Privacy Policy
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING PRIVACY POLICY IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING esculap-med.com.
This Privacy Policy describes the privacy practices of portal Esculap-med.com (referred as “Esculap-med.com”, “Esculap-med” “us”, “we” and “our”) intended for use by healthcare professionals,” including the information and services made available to users of the Esculap-med.com, such as medical news, reference content, clinical tools, applications, sponsored programs, advertising, email communications, continuing medical education, market research opportunities and discussion forums (collectively, the “Services”).
We reserve the right to update and modify these Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy at any time. Any significant updates will be displayed on this page. We respect the privacy of visitors to this website and are committed to safeguarding that privacy while providing the highest possible quality of service.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to our properties and services that display a link to a different privacy policy. In the event that we expand the Esculap-med.com through our acquisition of another company and/or its properties, that company may operate under its own privacy policy accessible via a link on its properties until we integrate its privacy practices with ours, at which point a link to this Privacy Policy will be displayed on its properties.
You can choose whether or not you want to use the Services. If you do choose to use the Services, you must agree to the Esculap-med portal Terms of Use , which is a contract between us and users of the Services. By agreeing to the Esculap-med Terms of Use, you confirm that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy which explains how we collect, disclose, transfer, secure and use information about you in connection with your use of the Services and the rights and choices you have regarding these activities. If you do not want us to collect and use information about you as described in this Privacy Policy, then you should not use the Services. By using the Services, you acknowledge that we will store, use and otherwise process your information in the European countries and any other country from where the applicable Esculap-med property is operated. Please be aware that the privacy laws and standards in certain countries may differ from those that apply in the country in which you reside.
We will only use information that we collect about you lawfully in accordance with the EU Parliament General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The primary purpose for collecting personal information from users of this website is to provide a high quality and personalised service.
Data Control
In order to access certain information on this website, you may be required to provide personal information, such as your name, profession and contact details.
The personal information that you submit to this website is governed by this privacy policy.
Some emails or newsletters that we send include tracking to allow us to monitor, understand and improve interaction with the information that we are providing. This is very rarely monitored on a personal or individually identifiable level but is recorded by us.
You may inform us at any time if you do not wish your personal information to be used in this way or if you would like us to delete, amend or update information we hold about you (for example an email address).
Esculap-med.com will never share your information with third party organisations without seeking your express consent to do so. We will never treat lack of response or silence to such a request as being indicative of consent.
If you submit personally identifiable information about yourself or others on public areas of the website where third-parties may access them (on the blog for example), Esculap-med.com, nor the service provider, its affiliates, subsidiaries or customers is responsible for protecting use of the information that you present.
What information about you do we collect?
If you register on Esculap-med.com including via a third party hosted sign-up form (Facebook, Twitter) we will collect and store in an electronic format the following information;
Your name
Your surname
Your email address
A password that you define
Birth date
Certificate no.
Phone
Correspondence address
Your profession
Your speciality
For students: student ID number and Name of educational institution
If the information is insufficient in case of registration via Facebook and Twitter, we’ll ask you expand it for access to educational materials.
You may choose to update or supplement the personal information that you provided at registration at any time through your account settings
In addition to your registration information, we collect and process the your engagement with particular content including editorial, advertisements, sponsored informational programs from our advertisers, which may include pharmaceutical companies ("Sponsored Programs"), whether you opened a particular email, clicked on a link, your search queries and how often and when you engage with the Services.
General usage information about you that we collect
Regardless of whether you have registered or not, we also store and process anonymised information via Google Analytics including your:
Device information
Log information (including IP address)
Location information based upon IP address
Browser type and or operating system
Interaction with email messages and other content
Children's Privacy
Esculap-med.com and the Services 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 personal information from any person we know is under the age of 18.
Outbound Communications with Registered Users
We may use registration information that you provide to periodically notify you of news or other information related to Esculap-med.com, its services, content updates (sponsored or otherwise) and news. These communications can take the form of electronic (email) or telephone (voice or text) contact.
Rights and Choices
We may periodically provide to you (via email, phone, or text) marketing communications promoting our services, or those of our customers and/or other third parties.
You may inform us at any time if you do not wish for your personal information to be used in the manner outlined in this Privacy Notice, or if you would like us to delete, amend or update information we hold about you (for example an email address).
When you receive marketing communications from us, you may indicate a preference to stop receiving further communications by “opting-out” via the unsubscribe instructions provided in the e-mail you receive, or by using the ‘Contact us’ page.
For instructions on changing any of your privacy preferences, accessing your information, updating your information, or for any privacy or data-protection-related questions, please contact us.
Your right to be forgotten
Beyond opt-out from communications, you can also contact us and ask for all data relating to your behaviour on our website or interaction with our communications to be removed. Please contact us by using the ‘Contact us’ page to let us know you would like all data removed. We will then manually remove all data relating to your registration, web behaviour or interactions with our communications, and then write to you within 14 days confirming the nature of the data held and its removal.
Please note that we may be required to retain some elements of the data for a period after your request to remove it. Nevertheless, we will respond to your request within 14 days to confirm the status. Any information that is deleted from active databases does not guarantee deletion from remaining archives.
How we use your personal data
Information that you voluntarily provide. By registering as a user of this service you agree that your personal data may be used by the service provider for the purposes of periodic contact (where you have consented during registration) or for the purposes of market research.
We collect data you have provided while contacting us, especially using the contact, download, or signup forms on our website. We collect data that you have sent to us through an online survey, event attendance application, or 3rd party hosted sign-up form (Facebook, Twitter, Linked In).
You also agree that the service provider may retrieve information regarding your activity on this and other services under its control and ownership – or where you have used your username and password for access – for the purpose of creating a user activity profile (UAP), regardless of whether that UAP is personally identifiable or not.
The service provider may retrieve anonymous information regarding your activity on this and other services – for the purpose of creating a user activity profile (UAP). The UAP may be anonymised, for example it could be defined as the UAP for “a user thought to be a cardiologist based in the Estonia” or it could be personally identifiable, including your name, profession, license number, location, content preferences, browsing behaviour profile and other pertinent information as supplied by you.
Regardless of whether the UAP is anonymous or not, the service provider will primarily use the information contained within the UAP to better serve your content needs as part of this and related services.
The service provider may also provide access to your UAP to our subsidiaries and affiliates, and also to 3rd party organisations (including but not limited to pharmaceutical, medical device and other health information companies) for the purposes of market research, clinical trials, studies/promotional or email marketing activity. Such activities are usually infrequent and tailored to reflect your areas of interest based on your UAP.
Your personal contact information (name and email address) will never be passed to these organisations unless you expressly agree separately over and above our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Web Server logs. Like the vast majority of service providers, we automatically gather web server log information – including your browsing behaviour – when you access one of our services.
This information is collected by the computer that hosts our website (called a "web server"). The web server automatically recognises some non-personal information, such as your IP Address, the date and time you accessed the service, the pages you visited, where you came from (e.g. Google), the type of browser you are using (e.g. Internet Explorer), the type of operating system (e.g. Windows 10) you are using, and the domain name and address of your Internet Service Provider. If our site is using cookies (discussed below), the web server will also collect this information.
We also use third party analytics service providers including (but not limited to) Google Analytics. In the same way that we directly collect information about users accessing this service, Google Analytics will – via javascript code inserted in our web pages – obtain, process and analyse similar information about our users.
We often review the server logs and Google Analytics to see which pages are being visited and get a better understanding of how the service is being used by our visitors. We report the performance of those pages (anonymised) to our customers. This allows us to maintain and enhance our service. In addition, in cases of system abuse, we may use this information in conjunction with your Internet Service Provider and/or local authorities to trace the source of any such abuse.
IP Addresses. This website uses Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. An IP address is a number assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider so that you can access the Internet. Generally, an IP address changes each time you connect to the Internet (it is a "dynamic" address). Note, however, that if you have a broadband connection, depending on your individual circumstance, it is possible that your IP address that we collect, or even perhaps a cookie we use, may contain information that could be deemed identifiable. This is because with some broadband connections your IP address doesn't change (it is "static") and could be associated with your personal computer. IP addresses are used as part of the web server log information as stated above.
Cookies
This website uses "cookies". A cookie is a text file that our webserver sends to your computer (actually to your browser file) when you access the website.
Cookies enable us to improve your user experience on this website. The cookies we use are necessary to help us provide tailored content and monitor site use which will allow us to improve the website in the future.
Our cookies primarily store analytics information, which is never shared with third-parties. The information that is stored in our cookies is limited to browser information and information derived from IP address. We never store personal or sensitive information in our cookies.
Esculap-med.com automatically sets cookies for all website users unless they are disabled in the browser settings. Disabling the cookies could lead to the website not functioning properly and you may be unable to view the content in the manner that was originally intended.
By continuing to use Esculap-med.com you are consenting to the use of cookies by the service and service provider.
We use the following types of cookies:
i) Session Cookies
As you browse around our site, there are often times when we need to remember technical information about you as you move from page to page. We use this technical information in a multitude of ways to enhance your user experience. This cookie contains no personally identifiable information and only lasts until you end your session and leave our site.
ii) Persistent or Login Session Cookie
When you log into a restricted area, we may set a cookie on your PC, to remember your login details. This can be used for your convenience so that on subsequent visits, you aren't required to provide the entire login information again. This cookie will remain on your computer indefinitely, even after you leave our site.
iii) Third party cookies on our sites
Esculap-med.com does not allow third parties to set cookies on your computer through this website unless these cookies are set at our request and are under our direct control and are not used or accessed by such third parties except as set forth in this statement.
iv) Refusing and/or Controlling Cookies
Most of this website will still be visible to you if you elect not to allow cookies to be placed on your computer; however, certain functions such as becoming a registered user, may not be available. There are different methods for viewing and deleting cookies set on your device, depending on the browser you are using.
Security of Information
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect the personal information that we have under our control from unauthorized access, use, disclosure and accidental loss. When you enter personal information, we encrypt the transmission of that information or use SSL connections (Secure Socket Layer) technology. You are solely responsible for maintaining the security and confidentiality of your account username and password. Unfortunately, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure. Therefore, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Uses and Disclosures
We will use your information to respond to requests you may make of us, and from time to time, we may refer to your information to better understand your needs and how we can improve Esculap-med.com and our Services. We may also use your information to contact you and/or provide you with general health information (like information on certain health conditions) as well as information about our products and services. We may also enhance or merge your information with data obtained from third parties for the same purposes.
We may share your information with agents, contractors or partners of the service provider in connection with services that these individuals or entities perform for, or with, Esculap-med.com. These agents, contractors or partners are restricted from using this data in any way other than to provide services for Esculap-med.com, or services for the collaboration in which they and the service provider are engaged (for example, some of our products may be developed and marketed through joint agreements with other companies). We may, for example, provide your information to agents, contractors or partners hosting our databases, for data processing services, or so that they can mail you information that you requested. Esculap-med.com reserves the right to share your information to respond to duly authorised information requests of governmental authorities or where required by law. In exceptionally rare circumstances where national or company security is at issue, the service provider reserves the right to share our entire database of visitors and customers with appropriate governmental authorities.
We may also provide your information to a third party in connection with the sale, assignment, or other transfer of the business of this website to which the information relates, in which case we will require any such buyer to agree to treat your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Any third parties we share data with (except for governmental agencies to whom disclosure is required by law) will be contractually obligated to provide a level of privacy protection at least as high as that provided for in this policy.
Choices
Access and Correction. We provide you with the ability to edit the information that you provided to us in registration by using your personal profile configuration area. You may request deletion of your user account by using the ‘Contact us’ page; you will be notified when your account has been deleted. Content or other data that you may have provided to us and that is not contained within your user account, such as blog posts or comments on other content, may continue to remain on our site at our discretion even though your user account is deleted.
External links/websites and affiliates.
Esculap-med.com, our affiliates, subsidiaries, sponsors, advertisers and partners do not accept responsibility for content held within external websites linking to or from this service. The content of any such website in no way represents the opinions of the service provider. Such links are supplied purely as 'suggested links', the content of which is in no way warranted for accuracy or independence.
Esculap-med reserves the right to add, modify, or delete any of the services offered at any time.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about our policy, please contact us.