By accessing or using this website, you agree to the following terms of
the Privacy Policy which complies with the US data protection legislation
when processing confidential information (e.g.: your name, birth
date, e-mail address, mailing address, etc.) which relates to an identified or
identifiable person ("Personal Data"). This Privacy Policy discloses
the privacy practices for the website and additional explanation and/or clarifications may be provided,
where appropriate, on pages where personal data is requested. This Privacy
Policy, coupled with any supplementary explanation, is designed to provide
privacy protection tailored to the individual visitor to, or user of, the
website.
If you do not agree to these
terms, please do not access or use the website.
The website reserves the right to change the Privacy Policy from time to time at
its sole discretion without any individual notice. The website will place appropriate notice
of any changes to the privacy policy on its home page. You shall have the ability to opt-out
as per Section 6 below of having your information used in the event of a Privacy Policy revision.
Each use of the website will
be subject to the most current version of the Privacy Policy at the time of
such use. The current version is dated 01 July 2009.
Table of Contents
By the means of this Privacy
Policy, the website intends to notify you of:
- What Personal Data and other information about you is collected from you through the website (Section 2 and
3);
- How your Personal Data and other information will be
used (Section 2, 3 and 4);
- What choices are available to you regarding
collection, use and distribution of Personal Data (Section 3 and 6);
- The types of security procedures that are in
place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of Personal Data and
other information under the website's control (Section 5);
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in or delete
your Personal Data (Section 7);
- How to contact the website administration in the case that you have a question or concern regarding the Privacy Policy (Section 9 );
Most of the information that
the website collects is anonymous information and not personally identifiable, such as the pages you visit and
the searches you perform.
2.1 Log Files
The website will record the
following anonymous information from any visitor going through its site: browser type, IP
address, domain name, access time, and operating system. The website uses
this information to determine what kind of technology is available on the visitors'
computers so it can better serve them by utilizing more advanced technologies
(e.g., Macromedia Flash). None of this information is linked to any Personal
Data.
2.2 Cookies and Advertisements
2.2.1 Our Cookies
The website may collect other
anonymous data regarding your visit to our website by placing a small amount of information
or "cookie" on your browser. Information collected in this manner can include, for example,
the date and time of your visit, and the domain name of the server from which
you are visiting. This can provide the website information which may enable us
to improve our website to best serve you. None of this information is linked
to any Personal Data.
3.1 Personal Data collected by using the website services
The website collects the
following Personal Data from users of the following services on its site:
3.1.1 Contact Us
The website might ask you to
provide: first and last name, age, birth date, gender, e-mail address,
telephone and information about your medical conditions. The website will only
contact you by email or telephone if you give explicit permission to the
website. The website does not
use your information for other purposes unless you explicitly agree to such use
at the time of the collection.
3.1.2 Eligibility Questionnaire
The website might ask you to
provide: first and last name, age, birth date, gender, e-mail address,
telephone and information about your medical conditions. The website will only
contact you by email or telephone if you give explicit permission to the
website. The website does not
use your information for other purposes unless you explicitly agree to such use
at the time of the collection.
4.1 Transfer into Archives and Destruction of Data
The collected data will be
transferred into an archive at regular intervals. Data which is archived may be
destroyed without notice at any time. However, the website reserves the
unlimited right to destroy collected data at any time and without prior
notification. You may request, at any time, to have your Personal Data or other collected information destroyed.
4.2 Distribution of Information to you by the website
Our site users can expect to be contacted by the website or by the study representative
in the following circumstances if you have not chosen to opt-out as per Section 6 below.
4.2.1 By email
Users who have voluntarily
subscribed to receive more information about upcoming clinical trials will
receive information if and when this material becomes available. Users will not
be contacted for any other purpose unless they explicitly request that we do
so.
4.2.2 By telephone
The website will not contact you by telephone, unless expressively disclosed.
You may be contacted by a research center or study representative by telephone
if you authorized this contact method in the questionnaire.
4.3 Data Request by Law, by Court or by a Regulatory Authority
If required by law, by court
or by a regulatory authority the website will make accessible all requested
data to such parties.
Inside the website only
selected employees and contractors have access to the server via their
password.
The website security policy is
reviewed every six (6) months to ensure its accuracy and to ensure that it
reflects any changes that have occurred on the website. Please take into
consideration that the World Wide Web is a publicly accessible system and any
time information is made available online this is done at your own risk. Your
data might be lost under way or may be accessible to unauthorized third
persons.
Our site provides users the
opportunity to receive communications from us. This is done at the point where
we request information about the visitor. This site also gives users the
option for removing their information from our database in order not
to receive future communications or to no longer receive our service. An
inaccurate description will cause delay or failure in processing your request.
Please note that if you provide the website with inconsistent information, the
website cannot guarantee that your most recent privacy preference will be honored.
This website contains links
to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you
are 'clicking' to another website. We encourage you to read the privacy
statements of these linked sites as their privacy policy may differ from ours.
This website is not affiliated with nor does it endorse any websites that are linked.
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If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy please email
us at info@GrouperMedia.com.