Will VIN share your information with others? No.
Maintaining the security of the personal information of its members is essential to VIN.
Keeping accurate member information helps us to provide you with our best service. Be assured that the information you provide VIN, in your application and within the MyVIN feature, is for administrative and fellow member use only.
Use MyVIN to provide the VIN Staff with your current contact information and to control what information is available to fellow VIN members.
We take great pride in keeping VIN exclusive to members only. To that end, we ask an additional security question each time you enter the VIN site. By using information that is well known to you, but not commonly shared publicly, we hope that this added step will be uncomplicated, yet provide the security that the VIN community desires.
VIN does not sell or give out member information to any outside companies or sources without your permission.
Will you share information you find on VIN with others?
If appropriate and you take certain precautions -- read on...
VIN is about you, it is your community, so using what you learn on VIN in other situations is more than appropriate IF you take the following precautions to protect the VIN community.
First a few definitions:
- VIN Community Information is any information generated within VIN or VIN CE courses that involves message board postings, rounds discussions, VIN member submitted forms and collections or any other content that was generated through interactions on VIN or for VIN by a member of the VIN community.
- VIN Hosted Information is any information published on VIN that was generated by others. This may include conference proceedings, full-text articles and works. These items will be identified by being copyright to VIN and/or another organization/individual.
Sharing VIN Community Information with one or a few colleagues/friends who agree to not share or reproduce the information with others.
- Please do so with discretion and consideration for how you would want others to share information you post on VIN.
- You may do so without permission from VIN.
Sharing VIN Community Information with any non-veterinarian or a larger group of veterinarians
- If a message board discussion, first please post a request in the discussion to enable VINners to request that they not be quoted or to argue against sharing this discussion outside the VIN community. Second, e-mail Paul@vin.com or call the office and ask for permission and instructions on how the information should be presented and referenced.
- For all other VIN Community Information, please e-mail Paul@vin.com or call the office and ask for permission and instructions on how the information should be presented and referenced.
Sharing VIN Hosted Information with one or a few colleagues/friends who agree to not share or reproduce the information with others.
- Use common sense and discretion; this means that it would be viewed as OK to share a paragraph or article; it is not OK to print out an entire book or proceedings.
- Be sure to include all source and copyright information in the reproduced material.
- You may do so without permission from VIN.
Sharing VIN Hosted Information with any non-veterinarian or a larger group of veterinarians
- Email Feedback@vin.com or call the VIN office at 800-700-4636.
- If an appropriate request, VIN will make all reasonable efforts to acquire the permissions or direct you to the original source for permission.
In summary, it is very important to VIN and all VIN members that your information is protected. So we ask that all VIN members use common sense and professional discretion when discussing or sharing VIN Community or VIN Hosted information with individuals who are not a part of the VIN community.
As such, it is a violation of VIN's privacy policies to share your individual login information with ANY INDIVIDUAL.
This policy may change without notice in accordance with VIN Community Governance Policies.
Last updated 10/18/2004
