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Medical World 4 U Privacy Policy
Last Updated: June 20, 2005
This page describes Medical World 4 U's privacy policy. Our company is committed to respecting your privacy. We take every step to ensure that your information is transmitted and stored securely. Furthermore, we do not divulge personally-identifiable information about you to any third party. Please read this document carefully to find out how we use information given to us by you.
1. Information Collection & Use
Medical World 4 U is the sole owner of the information collected on www.medicalworld4u.com. Medical World 4 U collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.
a. Account registration
In order to use our admissions service, you must first complete a registration form and create a "MyMW4U" user name and password. During registration, you are required to give us information the following information about yourself:
Name
Date of birth
Address
Phone number
Alternate phone number (optional)
Password reminder question and answer
b. Admissions Profile
If you use our admissions service and you plan to submit applications to institutions of your choice, you will need to create an applications profile. For this, you will be asked to provide the following information about yourself:
Country of Citizenship
High school(s) attended
Overall Grade Point Average or percentage obtained in high school(s)
College(s) attended
Overall Grade Point Average or percentage obtained in college(s)
c. Orders
If you purchase a service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date). We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.
d. Uses of Information
Your information will be used to provide you with services that you request, including customer support. It will be visible only to specially-selected represenatatives who will assist you in getting these services. Our representatives are fully versed in our privacy practices and will ensure that your details are handled in a discreet and secure manner.
e. Communications from the Site
We will not sent you any special offers or newsletters through e-mail. We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.
We will not supplement the personal information you submitted to us with information from third party sources.
2. Information Sharing and Disclosure
a. Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We do not share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers.
b. Personally identifiable information
We share personally-identifiable information with our agents and medical institutions.
c. Agents
We use outside shipping companies to fulfill orders, and a credit card processing company to bill you for services if you use a credit card. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
d. Medical Institutions
If you apply to medical institutions through our site, we will share personally-identifiable information with them. This includes all the information you give us when you register and also when you create an admissions profile. The privacy practices of these institutions will apply to your information once it is submitted to them.
e. Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site
3. Log Files
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information. IP addresses are tied to personally identifiable information to track the times and locations from where your account is accessed. This is to prevent your account from being compromised by malicious parties.
4. Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. We do not use persistent cookies, which remain on your hard drive for an extended period of time.
5. Third Party Advertisers
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by Google, our advertising partner. We do not use any tracking mechanism to target advertising.
6. Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Medical World 4 U. Please be aware that we, Medical World 4 U, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
7. Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on MyMW4U's "Account" page.
8. Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers) on our registration or application forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). To learn more about SSL, follow this link.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
9. Business Transitions
In the event Medical World 4 U goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
10. Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us using the site's "Contact" page.
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