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Privacy Notice
Last Updated/Effective Date: May 8, 2024
The International Association of Medical Regulatory Authorities (“IAMRA,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Notice describes the processing of Personal Information (defined below) that is provided, collected, or disclosed in the course of providing our services and benefits to you and the organization you represent, and on the websites, applications, social media pages, other platforms that link to this Privacy Notice (collectively, the “Services”).
- Personal Information We Collect
We may collect a range of Personal Information. “Personal Information” means information that uniquely identifies, relates to, describes, or is reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to you. When you apply for membership or take advantage of any of our Services, we may collect your Personal Information including your name, the name of the organization you represent, e-mail address, and your organization’s phone number. When you use our website, we may automatically record information, including your Internet Protocol address (IP Address), geolocation of your device, browser type, referring URLs (e.g., the website you visited before coming to our website), domain names associated with your internet service provider, and any other information regarding your interaction with our website.
- How We Collect Personal Information
- Directly From You – We collect Personal Information that you provide to us, for example, if you apply for membership with us, choose to contact us, request information from us, or sign up to receive updates.
- From Third Parties – We may collect Personal Information from third parties, including business partners, subcontractors, advertising networks, analytics providers, and search information providers, who may provide us with Personal Information about you.
- Through Online Tracking Technologies – We use cookies and similar technologies to collect Personal Information related to activity on our website. For additional information regarding our use of these technologies, see the Cookies and Tracking Technologies section below.
- How We Use Personal Information
To the extent permitted by applicable law, we use Personal Information:
- To provide our Services to you, including considering your membership application, adding your organization to the International Directory of Medical Regulatory Authorities, and submitting reimbursement payments to you if necessary.
- For internal research and development, such as testing and improving the quality of our Services, and creating new Services.
- For marketing, such as sending information about our Services, including using your information to send you messages, notices, and newsletters.
- For communicating with you, such as responding to your questions and comments.
- For legal, security, or safety reasons, such as protecting our and our users’ safety, property, or rights; complying with legal requirements; enforcing our terms, conditions, and policies; detecting, preventing, and responding to security incidents; and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.
- As part of a corporate transaction, such as in connection with the sale of part or all of our assets or business, the acquisition of part or all of another business or another business’ assets, or another corporate transaction, including bankruptcy.
If you are applying for employment with us, we also use Personal Information to process your job application, to verify the information you have provided in your application, conduct interviews, perform background and reference checks, to communicate with you and answer your questions, to confirm your eligibility for employment, and improve our recruiting processes. We may also save your Personal Information for future employment opportunities with us.
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How We Disclose Personal Information
- Development and Fulfillment of IAMRA Services - We may disclosure information collected and associated with our Services for purposes of fulfilling our purpose and objectives, including forming working groups and committees, inter-authority collaboration and coordination, and facilitating the development of an international network of medical regulatory authorities.
- Service Providers – We disclose your Personal Information with third party service providers as necessary to enable them to support our Services or other aspects of our business.
- Legal Obligation or Safety Reasons – We may disclose Personal Information to a third party when we have a good faith belief that such disclosure of Personal Information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy or comply with any requirement of law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce or investigate a potential violation of any agreement you have with us, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise respond to fraud, security or technical concerns, (d) support auditing and compliance functions, or (e) protect the rights, property, or safety of FSMB, its employees and clients, or the public against harm.
- Merger or Change of Control – We may disclose Personal Information to third parties as necessary if we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or any other transaction involving a change of control in our business, including but not limited to, a bankruptcy or similar proceeding. Where legally required, we will give you notice prior to such disclosure.
- Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
We and our service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to collect usage and browser information about how you use our website. We process the information collected through such technologies, which may include or be combined with Personal Information, to help operate certain features of our website, to enhance your experience through personalization, and to help us better understand the features of our website that you and other users are most interested in.
We use analytics services, including Google Analytics, to assist us with analyzing our website traffic. These services utilize cookies and other technologies that collect your Personal Information. To learn more about how Google uses data, visit Google’s Privacy Policy and Google’s page on “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ websites or apps.” You may download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for each web browser you use, but this does not prevent the use of other analytics tools. To learn more about Google Analytics cookies, visit Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites.
Most browsers provide you with the ability to block, delete, or disable cookies, and your mobile device may allow you to disable transmission of unique identifiers and location data. If you choose to reject cookies or block device identifiers, some features of our Services may not be available, or some functionality may be limited or unavailable. Please review the help pages of your browser or mobile device for assistance with changing your settings. We do not respond to Do Not Track (“DNT”) signals sent to us by your browser at this time.
- Retention of Personal Information
We will retain Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Notice, unless otherwise required by applicable laws. Criteria we will use to determine how long we will retain your Personal Information include whether we need your Personal Information to provide you with our Services you have requested; we continue to have a relationship with you; you have requested information or Services from us; we have a legal right or obligation to continue to retain your Personal Information; we have an obligation to a third party that involves your Personal Information; our retention or recordkeeping policies and obligations dictate that we retain your Personal Information; we have an interest in providing you with Personal Information about our Services; or we have another business purpose for retaining your Personal Information.
- How We Protect Personal Information
We use commercially reasonable efforts to protect the confidentiality and security of Personal Information. However, despite these efforts to store Personal Information in a secure environment, we cannot guarantee the security of Personal Information during its transmission or its storage on our systems.
- International Use of our Website
Our website is hosted in the United States. If you are visiting our website from outside of the United States, please note that by providing your Personal Information, it is being transferred to, stored, collected, or processed in the United States, where our servers are located and operated.
- Children's Privacy
We do not knowingly collect or solicit any Personal Information from children under the age of 13 without verified written parental consent. In the event that we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 13, we will promptly take steps to delete that information. If you are a parent or legal guardian and think your child has given us their Personal Information, you can email us at secretariat@iamra.com.
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