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Effective January 18, 2024

FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS ONLY

In addition to the rights disclosed in our Privacy Policy, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides some additional rights to residents of California which are summarized below.

Summary

According to the CCPA, the intent of the Legislature is to further Californians’ right to privacy by giving consumers an effective way to control their personal information, by ensuring the following rights:

  1. The right of Californians to know what personal information is being collected about them.
  2. The right of Californians to know whether their personal information is sold or disclosed and to whom.
  3. The right of Californians to say no to the sale of personal information.
  4. The right of Californians to access their personal information.
  5. The right of Californians to equal service and price, even if they exercise their privacy rights.

Information That We Collect

In compliance with the CCPA, if you are identified as a visitor from the state of California, we will ask you for your consent to collect certain information. This may be asked multiple times in the event you access the websites of The Wyanoke Group or any of its subsidiary companies, which include Healio, Healio Strategic Solutions, Healio Live, Vindico Medical Education and SLACK Incorporated, on multiple devices (tablet, mobile) or erase your cookie history on any device. If you do not consent, your personal information will not be stored. You will still be able to browse the websites, but your experience will not be personalized based on your browsing behavior and certain features of the websites may not function as expected. Details of the information we may have collected in the past 12 months and how it may have been utilized can be found below.

Registration. We may request personal information from visitors to our websites who are interested in obtaining various products and services from us. This includes registering to become a user of The Wyanoke Group’s websites and automatically signing you up for potential email correspondence. Personal information is information that can be used to identify or contact you. It includes but is not limited to: log-in credentials (email and password), name, postal address, email address, NPI number, year of medical school graduation, and telephone number. We may also collect other types of information, such as profession and professional interests as well as your communication preferences. We will store all personal information in a customer record until you instruct us to remove it from our databases. Registered users of the websites are able to control their communication preferences at any time by accessing the "My Account" page.

We may combine information collected about you with information from third-party sources. For example, upon registration, some health care professionals will be matched against the publicly available NPI Registry to append and include their NPI number to their registration profiles.

Anonymous Users. We may collect information about your usage of The Wyanoke Group websites whether or not you have registered for a website of a Wyanoke Group subsidiary company. We collect this information through the use of cookies, which are bits of information that a site sends to your computer while you are viewing a webpage. These items may include:

  • The time and date of your request
  • The internet address of your computer
  • The browser and operating system you are using
  • The webpage that you are viewing
  • The website that referred you to The Wyanoke Group’s website and/or a website of one of Wyanoke Group’s subsidiary companies

Continuing Medical Education (CME, CNE and CE). In many cases, registration is required to take continuing medical educations tests (or CNE or CE) and to claim your completion certificate(s). You will be asked to provide personal information as required by the particular activity. As with registration, personal information is defined as information that can be used to identify or contact you.

Cookies. The Wyanoke Group and its subsidiary companies collect information through a variety of technical methods, including cookies. We collect information through such technology to make our websites more relevant and useful, and to deliver information about products and services to our users. The Wyanoke Group and its subsidiary companies use third-party marketing services, such as Google, to advertise on third-party websites across the internet. These services use cookies to serve ads to you based on your past visits to the websites of Wyanoke Group’s subsidiary companies. You may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. You may opt out of all of all company marketing programs by emailing your name and National Provider Identifier (NPI) number to privacy@wyanokegroup.com. You may learn more about interest-based advertising and opt out of interest-based advertising from members of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) or the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI). In the event that you do not want to be served ads that are tailored to you, you may "opt out" of many campaigns by going to https://www.aboutads.info, https://preferences-mgr.truste.com/ or https://www.youronlinechoices.eu. If you decide to opt out, you will continue to be served ads, but they will not be served based on your personal internet activity.

The "Help" function in your web browser explains how to manage cookies while using the internet. As previously noted, some services will not function properly if your browser does not accept cookies.

Comments and Forums. When you post a comment on a Wyanoke Group website, your name or username will be displayed. Information that you post will be publicly available and may be used by us and third parties. However, we reserve the right not to post any comments with unsolicited information about medical devices or other products. At no time should a Wyanoke Group website be used to provide medical advice to patients.

Mobile Applications (Apps). To access mobile device applications (apps), you may or may not be required to register. We will collect information about you and your use of our apps in the same way we do on our websites. This may or may not include URLs that have been clicked on, time on websites, and information about the device that you were using when you accessed our websites.

Surveys and Polls. A Wyanoke Group subsidiary company may request feedback regarding your use of our services through polls, educational surveys and other types of market research. We may collect personal information about you when a response is necessary or to fulfill contests, honoraria, giveaways, etc. In surveys that involve an educational component, individuals’ personal information including name, NPI and specialty as well as their responses may be shared with grantors. In other instances, data are collected in aggregate form only.

Widgets. Social media icons, widgets and other sharing buttons may be present on our websites. When you consent to using our websites, please be aware that these widgets may be connected with third-party websites, such as Facebook or Twitter. These websites track your sharing behaviors and identity (through your social media handles) by utilizing cookies. Your interactions with these websites are administrated by the privacy policies of those third parties. Accessing content that is promoted by TrendMD on a Wynaoke Group website is covered by TrendMD’s privacy policy, which monitors usage using primarily anonymized data. For more information on their practices, contact support@trendmd.com.

Why We Collect This Information

We may use the personal information collected for many purposes, including delivering content, tracking, reporting, marketing, delivering ads and analyzing the traffic patterns on our websites. Information we collect is aggregated into reports that enable us to monitor usage and security. Aggregated and individual usage statistics are distributed within The Wyanoke Group subsidary companies to improve website or service performance and deliver relevant educational and promotional content. Healio may collect and share both aggregated and personally identifiable information tied to IP addresses or cookie information with third parties (including advertisers and institutional subscribers) interested in communicating with you about information or products relevant to your profession.

Personal information such as names, addresses and email addresses may be shared with accredited CME providers in order to award users CME (CNE, CE) credit(s). Names, NPI numbers and specialties of individual users who have interacted with some promotional messages we deliver may be shared with or used with advertisers and sponsors.

The Wyanoke Group and its subsidiary companies do not endorse and are not responsible for the privacy practices or CCPA-compliance of any third-party websites to which it provides the personal information of its users, although we make our best efforts to collaborate only with those who follow Internet/CCPA best practices.

We reserve the right to review the use of our websites by individual user’s accounts associated with 1) attempts to violate the security of our computer networks; 2) activity that degrades the performance of our websites; 3) activity that may be related to copyright violations; or 4) if we are required to disclose this information by law.

The Wyanoke Group and its subsidiary companies may also release personal information to third parties: 1) to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or 2) in special cases, such as a physical threat to you or others. In the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your personal information to a third party, we will notify you unless doing so would violate the law or court order.

General Linking Information. Please note that some links on our websites, such as advertisements, services or contextual links may connect to other websites. Any information you disclose on or through those websites is not subject to this privacy policy. The Wyanoke Group and its subsidiary companies do not endorse and are not responsible for the privacy practices or GDPR-compliance of any third-party websites to which we link.

Information Specific to Other Products & Services

For the following items, we will collect personal information that may include but is not limited to your name, address, email, credentials, specialty interests, IP address, date of medical school graduation and credit card information. Braintree Payments and PayPal provide us with an online e-commerce platform that allows you to transmit a credit card number to us with confidence. The Wyanoke Group and its subsidiary companies do not personally store any of your credit card or PayPal information. We will store all other personal information from the transaction, with your consent.

Depending on your payment method, your data is stored through the Braintree Payments or PayPal data storage and databases behind a firewall. Your information is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS).

Complementary Book Requests. In the context of a request for a book comp or desk copy, you may provide personal information, such as the type outlined above, to a Wyanoke Group subsidiary company. The information may be used to provide you and/or your institution with product information by email or direct mail that could be useful to faculty and/or students. You will always have the opportunity to unsubscribe from all email correspondence and can notify us if you wish to be taken off of our mailing list.

Paid Content (Newspapers and Journal Subscriptions, Books). In the context of paid content, regardless of type, you may provide personal information, such as that outlined above, to a Wyanoke subsidiary company. You reserve the right to rescind your consent for a Wyanoke subsidiary company to store your personal information, without incurring financial penalty. Standard return policies will apply.

Single Article Purchases/Single Journal Purchases. Due to the single-use nature of these content types, an email address is required to be submitted and stored in order to make a purchase.

Live Meetings. When you register to attend a live meeting, you may provide personal information related to the transaction, such as the type outlined above, to a Wyanoke Group subsidiary company and then stored (exception: we do not store credit card information). Regardless of how you register for a meeting (online, phone, print form, in person), we will request all attendees provide consent for us to store personal information so we can manage your transaction, continue to update you on information relevant to the meeting as well as prepare your pre/post/onsite meeting experiences.

Healio Jobs. Healio Jobs is powered by a third-party firm. Please see their privacy policy to learn more about how your personal information may or may not be used.

Your Right to Opt Out

Under the CCPA, residents of California have rights regarding personal information businesses may have or collect from them. California residents have the right to request access to the personal information the business has for them; request to delete the personal information; and/or request that the business stop selling their personal information.

In some cases, data obtained from cookies or other sources as outlined above is shared with third parties and may be considered a “sale of personal information” under the CCPA.

If you wish to request access to your personal information or opt out of having your personal information utilized by our website, you may contact us and we will purge this information from our databases, cease its dissemination and, to the best of our ability, notify all third parties who have been provided with your information that your right to be forgotten and/or erased has been exercised.

Please contact us via:
Email:
privacy@wyanokegroup.com

Postal mail:
The Wyanoke Group
Attn: Privacy and Data Protection
6900 Grove Road
Thorofare, NJ 08086