Last updated: February 15, 2021
Virtual Medical Education (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the VirturioMedEd website (the “Service”).
Who we are
Our website address is: https://virturiomeded.com.
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information when you use our Service.
We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
We use your Personal Information for providing and improving the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible at https://virturiomeded.com
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) may include, but is not limited to:
Log Data
We collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the external service to see if you are using it. Please email to request the privacy policy of the external service. After approval of your comment, your profile picture/comment is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
1. Information About Our Use of Cookies
Virturiomeded or Virtual Medical Education (collectively referred to herein as “Virturiomeded” or “we” or “us” or “our”) websites, mobile websites, microsites, mobile applications, social media sites, and other digital services and platforms (collectively, the “Sites”) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Sites. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Sites and allows us to improve our Sites.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. Cookies are used to speed up your access to the Sites and the information you wish to see, as well as for website analytics, marketing efforts, and for functionality.
2. Types of Cookies We Use
We may use the following types of cookies on our website:
- Permanent and strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Sites. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. They also remember your login details and password, so you don’t have to type them in every time you use the Sites.
- Analytical/performance cookies. These are cookies that allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Sites when they are using them. These cookies help us to improve the way our Sites work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are cookies that are used to recognize you when you return to our Sites. These cookies enable us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, recognize your as subscriber, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). Additional cookies are also collected when you publish an article or a comment on the Sites.
- Targeting cookies. These are cookies that are used to record your visit to our Sites, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Sites and the advertising displayed on the Sites more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
- Session cookies: These are temporary cookies that expire when the browser is closed.
You may control cookie settings in your web browser to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. If you view our Sites without changing your cookie settings, you are indicating your consent to receive all cookies from our Sites. However, if you change your cookie settings to block cookies, some features and functionality of our Sites may not operate as expected.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. As an associate/affiliate we may earn from qualifying purchases from ads/links shown on our site at no additional cost to you.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
Analytics
We also use google analytics and other analytic tools to track page views. visits, clicks, behavior, comments, posts, malicious activities, and other maintenance related activities on our Sites
Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Data Sharing
Your data can be monitored by third party website traffic analytics and malware protection softwares and plugins. The data acquired by forms may be shared with third parties as noted below.
Data Retention
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
We can retain your data indefinitely but you can send a request to get it deleted anytime. In this case, we will retain certain elements required for legal, administrative, and normal website functioning.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
We only collect this information if you subscribe to stay updated on the content. We save your contact information and use it to send you updates and offers. You can request us to erase this information any time.
Additional information
How we protect your data
We have firewalls to prevent any possible data breeches but we do not collect personal data on routine visitors. This data is only collected if your subscribe to the newsletter or contact us using the contact form or email us. We have protection protocols in place and try our best to prevent malicious codes and viruses penetrate the data. However, due to certain technological limitations, we can not guarantee to prevent all the attacks. If you wish to have your personal data deleted from our servers, please send us a letter and we will do it as soon as possible.
What third parties receive data from us
We might share your cookies with third party plugins/softwares and parties. Your collected data may be shared with parties in the medical education field for targeted advertisement and sending you relevant promotions. You can opt out of it anytime.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Currently, there is no segregation of the data based on personal information.
Copyrights
If you submit an article or a blog to our website, you are responsible for making sure it does not violate copyright rules and regulations. Any article/blog/content will be taken down if there are any copyright issues and virturiomeded will not be responsible for any legal implications.
If you are an entity who thinks that some of the content published infringes your copyright, please contact us and we will initiate an inquiry. We might ask you for certain details regarding your claims before taking further actions.
Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we discover that a child under 18 has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information from our servers immediately.
Compliance With Laws
We will disclose your Personal Information where required to do so by law or subpoena.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.
