At PsychiatryMatters.MD we are firmly committed to protecting your privacy.

We understand that personal and medical information is highly sensitive and that you may have concerns about sharing some of your personal information with us. For this reason, we believe that you should be free to disclose as much or as little personal information as you feel comfortable with.

In this short statement of our privacy principles, and the more comprehensive privacy policy that follows, we will explain the choices that we have made about the collection and use of data on PsychiatryMatters.MD. We hope that by clearly setting out the principles we follow, we will earn your trust:

Privacy Policy Principles

The elements of the privacy policy provided below reflect the principles that we follow in the collection and use of data:

1. We inform you of what information we are collecting and storing about you.
2. You have clear choices about the information you share with us.
3. We will not request more data than is necessary to provide the services that we are offering to you.
4. We will avoid the use of personally identifiable data where such a limitation does not interfere with our ability to offer you excellent information and the tools to use it.
5. Your personal information will be stored in industry-standard secured environments.
6. You will be kept up-to-date with any changes to this privacy policy, if necessary, in our rapidly changing technological environment.
7. We do not provide third parties with any personal data for direct marketing purposes unless you have given specific permission to do so.

Please note that this privacy policy only applies to the site, and not to any other website, including any websites to which PsychiatryMatters.MD provides links.

Privacy and Cookie Policy

Data collection
Under the responsibility of Schering-Plough, the data derived from the site (such as traffic patterns and the number and type of registered users) are owned by Schering-Plough, and all analysis done on this data is conducted by Schering-Plough.. For this purpose, the data are stored in a database at Schering-Plough.. Questions about the data processing can be sent to:

info@organon.com
or 
Schering-Plough,
eBusiness dept. PO BOX 20, 5340 BH OSS, The Netherlands

How are data collected on the site?
At PsychiatryMatters.MD, traffic patterns, site usage information and visitor information are gathered to help develop the design and functionality of the site, and to allow us to personalize your visit. For example, we may wish to develop the site in different languages, and therefore need to know which country you live in.

As a standard practice, we assign a random number to each customer so that we can track content preferences and traffic patterns in general. This random number allows us to collect summary information about how the site is being used by our customers, without specifically knowing who those customers are. This random number is kept as a text file on your hard drive and is called a "cookie". Cookies, by themselves, cannot be used to determine the identity of a customer. Unless you specifically tell us, we will not know who you are.

You can set your browser to notify you when a cookie is received or to refuse receiving it. Be aware that in such an event it is no longer possible to use all the possibilities of our website.

Cookies and the Schering-Plough VIP Pass
Some parts of PsychiatryMatters.MD are available only to registered users. In order to allow access to content within site, you must register and be able to accept cookies on your computer. After visiting site, however, you are free to remove this cookie from your computer.

When registering with an Schering-Plough. site, you are automatically subscribed to the Schering-Plough VIP Pass. This VIP Pass allows you to use one registration for all Schering-Plough. websites. The VIP Pass is used for websites that are either owned or sponsored by Schering-Plough and that require registration.

For the Schering-Plough VIP Pass, a separate cookie will be put on your computer. When you visit another site that is either owned or sponsored by Schering-Plough, this cookie is used to determine whether you have already registered for sites affiliated with Schering-Plough before. If you have registered previously, then you will be asked if you would like to use the same account for other Schering-Plough sites that require registration. After confirming this, you are allowed to use the same registration for more than one site.

The Schering-Plough VIP Pass cookies are being collected through domain 195.224.238.61. The storage period of the cookies is 2 years.

As with the site cookie, you are also free to remove this Schering-Plough VIP Pass cookie after visiting one of our websites.

Pixel disclosure and email marketing
If you agreed to receive emails from us, those emails may contain advertising about goods and services that we think might be of interest to you. In order to understand how our readers interact with the emails and the content that we send, we use pixels in the text in order to understand who has opened the emails. In order to provide our content in the most interesting way, we also use pixels to learn whether you can receive emails in text or html form.

What data are collected for analysis?
For analysis purposes, Schering-Plough collects data on PsychiatryMatters.MD. The following data are collected for analysis:

 1. Website logfiles:
As part of standard Internet operations, we will record the following information from anyone using the site: access date & time, domain name, IP address, action, visited URL, bytes sent and received, time taken on visited URL, cookie information, referring domain and operating system. This information is used to analyse visitor traffic, e.g. which sections of the site are being visited, which operating systems are used, and how frequently visitors return to the site.

2. Visitor registration:
Visitors are asked to provide some information when registering, such as: first name, last name, email address, country, profession, username, and password. For each registered visitor, the date of registration is also stored. Visitors can subscribe to one or more email newsletters. This can only be done when visitors have submitted an email address. For each subscription, the visitor, the newsletter and date of subscription is stored.

3. Newsletter subscription:
We record information on recipients, message opening, formatting, clickthrough and response. This information is used to analyze visitor’s interests in specific topics and is also used to protect the data quality of information provided by visitors, such as keeping track of the validity of email addresses.

4. Quick poll entries:
Whenever a registered visitor fills in a quick poll or survey, these results are stored to make sure that every visitor can only vote once. The following data are stored: quick poll or survey, question, answer and answer date. These data are used for analysis and for tailoring the content.

5. Survey entries:
From time to time, registered visitors may be asked (either by email or on PsychiatryMatters.MD) to fill in a survey.

For the survey the following data are stored: survey ID, question ID, answer. We do not store information about the specific user with these data in the normal course of operation, and will not do so without explicit permission, so any survey data, for example, will be completely anonymous unless you are, otherwise, notified and given a clear choice about changing the anonymity of a survey you complete.

As indicated throughout this section, we believe that the amount of data collected and used should be limited, and narrowly tailored to particular purposes for which it is collected. This is done to protect personal information and to reflect our principles about the collection and use of data.

Besides this information, feedback to the editorial team (e.g. via email) will also not be stored in a database nor used for analysis.

How is information used and disclosed?
PsychiatryMatters.MD is constantly striving to provide our customers with a compelling reason to return to the site. Except when we state otherwise, we may use information collected via PsychiatryMatters.MD to improve the content of PsychiatryMatters.MD, to customize the site to your preferences, to communicate information to you (if you have requested it), for our marketing and research purposes, and for any other purpose specified.

The personal information you provide will enable us to offer you a tailored user experience, including personalized special offers, and information, products, and services that are relevant to your needs and interests.

Examples of what we examine internally are:

- What countries do our registered visitors represent? This helps us to determine whether we should expand the site with information for a broader public.
- Which search phrases are used most often and how many results do they generate? This helps us to decide whether we offer visitors the right information.
- What are the professions of our visitors, in order to determine what information is mostly requested.

We may combine such information with other actively collected information. We may also use this information in combination with generally available databases of population statistics, to form a better understanding of our customers. This will enable us to tailor our products, services, and content to meet our customers' needs and preferences.

Sharing information with third parties
We may disclose personally identifiable information you provide via PsychiatryMatters.MD to other Schering-Plough affiliates worldwide that agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy and use it for the same purposes. From time to time, Schering-Plough will provide aggregate statistics to partners, such as:
- External content providers such as Excerpta Medica, Current Medicine Group and Global News Media;
- Advertisers on PsychiatryMatters.MD.

We may share aggregate statistical information regarding our traffic patterns and site usage with our partners. For example, we may develop summary reports. An example of a summary report might be "8,000 people clicked on Advertisement Z today and of those people, 25% had previously indicated they had an interest in this therapeutic area".

Occasionally, Schering-Plough arranges for third parties to provide or track the usage of sponsored links that we believe may be of value to our customers. We do not permit these third parties to collect personal information from our customers without their explicit permission.

Data from PsychiatryMatters.MD may occasionally be transferred to third parties who act for or on behalf of Schering-Plough, or for further processing in accordance with the purpose for which the data were originally gathered. If such disclosure of data to a third party occurs, we will ensure that the processing is performed according to the purposes and within the limits under which the data were originally gathered.

Security of data
PsychiatryMatters.MD has security measures in place to protect loss, misuse, and alteration of personal data that is controlled by you. Furthermore, we strongly recommend that you do not divulge your username and password to anyone. When using the Schering-Plough VIP Pass, we will ask you to reconfirm your password to make sure that your personal data is protected.

The registration data from the site are stored on a secure server that resides behind a firewall. The firewall is designed to block access to these data from outside the site. These registration data are backed up every day.

Inside Schering-Plough only a few selected employees and contractors have access to the server via their personal user account with password. Both employees and contractors are made aware of the security policy through internal memos on a regular basis and each time when there is a major change in the policy of handling this data.

Please be aware of the fact that because the Internet is a publicly accessible system, each time information is made available online by you, this is done at your own risk, as it might be lost along the way or it may be accessed by unauthorized third persons.

Updating and deleting your profile
PsychiatryMatters.MD offers you the opportunity to modify your profile on the site. This can be done after logging in as a registered user with your username and password. You will have access to your visitor profile at any time via “Edit my profile”, except for normal periods of site maintenance and unforeseen disruption of our servers.

Should you wish to discontinue using PsychiatryMatters.MD, you can remove your information by unregistering for PsychiatryMatters.MD via “Edit my profile”.

Sending emails

By giving us your email address in the registration form, you agree to receive the following emails:
- Confirmation of your registration.
- Password reminders (only when you ask us to send this to you).
- Announcements of new features on PsychiatryMatters.MD.
- Invitations to participate in surveys.

PsychiatryMatters.MD also offers you several optional emails, such as press releases and newsletters. These emails will be sent more frequently. For these emails, you can subscribe yourself. Each of these email messages includes instructions explaining how to unsubscribe.

The emails may, from time to time, contain information on Schering-Plough's products, promotional banners, polls or links to one of our sponsors or partners (e.g. a medical conference organiser).

For our email services, we use the third party email supplier Epsilon Interactive. The information this supplier processes is only used to improve their email delivery services and is not further used by this supplier. This supplier does not own the information collected and will not use it for its own business purposes or in any way not authorized by us.

For more information on the Epsilon Interactive privacy policy, please visit the Epsilon Interactive website:
http://www.epsilon.com/epsilonstatic/privacy.html.

We do not provide third parties with any personal data for direct marketing purposes unless you have given specific permission to do so.

Your consent 

By visiting PsychiatryMatters.MD and by using the services provided, you consent to the collection and use of your information as described in this Privacy Policy, and to the conditions we state in our internet Disclaimer.

If you have any questions or concerns about privacy on PsychiatryMatters.MD, or if you wish to inspect, correct or remove your personal data, please contact the editor at PsychiatryMatters.MD.

If you do not agree to these terms and the conditions stated in our internet Disclaimer, please do not use PsychiatryMatters.MD.

Changes to this privacy policy
From time to time it may be necessary for PsychiatryMatters.MD to change the privacy policy. We reserve the right to change the terms stated in this privacy policy at any time, but we will not do so without posting the revised policy on PsychiatryMatters.MD, including the date when this policy has been changed.

Updated April 2007