TotalMedEd.com will make every effort to protect the privacy of every individual user of this Web site and will use information gathered on users only to maintain records as required by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).

TotalMedEd.com does not require individuals to "register" to use this site with the exception of physicians and other health care providers who desire to receive CME/CE/CNE credit for accredited educational programs on the site. Physicians and other health care professionals, as well as other individual users, may use any portion of the site they desire, including the accredited programs, but to receive CME/CE credit for accredited activities, physicians and other health care professionals must register to complete these activities. Only physicians, nurses or other health care professionals who desire to receive CME/CE/CNE credit for their completion of accredited CME/CE/CNE activities on TotalMedEd.com need to register.

If an individual completes a CME or other accredited activity on TotalMedEd.com, we are required by the AMA, and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), or any other accrediting organizations, to collect personal information on the individual, such as their name, address, and phone number, that will allow us to issue a CME/CE/CNE Certificate to them and to keep this information on file for up to 6 years.

Personal information provided to TotalMedEd.com will be used only to meet AMA and ACCME requirements and to issue CME/CE/CNE Certificates to those who complete these educational activities. Information gathered on individuals who complete a CME/CE/CNE activity on TotalMedEd.com is stored in a secure database. We use these databases to verify individual participation in a CME/CE/CNE activity and to re-issue a certificate to an individual if the certificate is lost or misplaced.

Personal information gathered will not be released to any other company or organization for any purpose. This information remains totally confidential. At the end of the mandatory 6-year period, these records will be permanently destroyed.

TotalMedEd.com analyzes usage statistics. This allows us to determine, in aggregate, what pages people visit, what browsers are used to access the Web site, what pages are visited, and how viewers found us on the Internet, eg, through use of a search engine. This helps us determine what portions of the site are important to our users and how they found us so we can better meet the needs of our users. This software does not identify an individual personally.

TotalMedEd.com does not employ "cookies" or any other software that would violate any individual's privacy in any way.

Our policy discloses the privacy practices for the TotalMedEd web site only. The TotalMedEd web site provides links to other web sites. When you leave the TotalMedEd Web site (www.totalmeded.com), you will go to sites outside our control. These external sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information. The privacy policies and procedures described here for TotalMedEd do not apply to any external links. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any site you link to from ours, especially if you share any personal information. Be informed. You are the person best qualified to protect your own privacy.