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Our Privacy Policy
Your privacy is vital to our long-term relationship with you,
and protecting your privacy is just one part of our mission to provide you with
highly personalized and valuable service. In addition, in an effort to comply
with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we will not knowingly
collect personally identifying information from children under the age of 13.
This statement describes our Standard Privacy Policy
What Information is Collected; How
Information is Collected; and by Whom is Information Collected
To register on our Web site forums and directory, you must submit your name and
e-mail address etc. This required personally identifiable information is
necessary for us to process transactions for you and contact you. When you
register with MDLinks, we will ask you for a "user name." The user name you
select may appear on the web site in connection with future services we provide,
such as discussion forums in which you may voluntarily participate.
We may share the information stored on that database, as well
as other information we collect or you provide with carefully selected partners,
including those who offer services that complement those provided by us or which
we believe may be of interest to you.
From time to time, we may ask you to complete questionnaires or surveys, which
we use to obtain additional demographic information about our users, to measure
and improve the quality of our service and to better assess your interests and
needs. If we ask you to complete a survey or questionnaire, we will explain how
we intend to use the information that you provide to us. You always have the
option of not responding to any questionnaire or survey.
We collect general information about you when you visit our web site. This
information includes technical information related to your computer and the
manner in which you are accessing our site and includes such information as the
internet protocol (IP) address of your computer, what operating system your
computer is using, what browser software (e.g., Explorer, Netscape or other)
your computer is using, and who your Internet service provider is, the Uniform
Resource Locator ("URL") of the web site from which you just came and the URL to
which you go next and certain operating metrics, such as the amount of time you
use our Web site.
The general information that we gather about you may be
aggregated with general information of all users to help us better understand
how our site is used. In addition, we aggregate the general information and the
personal information. We compile and analyze this aggregated information so that
we can provide more meaningful information to corporate partners and more
relevant content and advertisements to you.
The Sharing of Collected
Information
We will not share your personally identifying information with other third
parties without your consent, except for the following limited purposes:
- We are compelled to do so by law or by an order of a court
or governmental authority.
- In order to cooperate with law enforcement authorities or
governmental regulatory bodies.
- As we deem necessary to protect the rights, safety or
property of MDLinks, our users or others to enforce our terms of use agreement
or Standard Privacy Policy.
In addition, we may share aggregated general information about our site with our
partners or the general public. For example, we may share information regarding
the daily number of unique users to our site with potential partners or others.
Aggregated data does not contain any information that could be used to contact
or identify you.
We may publish links to other sites from our web site. Please note that MDLinks
does not control the content, practices or policies of any other site, including
what information those sites collect about you. Accordingly, we do not endorse
or hold ourselves responsible for the privacy policies or information gathering
practices of any site that you may link to from our site. In addition, you may
choose to respond to advertisements that are posted on our web site or made
available via our service or to direct marketing offers from third party
sponsors or advertisers. We do not control the content, practices or policies of
our sponsors or advertisers and, accordingly, do not endorse or hold ourselves
responsible for the privacy policies or information gathering practices of any
sponsor or advertiser who may collect information about you.
Amendments to Our Standard Privacy Policy
We may, from time to time, amend our Standard Privacy Policy.
If we do, then we will post such amendments to this document so that you may
always have access to our most recent policy. We reserve the right, at our
discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of our Standard Privacy
Policy at any time and from time to time. If at any point we decide to disclose
personal information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was
collected, we will notify users by email. You will be given the choice at that
time to "opt-out" of any disclosures of your personal information that you made
available to us prior to the change in our policy.
Acknowledgment and Acceptance of our Standard
Privacy Policy
When you register with us, you affirmatively
agree to all terms of the Terms, including this Standard Privacy Policy. Your
continued use of this Web site constitutes your continued agreement to the terms
of the Terms, including this Standard Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with
the terms of our Standard Privacy Policy, you should cease using our Web site.
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