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Privacy
Statement
Thank you for visiting I-MediCure. Your privacy
is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this
notice explaining our policy within this area. If you do not agree
to the terms in this Policy, we kindly ask you to leave the site.
Collection of data
I-MediCure’s site provides a number of services such as news, Ask
the Doctor, online discussion forums, communities (such as Smoking
and Depression, containing special in-depth information), health-related
programmes, voting polls, etc.
For some services, I-MediCure may require your e-mail address or
other personal information such as your name, age, sex, health information,
various habits and information for your profile. Providing us with
this personal and identifiable information is, of course, optional.
However, in some cases it may not be possible for us to provide
the service in question without receiving specific information from
you.
Disclosure of data
I-MediCure will use the information received to provide I-MediCure’s
services and to improve the content of the site. In order to provide
the services, your personal data may in some situations be seen
by third parties, such as doctors or operations and maintenance
contractors repairing and maintaining I-MediCure's technical systems.
Also, I-MediCure syndicates content from its site to its partners.
As a consequence, any information that can be seen on I-MediCure’s
site may also be found on our partners' sites, such as the discussion
forums and Ask the Doctor services etc.
I-MediCure may further use the aggregate information to study statistical
results and produce summary reports. Such reports may be shared
with I-MediCure’s partners and advertisers, but the reports will
not disclose personally identifiable information.
Except from that stated above, I-MediCure will not disclose any
of your personally identifiable information without your permission
except under special circumstances, for instance if I-MediCure in
good faith believes that the law requires disclosure.
Any information collected by I-MediCure will be treated confidentially.
Please remember that any information you reveal, including personally
identifiable information in a public forum such as in a discussion
forum or a chat, is not subject to this Privacy Policy and can be
seen by third parties unrelated to I-MediCure. It is therefore important
that you carefully consider what information you disclose in these
areas.
Correcting/Updating/Storing Personal Information
I-MediCure stores information only as long as it is necessary. If
your personal information changes (such as your address) or you
no longer want to use one of our services to which you have subscribed,
we will provide a way to correct, update, delete or remove your
personal data. This can usually be done by you at the member information
page or by e-mailing our site administrator.
Information from our discussion forums, chats and services such
as Ask the Doctor is stored in archives since it is considered useful
to future users.
I-MediCure’s Security Policy
As a global company I-MediCure has many national sites and users
all over the world. When you provide I-MediCure with personal information,
that information may be sent electronically to servers outside of
the country where you originally entered the information. In addition,
that information may be used, stored and processed outside of the
country where you entered the information. Whenever I-MediCure handles
personal information, regardless of where this occurs, I-MediCure
takes every precaution to ensure that your information is treated
securely, for instance by encrypting the information with SSL and
by storing the information in a secure environment.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed
to be 100 per cent secure. As a result, while we strive to protect
your personal information, I-MediCure cannot ensure or warrant the
security of any information you transmit to I-MediCure, and you
do so at your own risk.
Cookies
To give our users the best experience with our sites, a number of
our web pages use cookies. Cookies are small text files that we
place on your computer to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves,
do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable
information unless you choose to provide this information to us
by, for example, registering at one of our sites. However, once
you choose to provide the site with personally identifiable information,
this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
We use cookies to understand site-usage and to improve the content
and offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalise
your experience at our web pages (eg to recognise you by name when
you return to our site) and to save your password in password-protected
areas.
Nielsen//NetRatings, an independent measurement and research company,
gathers non-personal data regarding the visitors to our site on
our behalf using cookies and code which is embedded in the site.
Both the cookies and the embedded code provide non-personal statistical
information about visits to pages on the site, the duration of individual
page view, paths taken by visitors through the site, data on visitors'
screen settings and other general information. I-MediCure uses this
type of information, as with that obtained from other cookies used
on the site, to help it improve the services to its users.
If you wish to reject Nielsen//NetRating's cookie, you can use the
process set out below under 'How to find and control your cookies'.
To disable the embedded code, you will need to send requests directly
to webprivacy@netratings.com. Further information regarding Nielsen//NetRating's
privacy statement can be found at http://www.netratings.com/privacy.jsp?section=leg_scs.
How to find and control your cookies
If you're using Netscape 6.0
- On your Task Bar, click
Edit, then
- Preferences
- Click on Advanced
- Click on Cookies
If you're using Internet Explorer 6.0
- Choose Tools, then
- Internet Options
- Click the Privacy Tab
- Click on Custom Level
- Click on the 'Advanced'
button
- Check the 'override
automatic cookie handing' box and select Accept, Block or Prompt
for action as appropriate.
If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5
- Choose Tools, then
- Internet Options
- Click the Security
tab
- Click on Custom Level
- Scroll down to the
sixth option to see how cookies are handled by Internet Explorer
5 and change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as appropriate.
If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0
- Choose View, then
- Internet Options
- Click the Advanced
tab
- Scroll down to the
yellow exclamation icon under Security and choose one of the
three options to regulate your use of cookies.
If you're using Internet Explorer 3.0
- You can View, Options,
Advanced, then click on the button that says Warn before Accepting
Cookies.
If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0
- On your Task Bar, click
- Edit, then
- Preferences
- Click on Advanced
- Set your options in
the box that says Cookies.
Links
I-MediCure’s websites contain links to other sites. Please observe
that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other
sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site
and to read the privacy statements of each and every website collecting
personally identifiable information.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes
on our website so our users may always know what information we
collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we
disclose it. We will use the information in accordance with the
Privacy Policy under which the information was collected.
Revised December,
2007
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Last updated 25.012.2007
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