Research To Practice (RTP) web sites (http://www.researchtopractice.com) are produced by Research To Practice and referred to as the RTP web sites in this policy. RTP strives to ensure the privacy of its users and the information provided. RTP will not share, without your consent, any information you have chosen to share with us. This privacy policy relates to all RTP web sites accessible by users and describes the types of information we may collect from users, how we may use it, how users may alter shared information provided, and what security measures are in place to prevent unauthorized access of users’ information.

This privacy policy applies only to our RTP web sites. The Researchtopractice.com web site family includes various URLs included but not limited to breastcancerupdate.com, colorectalcancer.com, lungcancerupdate.com, etc. These collective program sites include content developed specifically for physicians and health care professionals.

Types of Information Collected

Visitors can access the Web site's home page and search the site without disclosing any personally identifiable information. We do track information provided to us by your browser, including the Web site you came from (known as the "referring URL"), the type of browser you use, the time and date of access, and other information that does not personally identify you.

A free registration process is required to view detailed content and access the full range of services offered by our site. Your email address, clinical specialty and demographic information is required for this registration. 

Only those registering for CME or subscription services are asked to provide identifying information, such as name, contact information, etc. On our registration screen, we clearly label which information is required for registration, and which information is optional and may be given at the user's discretion.

Information from Outside Sources

We may also collect information about physicians or other healthcare professionals who register on our Web sites from other sources in order to verify their licensure status and identity

Use of Information

We aggregate data about users for program and/or product use analysis, program development and site improvement. We may also use it for market analysis and provide information from our Web sites in aggregate form, all completely without identification of users to third parties. For example, we may tell a sponsor what percentage of our registered users resides in a particular geographical area or their practice specialty.

RTP will report more specific data to accrediting bodies that is required to grant continuing education or other forms of credit for programs successfully completed.

We may target our advertising or marketing activities based on information we have about users. For example, a user may receive promotional information for programs on breast cancer related issues if it is known that healthcare professional may have an interest that specialty. In no case do commercial interests have access to any individually identifiable information about the identified user.

Third Parties

In addition to aggregate information (discussed previously), we may share some kinds of information with third parties as described below.

Companies and People Who Work for Us

We contract with other companies and individuals to help us provide services. For example, we may host some of our web sites on another company's computers, hire technical consultants, or work with companies to remove repetitive information from customer lists, analyze data, provide marketing assistance, and provide customer service. In addition, as a healthcare professional, we may validate your licensure status and other information against available databases that list licensed health care professionals. 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 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 registration information when we believe release is required to comply with law. 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.

Other than the cases described above, RTP will not release personally identifiable information to a third party without the user's consent. Also, if we ask your consent to release information to a third party, we will use our best efforts to clearly define and limit the scope of your consent.

Acceptable Use Policy

RTP also maintains the following Acceptable Use guidelines:

• Maintain e-mail addresses of the form info@researchtopractice.com and respond to all e-mail sent to these addresses within three business days.
• All RTP communications sent will be in good faith, represent accurate and valid information, and make no misrepresentations.

Protection of Information

In this section of our privacy policy, we discuss the security measures we take to protect information that we have collected about you.

General Policies

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.

RTP uses security methods to determine the identity of its registered users, so that appropriate rights and restrictions can be enforced for that user. Reliable verification of user identity is called authentication. RTP uses both passwords and usernames to authenticate users. Users are responsible for maintaining their own passwords.

Storage of Health Information

Personally identifiable information you share with us is stored on our database servers at RTP data centers or hosted by third parties who have entered into agreements with us that require them to observe our Privacy Policy. We have a firewall to prevent individuals from accessing information without authorization. Data centers are physically secure and protected from unauthorized access by unauthorized persons. Physical access to the servers requires individual authorization and authentication.

Information in our data centers is backed up routinely, in order to aid in the recovery of information in the event of accidental damage of information or due to a natural disaster. The backup media is stored in a physically secure storage facility.

Access to Information and Choices

In this section of our privacy policy, we tell you how to obtain and correct information we have about you, and how to choose what types of information you may share with us.

Correction of Information

If you believe that registration information collected by our web site(s) is in error, you may edit your personal profile any time that you like. You can directly edit your user profile on our web sites. Requests for deletion of your record may result in your removal from the registry, but we may keep certain demographic information about you for product improvement purposes.

RTP Employees

Employees are required to sign a confidentiality agreement. All employees and contractors must abide by our privacy policy, and those who violate that policy are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of their employment and legal action.

Privacy Questions or Concerns

For privacy questions or concerns about the Researchtopractice.com web site, please contact info@researchtopractice.com.

These privacy policies were last updated January 2012.