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Terms of Use / Privacy Policy
MISSION
The mission of the Pri-Med Patient Education Center (PEC) Web site at www.patientedu.org is to offer patients multimedia access to reliable medical information provided by Harvard Medical School, M|C Communications, and Patient Education Center, L.L.C. with the assistance of the Medical Group Management Association® (MGMA), the nation's principal voice for medical group practices. Founded in 1926, MGMA has 19,000 Members who manage and lead 11,500 organizations in which approximately 237,000 physicians practice.
The use of the Pri-Med PEC Web site is governed by the Terms of Use set forth below. Please read them carefully. Your use of the Pri-Med PEC Web site indicates your acceptance of these Terms of Use. Pri-Med PEC reserves the right to make changes to this site and these Terms of Use at any time.
DISCLAIMER
The information provided by the Pri-Med PEC Web site is for informational purposes only and is not intended to provide or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Neither Pri-Med PEC nor its affiliates or licensors guarantee the accuracy, adequacy, timeliness or completeness of any information on the Pri-Med PEC Web site and are not responsible for errors or omissions or any consequences arising from the use of the information contained on the Pri-Med PEC Web site. The use of the Pri-Med PEC Web site is at the user's own risk and all information contained therein is subject to change. Mention of a specific product, company, organization, website or URL address, treatment, therapy or any other topic does not imply a recommendation or endorsement by Pri-Med PEC, Harvard Medical School, MGMA, or their affiliates or licensors.
Web Site Terms of Use Agreement
Last Updated October 25, 2006
M|C Intermediate, LLC is the parent company of Pri-Med Institute, LLC, Physician’s Weekly, LLC, and Patient Education Center, LLC (collectively “M|C”) and created and supports the Pri-Med website. M|C provides this Web site, located at URL www.pri-med.com, all associated Web pages maintained by M|C and all Pri-Med continuing education and related services (collectively, the “M|C Services”), along with all information and content provided therewith (the “Content”), to you, subject to the terms and conditions contained in this Terms of Use (the “Terms”). M|C Services are intended for medical professionals. However, neither the M|C Services nor any Content available therein should be construed as a replacement for medical education and/or clinical judgment.
Please read these Terms carefully. By using M|C Services, you agree to adhere to and be bound by these Terms, as they may be modified from time to time at M|C sole discretion. If you do not agree to be legally bound by these terms, you are not permitted to use M|C Services.
Amendments: We reserve the right to amend the Terms at any time and will notify you of any such changes by making the revised Terms available through our Services. Unless otherwise specified, those changes shall be effective immediately. It is your obligation to review changes in these Terms, and you agree that your continued use of M|C Services after the posting of any revised Terms constitutes your agreement to be bound by the revised Terms.
Your Access to M|C Services
Permitted Users: Currently, M|C Services are available for use only by individuals who are 18 years of age or older. You acknowledge and agree that you may not access, attempt to access, or use M|C Services if you are not at least 18 years of age.
Public Areas and the Subscription Service: M|C Services include (i) public areas that are generally accessible to the public and contain information about M|C, Pri-Med and the Pri-Med Services (the “Public Areas”), (ii) a subscription service (the “Subscription Service”) that may only be accessed by registered users (the “Registered Users”). Individuals who desire to become Registered Users in order to gain access to the Subscription Service will be required to select a user identification (“User ID”) and password (the “Password”). Registered Users are solely responsible for all activity occurring through the use of their Password and for keeping their User ID and Password confidential. Registered Users are also responsible for all activity by others to whom such Registered Users have voluntarily disclosed their password. Registered Users shall notify us immediately upon becoming aware of any actual or suspected unauthorized use, unauthorized disclosure, or theft of any User ID or Password. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Subscription Service.
Permitted Use: Subject to the terms and conditions of these Terms, M|C grants you a non-exclusive, personal, non-transferable, non-sub licensable, limited and revocable right to access, use and display the M|C Services and the Content on any computers for your authorized educational use only (the “Permitted Uses”). You agree to use M|C Services and Content only for lawful purposes and for the Permitted Uses. No other use of M|C Services or the Content is authorized. You are prohibited from any use of M|C Services or Content that would constitute an illegal offense, give rise to liability or otherwise violate any applicable laws or regulations or these Terms. Except as otherwise authorized by these Terms or expressly stated on about M|C Services, you may not publicly perform, distribute, publicly display, transmit, publish, participate in the sale or transfer of and/or modify the Content and/or create derivative works based on any Content, in whole or in part. No right, title, or interest in Content is transferred to you as a result of your use of M|C Services.
Additional Restrictions: The limited license granted to you pursuant to these Terms does not include any resale or commercial use of M|C Services or the Content; any derivative use of M|C Services or the Content. You may not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, modify, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or create derivative works of or otherwise exploit for any commercial purpose M|C Services, the Content, or any portion of the foregoing, without M|C express written consent. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of M|C, Pri-Med and M|C affiliates or licensors without M|C express written consent. None of the Content or M|C Services may be retransmitted without M|C express written consent, nor may it be used on any other Web site or stored on any networked computer environment. You may not use any metatags or any other "hidden text" utilizing any of M|C names or trademarks without M|C expresses written consent. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission and/or license granted by us without the need for further action by us.
Trademarks: The marks DELIVERING WORLD CLASS MEDICAL EDUCATION, NEURO-PSYCHIATRY UPDATES, PATIENT EDUCATION CENTER, PHYSICIAN’S WEEKLY, PRI-MED, PRIMARY CARE UPDATES, PRI-MED PATIENT EDUCATION CENTER, PRIMED/PRI-MED, PSYCHIATRY WEEKLY, and WOMEN'S HEALTH UPDATES and other marks displayed via the M|C Services are the trademarks and service marks of M|C or its affiliates. Other company, product and service names and logos used and displayed on or within the M|C Services may be trademarks or service marks owned by others. Nothing contained on or within the M|C Services should be construed as granting any license or right to use any of the M|C trademarks or other trademarks displayed on or within the M|C Services without the prior written permission in each instance of M|C and/or the owner(s) of such other trademarks. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, we prohibit the use of any M|C trademarks as part of a link to or from any Web site unless such a link is approved in advance by us in writing. All goodwill generated from the use of the M|C trademarks on any Web site will inure to our benefit.
Copyright: All Content included within or made available through M|C Services, including, without limitation, software, editorial materials, photographs, text, graphics, logos, audio, button icons, and images are the property of M|C, its affiliates, content suppliers, or its licensors and are protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. The compilation (meaning the collection, arrangement, and assembly) of all Content included within or made available through M|C Services is the exclusive property of M|C, Pri-Med or such third parties, as applicable, and protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. All software used in connection with the M|C Services is the property of M|C, Pri-Med or its software suppliers and protected by U.S. and international copyright laws.
If you believe, in good faith, that M|C Services infringe your copyright, you should send a notice of claimed copyright infringement, pursuant to Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2) (a portion of the “Digital Millennium Copyright Act”), to M|C designated agent Lynn Long at: M|C Communications, 101 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02116 or via e-mail at: llong@mc-comm.com.
You must include the following information in all notices of claimed copyright infringement:
· An electronic or physical signature of the personal authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright alleged to have been infringed;
· A description of the allegedly infringing work or material;
· A description of where the allegedly infringing material is located within M|C Services;
· Information reasonably sufficient to allow us to contact you;
· A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the materials is not authorized by the proprietary right owner, its agent or the law; and
· A statement by you that the information provided in the notice of claimed copyright infringement is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf or the owner whose exclusive right is allegedly infringed.
Privacy: By using M|C Services and providing information to us, you agree that we may use the information you provide to us in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Usage Monitoring: Subject to the terms and conditions of the M|C Privacy Policy, M|C has the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the use of M|C Services and to disclose such information as we deem necessary or appropriate, including without limitation, to satisfy any law, regulation or other governmental request, to operate M|C Services or to protect ourselves or other users of M|C Services.
Unsolicited Submissions: Any unsolicited communications that you make to M|C through M|C Services, including communications containing feedback, comments, ideas and concepts (collectively, “Unsolicited Communications”) will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. M|C and its affiliates are free to use and dispose of such Unsolicited Communications for any purpose and in any manner whatsoever. By submitting an Unsolicited Communication, you hereby grant M|C and its affiliates a perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid-up and irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, publicly display, distribute, transmit, sublicense, create derivative works from, transfer, sublicense and sell such Unsolicited Communications. By providing Unsolicited Communications you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Unsolicited Communications. Please be aware that no compensation will be paid with respect to the use of any Unsolicited Communications by M|C or any of its affiliates.
Disclaimer: YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT M|C SERVICES AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OF THE FOREGOING, NONE OF M|C, ITS AFFILIATES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE MEMBERS, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS (COLLECTIVELY, THE “PRI-MED PARTIES”) WARRANT THAT M|C SERVICES WILL OPERATE ON AN UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE BASIS, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT M|C SERVICES OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES SUCH SERVICES AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE, BY YOUR USE OF M|C SERVICES, THAT YOUR USE OF M|C SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THAT NONE OF THE PARTIES SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND RELATED TO YOUR USE OF M|C SERVICES.
THIS INFORMATION PROVIDED THROUGH THE CONTENT AND M|C SERVICES IS PROVIDED FOR GENERAL MEDICAL EDUCATION PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT MEANT TO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE INDEPENDENT MEDICAL JUDGMENT OF A PHYSICIAN RELATIVE TO DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT OPTIONS OF A SPECIFIC PATIENT'S MEDICAL CONDITION. IN NO EVENT WILL THE PR-MED PARTIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DECISION MADE, TREATMENT PROVIDED AND/OR ACTION TAKEN IN RELIANCE UPON THE INFORMATION PROVIDED THROUGH THE CONTENT AND/OR M|C SERVICES.
THE OPINIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES EXPRESSED VIA M|C SERVICES ARE THOSE OF AUTHORS ONLY AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE OPINIONS, IDEAS OR RECOMMENDATIONS OF THEIR AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS, M|C, THE PRI-MED PARTIES, PRI-MED EDITORIAL BOARDS AND CONSULTANTS, AND/OR THE COMMERCIAL SUPPORTERS OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING. CLINICAL JUDGMENT MUST GUIDE EACH CLINICIAN IN WEIGHING THE BENEFIT OF ANY DIAGNOSTIC INTERVENTION OR TREATMENT APPROACH AGAINST THE RISK OF THE INTERVENTION OR TREATMENT. DOSAGE, INDICATIONS AND METHODS OF USE FOR PRODUCTS REFERRED TO VIA M|C SERVICES ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE SAME AS INDICATED IN THE PACKAGE INSERT FOR THE PRODUCT AND MAY REFLECT THE CLINICAL EXPERIENCE OR EXPERTISE OF THE INDIVIDUAL AUTHOR. ANY DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES OR TREATMENTS SHOULD NOT BE UTILIZED BY CLINICIANS OR OTHER HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS WITHOUT EVALUATION OF THEIR PATIENTS’ CONDITIONS, AND OF POSSIBLE CONTRAINDICATIONS OR RISKS AND WITHOUT A REVIEW OF ANY APPLICABLE MANUFACTURER’S PRODUCT INFORMATION AND COMPARISON WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF OTHER AUTHORITIES.
Limitation of Liability: YOUR SOLE REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH YOUR USE OF OUR SERVICES OR OUR CONTENT IS TO STOP USING M|C SERVICES AND/OR THE CONTENT. YOU AGREE THAT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL M|C AND OUR AFFILIATES AND PARTIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (COLLECTIVELY, THE “EXCLUDED DAMAGES”), ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE M|C SERVICES OR ANY OF THE CONTENT AND/OR WITH ANY DECISIONS MADE, TREATMENT PROVIDED AND/OR ACTIONS TAKEN IN RELIANCE UPON THE INFORMATION PROVIDED THROUGH THE CONTENT AND/OR M|C SERVICES, INCLUDING: LOSS OF REVENUE, ANTICIPATED PROFITS, BUSINESS, SAVINGS, GOODWILL OR DATA; ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, DENIAL OF SERVICE, ATTACK, INTERRUPTION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION OR COMPUTER VIRUS; OR THIRD PARTY THEFT OF, DESTRUCTION OF, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OR USE OF YOUR INFORMATION, EQUIPMENT OR PROPERTY, EVEN IF THE PARTIES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF OR COULD HAVE FORESEEN THE EXCLUDED DAMAGES. FURTHER, THE M|C, PARTIES WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY FAILURE TO COMPLY, BY YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY, WITH THESE TERMS OR WITH APPLICABLE FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL LAWS.
THESE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY WILL APPLY REGARDLESS OF: (I) ANY NEGLIGENCE OR GROSS NEGLIGENCE OF ANY M|C OR PRI-MED PARTY OR (II) WHETHER THE LIABILITY SOUNDS IN NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR ANY OTHER THEORY OF LEGAL LIABILITY; AND WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT EVEN IF ANY REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OR EXCLUSION OF WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN THOSE STATES, LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. IN NO EVENT SHALL AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU EXCEED ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100).
Indemnification: You agree to defend, indemnify and hold M|C and M|C affiliates harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, costs, and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising from or related to your use of M|C Services or Content.
Termination: You acknowledge and agree that M|C may suspend or terminate your access to and use of M|C Services at any time, with or without cause, at absolute discretion and without notice, including for any breach of these Terms. The relevant version of these Terms shall continue to apply to all prior use of M|C Services. The following paragraphs of these Terms shall survive termination of your use or access to M|C Services: paragraphs concerning indemnification, disclaimers, limitations of liability, termination and general provisions and any other provision that by its terms survives termination of your use of or access to M|C Services.
Links to Other Websites and Services: To the extent that M|C Services contain links to outside services and resources, the availability and content of which M|C does not control, any concerns regarding any such service or resource, or any link thereto, should be directed to the particular outside service or resource. M|C makes no representation or warranty regarding any other Web sites or the contents or materials on such Web sites. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OF ANY THIRD PARTY SITE, NOR DO WE MAKE ANY WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THE CONTENT (OR THE ACCURACY OF SUCH CONTENT) ON ANY THIRD PARTY SITES, AND WE SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER IN RELATION TO ANY OF THE FOREGOING.
Applicable Law: M|C Services are created and controlled by M|C, Pri-Med and/or its affiliates in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. As such, the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will govern these disclaimers, terms, and conditions, without giving effect to any principals of conflict of laws. All claims and disputes arising out of these Terms or M|C Services, other than action for specific performance or injunctive relief brought by M|C, shall be exclusively brought in the federal, state, or local courts located in Boston, MA, USA and, with regard to such claims and disputes, you hereby irrevocably (i) submit to the exercise of personal jurisdiction over you by those courts and (ii) waive any jurisdictional, venue, or inconvenient forum objections to such courts.
General Provisions: Failure by M|C, to enforce any provision(s) of these Terms shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. In the event that any portion of these Terms is held to be unenforceable, the unenforceable portion must be construed as nearly as possible to reflect the original intent, the remaining portions remain in full force and effect, and the unenforceable portion remains enforceable in all other contexts and jurisdictions. These Terms constitutes the entire agreement between you and M|C, with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior oral or written understandings, communications or agreement not specifically incorporated herein, provided, however, that if you register for and participate in any continuing education programs offered by M|C, additional terms and conditions may apply to such programs. Any claim under these Terms must be brought within one (1) year after the date upon which the cause of action arose.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on October 24, 2006.
Welcome to the Web site (the “Site”) of M|C Intermediate, LLC, the parent company of M|C Communications, LLC, Pri-Med Institute, LLC, Physician’s Weekly, LLC and Patient Education Center, LLC (collectively “M|C”). This Site has been created to provide information about M|C and to provide users with the opportunity to learn more about M|C seminars and continuing education courses (the “Activities”) as well as to register for and participate in such Activities (the “Pri-Med Services”). This Privacy Policy sets forth M|C policy with respect to information, including personally identifiable data (“Personal Data”) that is collected from individuals who use the Site and from individuals who otherwise register for and/or participates in the Pri-Med Services.
What Information Does M|C Collect
Personal Data That You Provide Through the Site: M|C collects Personal Data from you when you voluntarily choose to provide such information such as when you contact M|C with inquiries, register for access to M|C Activities or Pri-Med Services and/or use certain Pri-Med Services. Wherever M|C collects Personal Data M|C makes an effort to provide a link to this Privacy Policy or, where the Personal Data is collected in person, via mail or via the telephone, M|C will endeavor to provide you with a copy of this Privacy Policy. M|C may rely upon third party service providers to collect and process your registration for Activities and other Pri-Med Services. These service providers are instructed that they may use your Personal Data only as specified by M|C Privacy Policy.
By voluntarily providing M|C with Personal Data, you are consenting to M|C use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data to this Site, you acknowledge and agree that such Personal Data may be transferred from your current location to the offices and servers of M|C and the authorized third parties referred to herein for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Other Information:
Non-Identifiable Data: When you interact with M|C through the Site, M|C receives and stores certain personally non-identifiable information. Such information, which is collected passively using various technologies, cannot presently be used to specifically identify you. M|C may store such information itself or it may be included in databases owned and maintained by M|C affiliates, agents or service providers. This Site may use such information and pool it with other information to track, for example, the total number of visitors to the Site, the number of visitors to each page of the Site, and the domain names of M|C visitors' Internet service providers. It is important to note that no Personal Data is available or used in this process.
In operating this Site, M|C may use a technology called "cookies." A cookie is a piece of information that the computer that hosts the Site gives to your browser when you access a Web site. M|C cookies help provide additional functionality to the Site and help M|C analyze Site usage more accurately. For instance, the Site may set a cookie on your browser that keeps you from needing to remember and then enter a password more than once during a visit to the site. In cases in which M|C use cookies, M|C will not use such cookies to collect Personal Data unless such collection has been disclosed to you in advance. Please see the section entitled “Personal Data That You Provide Through the Site” for information about the Personal Data that M|C collects. On most Web browsers, you will find a “help” section on the toolbar. Please refer to this section for information on how to receive notification when you are receiving a new cookie and how to turn cookies off. M|C recommends that you leave cookies turned on because they allow you to take advantage of some of the Site’s features.
Aggregated Personal Data: In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the Pri-Med Services, M|C often conducts research on M|C customer demographics, interests and behavior based on the Personal Data and other information provided to M|C. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and M|C may share this aggregated data with M|C affiliates, agents and business partners. When M|C shares this information in aggregate form, it does not identify you personally. M|C may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe M|C services to current and prospective business partners and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
What Are Your Choices?
You can use the Site without providing any Personal Data however, you may not be able to register for and/or use certain of Pri-Med Services.
How Does M|C Use your Personal Data and Other Information?
M|C uses the Personal Data you provide in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data for a certain reason, M|C may use the Personal Data in connection with the reason for which it was provided. For instance, if you contact M|C by e-mail, M|C may use the Personal Data you provide to answer your question or resolve your problem. Also, if you provide Personal Data in order to obtain access to Pri-Med Services, M|C will use your Personal Data to provide access to such services.
If you register for and/or attend Activities, M|C will use your Personal Data to provide you with documents and other materials related to such Activities while in attendance at the Activities and M|C may also mail you documents and materials related to such Activities and other products, services and Activities M|C feel may be of interest to you.
M|C and M|C affiliates may also use your Personal Data and other personally non-identifiable information collected through the Site to help M|C improve the content and functionality of the Site, to better understand M|C users and to improve the Pri-Med Services. M|C and M|C affiliates may use this information to contact you in the future to tell you about services or products M|C believe will be of interest to you. If M|C does so, each communication M|C sends you will contain instructions permitting you to "opt-out" of receiving future communications. In addition, at any time you wish not to receive any future communications or to have your name deleted from M|C mailing lists please contact M|C as indicated below. M|C may also share your Personal Data with certain third parties as described further in the section labeled “Does M|C Share Your Personal Data?”
If M|C intends on using any Personal Data in any manner that is not consistent with this Privacy Policy, you will be informed of such anticipated use prior to or at the time at which the Personal Data is collected, and given the option to opt-out of such use
Does M|C Share Your Personal Data?
M|C is not in the business of selling your information. M|C considers this information to be a vital part of the relationship with you. There are, however, certain circumstances in which M|C may share your Personal Data with certain third parties without further notice to you, as set forth below:
Business Transfers: As M|C develop M|C business, M|C might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event, Personal Data may be part of the transferred assets.
Related Companies: M|C may also share your Personal Data with M|C subsidiaries and affiliates for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Event Sponsors: If you sign-up to attend one of M|C Activities, M|C may share your registration information with non-related companies that are involved in supporting the applicable event, including, without limitation, pharmaceutical companies.
Business Partners: From time to time, M|C may offer you the opportunity to participate in discount plans and similar benefit programs from one or more of M|C business partners. If you opt-in to participate in the discount plans or other benefit programs of M|C business partners, M|C will disclose your Personal Information to such business partners so that they may register you for the applicable discount plan and/or benefit program.
Agents, Consultants and Related Third Parties: M|C, like many businesses, sometimes hires other companies to perform certain business-related functions. Examples include mailing information, maintaining databases and processing payments. When M|C employs another company to perform a function of this nature, M|C endeavors to provide them only with the information that they need to perform their specific function and M|C instructs them to limit their use of the Personal Data accordingly.
Legal Requirements: M|C may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation, (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of M|C, (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public, or (iv) protect against legal liability.
Exclusions
This Privacy Policy shall not apply to any unsolicited information you provide to M|C through this Site or to through any other means. This includes, but is not limited to, information posted to any public areas of the Site, such as bulletin boards any ideas for new products or modifications to existing products, and other unsolicited submissions (collectively, “Unsolicited Information”). All such Unsolicited Information shall be deemed to be non-confidential and M|C shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, and distribute such Unsolicited Information to others without limitation or attribution.
Children
M|C does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 16. If you are under the age of 16, please do not submit any Personal Data through the Site. M|C encourages parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce M|C Privacy Policy by instructing their children to never provide Personal Data on this Site without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 16 has provided Personal Data to M|C through this Site, please contact M|C and M|C will endeavor to delete that information from M|C databases.
Links to Other Web Sites
This Site may frame or contain references or links to other Web sites not operated or controlled by M|C, including Web sites of M|C Related Companies and unrelated companies with which M|C have a business relationship (the “Third Party Sites”). The policies and procedures M|C described here do not apply to the Third Party Sites. The links from this Site do not imply M|C review or endorsement of the Third Party Sites. M|C suggests contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy policies.
Security
M|C takes reasonable steps to protect the Personal Data provided via the Site from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from this Site may not be secure. Therefore, you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to M|C via e-mail. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Data to M|C via the Internet.
Other Terms and Conditions
Your access to and use of this Site is subject to the Terms of Use.
Changes to M|C Privacy Policy
The Site and M|C business may change from time to time. As a result, at times it may be necessary for M|C to make changes to this Privacy Policy. M|C reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time without prior notice. Please review this policy periodically, and especially before you provide any Personal Data. This Privacy Policy was last updated on the date indicated above. Your continued use of the Site after any changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy shall indicate your agreement with the terms of such revised Privacy Policy.
Access to Information; Contacting M|C
To keep your Personal Data accurate, current, and complete, please contact M|C as specified below. M|C will take reasonable steps to update or correct Personal Data in M|C possession that you have previously submitted via this Site.
Please also feel free to contact M|C if you have any questions about M|C Privacy Policy or the information practices of this Site.
You may contact us as follows:
M|C Intermediate, LLC
101 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02199
Tel: 617-406-4000
Fax: 617-406-4100
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