Preliminary
Statement
MyMPJE.com (“our
Website”) is a service provided by MyMPJE (the “Company”) for the
following purpose: Assisting pharmacy licensure exam preparation.
Even as the Internet allows us to communicate and exchange
information far more easily than in the past, it also generates new
issues and challenges that must be addressed in this ever-changing
digital world. One of the most important issues
that any website owner must address is that of its users’ privacy.
We believe that our privacy policy is one that adheres to all
relevant laws, regulations and customs while at the same time is
readily accessible and understandable to our users.
We take great pride in the trust that our users place in our
Website. For our service to be effective, we must
collect certain information from our users. If
you do not agree with any of the terms or practices described in
this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Website.
What does our
privacy policy cover?
This policy covers our
Website’s treatment of our users’ Personally Identifiable
Information (as defined below) that we collect when our users
utilize our Website service. This policy does not
apply to the practices of any company that the Company does not
control or own, people that the Company does not employ or manage,
or third-party websites that the Company does not own, control, or
manage.
Why
have a privacy policy?
Our policy allows us to
collect information from our users in a manner that will allow our
users to retain control over their personal information, but still
allow us to make their online visit safe, satisfying and rewarding.
We use our users’ information to make it easier for our users
to access our Website services. Since access to a
user’s section on the site requires authentication of the user’s
identity, some information is required to be provided for us to know
who is accessing the site and which areas that person has access to.
The information allows us to provide our users with a
personalized interface to the data that is relevant to their user
profiles. Use of any of the services on our
Website is entirely voluntary; however, if you do not provide the
Personally Identifiable Information requested by us, then we may
elect not to make the related services available for your use.
What
type of information do we collect?
There are two types of
general information that are typically collected online: Anonymous
Information and Personally Identifiable Information.
Anonymous Information is
information that can not be traced back to a specific person.
While we may have a hit counter on a page on our site, that
counter only tracks the number of hits, it does not collect any
specific information about our visitors. This is
Anonymous Information. While anonymous visitors
are welcome to browse, registration and agreement to our Terms of
Use are required to use our personalized services including the full
features of our Website.
Personally Identifiable
Information is information that tells us who our users are and
includes our users’ names, phone numbers, addresses, and similar
information. This information is needed to allow
us to personalize our users’ interfaces with our Website including
the areas of the service that they are permitted to access.
When we request Personally Identifiable Information from our
users, we include a link to these privacy policies, and inform our
users what information is required and what information is optional.
When you register for
our Website service, you will be asked to enter certain Personally
Identifiable Information including: your first and last name, state
and zip code or country and postal code for non-US residents,
gender, year of birth and certain occupational/demographic
information (Registration Data). Not all of this
information is required to register as a user.
According to our Website Terms of Use, you must keep this
Registration Data current in order to maintain your account.
We may also obtain information from you when you participate
in a promotion, make an online purchase from an advertiser or
sponsor, contact us with a suggestion or complaint, or respond to an
approved survey. This information continues to
build your information profile.
What
about our users who are children and their parents?
The collection of
Personally Identifiable Information from and about children is
sometimes necessary. The Company is sensitive to
the issues involved in collecting such information from minors and
has taken the following steps to ensure the privacy of any minors
accessing our Website. Due to the nature of the
service provided by our Website, we require that certain information
from children be collected in order to properly configure each
user’s access to the service. Our Website
established the following guidelines that operate in connection with
our adherence to the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection
Act of 1998 (COPPA): http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm . At each
request for children’s information there will be a link to our
privacy policy and our COPPA statement. We
strongly agree with the intent of COPPA and have structured our
COPPA policy to enable us to collect only the information from
children that is necessary for their access to our Website service;
and, then only after obtaining verifiable consent from their
parents.
We strongly recommend
that any information about children under 18 submitted to our
Website be of the type that our users would typically see in their
local newspaper. Accordingly, information that is
not appropriate for local newspapers should not be posted to our
Website.
Information
Disclosure - Will we do it?
The Company will not
sell or rent your Personally Identifiable Information to anyone.
However, the Company. will send Personally Identifiable Information
about our users to other companies or people when:
• We have the
consent of our users to share the information.
• We need to share
our users’ information to provide a product or service that the user
requested.
• We need to send
the information to third parties that provide services on our behalf
to provide our users with a product or service they requested.
These third parties do not have any right to use the
Personally Identifiable Information we provide to them beyond what
is necessary to assist us in fulfilling our users’ requests unless
the third party is specifically authorized to use the information by
our users.
• We respond to
subpoenas, court orders or legal process.
• We find that your
actions on our site violate our Terms of Use or any of our usage
guidelines for our services.
Do
we use cookies?
Cookies are pieces of
data stored on our users’ hard drives that contain information about
our users. Cookies are not linked to Personally
Identifiable Information while users are on our site.
Once our users close their browsers, the cookies terminate.
Cookies allow our users to only log into the site once while
remembering their usernames and passwords for future access.
Cookies may be rejected by our users, but the rejection will
result in more limited access to the services we provide since our
services are personalized to our users. Cookies
may also be used to allow our users access to our sweepstakes,
contests and other events. Some of our
advertisers utilize cookies; however, we do not have control over or
access to their cookies. We use cookies to
monitor site activity, not user activity. If you
choose not to accept cookies, you should be aware that you may not
be able to experience the full functionality of our Website.
Log
Files
We collect IP addresses
from our users and visitors to track trends, administer the site,
and collect broad Anonymous Information for demographic purposes.
The IP addresses are not linked to Personally Identifiable
Information of our users or visitors. We do not
monitor the activities of our users within or without our Site.
Sharing
of Information
We may share Anonymous
Information with our advertisers and partners. If
we do share this information, it will not be linked to any
Personally Identifiable Information.
Our third-party shipping
and credit card processing partners are provided with Personally
Identifiable Information to enable them to properly fulfill our
users’ product and service requests. Our partners
do not retain, share, store or use this Personally Identifiable
Information for any secondary or other purposes not directly related
to fulfillment of our users’ product and service requests. In most
respects, our users will deal directly with our third-party
advertisers and their shipping and credit card processing partners.
Therefore, our users should carefully review our advertisers’
privacy polices and terms and conditions prior to entering into a
transaction with such advertisers.
Links
Our Website contains
links to other sites. Some of these sites may
display our product logos, our products or other content provided by
the Company. Please understand that the Company
is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites.
We recommend that our users be aware when they leave our
Website and that they read the privacy policies of the other sites
to see how they treat the information they collect.
By providing access to third-party sites or advertisements,
the Company is not endorsing the products or services provided by
the owners or operators of such websites.
Consequently, we will not be responsible for the accuracy,
relevancy, availability, reliability, copyright compliance, legality
or decency of the material contained in such third-party Websites
linked to our Website. We strongly encourage you
to make whatever investigation you feel is necessary or appropriate
before proceeding with any online or offline transaction.
This Privacy Policy applies only to the information collected
by the Company via our Website.
Newsletters
The Company plans on
publishing several newsletters that our users can subscribe to. The
newsletters will be sent via email and users will need to provide
contact information in order to receive the newsletters.
Surveys, Contests
and Sweepstakes
The Company may offer
our users the opportunity to participate in surveys, contests and
sweepstakes via our Website. In order to
participate, users will be asked to provide information.
Participation in these events is voluntary, thereby providing
our users with a choice as to whether to provide the information
requested or not. Information requested for these
events may include contact information (name and address),
demographic data (zip code and age), and optional information
(gender, likes, dislikes). Contact information
will only be used to notify the winners and to award prizes.
Any survey information will be used to improve and monitor
our Website service .
Security
The Company takes its
commitment to protect our users’ information seriously.
When users submit sensitive information via our Website
service, the information is protected both online and offline.
When our registration
and order forms request users to enter sensitive information (credit
card or social security numbers), the information is encrypted and
is protected with SSL technology. We believe that
SSL is the best encryption software available today.
Any page of our site that requests this information will
display a lock icon on the bottom of our users’ browsers (Netscape
and Internet Explorer).
Even though we use SSL
encryption technology to protect our users’ sensitive information
online, we also employ internal procedures to protect sensitive
information offline. Access to all of our users’
sensitive information is restricted to only those employees that
require access (billing clerks or customer service personnel).
We instruct our employees during the course of their tenure
regarding protecting our users’ confidential and sensitive
information and we perform periodic checks of how the employees
adhere to the policies. We house our servers in a
secure and locked facility that restricts access to only those
employees and technicians that require access.
Our security policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as
necessary. Only authorized employees and
technicians have access to the information provided by our users.
Due to the nature of
technology, our users are also partially responsible for the
security of their information. Since people have
become accustomed to the Internet, browser technology has made it
easier for everyone to return to their favorite sites without
re-entering their usernames and passwords. While
this is easier for surfing, when Personally Identifiable Information
is associated with the log-in information, our users’ security could
be affected. We strongly recommend that our users
do not save their username and password in their browsers and that
they either remember their log-in information or store their
usernames and passwords separately to avoid unauthorized access to
their information from the users’ computers.
Additional information
regarding our security practices can be obtained by emailing
questions to info@MyMPJE.com.
We also offer the
following advice to our users:
• If you share your
computer with other people, remember to log off our Website before
leaving your computer.
• Don’t share your
password with anyone. If you store your log in information in your
computer, remember to password protect that information. No one from
our Website will ever ask for your password.
• If asked, don’t
give out your personal information.
• If you are unsure
about the information you are providing, ask us, another
administrator, your parents, or another person before posting the
information.
• If there is
information that you would not like to see in your local newspaper,
don’t post it to our Website.
• When in doubt, ask
us at info@MyMPJE.com.
Special Offers
Each new registered user
is welcomed with an initial email message that verifies his or her
username and password. Registered users will
occasionally receive information regarding products, services,
newsletters or other information that we believe may be of interest
to our users. Since we respect our users’
privacy, we provide all users with the ability to opt out of
receiving these messages. Please see our opt-out information below.
Announcements
As we add new services
to our Website service, we will inform our users of the additional
features. We will also send our users
announcements regarding updates to the service and information
regarding maintenance. Since these messages
contain important information regarding the service, our users are
not permitted to opt out of receiving these messages.
Corrections
to Personal Information
If our users’ Personally
Identifiable Information changes due to a move or other
circumstances, or a user wishes to terminate his or her
participation in our service, we will try to provide a way to
correct, update or remove that user’s Personally Identifiable
Information from our servers. These updates and
removals can be completed on our users’ information pages by our
users’ site administrator or by sending a message to
info@MyMPJE.com. In extenuating circumstances, we
can address these issues via telephone or regular U.S. Postal
Service. Some information may remain on our
servers including in our archived records after termination of an
account.
Opting
Out
We value our users’
privacy and have provided them with the ability to “opt out” of
having their information used for purposes not directly related to
our Website service and the purposes for which the information is
requested. For instance, our registration form
has a box that can be checked for users to opt out of having their
information used for marketing purposes or shared with third-party
partners of our Website.
If a user who previously
accepted our newsletter or promotional materials no longer wants to
receive these messages, the user may opt out of receiving additional
messages by replying to “unsubscribe” in the subject line of the
email or by emailing us at info@MyMPJE.com. Users
may also return to their information page to edit the information
regarding receiving messages and newsletters and choose the opt-out
option.
If any user information
is being shared with third parties or collected by third parties, we
provide prior notice to our users, in order to allow our users to
make an informed decision regarding allowing the information to be
collected and proceeding with the third-party transaction or not.
Changes
to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change
our privacy policy, we will post the changes on our homepage to
inform our users of what information we collect, how we use the
information, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose the
information to third parties. If at any time we
decide to use Personally Identifiable Information in a manner
different from that stated at the time the information was
collected, we will notify users by way of an email.
Users will then have the opportunity to opt out of allowing
us to use the information. Users that fail to
respond to the change of policy message will not have their
information utilized pursuant to the new policies since we will
implement the policies for all information collected from the time
of the change forward. We will use the
information in accordance with the privacy policy under which it was
collected.
Enforcement
If you feel that our
site is not following our privacy policy, you may contact us at our
corporate office via telephone. You may also
direct inquiries to info@MyMPJE.com. The Federal
Trade Commission also has a complaint hotline that can be reached by
phone at (202) 382-4357 or online at www.ftc.gov/ftc/complaint.htm.
Additional
Questions
Any additional questions
regarding our privacy policy can be asked via email by sending a
message to info@MyMPJE.com.
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