Privacy Policy

Marathon Medical Communications Inc.

This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by U.S. Medicine – The Voice of Federal Medicine and how we use it. If you want to change your preferences at any time, click on the button below.

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This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Information we collect

  • IP address;

  • Browser type and version;

  • Type of device you use, operating system version, and device identifier;

  • Geographic location (such as country, state, latitude and longitude);

  • Pages you view;

  • How you got to our Services and any links you click on to leave our Services;

  • When you update your information, communicate with us, or order new Services;

  • When you subscribe to our newsletters or our print edition, we ask for name, company name, job title, address, email address, and agency you work with.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

Information we acquire from other sources:

  • Information you provide to our partners or affiliates;

  • Information that is publicly available;

  • Information you consent to us receiving from third parties; and

  • Information we obtain from third party data providers.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain our website
  • Improve, personalize, and expand our website
  • Understand and analyze how you use our website
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
  • Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
  • Send you emails
  • Find and prevent fraud

We partner with Constant Contact to send newsletters to our subscriber lists. Constant Contact’s privacy policy can be found here: https://www.constantcontact.com/legal/privacy-center. You may opt out of any subscriber list by clicking the “unsubscribe” button located at the bottom of every e-mail. To track the performance of our newsletters, we collect who opened an e-mail and who clicked on a link. We do not share personalized data with our advertisers.

Sharing Information we collect

As necessary, we share data with service providers to assist us in servicing you or to assist us in our own marketing and advertising activities. The categories of service providers we share your personal information with include:

  • Analytics services;

  • Marketing and advertising services;

  • Advertising networks;

  • Customer relationship management services;

  • Customer support services;

  • Software services;

  • Professional services;

  • Fraud detection and deterrence services;

  • Storage services;

  • Search engine optimization services; and

  • Information technology services.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, U.S. Medicine – The Voice of Federal Medicine uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on U.S. Medicine – The Voice of Federal Medicine, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit. We process your data to deliver content or advertisements and measure the delivery of such content or advertisements to extract insights about our website. We share this information with our partners on the basis of consent and legitimate interest. 

If you wish to opt out of interest-based advertising click here  or  click here to opt out of interest-based advertising on your mobile device. Please note, you will continue to receive generic ads.

Third Party Privacy Policies

U.S. Medicine – The Voice of Federal Medicine’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected] or by calling (609) 397-5522

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected] or by calling (609) 397-5522

Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

U.S. Medicine – The Voice of Federal Medicine does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.