Med-IQ understands how important the privacy of personal information is to our customers. Med-IQ is committed to honoring your privacy and protecting any personal information you choose to share with us. This privacy policy describes the information we may collect about you, how we may use it, and the precautions we take against unauthorized access or use of your information.

Continuing Medical Education

When you register for a continuing medical education (CME) or continuing education (CE) activity through our Web site, we collect certain personally identifiable information from you such as your name, e-mail address, mailing address, and phone number. In addition to personally identifiable information, we collect aggregate information about the activities visitors to our Web site participate in. We use the information that we collect in several ways.

How We Use Information Collected

Aggregate Data

Med-IQ is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the California Board of Registered Nursing (CBRN) to provide continuing medical education to physicians and other healthcare professionals.

As a CME-accredited entity, we are required periodically to submit aggregate data about CME participants and the CME activities we certify.

We also collect and report aggregate data about visitors to our Web sites for product development and improvement activities, and for market analysis. We may provide information from our Web sites in aggregate form, with identifying information removed, to third parties. For example, we may tell a healthcare partner what percent of our registered users reside in a particular geographic area. When aggregate health information is provided, we pool it from many individual records and strip it of any data that could be used to identify an individual before it is used.

Commercial supporters of CME, CE, and other activities on our Web site will receive only aggregate data about activities that are relevant to their interests and/or the courses they support.

Non-Aggregate (Identifiable) Data

We may provide personally identifiable information to other accredited CME/CE providers who certify CME/CE activities posted on Med-IQ's Web site, www.Med-IQ.com, 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.

Med-IQ staff will have internal access to files containing personally identifiable information, including evaluation forms and aggregate CME/CE participant information. These files can be accessed by Med-IQ staff to respond to your questions or comments. Our staff may also use personally identifiable information, including registration information and evaluation data, in assessing educational needs and planning marketing activities related to educational programs.

We may use the information we collect as otherwise permitted in this privacy policy.

Third Parties

We may share some information with third parties as described below.

Other Companies: We have strategic relationships with other companies who support CME on our Web sites. When you are interacting with those companies, different rules and privacy policies may apply.

Companies and People Who Work for Med-IQ: Med-IQ frequently contracts with other companies and individuals to help us provide services. For example, we may host some of our Web sites on another company's computers, hire technical consultants to maintain our Web-based tools, or work with companies to remove repetitive information from customer lists, analyze data, provide marketing assistance, and provide customer service. To perform their jobs, such companies may have limited access to some of the personal information we maintain about our users. We require all such companies to comply with the terms of our privacy policies, to limit their access to any personal information to the minimum necessary to perform their obligations, and to refrain from using the information they may access for purposes other than fulfilling their responsibilities to us. We strive to limit the use of other companies in areas where personally identifiable information may be involved.

Commercial supporters of CME, CE, and other activities on our Web site will receive only aggregate data about activities that are relevant to their interests and/or the courses they support.

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

Protection of Information

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 of our employees and others who have access to or are associated with the processing of your data respect your confidentiality.

Storage of Health Information

Personally identifiable information you share with us is stored on our database servers at Med-IQ's data centers or hosted by third parties who have entered into agreements with us that require them to observe our privacy policy. We have a firewall to prevent individuals from accessing information without authorization. Data centers are physically secure and protected from unauthorized access by unauthorized persons. Physical access to the servers requires individual authorization and authentication.

Information in our data centers is backed up routinely to aid in the recovery of information in the event of accidental damage of information or due to a natural disaster. The backup media are stored in a physically secure storage facility.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are a technology used by Med-IQ's Web site to identify a user as the user moves through the Web site. Your browser allows us to place some information on your computer's hard drive that identifies the computer you are using. We use cookies to personalize our Web sites and to track your activity across all of our Web sites.

Your Web browser can be set to allow you to control whether you will accept or 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.

Privacy Questions or Concerns

For privacy questions or concerns about the Med-IQ Web site or microsites related to specific CME/CE activities, e-mail info@Med-IQ.com or call (toll-free) 866 858 7434.