual address or the proxy provided by Your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
· Date and time You access our site.
· Pages You view (recorded by the text and graphics files that compose that page).
· Web address of the site from which You linked directly to our site.
· Browser version and operating system of the computer You are using.
We may use statistical data to help us make our site more useful to visitors, such as assessing what information is of most and least interest to visitors, and for other purposes such as determining the site's technical design specifications and identifying system performance or problem areas.
You may also choose to provide us with personal information, by sending e-mail with questions or comments or by filling out an online form and submitting it to us through our web site. We use this information to:
· Gather the requested information.
· Respond to Your message.
· Follow-up as appropriate.
We do not sell, share, rent or trade transfer any personal information to third parties for their promotional use.
However, Your e-mail message, question, or comment may be forwarded to other PDI employees who may be better able to help You. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, we do not share our e-mail with any other outside organizations.
Updating Personal Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, you may update your information by:
(i) General site visitors may contact us directly via email or postal mail at the contact information listed above.
(ii) Registered Community Experts may sign into their account at http://www.prescriptiondrug-info.com/experts or contact us directly via email or postal mail at the contact information listed above.
If you no longer desire our service, you may deactivate your information by contacting us directly via email or postal mail at the contact information listed above.
Cookies
Cookies are minute pieces of information that Your browser stores on Your hard drive. Cookies help everyone in that they help to make navigation around the site more swift, and prevent You from having to enter certain information that You have already given us each time You visit the site. Cookies help us to see how visitors use us, and when. They help us to discover which parts of our site are popular and which are not. We use cookies to assist with our site development. Most browsers these days are set up to automatically accept cookies. By participating in our discussion threads, your name and email address are stored in tracking cookies so that you do not need to reenter them the next time you visit our site. If you reject cookies, you can still use our site, but your ability to use or access some areas may be limited.
Security
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personally identifiable information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. Our servers are located in a secured facility and we employ firewalls for additional protection. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you use a discussion thread on this Web site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can contact us directly via email or postal mail at the contact information listed above.
Email a Page
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend (email a page) about our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. PDI stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and for statistical purposes. Your friend may contact us at to request that we remove this information from our database.
AddThis
When you use AddThis to bookmark and share our products and site, you will be taken to a third party site and note that their privacy policy governs the collection and use of the information collected on those sites.
Opting Out
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at .
Third Party Advertising
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
Third Party Cookies. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertisers may place or recognize a unique cookie on Your browser. The use of cookies by our affiliates is not covered by our privacy statement. We do not have access or control over these cookies.
Google Advertising Cookie. Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables them to serve ads to you based on your visit to this and other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Third-Party Merchant Policies
All rules, policies (including privacy policies) and operating procedures of Merchants will apply to You while on such sites. We are not responsible for information provided by You to Merchants. We and the Merchants are independent contractors and neither party has authority to make any representations or commitments on behalf of the other.
Legal Disclosure
PDI reserves the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our homepage.
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