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December 14, 2022

Privacy Policy

Information Collection and Use

  • RateMDs.com collects personally identifiable information when you register for a RateMDs.com account, when you visit RateMDs.com pages, when you opt-in to provide personally identifiable information (including email address) and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes.
  • When you register with RateMDs.com, we ask for your name, email address, birth date, gender, and zip code. Once you register with RateMDs.com and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
  • RateMDs.com also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, RateMDs.com cookie information and the page you requested.
  • RateMDs.com uses information for three general purposes: to operate, manage and maintain our business (including customizing the advertising and content you see), to provide our products and services, and to accomplish our business purposes and objectives.
  • If you use a third party network (including a social media account) to create an account on RateMDs.com, to log-in to RateMDs.com, or if you otherwise interact with a third party network through RateMDs.com (such as by using a plug-in), we will receive personal information from the third party network, such as your username, email address, gender, public profile information and any other information that you have agreed to share with us, whether explicitly or through your privacy settings. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third party networks for information about their practices.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

  • RateMDs.com will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.
  • RateMDs.com may send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when:
    • We have your consent to share the information;
    • We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested;
    • We need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of RateMDs.com to provide a product or service to you. (Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us.);
    • We respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process.

Cookies

  • RateMDs uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.
  • If you prefer, you can turn off cookies in your web browser by changing its security settings.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

  • RateMDs.com gives you the ability to edit your RateMDs.com Account Information and preferences at any time, including whether you want RateMDs.com to contact you about specials and new products.

Security

  • Your RateMDs.com Account Information is password-protected for your privacy and security.

Google reCaptcha

  • We use the reCAPTCHA service provided by Google Inc. (Google) to protect your internet queries to this site. This plugin determines whether the query was made by a person in order to prevent certain website functions from being abused by spam bots. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, how long the visitor has been on the website, or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis will be forwarded to Google. By using the RateMDs.com, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, please visit the following links: https://policies.google.com/privacy
    https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/v3beta.html

Changes to this Privacy Policy

  • RateMDs.com may amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our pages.