Center for Independent Healthcare Education respects the privacy of every individual who visits this CME activity. This privacy statement outlines the information we will collect and how that information will be used.

• To participate in this CME activity, you must complete and submit a short registration form requesting basic contact information about you. This information will be collected and stored in our database to enable you to access all site content, and also to login and logout at will while participating in the activity. In addition, once you complete the course, the information you provide will be used to generate a personalized CME certificate verifying your earned CME credit.

• We may use the information you provide to contact you about this CME activity, both to respond to any queries you submit to us, as well as to obtain feedback about your experience to ensure ongoing customer satisfaction and overall site improvement. On rare occasion, we may also contact you to let you know about other CME activities offered that may be of interest to you.

• In addition to the information you provide, we also collect non-personally identifiable data. Similar to many other commercial websites, this site utilizes standard technology called "cookies" and web server logs. Cookies allow web servers to recognize the computer used to access a website. Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of site visits, the pages viewed and time spent on the site. This information is collected on an aggregate basis only, and is not associated with you as an individual. You may disable cookies in the preferences or options menu of your browser; however, it is possible that some elements of this CME activity may not operate correctly if you do so.

• We take reasonable steps to maintain the security of the personally identifiable information that we collect, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to our database servers, as well as installing electronic security systems that guard against unauthorized access. Our employees, agents and contractors who do have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect that data in a manner that is consistent with this privacy statement. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to us, so you do so at your own risk.

Your use of this Website indicates to us that you have read and accept our privacy practices, as outlined in this Privacy Statement. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Statement, please contact: info@jointsponsor.com.