Terms & Conditions
GLOBAL
PRIVACY POLICY
OrthoSynetics, Inc. (“OSI”) respects the privacy
interests of individuals with regard to personally identifiable information
that OSI collects. This Privacy Policy outlines the information that OSI may
receive from an affiliated healthcare professional and how we will use that
information. This statement will also tell you how you can verify the accuracy
of your personal information and how you can request that we amend, correct or
delete any information that is inaccurate.
We have
developed our privacy policy from industry guidelines and standards, and
applicable legal requirements. This privacy policy is intended to comply with
the safe harbor created by the U.S. Department of Commerce and approved by the
European Union as compliant with the European Commission’s Directive on Data
Protection (“
INFORMATION
COLLECTED AND HOW WE USE IT
OSI’s primary goal in collecting personal information relating to a patient is
to enable your healthcare professional to have access to the information that
he or she needs for your effective treatment. OSI provides your healthcare
professional with computer systems that organize and process information
relating to you and your treatment. OSI also uses that information to provide
business and consulting services to your healthcare professional that in turn
helps the affiliated healthcare professional make your treatment experience
efficient. Your personal information will only be provided to your healthcare
professional for use in connection with your treatment and the operation of the
healthcare professional’s practice and will be used by OSI to provide its
consulting and business services to the affiliated healthcare practitioner.
A)
Personal Information
To provide treatment to you, your healthcare professional obtains information
from and about you and transmits that information to us, primarily through our
proprietary computer systems. Besides information relating to your treatment,
this may include information identifying who you are, such as your mailing
address, as well as financial information relating to your treatment.
Additionally, we may use your personal information to contact you. For example,
we may send you correspondence related to appointments, billing or follow-up
care; we may respond to your comments or requests for information; or we may
contact you if needed in the course of or after treatment.
We may also use personal information about you to improve our marketing and
promotional efforts and to improve our services. We may also use your
information to deliver information to you that, in some cases, is targeted to
your treatment, our services and promotions. We believe these uses allow us to
improve our services and better tailor them to meet your needs and the needs of
the affiliated healthcare provider.
B)
Aggregate and Statistical Data
OSI may include information about you and your treatment in the aggregate
information that we provide to the practice as part of the business and
consulting services that we provide to the healthcare professional.
If you visit one of our web sites, our web server will automatically recognize
some non-personal information, including but not limited to the date and time
you visited our site, the pages you visited, the referrer (the website you came
from), the type of browser you are using (e.g. Netscape, Internet Explorer),
the type of operating system you are using (e.g., Windows '95 or Mac OS), and
the domain name and address of your Internet service provider (e.g., AOL). Neither
the web log information nor cookies collects any personal information. They do
not contain personal information, such as your name or e-mail address, and in
no way are used to identify our users. OSI uses web log information (such as
your web browser, operating system, pages visited, etc.) to help us design our
website, to identify popular features, and for other managerial purposes.
However, web logs may be used if necessary to help identify any person
attempting to break into or damage our website. We may share web log
information with law enforcement agencies if we believe that we have evidence
of a violation of computer security or related laws.
DATA SHARING AND TRANSFER
How We May
Share Information
Occasionally, we may share personal information (such as name, mailing
addresses and e-mail addresses) with vendors, contractors or partners of OSI in
connection with services that these individuals or entities perform for your
healthcare professional or with OSI. These vendors, contractors or partners are
restricted from using this data in any way other than to provide services for
your healthcare professional or with OSI, and they may not share or resell this
data. The services they provide may include such activities as direct mailing,
fulfillment services, or e-mail campaigns.
OSI may share your information with any person or company that acquires the OSI business or any portion of the OSI business to which your information relates. OSI will ensure that any person or company to which your information is transferred agrees to abide by the same privacy obligations as OSI. OSI also reserves the right to share the information to respond to duly authorized information requests of governmental authorities or where required by law.
Data
Transfers
Your personal information will generally be stored in our OSI databases, which
are located in various locations within the
OSI
adheres to U.S. Department of Commerce European Union Safe Harbor principles.
If you feel that we may have violated
COOKIES
Cookies help us in many ways to make your visit to our websites more enjoyable
and meaningful to you. Cookies are text information files that your web browser
places on your computer when you visit a website. OSI may use such
"cookie" technology to obtain non-personal information from you as an
online visitor. As an example, this might entail recognizing several web page
requests coming from the same computer and therefore the same visitor. Most
browsers accept cookies automatically, but can be configured not to accept them
or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
DATA
SECURITY
OSI is committed to keeping personal information about you secure and will take
reasonable precautions to protect your personal information from loss, misuse
and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction and will also
take reasonable steps to ensure that data is reliable for its intended use,
accurate, complete, and current. Vendors, contractors, or affiliates of OSI who
have access to your personal information in connection with providing services
for OSI are required to keep the information confidential and are not permitted
to use this information for any other purpose than to carry out the services
they are performing for us. When necessary, we use secure connections on our
web sites to protect information during its transmission. However, we cannot
guarantee the security of information on or transmitted via the Internet.
ACCESS TO
YOUR INFORMATION AND COMPLAINTS
We attempt to keep your files complete, up-to-date, and accurate. Upon request,
you will be given reasonable access to your personal information, except for
confidential or proprietary information such as doctor notes or instances where
the burden or expense of providing access would be disproportionate to the
risks to the individual’s privacy, or as otherwise permitted by the
or
OrthoSynetics, Inc.
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