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Your privacy is of great importance to us.
1. This privacy statement ("Statement") discloses the privacy practices for
http://www.carotidworld.org.
Personally Identifiable Information
www.carotidworld.org asks users to complete a registration form to access
the wealth of information provided on the Site. During registration, users
are required to give certain personally identifiable information, including
their name, e-mail address, city, state, country, zip/postal code, and
classification and professional degree.
We collect personally identifiable information for the following reasons:
1. To better understand who is using www.carotidworld.org
2. To further refine the Site's content to match the interests of its users.
3. To communicate with users about features, services, or updates to the
Site.
ST.R."80", the company that produces the Carotid World Web site, is the sole
owner of this information. We will not sell, share, or rent an individual's
personally identifiable information to others, in ways different from what
is disclosed in our current privacy statement. We may share blinded,
aggregated data with third parties (such as site sponsors, investors,
affiliates, employees, consultants, attorneys and/or board members).
Non-personally Identifiable Information
We automatically collect certain non-personally identifiable information,
including your most recently visited URL. This information, which is
collected and maintained in anonymous, non-personal, aggregate form, allows
us to improve the content of the Site and facilitate internal market
research. This information may be shared with third parties, only in
anonymous, non-personal form.
Cookies
Using session cookies.
Information Sharing with Third Parties
Carotid World will not sell or rent an individual's information to any third
party. We reserve the right to transfer personally identifiable information
to third party technology vendors for the purpose of providing outsourced
services to www.carotidworld.org users. Information residing on servers
outside of our control will be maintained in accordance with this Statement.
In addition, we may, from time to time, share aggregated demographic
information with third parties. This is not linked to any personal
information that can identify any individual person. We may also disclose
certain personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information
if required to do so by law.
Links to Other Web sites
www.carotidworld.org contains links to other Web sites. Please be aware that
we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites. We
encourage our users to read the privacy statements of each Web site that
collects personally identifiable information to determine whether or not to
register.
Log Files
www.carotidworld.org may use your Internet Protocol (IP) address to analyze
trends, administer the Site, track user movement, and gather broad
demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to
personally identifiable information.
Ongoing communication www.carotidworld.org sends each new member a welcome
email to verify username and password. Members who elect to join one or more
of our electronic communication distribution lists will occasionally receive
communications about features, services, or updates to the Site, as well as
promotional messages from our Sponsors ("Ongoing Communications"). Any
registrant who does not want to receive these communications can choose to
opt-out of these electronic communication distribution lists at any time..
www.carotidworld.org takes all reasonable steps to protect our users'
information. When users submit information via the Site, their information
is protected both online and off-line. All of our users' information is
restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to
perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable
information. Furthermore, all employees are kept up-to-date on our security
and privacy practices. Finally, the servers that we store personally
identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment, behind a
locked cage.
Site and Service Updates
Site update will be explain in the www.carotidworld.org home page
Correction/Updating Personal Information
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (e.g., email
address), or if a user no longer desires to receive electronic
communications from us, we provide an easy mechanism to correct or update
that user's personal data or unsubscribe from our electronic newsletter
distribution list. The user can submit this information via the Edit Profile
area of www.carotidworld.org. Instructions on how to update personally
identifiable information are found in our FAQ documentation.
Notification of Changes
By using the Site, you signify assent to this Statement. If you do not agree
with the terms of this Statement, please discontinue use of this Site. If we
change our privacy policy, we will post a notice on our Homepage so our
users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and
under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. The changes are effective
upon posting. Your continued use of the www.carotidworld.org site following
the posting of any amendment, modification or change to this Statement shall
constitute your acceptance thereof.
If you have any questions or comments about this statement or the security
at our Site, please contact us.
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