privacy policy
MDVIP Privacy Policy
MDVIP intends for www.mdvip.com to complement the healthcare services of our
affiliated physicians. MDVIP believes that online privacy is important to the
success of the Internet and electronic commerce. This statement sets forth
MDVIP's privacy policy for www.mdvip.com and describes the practices MDVIP
follows to respect the privacy of all visitors to this site.
By using this web site, you signify your acceptance of the terms of MDVIP's
privacy policy. Your continued use of MDVIP's web site following the posting of
any changes to these terms will mean that you accept those changes as well.
MDVIP uses IP addresses to conduct system administration, report aggregate
information and to conduct site analysis. For credit-card transactions we use
VeriSign for secure transactions and Bell South Internet Services for our secure
connection. MDVIP has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and
alteration of the information under our control. For additional security, once
an on-line transaction is complete, MDVIP will not keep the information on their
Internet server.
IP ADDRESSES
An IP address is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you
access the Internet. All computer identification on the Internet is conducted
with IP addresses, which allow computers and servers to recognize and
communicate with each other. MDVIP.com collects IP addresses in order to conduct
system administration, report aggregate information and to conduct site
analysis. If a visitor requests pages from www.mdvip.com, our Internet server
enters the visitor's IP address into a log. To maintain visitor anonymity,
www.mdvip.com does not associate IP addresses with records containing personal
information. However, www.mdvip.com will use IP addresses to identify any
visitors who threaten our service, site, customers or others.
OTHER LINKS
Any information available through this site, including information accessed
through a linked or referenced web site, is provided for your information and
convenience only. Links to non-MDVIP web sites do not constitute an endorsement
or recommendation by MDVIP and MDVIP does not accept any responsibility,
obligation or liability for the content, or the use, of such non-MDVIP web site.
We do not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of any such information and do
not assume responsibility for the privacy practices of those sites. The linked
sites may collect personal information from you when you link to them. This
collection of information is not subject to MDVIP's control. To ensure
protection of your privacy, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of
any web sites you visit.
COOKIES
Some sites place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your
computer. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to an
individual's hard disk for record keeping purposes. At this time MDVIP.com does
not use cookies.
E-MAIL
MDVIP uses e-mail forms to allow our customers to ask questions about our
services and programs. This information is only used by the department where the
e-mail is sent. These departments might use this information to communicate
recurring programs or services back to the sender. If at any time the customer
wishes to cancel these requests they may do so by either e-mailing or calling
the department directly.
We will make every attempt to protect the personal information that you share
with us. However, it is important to note that electronic mail (e-mail) is not
secured against interception. If your communication is extremely sensitive, you
may want to send it by postal mail instead.
PUBLIC FORUMS
At this time MDVIP.com has no public forums.
SECURITY
The www.mdvip.com website has security measures in place to protect the loss,
misuse and alteration of the information under our control. MDVIP.com employs
strict security measures to safeguard online transactions; personal information
is stored in a secured database and always sent via an encrypted Internet
channel. Uses of Information Submitted and Collected We may collect personally
identifiable information (name, e-mail address, physical address, and other
unique identifiers) only if you specifically and knowingly provide it to us.
MDVIP will not sell your personally identifiable information (your e-mail
address and any contact information you provide), but we reserve the right to
share certain demographic and profile data with business partners solely on an
aggregated basis When you actively submit User Information through the web site,
we will use that information in one or more of the following ways:
To process, complete or otherwise act upon or respond to your request or
reason for submitting that information;
To register and/or verify you in connection with a service or feature that you
are attempting to access or obtain;
To communicate with you about your request or reason for submitting that
information;
To provide additional information to you about MDVIP and its services that we
believe may interest you;
To study and analyze the use of the information and features available on our
website; and
To assist, when necessary, in protecting our rights or property,
enforcing the provisions of our Privacy Statement and Terms of Use, and/or
preventing harm to you or others.
CHOICE/OPT-IN
Our site gives users the opportunity to opt-in to receive communications from at
the point where we request information about the visitor. This site also gives
users the option of removing their information from our database in order to
stop receiving communications or our service. You can send e-mail to:
myMDVIP@mdvip.com
THIRD PARTY WEB BEACONS
We use third-party web beacons from Yahoo! to help analyze where visitors go and
what they do while visiting our website. Yahoo! may also use anonymous
information about your visits to this and other websites in order to improve its
products and services and provide advertisements about goods and services of
interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to
know your choices about not having this information used by Yahoo!,
click here.
CONTACTING THE WEBSITE
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this
website, or your interaction with this website, contact:
Quality Management Department
MDVIP, Inc.
1875 NW Corporate Boulevard, Suite 300
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Email: qm@mdvip.com
ACCESS TO AND MANAGING YOUR USER INFORMATION
We believe it is important for you to be able to find out what User Information
you have provided to us through our site. If you have provided us with User
Information, you can contact us to request that we provide you with the User
Information we have in our records about you. We reserve the right to limit the
number of times such a request can be made and to charge you for responding to
such requests if this process is misused or abused. You may contact us using the
contact information provided below to inquire about your User Information, and
to correct, amend, or delete such information. We want the User Information we
have on record about you to be as complete and accurate as possible. If you
believe that any User Information we have in our records about you is
inaccurate, incomplete, or incompatible with the purposes for which it was
provided or subsequently authorized by you, please notify us using the contact
information provided below.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy statement was last modified on November 17, 2008. If we change our
Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on our web site so you are always
aware of what information we collect, how we use it, how we protect it and under
what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. Unless we clearly express otherwise,
we will use information in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the
information was collected. YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED THAT YOUR CONTINUED USE OF OUR
SITE CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF ANY AMENDMENTS TO AND THE MOST RECENT
VERSION OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT.