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Privacy Statement By using the power and technology of the Internet, HealthStream is able to exchange information with the medical community in innovative, personalized and efficient ways. We rely on our customers to provide basic data, including mailing and e-mail addresses and information on the medical specialties in which they serve. In addition, HealthStream may provide optional online forums and surveys for medical professionals to answer questions on various medical topics and issues. These forums and surveys may be on behalf of cmecourses, a healthcare system, pharmaceutical company, or other organization. The purpose of collecting basic information and offering these optional dialogues is to understand the specific needs of medical professionals, and to have the ability to address them better than ever before. Offering customized products and services, providing specialty-specific information, and communicating with individuals on clinically-relevant levels are all ways in which the technology of our Internet platform creates new sources of value. In order to maintain clear standards of privacy and security with the information we are provided, HealthStream has established the following Principles of Privacy for our organization and customers. Our Principles of Privacy: 1. We do not, and will not sell or provide our secure, proprietary database of customers to any outside parties. 2. Personal information, including the name of the individual customer is private to HealthStream and HealthStream, Inc. 3. When you place orders or access your account information, we offer the use of a secure server. The secure server software (SSL) encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. 4. Third parties utilizing HealthStream services to communicate with the medical community may be afforded access to information on customers in an aggregate and anonymous format. Any exchange of information between a third-party using HealthStream services and an individually identified customer must be explicitly approved by the individual customer. In addition, HealthStream uses cookies to authenticate users. We use cookies to make sure our users are who they say they are. A cookie is a small data file that certain Web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. Your browser needs to accept these cookies for the HealthStream site to function properly. If for some reason you believe HealthStream has not adhered to these principles, please use the feedback form to notify us and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and correct the problem.