GetInsideHealth (hereafter “GIH”) is a service offered to you by Philips Electronics Nederland B.V. (hereafter “Philips” or “ we”). This Privacy Policy explains how we use the information which we collect about you when you register for use of the GIH service. The information we collect from you is used to personalize your experience and improve our website.

When you first register on our website at getinsidehealth.com, we collect personal information from you such as your name, e-mail address and clinical specialty. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with the website and if you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. We may ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.

We gather this information to allow us to process your registration and to provide you with customized content, including articles relating to your fields of interest and various conference and training opportunities, as well as using it to develop and improve our services.

We recognize our responsibility to protect the information you entrust to us. We use a variety of secure techniques to protect your information, including secure servers, firewalls, and encryption of financial data. Philips websites also may make chat rooms, forums, message boards and/or newsgroups available to you. Please remember that any personally identifiable information you provide in these areas is also available to other users, and you should exercise caution before deciding to disclose it.

Once you have provided us with your personally identifiable information, you will have reasonable access to that information so you can change or delete it. You may do this by accessing your online profile, or by requesting a copy of your profile at the contact address listed below.

Because Philips sells thousands of products in hundreds of countries, you may have previously provided us with personally identifiable information through reply cards, our call centers, or in some other manner. Your decision to register for the GIH service, or to unsubscribe for the GIH service will not in any way affect the information you have already provided to Philips via any other means.

IP address and cookies

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our content providers. These are statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and do not identify an individual.

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalized service. They enable us: to estimate our audience size and usage pattern; to store information about your preferences and so allow us to customize our website according to your individual interests; to speed up your searches and to recognize you when you return to our website.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our website.

Uses made of information

We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our content providers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 100 men aged under 30 have clicked on their material on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help our content providers reach the kind of audience they want to target.

We may disclose information about you to the affiliated companies of Philips. Your information may also be made available to the agents or subcontractors working for Philips to provide the GIH service to you. (such as companies that collect and process your information, invite you to participate in scientific and/or professional programs as well as to deliver to you educational and scientific material, as well as companies that fulfill your requests for more information about our products or other services). Philips has sought assurances by contract from these companies that they will only use this information at Philips’s direction, in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy policy. These companies are also required to sign a confidentiality agreement that prohibits them from sharing, selling, or in any way providing this information to anyone else.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties in the following circumstances: in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets; if Philips or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets; or if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use or other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Philips, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

We would like to provide you with information by email about GIH services on and updates to the website, which we think, may be of interest to you. We will only do this if you have given us your express permission in the registration form. If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for these purposes, you may change your mind at any time by amending your settings on the email subscription page.

The content on the GIH website has been selected and provided by a partner of Philips. Philips has no editorial control over the content and does not influent the selection of the content (please read the Terms of Use for more information about the GIH service itself). Furthermore the GIH website may provide links to other websites over which we have no control. The information practices of these linked websites are not covered by this privacy policy and you should check these sites carefully to find out how they use your personal information.

Updating your personal information

Once you have provided us with your personally identifiable information, you will have reasonable access to that information so you can change or delete it. You may do this by accessing your online profile, or by requesting a copy of your profile at the contact address listed below. Because Philips sells thousands of products in hundreds of countries, you may have previously provided us with personally identifiable information through reply cards, our call centers, or in some other manner. Your decision not to register now will not affect the information you have already provided to Philips. Of course, you will always have the option to unsubscribe to any online contact from GIH or change your personal profile information.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and where appropriate notified to you by email.

Contacting us

You may contact us if you would like to:

• - ask us any question regarding our privacy policy
• - ask us a question related to specific content
• - request a copy of your personal data, or change or delete your personal data
• - opt-out from the GIH service

Please contact us by sending your questions or comments by email to: editor@getinsidehealth.com