Privacy Policy

• On the OnlineMedEd service.
• Via telephone or other voice enabled devices.
• In e-mail, text and other electronic messages between you and Company.
• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services. 

It does not apply to information collected by any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on our service. We do not control the privacy practices of others.  

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding how we treat your information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our service. By accessing or using our service or otherwise providing us your information, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of our service or providing us information after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Policy periodically for updates. 

We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy in its entirety, but here are some key points to our privacy practices: 

Children Under the Age of 13 - No one under the age of 13 may provide information to us.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It – We collect information related to you through your use of our service, including through cookies and other such technologies, through your posting of User Contributions, and from our third party partners. 

How We Use Your Information - We process your personal information only with your consent or as needed to provide you our service. 

Disclosure of Your Information – We may disclose your information in a de-identified and aggregated manner, and otherwise to comply with law, operate and protect our business, our customers, or other vital, public or legitimate interests. 

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information – We provide "Unsubscribe" links and other resource to help you control our use of your personal information. 

Accessing and Correcting Your Information - You can access, review, change, delete or download a copy of your personal information by visiting your account profile page or contacting us via the contact information below. 

Data Security & Transfer – We protect your information using standard technical and organizational measures. You are consenting to the transfer of your personal information to the US.

Data Retention –  We will retain your personal information for a period of time consistent with the original purpose of collection or as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, maintain accurate accounting, financial and other operational records, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.  

Changes to Our Privacy Policy – We will notify you of changes to the Privacy Policy by posting changes to this URL.

Your California Privacy Rights – A notice for California residents.  

Contact Information

Children Under the Age of 13

Our service are not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on our service. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on our service or on or through any of its features, register on our service, make any purchases through our service, use any of the interactive or public comment features of our service, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at help@onlinemeded.org. 

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information related to users of our service which may identify or be reasonably capable of being associated with an identifiable individual or household ("personal information"), including information such as: 

• Your name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, and other identifiers by which you may be contacted online or offline; 
• Your financial information provided when placing an order through our service; and 
• Details about your Internet connection, browser information, IP addresses, the equipment you use to access our service, and usage details. 

We collect this information: 

• When you fill out web forms, including when registering to use our service, subscribing to our service, posting material, or requesting further services; 
• When you report a problem with our service; 
• From records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses), if you contact us; 
• From your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes; 
• From your search queries on our service; 

• From transactions you carry out through our service and from the fulfillment of your orders; 
• Automatically as you navigate through our service, including through the use of cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies (see more below); and 
• From third parties, for example, our business partners. 

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of our service, or transmitted to other users of our service or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own discretion and risk, and you should carefully consider what information you post through our service, especially if it is or includes any sensitive information. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of our service with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not ensure that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. 

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Tracking Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our service, we may use automatic data tracking and collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including: 

• Details of your visits to our service, including traffic data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on our service; and 
• Information about your computer and Internet connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type. 

This information helps us to improve our service and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to: 

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns; 

• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our service according to your individual interests; 
• Speed up your searches; and 
• Recognize you when you return to our service. 

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include: 

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our service. Our service is not designed to recognize or respond to "do not track" signals received from browsers. 

• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our service may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our service. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see the "Choices about How We Use and Disclose Your Information" section below. 
• Web Beacons. Pages of our service and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an e-mail and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity). 

How We Use Your Information

We use information we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information: 

• To present our service and its contents to you. 

• To provide you with information, products or services. 
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it. 
• To provide you with notices about your account/subscription, including expiration and renewal notices. 
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection. 
• To notify you about changes to our service or any products or services we offer or provide though it. 

• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our service. 
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information. 
• For any other purpose with your consent. 

We also may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria. 

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose de-identified, aggregated information about our users, without restriction. 

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy: 

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates. 
• To contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business. 
• In connection with a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s stocks or assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding. 

• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. 
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information, including as set forth in this Privacy Policy. 
• With your consent. 

We may also disclose your personal information: 

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request, and other legitimate interests. 

• To enforce or apply this Privacy Policy, our  Terms of Use, and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes. 
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction. 

Thinkific:  

Because a part of our service is hosted by Thinkific Labs Inc. (“Thinkific”), your data may be stored through Thinkific’s data storage, databases and the general Thinkific application. Thinkific stores your data on a secure server behind a firewall. For more information, please see Thinkific’s terms of service at https://www.thinkific.com/terms-of-service/ and privacy policy at https://www.thinkific.com/privacy-policy/.  

Information concerning your usage of our service and your progress using our study materials ("Course Performance Information") may be disclosed to third parties such as educational institutions, professors, and product development partners for a variety of purposes, including, but not limited to, analyzing and improving exam passage rates and for the development of new products and services. To the extent an educational institution (e.g., your medical school) collects and maintains Course Performance Information, that information may be considered an educational record under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act ("FERPA"), 20 USC § 1232(g). If so, you may have certain rights of access and confidentiality as to those educational records, if any, as a student of that institution. By accessing and using our service, you consent to allow free exchange of Course Performance Information between us and/or Thinkific and your educational institution. 

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. You can use the following mechanisms to control your information: 

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. You can control the information collected by such tracking technologies or be alerted when cookies are sent by adjusting the settings on your Internet browser or devices. You can learn more about targeted ads and your options for opting out of receiving interest-based ads at optout.aboutads.info and www.networkadvertising.org/choices. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our service may then be inaccessible or not function properly. 
• Site Usage Tracking Technologies. We employ technologies, such as Google Analytics, that allow us to record how you engage with our service. This includes, without limitation, clicks on various elements, length of time spent on specific pages, and mouse movements. This information is used solely for the purpose of improving our service. You can learn more about Google Analytics and your options for opting out of interest-based Google ads at https://adssettings.google.com 
• Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your e-mail address used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by clicking the "Unsubscribe" link in the footer of any related e-mail. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a purchase, product service experience, or other transactions.  

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

To the extent provided by the law of your jurisdiction, you may have the right to (i) access certain personal information we maintain about you, (ii) request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, (iii) request that we update or correct inaccuracies in that information, (iv) object to our use of your personal information, (v) ask us to block or delete your personal information from our database, and (vi) request to download the information you have shared on the Website. 

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page. You may also send us an e-mail at help@onlinemeded.org to request access to, correct, delete or download a copy of any personal information that you have provided to us, or to make any other inquiries you may have about this Privacy Policy. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. Additionally, to help protect your privacy and maintain security, we may take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to the information. We may not accommodate a request if we believe the change would compromise the protection of other customers’ rights, or violate any law or legal requirement. We also may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would cause the information to be incorrect. To the extent permitted by applicable law, a charge may apply before we provide you with a copy of any of your personal information that we maintain. 

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of User Contributions provided on the Website is governed by our  Terms of Use. 

Data Retention

Data Security & Transfer

We have implemented technological and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers using industry-standard security measures. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. We limit access to and use of your personal information to authorized persons and trusted third parties who have a reasonable need to know the information in order to perform our services and business operations and who are bound by confidentiality obligations.  

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our service, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards, chat rooms, and comments and feedback sections. The information you share in public areas may be viewed, collected, used, or disseminated by any user of the Website, including to send you unsolicited information and advertising. 

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure the security of your personal information transmitted to our service. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention by others of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website. 

We make no claim that the Website is appropriate or lawful for use or access outside the United States. Furthermore, many of our databases, and those of our providers, are located in the United States. If you access the Website from outside the United States, you are consenting to the transfer of your personal information from your location to the United States. You are solely responsible for complying with all local and other applicable laws, rules and regulations regarding online conduct and access to the Website. By sending us your information, you further consent to its storage within the United States. 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page (this URL). If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will post such changes at this URL and may notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of this page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date, active, and deliverable e-mail address for you, and for periodically visiting our service and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes. 

Your California Privacy Rights 

Contact Information

To ask questions or provide comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: help@onlinemeded.org, or write to us at OnlineMedEd, Inc., Attn: Privacy, 2111 Kramer Lane, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78758.