ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY

We at Surgeryplanet.com are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your visits to this website. Outlined below is our online privacy policy. If you have questions about this policy, please let us know.

Collection and disclosure of information: To ensure we are able to communicate effectively with visitors to our web site, we collect some information that can be directly associated with a specific person. We call this "Personal Information," and it includes, by way of illustration, names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses.

We collect Personal Information from eligible individuals who request to receive e-mail or other services from us. We collect this Personal Information in order to provide these eligible individuals with timely information via e-mail regarding events, services, resources and issues.

It is our general policy not to make Personal Information available to anyone other than our employees, staff, providers and agents.

Online Comments and Personal Information: We treat your name, city, state, and any comments you provide as public information. We may also make comments along with your city and state available to the press and public online.

Opting out and modifying information: Subscribers to our e-mail list may terminate their subscriptions via a link at the bottom of each email sent from surgeryplanet.com Browser information collected on the web site: We log IP addresses, which are the locations of computers or networks on the Internet, and analyze them in order to improve the value of our site. We also collect aggregate numbers of page hits in order to track the popularity of certain pages and improve the value of our site. We do not gather, request, record, require, collect or track any Internet users' Personal Information through these processes.

Cookies: A cookie is a tiny piece of data stored by a user's browser that helps a web site or service recognize that user's unique computer. You can remove or block cookies by changing the settings of your browser.

Third Party Links: This Website may contain links to third party Websites that are not controlled by surgeryplanet.com. These third party links are made available to you as a convenience and you agree to use these links at your own risk. Please be aware that the SurgeryPlanet.com is not responsible for the content of third party Websites linked to the surgeryplanet.com nor are we responsible for the privacy policy or practices of third party Websites linked to the surgeryplanet.com. Our Privacy Policy only applies to information we collect from you while you are at and while you are actively in a session with the surgeryplanet.com If you should link to a third party Website from the surgeryplanet.com, we strongly encourage you to review and become familiar with that Website's privacy policy.

Session specific cookies may be used on surgeryplanet.com to improve the user experience and for basic web metrics. These cookies expire in a very short time frame or when a browser window closes and are permitted by current federal guidelines. The federal government has guidelines for the use of persistent cookies. The goals of the guidelines are to enable the useful functioning of websites while protecting individual privacy.

Videos For videos that are visible onsurgeryplanet.com, a ‘persistent cookie’ is set by third party providers when you click to play a video. This persistent cookie is used by some third party providers to help maintain the integrity of video statistics. If you would like to view a video without the use of persistent cookies, a link to download the video file is typically provided just below or next to the video.

Privacy of our email lists: As noted above, we maintain e-mail lists to keep interested, eligible individuals informed about important topics, and individuals must request to join them. We configure our list server software to refuse to divulge the email addresses of our list subscribers to anyone other than those whom we authorize. However, we are not the author of this software, and are not responsible for any failures in the software to preserve subscriber anonymity.

Children's privacy: Because we care about the safety and privacy of children online, we comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying FTC regulation establish United States federal law that protects the privacy of children using the Internet. We do not knowingly contact or collect personal information from children under 13. Our site is not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under 13.

It is possible that by fraud or deception we may receive information pertaining to children under 13. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will immediately obtain parental consent or otherwise delete the information from our servers. If you want to notify us of our receipt of information by children under 13, please do so by emailing us at info@surgeryplanet.com

Security: We maintain a variety of physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information. For example, we use commercially reasonable tools and techniques to protect against unauthorized access to our systems. Also, we restrict access to Personal Information to those who need such access in the course of their duties for us. Your own efforts to protect against unauthorized access play an important role in protecting the security of your personal information. You should be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer, and always log out of any site when viewing personal information. We may have links to other, outside web sites that we do not control. We also have agencies that use systems that are not under our control and its security cannot be monitored. We are not responsible for the content or privacy policies of these sites,agencies and users should check those policies on such sites or agencies

Changes to this policy: We will revise or update this policy if our practices change, or as we develop better ways to keep you informed about them. You should refer back to this page often for the latest information and the effective date of any changes. If we decide to change this policy, we will post a new policy on our site and change the date at the bottom.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us. info@surgeryplanet.com