Novid Surgical Privacy Policy

Last Updated on 01/13/22. This privacy policy is effective immediately.

Introduction

At Novid Surgical (referred to as the "Company" or "We"), we deeply respect your privacy and are committed to safeguarding it in accordance with this policy.

This policy outlines the types of information that may be collected from you or provided by you when you visit our website (referred to as "Website"), as well as our procedures for gathering, utilizing, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing this information.

This policy applies to information collected in the following ways:

1. On our Website.
2. Through email, text, and other electronic communications between you and our Website.
3. Through mobile and desktop applications downloaded from our Website, providing non-browser-based interaction.
4. When you engage with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if these applications or advertisements include links to this policy.

This policy does not cover information collected:

1. Offline or through other means, including on any other website operated by the Company or any third party (including affiliates and subsidiaries).
2. By any third party (including affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to comprehend our guidelines and practices regarding your information and how we handle it. If you disagree with our policies and practices, please refrain from using our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you acknowledge and agree to this privacy policy. This policy may undergo changes periodically. Your continued use of this Website following such changes will be considered acceptance of those alterations. Therefore, we encourage you to review the policy periodically for updates.

 

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Website is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. No one under 13 may provide any personal information on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, please do not use or provide any information on this Website or its features, register on the Website, make any purchases, utilize interactive or public comment features, or provide any personal information. If we discover that we have unintentionally collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without parental consent, we will promptly delete that information. If you suspect that we may have information about a child under 13, please contact us through our "Contact Us" link.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect various types of information from and about users of our Website, including:

1. Personal information, which may include name, postal address, email address, telephone number, or ANY OTHER INFORMATION DEFINED AS PERSONAL OR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
2. Non-identifiable information about you.
3. Information about your internet connection, the devices you use to access our Website, and usage patterns.

We collect this information through the following means:

1. Directly from you when you voluntarily provide it.
2. Automatically as you navigate through the site. This may include usage details, IP addresses, and data collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
3. From third parties, such as our business partners.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on our Website may include:

1. Information you provide by filling out forms on our Website, including when registering to use our services, subscribing to our offerings, posting content, or requesting additional services.
2. Records and copies of your communications with us, including email correspondence.
3. Your responses to surveys that we may request for research purposes.
4. Details of transactions you perform on our Website, including financial information required for purchases.
5. Your search queries on the Website.

You may also provide information intended for publication or display on public areas of the Website or to other users or third parties (collectively referred to as "User Contributions"). Posting User Contributions on public areas or sharing them with others is done at your own risk. While certain privacy settings may be available for such information through your account profile, please be aware that no security measures are completely foolproof. Additionally, we have no control over the actions of other Website users with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not view your User Contributions.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate and interact with our Website, we may employ automatic data collection technologies to gather specific information about your devices, browsing behavior, and patterns, which may include:

1. Information about your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, and communication details, as well as the resources you access on the Website.
2. Information about your computer and internet connection, such as your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We may also use these technologies to monitor your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (referred to as behavioral tracking). The information we automatically collect is statistical and does not include personal information. However, we may combine it with personal information obtained through other sources or provided by you. This information helps us enhance our Website and provide a more personalized service by enabling us to:

1. Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
2. Store your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your interests.
3. Expedite your searches.
4. Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies used for automatic data collection may include:

1. Cookies (browser cookies): These are small files stored on your computer's hard drive. You can choose to refuse all or some browser cookies, or set alerts when cookies are sent. However, if you disable cookies, certain parts of our Website may be inaccessible or may not function properly. If you do not adjust your browser settings to block cookies, our system will issue them when you visit our Website.
2. Flash Cookies: Some features on our Website may use local stored objects (Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation. Flash cookies are not managed through the same settings as browser cookies.
3. Web Beacons: Our Website pages may contain small electronic files called web beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs). These enable the Company to track users who have visited specific pages, opened emails, and provide other website statistics (e.g., measuring the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not automatically collect personal information, but we may link this information to personal data collected through other means or provided by you.

Third-party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Certain content or applications on the Website may be provided by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies independently or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to gather information about your use of our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or may encompass data about your online activities across various websites and online services. They may utilize this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other tailored content.

We do not control the tracking technologies used by these third parties or how they employ such data. If you have any inquiries regarding advertisements or other tailored content, please contact the responsible provider directly.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect about you or that you provide to us, including personal information, for the following purposes:

1. To present our Website and its content to you.
2. To provide information, products, or services that you request from us.
3. To furnish information about our services.
4. To send you notices concerning your account/subscription, including expiration and renewal notifications.
5. To fulfill our contractual obligations and enforce our rights arising from any agreements between you and us, including billing and collection.
6. To inform you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer.
7. To enable your participation in interactive features on our Website.
8. In any other manner specified when you provide the information.
9. To fulfill any other purposes with your consent.

We may use the information we collect from you to display advertisements to specific target audiences of our advertisers. Although we do not disclose your personal information for such purposes without your consent, please be aware that if you interact with an advertisement by clicking on it or engaging with it in any way, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users and non-identifiable information that does not identify any individual, without restrictions.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or that you provide in the following scenarios:

1. To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
2. To contractors, service providers, and other third parties that support our business and are bound by contractual obligations to maintain personal information confidential and utilize it solely for the purposes we disclose.
3. To a buyer or another successor in case of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or a similar proceeding. Personal information held by the Company about our Website users may be included among the transferred assets.
4. To third parties for marketing their products or services to you, provided you have consented to these disclosures. We have contracts in place with these third parties requiring them to keep personal information confidential and use it exclusively for the purposes we specify.
5. To fulfill the purpose for which you provided the information. For instance, if you give us an email address to utilize the "email a friend" feature of our Website, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the intended recipients.
6. For any other purposes disclosed by us when you provide the information.
7. With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

1. To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to government or regulatory requests.
2. To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including billing and collection.
3. If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others. This includes sharing information with other companies and organizations for purposes such as fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with options regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have established mechanisms to grant you the following control over your information:

Tracking Technologies and Advertising:

You can configure your browser to reject all or some browser cookies or to notify you when cookies are being sent. To learn how to manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe's website. Please note that disabling or rejecting cookies may render certain parts of this site inaccessible or dysfunctional. While we do not govern third parties' collection or use of your information for interest-based advertising, some of these third parties may offer options to opt out of having your information collected or used in this manner. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can contact us via our contact link to request access, correction, or deletion of any personal information you have provided to us. Please note that we may not be able to change information if such alterations would violate any law or legal requirement or result in inaccurate data.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may still be visible in cached and archived pages, or they may have been copied or stored by other Website users. The appropriate access and usage of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, are governed by our terms of use.

Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 allows California residents using our Website to request specific information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us through the Contact Us link.

Data Security

We have implemented measures to protect your personal information from accidental loss and unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

The safety and security of your information also rely on you. If we provide you with (or if you choose) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, it is your responsibility to keep this password confidential. We ask that you do not share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information over the internet is not entirely secure. While we take the utmost care to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not liable for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures on the Website.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

Our policy is to post any changes made to our privacy policy on this page. If we make significant changes to how we handle personal information of our users, we will notify you via email to the address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website's homepage. The date of the most recent revision of the privacy policy is indicated at the top of this page. You are responsible for ensuring that we have an accurate, active, and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and reviewing this privacy policy for any updates.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments regarding this privacy policy and our privacy practices, please contact us via our Contact Us link.

Thank You for Visiting the Website.