Services and Products Covered by the Privacy Policy

This policy describes what information may be collected about you when you use the services of International Guideline Center, and its subsidiary, Guideline Central. Services are provided via the company website and through the use or purchase of mobile applications, whether from our website, iTunes, Google Play or any other avenue of purchase made available. These services may be in a variety of mediums and devices now known or developed at a later date including mobile applications.  Upon leaving Guideline Central’s website or mobile application, we are not responsible for how other websites treat your personal/private information.

Please visit http://www.guidelinecentral.com/contact-us for contact information.

Changes in the Privacy Policy
If there is a significant change in the privacy policy regarding the services offered or how we handle your personally identifiable information, we will take steps to inform you of these changes. Minor changes, or those changes that do not significantly affect the services offered and how personable identifiable information is handled, will not carry notifications of the change.  If a significant change is enacted, you will have the opportunity to opt out of the changes at the time of the implementation of the change.

Information We Collect
To experience the full complement of services offered, you will be required to register. Registration requires minimal personally identifiable information to be entered into our systems. Non-personally identifiable information is collected regarding how you use our services. Through the use of cookies, whether you have registered or not, we are able to track the type of browser you use, and the date and time of access to our system. Information we collect when you choose to register with us includes name, email address, zip code and possibly specialty where needed. We may then supplement this data with data received from various partners. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of Guideline Central visitors and users.

How We Use Your Personal Data

Usage Data

The usage data we collect may include IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, and pattern of your service use. This usage data may be processed for purpose of analyzing the use of our website and app and is completed through cookies.

Account Data

By registering for an account and providing us information such as name and email address, you are consenting us to process this information to operate our website, provide you our services, maintain our user database, and communicate with you about order-related purposes. You may also receive communications about promotions, new products, and updates, free/sponsored guideline titles and similar from our marketing team. Contact us to opt-out of all or some of these use cases.

Inquiry Data

By submitting an inquiry via email or contact form, we may process this data to fulfill your request and may contact you about our services if applicable.

Notification Data

By opting in for notifications via our website or app, you are expressing permission for us to contact you about relevant notifications and/or newsletters.

Providing Your Personal Data to Others

Your privacy is important to us. We will never outright sell your personal information to others. However, we may provide your information to others in the following circumstances:

  • To fulfill your order and/or request
  • As part of a program to promote new free/sponsored guideline titles
  • To process financial transactions via a secured environment
  • In the event it is legally necessary

Cookies That We Use

We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • Authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website
  • Status – we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website
  • Personalization – we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalize the website for you
  • Security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally
  • Advertising – we use cookies [to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you
  • Analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services
  • Cookie Consent – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally

Our Service Providers That Use Cookies

We use third party applications to track the above data. Examples of some of these applications are:

  • Google Analytics
  • Google Adsense
  • MixPanel

Managing Cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via the links below. Please be aware if you block cookies, it will negatively impact our website and apps functionality and usability. Some features may become unavailable.

Removing Your Data

Data preferences and deletion can be managed in your user profile on GuidelineCentral.com or via our mobile app. You may also contact us via the below methods to request account deletion.

Mobile Device Application
At the time of downloading the mobile app to your device we attach a random number to your installation. This number does not identify you personally or your personal information until you register with our services. This number only identifies the brand, make and model along with the type of operating software your phone uses.

Age of Registration Privacy
This site and service is intended for use by adults, and is not designed or intended for use by those individuals under the age of 18.

Security of Information

The security, technology, rules and other measures that have been implemented within the system protect your personal data. Unauthorized access, improper use, alteration or destruction, and accidental loss, along with requiring our employees to respect the confidentiality of your private information is the basis for our general policy.  Users are required to enter user names and passwords for authentication purposes. Users are responsible for their own password maintenance.

Privacy Questions or Concerns
Please contact us should you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy.

U.S. Government Rights
This product includes CPT which is commercial technical data, which was developed exclusively at private expense by the American Medical Association, 330 North Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611. The American Medical Association does not agree to license CPT to the Federal Government based on the license in FAR 52.227-14 (Data Rights – General) and DFARS 252.227-7015 (Technical Data – Commercial Items) or any other license provision. The American Medical Association reserves all rights to approve any license with any Federal agency.

DMD Healthcare Communications NetworkSM Privacy Statement

This digital service participates in the DMD Healthcare Communication
NetworkSM (the “Network”), and as such has implemented various technologies for universal registration/login among all Network member websites. These technologies are managed by DMD Marketing Corp. (“DMD”), and may involve the collection, receipt, and sharing of information with DMD, its clients and other Network members. If you would like to understand how this digital service’s participation in the Network affects your privacy, please click here. Please note that the Network registration/login system may be different from the registration/login used by this digital service for other products and services. To the extent that anything in this privacy policy conflicts with the policy for the Network technologies, the conflict will be resolved in favor of the policy applicable to the Network technologies.