MedEd PPD

Disclaimer

Information on this Web site is intended only to increase knowledge on perinatal (during pregnancy and after childbirth) mood disorders. We do not intend to offer medical advice or treatment of any kind. The tools we offer, such as the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, are intended as tools only, the results of which should be confirmed by a qualified healthcare professional. This information is not a replacement for diagnosis or treatment by a qualified healthcare professional. MedEdPPD cannot be responsible for actions taken without professional medical guidance.

MediSpin Inc. Privacy Policy

MediSpin Inc. understands the importance of protecting the privacy of any personal information you provide to us. This Privacy Policy pertains to our Web sites that are accessible by physicians, nurses, and healthcare professionals, and it describes what information we may collect about you, what uses we may make of it, how you can tell us what to do with your information, and what precautions we take against unauthorized access or use of your information.

About This Privacy Policy

Web Sites Covered

Reference to "MediSpin Inc." or "We" means MediSpin Inc. MediSpin Inc. Web sites include any site that MediSpin Inc. owns or controls (for example, MedEdPPD.org, MedEdMentoring.org, or thewomenshealthsite.org). We may share information among the Web sites that we own or control, but it is always protected under the terms of this Privacy Policy.

We have a corporate site where you can read more about our company, obtain investor information, and find out how to contact us at www.medispin.com.

This Privacy Policy applies to MediSpin Inc. Web sites. You should read the privacy policy at each Web site that you visit after you leave one of our sites. We are not responsible for how other Web sites treat your privacy, once you leave a MediSpin Inc. Web site.

Privacy Policy Changes

As our Privacy Policy changes in significant ways, we will make every effort to notify you of the changes. Minor changes to the policy may occur that will not affect our use of individually identifiable information. For these instances, MediSpin Inc. may not notify you of such minor changes. When the Privacy Policy changes in a way that significantly affects the way we handle personal information, we will not apply the new policy to information we have previously gathered without obtaining consent from the appropriate individual. We will post Privacy Policy changes on our Web sites in a timely manner.

Information We Collect from Unregistered Visitors

Visitors to each of our Web sites can access the Web site's home page and browse some areas of the site without disclosing any personally identifiable information. We do track information provided to us by your browser, including the Web site you came from (known as the "referring URL"), the type of browser you use, the time and date of access, and other information that does not personally identify you. On most of our Web sites, you must register with us to use the entire site.

Information We Collect When You Register

Some areas of our Web sites require registration. When you register, you are asked to provide us with identifying information, such as name, gender, contact information, and other personal information. On our registration screens, we clearly label which information is required for registration, and which information is optional and may be given at your discretion. You will also be given a choice about whether or not you want to receive newsletters and other information that we distribute from time to time.

Other Information

Discussion Boards: When you use a discussion board on one of our Web sites, you may post a message and your user name, which is available for all registered users to see. When you are posting publicly, any user of our Web site can see your message. You should not post any information you want or are required by law to keep private to a discussion board or other public forum on our Web sites.
Tools: On some of our Web sites, we offer clinical tools that require you to provide information for the tools to operate (for example, a clinical calculator that provides information on adjusting drug dosage). Our tools may provide you with the option of storing the information that you provide on our servers. We will always make it clear to you when information you provide to us through a tool will be saved.
Additional Forms and Emails: We may also ask you to provide additional information after you register if you want to obtain additional services or information or to resolve complaints or concerns.

In addition, we gather information about you that is automatically collected by our Web server, such as your IP address and domain name. We will use this information to personalize its offerings and presentations to you, facilitate your movements throughout our Web sites, provide personalized services, and to communicate with you individually.

Continuing Medical Education

Where MediSpin Inc. provides continuing medical education ("CME") or continuing education ("CE"), the content is managed by a provider that is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education ("ACCME") to provide CME for physicians. When you register for a CME CE activity through one of our Web sites, the accredited provider will collect certain personally identifiable information from you such as your name, e-mail address, and mailing address. If you are a nurse or a pharmacist and wish to receive CE credit, you are also required to provide the state in which you are licensed and your license number. In addition to personally identifiable information, the provider will collect aggregated non personally identifiable information about the activities undertaken by our users. We use the information that we collect through CME/CE activities in several ways:

As ACCME-accredited entities, our CME/CE providers are required periodically to submit aggregated data about CME participants and the CME activities they certify. Our providers will also provide personally identifiable information to other accredited CME/CE providers who certify CME/CE activities posted on our Web sites, as required by the ACCME and other accrediting bodies. These reports may include personally identifiable information about you and credits issued to you, for the purpose of maintaining records that you can request from the accredited provider for up to six (6) years;
Commercial supporters of CME/CE activities on our Web site will receive only aggregated data about CME/CE activities that are relevant to their interests and/or the courses they support;
The editorial and customer support staff of our accredited providers will have internal access to files containing personally identifiable information, including evaluation forms and aggregated CME/CE participant information. These files can be accessed in order to respond to your questions or comments. Our accredited providers may also use personally identifiable information, including registration information and evaluation data, in assessing educational needs and planning marketing activities.

Use of Cookies and Web Beacons

Cookies are a technology we use to keep track of users as they move through our Web sites. Your browser allows us to place some information on your computer's hard drive that is associated with the computer you are using. We use cookies to personalize our Web sites and to track your usage across all of our Web sites.

Your Web browser can be set to allow you to control whether you will accept cookies, reject cookies, or to notify you each time a cookie is sent to you. If your browser is set to reject cookies, Web sites that are cookie-enabled will not recognize you when you return to the Web site, and some Web site functionality may be lost. The Help section of your browser will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies.

Although cookies do not normally contain personally identifiable information, if you are a registered user, we may elect to associate your registration information with cookies our Web site places on your computer's hard drive. Associating a cookie with your registration data allows us to offer increased personalization and functionality. For example, you can elect to have our Web sites "remember" your user name and password and bypass the sign-in process on each visit to the site. Without cookies, this functionality would not be possible.

We also may use Web beacons to collect nonpersonally identifiable information about your use of our Web sites and special promotions or newsletters. Web beacons are tiny graphic image files, embedded in a Web page in GIF, JPG or HTML format, that provide a presence on the Web page and send back to its home server (which can belong to the host site, a network advertiser or some other third party) information from a user's browser, such as the IP address, the URL of the page on which the beacon is located, the type of browser that is accessing the site, and the ID number of any cookies on the user's computer previously placed by that server. Web beacons can also be used to place a cookie on the user's browser. The information collected by Web beacons (i) allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our Web sites, (ii) how many people open our e-mails, and (iii) for what purposes these actions are being taken. Our Web beacons are not used to track your activity outside of our Web sites. We do not collect nonpersonally identifiable information from Web beacons to collect personally identifiable information without your permission, and do not use Web beacons to collect or store personal health information about you.

Children's Privacy

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. Our Web sites are designed and intended for use by adults and are not intended for, nor designed to be used by, children under the age of 18. We do not collect personally identifiable information from any person we know is a child under the age of 18.

Uses We Make of Information

In this section of our Privacy Policy, we identify the ways we may use information about you that we have collected.

Legal Requirements: We may release account and other personal information when we believe release is required to comply with law. We will do this only if in our judgment, and after review by an attorney, the release is compelled by law or regulation, or if the release is necessary to prevent the death or serious injury of an individual.
Consent: We may release personally identifiable information to a third party in accordance with your consent, subject to the purposes and limits that we disclose when we request your consent.

When we share information with third parties, we ask that they agree in writing to abide by our Privacy Policy.

If we discover that a third party inadvertently disclosed personal information about any of our customers, we will take immediate action to prevent further occurrences.

Protection of Information

In this section of our Privacy Policy, we discuss the security measures we take to protect information that we have collected about you.

Advertising Policy

MedEdPPD.org does not host or receive funds from any commercial organization or advertiser.

General Policies

We have implemented technology and security policies, rules and other measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from unauthorized access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction, and accidental loss. We also protect your information by requiring that all our employees and others who have access to or are associated with the processing of your data respect your confidentiality.

We use security methods to determine the identity of registered users, so that appropriate rights and restrictions can be enforced for that user. Reliable verification of user identity is called authentication. We use both passwords and user names to authenticate users. Users are responsible for maintaining their own passwords.

Access to Information and Choices

In this section of our Privacy Policy, we tell you how to obtain and correct information we have about you, and how to choose what types of information you may share with us.

Correction of Information We Have About You

If you believe that registration information collected by our Web site(s) is in error, you may edit your personal profile any time that you like. You can directly edit your user profile on our Web site on which you initially registered. Requests for deletion of your record may result in your removal from the registry.

Privacy Questions or Concerns About One of Our Web Sites

For privacy questions or concerns about one of our Web sites, please contact support@medispin.com.

Effective date: November 1, 2006.