Welcome to the Web site (the "Site") of Physician's Weekly, LLC. This Site has been created to provide information about Physician’s Weekly (PW) and to provide users with access to content produced by PW. This Privacy Policy sets forth PW’s policy with respect to information, including personally identifiable data ("Personal Data") that is collected from individuals who use the Site.
What Information Does PW Collect?
Personal Data That You Provide Through the Site: PW collects Personal Data from you when you voluntarily choose to provide such information, such as when you contact PW with inquiries and register for access to the site and to such services as enewsletter subscribtion.
By voluntarily providing PW with Personal Data, you are consenting to PW's use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data to this Site, you acknowledge and agree that such Personal Data may be transferred from your current location to the offices and servers of PW and the authorized third parties referred to herein for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Other Information:
Non-Identifiable Data: When you interact with PW through the Site, PW receives and stores certain personally non-identifiable information. Such information, which is collected passively using various technologies, cannot presently be used to specifically identify you. PW may store such information itself or it may be included in databases owned and maintained by PW affiliates, agents, or service providers. This Site may use such information and pool it with other information to track, for example, the total number of visitors to the Site, the number of visitors to each page of the Site, and the domain names of PW visitors' Internet service providers. It is important to note that no Personal Data is available or used in this process.
In operating this Site, PW may use a technology called "cookies." A cookie is a piece of information that the computer that hosts the Site gives to your browser when you access a Web site. PW cookies help provide additional functionality to the Site and help PW analyze Site usage more accurately. For instance, the Site may set a cookie on your browser that keeps you from needing to remember and then enter a password more than once during a visit to the site. In cases in which PW uses cookies, PW will not use such cookies to collect Personal Data unless such collection has been disclosed to you in advance. Please see the section entitled "Personal Data That You Provide Through the Site" for information about the Personal Data that PW collects. On most Web browsers, you will find a "help" section on the toolbar. Please refer to this section for information on how to receive notification when you are receiving a new cookie and how to turn cookies off. PW recommends that you leave cookies turned on because they allow you to take advantage of some of the Site's features.
Aggregated Personal Data: In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of PW, PW often conducts research on customer demographics, interests, and behavior based on the Personal Data and other information provided to PW. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and PW may share this aggregated data with PW affiliates, agents, and business partners. When PW shares this information in aggregate form, it does not identify you personally. PW may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe PW Services to current and prospective business partners and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
What Are Your Choices?
You can use the Site without providing any Personal Data; however, if you choose to not provide Personal Data you may not be able to qualify for certain features and benefits.
How Does PW Use Your Personal Data and Other Information?
PW uses the Personal Data you provide in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data for a certain reason, PW may use the Personal Data in connection with the reason for which it was provided. For instance, if you contact PW by e-mail, PW may use the Personal Data you provide to answer your question or resolve your problem.
PW and its affiliates may also use your Personal Data and other personally non-identifiable information collected through the Site to help improve the content and functionality of the Site, to better understand users, and to improve services. PW and its affiliates may use this information to contact you in the future to tell you about services or products PW believes will be of interest to you. If PW does so, each communication pw sends you will contain instructions permitting you to "opt-out" of receiving future communications. In addition, if at any time you wish not to receive any future communications or to have your name deleted from PW mailing lists please contact PW as indicated below. PW may also share your Personal Data with certain third parties as described further in the section labeled "Does PW Share Your Personal Data?"
If PW intends on using any Personal Data in any manner that is not consistent with this Privacy Policy, you will be informed of such anticipated use prior to or at the time at which the Personal Data is collected, and given the option to opt-out of such use.
Does PW Share Your Personal Data?
PW is not in the business of selling your information. PW considers this information to be a vital part of the relationship with you. There are, however, certain circumstances in which PW may share your Personal Data with certain third parties without further notice to you, as set forth below:
Business Transfers: As PW develops business, PW might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution, or similar event, Personal Data may be part of the transferred assets.
Related Companies: PW may also share your Personal Data with subsidiaries and affiliates for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Business Partners: From time to time, PW may offer you the opportunity to participate in discount plans and similar benefit programs from one or more of PW’s business partners. If you opt-in to participate in the discount plans or other benefit programs of PW business partners, PW will disclose your Personal Information to such business partners so that they may register you for the applicable discount plan and/or benefit program.
Legal Requirements: PW may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation, (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of PW, (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public, or (iv) protect against legal liability.
Exclusions
This Privacy Policy shall not apply to any unsolicited information you provide to PW through this Site or through any other means. This includes, but is not limited to, information posted to any public areas of the Site, such as bulletin boards, any ideas for new products or modifications to existing products, and other unsolicited submissions (collectively, "Unsolicited Information"). All such Unsolicited Information shall be deemed to be non-confidential and PW shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, and/or distribute such Unsolicited Information to others without limitation or attribution.
Children
PW does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 16. If you are under the age of 16, please do not submit any Personal Data through the Site. PW encourages parents and legal guardians to monitor their children's Internet usage and to help enforce PW Privacy Policy by instructing their children to never provide Personal Data on this Site without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 16 has provided Personal Data to PW through this Site, please contact PW and PW will endeavor to delete that information from PW databases.
Links to Other Web Sites
This Site may frame or contain references or links to other Web sites not operated or controlled by PW, including Web sites of PW Related Companies and unrelated companies with which PW has a business relationship (the "Third Party Sites"). The policies and procedures PW describes here do not apply to the Third Party Sites. The links from this Site do not imply PW review or endorsement of the Third Party Sites. PW suggests contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy policies.
Advertising & Marketing
We may target our advertising and marketing messages depending on preferences you choose to share with us. We make clear distinctions between our editorial content vs. any advertising or sponsored content. All advertisements are clearly marked and are physically separate from editorial content. We do no accept advertisements for any products that are offensive or illegal. We reserve the right to reject any advertisement for any reason.
We do not endorse any of the products or services mentioned in the advertisements.We expect advertisers and their advertisements to comply with all Federal (United States) and local regulations regarding direct-to-physician advertising, including the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act as well as relevant FDA guidance documents. Advertisers do not have access to personal data of registrants from our web site and must respect all terms herein this Privacy Policy
Editorial Policy
Our Editorial Policy details how content appearing in our promotional print, online programs, and email newsletters is selected, authored, and reviewed; and sources for our information. This policy pertains only to content found on the PW website and in e-mail newsletters from PW.
• Physician’s Weekly
For more than 25 years, Physician’s Weekly has been committed to providing balanced, factual, and timely news and information that is patient- and outcome-focused to the healthcare community. Since 2006, Physician’s Weekly has been a news partner of Pri-Med, a wholly owned subsidiary of M|C Communications. As members of the M|C organization, we are dedicated to maintaining clear separation between our promotional and educational activities.
We employ medical editors to identify topics and create, edit, review, and maintain content. Expert clinicians review and approve our interview-based content. Unless noted otherwise, our content is original. On occasion, we are asked to develop special issues dedicated to covering a topic of special interest to an advertiser.
Our conflicts of interest and financial disclosure policies are printed in each published issue and appear online. Expert clinicians who participate in the editorial process as contributors are required to disclose all conflicts of interest and financial support by completing a form. Details regarding financial support appear in print and online along with a clinician’s affiliation.
Security
PW takes reasonable steps to protect the Personal Data provided via the Site from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from this Site may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to PW via e-mail. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Data to PW via the Internet.
Other Terms and Conditions
Your access to and use of this Site is subject to the Terms of Use.
Changes to Privacy Policy
The Site and PW business may change from time to time. As a result, at times it may be necessary for PW to make changes to this Privacy Policy. PW reserves the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time without prior notice. Please review this policy periodically, and especially before you provide any Personal Data. This Privacy Policy was last updated on the date indicated above. Your continued use of the Site after any changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy shall indicate your agreement with the terms of such revised Privacy Policy.
Access to Information; Contacting PW
To keep your Personal Data accurate, current, and complete, please contact PW as specified below. PW will take reasonable steps to update or correct Personal Data in PW possession that you have previously submitted via this Site.
Please also feel free to contact PW if you have any questions about the Privacy Policy or the information practices of this Site.
You may contact us as follows:
editor@physiciansweekly.com
Physician’s Weekly, LLC
490 State Route 33
Bldg 2, Unit 6
Millstone Township, NJ 08635
Tel: 732-792-1558
Fax: 732-792-1568 |
