- About This Privacy Policy
This privacy policy explains how the personal information
collected when you use this web site, including all of its features and content
(the “Service”) will be used by the LexisNexis company that owns or administers
the Service (“LexisNexis”, “our”, “we” or “us”).
This privacy policy may be supplemented by additional privacy terms or notices
set forth on certain areas of the Service. You should review this privacy policy
and our related Terms of Use. By accessing our websites and using our services,
you agree to this privacy policy.
- Collection of Information
The Service collects information
from you in two ways: directly from your input and
automatically from your use.
- Information you provide
The
types of personal information that the Service collects
directly from you depends on how you interact with the
Service and may include:
- • Contact details, such as your name,
email address, postal address, fax, and phone number;
- • Usernames and passwords;
- • Comments, feedback and other
information you submit to the Service; and
If you provide us with any personal information relating to other people in connection
with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit
us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.
The Service may also collect other information directly from you, including
but not limited to gender, year of birth, languages spoken, group practice
affiliations, hospital affiliations, payer affiliations, network participation,
office hours and whether or not your practice is accepting new patients. Information
such as your educational and professional background and your interests and
communication preferences may also be collected.
- Information Collected Automatically
The Service also automatically collects, through its servers and the use of cookies and similar technologies, information that tells us how you use the Service and may include:
- • Internet Protocol
("IP") address used to connect your computer to the
Internet;
- • Computer, device and connection information, such
as browser type and version, operating system, mobile platform and unique
device identifier (“UDID”) and other technical identifiers;
- • Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") click stream
data, including date and time stamp, referring and exit URLs, search terms you
used and pages you visited or searched for on the Service; and
- • For location-aware Services, the region, city
or town where your device is located in order to provide you with more relevant
content for where you are in the world.
We may use and disclose information that does not reveal your identity or
permit direct association with any specific individual, such as browser and device
information, anonymous usage data and aggregated information, for any purpose, except
where we are restricted by law. If we combine non-personal information with personal
information, the combined information will be treated as personal information for as
long as it remains combined.
You can control cookies through your browser’s
settings and other tools. However, if you block certain cookies, you may not be able
to register, login, or access certain parts or make full use of the Service.
- Use of Your Information
We
may use your personal information to:
- • Process and fulfill a transaction
or order;
- • Provide technical, product and
other support and to help keep the Service working, safe and
secure;
- • Respond to your requests,
inquiries, comments and concerns;
- • Provide, evaluate and improve the Service, and our other products
and services and to develop new products, services and benefits;
- • Offer you customized content and individualized personalization
of the Service to make it more relevant to your interests and needs;
- • Notify you about changes or updates to the Service and our other
products and services;
- • Provide you with special offers and information about the Service
as well as other products, events and services of ours, our affiliates, and non-affiliated third parties;
- • Invite you to participate in surveys;
- • Identify usage trends and for data analysis, including for
purposes of research, audit, reporting and paying royalties and license fees to third-party
providers, such as authors and other copyright holders and content distributors, and
determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, or in other ways to which you
have expressly agreed in a customer agreement; and
- • Comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce
our agreements.
We may also match or combine the personal information that you provide with information
that we obtain from other sources or that is already in our records, whether collected online
or offline or by predecessor or affiliated group companies, for the purposes described above.
- Communications with You
By creating an account in connection with
the Service, you agree that we may contact you at any landline or mobile telephone number, fax number,
or email address that we have associated with your account.
- Disclosure of Your
Information
We may share your personal information with:
- • Our affiliates, trading names and divisions within the LexisNexis group of
companies worldwide, certain RELX Group companies that provide technology, customer service and other shared
services functions; and
- • Our service providers, suppliers, agents and representatives,
including but not limited to, editors, payment processors, customer support, email service providers,
IT service providers, mailing houses and shipping agents;
- • To process the information for us based on our instructions and in
compliance with this privacy policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We also may share your personal information with sponsors, joint venture partners and other
non-affiliated third parties, including entities for which we are acting as an agent, licensee,
application host or publisher, that wish to send you information about their products and services
that may be of interest to you. However, we will not share your email address with such third
parties.
We also may disclose your personal information:
- • To (i) respond to or comply with any law, regulation,
subpoena, court order or other legal obligation; (ii) detect, investigate and help prevent
security threats, fraud or other malicious activity; (iii) enforce and protect our rights
and properties; or (iv) protect the rights, property or safety of our users, employees and
others;
- • If LexisNexis, the Service or a related asset or line of
business is acquired by, transferred to or merged with another company; and
- • To enforce our privacy policy, Terms of Use or to protect our
rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others.
In addition to the disclosures identified above, if you are a clinician, the practice and
personal information provided about you through the Service may be incorporated into healthcare
clinician databases or directories maintained by LexisNexis.
The following notice supplements our privacy policy for residents of the State of California:
In addition, if you are a California resident, under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018
as amended (“CCPA”), you may request that we disclose to you the following information covering the
12 months preceding your request: (i) the categories of personal information we collected about you and
the categories of sources from which we collected such information; (ii) the business or commercial
purpose for collecting, selling or sharing personal information about you; (iii) the categories of personal
information about you that we sold or shared and the categories of third parties to whom we sold or shared
such information; and (iv) the categories of personal information about you that we otherwise disclosed, and
the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed such personal information. You may request to correct
inaccuracies in your personal information. You may request to receive a copy of your personal information,
including specific pieces of personal information, including, where applicable, to obtain a copy of your personal
information in a portable, readily usable format. You may request that we delete personal information collected from
you, subject to certain exceptions. You may request to “opt-out” of your personal information being sold to certain
third parties. This right may be exercised by submitting Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information request.
- Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect information from
children under the age of 13 or target the Service to children under 13.
- Your Choices and
Communications Preferences
You can manage your communications preferences by using the “opt-out”
or unsubscribe mechanism or other means provided within the communications that you receive.
We reserve the right to notify you of changes or updates to the Service whenever necessary.
- Access to and Accuracy of
Your Information
The Service may allow registered users to directly access the account
information they provided and make corrections or updates to that information upon login at any
time. The accuracy of such information is solely the responsibility of the user.
You may also request access to and correction of other personal information about you that you
have directly provided to us through the Service. To protect your privacy and security, we may
require you to verify your identity.
- Data Security
We use a variety of administrative, physical and
technical security measures intended to safeguard your personal information.
- Cross-Border Transfer
Your personal information may be transferred
to, accessed from and stored in servers and facilities located in your region or another country.
We take steps intended to ensure that the information continues to be protected wherever it is located.
- No guarantee
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the
Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction
with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of your account has been
compromised), please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contact” section below. We also
ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive personal information (e.g., Social
Security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or
other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, or criminal background) on or through
the Services or otherwise to us.
- Linking to other Internet sites
This privacy policy does not
address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third
parties, including any third party operating any site or service to which the Services link.
The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service
by us or by our affiliates.
- Changes
We may
change this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be
posted on this page with an updated revision date.
- Contact
If you have
any questions, comments or requests regarding this privacy policy
or our processing of your information, please contact:
Privacy Manager
LexisNexis Risk Solutions
1000 Alderman Drive
Alpharetta, GA 30005
USA
Email: [email protected]
Last
updated: October 5, 2023
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