| Privacy Policy Marathon Multimedia Privacy Statement Marathon Multimedia has created this privacy statement to explain our
methods of information gathering and the use of that information, and
also to assure you of our commitment to protecting your privacy.
About this Privacy Policy Web Sites Covered This privacy policy applies only to our Web sites that may be used by healthcare professionals and that provide health care information and services. Here is a list of those domains:
Information Automatically Collected and Stored For site management and statistical purposes, we collect information
through standard Web logs. These Web logs contain the domain name or IP
address from which you connect to our site, the date and time you access
the site, search terms, and the pages visited. We make periodic checks
of the types of browsers/operating systems used and of the pages from
which you direct-link to our site. We regularly delete raw data logs from
the system. We create summary statistics from the Web logs in order to
measure the number of visitors to the various sections of our site and
to help make the site more useful. Should you provide us with contact information in response to survey questions, you will receive mailings or telephone calls only in response to your specific inquiry, or, if applicable, in the event that you have been selected to receive a prize. Web site surveys are used to schedule improvements, corrections or additions to the corporate site. Responses to product-related surveys are used to improve our products and services. Some of our sites use an order form that allows you to pay for products
and/or services using a credit card. Information collected from visitors
who pay for a product or service is primarily used for authentication
and billing purposes. We may also use the information we collect to occasionally
notify you about changes to the site, new Marathon Multimedia products
and services, and special Marathon Multimedia offers we think you'll find
valuable. General information gathered through the Marathon Multimedia Web site
is used by Marathon Multimedia for internal purposes only to improve the
content of our Web pages and your navigation through our site. This data
is not shared with organizations that are not affiliated with us. Marathon
Multimedia may share registration data with our parent company and affiliates
that are committed to serving your needs. To the extent that these entities
are given access to your information, they will treat it at least as protectively
as they treat information they obtain from their own users. Our parent
company and affiliates maintain publicly available Privacy Policies; use
commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of individuals;
and agree not to share, sell, or allow access to or otherwise make available
Marathon Multimedia customer information without Marathon Multimedia's
permission. Should we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post
all changes on this page so that you are always kept aware of how we use
any information you provide to us. You can always contact us in order to (1) delete your Personal Information from our systems, (2) update the Personal Information that you have provided to us, and (3) change your preferences with respect to marketing contacts or other activities, by emailing us at webmaster. Such changes will not have any effect on other information that Marathon Multimedia maintains. If you have a complaint or problem you may email us at support and the customer service department will forward your complaint to the appropriate internal Marathon Multimedia department for a response or resolution. We try to answer every email in a timely manner but are not always able to do so. You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to Marathon Multimedia from our servers. The need to back-up our systems to protect information from inadvertent loss means that a copy of your Personal Information may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate. Nevertheless, we promise that upon receiving your request, all Personal Information stored in the databases we actively use for research and daily business activities, and other readily searchable media, will be deleted. Privacy as it applies to the Internet is a dynamic, rapidly developing
area. In the future, we may make significant changes to our privacy policy
affecting the use of the Personal Information we collect. We will notify
you by email of any significant changes concerning our use of your Personal
Information and obtain your "opt-in" consent to any significant new uses
of your Personal Information if it was collected from you prior to a significant
change in this policy. We may also make non-significant changes to our
Privacy Policy that generally will not affect our use of your Personal
Information and we generally will not notify you of these non-significant
changes. You should check this posted Privacy Policy for any non-significant
changes. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any
revised policy, please exit the site immediately.
When you are using a Discussion Forum™ on our Web sites, you are
posting a message and your user name, which is available for all registered
users to see. When you are posting publicly, any user of our web site
can see your message. You should not post any information you want to
keep private to a Discussion ForumŠ or other public forum on our Web sites.
We may also ask you to provide additional information after you register if you want to obtain additional services or information or to resolve complaints or concerns. Some services (e.g. submission programs) may require that we use your contact email to remind you of upcoming events (e.g. deadlines). If you choose to provide us with additional information about yourself
through an e-mail message, form, survey, etc., we will only maintain the
information as long as needed to respond to your question or to fulfill
the stated purpose of the communication. We may target our advertising or marketing depending on information we have about you. For example, a user we know is an Oncologist may receive advertising for products or services targeted at Oncology that a healthcare professional in a different therapeutic area will not see (although the advertiser will not have access to any individually identifiable information about you). We may also personalize our Web site based on your interests. For example,
you may see different articles in different places on our Web site based
on information you have shared with us, or information we have gained
by observing your previous behavior, or information we may have gained
from your interactions with a third party that shares information with
us. We use information for our own internal marketing, research, and related
purposes. If we transfer a business unit (such as a subsidiary) or an asset (such
as a Web site) to another company, we will require them to honor the applicable
terms of this privacy policy. We may release account and other personal information when we believe
release is required to comply with law. We may release personal health
information, including information from a medical record, if, in our judgment
after review by an attorney, the release is compelled by law or regulation,
or if the release is necessary to prevent the death or serious injury
of an individual. Questions regarding our privacy policy may be directed as follows:
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