Last updated: April 02, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You. We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Who we are

We are an online website that writes explainer/technical content and updates about the pharmaceutical and medical device sectors.

Our website address is: https://druganddeviceworld.com.

We are owned by D and D World.

Newsletter

If you have subscribed to our newsletter you will receive emails from us. We will only send you emails that you have signed up to receive.

To send you emails, we use the email address you provide us. Our site also logs the IP address you used when you signed up for the service to prevent abuse of the system.

This website can send emails through a third-party newsletter service. This service allows us to track opens and clicks on our emails. We use this information to improve the content of our newsletters.

No identifiable information is otherwise tracked outside this website except for the email address.

Members data

If you have signed up for a paid membership (monthly/yearly) on this site, we will collect additional information commonly found on a business card, such as name, job title, company, and contact details.

The information collected by us or third party services (like PayPal) includes:

• Personal details: given name(s); preferred name; and photograph including personal photo/image (if uploaded by you as part of the account).
• Contact details: telephone number (if needed as part of payment); email address; and mailing address.
• Device details (anonymized data): device type, operating system, browser type, browser settings, browsing information, IP address, language settings, dates and times of connecting to our website, and other technical communications information.
• Payment details (collected by PayPal): billing address; bank account number or credit/debit card number; cardholder or accountholder name; card or account security details; card ‘valid from’ date; card expiry date.
• Analysis data: keywords, communities, trends, content quality and content importance.
• Views, opinions, and interests: any comments, ratings, views or opinions that you choose to send to us, post via our website or through the Services, via a survey, or publicly post via social media platforms.

Liking or sharing a post

We may collect data on any comments, ratings, likes, views, or opinions that you choose to send to us, post via our website or publicly post via social media platforms.

Data collection and Usage

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:
• Cookies or Browser Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
• Web Beacons: Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. You can learn more about cookies on TermsFeed website article.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
• Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
• Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
• Functionality Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, ads 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.

Who we share your data with

We have enabled Google Analytics on our website. If you want to see or limit the information collected by the service, please see the Google Analytics privacy page.

How long we retain your data

For users that like the content on our website (if any), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile (usually, their WordPress profile). All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

What rights you have over your data

If you have a member account on this site, or have signed up for our newsletter, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Contact

If you have any privacy-specific concerns or require more information regarding your data please contact us using the contact us form.