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Privacy Policy
Orthopaedic Web Links Privacy Policy
Orthopaedic Web Links (OWL) is committed to protecting your privacy. The following statement outlines our privacy policy.
We do not require visitors to provide any information to use the directory or search functionality, or to access all of the publicly available community features on our site.
Information You Give Us
Personally Identifiable Information
If you choose to sign up for a OWL membership to gain additional
functionality, we'll ask you to provide your email address and other
optional information such as location, occupation, interests, and
institution. We will NOT disclose, sell or exchange your
personally identifiable information to or with anyone, without your
specific permission, except when we believe disclosure is absolutely
necessary to: (1) comply with the law or legal process; (2) protect or
defend the rights or property of OWL or others; (3) enforce this
Agreement; or (4) respond to claims that the contents of any
communications violate the rights of others.
Email Addresses
Members of OWL can readily email any of the other members who have
chosen to be accessible via our online contact form. However,
members do not have direct access to the email addresses of other
members, and each member can turn off this functionality at any time
if he/she so chooses.
Automatic Information
Aggregated User Information That Does Not Identify Any User Individually
We perform statistical analysis of the collective characteristics and
behavior of our members and visitors, to measure overall demographics
and interests regarding specific areas of the OWL domain and to
analyze how and where to use our resources. We also use the aggregate
data collected to inform our sponsors as to the number of people who
have seen and "clicked" on their advertisement. In addition,
we may compile and disclose aggregate information about its users for
promotional or other purposes. For example, we might want to disclose
that a certain percentage of our users are located within a particular
geographic area.
Cookies and Clickstreams
We use cookies for session tracking, and user preferences for
registered users on our site. We may also use cookies to help us
determine how long users view particular content, which particular
content (e.g., advertising) users view, which content or sites users
link to, and which OWL services members and visitors use.
We may at times use a few third party ad networks to serve ads on our site, namely Google.com and Commission Junction. The cookies received with banner ads served by these networks are used to collect and build anonymous behavioral profiles by these companies to deliver targeted ads and tracking referrals, and we do not have access to this information.
Visit http://www.google.com for privacy policy of Google.com, and http://www.cj.com/privacy.asp for privacy policy of Commission Junction.
See http://www.epic.org/privacy/internet/cookies/ for an explanation of cookies
If there is anything else we can do to protect your privacy, please let us know at privacy@orthopaedicweblinks.com
