The Privacy Policy describes the personal information management practices of CME Register concerning registration, users, and healthcare professionals (HCPs) as applicable.
Amendments to the current Privacy Policy
CME Register reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy whenever appropriate. We tend to recommend that you scan this policy on a continuous basis, so you are advised of any changes. Your continued use of CME Register following any amendment or changes to this policy suggests your acceptance of these changes.
Personal information
The Privacy Policy refers to “personal information” as information about a distinctive individual, including but not limited to information about individuals in their professional capacity, associate individual’s name, business title, address (including email address), business telephone number, CME Register membership status, right to use legacy designation. This policy describes the reasons why we collect your personal information, as well as how we manage that information.
Types of data we collect
The public content of CME Register may be visited without providing any personal information. Personal Information is merely collected if visitors voluntarily choose to provide personal information. Registration is required in some areas of our website, where access is restricted to users or HCPs.
We may collect personal information like name, email address, language preference, place of residence, registration, status or progression within the professional development program.
How we use personal information
CME Register uses personal information (and/or professional information) we collect to substantiate an individual’s identity, to retort to inquiries or comments, to send necessary notices concerning the updates, to fulfil legal and regulatory requirements.<
CME Register may use the private information you provide to reference the continuing professional development reporting, apply registration, practice inspection, course and seminar enrollment, and communicate information or materials required to share by law or regulation.<
Subject to obtaining consent, we could use personal information (and/or professional information) to supply you with tailored communications (including notices of professional development courses) that we believe are of interest to the users or HCPs.<
If you do not want to receive further communications from CME Register, at any time, you will have the option to unsubscribe or withdraw your consent by contacting CME Register at info@CME Register.org
Sharing personal
CME Register may disclose the personal information of users and HCPs. Such disclosure may be made to third parties: to conduct regulatory audits; to facilitate inter-regional mobility of users and HCPs; for the operation of educational programs and professional development, the provision of services and courses according to applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards.
CME Register may offer your personal information to our third-party service suppliers for the purpose of administering promotional and marketing activities or providing as per request services. CME Register may additionally provide your personal information to our affinity program partners, so you become eligible to receive their products and services. We tend to request these organizations to own privacy policies or to abide by our policies in relevance to the private information we share with them.
For user’s and HCP’s, CME Register may also disclose your personal information (and/or professional information) to government entities when requested by the government. CME Register also maintains a member directory that might contain each member’s name, designations, and initials. If you would prefer to request an exemption from revealing your contact information, you will contact us by email at info@CME Register.org.
From time to time, CME Register or our third-party service suppliers or affiliated partners may store or process your personal information outside of Canada. While outside of Canada, your personal information is also subject to disclosure according to the laws of that foreign jurisdiction.
Your consent
By providing CME Register with your personal information and/or by using our website, you consent to the collecting, disclosure, and usage of your personal information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. If CME Register requests further personal information or intend to use or disclose your personal information differently than represented during this policy, you will be advised before using it; however, it may be used.
Refusal and withdrawal of consent
Wherever your consent is required, you have the choice to refuse or withdraw your consent to the collection, disclosure and use of your personal information. You need to remember that your choice to refuse or withdraw consent could negatively have an impression on CME Register ability to supply you with bound product or services. Retention and disposal of personal information
CME Register keeps personal information for as long it is important for the needs that it was absolutely collected. Accordingly, we may retain personal information for various lengths of time, depending on the non-public information’s features and, therefore, the purposes for which it was provided to us.
Security safeguards
CME Register takes steps to shield your personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, inappropriate alteration, and misuse. As electronically transmitted information is not hundred percent secure, we tend to create no warranties on the protection of any information you submit electronically. Therefore, such provision is made at your own risk.
Cookies, IP addresses, and links to third-party websites
We may use cookies to gather and generate information regarding your visits to our website (including your IP address) that is transmitted to their servers in an anonymous type for processing. We may analyze patterns of website activity to improve the experience of visitors to our website. CME Register might also use a marketing software system to enable personalization services.
We may use cookies and similar tools to provide you with tailored information. Cookies allow us to understand that you are logged in and help us administer our marketing activities and perform analytics. A cookie is a component of data that an internet site can send to your browser for storing on your disk drive, so we are able to identify you more easily when you revisit the website. You may set your browser to alert you once you receive a cookie, and you will opt to decline, delete, or disable cookies. Doing so may affect your access to specific applications or contents of our website.
CME Register website may contain links to different websites owned and operated by third parties. While we try to provide a link solely to third-party websites that apply similar privacy high standards, we are not liable for the content or the privacy practices of these sites. Since you are exclusively responsible for deciding whether to go to any specific website, we strongly suggest that you read and understand the privacy policies belonging to those third-party websites before visiting the websites or providing any personal information there.