Privacy Policy – DrJournalClub

Who we are

We are medical education company who goal is to keep integrative medical providers up to date on research relevant to them and hone their evidence-based medicine skills.

Our website address is: https://drjournalclub.com.

This company is owned by Dr. Joshua Goldenberg, ND. The business is registered in the state of Colorado. You can reach Dr. Goldenberg with any questions you might have at josh@drjournalclub.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Third Party Plugins

Like most WordPress websites we use third-party plugins to build and maintain our site. All plugin developers must comply with the GDPR as well. They are developing solutions to stay compliant. For our part, we are pruning and limiting third-party plugins to those truly relevant to our website functionality and updating and following each plugins’ GDPR solutions.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics and cookies to help us provide a better service to our customers. Google Analytics does not track the full IP. We do maintain web access/server logs that are accessed only by the site owner and website administrator. These logs are used to help keep the site secure and to help resolve problems with site access. Data is archived for up to 90 days and then discarded. This data is not shared with anyone else.

Who we share your data with

We never sell your data to third parties. If you are using Dr. Journal Club as part of an institutional access license (for example your university purchases access and you log in through the university account) we may provide overall user data to the institution if requested so they can track how well used the resources is. We will not share individual-level data however.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.