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Website Terms and Conditions of Use
This page states the terms and conditions (the "Terms and Conditions" or this "Agreement") under which you may use this Website (located at www.ProvaEducation.com). Please read this page carefully and consult your attorney if there is anything contained in this Agreement that you have difficulty understanding.
Prova Education may modify this Agreement at any time at its discretion by updating this posting. You must review this page periodically to review the Terms and Conditions because they govern your use of this Website and are binding upon you. In the event that a material revision is made, Prova Education will attempt to notify its users via the Website and by e-mail, but, in any event, if you continue to use the Website following any such revision, you will nonetheless be bound by the revised Terms and Conditions.
THIS WEBSITE IS MADE AVAILABLE TO USERS ON THE BASIS OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE SIGNIFIES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
Article 1: Purpose of Website
This Website, as well as the contents of this Website, including all information, text, graphics, images, hyperlinks and other material including user contributions (the "Materials"), are for general educational purposes only and are not intended to be used for the purposes of providing medical treatment or attention or making medical or health-related decisions. This Website is not a substitute or replacement for medical advice. If you are seeking medical advice, we encourage you to consult a physician or other medical professional.
Prova Education does not endorse any statements or opinions made in the Materials. Prova Education makes no claim to expert knowledge in the fields of medicine, pharmacology, diagnostic imaging, physiology or any other health-related field and is not able to determine the truthfulness, accuracy, reliability, currency or completeness of the Materials.
Prova Education does not take any responsibility for the Materials and will not be responsible for any damages to users of the Website, however caused. The views expressed in the Materials are those of the authors or Prova Education. Information in the Materials may not be current and may be superseded by more recent information published by Prova Education or by other parties. USE OF THE WEBSITE OR ITS MATERIALS AND ANY RELIANCE ON THEM WILL BE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
You acknowledge that the Website contains content that is protected by copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property and proprietary rights (the "Rights"). You will also not copy or use any Materials in any manner that may violate any parties Rights.
Article 2: No Warranties or Liability
(A) In determining which Materials to publish on our Website, Prova Education consults sources which Prova Education believes to be reliable; however, due to the possibility of errors, Prova Education cannot represent or warrant that such information is complete or accurate, and we do not assume any duty to update such information subsequent to the date of its publication. ACCORDINGLY, Prova Education MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND REGARDING THIS WEBSITE OR THE MATERIALS, ALL OF WHICH ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "WHEN AVAILABLE" BASIS. Prova Education DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABLE QUALITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THE SUITABILITY OF THE MATERIALS AS A BASIS FOR MEDICAL DECISIONS. Prova Education MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY AS TO THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, VERACITY, COMPLETENESS OR SUITABILITY OF THE MATERIALS OR ABOUT THE RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED USING THE MATERIALS.
(B) The nature of the Internet is such that access and services may be interrupted at any time, with or without warning, and centrally stored data may be lost or damaged. You agree that Prova Education and any third party mentioned in this Website will not be responsible for any loss or damage (including, without limitation, direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages) or loss of data or loss of profit that is caused by interruptions of service, loss of centrally stored data or otherwise, even if Prova Education or any third party mentioned in this Website has been advised of the possibility of such damage or loss.
(C) IN NO EVENT WILL Prova Education BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY DECISION MADE OR ACTION TAKEN (OR NOT TAKEN) BY YOU IN RELIANCE ON THE MATERIALS POSTED TO THIS WEBSITE.
Article 3: Links to Other Sites
This Website may contain links to other websites which are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement, recommendation or certification by Prova Education of the contents of such other websites. Prova Education will not be responsible for the content of any such websites (including, without limitation, those sites that provide links to this Website) and do not make any representations or warranties regarding any other websites or the contents or materials on such websites. If you decide to access other websites, including through links on the Website, you do so solely at your own risk.
Article 4: Use of Materials
Unauthorized use of the Materials may violate applicable copyright, trademark or other intellectual property laws or other laws. You must retain all copyright and trademark notices, including any other proprietary notices, contained in the Materials on any reproduction of all or part of the Materials. You are prohibited from selling or modifying the Materials, and from reproducing, displaying, performing, distributing or otherwise using the Materials in any way for any purpose except as you may be specifically authorized under these Terms and Conditions. The use of the Materials on any other Website or in any environment of networked computers is prohibited. If you violate any of the Terms and Conditions, your permission to use the Website and/or the Materials will be terminated and you are required to destroy any copies of the Materials which you have made.
Article 5: Trademarks & Copyrights
All trademarks on the Website are the property of the respective trademark owners. Unauthorized use of these trademarks is prohibited by law. All designs, web pages and source code comprising the Website are copyrighted by Prova Education beginning in 2009. All rights reserved.
Article 6: Restriction on Use
All content and Materials on the Website, such as text, graphics, logos, photographs, icons, images, audio clips and software, are the property of Prova Education or its licensors and are protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. The compilation of all content and Materials on the Website is the exclusive property of Prova Education and protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. Content and Materials from the Website and any other website owned, operated, licensed, or controlled by Prova Education may not be copied, except by a user solely for his or her personal use as provided for herein, and such content and Materials may not be distributed, republished, uploaded, posted, or transmitted in any way, without the prior written consent of Prova Education. Modification or use of the content or Materials for any other purpose will violate Prova Education and/or its licensors' intellectual property rights. The content and Materials in the Website is provided for lawful purposes only. In the event you download software from the Website, the software, including any files, images incorporated in or generated by the software, and data accompanying the software (collectively, the "Software") are licensed non-exclusively to you by Prova Education and/or its licensors. Prova Education does not transfer title to the Software to you. You may not redistribute, sell, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce the Software to a human-perceivable form.
Prova Education reserves the right to (i) remove any material which it believes may violate the copyright or other rights of any third party and/or (ii) limit access to or from the Website for any user whom Prova Education believes is violating any such rights of others.
Article 9: Termination
Prova Education may terminate any rights granted hereunder at any time. You may terminate any obligations granted hereunder by destroying: (a) all content and Materials obtained from the Website, and (b) all related documentation and all copies, printouts, and installations. Prova Education may prevent your access to the Website immediately without notice if, in its sole judgment, you breach any provision of this Agreement.
Article 10: Miscellaneous
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and us, and supersedes all prior agreements or communications. If any provision of this Agreement is found to be invalid by any court, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Agreement. No waiver shall be effective against us unless we make it in writing, and no such waiver shall be construed as a waiver in any other or subsequent instance. Headings are for convenience only and have no legal import. This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania applicable to contracts entered into and performed exclusively in Pennsylvania. Any court of competent jurisdiction sitting within Montgomery County, Pennsylvania will have exclusive jurisdiction and venue for any dispute arising out of or relating to the Website or this Agreement, and you hereby waive any argument that any such court does not have jurisdiction over you or such dispute or that venue is not appropriate or convenient.
Revision date: This policy was last updated on March 10 8, 2011.
Policy on Privacy and Confidentiality
Prova Education understands how important the privacy of personal information is to our participants. Prova Education is committed to honoring your privacy and to offering special protections for any information you choose to share with us. The document you are reading describes what information we may collect about you, how it may be used, and what precautions we take against unauthorized access or use of your information.
Prova Education is a subsidiary of US HealthConnect, Inc. This privacy policy is inclusive of US HealthConnect and all its subsidiaries. To learn more about US HealthConnect, please visit www.ushealthconnect.com.
About this Privacy Policy
Website Covered
This privacy policy applies only to the Prova Education website (www.ProvaEducation.com) (the "Website"). This website is for physicians and allied health care professionals. However, it is open to non-healthcare professionals as well. The Website provides certified/approved continuing education for healthcare professionals.
Privacy Policy Changes
As our privacy policies change in significant ways, we will make every effort to notify you of the changes. When the privacy policies change in a way that affects the way we handle personal information, we will not use the information we have previously gathered without obtaining consent from the appropriate individual.
We will post privacy policy changes on our Website in a timely manner. In the event that a material revision is made, Prova Education will attempt to notify its users via the Website and by email. If you continue to use the Website following any such revision, you will nonetheless be bound by the revised privacy policy.
Information We Collect
Information We Collect from Unregistered Visitors
Visitors to our Website can access the Website's home page and browse some areas of the site without disclosing any personally identifiable information. In some cases, when you visit the Website, Prova Education may, through the use of "cookies" (which are described in greater detail below), automatically collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. Examples of this type of information include the type of Internet browser you are using, the type of computer operating system you are using, the time and date of access, the domain name of your Internet service provider and/or the web site from which you linked to the Website.
Information We Collect When You Register
Users registering for services on the Website are asked to provide us with identifying information, such as name, contact information, and other identifying information. 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.
In addition, we gather information about you that is automatically collected by our Web server, such as your IP address and domain name. Prova Education will use this information to personalize its offerings and presentations to you, facilitate your movements throughout our Websites, provide personalized services, and to communicate with you individually.
Use of any of the services on the Website is entirely voluntary; however, if you do not provide the personal information requested by us, then we may elect not to make the related services available for your use. If you have registered with Prova Education and do not want Prova Education or its partners to contact you in the future, please see Opt-Out below.
When you do provide us with personally identifiable information, we will take appropriate steps to protect the information you share with us. In this regard, our policy is that we do not give, sell or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to anyone outside the Prova Education organization or selected Prova Education partners unless we first disclose to you at the time of collection that your personal information may be provided to third parties. However, there are certain limited instances where we may disclose or transfer personally identifiable information. For example, we may provide such information to appropriate authorities if we believe in good faith that the law requires it or to protect the legal rights or property of Prova Education. Additionally, as we continue to develop our business, we may buy or sell business assets. In such transactions, customer information is generally one of the transferred business assets. However, we are not in the business of selling customer information to others, and aside from certain exceptional circumstances, we will take appropriate measures to ensure the protection of the information you provide to us.
Continuing Medical Education/Continuing Education
When you register for a Continuing Medical Education ("CME") or a Continuing Education ("CE") activity through our Website, we collect certain personally identifiable information from you such as your name, email address and mailing address. In addition to personally identifiable information, we collect aggregated non-personally identifiable information about the activities undertaken by our users. We use the information that we collect through CME/CE activities in several ways:
i. Prova Education partners with a number of providers accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education ("ACCME") to provide continuing medical education for physicians. ACCME accredited entities are required to periodically to submit aggregated data about CME participants and the CME activities we certify. We also provide personally identifiable information to other accredited CME/CE providers who certify CME/CE activities posted on Prova Education, as required by the ACCME and other accrediting bodies. These reports may include personally identifiable information about you and credits issued to you, for the purpose of maintaining records that you can request from the accredited provider for up to six (6) years;
ii. Commercial supporters of CME/CE activities on our Website will receive only aggregated data about CME/CE activities that are relevant to their interests and/or the courses they support;
iii. Prova Education Editorial and Support Staff will have internal access to files containing personally identifiable information, including evaluation forms and aggregated CME/CE participant information. These files can be accessed in order to respond to your questions or comments. Our staff may also use personally identifiable information, including registration information and evaluation data, in assessing educational needs and planning marketing activities; and We may use the information we collect as otherwise permitted in this Privacy Policy.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are a technology used by this Website to identify a user as the user moves through the Website. "Cookies" are alphanumeric identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your Internet browser. Cookies enable our system to recognize your browser and to tailor the Website to better match your interests and preferences. Your browser allows us to place some information on your computer's hard drive that identifies the computer you are using. We use cookies to personalize our Websites and to track your usage across the Website.
Your Web browser can be set to allow you to control whether you will accept cookies, reject cookies, or to notify you each time a cookie is sent to you. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions. If your browser is set to reject cookies, Websites that are cookie enabled will not recognize you when you return to the Website, and some Website functionality may be lost. The Help section of your browser will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies.
Although cookies do not normally contain personally identifiable information, if you are a registered user we may associate your registration information with cookies our Website places on your computer's hard drive. Associating a cookie with your registration data allows us to offer increased personalization and functionality.
Children's Privacy
The Website is designed and intended for use by adults, and is not intended for, nor designed to be used by children under the age of 18. Minors under the age of 18 may register for our Website only with the prior written consent of their parent or legal guardian, and then only under the direct supervision of that parent or guardian. The parent or guardian is responsible for providing supervision to ensure the minor's authentication information is kept secure and the credibility of the health record is maintained. We do not collect personally identifiable information from any person we know is a child under the age of 13. In addition, we will delete any records of such personal information that come to our attention. If it comes to your attention that your child under 13 has provided any personal information to the Service, we invite you to notify us so that we may delete the information from our records and discontinue any related features or services.
While Prova Education's policy prohibits children under 13 from registering with the Website, parents should supervise their children's online activities and consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers that help provide a kid-friendly online environment. These tools can also prevent children from disclosing online their name, address and other personal information without parental permission. For additional information about parental control tools, please consult the "Consumer Assistance" page of the Direct Marketing Association home page (www.the-dma.org).
Uses We Make of Information
Aggregate Data
We create aggregate data about visitors to our Website for product development and improvement activities. We may provide information from our Website in aggregate form, with identifying information removed, to third parties. For example, we may tell a health care partner what percentage of our registered users reside in a particular geographical area. When aggregated health information is provided, we pool it from many individual records and strip it of any data that could be used to identify an individual before it is used. Any third party that receives aggregated health care data must agree not to attempt to re-identify the people it belongs to.
Protection of Information
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.
Prova Education 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. Prova Education uses both passwords and usernames to authenticate users. Users are responsible for maintaining their own passwords.
Storage of Information
Personally identifiable information you share with us is stored on our database servers at Prova Education 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.
Opt-Out / 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.
Opt-Out
If after registering on or otherwise providing your personally identifiable information when visiting the Website you no longer wish to receive any commercial electronic mail messages, please send an email to info@provaeducation.com indicating your preference to "unsubscribe" and we will promptly remove you from our list. Please be sure to include your name and email address in your email. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Prova Education reserves the right to communicate to you any changes to this Privacy Policy or the Website Terms and Conditions.
Correction of Information We Have About You
Prova Education will give you access to the personally identifiable information Prova Education has collected from you in order to allow you to review and update that information. Further, if you believe that registration information collected by our Website is in error, you may edit your personal profile any time that you like directly on the Website. Requests for deletion of your record may result in your removal from the registry, but we may keep certain non-personally identifiable demographic information about you for product improvement purposes.
Prova Education employees
Prova Education employees are required to keep customer information private as a condition of their employment with the company. 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.
General; Privacy Questions or Concerns
Prova Education will take appropriate steps to protect all information you share with us. We are dedicated to protecting your personal information and welcome comments and questions on this policy. Please send an email to us at info@provaeducation.com or write to us at the following address if you have any comments or questions about this Privacy Policy:
Prova Education
500 Office Center Drive, Suite 300
Fort Washington, PA 19034
Revision date: This policy was last updated on March 10, 2011.