Diagnostics Product Guide Privacy Policy
Diagnostics Product Guide is committed to protecting your privacy. This policy describes the ways that personally identifiable and anonymous information about our online users is gathered, our information sharing practices, and how online users may request changes to the way this information is shared.
Personally Identifiable Information We Collect
We collect personally identifiable information when you provide it to us, such as when you register for site membership, sign up for email newsletters, or to otherwise communicate with us. Several of the services that we offer, including but not limited to newsletters and the Medical Product Guide, require registration as a condition of use; when you register with one of our sites you are no longer anonymous. We may also receive information about you from other sources and add it to the information you have provided to us.
Information You Volunteer and How it Is Displayed to Others Online
Diagnostics Product Guide is not responsible for the information you volunteer about yourself in the course of discussions in our forums, chat rooms, or other forms of publicly accessible interaction, or information that you choose to make public in your member profile. As a member, you can view, correct or change your publicly available information at any time via your member profile page. To view or change your profile, please follow the link to the account preferences page.
What We Provide to Third Parties
The aggregate statistics that describe our online audience, which is often based on the information you provide when you subscribe, register, or browse our sites, help us sell advertising and otherwise publicize Diagnostics Product Guide and its brands. The information we share under these circumstances does not contain behavioral or identifying information about any individual reader or user, unless the individual has given us permission to share that information.
Mailing Lists
We make email and postal lists of our customers available on a rental, i.e., temporary, defined, basis, to carefully screened providers of quality goods and services. Many customers appreciate the offerings they receive, but here's what to do if you don't wish for us to share this information:
Please send an email with your preference request to privacy@medicalproductguide.com
Any mailing sent to our lists is carefully reviewed before it is sent, and when we rent our mailing lists, we monitor them to ensure they are used only for the approved purpose. Because of the difficulty inherent in tracking their use, we do not provide email address lists to third parties except for service purposes such as deployment or suppression, as described below.
Diagnostics Product Guide also provides profile reports on specific companies, based on subscriber-reported and publicly available data, to carefully screened providers of quality goods and services. These include contact information for the company and its key personnel.
Email and Postal Mail Deployment, Data Analysis and Other Data Services
We provide customer lists and other information to third party companies who provide specialized services, such as email message deployment, merge-purge (identifying and removing duplicate addresses) of lists, postal mailing, subscription fulfillment, customer service and telemarketing, research, statistical analysis, and other data processing. These companies work on our behalf and we do not provide our lists or other data to them for their own, permanent, use.
In order to comply with the Federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, we also may provide lists of customers who have opted-out of email promotion for Diagnostics Product Guide products to other companies, so they can be suppressed from mailings those companies send on Diagnostics Product Guide’s behalf. In addition, if you unsubscribe from a mailing we send to our own list on behalf of a third party, your removal instruction may also be supplied to the third party and added to their own suppression file.
Medical Product Guide Seminars, Events, Sites and Other Publications and Services
As a Diagnostics Product Guide customer, you can also expect to receive relevant email and postal offers for Diagnostics Product Guide publications, seminars, events, web sites and other services. From time to time we are also able to secure and offer to our customers specially-negotiated discounts and new products from other leading companies. If you would prefer not to receive such mailings in the future, please send a note to Privacy@medicalproductguide.com with the term "Mailing Lists" in the subject line.
Change of Ownership of Diagnostics Product Guide Properties
The mailing list(s) associated with Diagnostics Product Guide properties may also be subject to transfer to another company in the event of a change of ownership. In this event, Diagnostics Product Guide or the new owner of the affected properties will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you and provide the opportunity to remove your name from the associated mailing list(s).
Anonymous Information We Collect
Cookies
Diagnostics Product Guide uses cookies to deliver a better and more personalized service. This cookie is set when you register. This cookie allows the user to easily retrieve saved information and to access personalized information.
IP Addresses
Diagnostics Product Guide collects IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to report aggregate information to our advertisers and to audit the use of our site. When guests request pages from Diagnostics Product Guide sites, our servers log the guests' IP addresses. We do not normally link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that a user's session will be logged, but the user remains anonymous to us.
Pixel Tags
Like many web sites, Diagnostics Product Guide may also use pixel tags, also known as beacons, spotlight tags or web bugs, to improve our understanding of site traffic, visitor behavior, and response to promotional campaigns, as a supplement to our server logs and other methods of traffic and response measurement. Pixel tags are sometimes used in conjunction with small Javascript-based applications, also for the purpose of traffic measurement. We may also implement pixel tags provided by other companies, for the same purpose. You can disable pixel tags by changing your browser settings to omit images and disable Javascript; or there are commercial software packages available that can omit pixel tags and most advertisements.
Online Ad Serving
Diagnostics Product Guide uses a variety of third-party advertising services, to serve advertisements when you visit our sites. This company may use information (not including your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other information you've provided us) about your visits to our and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. For this purpose, third-party advertising services use cookies and may use pixel tags (also called clear gifs, spotlight tags and beacons).
Several companies provide email deployment services for our email messages. The personally identifiable information, such as e-mail address, we provide to these vendors for the purposes of e-mail deployment is only used by them for that purpose and not for any other business activity.
Some of our advertisers use third-party companies to serve their advertisements on our sites and, in some cases, in our HTML-formatted newsletters. Often, these third-party advertising companies employ cookie and pixel tag technologies to measure the effectiveness of Web and e-mail advertisements. We do not give any personally identifiable information to them as part of this relationship. Use of their tracking technology is subject to their own privacy policies.
Diagnostics Product Guide
The Diagnostics Product Guide hosts sponsored product listings for a variety of companies (Sponsors). If you view one or more product listings supplied by a Diagnostics Product Guide Sponsor, all data collected during registration will be shared with the Sponsor. When shared, this data is governed by the individual Sponsor's privacy policy and may be used by the Sponsor for follow-up purposes. Similarly, Diagnostics Product Guide will have the same access to this data as the Sponsors, and this Privacy Policy continues to govern how Diagnostics Product Guide uses the data. For details on how Sponsors use the information you provide, please contact the Sponsor directly.
If you have any questions, please contact admin@MedicalProductGuide.com.
Contests and Sweepstakes
Diagnostics Product Guide periodically conducts contests and sweepstakes. If you choose to enter, the data you provide will be subject to the official rules of the specific contest, as well as this privacy policy. Please read the contest rules carefully before you submit your data.
Co-Branded Sites and Services
When you use a co-branded service within our network of sites, or register or otherwise provide information on a co-branded site, you grant us permission to pass the information collected back to that service or site partner. Their use of your information is subject to their applicable privacy policies.
Links To Other Sites
When you are on Diagnostics Product Guide you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There are links to other sites from Diagnostics Product Guide pages that take you outside our service. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data or solicit personal information. While Diagnostics Product Guide strives to protect its users' personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online. Diagnostics Product Guide’s policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond Diagnostics Product Guide’s control, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation.
Changing Your Privacy Options
Update Your Registration Information
You can correct or change the information collected during site registration at any time at the profile pages.
Update Your Newsletter Subscriptions
You can opt-in to newsletter mailing lists, or remove yourself at any time through the privacy@MedicalProductGuide.com email address, or by following the instructions at the end of the newsletters you receive. Please allow 3-5 business days for changes to take effect.
Security
We use reasonable precautions to keep the personal information you disclose to our websites secure and to only release this information to third parties we believe share our commitment to privacy. However, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for the actions of these parties.
Children
Diagnostics Product Guide web sites are not intended for use by children, especially those under 13. No one under age 13 is allowed to provide any personal information or use our public discussion areas, forums, and chats. Minors under the age of 18 are prohibited from making purchases, including subscriptions, on our sites.
If your children disclose information about themselves in our public discussion areas, they may get unsolicited messages from other parties. Accordingly, you should tell them not to do so.
Changes to the Diagnostics Product Guide Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time. Any modifications to our privacy policy will be reflected first on this page, so check back often.
Questions?
If you have any questions on our Privacy Policy, you can contact us at privacy@medicalproductguide.com.