Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to us. This notice explains what information we may collect about you, what uses we may make of it, and what precautions we take against unauthorized access or use of your information.
What Information We Collect
When you register for online Continuing Medical Education ("CME") or Continuing Education ("CE") activities, or live events through our Web site, or claim CME or CE credit, we collect certain personally identifiable information from you. The following personal information may be collected: Your name, mailing address, email address, telephone and fax numbers, and your credentials (to assist us in providing the correct certificates). Additionally, you may be asked for an ID number or password.
How the Information is Used
AAF-MED is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians; by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) to provide CE credits to pharmacists; and is an approved provider of continuing education for nurses by the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses (WVBRN), Provider Number WV2003-0438RN.
As an ACCME, ACPE, and WVBRN-accredited entity, we are required periodically to submit aggregated data about CME participants and the CME activities we certify. We may also provide personally identifiable information to other accredited CME/CE providers who certify CME/CE activities posted on AAF-MED’s website, as required by the ACCME and other accrediting bodies. This data may include personally identifiable information about you and the credits issued to you, for the purpose of issuing certificates and maintaining records that you can request from the accredited provider for up to 6 years.
Commercial supporters of CME/CE activities on our Web site will never receive any personal information you provide. They may receive only reports in the form of aggregated data, either about CME/CE activities that are relevant to their interests or to the courses they support. For example, we may tell a supporter what percentage of our registered users resides in a particular geographical area.
We do not sell, lease, or make available to any other party any personal information you provide us or that resides in our database. We do create aggregate reports containing non-identifiable information, about the activities posted on our site.
AAF-MED staff who have internal access to files containing personally identifiable information in order to respond to your questions or comments, create reports, or create needs assessments from evaluations received are not allowed to divulge any personal information to any third party as a condition of their employment.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are a technology used by the web site to identify a user. When you view the website, some information may be stored on your computer in the form of a "cookie" or similar file. For example, cookies allow us to tailor a website to better match your interests and preferences. With most Internet Browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your browser instructions or "Help" screen to learn more about these functions.
Third Parties
In addition to aggregate information (discussed previously), we may share some kinds of information with third parties as described below.
Other Companies: We may have strategic relationships with or links to other companies who support CME on our Web sites. When you are interacting with those companies or their websites, different rules and privacy policies may apply.
Outside Services: We sometimes contract with other companies and individuals to help us provide services. For example, we may host some of our Web sites on outside servers, hire technical consultants to maintain our Web-based tools, or work with companies to remove repetitive information from lists, analyze data, provide marketing assistance, and provide customer service. In order to perform their jobs, these other companies may have limited access to some of the personal information we maintain about our users. We require all such companies to comply with the terms of our privacy policies, to limit their access to any personal information to the minimum necessary to perform their obligations, and not to use the information they may access for purposes other than fulfilling their responsibilities to us.
Legal Requirements: We may release account and other personal information only when required by law. When we share information with third parties, we ask that they agree in writing to abide by AAF-MED's privacy policies.
If we discover that a third party inadvertently disclosed personal information about any of our customers, we will take immediate action to prevent further occurrences.
General Policies and Precautions
We strive to maintain the integrity and security of all our web-based functions. We have implemented technology and security policies, rules and other measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from unauthorized access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction, and accidental loss. We also protect your information by requiring that all our employees and others who have access to or are associated with the processing of your data respect your confidentiality.
Storage of Health Information
AAF-MED does not request personally identifiable health information from visitors to our site and any case studies that may appear within educational activities do not contain any personally identifiable information.
AAF-MED Employees
AAF-MED employees are required to keep site user information private, as a condition of their employment.
How to Contact Us
For privacy questions or concerns about this website, please contact info@aafmed.com.
Revision date: This policy was last reviewed on 1-14-05.