If an individual completes a CME or other accredited activity on WoundClosures.com, we are required by the American Medical Association (AMA), and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), or any other accrediting organizations, to collect personal information on the individual, such as their name, address, and phone number, that will allow us to issue a CME/CE Certificate to them and to keep this information on file for up to 6 years.

Personal information provided to WoundClosures.com will be used only to meet AMA and ACCME requirements and to issue CME/CE Certificates to those who complete these educational activities. Information gathered on individuals who complete a CME/CE activity on WoundClosures.com is stored in a secure database and is restricted to appropriate members of the Dannemiller Foundation. We use these databases to verify individual participation in a CME/CE activity and to re-issue a certificate to and individual if the certificate is lost or misplaced.

Personal information gathered will not be released to any other company or organization for any purpose. This information remains totally confidential. At the end of the mandatory 6-year period, these records will be permanently destroyed.

WoundClosures.com uses website tracking software to determine how the website is used. This software allows us to determine where users of WoundClosures.com go on the site. It also tells us what browsers individuals are using, how long they stayed on the site, what areas they visited, and how they found us on the Internet, i.e., through a link with another site, through a search engine, or if they just entered our URL (WoundClosures.com). This helps us determine what portions of the site are important to our users and how they found us so we can better meet the needs of our users. This software does not identify an individual personally.

WoundClosures.com does not use "cookies" or any other software that would violate any individual's privacy in any way.

Links to commercial web sites for our supporters or other educational web sites are available on the site, but we will inform you that you are leaving WoundClosures.com when you select one of these sites to ensure you want to leave. If you want to continue, simply select the option that allows you to continue. If you don't want to leave WoundClosures.com, select the option to go back to WoundClosures.com.

If you have any questions about WoundClosures.com or any of our policies, you may contact us at editor@dannemiller.com.

Thank you for using WoundClosures.com. You can use it freely with complete faith that your individual privacy has been completely protected.

We trust you will find it educational and informative.
Dannemiller Memorial Educational Foundation