Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.pioneermedicaljournal.com.

2. What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

We respect your concerns regarding privacy on the Internet and value the relationship we have with you. This policy outlines our efforts to protect your privacy, what kind of your data we collect and what we will do with the collected data. Pioneer Medical Journal (PMJ) is a publisher and provides platforms for sharing health-related information. This Privacy Policy affects all websites and services that PMJ provides.

3.  Protection of Your Information
All data we collect from you on our websites is protected against unauthorized access by third parties. We do our utmost to protect your privacy through the appropriate use of security technologies and physical safeguards.

4. Website Usage Information
While you use our websites, your visits to individual pages will be tracked and recorded in web server log files (“Log Data”). Log Data may be used by PMJ for statistical purposes, to recognize patterns of usage of the websites, and to improve the structure and content presentation. The usage information we collect includes referring URLs, browser and device characteristics, IP address, operating system, as well as dates and times of website visits.

Via the website, PMJ may offer via its website third party services, such as article recommendations, social login, social sharing, and banners to third party sites. Information which is collected by PMJ when you access third party services is processed under this Privacy Policy, while information collected by third party operators themselves will be governed by their own privacy policies.

Our websites may use Google Analytics to help us collect information about how visitors use our sites. We use this information to compile reports and to help us improve the sites. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to a site, where visitors have navigated to a site from and the pages they visit whilst on a site.

You can configure your browser to opt out of providing data to Google Analytics by using the browser add-on provided by Google here.

5. User Accounts, Registration and Personalized Services
To make use of personalised services, you will have to register a user account with our websites. During registration we will ask you to provide some personal information, including, but not limited to, your name, valid e-mail address, affiliation, postal address, phone number, password, academic degree, position within your institution or organization, and your research interests. Some of this information is required to properly set up the user account for you to use all of PMJ’s services. PMJ may use this information to fulfill our contract with you (e.g. the publication of your article). Furthermore, PMJ may also use this information internally, e.g., to evaluate and improve our business, respond to any questions, requests or comments you make, for targeted marketing purposes, or to identify and prevent fraud, claims or other liabilities. PMJ may contact you by e-mail to draw your attention to content that might be of interest to you (e.g. new services, products or publications) and for other advertising. If the personal information was provided to us by a third party, PMJ may still use this information in the same manner as described above. You will have the chance to opt out of receiving such e-mails by unsubscribing or contacting the PMJ customer service at.

6. International Transfer of Personal Data
As an international company, PMJ may transfer your personal information outside of your country of residence to be stored on our servers. PMJ takes steps to ensure your personal information is continued to be protected wherever it is stored and/or processed.

7. Your Rights
As a registered user, you can access your account at any time and make corrections or updates. In accordance with existing data privacy law, you may request the information that PMJ holds or processes about you. On request, we will also provide you with a copy of all personal information that we possess about you. We will delete this personal information when you request to deactivate your account. However, some personal information may remain in storage for a certain period of time in order to comply with our (legal) obligations and to resolve disputes.

8. Linked Websites
PMJ may link to other websites not controlled by PMJ. Please take note that PMJ cannot be held responsible or liable for privacy practices of other websites, nor their services or content.

9. Changes to the Privacy Policy
PMJ reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting changes without prior notice. Please check this Privacy Policy periodically for any modifications. Your continued use of any service following the posting of any changes will mean that you have accepted and agreed to the changes.

10. How To Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at Email: fmcumuahia@mdcan.org.ng