This Privacy Policy statement describes how medcto.com (“We,” “Website”) uses and shares personal information that is collected by the Website or transmitted by you when you visit medcto.com.
This Website is committed to ensuring that all personal information is processed following applicable laws and best practices, thus protecting the rights and freedoms of individuals. We place privacy at our Website’s core and understand that a good relationship is based on trust.
This Privacy Policy statement explains how medcto.com processes this Website’s users’ personal information, as required by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, EU 2016/679, https://gdpr-info.eu) and The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA, https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa), including users’ rights towards their personal information. This statement applies to this Website, Terms of Use, and marketing and communication activities.
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1. Definitions
1.1. Cookies and web beacons. Cookies refer to small text files placed on a user’s storage device, such as a hard disk drive, by a web server. Cookies are safe and harmless to your device. They cannot be programmed, install malware, or be used to deliver viruses to your device. Web beacons are tools used on a website to help determine if a particular page has been visited earlier by a visitor and how many times.
Cookies and web beacons never contain personal data (like your Email, Address, or Name). Therefore, they are not used to collect personal information. Instead, this Website may use cookies and web beacons stored on your device, either temporarily or permanently, to recognize your visit and keep track of your preferences.
1.2. Personal Information. Personal information refers to information used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person or to identify an individual in context.
1.3. Cache. This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary. We may use QUIC.cloud services to process & cache your data temporarily. Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy for more details.
2. Information
2.1. Type of information supplied to us. The following types of personal data may be collected, stored, and used by this Website:
- Information about your device, including your IP address, geographical location, browser type, version, and operating system.
- Information about your visits to and use of this Website, including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths.
- Information, such as the email address that you enter when you register or leave comments on our Website;
- Information, such as Name and Email Address that you enter to set up subscriptions to informational or marketing newsletters;
- Information generated while using our Website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
- Information that you post to this Website intending to publish it on the Internet, which includes your name, profile pictures, bio description, and the content of your posts;
- Information contained in any communications that you send to us by Email or through this Website, including its communication content and metadata;
- Any other personal information that you send to us.
2.2. Information You Provide to Us
2.2.1. Web forms. We reserve the right to store the information that you provide to us when submitting web forms on our Website, including but not limited to the following formats:
- Web Contact Form (ex.: medcto.com/contact)
- Email Newsletter Subscription Form
- Popup Forms (ex.: MailChimp Popup Form generated with the help of JS script that deploys a MailChimp cookie for managing the popup form. See more here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/additional-terms).
- Comments (ex.: a comment submission form placed after a post on our Website)
2.2.2. Email. We may keep a record of your email communication with us as long as needed to our policies.
2.3. Information Collected Automatically
We want to help you personalize your online experience at the medcto.com Website. We use cookies or web beacons for this purpose.
We use web analytics solutions of third parties (ex.: Google Analytics analytics.google.com or Matomo matomo.org) to log the time, track your visit, and monitor other standard information provided for pages visited, including IP address, traffic source, screen resolution, user agent, operating system type if applicable. In addition, third parties may use cookies or/and web beacons on our Website Website for monitoring website use and activity.
All the data collected by the web analytics solutions can be transferred to the servers of those third parties and stored on those servers for a definite period. The third parties may use this data to analyze your use of this Website, develop website activity reports for website owners, and offer other services regarding website activity and Internet use. In addition, these third parties may disclose this data to others in case they are legally liable to do so or if other parties process this data on behalf of the third parties.
On this Website, we also may use cookies for advertisement serving through Google’s DoubleClick Bid Manager, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the Internet and visit a website using DoubleClick advertising (including Google AdSense ads):
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other sites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visits to your websites and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting the My Ad Center page at https://myadcenter.google.com.
On this Website, you can accept or decline cookies. When visiting this Website for the first time, you will be prompted to accept or reject the cookies. You can manage your web browser’s settings to reject cookies. However, choose to reject cookies. You may need help to fully experience the interactive features of the medcto.com website.
2.4. Use of Information
2.4.1. Contacts. The primary use of the information you sent us via the Contact Form is to communicate with you about a message you directed to us. We do not share, sell or rent your information with third parties. We keep the data safe and secure.
2.4.2. Subscription. The email address you enter in the Email Subscription Form will only be used to service your email subscription to the medcto.com newsletter. We will treat your email address with complete respect and confidentiality. We will never share or give it to any third party.
2.4.3. Server logs. All the data collected automatically by both our server and web analytics solution is used for website security purposes and maintaining web traffic statistics.
2.5. Outbound Links to Other Websites
Our Website may contain direct links to other websites of interest. You should note that once you have clicked these links to leave our Website, we do not have any control over that other site(s). Therefore, we cannot take responsibility for the privacy and safety of any data you provide while navigating such websites. Consequently, you should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the Website in question.
3. Updates to this Privacy Policy Statement
Any changes or updates to this statement of the Privacy Policy will be published on the current page. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the security of your personal information, you may contact us at info@medcto.com.
This Privacy Policy statement has been:
- written on January 6, 2023
- updated on January 19, 2023.