Privacy and Cookie Policy | GLOWM

Privacy and Cookie Policy

The Global Library of Women’s Medicine respects the privacy of its online users. This privacy statement explains the data processing practices of The Global Library of Women’s Medicine. If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to this policy, please email GLOWM. This privacy statement covers only The Global Library of Women’s Medicine website at https://www.glowm.com. However, this website includes links to other websites, and these other sites are not covered by this statement.

Cookies and log files

When someone visits our website, we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behavior patterns. We do this to find out metrics such as number of visitors to the GLOWM site. We collect this information whilst retaining visitor anonymity. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.

We use Google Analytics to help analyze use of our website.

Our use of cookies

Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volume of usage. The cookies used are:

  • utma / Typical content: randomly generated number / Expires: 2 years
  • utmb / Typical content: randomly generated number / Expires: 30 minutes
  • utmc / Typical content: randomly generated number / Expires: when user exits browser
  • utmz / Typical content: randomly generated number + information on how the site was reached (e.g. directly or via a link, organic search or paid search) / Expires: 6 months

For more information about Google Analytics visit http://www.google.com/analytics.

Removing and disabling cookies

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see which cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

This website includes links to other sites. The Global Library of Women’s Medicine is not responsible for the content or reliability of other websites to which we link. The inclusion of a link should not be taken as an endorsement of the site. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of linked sites.

Mobile phone app ‘GLOWM Safer Motherhood’ policy

This app uses the internet to download resources for medical education and clinical guidance such as contents, videos and publications, in the form of PDF. To function properly, this app requires permission to read the phone’s status. Specifically, it needs to check whether the phone is connected via cellular network or Wi-Fi, so the user can choose when to download resources.

Changes to this privacy policy

If this privacy statement changes we will notify users via the GLOWM News page.
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