The Electronic Residency does not provide or release names or e-mail addresses of its members to any third party without permission. Your information is only released when "you" authorize residency program directors and staff with your Candidate Access Key (CAK) or by providing them with a direct link to your portfolio.

What This Privacy Policy Covers
 

• This policy covers how Electronic Residency treats personal information that Electronic Residency collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Electronic Residency services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
• This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Electronic Residency does not own or control, or to people that Electronic Residency does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

     General
 

• Electronic Residency collects personal information when you register with Electronic Residency, when you use Electronic Residency services, when you visit Electronic Residency pages or the pages of certain Electronic Residency partners. Electronic Residency may combine information about you that we have and with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
• When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, and your USMLE exam score and school related criteria. Once you register with Electronic Residency and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
• Electronic Residency collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of financial products and services that we offer.
• Electronic Residency automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Electronic Residency cookie information, and the page you request.
• Electronic Residency uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
   

Information Sharing and Disclosure
 

• Electronic Residency does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
  • We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Electronic Residency under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Electronic Residency communicate with you about offers from Electronic Residency and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
  • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
  • We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Electronic Residency's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
  • We transfer information about you if Electronic Residency is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Electronic Residency will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
  • Electronic Residency may e-mail offers and promotions to their members as they become available. Members who wish not to receive offers and promotions should e-mail Electronic Residency using our contact us link and request to be out-putted.
• Electronic Residency displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
  • Electronic Residency does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.

Cookies
 

• Electronic Residency may set and access Electronic Residency cookies on your computer.
• Electronic Residency lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Electronic Residency's cookies.
• Electronic Residency uses web beacons to access Electronic Residency cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Electronic Residency products and services.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

     General
 

• You can edit your Electronic Residency Account Information, but not the Common Application Form (CAF) after it have been submitted. This will insure the delivery of the most accurate information to residency programs.  .
• We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Electronic Residency service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Electronic Residency Newsletter.
• You can delete your Electronic Residency account by sending a request through "contact us" in the top menu.

Confidentiality and Security
 

• We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
• We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
   

Opt-Out

If you do not wish to receive future communications from us, you can send an email to support@electronicresidency.com

Changes to this Privacy Policy
 

• Electronic Residency may update this policy. We will notify you by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Questions and Suggestions
 

• If you have questions or suggestions, please email us or you can contact us at:
   
  Electronic Residency, LLC.
  PO Box 1118
  Hudson, OH 44236
   

  
  Effective Date: February 10th, 2006