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Through this Web site you can subscribe to our monthly e-newsletter, Pharma Marketing News, and join the Pharma Marketing Network Discussion Forums (see Forum). To subscribe to these services, you are required to give us personal information, which may include your name, job title, company name, e-mail address, and country of residence.

As part of the subscription process we also ask you to voluntarily supply us with additional information, including your business address, phone and fax numbers. You can decline to supply us this additional information and it will not affect your ability to use any of the services we provide via the Web site or via e-mail.

When using services such as the Discussion Forums, you are able to post other person information about yourself (ie, in the content you post, in your signature, and in the public profile that you set up). You should be aware that this information is publicly available.

Occasionally, we ask subscribers to respond to surveys, where we may collect additional information. Your participation in these surveys is voluntary.

IP Addresses and Web log
When you browse our Web site, you do so anonymously. While your IP address (an address automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Web) may be recorded as part of this site's Web log, your IP address is not linked with other personally-identifiable information if you are just browsing the site and freely accessing available content.

The log also records the web pages you visit and the time of visit. The only other information automatically provided to us is the type of computer and operating system you are using. Your browser supplies us with this information.

If you subscribe to the Pharma Marketing News e-newsletter, join the online discussion forum, or take surveys, your IP address is automatically collected and saved with your subscription or survey information.

See below for how we use and safeguard this information.

Subscription Information
We use your name, job title, company name, and e-mail address to certify that you are a qualified pharmaceutical marketing professional or student and to allow us to send you the information and services you requested via e-mail.

We use aggregate job title and country of residence data to describe generally the makeup of the subscriber base to our advertisers. We also use this information for market analysis.

Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line will only receive telephone contact from us when necessary to discuss service orders they have placed on-line or regarding matters related to their subscription status.

e-Mail
We use your name, e-mail address, and e-mail content format preference (HTML, text) to send you e-mail messages, which include the monthly e-newsletter, biweekly conference calendar updates, and relevant messages from our advertisers about job openings, conferences, products and services, etc.

If you opt in to join the online discussion forums, you will select a username and password that alllows access to post messages and change your profile to limit who can view your personal information. We require your e-mail address so that we can verify you are a real person and make sure that you opt-in again to become a member. This protects you from fraudulent use of your email address. Your e-mail address will also be used by the Forum Administrator to notify you ocassinally about special content on the Forums site (eg, surveys that you are invited to respond to). You will NOT receive any commercial messages (ads) via e-mail if you register as a Forum member. Your e-mail address is NOT visibe to any one who may read posts you make to the forum or who views you public profile.

If you subscribe to Pharma Marketing News, you will periodically receive third-party commercial e-mail messages (ads) as a condition for accepting the free subscription. By subscribing to the newsletter and/or joining the PHARMA-MKTING discussion group, you give us permission to send you these e-mail messages on behalf of our advertisers.

See Disclosure of your information for how we limit third-party (e.g., advertisers) access to your personal information.

Use of IP Addresses
When you browse our Web site, your IP address is not linked to any personally identifiable information and we do NOT use this information to profile visitors.

Sometimes we use IP addresses collected during the subscription process in combination with other personal information to help us identify subscribers when they make other requests - such as opt-out requests (see below) - and there is no other way to identify who made the request.

In aggregate, data automatically provided by your browser during your visit is used to inform us which parts of this Web site are being used most frequently, and which archives, news items, policy statements, search strategies and the like, are of most interest to our visitors.

Use of Cookies
"Cookies" are small text files a Web site can use to recognize repeat visitors and facilitate access to the site. This Web site does not use cookies.

It may be necessary to disclose some of the personal information you voluntarily supply to us with third parties in order to supply you with the services you requested. See Use of your information for more information about this type of disclosure.

Sharing Information with Advertisers
We do NOT transfer your name, e-mail address or other personally identifiable information about you to third parties advertisers. We only "rent" our subscriber list to advertisers. This means that advertisers send us their ad copy to forward to our list of subscribers.

Sharing Information with Other Third Parties
We contract with other companies to help us provide services. We select all such companies on the basis of their ability to limit their access to any personal information to the minimum necessary to perform their obligations, and not to use the information they maintain for us for purposes other than fulfilling their responsibilities to us.

The following companies and organizations provide services that require the maintenance and use of your personal data:

• 1&1 Internet: We use 1&1 Internet to provide our Web hosting services. 1&1 Internet Inc. is a subsidiary of United Internet, a profitable public company with a market cap of $5 billion. 1&1 was founded in 1988 and hosts more than 10 million domain names, while more than 55,000 servers run on the company's five state-of-the-art data centers. 1&1's global community is over 7.7 million customer contracts strong. The company's U.S. headquarters is located in Chesterbrook, PA. For more information, please contact the company at www.1and1.com or 1-877-461-2631.

• Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.: Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. provides the vBulletin software that we use to power Pharma Marketing Network Forums. For more information about this software, please visit the Web site at www.vbulletin.com/.

• Survey Monkey: The service we use to collect subscription and survey information is Survey Monkey (www.surveymonkey.com). Information you provide voluntarily in subscription forms, service request forms, surveys, etc. is stored on computers maintained by Survey Monkey until we delete the information on their servers. If you have questions about Survey Monkey's data protection policies, please visit their Web site at www.surveymonkey.com.

• Constant Contact: We use Constant Contact to deliver e-mail newsletters, Conference Calendar Updates, ads, and promotional messages to subscribers of Pharma Marketing News. This service maintains a copy of our subscriber list on their servers. This copy contains your name, e-mail address, e-mail format preferences, and other information you may have supplied when subscribing. Constant Contact has a no tolerance spam policy and we abide by this policy by requiring a "double opt-in" subscription process (ie, when you subscribe, you must verify your subscription after receiving a notice via e-mail). Every e-mail generated from Constant Contact contains an unsubscribe link which allows Pharma Marketing News subscribers to opt-out of future e-mails and automatically updates our subscriber list to avoid the chance of sending unwanted e-mails to subscriberss who have unsubscribed. If you have questions about Constant Contact's data protection policies, please visit their Web site at www.constantcontact.com.

Sale of Information
The current policy of Pharma Marketing Network is not to sell personally-identifiable member or subscriber information to third parties. However, in the event that Pharma Marketing Network goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, member/subscriber personal information generally is one of the transferred business assets.

Disclosures Required by Law
We will disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request.

Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information (see How WE safeguard your privacy), we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that you provide us voluntarily will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Notice.

We have appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard your personal data that we maintain on our local computers and in physical documents on file in our offices. Electronic data are stored on password protected computers located in locked offices. Only authorized persons with adequate training in our security policies and procedures have access to your data.

Third Parties
As discussed above, we share your subscription and other personally-identifiable information with third-party companies to provide the services your requested. We select these companies partly on the basis of their ability to protect the information we provide them. If you have questions about the security measure these companies have in place, please contact them separately (see above).

While we make every effort to protect your privacy, there are situations where it is possible for you to reveal your personal information unintentionally. This is especially true if you are a registered user of the Pharma Marketing Network Forums.

We do NOT reveal the names and e-mail addresses of Pharma Marketing Network Forum registered users and Pharma Marketing News subscribers to the general public or to other users or subscribers. However, posts that you make to Pharma Marketing Network Forums will include any personal information you include in the body of the message or in your signature block. Therefore, if you wish to protect your anonymity, you should be careful what information you voluntary include in posts.

In this section, we describe what choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information you supply us voluntarily.

Opt-Out
As a Pharma Marketing News subscriber, you may opt-out from receiving e-mail at any time.

Every e-mail message sent to Pharma Marketing News subscribers contains an unsubscribe link which allows the subscriber to opt-out of future e-mails and automatically updates our subscriber list to avoid the chance of sending unwanted e-mails to subscriberss who have unsubscribed.

To opt-out of your registration as a user of Pharma Marketing Network Forums, please send your request to the Forum Administrator either by e-mail to administrator@forums.pharma-mkting.com, or by using the form below (select "Forum Discussion Group" as the topic from the drop-down list).

Choice
You will be given the opportunity to opt-out whether your personal information is to be used for a purpose that is different from the purpose originally intended or authorized.

Your options for updating the personal information that you have provided us are:

• remove your personal information from active subscription lists we maintain,
• update your personal information, and
• change your preferences with respect to your subscription.

Please use the the form below to submit the appropriate opt-out request to us.