Privacy Policy « Mobile Surgery International

Privacy Policy

Mobile Surgery International (“MSI”) respects the privacy of visitors to its web site, and acknowledges the need for appropriate protection and management of personally identifiable information visitors share with us (any information by which they can be identified, including but not limited to, name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number).

We have established this Privacy Policy so that you are informed about how MSI treats any personally identifiable information that you provide to us in the course of using this web site. This Privacy Policy will let you know:

How you will be informed of updates to this Privacy Policy
What personally identifiable information of yours we may collect from you through our web site
How we may use your personally identifiable information
Limits on how we would share and disclose your personally identifiable information
Our policy regarding links to third-party web sites
Security of our web site
How you can correct and update personally identifiable information you may have shared with MSI

Privacy Policy Updates

Due to the continuing and rapid evolution of the Internet, MSI may need to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. In such a case, MSI will post its updated Privacy Policy on this website so that users are always aware of what personally identifiable information we may collect and how we may use this information. MSI encourages you to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. Your continued use of this web site will be subject to the then-current Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Use

You can generally visit our web site without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. However, to access certain options and services, we may ask you to provide certain personally identifiable information. Unless you provide such personally identifiable information, you may be unable to access certain options and services. We collect personally identifiable information about you only if you provide it to us voluntarily, and you have the option not to provide any personally identifiable information to us through this web site. The following is personally identifiable information that you may voluntarily provide to us and how we use it:

Information obtained from you through web surveys, such as contact information (name and address), demographic information (zip code, age level), and medical condition: We may use this personally identifiable information to provide you with information and services for which you have expressed an interest or that you may find useful based on your answers in a survey. Additionally, we may refer to your personally identifiable information to better understand your needs and how we can improve our website.

Information obtained from you from your request to subscribe to a newsletter, such as contact information (name and e-mail address): We may use this personally identifiable information to deliver the newsletters that you have elected to receive.

Information obtained from you on registration forms used to process your requests for services and information, such as contact information (name, address, e-mail address), password, user name or code, age, date of birth, gender, ethnicity, and medical condition: This registration information may also be gathered if you register for certain services via fax or mail. We may use this information to send you a welcoming e-mail to verify your user name and password, web site updates, special offers, notices regarding relevant medical conditions and treatment, or other information responsive to the data that you provide to us. Additionally, we may refer to your personally identifiable information to better understand your needs and how we can improve our web site.

MSI is the owner of all information collected on this web site.

Minors

You must be 18 years of age or older to submit registration or survey information. If you are under the age of 18 and wish to register to obtain further information or be included in a survey, then your parent or legal guardian must register to obtain the information or to participate in the survey.

Cookies and GIF Files

Some of our websites may use cookie technology to identify users who have previously visited so that the user is recognized upon return, thereby saving them time while on our web site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our web site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our web site. A cookie may be placed by us or by vendors or service agencies who work with us or with our partners.

Log Files and Aggregate Information

We may track the total number of visitors to our web site, the number of visitors to each page of our web site, Internet Service provider addresses, and the domain names of our users’ Internet Service Providers, and we may analyze these data for trends and statistics in the aggregate, but such information will be in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable data. Such aggregate information is not linked to any personally identifiable information that can identify any individual person.

We may use such aggregate information to analyze trends, administer the web site, track users’ movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We may share this aggregate information with our corporate partners and contracted vendors to assist us in operating the web site and to enable them to better understand MSI’s business.

Sharing and Disclosure

We may provide your personally identifiable information that we collect and the data generated by cookies to a subsidiary or affiliate entity within the MSI corporate family, to partner entities, and to vendors and service agencies that we may engage to assist us. For example, we may provide your personally identifiable information to an organization in order to complete a service (e.g., send out newsletter e-mails you have requested), to assist us in reviewing the data, or to provide marketing or advertising on our behalf. Any organization to which we provide such personally identifiable information is also required to keep your personally identifiable information confidential in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We will also disclose your personally identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, regulation, or other government authority. We will not sell your personally identifiable information to any other company or organization, except we may transfer your personally identifiable information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation, or other corporate reorganization in which MSI participates or to a purchaser of all or substantially all of MSI’s assets. Such successor entity shall be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

Links to Third-Party Sites

This web site may contain links to other web sites on the Internet that are not under the control of or maintained by MSI. Such links do not constitute an endorsement of those web sites, the content displayed therein, or the persons or entities associated therewith by MSI. You acknowledge that MSI is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and you agree that MSI has no responsibility for the content of such web sites. Your use of these other linked web sites is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies of the linked websites.

Security

MSI and its third-party providers may employ procedural and technological security measures, consistent with industry practice. Such measures are reasonably designed to protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. MSI may use encryption, password protection, secure socket layers, internal restrictions, and other security measures to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information.

Correcting/Updating Personally Identifiable Information

MSI provides you with the ability to review and correct any of the personally identifiable information that you have provided to us. If you wish to correct any information provided to us, you may contact MSI by e-mail. You may also “opt-out” of receiving e-mails and other communications from us by using the unsubscribe feature included in the emails we send.

This Privacy Policy last updated: September 16, 2009.