Privacy Policy
Nursing Knowledge International values the relationship we have with our customers and visitors. We have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our respect for your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices. Although this policy may seem long, we have prepared a detailed policy because we believe you should know as much as possible about Nursing Knowledge International's practices so that you can make an informed decision.
We suggest that you practice reasonable discretion with any site when providing personal information. Note also that whenever you post personal information in publicly accessible places, such as chat rooms or message boards, this information becomes available to anyone with access to the Internet. Therefore, we recommend that you refrain from posting any information you do not want seen in these public areas. You should feel free to contact any site that requests personal information from you if you have any questions regarding its policies.
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What information does Nursing Knowledge International collect?
At different times, Nursing Knowledge International may collect five types of information about you. HOWEVER, BEFORE WE TELL YOU WHAT WE DO COLLECT, IT IS IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO KNOW THAT WE DO NOT COLLECT ANY CREDIT CARD ACCOUNT NUMBERS.
First, we use a feature of your browser called a cookie to assign identification to your computer. The unique user ID contained within your cookie automatically identifies your computer - but not you - to our servers every time you visit our site. This allows us to "remember" information about your preferences and passwords and allows you to move within our Web Site without reintroducing yourself. Cookies also allows our third party web analytics service to measure the number of page views on our site. Cookies by themselves cannot be used to find out the identity of any user, but may be correlated with identity information in our log files. The help portion of toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, turning off the cookies feature using your browser's preference options may limit your ability to utilize many of our features.
Second, we keep track of your IP address (the address the Internet uses to identify your computer) to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information about you, such as your location and your Internet service provider. Nursing Knowledge International may also collect aggregate information on how our users are utilizing the site. This might include information regarding traffic patterns through the site and search queries.
Third, we log browser types, access times, URLs from which visitors came to our site and URLs viewed by visitors while on our site. Except as otherwise stated in this privacy policy, we do not provide this information to third parties, except in aggregate form.
Fourth, at specific times we may ask you to provide us with personal information in order for you to register for a service (e.g., to set up Nursing Knowledge International Service). This information may include but is not limited to your name and email address. You may always choose not to provide us with this information; however, this may limit our ability to provide you with a specific service or to deliver personalized content.
Fifth, if you choose to register for any paid service or make purchases on our site, you will be requested to provide credit card information. Although we cannot guarantee complete security, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to protect all e-commerce transactions through the use of encryption and Thawte Secure Server Certificate and Authorize.net Payment Solutions. In order to complete a transaction, payment information may be transferred through one of our partners who processes such information.
Nursing Knowledge International does not store any credit card information.
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What organization is collecting the information?
Nursing Knowledge International usually collects the requested information. However, Nursing Knowledge International may have select partners with a need to utilize your information to deliver additional services you have requested. In order to use these services or areas, it may be necessary to enter information that then goes to our partner and is not kept by Nursing Knowledge International. The areas of our sites in which partners are collecting information may be co-branded with our partners' logos.
Some of our content partners, as well as advertisers who display ads on our site, may use cookies. We do not control their use of cookies or have access to the information contained in or related to those cookies. Therefore, if you leave our site through a hyperlink, please be advised that we are no longer in control of the content you are exposed to.
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What does Nursing Knowledge International do with the data it collects?
Whenever Nursing Knowledge International collects data, the data is intended to tailor or improve the experience of visitors to our site. From the data collected we can customize content and advertising based on the user's preferences. We analyze what our users prefer in order to improve Nursing Knowledge International. We use information from a cookie (a feature of your browser used to assign identification to your computer) to count and track site visits in the aggregate, to personalize the site for each unique user, to control the frequency of individual advertisements directed to individual computers, and to target advertisements to broad demographic segments. We may also use information about your interests to display product information or specific content that we have determined may be of interest. Some broad statistical customer data is provided to our advertisers (e.g., percentage of males or females visiting the site), but specific personal information is not shared with our advertisers, except as otherwise stated in this privacy policy.
We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web sites. IP addresses may be disclosed to a third party if we believe in good faith that the law or legal process requires it, or to protect the rights or property of Nursing Knowledge International or others.
When you register for unique services on our sites - such as to create an email account, we collect additional information from you in order to provide you with those specific services and to personalize your experience on the site. We may use such information to target our offerings or offerings of third parties that may be of interest to you and/or to analyze aggregate user data in order to improve our services.
On occasion we may e-mail bulletins to provide you with information that we think you will find useful, including information about new products and services. We might also contact you to see if you are interested in participating in market research regarding Nursing Knowledge International. Nursing Knowledge International also may contact you by e-mail to respond to customer-service complaints you have submitted, to address a problem affecting your use of the service or to verify your account information if you submit a password request.
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With whom does Nursing Knowledge International share data?
With your permission, Nursing Knowledge International may disclose your personal information to our business partners in order to provide you with the services you have requested. Nursing Knowledge International does not have control over and is not responsible for the data collection and use practices of our business partners.
We also may disclose your personal information to a third party if we believe in good faith that the law or legal process requires it, to protect the rights or property of Nursing Knowledge International or others, or as otherwise described in this privacy policy.
We may share aggregate demographic information with our advertisers.
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What choices are available regarding collection, use and distribution of the information?
As previously noted, you may always choose to not provide us with any of the information we request; however, this may limit our ability to provide you with a specific service or limit our ability to offer personalized content. For example, Nursing Knowledge International's e-mail registration form requests your contact information, demographic information (such as your age and gender) as well as information regarding your interests.
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How can you update or correct your information?
Users of Nursing Knowledge International Services can review and modify their account or profile information on the site or alternatively by sending an email to customerservice@nursingknowledge.org.
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How can you delete your information or deactivate your membership?
You may deactivate your Nursing Knowledge International Service at any time.
Nursing Knowledge International currently does not have a method for completely deleting user information from our database. However, deleting the cookie stored on your computer will cause you to be perceived as a new user with no known user data. You may also change a setting in your browser, instructing it not to accept cookies, but this could prevent you from receiving some Nursing Knowledge International services.
As a part of ongoing site maintenance, some information may be automatically deleted from our site after a certain period of time.
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What procedures have been designed to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under Nursing Knowledge International's control?
Except as otherwise stated in this privacy policy, Nursing Knowledge International has taken measures intended to restrict access to information that is not publicly available through its sites, to the user who initially entered the information or to authorized personnel at Nursing Knowledge International ,or its partners, and only after a password has been entered.
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What about registration for Continuing Education Courses?
We may host continuing education courses for our registered users online. Enrollment for such courses is completely optional and at your discretion. When you register for continuing education courses you will be required to provide billing information exactly as it appears on your credit card statement so that we can process your order including your name, address, telephone number, credit card number and expiration date. The information you provide is used solely for the purpose of consummating your purchase and your credit card information will not be stored. We may record information about registration for continuing education courses to determine which courses appeal most to members of our group. This statistical information may help us to improve our product offerings.
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Bulletin Board use
We offer a bulletin board that permits posting opportunities for our registered users. Please see our Terms of Service before using the bulletin board and make sure to post only information that you are comfortable sharing.
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Correspondence requirements
You will be required to provide your e-mail address when you register for specific forms of communication such as an e-mail newsletter. The newsletter provides nurses with a variety of information on topics we believe would be of interest to you. Again, your name and e-mail address are not shared with any third parties. There may be other times when we request or acquire your e-mail address, such as when you send us an e-mail with questions or comments. We will use only your e-mail address to respond to e-mails from you, forward and send your e-mails to and from other registered users and internal Nursing Knowledge International employees who may be able to respond to you, send information to you concerning your account, and inform you of updates to our Web site. We do not share e-mail addresses or any other personal information about our registered users with advertisers, business partners, sponsors or other third parties except to provide services you have requested.
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Special contests and promotions
Nursing Knowledge International will occasionally feature a contest/promotion for nurses. In order to enter the contest/promotion, we require you to provide us with your name, phone number and e-mail address so that we can contact you if you win. We also ask for other information that will help us reach nurses with our extensive site offerings. Your information will only be shared with third parties if you request to receive information from the provider parties.
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What about privacy policies for sites linked to Nursing Knowledge International?
Nursing Knowledge International may contain links to other sites not affiliated with Nursing Knowledge International. These sites have their own policies and practices with respect to online privacy, and Nursing Knowledge International cannot be responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these Web sites. In addition, in certain instances an Nursing Knowledge International advertiser may ask you for personal information. Nursing Knowledge International cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of its advertisers.
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Notification of changes
Because our Web sites will continue to implement new technologies and improve the services and features we provide, this policy is subject to change. If there are changes or additions to this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes here or in other formats we deem acceptable, so that you will always know what information we collect online or offline, how we use it and what choices you have. If we change our information practices or this Privacy Policy in such a way that your personal information may be used or shared in a different manner, we will give you the choice to opt-out of having your past information used or shared in that new manner.
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