What the library records, why, and what you can ask us to do about it.
Last updated: 7 October 2026
This policy covers the GlobalCastMD medical education library at library.globalcastmd.com: the public pages, the search and answers features, the Spaces that host content, and the accounts used to sign in. It does not cover the separate StayCurrentMD platform and applications, which have their own terms.
The library is a professional education resource. It is not a place to submit patient information, and you should not enter patient-identifiable details into search boxes, comments or any other field.
You do not need an account to read most of the library. When you browse we record, against a random session identifier rather than your name:
That session identifier is not linked to you personally unless you sign in. We do not build advertising profiles and we do not sell this data.
Accounts hold your email address, your display name, and your role. Signing in uses a one-time code sent by email; the code itself is stored only as a hash, with an expiry and an attempt counter, and is cleared once used. Where an account has a phone number for verification, it is handled the same way. Once you are signed in, the activity above is associated with your account rather than with an anonymous session.
Content you publish — recordings, documents, images, collections, the text that describes them and your name as the author — is intended to be seen. Items in a public Space are visible to anyone; items marked for healthcare professionals or kept private to a Space are restricted accordingly.
Our content delivery network and web servers keep ordinary access logs, which include IP addresses, for security, abuse prevention and troubleshooting. Within the library's own analytics we do not store raw IP addresses: an address is used transiently to apply rate limits, and where a record of origin is genuinely needed it is stored as a hash rather than the address itself.
We use a small number of cookies: one to keep you signed in, one to remember collections you follow so the list survives a reload, and an administrator-only cookie that previews a design change. We do not use cookies to track you across other websites.
The library uses Google Analytics to understand which material is useful and where people get stuck. Email is delivered through Amazon Web Services. The library runs on Amazon Web Services infrastructure in the United States, which is where content and account records are stored.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not use your activity to target advertising.
Credentials and keys are held in a managed secrets store rather than in code or configuration files. Traffic is encrypted in transit. Access to production systems is restricted and audited. No system is perfectly secure, and we do not claim otherwise.
You can ask us to show you what we hold about you, correct it, delete your account, or stop sending you email. A newsletter can be stopped by replying to it or by writing to the address below. Published content that other people rely on may be retained or attributed differently rather than erased outright; we will tell you which applies to your request.
These need a decision from GlobalCastMD and its legal advisers, and are intentionally not answered here yet:
Email: info@globalcastmd.com
Web: Contact page
When this policy changes we will update the date at the top. If a change materially affects what we do with your information, we will say so rather than rely on the date alone.
