PeerView Institute shares your concerns about maintaining the privacy of personal information collected on the Internet. PeerView Institute ensures that confidentiality of data relating to individual visitors to a medical/health web site, including their identity, is respected by this web site. The web site owners undertake to honor or exceed the legal requirements of medical/health information privacy that apply in the country and state where the web site and mirror sites are located.

Privacy Policy Changes:
Minor changes to our privacy policy may occur. If privacy policies change in a way that significantly affects the way we handle personal information, we will not use the information we have previously collected without obtaining consent. We will post all privacy policy changes on our web site in a timely manner.

Collection of Personal Information from Site Users:
Visitors to PeerView Institute can access and browse the site, without disclosing any personally identifiable information. PeerView Institute does track some information provided by your browser, such as the time and date of access, the web site you came from, the type of browser used, and other information that does not personally identify you. Visitors registering for services such as an e-mail newsletter are requested to provide personal information, such as name, contact information, and medical specialty. We clearly label which information is required for registration, and which information is optional, on our registration forms. PeerView Institute will not collect personally identifiable information without consent and will not share this data with any external partners.

PeerView Institute may request information from its visitors or users such as feedback from evaluation questionnaires in order to improve or enhance its current services or develop new ones.

Use of Cookies:
Cookies are a web technology used by web sites to identify a visitor as he/she navigates through the web site. We use cookies to personalize our web site and to track activity across all our web sites. Cookie technology helps PeerView Institute determine which features and services are important to which audiences so that we may know where to invest our ongoing development and creative efforts.

PeerView Institute may place Internet "cookies" on users' hard drives. Internet cookies save data about individual users, such as name, password, user-name, screen preferences, and the pages of the site viewed. When a user revisits the site, PeerView Institute may recognize the user by the Internet cookie and customize the experience accordingly. PeerView Institute does not, and will not, use cookies or any other technology to track or report on member activity when they are not on our web sites, nor pass member data to third party web sites. You may decline Internet cookies, if any, by using the appropriate feature of your web client software, if available. However, declining to use cookies may impede the ability of the site to function properly.

Collection of Personal Data from Children:
The PeerView Institute web site is designed and intended for the use of adult medical professionals, and is not intended for, or designed to be used by, children under the age
of 18. PeerView Institute does not knowingly solicit information from children and we do not knowingly market the site or any goods or services to children. No one under the age of 13 should submit any personal information to PeerView Institute.

Use of Personal Data Collected:
PeerView Institute may use the personal data it collects for internal purposes, namely, for administering the site, personalizing the site for you, analyzing trends, calculating overall usage statistics, for editorial, feedback, marketing and promotional purposes, and content improvement. PeerView Institute directs editorial and other content to readers who are most likely to be interested in information about specific subject matter, as stated by the user. Occasionally, PeerView Institute may contact users to advise them of new services or enhancements to current ones.

PeerView Institute will not disclose to third parties any individually identifying information, such as names, postal and e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and other personal information which users voluntarily provide, except to the extent necessary to respond to a user's specific request, comply with applicable laws, court orders or other valid legal processes, or to protect the rights or property of PeerView Institute.

Opt-Out and Updating Account Information:
Users may at any time opt-out of having their personal information used, or from receiving correspondence from PeerView Institute, by contacting PeerView Institute via postal mail, e-mail, or telephone at the address below. You also may want to contact us to update your personal information.

e-mail: webmaster@ntkinstitute.com
fax: (212) 302-8564
NTK Initiative
315 Bleecker Street, Suite 182
New York, NY 10014