The domains www.webmedcentral.com, www.webmedcentral.co.uk and www.webmedcentralplus.com are owned by Webmed limited registered at 2 Matlock Avenue, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE3 3GL, United Kingdom. The pronouns ‘you’ and ‘your’ are used to refer to the end user, while ‘we’,  ‘us’, ‘portal ‘’our’ ‘company’, ‘WebmedCentral’ and “www.webmedcentral.com” ''www.webmedcentral.co.uk'' and ''www.webmedcentralplus.com'' (also known as plus) are used to refer to Webmed limited.

We at Webmed limited take your privacy very seriously. We make every effort to handle collected information appropriately. We treat our user’s information as private and confidential. We do not store credit card details nor do we  disclose your data to third parties without your expressed permission or unless required by law.

1. Collecting Personal Information

Webmed limited. gathers and tracks information/data that users provide through registration, comment submission or article submission on our portal. Submission of articles and reviewing an article with us requires certain basic information as well as the use of cookies. It is important to obtain this data so that any information published on the portal can be clearly attributed. It would help our readers evaluate the information properly. Certain aspects of our services also require the use of cookies. Certain other information’s are sought to provide you with a better service and you can choose to decline to provide this information.

Users are however advised that they may not be able to use all the features of this portal if you decline to provide some basic information. To provide you with the highest standards of service, we collect information regarding the patterns of usage on our portal. This enables us to identify the most popular articles and services.

In addition to the direct gathering of information by the registration of users, we also gather information through an aggregated tracking system that derives data mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites and capturing information on the type of browser being used to view the site. This information enables us to better provide content and to respond to our users' needs. It also is used to help our advertisers and sponsors to better understand the demographics of our audience. 

Statistical demographic information about our users may be supplied to advertisers. We may target online advertising to specific users on the basis of this demographic information, or on the basis of their past behaviour on the site, but information about an individual  will not be passed on to an advertiser without the users' express consent. This information is only used to create broad demographic summaries of where our users come from. However we may use registration information and other voluntarily submitted information in the following ways:

•To provide our staff with information that is useful in developing new features and services for our Authors, Reviewers, and Readers.

•To provide advertisers with group information about our member base and user usage patterns. We do not provide your individual information to any third party without your expressed consent.

•To allow us to potentially vary advertising based on member and user preference.

We reserve the right to perform statistical analyses and profiling of Author, Reviewers, and Reader behaviour characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site and to inform advertisers of such information.

We may gather information on our users in the following ways:

•Registration, Reviews/Comment Submission and Article Submission

We require authors to register with us before they can submit an article or post a review or comment on our portal. Apart from that we require some additional information regarding authors who want to post individual reviews or comments and/or articles to attribute the information on our portal properly in the interest of maintaining ethical and high quality scientific exchanges. Information collected in the registration process is never shared with third parties in a personally identifiable way.

•Electronic newsletters

We offer free email alerts on our articles and newsletters to our readers. You can register for these services by just submitting your email id online. To provide this service, we must gather the email addresses of users who register for and voluntarily subscribe to said service. You may remove yourself from our mailing list at any time by following the instructions provided at the end of every newsletter.

•Usage tracking

We use traffic analysis software on our servers to track user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. This information is not correlated with personal information about specific individual users.

2. Displaying the information

The name and credentials of all WebmedCentral Community members (authors, reviewers, advisors, faculty etc) will be available freely on our portal. These details are made available purely to facilitate scientific communication and to provide credentials to every manuscript published on our portal.  Collecting these e-mail addresses for commercial purposes is not permitted. We will ourselves never send unsolicited e-mail to our authors, unless it directly concerns the paper they have published with us. We also collect a number of information from our reviewers. Apart from some basic information, most of the other information is voluntary. The purpose of obtaining these is to enable our readers to evaluate the reviews/comments. This is in the interest of completely transparent communication practices in biomedical sciences. By submitting this information to us, authors automatically give their consent for these to be displayed on our portal. At any stage before the review/comment/article goes online, they can refuse to submit any or all of the required information. They would understandably in such situation not be able to use all parts of the portal. Authors are warned that it is entirely possible that some people may get access to this information displayed on the portal and misuse it. We do not take any responsibility for any direct or indirect damages to you or anybody else may suffer as a result.

3. Sharing of the information

We use the above described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to maintain our services at the current low cost. We do not share information about individual users with any third party. We will however divulge information only as necessary to comply with state, national, and international laws. WebmedCentral reserves the right to disclose members' personal information if required to do so by law, or in the good faith and belief that such action is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, respond to claims, or protect the rights, property or safety of Webmed limited, or any of its customers or suppliers its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, employees or members.

Please note that we do not control the practices of our advertisers on their sites. When you click on links and/or ad banners that take you to third-party web sites, you will be subject to the third parties' terms and conditions. We encourage you to read the posted terms and conditions statement whenever interacting with any web site. If you have questions about how one of our advertisers uses information about you when you click their ad, visit their site, and view their content, please contact them directly. 

4. "No-spam" policy

Your email address will not be sold to a third party if you sign up for one of our email alerts or newsletters. We do not send unsolicited emails and all our email alerts and newsletters have an option to unsubscribe. We do not ‘spam’.

5. Delete/deactivate policy

Users may unsubscribe to any of our electronic email alerts or newsletters at any time by following the instructions contained at the end of every email or newsletter. You may also request to have your personal information removed from our databases by using contact us including your first and last names and email address with which you originally registered. Changes or corrections to your information may be submitted in the same fashion.

 6. Opt-in Announcement List Privacy Policy

 When you register with us you will be given the option of joining an opt-in list. If you choose to sign up, you will receive information or participate in campaigns relevant to biomedical scientists from related third parties, who have entered into agreements with WebmedCentral. You may have your email address removed from our opt-in announcement lists at any time by contacting us. We are not responsible for the content of emails you may receive when you have elected to opt-in to a particular specialty.

7. Cookies

We use cookies only so that we may tally the number of unique users who visit our sites, and potentially to permit greater personalisation of the site to your preferences and specifications. Even when you may have provided to us information that is stored in a cookie on your computer, we will not share personally identifiable information about you to third parties.

We may use cookie technology to allow our Users to move more quickly through our site. We however cannot control the use of cookies by advertisers or third parties. However, if you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the user to deny or accept the cookie feature. Please note that cookies may be necessary to provide the Subscriber or User with certain features available on our portal. We use cookies to track usage. For auto login a cookie is sent from our server and is stored on your computer's hard drive.

Session cookies are also sent from our server to your computer and used for session management. However these cookies do not remain on your hard drive on completion of your session.

Cookies are used by us to:

a) Enable us to identify you without having to ask you for username and password.

b) Measure usage.

c) Track movement within WebmedCentral.

To conclude, if you do not wish to accept any of these cookies or wish to be notified when a cookie is sent you can modify your browser preferences. If you refuse to accept the permanent cookie that is saved on your computer's hard drive then you will not be able to use the Auto login facility. If you choose not to accept session cookies then you may not be able to use all of the facilities offered on WebmedCentral.

By visiting WebmedCentral or any related sites, or by using one of its services, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy Statement. We may amend this Statement at any time; if we make changes to our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. Any questions regarding our Privacy Policy Statement should be directed to Webmed limited.  If you have any questions or concerns about your privacy, please contact us for clarification and further elaboration.