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Park Street Research, Inc. ("PSR") has a firm commitment to safeguard your privacy online.

In general, PSR will never share your Personal Information (as defined below) with anyone without your knowledge and permission.  We will never share with anyone the information or opinions you provide us regarding our client's promotional or educational materials in any way that personally identifies you without your knowledge and permission.  Any of your information we share with clients will be in the form of Anonymous Information (as defined below).

By using PSR's website ("Site") and participating in its operation ("Services"), you acknowledge that you have read our Privacy Policy below, and you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your information as described below.  Further, this Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the term of our Terms of Service Agreement.

The purpose of our Privacy Policy is to inform you about:

  • The information we gather from you when you become a member of the PSR physician panel by registering to use our services and products,
  • How we may use and disclose such information (our policies), and
  • What your options and rights are with respect to such information.

Changes in this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to reasonably change, modify, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time.  We will notify you if we alter this Privacy Policy to change the way we collect or use Personal Information.  Please be sure to check this page periodically for such changes.  PSR will never use any Personal Information you submit under this Privacy Policy in a new way without notifying you of such change, and giving you an opportunity to opt-out, or otherwise prevent that new use of your Personal Information.  This Privacy Policy was last changed and posted on our Site on February 7, 2001.  See your Opt-Out Choice.

Questions
If you have any questions concerning our Privacy Policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, please contact us by email at Questions.

Our Privacy Policy explains the following questions:

1. What types of information does PSR collect from you?
2. What is Personal Information and how will PSR use it ?
3. What is Anonymous Information and how will PSR use it?
4. With whom and how is your information being shared?
5. How is your information used for online surveys or promotions ?
6. Data Security: How does PSR protect and keep your information secure?
7. What types of use and disclosure of information is PSR responsible for?
8. How do you change, delete or prevent the disclosure of Personal Information you disclosed to PSR?
9. Your acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy.



1. What types of information does PSR collect from you?
By becoming an member of the PSR physician panel, you will fill out a Registration Form, which becomes your Member Profile and contains basic information aboutyou and your practice.  We collect both Anonymous and Personal Information(as defined below) from you as an Advisor, but only after you consent to suchuse of your information or provide it to us voluntarily. 

We collect Anonymous and Personal Information from you as a panel member: (1) to allow you to have access to and participate in the activities of the Site; (2) for editorial and feedback purposes, (3) to analyze our users' behavior, and (4) to improve our Site operations.

Other than the uses described in this Privacy Policy, and unless we notify you in advance (through placement of a notice on the Site) and obtain your permission, we do not share, rent, or sell any of your information to any outside parties, except to the extent necessary to comply with applicable laws, police investigations, or in legal proceedings where such information is relevant.



2. What is Personal Information and how will PSR use it?
" Personal Information" includes (1) personally identifiable information,such as your name, phone number, mailing address, email address, etc., (2) demographicinformation, such as your age, gender, etc., and (3) your responses to promotionaland educational surveys and questions.

As a PSR panel member, you will be given the opportunity to provide Personal Information so that we can determine which Site activities are most appropriate for your participation.  

For example, certain PSR clients may wish to interact with certain panel members, such as physicians with a particular specialty (e.g. cardiology) or those with certain demographic criteria (e.g. number of years in practice).
In order to become a PSR panel member and access the Site, you will be asked to complete our Registration Form, which will serve as your Member Profile.  You may also, at your option, indicate to us whether we may contact you regarding promotional opportunities or materials or provide you with certain value added services, such as receiving product samples, scheduling a representative visit, participating in continuing medical education courses, receiving invitations to market research and symposia, being invited to speak for a PSR client company, or participating in surveys or other services or areas of interest yet to be determined. 

Any information that personally identifies you is disclosed by you on a voluntary basis and only collected by PSR with your knowledge and permission.  You may, at any time, permanently or temporarily opt-out of receiving such emails and future promotional mailings by changing your options in your Member Preferences.  See your Opt-Out Choice below. You may also change any other information in your Member Profile at any time.

PSR will not disclose any Personal Information with any client or any other third party without your knowledge or permission.  If you request or agree to receiving additional products or services (as described above), we will ask for your permission to disclose your Personal Information, such as your name and address, to facilitate such a mailing.  In no cases will any of your individual answers or responses ever be made available to any of our clients or any other third party without your knowledge or permission.  Your Personal Information and specific answers will never result in any solicitation or offer by PSR or any third party, including our clients without your knowledge or permission.

In addition, we collect Personal Information from you if you contact us with questions or requests for help (i.e. technical support), or to help diagnose problems with our server and to operate the Site.  We retain such Personal Information as a record of such correspondence, but keep it confidential and use it strictly to respond to such requests or technical necessities.



3. What is Anonymous Information and how will PSR use it?
" Anonymous Information" means information that cannot be traced back specificallyto you as an individual.  The Anonymous Information we use comes from collectingdata from you as a member of our panel (i.e. Site users) on an aggregated basis(i.e. categorized into groups of information) and converting Personal Informationinto Anonymous Information, which is also compiled on an aggregated basis.  Weuse such Anonymous Information to study the behavior and usage patterns of ourpanel members, and report data from such Anonymous Information to our clients.

While you are logged onto the Site, we collect Anonymous Information about what website you came from, what parts of the Site you visit, the time of your visit, the type of web browser you use (the software you use to connect to the Internet and visit websites), the type of computer system you use, etc.  This Anonymous Information comes from your web browser which sends the information to our web server in the form of URLs (website address known as the Uniform Resource Locator), referrer Ids (information from your web browser showing us what URL you came from), IP addresses (a number, known as an Internet Protocol address, that identifies your computer so that data can be sent to your computer), computer system information and logs of web browsing activities (known as "web logs"). 

In addition, PSR may use "cookie" technology to capture your activity on the Site. A "cookie" is a small file that is sent from our web server and stored on your computer hard drive while you are visiting our Site.  Cookies store and retrieve information on your computer about your web browsing activities, such as what website you came from and what web pages you go to on our Site.

Using Anonymous Information helps us improve our product and service offerings, administer our Site, and diagnose problems with our server, services and software.  Such information enables us to make better decisions about how we operate or improve our Site from both business and technical perspectives.



4. With whom and how is your information being shared?
PSR does not disclose any information that could specifically identify you as an individual unless we have your express permission prior to such a disclosure,or as unless otherwise specified in this Privacy Policy.  If you do notwant your Personal Information to be shared with or used by an outside party,you can choose not to allow this use by telling us when you receive and respondto our notice of such a disclosure.

We only report data to our clients using Anonymous Information.Your Personal Information and your individual opinions and answers will never be shared with our clients.


5. How is your information used for online surveys or promotions?
PSR conducts surveys and promotions through its Service to show selected physicians promotional and/or educational materials, and to better understand our panel members' wants and needs regarding the services and products which may be offered through the Site.  For example, we may show you client promotional materials and ask your opinion about the advertising, or your practice patterns, treatment goals and objectives, etc.  We will use your answers to customize and personalize your individual experience and tailor content for you in subsequent interactions between you and the Site.
PSR will never share your personal information or your specific opinions and answers with our client.  We will however convert certain opinions and answers into Anonymous Information to make available to our clients.


6. Data Security: How does PSR protect and keep your information secure?
Our Site has industry standard security measures in place to help protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of information under our reasonable control, and safeguard the confidentiality of information personally identifying you.  As a member of our physician panel, your Member Profile and Member Preferences are password-protected so that only you may access or change this Personal Information. We therefore highly recommend that you do not disclose your password to anyone.  Also, remember that PSR will never ask you to divulge your password in written or electronic communications. 

Please be aware that data transmission over the Internet is not always 100% secure, and we cannot warrant that information you transmit using the PSR service is 100% secure.  We will, however, use all reasonable efforts to maintain the security of your information while it is located on our systems.  Such efforts include using technology that encrypts any of your Personal Information while being transmitted from your computer to our system.


7. What types of use and disclosure of information is PSR responsible for?
PSR does not pre-screen any communications, emails or any content distributed through our Site by our panel members.  Therefore, by using the Site and any of the Advisor services provided, you acknowledge that PSR is unlikely to be aware of violations of law or other misconduct committed by panel members or any other parties which occur through our Site or third party websites and resources linked to or framed within our Site.  You also acknowledge that you are completely responsible for any information you send via e-mail, or any other form of communications to or through our Site.

PSR may also reference, recommend or provide links to third party websites, and make all reasonable efforts to link to sites sharing our high standards and respect for privacy.  However, whether we recommend such resources or not, we do not control and therefore are not responsible for such third party websites and their content, information or privacy policies.  Consequently, please take the time to review the privacy policies and any other information practices posted on such third party websites.

Please keep in mind that PSR may be required by law, court order, governmental agency or law enforcement authority to disclose your Personal Information, including but not limited to email information temporarily residing on our servers. In addition, PSR may disclose a panel member's Personal Information to the extent necessary for emergency situations, public health activities, health oversight activities, or to comply with applicable laws, police investigations, law enforcement authorities investigating suspected illegal activity, legal proceedings (where such information is relevant) or to PSR's legal advisors in connection with a suspected violation of PSR's Privacy Policy, Terms of Service Agreement, User Rules, or any other rules and regulations.


8. How do you change, delete or prevent disclosure of Personal Information you disclosed to PSR?
You will have the opportunity to review and change your information in our Registration Form prior to completing the registration process.  Also, you can, at any time, access all and change any of your Personal Information that we collect online and maintain by visiting Your Account to make changes and additions to your Member Profile or Member Preferences. 
To protect your privacy and security regarding your Personal Information, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access to and making corrections to such information (i.e. a password-protected system).

If you do not want to receive PSR's emails, future promotional mailings or notices, you may opt-out of receiving such communications from us by selecting the appropriate options during the registration process or by editing your Member Profile or Member Preferences located at Your Account.  You may also terminate your relationship with PSR at any time by sending an email to Questions.


9. Your Acceptance of The Terms of This Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into the terms of PSR's Terms of Service Agreement. Your use of our Site is subject to such terms and conditions, which constitute a legal agreement between you and PSR.  Each time you use the Park Street Research Site, you signify that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by the Privacy Policy, the Terms of Service Agreement and User Rules. 

If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not provide us with any information and do not access the Park Street Research Site.  Your continued use of the Site after we notify you of any changes to this Privacy Policy will signify your acceptance of and agreement to such changes.  Please review our Privacy Policy, the Terms of Service Agreement and User Rules, and if you do not agree to the any of the provisions, please do not use our Site, as you do not have our permission to do so under such circumstances.

   
 

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