Visionary Medical Education Privacy Policy
Updated 10/20/2023

Visionary Medical Education, LLC, 4202 Meridian St - Ste 105-194, Bellingham, WA 98226, USA (“Visionary Medical Education LLC”, “we”, “us” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy Policy (the “Policy”).

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Visionary Medical Education, LLC, with its affiliates and its subsidiaries, owns, operates, or provides access to, several interactive websites, mobile and connected applications, and other online interactive features and services, including, but not limited to, emails, newsletters, chat areas, forums, communities, sweepstakes, online registrations and contests (collectively the “Site”).

This Privacy Policy covers information collected through the following websites and mobile applications
Visionarymedicaleducation.com

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. This Policy expressly incorporates by reference and includes the Site’s Terms & Conditions and any guidelines, rules or disclaimers that may be posted and updated on specific webpages or on notices that are sent to you. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you must not access or use the Site. By accessing or using the Site, you agree to this Policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or would like more detailed information regarding Visionary Medical Education’s privacy policy, please contact us by email at privacy@visionarymedicaleducation.com.

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 Visionary Medical Education. Please note, that in compliance with the General Data Regulation Policy (“GDPR”), if your IP address identifies you as being from the European Union (EU), we will ask you for your consent to collect this information. Additionally, in compliance with existing various US state legislations, if you are identified as a visitor from the state of California, Virginia, Colorado, Utah or Connecticut, we will ask you for your consent to collect this information. This may be asked multiple times in the event that you access Visionary Medical Education 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 website, but your experience will not be personalized based on your browsing behavior and certain features of the site may not function as expected. Details of the information we may collect and how it will be utilized can be found below.

Registration: We may request personal information from visitors to our site who are interested in obtaining various products and services from us. This includes registering to become a user of Visionary Medical Education and automatically signing you up for potential e-mail correspondence. Personal information is information that can be used to identify or contact you. It includes but is not limited to: log-in credentials (user name, password), name, postal address, e-mail 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 site 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 Visionary Medical Education whether or not you have registered for Visionary Medical Education. We collect this information through the use of cookies, which are bits of information that a website 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 Visionary Medical Education

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

Cookies: Visionary Medical Education collects information through a variety of technical methods, including cookies. We collect information through such technology to make our sites more relevant and useful, and to deliver information about products and services to our users. Visionary Medical Education uses 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 Visionary Medical Education. You may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. You may opt out of all of Visionary Medical Education’s marketing programs by emailing your name and National Provider Identifier (NPI) number to privacy@visionarymedicaleducation.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 don’t 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 Visionary Medical Education, 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 Visionary Medical Education be used to provide medical advice to patients.

Mobile Devices: To gain access from mobile devices, you may or may not be required to register. We will collect information about you  in the same way we do on our websites. This may or may not include urls that have been clicked on, time on site, and information about the device that you were using when you accessed our site.

Surveys & Polls: Visionary Medical Education 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 site. When you consent to using our site, please be aware that these widgets may be connected with third-party websites, such as Facebook or Twitter. These sites track your sharing behaviors and identity (through your social media handles) by utilizing cookies. Your interactions with these sites are administered by the privacy policies of those third parties.

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 Visionary Medical Education to improve website or service performance and deliver relevant educational and promotional content. Visionary Medical Education 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 e-mail 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.

Visionary Medical Education does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices or GDPR-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/GDPR best practices.

We reserve the right to review the use of our site 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 website, 3) activity that may be related to copyright violation, or 4) if we are required to disclose this information by law.

Visionary Medical Education 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 Visionary Medical Education, such as advertisements, services, or contextual links may connect to other sites. Any information you disclose on or through those sites is not subject to this privacy policy. Visionary Medical Education does not endorse and is 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, and date of medical, osteopathic, or optometry school graduation.

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

Live/Hybrid Meetings. When you register to attend a live/hybrid meeting, personal information related to the registration such as the type outlined above may be provided by you to Visionary Medical Education 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 that all attendees provide consent for us to store personal information so that we can manage your registration, continue to update you on information relevant to the meeting as well as prepare your pre/post/on-site meeting experiences.

Controlling the Use of Your Personal Information

Under GDPR, CPRA, CDPA, CPA, UCPA and CTDPA, we respect the rights of our users to obtain information on how we store and access the personal information we hold about them. They may amend and/or delete that personal information at any time. Some of these rights may be subject to some exceptions or limitations. We will respond to the request to exercise these rights within a reasonable timeframe. Other rights Visionary Medical Education users may be eligible for include:

Right of Portability: For Visionary Medical Education users whose IP addresses are located in the EU or the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah or Virginia who request to see how their information has been used, whether it is for amending, deleting or for informational purposes, we will provide it to you upon request in an easy-to-read, transmittable format within 30 days of the request.

Unsubscribe/Right to Be Forgotten: If at any time you wish to stop receiving marketing or content communications from us, you may unsubscribe at the bottom of your email(s) or contact Visionary Medical Education at privacy@visionarymedicaleducation.com.

According to your rights under Article 17 of the GDPR, and in compliance with CPRA, CDPA, CPA, UCPA and CTDPA, if you wish to entirely 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. To exercise your data rights, please use the button below.

Right to Notified of a Breach in Information: To ensure the safety of your personal information on Visionary Medical Education’s website(s) and servers, we have implemented the current appropriate technical, administrative, physical and organizational measures to protect that information from loss, destruction, and unauthorized access, whether accidental or intentional. Since these protections change as technology evolves, we cannot assume any liability in this regard. In the event of a breach in personal information security, Visionary Medical Education will notify affected users within 72 hours of its discovery.

Internal security measures

In order to support its business activities or services, which may include analyzing lists of personal information for behavioral trends and internal emailing of unencrypted personal information (among other actions), only authorized employees of Visionary Medical Education and their subsidiary staff, or our Clients’ authorized staff (who have contractually agreed to keep all information secure) may have access to your personal data. All staff of Visionary Medical Education who have access are required to adhere to staff confidentiality agreements with regard to personal information, which are held on file.

Contact Information for Privacy & Personal Data Inquiries

If you have any questions regarding Visionary Medical Education privacy policy, or would like to exercise your rights regarding your privacy and data as it pertains to this site, please contact us via:

Mail:
Visionary Medical Education, LLC
4202 Meridian St - Ste 105-194
Bellingham, WA 98226

Email:
privacy@visionarymedicaleducation.com

Conclusion

These statements convey the current privacy policy of Visionary Medical Education. Visionary Medical Education reserves the right to alter this policy at any time without advance notification. Any changes to this privacy policy will be reflected on this webpage. If you have any questions or would like more detailed information regarding Visionary Medical Education’s privacy policy, please contact us by email at privacy@visionarymedicaleducation.com.