This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 23, 2012.
Welcome to www.meddik.com (the “Site”). This Site is operated by Meddik and has been created to provide information about our company and to provide users with access to and use of our health discovery and discussion platform (the “Meddik Services”). This Privacy Policy sets forth Meddik’s policy with respect to information that is collected from Site visitors.
When you interact with us through the Site, we may collect certain information from you, as further described below:
Personal Data That You Provide Through the Site: When you interact with us through the Site, we may collect certain information from you, as further described below:
Other Information:
Non-Identifiable Data: When you interact with Meddik through the Site, we receive and store certain personally non-identifiable information. Such information, which is collected passively using various technologies, cannot presently be used to specifically identify you. Meddik may store such information itself or such information may be included in databases owned and maintained by Meddik 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 our Site, the number of visitors to each page of our Site, and the domain names of our visitors' Internet service providers. It is important to note that no Personal Data is available or used in this process.
In operating this Site, we may use a technology called "cookies." A cookie is a piece of information that the computer that hosts our Site gives to your browser when you access the Site. Our cookies help provide additional functionality to the Site and help us analyze Site usage more accurately. For instance, our Site may set a cookie on your browser that allows you to access the Site without needing to remember and then enter a password more than once during a visit to the Site. In all cases in which we use cookies, we will not collect Personal Data except with your permission. 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. We recommend 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 Meddik Services, Meddik often conducts research on its customer demographics, interests and behavior based on the Personal Data and other information provided to us. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and Meddik may share this aggregate data with its affiliates, agents and business partners. This aggregate information does not identify you personally. Meddik may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
Meddik 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, we may use the Personal Data in connection with the reason for which it was provided. For instance, when you provide Personal Data to register for access to the Meddik Services, we will use your Personal Data to provide you with access to such services and to monitor your use of such services. Meddik may also use your Personal Data and other personally non-identifiable information collected through the Site to help us improve the content and functionality of the Site and the Meddik Services and to better understand our users. Meddik may use this information to contact you in the future to tell you about services we believe will be of interest to you. If we do so, each communication we send you will contain instructions permitting you to "opt-out" of receiving future communications. In addition, if at any time you wish not to receive any future communications or you wish to have your name deleted from our mailing lists, please contact us as indicated below.
Meddik is not in the business of selling your information. We consider this information to be a vital part of our relationship with you. There are, however, certain circumstances in which we may share your Personal Data with certain third parties without further notice to you, as set forth below:
Business Transfers: As we develop our business, we 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.
Agents, Consultants and Related Third Parties: Meddik, like many businesses, sometimes hires other companies to perform certain business-related functions. Examples of such functions include mailing information, maintaining databases and processing payments. When we employ another company to perform a function of this nature, we only provide them with the information that they need to perform their specific function. ilar event, Personal Data may be part of the transferred assets.
Legal Requirements: Meddik 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 Meddik, (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public, or (iv) protect against legal liability.
You can use the Site without providing any Personal Data. If you choose not to provide any Personal Data, you may not be able to use certain Meddik Services.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any Personal Data collected by Meddik other than Personal Data collected through the Site. This Privacy Policy shall not apply to any unsolicited information you provide to Meddik through this Site or through any other means. This includes, but is not limited to, information posted to any public areas of the Site, such as bulletin boards (collectively, “Public Areas”), any ideas for new products or modifications to existing products, and other unsolicited submissions (collectively, “Unsolicited Information”). All Unsolicited Information shall be deemed to be non-confidential and Meddik shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, and distribute such Unsolicited Information to others without limitation or attribution.
Meddik does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any Personal Data through the Site. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Data on this Site without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Data to Meddik through this Site, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.
This Privacy Policy applies only to the Site. This Site may contain links to other web sites not operated or controlled by Meddik (the “Third Party Sites”). The policies and procedures we described here do not apply to the Third Party Sites. The links from this Site do not imply that Meddik endorses or has reviewed the Third Party Sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy policies.
Meddik 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 take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Data to Meddik via the Internet.
Your access to and use of this Site is subject to the Terms of Use.
The Site and our business may change from time to time. As a result, at times it may be necessary for Meddik to make changes to this Privacy Policy. Meddik reserves 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.
To keep your Personal Data accurate, current, and complete, please contact us as specified below to request that your information be updated. We will take reasonable steps to update or correct Personal Data in our possession that you have previously submitted via this Site. Please free to contact us if you have any questions about Meddik’s Privacy Policy or the information practices of this Site. You may contact us as follows:
