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Introduction
1.1
Medical Experts Online Limited
('MEOL') takes the privacy of your information
very seriously. This policy explains how and for what purposes we
use the information collected about you via
www.medicalexpertsonline.co.uk ('the Site').
Please read this privacy policy carefully. By using the Site and
any services we offer via the Site, you are agreeing to be bound by
this policy in respect of the information collected about you via
this Site.
1.2
If you have any queries about the policy, please
get in touch with us by sending an e-mail to
update@medicalexpertsonline.co.uk and we will do our best
to answer your questions.
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Personal information collected
2.1
We may collect the following personal information
from you:
2.1.1
Name and date of birth;
2.1.2
E-mail address, web address, postal address and
telephone and/or facsimile numbers;
2.1.3
Professional title, professional qualifications,
professional memberships and GMC registration number and
details;
2.1.4
Credit card number and expiry date;
2.1.5
Areas of expertise and specialisms;
2.1.6
Details relating to your professional indemnity
insurance; and
2.1.7
Any other details that you may wish to provide us
with.
2.2
Although it is not compulsory to give us this
information, if you do not then we may not be able to provide you
with the full range of services the Site has to offer.
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Use of this information
3.1
We may use this information in order to:
3.1.1
administer your accounts with us;
3.1.2
Publicise your professional details to persons
interested in obtaining medico-legal services from you
3.1.3
process orders or applications submitted by
you;
3.1.4
send you information about our products and
services;
3.1.5
verify your identity;
3.1.6
carry out marketing analysis and make general
improvements to our Site;
3.1.7
to obtain your views or comments on the services we
provide; and
3.1.8
to verify the authenticity of the details supplied
by you.
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Sharing this information
4.1
Certain services made available by MEOL on this
Site are offered in conjunction with one or more of our associated
business partners including Clinic Venues Limited
(www.clinicvenues.co.uk).
4.2
The services offered by our associated business
partners are directed to the medical practitioner market.
4.3
In order for those services to be provided we
provide some necessary details about you to our associated business
partners. We tell you about this at the point we collect that
information on the Site. Please note that certain services may be
unavailable if you do not want to disclose the personal information
you are asked for.
4.4
We may transfer your personal information to a
third party as part of a sale of some or all of our business and
assets to any third party or as part of any business restructuring
or reorganisation, but we will take steps with the aim of ensuring
that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
4.5
In addition we may pass your information onto other
carefully selected third parties to enable them to send you
information which may be of interest to you but only if you have
given us permission to do so. You can tell us to stop this at any
time by sending an e-mail to
update@medicalexpertsonline.co.uk.
4.6
Other than as set out above, we will not disclose
any of your personal information without your permission unless we
are required by law to do so (for example, if required to do so by
a court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other
crime).
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Information automatically collected from your
computer
5.1
Log files/IP addresses: When you visit the Site our
web server may automatically record your IP address. This IP
address is not linked to any of your personal information. We use
IP addresses to help us administer the Site and to collect
demographic information for aggregation purposes.
5.2
We may also gather other non-personal information
(from which we cannot identify you) such as the type of your
internet browser, which we use to provide you with a more effective
service.
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Cookies
6.1
When you visit the Site we may store some
information (commonly known as a 'cookie') on your computer.
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your
hard drive to store and sometimes track information about you.
Cookies are specific to the server that created them and cannot be
accessed by other servers, which means that they cannot be used to
track your movements around the web. Passwords and credit card
numbers are not stored in cookies. A cookie helps you get the best
out of the Site and helps us to provide you with a more customised
service. We use cookies for the following purposes:
6.1.1
we use cookies so that you will not have to
re-enter your details each time you visit the Site
6.1.2
we use cookies to track how our site is used and to
improve and update our content
6.2
You can block or erase cookies from your computer
if you want to (your browser's help screen or manual should tell
you how to do this), but certain parts of the Site may be reliant
on the use of cookies to operate correctly and may not work
correctly if you set your browser not to accept cookies.
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Information about other products and services
7.1
From time to time we may send you information about
goods and services offered by MEOL and our associated business
partners which we think may be of interest to you.
7.2
You can tell us to stop this at any time by sending
an e-mail to update@medicalexpertsonline.co.uk.
7.3
Also, as mentioned above, we may pass your
information onto other selected third parties to enable them to
send you information which may be of interest to you but only if
you have given us permission to do so. You can tell us to stop this
at any time by sending an e-mail to
update@medicalexpertsonline.co.uk.
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Changes to your details
We aim to keep our information about you as
accurate as possible. If you would like to review or change the
details you have supplied us with, please do so on line using your
username and password.
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Use of forums or message boards
The Site may from time to time include chat rooms,
forums, message boards, and/or news groups on which you can post
information. Any information that you post in these areas becomes
public information and you should always be careful when deciding
to disclose your personal details as part of that
information.
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Security
We have implemented technology and policies to
safeguard your privacy from unauthorised access and improper use.
All payments processed online are done so through Paypal® or
Google® Checkout. Should you have any concerns relating to the
privacy of your financial information, please contact Paypal® or
Google® as appropriate via their websites at www.paypal.com or
checkout.google.com.
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Linking to third party websites
11.1
We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies
and practices of other sites even if you access them using links
from our Site and recommend that you check the policy of each site
you visit and contact its owner or operator if you have any
concerns or questions.
11.2
In addition, if you linked to this Site from a
third party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies
and practices of the owners or operators of that third party site
and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site
and contact its owner or operator if you have any concerns or
questions.
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Transferring your information outside of Europe
12.1
As part of the services offered to you through the
Site, the information you provide to us may be transferred to
countries outside of the European Union ('EU'). By way of example,
this may happen if any of our servers are from time to time located
in a country outside of the EU or one of our service providers is
located in a country outside of the EU. We also share information
between our group companies, which are located in countries
worldwide. These countries may not have similar data protection
laws to the UK. If we transfer your information outside of the EU
in this way, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your
privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this privacy
policy.
12.2
If you use our services while you are outside the
EU, your information may be transferred outside the EU in order to
provide you with those services.
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Contact us
If at any time you would like to contact us with
your views about our privacy practices, or with any enquiry
relating to your personal information, you can do so by sending an
e-mail to us at update@medicalexpertsonline.co.uk or write
to us at Medical Experts Online Limited, 15 Bury New Road,
Prestwich, Manchester M25 9JZ.