Privacy Policy
This privacy statement outlines the policies and practices of mdsearchengine.com. These websites may contain links to product websites or websites operated by third parties and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. We urge you to review their privacy policies.
Due to the financial and professional nature of our business, our websites are not designed to interest children and we do not knowingly attempt to solicit or receive any information from children. The links below explain our policies and your rights as a visitor to our websites.
- Collection of information from site visitors
- Our commitment to security
- Use of cookies
- Use of data collected
- Using your credit card to buy products online
- Sharing of postal mailing lists with outside companies
- Sharing of email addresses with outside companies
- Our right to contact users
- Special provisions for mdsearchengine.com
- Changes to privacy policy
- Collection of information from site visitors
We may collect and/or track 1) home server domain names, 2) e-mail addresses, 3) information knowingly provided by visitors on online forms, registration forms, surveys, polls, our online stores, and contest entries (including demographic and personal profile data) and 4) aggregate and user-specific information about which pages visitors access.
- Our commitment to security
Keeping your information secure is very important to us. We employ electronic, physical and procedural safeguards and best practices to protect your information. For your convenience we have included additional information about safeguards employed for mdsearchengine.com. Due to the nature of the Internet we cannot fully guarantee that your information will never be unlawfully intercepted or accessed.
- Use of cookies
We use "cookies" on our websites to personalize and enhance your website visits. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive by our web server. Cookies are uniquely assigned to a computer, and your computer will only allow our web servers to access our cookies. The most important thing to understand about cookies is that they pose no danger to you. They cannot be used to collect secret information about you or your computer or to provide information about you to other companies.
Cookies provide a convenience by saving you time on subsequent visits and personalizing your web experience. For example, when you return to our website, cookies enable us to remember information from prior visits such as items left in your shopping cart. Cookies may save data such as name, password, user-name, shopping cart data, screen preferences, pages viewed, and ads clicked. Credit card information is never saved in cookies.
You have the right to delete cookies placed on your hard drive, which will erase the data automatically saved during your visit. However that will mean that our site will not recognize you when you return. You may also modify your web browser to notify you before accepting cookies, or to decline all cookies. We strongly suggest that you accept cookies from us, since they help provide you a more seamless, personalized, and effective web browsing experience and keep our site compelling and informative.
- Use of data collected
Personal data collected may be used for editorial and feedback purposes, marketing and promotional purposes, statistical analysis of users' behavior, product development, content and layout improvement, and to inform advertisers and business partners as to how many visitors have seen or clicked on their advertisements. Information may also be made available to contractors as needed for maintenance of our systems / infrastructure.
Aggregate data on visitors' home servers may be used for internal purposes or provided to third parties. Individually identifying information, such as names, postal and e-mail addresses, phone numbers and other personal information which visitors voluntarily provide may be added to our databases and used for future calls and mailings regarding site updates, new products and services, upcoming events and the status of orders placed online. We set default preference areas for our customers and website visitors based on transactional and profile information.
- Using your credit card to buy products online
mdsearchengine.com does not retain, make public, sell, or distribute customers' credit card information, and it is never saved in your cookies. Our websites use encryption to safeguard credit card transactions. In the unlikely event that we are responsible for a loss through credit card fraud we will absorb the first $50 of the loss, which is the limit of an individual's personal liability.
- Sharing of postal mailing lists with outside companies
As professionals, we at mdsearchengine.com do not offer your postal mailing address and information to outside or third party sources for any reason or for information gathering purposes.
- Sharing of email addresses with outside companies
We do not share email addresses collected on mdsearchengine.com with outside companies.
- Our right to contact users
We reserve the right to contact site visitors regarding account status and changes to the subscriber agreement, privacy policy, or any other policies or agreements relevant to site visitors.
- Special provisions for mdsearchengine.com
When collecting, storing, and retrieving your practice's data, extensive internal controls are maintained by us and by any of the contractors we may engage throughout the process to ensure security and confidentiality. Data sent from your practice to mdsearchengine.com travels secure servers that are encrypted to ensure safety and privacy during transmission. Data encryption is the process of transforming information into a complex arrangement of illegible data. mdsearchengine.com’s internet-based systems are protected behind firewalls and all mission critical servers are deployed in a cluster environment to provide an even greater level of security and protection against system failure. All data is maintained and backed-up on a regular schedule to provide adequate redundancy and ensure that the integrity of information is never jeopardized.
Our employees as well as those of any contractor we may engage are subject to a strict employment policy regarding confidentiality, and internal access to customer data is restricted to highly trained personnel on an 'as-needed' basis. Information provided by your firm is used strictly for lawful business purposes and is never shared with third parties.
- Changes to privacy policy
We reserve the right to change this policy without notice. By visiting our websites you agree to accept all terms and conditions outlined in this privacy policy.