When you register for a Continuing Medical Education ("CME") or a Continuing Education ("CE") activity through our Web site, we collect certain personally identifiable information from you such as your name, email address and mailing address. If you are a doctor and wish to receive CME credit, you are also required to provide the state in which you are licensed and your license number. In addition to personally identifiable information, we collect aggregated non-personally identifiable information about the activities undertaken by our users. We use the information that we collect through CME/CE activities in several ways:

1. Manipal U-CME pursuant to its collaboration agreement with MAHE is accredited by the Medical Council of India. As an accredited entity, we are required periodically to submit aggregated data about CME participants and the CME activities we certify. We also provide personally identifiable information to other accredited CME/CE providers who certify CME/CE activities posted on Manipal U, as required by the accrediting bodies. These reports may include personally identifiable information about you and credits issued to you, for the purpose of maintaining records that you can request from the accredited provider for up to six (6) years.
   
   
2. Commercial supporters of CME/CE activities on our Web site will receive only aggregated data about CME/CE activities that are relevant to their interests and/or the courses they support.
   
   
3. Editorial and Customer Support Staff will have internal access to files containing personally identifiable information, including evaluation forms and aggregated CME /CE participant information. These files can be accessed in order to respond to your questions or comments. Our staff may also use personally identifiable information, including registration information and evaluation data, in assessing educational needs and planning marketing activities; and we may use the information we collect as otherwise permitted in this Privacy Policy.

Uses We Make of Information

In this section of our privacy policy, we identify the ways we may use information about you that we have collected.

Aggregate Data

We create aggregate data about visitors to our Web sites for product development and improvement activities. We also use it for market analysis. We may provide information from our Web sites in aggregate form, with identifying information removed, to third parties. For example, we may tell a health care partner what percentages of our registered users reside in a particular geographical area. When aggregated health information is provided, we pool it from many individual records and strip it of any data that could be used to identify an individual before it is used. Any third party that receives aggregated health care data must agree not to attempt to re-identify the people it belongs to. Depending on our agreement with the third parties, we may or may not charge for this information.

Storage of Health Information

Personally identifiable health information you share with us is stored on our database servers at Manipal U data centers or hosted by third parties who have entered into agreements with us that require them to observe our Privacy Policy. We have a firewall to prevent individuals from accessing information without authorization. Data centers are physically secure and protected from unauthorized access by unauthorized persons. Physical access to the servers requires individual authorization and authentication.

Information in our data centers is backed up routinely, in order to aid in the recovery of information in the event of accidental damage of information or due to a natural disaster. The backup media is stored in a physically secure storage facility.

Access to Information and Choices

In this section of our privacy policy, we tell you how to obtain and correct information we have about you, and how to choose what types of information you may share with us.

Correction of Information We Have About You

If you believe that non-medical registration information collected by our Web site(s) is in error, you may edit your personal profile any time that you like. You can directly edit your user profile on our www.manipalu.com/cme. Requests for deletion of your record may result in your removal from the registry, but we may keep certain demographic information about you for product improvement purposes. You may contact Web Customer Support and ask for the changes that you would like to make.

Collection of non-identifiable information

This website may also provide us with certain non-personally identifiable information about your access to the website. Such information includes the IP address through which this site is accessed, the time at which this site is accessed and the specific portions of the website accessed by you. This information is not personally identifiable.

Manipal U uses this information as a feedback for improvement of the website, and for an analysis of the most frequently accessed portions of the website. This information will not at any stage be passed on to any person.

Usage of cookies

The website uses cookies to improve your interactive sessions and to save time during access. When you return to the website, the information previously provided by you may be retrieved by your computer to enable certain features of the site without having to re-sign in, and allow you easier access to parts of the website customised by you. The cookie would allow your user name to be pre-entered so that only your password would need to be reentered by you at the time of sign in. The cookie would be stored on the hard disk of your computer and would not be available for access by us.

The acceptance of cookies is dependent on the browser settings on the web-browser used by you.

Amendment of this policy

Manipal U may from time to time amend this policy. When this policy is so amended, the last date of such amendment shall be indicated on this policy under the legend "Revised on ____". In the event the amendment of this policy results in an enlargement of the scope of permitted disclosures of personally identifiable information, we shall obtain your consent before such disclosure.