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Meditec Privacy Statement
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Privacy & Security Statements:
At Meditec.Com, we greatly value the opportunity to serve our students and prospective students. As part of our ongoing commitment to your satisfaction, we are pleased to publish and adhere to the following privacy policy:
If you identify yourself by sending an e-mail or filling out a form requesting information, and this correspondence contains personal information:
The information collected in this manner will only be used for responding to your request for information or inquiry. We will not share this information outside of the company, except to the extent as may be needed to provide the response you were seeking.
Secure Transactions:
Secure Online Enrollment - Your security is guaranteed by VeriSign Certification through a 128 bit Secure Socket Layer. All credit/debit card information will be kept confidential between Meditec.Com and the student. As a result of any correspondence between you and Meditec.Com, we will not sell, rent or trade your personal information to anyone, and we vigorously disapprove of organizations who do. Your information is completely safe, secure, and so is your peace of mind.
Cookie Use Notice:
The Meditec website employs "cookies" to provide better service to its customers. The website does not use cookies to collect any personally identifying information from users, or to track user activities beyond our website. In keeping with our Privacy Statement, we only use cookies to provide and affect services to our users through the Meditec website.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of data that are exchanged between a Web site and a user's computer. This data is stored in simple plain text files and/or within the active memory of the user's PC, which enable a "session," or "dialog," to be established between the two machines. With the session established, the website is able to tailor its responses (i.e., identify and provide you with the information you want) and help you traverse the pages in the most efficient and effective manner possible. In the case of Meditec's Online Courses, Cookies are used to identify into which courses you are enrolled, and help keep track of your progress within each course.
Cookies come in two flavors -- Persistent [which are stored as text files on your local hard drive and have an expiration date], OR Session [which are only stored in the temporary memory on your PC until you leave the website and/or close the browser session]. The Meditec website employs both types of cookies.
For more general information about cookies, please see the following Wikipedia Article.
As Relates To General Website Functionality:
In order to enroll in our online courses and to interact with our website, the user's web browser must be configured to accept both Persistent and Session cookies. Please note however that Meditec.com does not distribute cookies from third party advertisers and users may configure their browser to accept 1st party cookies and reject 3rd party cookies. Users may, at their own discretion, choose to remove all cookies and temporary internet files related to Meditec.com or Proedge2000.com activities after each session, and students using our Proedge course-ware are encouraged to do so after every session.
The Persistent and Session cookies used by our course-ware servers are designed specifically to guarantee that the enrolled user's account cannot be used by more than one user at a time, and to therefore protect the student's account from unauthorized use, but the cookies are specifically designed for one-time use and are NOT computer specific, so the student may login from any computer with internet access, so long as they do not attempt to create (or have running) more than one active session at a time. Again, these cookies can (and should be) 'flushed' after every active session. One of the best ways to insure that this occurs, is to close the web browser completely after each session.
On rare occasions, and usually seen with the Internet Explorer (IE) web browser, a failure of the browser to 'flush' expired session cookies, will result in a "Bad Goto" error when the user attempts to login. If this occurs, the student should go into the browser settings and manually delete all of the temporary internet files, and then close all running instances of the browser before attempting to login to their course. This helps insure that a new set of 'fresh' cookies are downloaded for the new session each time the student logs into their course.
For more assistance with security, privacy and browser configuration issues, we have prepared a PDF document that students can download. Download: "Living with the Microsoft IE Web Browser" - 1.22 MB Adobe PDF Document. Please note that while this document has been prepared using Microsoft IE as its primary example, the general configuration recommendations are adaptable to all of the most popular web browsers, including FireFox, Flocks, Safari, etc. Users should also note, that by following all of the recommended configuration settings, they may encounter problems with certain other websites which require the retention of their cookies, or which may require uses to also accept third party cookies. It is up to the end user to decide and determine which configuration works best for their own needs and internet browsing preferences.
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