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PRIVACY POLICY
We at Webmed Limited take your privacy very seriously. We only ask that personal information of our authors and reviewers which are essential to attribute the information published by us. One does not require registering with us for reading, downloading or printing an article. Nor do these functions require the user's browser to be set to accept cookies.
1. Collecting 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:
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•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.
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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.
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•Usage tracking
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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.
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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’.
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COPYRIGHT POLICY
For Authors
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