Privacy and Security Policy

Privacy

Your Visit to the Perfect Care Distribution Websites

Your visit to the Perfect Care Distribution websites is private and secure. When you visit the Perfect Care Distribution websites, we do not collect any personally identifiable information (PII) about you, unless you choose to explicitly provide it to us. We do, however, collect some data about your visit to our website to help us better understand public use of the site and to make it more useful to visitors. This page describes the information that is automatically collected and stored. NLM never collects information for commercial marketing or any purpose not related to Perfect Care Distribution’s functions.

What Type of Information Perfect Care Distribution Collects

When you visit any website, certain information about your visit can be collected. Perfect Care Distribution automatically collects and stores the following type of information about your visit:

• The name of the domain you use to access the Internet 
• The date and time of your visit to our website
• The pages and documents you viewed on our website from an external search engine such as Bing or Google
• The URL of the website you visited prior to ours
• The words you searched for on our website
• The type and version of your Web browser and operating system, and
• Your location at the time of your visit, down to the city-level

This information is used to measure the number of visitors to the various sections of our site and improve organization, coverage, system performance or other problem areas. This information is not used for associating search terms or patterns of site navigation with individual users. When search features offer suggested terms, these suggestions are based on aggregated data only. Perfect Care Distribution periodically deletes its web logs. On occasion, Perfect Care Distribution may provide aggregated information to third party entities it contracts with for the purposes of research analysis. Aggregated data cannot be linked back to an individual user.

How NLM Uses Cookies

When you visit any web site, it may place a small text file, known as a “cookie,” on your computer. The cookie allows the website to “remember” specific information about your visit while you are connected or when you return to that site. 

The cookie makes it easier for you to use the dynamic features of web pages. Cookies from Perfect Care Distribution web pages only collect information about your browser’s visit to the site; they do not collect personal information about you. While visiting certain Perfect Care Distribution websites, you may occasionally encounter a web page that automatically employs cookies to make it easier to use the web page’s dynamic features.

Perfect Care Distribution websites may use either single session (temporary) or multi-session (persistent) cookies. Session cookies last only as long as your web browser is open. Once you close your browser, the cookie disappears. Persistent cookies are stored on your computer for longer periods.

• Session Cookies: We use session cookies for technical purposes such as to enable better navigation through our site. This tier encompasses any use of single session web measurement and customization technologies.
• Persistent Cookies: We use persistent cookies to enhance the web experience for our users. Persistent cookies remain on your computer between visits to Perfect Care Distribution until they expire. 

 

How to Opt Out or Disable Cookies

If you do not wish to have session or persistent cookies placed on your computer, you can disable them at any time from your web browser. If you opt out of cookies, you will still have access to all information and resources at Perfect Care Distribution, but you may not be able to use cookie-dependent features.

Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

You do not have to give us personal information to visit the Perfect Care Distribution website.

If you choose to send us personal information by email, or by filling out a form on our web site, we use this information to respond to your message and to help us provide you with the information or material you requested. If provided, personally identifiable information is maintained in a database that is regularly purged after 410 days.

Third-party contractors employed by Perfect Care Distribution may have access to this information in order to provide a response to your question or comment. These contractors are held to strict policies to safeguard the information and provide the same level of privacy protection as guaranteed by Perfect Care Distribution.

On occasion, we may conduct a study concerning the types of questions sent to us. These studies help us to improve our websites in order to make them more responsive to the needs of our users.

Disclosure

Perfect Care Distribution does not give, share, sell, or transfer any personal information about our visitors, unless required by law enforcement or statute.

Perfect Care Distribution maintains accounts on third-party websites, such as social media sites, as tools to better interact with the public. The security and privacy policies of third-party websites apply to your activity on those sites. Users of third-party websites often share information with the general public, user community, and/or the third-party operating the website. You should review the privacy policies of all websites before using them and ensure that you understand how your information may be used. You should also adjust privacy settings of your account for any third-party website to match your preferences.

How Perfect Care Distribution Collects and Uses Information from Third-Party Websites

If you have an account/profile with a third-party website, and choose to follow, like, friend, or comment on a third-party website managed by Perfect Care Distribution, certain personal information associated with your account may be made available to us based on the privacy policies of the third-party website and your privacy settings within that website. We do not share personally identifiable information made available through these websites.

Google Analytics

When you browse through the Perfect Care Distribution websites, we use Google Analytics software to gather and temporarily store a variety of information about your visit. However, this information cannot be used to identify you as an individual.

We do not associate any of the data we collect with you as an individual. Instead, we aggregate this data from all visits in order to improve our website and provide a better user experience to our visitors. The aggregate data is available only to NLM web managers and other designated staff who require this information to perform their duties. It is retained only for as long as needed for proper analysis.  The Google Analytics Privacy Policy is available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.

Demographic and Interest Data

On some portions of our website we have enabled Google to provide aggregate demographic and interest data of our visitors. This information cannot be used to identify you as an individual. While these tools are used by some websites to serve advertisements, Perfect Care Distribution only uses them to measure demographic data. Perfect Care Distribution has no control over advertisements served on other websites.