At MedQualis we are committed to protecting your privacy. You can navigate the majority of our site without giving us any personal information about yourself. However, we may track the technical information provided to us by your browsing the site to improve the navigation, content and design of our website. You may voluntarily provide additional information about yourself to enable us to provide the information or services you are requesting.
Your privacy is important to us. To protect your privacy, we provide this Privacy Policy Statement describing what information we collect about you, how we intend to use your information, what choices you have regarding how your information is used, how we protect it, how you can access your information to correct it, and how to contact us regarding your information.
This Privacy Policy Statement applies to all visitors who register on the MedQualis website http://www.medqualis.com
The personal information we collect when you register on our website can be provided by you for several different reasons which are described below:
1. You will need to register to receive certain information or certain documents.
2. You may opt to provide us information about yourself if you are interested in an employment opportunity at MedQualis. The information requested from you will be based on your area of interest.
3. You can register to receive customized information. This information is generally collected on “Contact” or request forms where you can request information. The type of information that you may download after providing your information includes:
• Literature, articles, white papers, case studies and posters
4. You can choose to register to receive access to periodic newsletters, or information on a specific product or service. Generally, the personal information collected when you register to receive this type of information is your name, company, affiliation, and email address. This information is collected for qualification and aggregate measurement purposes only.
We store the information you provide about in a secure database in order to provide you with the information, products, and/or services you request. The information is stored for the lifetime of the database unless you request that it be removed. The information you provide us about yourself will be shared with MedQualis employees to the extent necessary to accommodate your request. You must consent for us to share your identifiable information with third parties, who would be bound by a confidentiality agreement.
For example, if you provide your name, mailing address, telephone and email address and request more information about MedQualis services, such information may be shared with third parties with whom we work, affiliates, vendors, or regulatory agencies; but your information will always be protected under the terms of this Privacy Policy Statement.
We use non-identifying and aggregate information about the use of our website to improve the navigation, content, and design of our site. This information may include, for example, the most and least requested pages and the number of users from the U.S. and other countries, among other things.
Finally, unless otherwise excepted below, we would not use your personal information provided to us online for purposes other than those you requested without also providing you an opportunity to agree or otherwise limit such unrelated purposes.
Except as described above, we will not otherwise use or disclose any of your personal information, except to the extent reasonably necessary: (i) to correct technical problems and malfunctions and to technically process your information; (ii) to protect the security and integrity of our website; (iii) to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of others; (iv) to take precautions against liability; (v) to the extent required by law or to respond to judicial process; or (vii) to the extent permitted under other provisions of law, to provide information to law enforcement agencies or for an investigation on a matter related to public safety, as applicable.
The personal information your provide is stored in a secure electronic database that has access limited to only those who need to know your information in order to address your requests. Our computer systems have physical, electronic and supervisory procedures in place to ensure that your information is not altered in any way without your authorization. MedQualis also has a corporate policy in place that requires all personnel not to disclose personal information to any third party that is not entitled to have that information.
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the hard drive of your computer. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personal information while on our site. MedQualis uses cookies on our website in order (a) to allow site visitors to personalize their experience by accessing information, products, and services relevant to their areas of interest, (b) to track a user session within a subscribed product, and (c) to allow site visitors to vote only once in periodic opinion polls.
We receive IP addresses in the normal course of the operation of our website. An IP address is a number assigned to you by your Internet service provider so you can access the Internet. Although we do receive IP addresses, we do not use them to identify you personally or disclose them to others.
You may update or remove the information you provided to us by contacting us – see Contact on the MedQualis website, or the section below on “How to Contact MedQualis”. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before updating or removing your information. The information you provide us may be archived or stored periodically by us according to backup processes conducted in the ordinary course of business. Information stored as part of this backup process will be deleted in due course on a regular schedule.
Our website may contain links to other websites. You should carefully review the privacy policies and practices of other Web sites, as we cannot control or be responsible for their privacy practices.
MedQualis collects personal information directly from the individuals, so you will be informed about the purpose for which the information is collected and if there is an intent to provide that information to a third party. You will also be notified if there is intent to use the information for purposes other than those originally disclosed. This notice will be provided in a clear and conspicuous language before such personal information will be used for purposes other than that for which it was originally collected or processed.
MedQualis may provide your information to third parties such as clients for whom we work, affiliates, vendors, or to regulatory agencies; but your information will always be protected under the terms of this Privacy Policy Statement. This will be achieved by first ascertaining that the third party will provide the same level of privacy protection as described in this Privacy Policy Statement. If it becomes known that a third party organization which has received personal information is using or disclosing it a manner contrary to this Statement, MedQualis will take reasonable steps to prevent or stop this use or disclosure.
MedQualis employs reasonable precautions to prevent your personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. We also take reasonable steps to ensure your information is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete and current. This is achieved by storing your information in a secure electronic database that is a component of a computer system that has physical, electronic and supervisory procedures in place to ensure compliance with all electronic records regulations.
Any concerns, questions or complaints regarding the use of your personal information should be directed to the MedQualis Privacy Officer using the contact information presented below. MedQualis will attempt to resolve any dispute or complaint relating to the misuse or improper disclosure of personal information by investigating it in accordance with the principles contained in this Privacy Policy Statement. Appropriate corrective and preventive action will be implemented and follow-up on such action will be conducted to verify that the expressed concern or complaint has been resolved.
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Concerns, questions or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy Statement or the handling of
your personal information should be submitted to:
Privacy Officer
1240 Beaumont Avenue. Suite 208
Mont-Royal (Quebec) H3P 3E5
Canada
Telephone: 514-526-0626
This Privacy Policy Statement may be amended from time to time to ensure consistency and compliance with changes in statutory requirements. Changes to this policy will be posted on the MedQualis website and we recommend that you review this Privacy Policy Statement to ensure you are aware of any changes made to it.
This Privacy Policy Statement became effective on: January 1st, 2014