Mashup Media Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to the website www.MashupMD.com (the “Website”), to include the mobile optimized version of the Website, and the MashupMD Mobile Device Application (“MashupMD App”). The Website and the MashupMD App are referred to as MM when referenced collectively within this policy. References to “we,” “us” or “our” refer to Mashup Media, LLC, the owner and operator of MM.
This Privacy Policy describes how we may collect, use and disclose information about users of the Services. The “Services” for purposes of this Privacy Policy means MM and all information and services provided to you in connection with your use of the Website and MashupMD App, without limitation, news, reference content, tools, applications, sponsored programs, advertising, email communications, and discussion boards. We may share information collected under this Privacy Policy, but information collected under this Privacy Policy is always protected under the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Information That We Collect
In this section of our Privacy Policy, we discuss the information we may collect about you in connection with your use of the Services, which can include “Personal Information” (i.e., information that we can use to identify you, such as your name or email address) and “Non-Personal Information” (i.e., information that we do not use to identify you). As described below, we may associate Non-Personal Information with Personal Information and upon doing so such information will become Personal Information.
We use web beacons and cookies to: (i) track usage of the Services; (ii) help us deliver more relevant advertising and content to users of the Services; (iii) assess which Services our users access; and (iv) track who has opened our emails. If you are a member of MM, we may elect to associate our cookies and the information collected by our cookies with your registration information, thereby making the cookie information Personal Information.
Third parties under contract with Mashup Media, LLC may use cookies or web beacons to help Mashup Media, LLC deliver advertising to you on MM and on properties outside of MM that are not owned and operated by Mashup Media, LLC. Advertisers that market to you through the Services may use their own cookies, web beacons or other online tracking technologies in the sponsored content served to you, including banner advertisements, sponsored links, emails and pages on the Website (“Brand Pages”) that consist solely of advertisements or other content from our advertisers. Some advertisers use companies other than Mashup Media, LLC to serve their sponsored content on their behalf and to monitor users’ responses to this content. These companies (“Ad Servers”) may also collect Non-Personal Information through the use of cookies or web beacons. Additionally, an advertiser may include tracking technology in its advertising content delivered on MM that would enable the advertiser to obtain Personal Information about you, including the fact that you saw the advertisement, to the extent that you have separately provided consent to the advertiser or to the third party providing the tracking technology. While we generally permit the use of these third party cookies on the assumption that they comply with our Advertising Policy and we assist our advertisers with the placement of cookies or beacons on Brand Pages, we do not have control over these third parties’ use of cookies or web beacons or how they manage the Non-Personal Information they gather through them and we may be unable to verify compliance with our Advertising Policy.
How We May Use Your Information
In this section of our Privacy Policy, we discuss how we may use the Personal Information and Non-Personal Information that we collect about you.
Disclosure of Your Information to Third Parties
IQVIA Healthcare Communications Network Participation Disclosure
This website is a member of the IQVIA Healthcare Communications Network (the “HCN”). HCN is owned and managed by IQVIA Inc. (“IQVIA”) and is designed to enable IQVIA and HCN members to provide medically relevant business communications to authenticated U.S.-based health care professionals. If you are a U.S.-based healthcare professional, Your registration at this website includes registration with HCN. As a result, your contact and other professionally relevant information will be disclosed to IQVIA and each HCN member to provide you medically relevant content as described in the HCN privacy policy available at https://HCN.health/privacy-policy/.
The HCN privacy policy provides details on how to manage your information, including opting out of participation in the HCN. To the extent that this site’s privacy policy conflicts with the HCN privacy policy, with respect to the use of this information by HCN, the conflict will be resolved in favor of the HCN policy
Security of Information
We have implemented technology and security policies and other measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from unauthorized access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction, and accidental loss. We also require that all of our employees and others who have access to or are associated with the processing of your data respect your confidentiality.
We use security methods to determine the identity of registered users, so that appropriate rights and restrictions can be enforced for that user. Reliable verification of user identity is called authentication. We use both passwords and usernames to authenticate users. Users are responsible for maintaining the security of their DWM login credentials.
Access to Information and Choices
Note to Users Outside of the United States
Mashup Media, LLC is located in the United States. We will collect, store, and process your information that we obtain from the use of the Services in the United States and these activities shall be governed by applicable United States laws and regulations and this Privacy Policy. The information may be available to the United States government or its agencies under legal process made in the United States. In addition, we may transfer your information outside the United States to service providers and customers with operations in other countries. By using the Services, you consent to such collection, storage and processing in the United States and elsewhere, though the United States and other jurisdictions may not afford the same level of data protection as considered adequate in your own country. We will take reasonable steps to protect your information.
Children’s Privacy
MM and the Services are designed and intended for use by adults and are not intended for nor designed to be used by children under the age of 18. We do not collect Personal Information from any person we know is under the age of 18.
Privacy Policy Changes
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time and any changes will be effective upon posting of the modified Policy unless we advise otherwise. If we make any material changes to this Policy, we will notify you by email (sent to the email address included in your account profile) and/or by means of a notice on MM at the time that the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy for the latest information on our privacy practices. If you do not accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, we ask that you do not register with us and that you do not use the Services. By continuing to use the Services after changes are made to this Privacy Policy, you are consenting to such changes.
Privacy Questions or Concerns
For privacy questions or concerns about MM or the Services, please contact support@MashupMD.com.
Terms of Use
The MM Terms of Use can be found at https://mashupmd.com/terms-of-use/.