Privacy Policy

Sound Inpatient Physicians, Inc. (“Sound”) takes your privacy seriously and has created the following Privacy Policy to explain to you Sound’s information collection and use practices associated with www.emergencymedicinefellowship.com (the “Site). This Privacy Policy sets forth the privacy policies and practices of Sound, and its subsidiaries and/or affiliates, as they relate to the collection, use and disclosure of information in connection with your use of the Site. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and completely before using this Site.

By accessing and using this Site, you expressly agree to this Privacy Policy, and consent to the collection and use of your information as set forth herein. Should you not acknowledge and agree to this Privacy Policy, you must immediately discontinue use of this Site. The terms “we”, “us”, and “our” refer to Sound, and the terms “you” or “yours” refers to you, as user of this Site. By accessing and using this Site, you also agree to the Terms of Use.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

Sound may update and modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time, and such updates and modifications will be effective immediately upon posting the updated/modified Privacy Policy. You agree to review this Privacy Policy periodically to be aware of such updates and modifications and your continued access or use of this Web Site after any updates and modifications will be deemed your conclusive acceptance of the updated/modified Privacy Policy.

What Information Is Collected?

We may collect two types of information from you: (i) personally identifiable information, and (ii) anonymous information.

Anonymous Information. Anonymous information refers to information that cannot be tied back to a specific individual. Each time a visitor comes to the Site, Sound collects some information to improve the overall quality of the visitor’s online experience. Sound collects the visitor’s IP address (a number assigned to your computer when you use the Internet) referral data (e.g., the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking a link to the Site), browser and platform type (e.g., Internet Explorer on a Windows XP platform) and your activity while using the Site. Additionally, in order to personalize and enhance your experience on the Site, we may also collect information through “cookies.” Cookies are small strings of text that are sent by the Site to your browser and then stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. We use cookies to help diagnose problems with our servers and to administer the Site. We may also use cookies to gather broad demographic information and to help identify you in respect to visits to the Site so that we may improve your user experience, and to determine whether you visited the Site from a particular internet link or advertisement. A code in the cookie file may enable the Site to label you as a particular user, including identifying you by name, address, or other personally identifiable information. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but it is possible to change your browser setup so that it does not accept cookies.

Personally Identifiable Information. The Site permits you to contact us and submit information via various means, including e-mail. Whenever you send an e-mail via a link on the Site, you will be providing us with your e-mail address and any information you choose to include in the text of your message. “Personally Identifiable Information” or “PII” refers to information that tells specifically who you are, such as your name, e-mail address, street mailing address, curriculum vitae and other biographical information, specialty, and hospital affiliation or other place of business. You may also provide Sound with Personally Identifiable Information through your voluntary completion of registration forms and surveys on the Site.

How is your information used?

Our use. Personally Identifiable Information will only be collected to the extent that Sound deems it reasonably necessary to serve legitimate business purposes, including, but not limited to, the following: (i) for purposes of employment considerations, if you are applying for a position with Sound or any of its affiliates, (ii) to correspond with you regarding the Site; (iii) to provide you with requested information about Sound, Sound’s services, or the services of our affiliates and/or partners; (iv) to inform you of developments about Sound, Sound’s services, or the services of our affiliates and/or partners that we believe may be of interest to you; (v) to monitor Site visitor traffic patterns and Site usage; (vi) to comply with applicable laws; (vii) to enforce our Terms of Use; and (viii) to protect the rights, property, or safety of Sound, our users, and others.

Sharing information. We share your information only with our affiliates and partners to provide you with information about our services and/or in the context of employment considerations, if you are applying for a position with Sound or any of its affiliates. Also, we may share in aggregate, statistical form, non-personal information regarding the visitors to the Site, traffic patterns, and Site usage with our partners, affiliates or advertisers. In addition, we will disclose information we obtain, including Personally Identifiable Information, when required to do so by law, in response to a request from a law enforcement agency or authority, to comply with applicable laws, to enforce our Terms of Use, and to protect the rights, property, or safety of Sound, our users, and others.

Sharing of Information with Third Parties When you provide Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”) to Us, we may make it accessible to certain third party service providers to perform a variety of services on our behalf. These service providers include business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you; advertisers and advertising networks for selecting and serving relevant adverts to you and others; and analytics and search engine providers for assisting us in the administration and improvement of the Site.  Please note that we provide our service providers with only PII necessary for them to perform services and only for use for such purposes.

PII collected from you may also be transferred to a third party in the event that the business of this Site or a part of it is sold, assigned or transferred, or as part of the process of considering such a transaction, in which case we would use reasonable endeavors to ensure the actual or proposed buyer, assignee or transferee to treat your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Is My Personal Information Secure?

Sound is committed to the use of industry-standard security and data protection products to protect the privacy of your Personally Identifiable Information from unauthorized third parties. Appropriate safeguards have been implemented to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of Personally Identifiable Information. However, transmissions over the Internet are not always secure, and Sound cannot guarantee that information you transmit utilizing the Site is secure; nor can we guarantee the performance or adequacy of any other security measures we employ.

Are Children Permitted to Use the Site?

This Site is not intended for children under the age of 13. In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, Sound does not intentionally collect or use any Personal Information from children who identify themselves as being under the age of 13. By using the Site, you represent that you are not under 13 years of age.

Links to Third Party Websites

Please note that the Site may contain links to other websites. Sound is not responsible for such linked websites nor the content of any of the linked websites, nor can Sound guarantee that such other websites’ privacy policies conform to our own. In addition, websites that are linked to the Site may have privacy policies that differ from that of Sound. Sound is not responsible for the individual privacy practices of third party websites. For more information about links to third party websites, please refer to the Terms of Use.

Use of Google Analytics

To better serve you and other potential customers, Sound has implemented Google Analytics Advertising features such as, but not limited to, Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Using the Google Ad settings, you can opt-out of Google Analytics Advertising.

Sound will not facilitate the merging of Personally Identifiable Information with non-Personally Identifiable Information collected through any Google Analytics Advertising features unless we provide you notice of, and obtain your prior affirmative (i.e., opt-in) consent, to that merger. We and third party vendors, including Google, may use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our Site.

We and third party vendors, including Google, may use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to report how our ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to your visits to our Site.

We may use data from Google’s Interest-based advertising or third-party audience data (such as age, gender and interests) with Google Analytics primarily to improve our marketing campaigns and this Site’s content.

For more details on how Sound uses Google Analytics to collect and process data, please visit Google Privacy and Terms.

Use of Google Maps API

To the extent Sound develops and implements Google Maps API (“Google Maps”) in connection with this Site, and such implementation of Google Maps enables Sound to gain access to your information in connection with your use of Google Maps, including PII or non-PII usage information (such as location), Sound will use and retain such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy constitutes Sound’s notification to you of the type(s) of data that it intends to collect from you or your device when you use Google Maps. Sound’s implementation of Google Maps in connection with this Site will not obtain or cache your location in any manner unless we obtain your prior consent, which you may revoke at any time.

If Sound provides Google with geolocation data, that geolocation data will not enable Google to identify you or your unique device identifier.

For more information regarding Google’s privacy policies in connection with Google Maps, please visit Google’s Privacy Policy at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy.

No Error-Free Performance

Sound does not guarantee error-free performance under this Privacy Policy. Sound may not always catch an unintended privacy issue, despite Sound’s efforts to do so. Sound will use reasonable efforts to comply with this Privacy Policy and will take prompt corrective action when Sound learns of any failure to comply with it. Accordingly, Sound welcomes your feedback regarding any privacy concerns that you may have.

Contact Us

If you have any concerns or questions about this Privacy Policy, and the privacy practices set forth herein, including your dealings with this Site, please contact us directly as follows: info@soundphysicians.com

This document was last updated on November 03, 2017