Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at the Tribal Rural and Underserved Oklahoma Medical Education Resource Center (TRUOK-MERC, hereafter, “we,” “us,” or “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, or our practices about your personal information, please contact us via our website.
When you visit our website at truok-merc.org and use our services, you trust us with your personal information. In this Privacy Policy, we describe our policies and explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. If there are any terms in this Privacy Policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue your use of our website and our services.
This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected through our website, truok-merc.org , and/or any related services, sales, marketing or events.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully as it will help you make informed decisions about sharing your personal information with us. By accessing or using our website, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including information…
We collect this information:
We collect personal information for a specific purpose, we will not keep it for longer than is necessary to fulfil that purpose, unless we must keep it for legitimate business or legal reason.
As you navigate through and interact with our website, we may automatically collect certain information about your equipment and browsing actions and patterns. The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not identify any individual. It helps us improve our website and deliver better and more personalized services by enabling us to:
The information we collect on or through our website may include:
We and our agents use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
We only share and disclose your information in the following situations:
You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time (ASNs only).
If you are resident in the European Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.
Most Web Browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting which you can activate, that signals your preference to not have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy.
Yes, if you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information. California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.
Yes, we will update this Policy as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and encourage you to review it frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
We recognize the privacy interests of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. Neither our website nor our services are intended for children under the age of 13. We do not target our services or website to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.
The Site may provide links to other Web sites or resources over which we do not have control (“External Web Sites”). Such links do not constitute an endorsement by us of those External Web Sites. You acknowledge that our website is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that we are not responsible for the content of such External Web Sites. Your use of External Web Sites is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies located on the linked to External Web Sites.
We may employ industry standard procedural and technological measures that are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. Our website may use, without limitation, firewalls, password protection, secure socket layer, and other security measures to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information.
Our website and the services available or described on its website are targeted for users in the United States of America. Any information you enter on this website may be transferred outside of the European Union to the United States of America, which does not offer an equivalent level of protection to that required in the European Union. You are advised that the United States of America uses a sectoral model of privacy protection that relies on a mix of legislation, governmental regulation, and self-regulation. Article 26 of the European Union’s Data Protection Directive (Directive 95/46/EC, 1995 O.J. (L 281) 31) allows for transfer of personal data from the European Union to a third country if the individual has unambiguously given his consent to the transfer of personal information, regardless of the third country’s level of protection. By using our website or services, you consent to: i) the transfer of all such information to the United States of America, which you are advised may not offer an equivalent level of protection to that required in the European Union; and ii) to the processing of that information by us on our servers located in the United States of America as described in this Privacy Policy.
Questions or complaints about our Privacy Policy, as well as concerns about its enforcement of the Policy, can be directed to us via our website’s Contact page.
This Privacy Policy is subject to change.
This policy is effective: 9/1/2023