Privacy Notice
When you subscribe to AccessMedicine services (including AccessLANGE, Harrison's
Online, Hurst's the Heart, and CMDT Online) or register for a trial
subscription, we collect certain personal information, such as your name, address, and e-mail
address. We use this information to process your order and for administration of your
subscription. Your e-mail address is added to our electronic mailing list so that, from
time to time, we can send you information about new features, additions, and changes to
our Web site. If you do not want to receive e-mail alerts, you may indicate this on your
registration form, and you can change this at any time by going to the Subscriber Services
section and selecting "Edit your registration information." Also, AccessMedicine may
occasionally make subscriber information available to other units within The McGraw-Hill
Companies as well as to selected outside companies whose products or services we feel
may be of interest to you. Your information is stored in a secure database in the U.S. and access is limited to authorized persons.
AccessMedicine makes use of a type of cookie called a "session" cookie. Cookies are
small bits of data that we send to your computer. We use them to improve your user
experience. We use them to keep track of the fact that you have signed in so that you
don't have to continually enter your user name and password as you move around the site.
This type of cookie is removed as soon as you log out or close your browser.
In order to change these cookie preferences, you must change your browser's preferences
to disable cookies or delete cookies. Please note that disabling cookies for some services
may affect the ability to use that service. Security information is specific to each
browser and operating system. Please check with your browser's specific company for more
information. Some examples of how to change your browser's preferences are as follows:
In Internet Explorer (versions 6 and up), this option is listed under Tools > Internet
Options > Privacy. The setting has to be set to Block All Cookies; In Netscape
(versions 7 and up), this option is listed under Edit > Preferences > Privacy &
Security > Cookies. The Disable Cookies button should be checked.
An IP address is a number that's automatically assigned to your computer whenever you're
surfing the Web. Web servers—the big computers that "serve up" Web
pages—automatically identify your computer by its IP address. We collect IP addresses
for the purposes of system administration, to report aggregate information to our
institutional customers, and to audit the use of our site. When visitors request
pages from AccessMedicine, our servers log the visitors' IP addresses. We do not normally
link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that a user's
session will be logged, but the user remains anonymous to us. We can and will use IP
addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our
house rules or terms of service or to protect our service, site, customers, or others.
Please be assured that we take your concerns about privacy quite seriously, and we
intend to take every reasonable effort to protect it. To that end, The McGraw-Hill
Companies has developed a comprehensive customer privacy policy. If you'd like more
information about our use of customer data, please review
The McGraw-Hill
Companies Customer Privacy Policy.
If you have questions or comments about our customer privacy policy or you would
like to confirm the accuracy of the information collected from you, please write:
Patrick Durando, Privacy Officer, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2 Penn Plaza, 12th Floor,
New York, NY 10121-2298, or call 1-877-833-5524. View our Corporate Privacy Policy at
www.mcgraw-hill.com/privacy.html.
To learn more about how McGraw-Hill Professional applies this Policy, you can
contact privacy@mhedu.com. Copyright (c) 2004.
If you are an individual trial user or an individual subscriber, you may also review and
request changes to the information online at any time by going to the Subscriber Services
section.
If you prefer not to receive promotional materials from companies outside The McGraw-Hill
Companies, please submit the Opt Out form.
Thanks.
|
