Privacy Policy

Our privacy policy and procedures are a public declaration on the collection, use, and storage of the data collected. Our policy also discloses how the law protects you and your data. At MedicoLeads, we use your data for business purposes only. Please note that by using this Service, you agree to our process of collection, storage, and use of the information, under our privacy policy.

Interpretation and definitions as per the policy

• Interpretations

The words in which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the mentioned condition. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear singularly or in plural form.

• Definitions

Please note that these definitions are for this privacy policy only.

Company-

Referred to as either “The Company”, “We”, “Us”, or “Our” anywhere in the agreement refers to MedicoLeads, located at 3080 Olcott St D205, Santa Clara, CA 95054, United States.

Cookies-

Our cookies will be placed on your computer, mobile device, or any other device after you visit our website. Cookies will be tracked only after you provide consent for the same. Device means any device that can access the service such as a computer, a cellphone, or a digital tablet.

Personal data-

Personal data include information like location, age, sex, zip code, social media handles. It may also include information like job title, title, years of experience, specialty, and many more. Personal data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

Service-

Refers to the MedicoLeads website.

Service provider-

It might mean any legal employee of the company who processes the data on behalf of the company. It can also refer to third-party companies or individuals employed by the company to facilitate the service; to provide the service on behalf of the company; to perform services related to the service or to assist the company in analyzing how the service is used.

Third-party social media service-

It refers to any website or any social network portal through which a user can log in or create an account to use the service.

Usage data-

It refers to data collected automatically- either generated by the use of the service or from the Service infrastructure itself, for example, the duration of a page visit by a certain user.

Website refers to MedicoLeads, registered as and accessible from www.medicoleads.com

You mean the individual accessing or using the service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the service, as applicable.

Compliance

MedicoLeads comply with all federal and state laws concerning an individual’s data privacy and usage by adopting subsequent guidelines, procedures, and best practices established by industry groups that are contributing members, including the Direct Marketing Association (DMA).

We maintain strict data privacy throughout the agreements and contracts we make with our customers. We strictly adhere to policies like GDPR, CAN-SPAM, ANTI CAN-SPAM, HIPPA, ACMA, and EDPS.

Data compilation

Our database incorporates various elements for businesses and customers. We source our information from legal sources and take utmost care and to maintain the accuracy of the information by controlling the procedures of data verification and validation with specific quality control measures.

We source our healthcare database information from the following sources-

Annual Reports
SEC Filings
Government records
Public Record Information
B2B Directories
Newspaper Subscription
Offers Transactional data
Business tradeshow attendee lists
Registration process for subscription sites
Community postings
Nationwide utility transaction reports
Phone surveys with every business
Web-based Registrations and offers
Business trade magazine subscription offers
Sign-up data from email Campaigns
Transactional data
Web-based Registrations and/or offers

Collecting And Using Your Personal Data

Types of data collected

1. Personal data

While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally, identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Email address
First name and last name
Phone number
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
Usage Data-

Information from third-party social media services-

The company allows you to create an account and log in to use the service through the following third-party social media services-Google, Facebook and Twitter. If you decide to register through or otherwise grant us access to a third-party social media service, we may collect personal data that is already associated with your third-party social media service’s account, such as your name, your email address, your activities, or your contact list associated with that account. You also have the option of sharing additional information with the company through your third-party social media service’s account. If you choose to provide such information and personal data, during registration or otherwise, you are giving the company permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this privacy policy.

Information collected while using our website-

While using our website, to provide features of our website, we may collect, with your prior permission-

Information regarding your location-
We use this information to provide features of our service, to improve and customize our service. the information may be uploaded to the company’s servers and/or a service provider’s server or it may be simply stored on your device. You can enable or disable access to this information at any time, through your device settings.

Tracking technologies and cookies-
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service. The technologies we use may include-

a) Cookies or browser cookies-

A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our service may use cookies.

b) Flash Cookies-

Certain features of our service may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences or your activity on our service. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as those used for browser cookies.

c) Web beacons-

Certain sections of our service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity). Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session.” Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. we use both session and persistent cookies for the purposes set out below-

Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us

Purpose

These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features. they help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.

Cookies Policy/Notice Acceptance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose:
These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

Functionality Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose:
These cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the website. For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our cookies policy or the cookies section of our privacy policy.

Use of your personal data

The company may use personal data for the following purposes-

To provide and maintain our service, including monitoring the usage of our service.
To manage your account, your registration as a user of the service is mandatory. The personal data you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the service that are available to you as a registered user.
For the performance of a contract, the development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services you have purchased or of any other contract with us through the service.
To contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events that we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
To attend and manage the requests you have raised.
For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or another sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
For other purposes- We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our service, products, services, marketing, and your experience.

We may share your personal information in the following situations-

With service providers- To monitor and analyze the use of our service and contact you.
For business transfers- We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
With business partners- We may share Your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
With other users- When you share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If you interact with other users or register through a third-party social media service, your contacts on the third-party social media service may see your name, profile, pictures, and description of your activity. similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activity, communicate with you and view your profile.
With your consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of your personal data

The company will retain your data only for as long as it is necessary for business. We will retain and use your data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The company will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. usage data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

Transfer of your personal data

Your information, including personal data, is processed at the company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to and stored on a database outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this privacy policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

The company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and following this privacy policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of your personal data

• Business transactions

If the company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred. we will provide notice before your personal data is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

• Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the company may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.

• Other legal requirements

The company may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to-

Comply with a legal obligation
Protect and defend the rights or property of the company
Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the service
Protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public
Protect against legal liability
Detailed Information on the processing of your personal data

We use may have access to your personal data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process, and transfer information about your activity on our service in accordance with their privacy policies.

Usage, performance, and miscellaneous

We may use third-party service providers to provide better improvement of our service.

• Google places

Google places is a service is operated by Google that returns information about places using HTTP requests. It may collect information from you and your device for security purposes.

Data security and confidentiality

At MedicoLeads, we have prioritized safeguarding every individual’s personal information we have stored. We take all possible steps to protect the confidentiality and security of the said information. With our state-of-the-art and advanced servers having the latest encryption features, we ensure your data is secure with us even while sharing your information with partners whose products/services are relevant to you.

We do not rent, use, sell, transfer, or otherwise expose the contents of the tracking information resulting from click-through, messages opened, messages read, or eCommerce conversations. Our services provide an SSL encrypted, password-protected mechanism to view and extract customer data.

Data security

Our data is maintained in a carrier-class secure facility protected by firewalls and other security devices. We seriously implement these measures to protect visitor and client information from being lost, misused, and undergoing unauthorized alteration.

Credit card information

MedicoLeads uses a third party to process the credit card. This intermediary is solely a link in the distribution chain and is not permitted to store, retain, or use the information provided except for the sole purpose of credit card processing. This access is restricted unless it is requested by employees for business purposes only.

Security of your personal data

The security of your personal data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Subject rights for data security, accuracy, and retention

Under applicable data privacy regulations, subjects may-

Request to abstain from using the said data
Request for access to the data we have about them
Revoke their consent on processing their data for consent-based processing
Request for a machine-readable copy of the data we have
Request for data to be updated, rectified, deleted, or blocked

Please note that we cannot delete records from our historical data due to its compliance with legal audits and financial reporting purposes.

To exercise any of the rights listed above, feel free to contact us.

Opt-out policy

Upon your request, we will allow any subscriber to “opt-out” at any point in time from receiving further promotional messages. However, requesting to delete the subscriber’s personal information from our database might not completely erase the records. Some residual information will still be available due to backups.

Breaches

In case of data breaches or other data-related concerns (subject to this privacy statement) subjects may lodge complaints with their regional data privacy regulator.

Others

We retain the data as long as necessary, for providing our services. This data is anonymized in a reasonably practical time frame after the subject stops using our Services. We take sufficient safety measures while transferring your data to other countries. We are obliged to provide a copy of said safeguards and related privacy rights on request by the subjects in concern.

If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require the parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.

Unsolicited commercial emails (SPAM)

We provide a permission-based model only for email marketing and carry out a strict internationally acclaimed anti-spam policy for all clients. Our clients are explicitly prohibited from sending any unsolicited material to recipients who haven’t given consent to receive communications from them. Our services may only be used for law and may not violate or intervene in any local, state, federal, or international laws.

These policies are part of our broader reaching acceptable use policy that each of our clients is contractually bound to. Violation of this policy will lead to a speedy termination of all access to MedicoLeads’ servers and networks.

Campaign content (emails)

We review the content of the email campaigns sent through our platform to verify compliance with state, national, or international laws. In this regard, we use software with content algorithms to track the content of said email campaigns. This filtering benefits all users who avail of our services and reduces bounce rates ensuring high deliverability.

Links to other websites

Our service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to their site. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

EU-U.S. Privacy shield policy and Swiss-U.S. privacy shield frameworks

The EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. privacy shield frameworks were designed by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Commission and Swiss Administration to provide companies on both sides of the Atlantic with a mechanism to comply with data protection requirements when transferring personal data from the European Union and Switzerland to the United States in support of transatlantic commerce.

MedicoLeads complies with both these principles. We seek to comply with the principles of the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks regarding notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. If there is any conflict between the policies in the privacy policy and the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks, the EU-U.s. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks shall govern.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may update our privacy policy as and when required, which you will be notified of via email and/or a prominent notice on our service. You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes.

Country-wise references to Privacy Laws

The Directive is implemented by each member state independently so you will want to check with your particular country’s law for more details.

EU General Data Protection Regulation.

France

Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés
CNIL Guidelines on email marketing.

Germany

Art. 7 German Unfair Competition Law (Gesetz gegen Unlauteren Wettbewerb) (UWG)

Art. 202a, 263, 303a, 303b of the German Criminal Code Art. 6 of the German Law regarding Information Society Services Art. 28 Par. 4 of the German Data Protection Act.

India

Information Technology Act of 2000

Italy

Italy’s anti-spam laws are very strict. You can even be imprisoned for sending spam. If you’re sending to Italian recipients, follow these guidelines as well.

Garante Per La Protezione Dei Dati Personali

The code transposed EC Directive 95/46 on the protection of personal data and EC Directive 2002/58 on privacy in electronic communications; it consolidated all Italian pre-existing laws and regulations in this sector.

DL 675/1996 on privacy protection states, inter alia, that a company must have authorization from each user whose personal data (such as e-mail) they want to use.

DL 171/1998 (deriving from the European Community directive 97/66/CE) on telecommunications privacy protection: this put outlaws all automatic systems to call a user and says that all the expenses of advertising must be paid by the company and not the user (faxes and e-mails are instead paid also by the user).

DL 185/1999 (deriving from the European Community directive 97/7/CE) on customer protection with respect to long-distance contracts: this obliges companies to seek the permission of the user for virtual or telephone sales.

Netherlands

Protection of personal data

Data protection and privacy in the Netherlands

Online Privacy Laws: Netherlands

New Zealand

The Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007

The Department of Internal Affairs provides detailed guidelines on anti-spam laws.

Singapore

Personal data in Singapore is protected under the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA).

South Africa

Regulation of Spam in South Africa – South African Law.

Sweden

Swedish Marketing Act (Swedish Code of Statutes, SFS 1995:450).

Personal Data Act (Swedish Code of Statutes, SFS 1998:204), in so far as spam activities involve the processing of personal data.

UK

The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations.