Clinical Café Privacy Policy

We understand how important the privacy of personal information is to our users. We are committed to honoring your privacy. This document that you are reading is our privacy policy for our Web site www.clinicalcafe.com and it describes what information we may collect about you, what uses we may make of it, how you can tell us what to do with your information and what precautions we take against unauthorized access or use of your information.

We will not use any of the personal identification information that you provide to us when registering for participation in the Clinical Café. We will not disclose your personal identification information with any third-parties but your user name will be visible within our Clinical Café.  You may determine the amount of profile information to be visible to others within the Clinical Café. On our registration screen, we clearly label which information is required for registration and which information is optional and may be given at your discretion. We encourage you to register with the Clinical Café and to accurately provide all of the information requested during such registration. We may check the accuracy of the information that you provide us.

If you tell us that the information that are providing to us is proprietary or confidential and/or you do not want us to disclose such information to others, we will honor your request using commercially reasonable efforts to not disclose such information to others. We will use such information for any purpose other than the purpose for which you gave us such information, unless we are forced by the law or regulations to disclose such information.

NOTE: If you post personal information to our web sites, we will not be able to protect such information and that you should not post it on our web sites.  Also, please note that you should not post PHI on our web sites. Others have access to it and we cannot and do not maintain any information that is posted as confidential or proprietary.

From time to time, we may change our internal processes or we may offer new features and functions at our websites which may require us to change our Privacy Policy. We encourage to regularly reading of the most recent version of the privacy policy. The information you provide us will be treated in accordance with the privacy policy in effect as of the date you provide information to us. If we alter our practices in a manner that will affect the treatment of information that you have already provided to us, we will send you a notice of our new practices. If you do not agree with the privacy practices described in this policy, you should not provide us with further information. This version of the privacy policy is effective as of July 8, 2009.
 
Information you provide is used in order to allow you to participate in the Clinical Café.  We may also collect information from other sources in order to verify their practitioner status and identity. Unregistered visitors to the Clinical Café will not be able to view any information posted on by registered users. We may track information provided to us by your browser, including the Web site you came from, the type of browser you use, the time and date of access and other information that does not personally identify you. We create aggregate data about visitors to our Web site for product development and improvement activities. We may also use it for market analysis. We may gather information from the Clinical Café in aggregate form for product development and improvement in activities provided in the Clinical Café. We may provide the aggregated data with all identifying information removed to our affiliates and third parties for marketing purposes.
 
From time to time Quantros requests information from users via surveys on Clinical Café.com. Participation in these surveys is voluntary, and information collected as part of those surveys is used in compliance with this privacy policy. We may use the information to provide you with materials about Quantros or its affiliates or Quantros or our affiliates' products and services, including new content or services at Clinical Café.com. We may provide you with these materials by phone, mail, facsimile, or e-mail. We may also share your information with your health plan, our subsidiaries, affiliates, or business partners. From time to time we select users to be featured on our web site. Before we feature you as a user, we will contact you by email to obtain your consent

We will disclose your personal information only if, in good faith, we believe we are required by law to do so, including but not limited to disclosure to law enforcement or other government officials in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us to legal liability. We may also disclose your information in the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, or other similar event. If this occurs, your personally identifiable information may be transferred to our successor or assign, or may be sold as an asset of our company. We use passive tracking mechanisms such as cookies and log files to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movement and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Persistent cookies enable us to track and target the aggregate interests of Clinical Café users to enhance the experience on the site.
 
At the time information is collected, you are provided with the ability to opt out of having us email you information about our products and services, to the extent that sending such materials are unrelated to the purpose for which you provided your information. Registered users who wish to restrict the uses we make of their information may do so at the feedback area of Clinical Café.com. You may also contact us to exercise your available options at ccafeadmin@quantros.com , by calling 408-937-3300 to speak to Clinical Café customer service representative, or by writing to Quantros at:
 
Quantros, Inc. Attn: Clinical Café

690 North McCarthy Blvd
Suite 200
Milpitas, California 95035

If your personal information changes (such as phone, e-mail address or postal address), registered users may update their profiles at the My Account area of the site. You may also update your information by contacting us at the email address, phone number, or address listed above.

We agree to take reasonable technical and procedural precautions to protect the information provided by users of Clinical Café. When online registration and order forms require users to provide certain information, such as a credit card number, that information is collected on a "secure" page, and the information submitted is encrypted. To determine if you are on a secure page, look to see if a lock icon appears on the bottom of your web site browser. We may link to other web sites not operated by us. These links are provided as a convenience and do not constitute an affiliation with, endorsement or sponsorship of the third parties that operate those web sites. We are not responsible for the availability or reliability of the content of these third party web sites. We are not responsible for how such web sites treat your information. Any information you provide to those third parties is not subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy, and we are not responsible for the treatment of the information you provide to those third parties. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of that third party, and of any third party to whom you provide personally identifiable information online.