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HealthGate respects and protects the privacy of our users. The following policy will provide you with an understanding of how we operate our website, how we collect information from you, and how it is used by us. This privacy policy is not intended to and does not create any contractual or legal rights in or on behalf of any party. This privacy policy may be revised periodically.

Cookies are used for record keeping and to track your movements when you visit a website. The use of cookies is an industry standard, you'll find them used in most websites, including health-related ones.

There are two types of cookies: persistent and session. Persistent cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to an individuals' hard drive for record-keeping purposes. HealthGate does not use persistent cookies and, therefore, does not place bits of computer code found with cookies on your computer. HealthGate does utilize session cookies that enable you to navigate the content that you use during your visit. Session cookies do not give HealthGate access to any of your personal information.

HealthGate uses session cookies for a single purpose - to help you better understand and navigate areas of the HealthGate service that our users find valuable. While this activity depends on the use of a session cookie, visitors to the HealthGate website always have the option of disabling cookies via their browser settings. We do not control cookies from other sites that you may link to from the HealthGate website.

Use of IP Addresses

An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web. Many Web servers automatically identify your computer by its IP address.

HealthGate collects IP addresses from the Web server logs for the purposes of system administration, to report aggregate information to our clients through whose websites you access HealthGate's content, and to audit the use of our site. When users request pages from HealthGate, our servers log the users' IP addresses. We do not normally link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that a user's session will be logged, but the user remains anonymous to us. HealthGate can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when it is necessary to enforce compliance with house rules and/or terms of service, or to protect the service, site, customers, or others.

Data Collection

HealthGate may require users to register in order to access some content resources that may be made available to you on this site. You may be asked to provide your name and email address, and you may also be required to choose a password. HealthGate stores this information only for the purpose of sending you a reminder if you forget your password or for aggregating and reporting usage statistics.

Personal Information

HealthGate may collect personal information supplied by you when you choose to use the HealthGate Collaboration Engine, Collaboration Architect, Quality Architect, Evidence-based Medicine Clinical Guidelines, and InteractiveIC products. The information collected may include your first name, last name, company name, username, password that you select, email address, phone number, clinical background, location, and position.

The information is stored and used to 1) remind you what password you selected when you request that information from us, and 2) to send email reminders for newly assigned tasks within the Collaboration Engine, Collaboration Architect and Quality Architect products. We may also use this information to determine your registration date and last login date, and report this information on an aggregate basis to third parties or applicable members of the HealthGate Network.

Medical Information and Minors

HealthGate does not operate a commercial website or an online service directed to children less than 13 years of age. HealthGate's content and other services are not written, intended, or designed for children under the age of 13. The Company does not collect personal information from children, nor operate a general audience website that collects personal information.

Security

HealthGate stores any information that we may have obtained while you have visited a site on the HealthGate Network, at the HealthGate Data Center. The HealthGate Data Center is housed at a secure facility in Andover, Massachusetts. The facility maintains onsite guards, pass code locked door access, and pass code authority.

Although HealthGate will make every effort to safeguard your personal information, you should know that no site could warrant that it is 100% secure from "hackers" who might learn how to evade security systems or intercept transmissions over the Internet.