Terms of Service

The BDEG Clinical Community Rules of Engagement

Mission Statement: 
To build a community of Dermatology members dedicated to the clinical practice, delivery, and advancement of dermatology, through open, honest, and respectful dialogue.

The BDEG Clinical Community Rules of Engagement are designed to ensure the Community is efficient, independent, free from bias, clinically relevant and useful to the participating members. BDEG, with the support of their technology provider, will, to the best of their abilities and within the limitations of their resources, enforce the following:

1) Discussions must pertain to clinical, research, or healthcare policy topics related to the Mission Statement. Non-relevant discussions (e.g., discussions on politics, religion, etc.) are not allowed.

2) Clinically relevant discussions concerning medical and pharmaceutical industry suppliers and products are encouraged, but discussions intended to advertise or solely promote medical products and pharmaceutical medications are not allowed. Members are expected to disclose potential conflicts of interest that could influence how other members receive and understand their discussions and responses. Disclosures are documented within the community member profiles.

3) Members are encouraged to reference, cite, and share medical publications and information learned from medical events and courses. It is the responsibility of members to ensure they have the proper permissions to upload publications and other content to the Community forum. Discussions intended solely to promote publications, events, or courses are not allowed.

4) Medical industry sponsored marketing and events may not be referenced, cited, or shared by consultants or employees paid to produce or participate in such events.

5) Discussions concerning costs or healthcare-related finances are allowed, provided they pertain to patient care. Discussions concerning costs or healthcare-related finances that do not pertain to patient care (e.g., prices negotiated with medical industry) are not permitted. This Clinical Community may not be used to attempt to form an agreement to fix prices or otherwise restrain trade in breach of UK law or country of origin law of the member or GMC regulations.

6) This Clinical Community may not be used as a marketplace for sale of medical equipment, skin care products, or any other commercial products.

7) This Clinical Community may not be used for recruitment purposes; this includes, but is not limited to, recruitment involving job openings, research surveys, and upcoming conferences and courses.

8) Members are permitted to recommend other named healthcare providers solely for second opinions or on-going care of their patients.

9) Protected health information (PHI) is not permitted on the Community and will be proactively deleted. It is the responsibility of Community members to keep the PHI of their respective patients confidential.

10) Discussions must be collegial and professional. Discussions and responses that are unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, excessively violent, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or otherwise objectionable or offensive are not allowed.

11) Clinical Community members agree not to display, distribute, license, publish, reproduce, duplicate, copy, create derivative works, nor modify, sell, resell, exploit, screen-shot, transfer or upload for any purposes, any portion of the content published on the community site by the members of this  Clinical Community.

12) Failure to adhere to the BDEG Clinical Community Rules of Engagement may result in suspension or expulsion from the Community.

BDEG Clinical Community – Industry Content

Some content may be developed with support from or in collaboration with BDEG corporate partners. All sponsored content appearing in the BDEG Clinical Community will be labelled as sponsored, with the corporate sponsor being clearly denoted. Corporate sponsors are limited to view-only access to their sponsored content (during the content period) and may not edit or control any responses. Receiving notifications from or reading sponsored content will not make BDEG Clinical Community members visible to corporate sponsors. Links allowing BDEG Clinical Community Members to opt out of future notifications concerning sponsored content will be clearly visible within all sponsored content. BDEG Clinical Community Members who opt-in to participating in any discussions or activities within sponsored content should be aware that their names and institutions will be visible to the corporate sponsor of the content.

Privacy Policy

WHO WE ARE

Our website address is: https://bdeg.co.uk.

Updated 16 Dec 2024

Sharing your personal information

Dermatology Education Group Limited (BDEG) will only process your information where it is necessary to support the legitimate interests of our business or those with whom we may have shared your information except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms which require the protection of personal data. We do not sell, trade, or rent Users personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers.

We promise never to provide any information about our subscribers, customers or affiliates to any third party, except of course, to conduct our core business, or in the unusual event we should we be required to do so by law.  We may share your information with third parties for those limited purposes provided that you have given us your permission. We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the Site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or surveys.  Data shall only be shared with third parties who are also GDPR-compliant.

Only those employees with relevant business duties may access personal information, and only to perform their duties. They are subject to dismissal for any privacy violation.

If you have any further queries please contact us.

This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which Dermatology Education Group Limited (BDEG) collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a “User”) of the https://www.bdeg.co.uk website (“Site”). This privacy policy applies to the Site and all products and services offered by Dermatology Education Group Limited (BDEG).

Personal identification information

We may collect personal identification information from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit our site, fill out a form, subscribe to the newsletter and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our Site. Users may be asked for, as appropriate, name, contact number and email address.

Users may, however, visit our Site anonymously.

We will collect personal identification information from Users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to supply personally identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Site related activities.

Non-personal identification information

We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our Site. Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about Users means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilised and other similar information.

How we use collected information

Dermatology Education Group Limited (BDEG) collects and uses Users personal information for the following purposes:

To improve customer service

Your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs.

To personalise user experience

We may use information in the aggregate to understand how our Users as a group use the services and resources provided on our Site.

We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to provide the service.

To send periodic emails

The email address Users provide, will only be used to register their interest or attendance on an event and send them information and updates. It may also be used to respond to their enquiries, and/or other requests or questions. If User decides to opt-in to our mailing list, they will receive emails that may include company news, updates, related product or service information, etc. If at any time the User would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email or the User may contact us via our Site.

How we protect your information

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our Site.

Sensitive and private data exchange between the Site and its Users happens over a SSL secured communication channel and is encrypted and protected with digital signatures.

Changes to this privacy policy

Dermatology Education Group Limited (BDEG) has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

Your acceptance of these terms

By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy and terms of service. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site you can get in contact at:

Dermatology Education Group Limited, 40 St. James Buildings, St. James Street, Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom, TA1 1JR

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