Privacy Policy

PrepMD Privacy Policy
Effective August 1, 2010

About PrepMD
PrepMD prepares students to enter the satisfying and rewarding career of a Medical Device clinical specialist or sales representative.  In fact, the primary goal of PrepMD is to thoroughly prepare students for a Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) or Electrophysiology (EP) career opportunity, positioning them to become preferential, pre-qualified, candidates for hire by one of the large medical device companies.

Internet Privacy Policy

PrepMD is committed to preserving and maintaining the privacy of visitors to our website and wants the personal information of our visitors to remain as secure as possible, subject to the provisions of this Privacy Policy regarding the use and sharing of information provided by our visitors.  We have taken measures to protect personal information from loss, misuse or alteration.  However, no website security is foolproof.  Therefore, you agree that the information you submit is submitted at your own risk and we will not be liable to you for any breach of security or inadvertent disclosure of your personal information.

This Privacy Policy will let you know what information we collect, how it is used and what are your choices.  Please read this Policy carefully.  If you have any questions concerning this Privacy Policy, please email us at info@prepmd.org.

Information Collection and Use by PrepMD
PrepMD collects visitor (referred to in this Policy as a visitor or user) submitted information such as name, email address, and other characteristics, including resume information, as provided voluntarily by visitors, including applicant candidates and students.  PrepMD also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate visitor data, and browser type, from visitors to the site. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to visitors.

We may use personal information collected through our website to administer programs in which users have enrolled and to send program and marketing and promotion related information to such users.  We will also analyze user information in aggregate form to assess our programs and determine our plans for the future.  We will not use any personally identifiable information that we collect for marketing or promotional purposes and will not use personal information to contact visitors to our website for any unauthorized purpose unless necessary for the enforcement of this Privacy Policy.

PrepMD does not intend to collect any information directly from children under the age of 13.  If you are under the age of 13, you may use the PrepMD website only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.  If we learn that we have inadvertently  collected information from a child under the age of 13, all such information will be deleted from our systems.

Sharing Information

PrepMD will share personally identifiable information about you when one the more of the following conditions apply:

  • We have your consent to share the information; or
  • We respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process; or
  • In special cases, such as a threat of physical violence to a visitor to our web site or to others; or
  • We contract with other companies to perform functions on our behalf, such as processing credit card payments.  These companies have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use this information for other purposes; or
  • We also reserve the right transfer such information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of PrepMD or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest.

Note: Sharing and third-party use of information gathered by cookies, such as the Internet domain and Internet address of the computer you are using, identification of the page or service you are requesting, type of browser and operating system you are using, and the date and time of access, are discussed below.

Privacy Choices

Visitors to the PrepMD website may request that we remove the personal information that they provide to us from our databases and servers at any time by submitting a written request to PrepMD at the address provided on our website.  In addition, the visitor may refuse to allow the further collection or use of his or her personal information by submitting a written request to PrepMD at the address provided on our website.  If a visitor requests email notices, he or she may UNSUBSCRIBE at any time by notifying PrepMD. at the address provided on our web site.

Use of Cookies
When you visit our website, we send one or more cookies – a small file containing a string of characters – to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser.  Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.  However, some of our website features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled. PrepMD uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences and to record session information, for purposes, among others, of ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and user profile information.  We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.  We use third-party service providers to assist us in aggregating and analyzing the data we collect from you and other website visitors and who may use your data collected through the use of cookies to improve their services.  These service providers may share aggregate, non-personal information with third parties.

Linked Sites
As a courtesy, the PrepMD website includes links to other, third-party websites.  This Privacy Policy does not apply to such third-party websites, which are governed by their own terms of use and privacy policies, if any.  PrepMD is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site.

Chat Rooms, Journals and WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds and Public Forums
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to Journals, Web Blogs, Message Boards, Classifieds or any other Public Forums that that information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.

Credit Card Privacy and Refund Policy

From time to time, applicant candidates and students may opt, at their discretion, to pay certain fees for PrepMD’s training services with credit cards via prepmd.org.  In such cases, the transaction will be processed through a third party vendor, Braintree, Inc., whose processing services are fully compliant with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).

Should you make payments by credit card, we will not sell or trade information regarding you and your account to others for their use.

A fee of either 2.2% or 2.8% will be applied to all credit card transactions, dependent on the degree of application compliance requirements.

Our tuition refund policy will apply to the payment of tuition by credit card.  That is:

Any student who discontinues their enrollment in any PrepMD program within the first two weeks of the training program (for any reason) will be provided a 100% tuition refund, minus the $2,500 non-refundable deposit paid 30 days after a student’s acceptance into the program (Deposit) and a $1,000 administrative fee (Administrative Fee).  If a student discontinues their enrollment after two weeks of study their refund will be issued in the following manner:

Discontinued Enrollment after two weeks but:

Within one month – $20,000 refund (less Deposit and Administrative Fee)

Within two months – $16,000 refund (less Deposit and Administrative Fees)

Within three months – $8,000 refund (less Deposit and Administrative Fees)

Any refund will be credited within 60 days of the student’s termination date.  All students that discontinue enrollment at PrepMD will be subject to forfeiting their Deposit and charged the Administrative Fee.  Our refund policy, as described, is premised upon the student’s payment in full of their tuition.

After three months from the enrollment date, no refund will be provided.

Note: No shipping policy is included in this Credit Card Privacy and Refund Policy, as PrepMD does not ship any goods to its students.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy
From time to time we may make changes to our Privacy Policy.  If we make changes, we will post them on our website to make users aware of what the changes are so users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it.  A User is bound by any minor changes to the policy when she or he uses the site after those changes have been posted.  If, however, we are going to use users’ personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify users by posting a notice on our website for 30 days.

Contacting the Website
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this website, or your dealings with this website, please contact us at: info@prepmd.org