Medco Pharmacy® Website Privacy Policy
Overview
Medco Health Solutions, Inc. and its affiliates, ("Medco") welcome you. This policy will explain the approach we take in protecting, collecting and using the information we gather from you in connection with the Medco Pharmacy website, www.medcopharmacy.com, provided by Medco (the "Service"). References to "you" and "your" refer to any individual or any entity.
For your ease and convenience, we make this notice available from every page of this website, identified as "Privacy Policy" with a link to this notice.
Please note: This policy applies only to information collected through the Medco Pharmacy website. Any other site which is linked to this website, including Medco affiliates sites, may be governed by their individual Privacy Policies and Terms of Use. Please consult these sites for further understanding of their Privacy Policies and Terms of Use.
Collection and Use of Information
The Service may collect both personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information to help improve the usefulness of the online information and services we offer.
Personally identifiable information is any data element or collection of data elements that directly identifies an individual, such as name, date of birth and e-mail address.
Non-personally identifiable information is any data element or collection of data elements that, by itself cannot be associated with a specific individual. The type of non-personally identifiable information which is routinely gathered from all site visitors and focuses on website activity, such as how many people visit the site, the pages they visit, what website they are coming from, how long they stay, etc. This site visitor data is collected on an aggregated, anonymous basis, which means personally identifiable information is not associated with this data. This type of non-personally identifiable information is generally gathered by third-party providers through the use of web server logs, third-party ad servers, cookie technology, and clear GIFs, as defined herein.
In addition, in some cases we may link this sort of non-personally identifiable information with the personally identifiable information we have about people who use our website or services and treat this information as personally identifiable information. For example, we may use this information to follow up with you.
Online Surveys
While you are visiting our website, you may be given an opportunity to complete an online survey about your experience on our site. In the course of your completion of the survey, certain non-personally identifiable information, such as date of visit, length of visit, what pages you visit on our websites, etc. may be collected using technologies such as cookies and web server logs. We use a third party vendor to provide these surveys, and therefore the information you provide will be collected by our vendor and relayed to us. Our vendor may also use this information in aggregate, anonymous form to improve their services.
Sharing Information
Personally identifiable information you record on this website, in some cases linked with non-personally identifiable information, and non-personally identifiable aggregated information, may be shared with others performing services on behalf of Medco.
Medco may disclose personally identifiable information to government authorities, and to other third parties when compelled to do so by government authorities, at our discretion, or otherwise as required or permitted by law, including but not limited to in response to court orders and subpoenas.
We also may disclose personally identifiable information when we have reason to believe that someone is causing injury to or interference with our rights or property, other users of the website or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.
Medco shares some non-personally identifiable information with third party providers to track and analyze site usage on an anonymous basis. This is not linked to any information that can identify any individual.
In the event that Medco, any affiliate of Medco, or substantially all of its assets, is acquired by one or more third parties as a result of an acquisition, merger, sale, reorganization, consolidation or liquidation, non-personally identifiable information may be one of the transferred assets.
External Links
This website contains links to other sites. We will inform you when you are leaving this site and we encourage you to read the privacy statement of any website that you visit. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by this website.
Security of Your Information
This site takes reasonable steps to protect personally identifiable information as you transmit it to our site and to protect such information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. You should keep in mind that no Internet transmission is ever completely secure or error-free.
Definitions
Web server logs: A web server log is a file where website activity is stored, such as your Internet protocol (IP) address, date of visit, length of visit, what pages you visit on our websites, etc.
Clear GIFs: A clear GIF is typically a one-pixel, transparent image (although it can be a visible image as well), located on a Web page or in an e-mail or other type of message, which is retrieved from a remote site on the Internet enabling to us to track and analyze your usage of our site. The information collected through pixel tags is non-personally identifiable.
Third-party ad servers: We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on a variety of different websites that are intended to attract visitors to our site. These companies may employ cookies, clear GIFs and other technologies to track non-personally identifiable information about your visits to other sites involved in the Service's advertising campaigns in order to help measure and improve the effectiveness of the Service's ads. This information may be shared with Medco and others performing services on behalf of the Medco.
If you would like more information about how third-party ad servers work and to understand your choices about not having this information used by these companies, see the Network Advertising Initiative's consumer website at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/
Cookie technology: Cookie technology enables websites to store small bits of information on your computer, and then ask for that information back at a later time. A cookie is a text file that is sent to the hard drive where your browser files are kept. If you are concerned about the use of cookie technology, you may opt to enable a feature in your browser software that will erase cookies, block all cookies or warn you before cookies are stored or exchanged.
If you reject a cookie, you may still use our site.
How we use cookies:
The Service uses cookies to accurately track the number of website users.
What we store in cookies:
The Service stores a unique identifier in the cookie to properly distinguish a user's workstation
Benefits of using cookies:
Cookies allow a web application to respond to you as an individual.
Notification of Change
Medco reserves the right at its discretion to change, modify, add or remove portions of this policy, at any time. We will communicate any updates to our policy on site for any site visitors. We encourage you to check this policy from time to time to review any changes.
To view all Privacy Policy updates click here.
Updated September 30, 2011
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