Privacy Policy

Last Revised: January 22, 2024.

Preferred Medical Marketing Corporation (“PMMC”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through the privacy practices set forth in this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”). This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share information from our website, www.pmmconline.com (“Site”) or underlying informational services (collectively with the Site, the “Services”), as well as how you can contact us about privacy. Please take a moment to read and learn how we handle your information. By using this Site or using our Services, you acknowledge and fully understand our Privacy Policy and freely consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Privacy Policy. IF YOU DO NOT CONSENT TO THE INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE PRACTICES DESCRIBED BELOW, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY CEASE ANY ACCESS OR USE OF THE SITE OR OUR SERVICES. This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect:

On the Site or other sites that link to this Privacy Policy, including through email, contact forms, live chat, or other electronic methods on or through the Site.
From attendees of events, like conferences, where PMMC is in attendance.
When you engage with our marketing posts or forms on social media platforms and other third-party websites.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the following:

Information collected about you by PMMC clients.
Information you provide on third-party sites not controlled by PMMC.
Information processed by PMMC as a service provider or contractor.
Information collected as part of the employer-employee relationship.

OUR CONTENTS AND SERVICES ON THE SITE (INCLUDING TEXT, IMAGES, LINKS, RESOURCES, AND BLOG POSTS) ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. NOTHING ON THIS SITE OR OUR SERVICES SHOULD BE CONSTRUED AS LEGAL, FINANCIAL, TAX, MEDICAL, OR ANY OTHER KIND OF PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. RELIANCE ON ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THIS SITE IS SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

WHY WE COLLECT INFORMATION
PMMC collects and uses personal and company data and information (“information”) to give its clients’ superior customer service, to best present the Services, and to produce applications and services that are in-line with specific objectives.

In addition, PMMC may use your information to keep you up to date on products and services, provide important announcements, special offers, and other important communications. PMMC may also use this information to contact you to participate in market research and/or client satisfaction surveys to help us gauge and improve the quality of our products and/or services.

HOW INFORMATION IS COLLECTED

When you visit our Sites or interact with PMMC or engage with us in other online platforms like social media sites.
When you engage with PMMC at a conference event
When you engage with PMMC’s personnel in person for marketing, outreach, or training purposes on video calls, audio calls, webinars, podcasts, etc.
When you subscribe to our newsletter, blogs, or other online communication services.
Through cookies, pixels, and similar technologies.
From third parties such as social media networks, vendors, and service providers.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT OR RECEIVE

Directly From You

Name, business or personal email address, physical address, phone number and job title. For example, we collect this information when you submit a request on our website or connect with us at an event.
Your product preferences and interests. For instance, when you sign up for a newsletter with a specific subject, select preferences for online communications, or when you register for a webinar.
Product subscription and/or usage information for current clients.

Personal information may be collected when you submit a resume for employment consideration. For additional information on how we process resumes, please read our Careers page.

Automatically When you Use Our Site

Like many other websites, We and our service providers may collect and store information that is generated automatically as you navigate through the Site. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of the Site, and for our internal analytics so that we can improve the Site; however, We may also use this information for marketing purposes. We may use the following technologies to collect certain types of information:

Device Information, including version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site;
Cookies, like many other websites, We use ‘cookies’ on the Site. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the Site that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information. You can configure your browser to accept cookies, reject cookies or notify you when a cookie is being used; however, if you do so it may render your computer unable to take advantage of certain personalized features of the Site; and
Pixel Tags and Web Beacons, are tiny graphic files with a unique identifier that is similar in function to a cookie but would allow Us to count the number of visitors that have visited certain pages or screens of the Site, and to help determine the effectiveness of promotional or advertising campaigns. When used in HTML-formatted email messages, web beacons can tell the sender whether and when the email has been opened. In contrast to cookies, which may be stored on your computer’s hard drive, web beacons are typically embedded invisibly on pages or screens. We may use web beacons in providing the Site.

HOW WE USE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We may process your information for the following lawful business and commercial purposes, in accordance with the practices described in this Privacy Policy:

Provide the Services. We may use your information to communicate with you about our Services.
Monitor the Site. We collect your information for monitoring purposes to help Us diagnose problems with our servers, administer and troubleshoot the Site, calculate usage levels, analyze industry standards, and analyze transactions, trends, and statistics regarding the use of the Site.
Respond to Inquiries and Fulfill Requests. We may use your information to respond to your inquiries and to fulfill your requests for information.
Communicate with You. We may use your information to send you marketing information about our Services, new products and services, and other items that may be of interest to you. We may also contact you on behalf of our third-party business partners about a particular offering of theirs that may be of interest to you.
Improve the Site. We may use your information to make the Site more stable and user-friendly, to analyze service issues, improve the design and content of the Site, personalize your experience, analyze how the Site is used, offer new products and services, and to develop new marketing programs relating to the Services.
Customer Service. We may use your information when contacting you regarding customer service or in response when you provide feedback. We may also use your information to send administrative emails regarding the Services or to inform you of any changes to this Privacy Policy, our Terms, or our third-party partner’s Terms.
Support Business Operations. We may use your information to support our internal and business operations, including marketing, security, and advertising.
Enforce Agreements. We may use your information to enforce separate agreements between you and Us, enforce this Privacy Policy, our Terms, or our third-party partner’s Terms of Use, or in connection with a transaction with a similar effect.
Fulfill Other Purposes. We may use your information to fulfill: (a) any other purpose for which you provide it; (b) any legal or regulatory requirements and any of our internal policies; (c) other purposes disclosed at the time of collection; (d) any other purpose with your consent; and (e) any other purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy.

DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, We will not sell, share, rent, or otherwise disclose information that We collect from the Services to any third party for monetary or other valuable consideration, unless stated below or with your consent:

Subsidiaries and Affiliates. We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries and affiliates.
Business Partners. We may share your information with our business partners to provide you with Services you may have requested. We may also share your information to business partners with whom We jointly offer any products, or services.
Service Providers & Contractors. To help Us provide superior service, your information may be shared with our service providers, contractors, and other third parties We use to support our business and who will safeguard it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Marketing and Analytics Partners. We may share your information with entities that perform marketing or data aggregation services on our behalf, or with which We or an affiliate has joint marketing arrangements.
- Google Analytics. Visitors to the Site may be tracked using Google Analytics. The Personal Data collected by Google Analytics is primarily used to optimize the Site for users; however, we may also use this data for marketing purposes. The Personal Data we automatically collect using Google Analytics is shared with Google. For more information on Google’s Privacy Policies, visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can also opt-out of having your personal data used by Google Analytics by following the instructions located at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/. Without limitation, Google Analytics may collect the following types of data from users of the Sites:
  - Type of web browser used, software manufacture and version number.
  - Type of operating system
  - Color processing ability of the users screen
  - JavaScript support
  - Flash version
  - Screen resolution
  - Network location and IP address
  - Country, city, state, region, county, or any other geographic data
  - Hostname
  - Bandwidth (internet connection speed)
  - Time of visit
  - Pages visited
  - Time spent on each page of the Site
  - Referring site statistics
  - The website the user came through in order to arrive at the Site
  - Search engine query used
- We also use Google Analytics for Display and Search Advertising and, specifically, Google Analytics Demographics, Tag Manager, and Interest Reporting, on the Site to help display advertising for products or Services that we think may be of interest to you. We will use demographic information collected through our use of Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting for purposes of performing internal statistical analytics relating to the Site. You can opt-out of receiving interest-based advertisements through the Site, as well as customize the types of advertisements that will be displayed to you through the Site, by following the instructions located at https://support.google.com/ads.
- Hubspot. We use Hubspot to assist with analytics of the Site. Hubspot will set cookies for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session.
- Live Chat. We may utilize a live chat service on the Site provided by a third party vendor that collects, uses, stores, shares, discloses, and protects customer information in accordance with that third party’s privacy policy. The data store by the chat provider from our customers is strictly for our use. Information can include operator names and emails, visitor names and emails, visitor phone numbers, email addresses, and IP addresses. There will also be cookies and local storage kept on the chat provider’s servers to help provide site history of the Site visitors.

Authorized Representatives. If another individual is managing on your behalf your account with Us or your email account which the Services connect to (for example, a manager managing the account of an employee), as authorized by you or as a personal representative under applicable law, that person can view all information about you.
In the Event of Merger, Sale, Divestitures, or Change of Control. We reserve the right to transfer information to a buyer or other successor in interest that acquires rights to that data as a result of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of Us or substantially all of our assets.
With Your Consent. We may share your data for other purposes pursuant to your consent or at your direction.
Other Disclosures. We may disclose your information if We have a good faith belief that disclosure of such data is helpful or reasonably necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements and comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government, law enforcement, or regulatory request; (b) enforce our Terms, other agreements, including between you and us, and any other documents included or referenced therein (all of which are incorporated into and made a part of this Privacy Policy by reference); (c) fulfill the purpose for which you provide it; (iv) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud or security issues; or (v) protect against harm to our, your, or third parties’ rights, property, or safety.

We may share and disclose de-identified and/or aggregate analytics with third-party partners for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or where it is collected, or any other legal purpose, including, when and where applicable, sharing and disclosing non-personally identifiable data combined with information.

We do not sell any information that we collect.

SAFETY, SECURITY, AND RETENTION
Anytime your information is shared, PMMC takes measures through contractual obligations or other legal restrictions to reasonably ensure that your information is confidential and processed only when necessary.

AGE RESTRICTIONS
PMMC’s Services are for general business purposes. We do not intend for any of our Services to be used by those under the age of 13. As such, use by those under 13 years of age is expressly prohibited. If you use a PMMC Site, you affirm that you are at least 18 years of age. If you believe your child has provided PMMC with personal information, please contact us.

MARKETING AND ADVERTISING
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving promotional or commercial emails from PMMC, you can use the unsubscribe button at the bottom or any email or contact us at the address below.

Third Party Links

Our Services may link to third-party websites, online services, or mobile applications and/or contain advertisements from third parties that are not affiliated with Us—and which may link to other websites, services, or applications. Please be aware that We are not responsible for the privacy or practices of other websites or third parties. We do not make any guarantee regarding those third-party websites, services, or applications, and we are not liable for any loss or damage caused by the use of such sites. Any data collected by third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy. You should review the policies of the third parties and contact them directly if you have any questions about their services or practices.

Information Retention

We will only keep your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which We collect the information, as described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

STATE PRIVACY LAWS
Certain states have specific laws regarding the privacy of personal information. For residents of the states listed below, your privacy rights can be viewed in the notices below.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
The PMMC Privacy Policy is subject to change at any time. We encourage you to review it with regularity to learn of any changes. For your convenience, our privacy policy will remain permanently posted on our website.

Do Not Track Disclosure
Many web browsers include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting that signals your preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. However, there is currently no uniform standard for recognizing and implementing the DNT signals. As such, We do not monitor or respond to Do Not Track browser requests. If a standard is adopted that we must follow in the future, then we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy.

CONTACT US
To make requests about this Privacy Policy, write to us at the following address:

PMMC
15720 Brixham Hill Ave, Suite 460
Charlotte, NC 28277
Attn: Legal Department