Overview
At
www.trustedLASIKsurgeons.com (the “Trusted LASIK Surgeons
Website”), we take your privacy very seriously. We have
drafted this privacy statement (the “Privacy Statement”)
concerning this Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website to explain what
information we collect, how that information is collected, and
how it is used as well as to demonstrate our commitment to protecting
your privacy and any personally identifiable information you share
with us. This website, www.TrustedLASIKSurgeons.com is owned and
operated by the Preferred Doctors Network d/b/a Trusted LASIK
Surgeons (the “Trusted LASIK Surgeons ”, “we”,
“us”, “our”). As a general matter, we
do not knowingly share any personally identifiable information
in our control with any third party without your consent. When
you visit our Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website, there is no requirement
that you provide us with your personal information. However, if
you wish to take advantage of services that we offer, you will
need to voluntarily provide us with certain personal information
to fulfill your request.
This
Privacy Statement sets forth the following:
· What Personally Identifiable Information is collected
from you from the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website
· How any Personally Identifiable Information will be used
· Whether Personally Identifiable Information is shared
with third parties
· The use of any tracking technology
· Whether Personally Identifiable Information is supplemented
with information from other sources
· Choice options available to visitors of our website
· How you can access and correct Personally Identifiable
Information you have provided
· What security measures the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website
has in place
· Procedures for filing and addressing consumer complaints
Information
We Collect
Account
Information. We create an account (the “User Account”)
that is based upon personal information you provide at registration.
.
IP Address. We also collect the IP address of all visitors to
the site.
Emails
to the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website. In the event you email
us, we do collect any information contained in your email, including
your email address and the contents of your message.
How
We Collect Information
1.
Personal Information Provided By You.
We collect information when you register to create a User Account.
This information includes, for example, your username, your name,
email address, birth date, zip code, and other demographic data
about you. You may later modify your account information. We also
collect information that you provide to us for other services,
like referring a friend to the website or sending a report or
other service to a friend. In the event you ask us to email a
friend about the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website or forward information
to a friend, we collect in the name and email address of your
friend in order to fulfill your request.
2.
Cookies. Our website uses cookies primarily
to automatically remember your username. so you navigate from
the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website to other websites without having
to re-enter your username each time you return to the Trusted
LASIK Surgeons Website and want to log on to your User Account.
If you set preferences on your web browser to block cookies, you
may be unable to log on to your User Account to obtain your account
information or utilize all of the features and services offered
on the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website. If that is case, you will
have to re-enter your username and then your password to log onto
your User Account. We may also use cookies to track which web
pages you visit on the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website.
3.
Collection of IP Address. We record
the IP address of every visit to our site. An IP address is a
unique number assigned to the portal through which a computer
accesses the Internet. It does not contain any personally identifying
information and will not be linked to your Membership Profile.
Use
and Access of Information
1.
We may aggregate information from your User Account into anonymous
summaries of information for research purposes and to use for
internal and outside marketing purposes. We do not knowingly share
personally identifiable information that would identify you individually
without your consent. You acknowledge and agree that if you utilize
features available on the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website, such
as contact forms for third parties (such as a doctor), that you
are giving your consent to share your personally identifiable
information with that third party. For example, we use the personally
identifiable information you submit on our contact forms to fulfill
your request, including for example, to put you in touch with
a doctor or other third party service provider. In our discretion,
we may either file these forms and the information contained supplied
by you or discard them.
2.
We use email links located in this Privacy Statement and on the
“Contact Us” page of this website to allow you to
contact us directly with any questions or comments that you may
have. We read every message sent to us and try to reply promptly
to every one. Any information contained in your email will be
used to respond directly to your questions or comments. In our
discretion, we may also file your comments for our administrative
purposes, or review, and discard the information.
3.
We use your personal information to manage your User Account for
services you have selected. Our employees and other parties acting
on our behalf may have access to your information on a need-to-know
basis. We may also use aggregate data from all User Accounts for
promotional, business development, market research, and other
general business purposes. Data is aggregated and summarized anonymously,
so your personally identifiable information (such as your name,
street address or phone number) is not included.
4.
We use your IP Address for systems administration and business
reporting purposes to create aggregate information on all visits
to our website.
5.
We may use information provided by cookies and the IP Address
to understand general traffic flow of visitors to and from and
within the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website and aggregate that information
into summaries. For example, we may aggregate the visits to the
Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website and summarize that 30% of visitors
to the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website went to a certain page this
month.
6.
We may use the information provided by you to “refer a friend”
to our website or send or forward the contents of page of our
website via email to that party
7.
Based on the information you have provided us, we also may use
the personal information you provide to us to send you information
or offers that we believe may be of interest to you, based on
your information, including newsletters, information about new
medical breakthroughs and other items. You may opt out of receiving
this information by Email us at optoutnewsletter@TrustedLASIKSurgeons.com
7.
We may share your information with third parties where we are
required to do so by law or where necessary to protect our interests.
We may share your information without prior notice to you where
required by law.
Changing My Information
It
is your responsibility to make sure that the information you provide
us is correct, and to notify us of any changes. If at any time
you want to view, correct, or change the information you have
provided in your User Account, you can do so by logging into your
User Account at the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website (www.trustedLASIKsurgeons.com).
You may opt-in to any of subscriptions for free reports or newsletters
offered by our company.
Canceling
My Membership and Deleting My Information
You
may cancel your membership with us by loging into your User Account
and selecting the “cancel my account” option or by
emailing us at cancel@TrustedLasikSurgeons.com. We will send an
email to you for the purposes of confirming your request. Your
information may remain in our archives and records, but we will
not use your information for any commercial purpose. We also reserve
the right to maintain information on registered users who have
violated our Terms of Use or who have had their access to our
website blocked in order to detect repeat offenders.
Security
Security
is one of the most important features of the Trusted LASIK Surgeons
Website and any services offered through the Trusted LASIK Surgeons
Website. We require all of our employees with access to the Trusted
LASIK Surgeons Website to agree in writing to follow the provisions
of this Privacy Statement. We limit access to personal information
in your User Accounts to those employees who have a legitimate
business reason for such access. Access by our employees to personal
information is controlled by the use of individual employee passwords.
Our website employs SSL, an open, non-proprietary protocol and
is perhaps the most common way of providing encrypted transmission
of data between web browsers and web servers (HTTP-S is the runner
up). Built upon private key encryption technology, SSL provides
data encryption, server authentication, message integrity, and
client authentication for any TCP/IP connection. For our purposes,
SSL provides these services and protects the information between
SSL-enabled browsers that users typically use (like you) and the
SSL-enabled servers (that are utilized by our website hosting
service provider).
We use SSL encryption technologies to help secure your online
communications. We conduct regular reviews of our security measures,
and we always looking for ways to further protect any personally
identifiable information that you have provided to us.
We
also use passwords to protect access to your User Account. To
protect your User Account information, you should not share your
username or password with anyone. Although we make it a high priority
to safeguard the security of your personal information, transmissions
made by means of the Internet cannot be made absolutely secure.
We assume no liability for disclosure of data due to errors in
transmission or the unauthorized acts of third parties.
Our Policy for Children Under the Age of 18
We feel strongly about protecting the privacy of children. Although
there is no content on this Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website that
should cause any parent concern, this Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website
is not intended for children under the age of eighteen. We will
not collect or use any personal information from children we know
to be under the age of eighteen, and will remove from our system
any personal information from User Accounts we find out to be
from children under the age of eighteen.
Acceptance of Our Privacy Statement
By creating a User Account, or by visiting the Trusted
LASIK Surgeons Website or using any services, you signify your
acceptance of this Privacy Statement. We reserve the right to
add to, delete from, update, modify or otherwise change this Privacy
Statement at any time, and will notify you of such modifications
or will post the modified version of the Privacy Statement on
the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website. Your continued use of any
portion of the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website or services following
such notification or posting will constitute your acceptance of
those modifications.
3rd
Party Advertising Service
We
may work with third party advertising networks to serve ads through
the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website. These advertising networks
may try to place cookies on your computer. You can usually "Opt
Out" of these advertising networks through your browser or
by going to the respective website of the advertising network.
Links
to Third Party Websites
Because
we cannot control the practices of other third party websites,
we are not responsible for the actions of any third parties linked
by way of or through the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website, or emails
we may send you, or any downloads from third party sites through
the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website or emails we send you. For
example, if you click on a banner ad, link, or logo appearing
on the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website, you may leave our website
and interact directly with the website of that third party. That
party may collect and use information based upon a privacy policy
different from our Privacy Statement. We assume no responsibility
or liability for the actions, practices or policies of third parties
that are linked from the Trusted LASIK Surgeons Website or emails
from us, or any downloads from third party sites through the Trusted
LASIK Surgeons Website or emails we send you. Please carefully
review the privacy policies and the terms of the specific offers
you may receive from these parties if you want to know more about
what information they collect and how it will be used.
Questions
or Concerns Regarding Our Privacy Statement
If
you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Statement,
please contact us by email at legal@trustedLASIKsuregons.com so
that we may address them as promptly as possible.
This
Privacy Policy was last updated on November 28, 2007.