Last updated: October 6, 2017
About
The Absiteology Podcast provides general surgery residents convenient, self-paced tutoring by Duke Surgery’s content experts. The podcast is designed to provide a novel supplement to residents’ traditional in-service exam preparations. Currently, the podcast is only available via the proprietary Duke Surgery Podcast iOS App as part of an ongoing observational research study (Duke IRB Pro00073801). Additional information may also be available on the Absiteology website (www.absiteology.com).
Privacy Policy
Protecting your private information is our priority. This Privacy Policy describes the policies regarding the information collected by the Duke Surgery Podcast App (the “Service”) and the Absiteology website (the “Website”, www.absiteology.com). This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) is to inform you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information when you use our Service or our Website. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. We use your Personal Information for providing and improving the Service and—in a protected manner—for research purposes. By using the Service and/or Website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of Service. For questions or concerns about this policy, please contact help@absiteology.com. Our full contact information, including mailing address, is available at the end of this policy.
Information Collection And Use
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information (PII) that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to, your email address (“Personal Information”). We collect this information for the purpose of providing the Service, conducting our research, identifying and communicating with you, responding to your requests/inquiries, and improving our services.
Application Server Hosting Data
The application and podcast content itself is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using a serverless architecture that is the industry standard for data protection, availability, functionality, and security. Digital assets are stored in Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) platform in US regions and retrieved through Amazon CloudFront. For more information about AWS Cloud Compliance (https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/), Cloud Security (https://aws.amazon.com/security/) or their Data Privacy (https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-privacy-faq/), visit the provided websites.
Application Usage Data
As part of our research protocol, we may collect information about how you use and interact with our Service (“Click Stream Data”). This data may also include information about your device’s carrier, manufacturer, or model as well as the city, region, and screen dimensions during Service usage.
By using our Service you are consenting to the collection of this data for research purposes. This information will not be shared with anyone, and will never be shared with your employer. Your data is secured on a private server and monitored by an appropriately trained research coordinator. Data will be de-identified at the earliest possible opportunity and only shared in aggregate. If you have any questions or concerns about your participation in this study, please contact help@absiteology.com.
In collecting application usage data, we may use third-party services, such as Mixpanel, that collect, monitor and analyze this type of information in order to increase our Service’s functionality. These third-parties may use cookies to help us analyze how our users are using the Service and they have their own Privacy Policies addressing how they use such information.
For more information on what type of information Mixpanel collects, please visit the Terms of Use page of Mixpanel: http://www.mixpanel.com/terms.
Website Usage Data
We do not routinely collect any Personal Information from our Website. We may, however, collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics. In addition, we may use third-party services, such as Google Analytics, that collect, monitor and analyze this type of information in order to increase our Website’s functionality. These third-parties may use cookies to help us analyze how our users are using the Website and they have their own Privacy Policies addressing how they use such information.
You can opt-out from Google Analytics service from using your information by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser tool: http://www.tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptou.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms.
Cookies
Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and transferred to your device. Currently, our website does not collect cookies, but some third-parties may. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help feature on most browsers provides information on how to accept cookies, disable cookies or to notify you when receiving a new cookie.
Do Not Track Disclosure
We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.
Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service or Website, to provide the Service or Website on our behalf, to perform Service or Website-related services and/or to assist us in analyzing how our Service or Website is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform specific tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use your information for any other purpose.
Communications
We may use your Personal Information to contact you with updates and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.
Compliance With Laws
Your privacy is important to us and we have gone to many lengths to protect it. However, we will disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement or to protect the security or integrity of our Service or Website.
Business Transaction
If our Service or Website is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Information may be transferred as a business asset. In such cases, we will provide notice before your Personal Information is transferred and/or becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Security
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we strive to implement and maintain reasonable, commercially acceptable security procedures and standard research practices appropriate to the nature of the information we store, in order to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. But remember, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
International Transfer
In the event your information, including Personal Information, is ever transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction, the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the information, including Personal Information, to the United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Links To Other Sites
Our Service or Website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third-party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Children’s Privacy
The Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act (COPPA) regulates the online collection of information from persons under the age of 13. Only persons age 18 or older have permission to access our Service or Website. It is our policy to refrain from knowingly collecting or maintaining personally identifiable information relating to any person under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not supply any personally identifiable information through the site or application. If you are a parent or guardian and you learn that your Children have provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of August 3, 2017, and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page. We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service or Website after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us or by placing a prominent notice on our website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at help@absiteology.com.
Absiteology Podcast
C/o Chandra Quigley
Duke University Health System
2301 Erwin Road
Durham, NC 27710
Email: help@absiteology.com
Telephone: 919-684-3445
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