Last updated June 9, 2004.
PLEASE NOTE: OUR PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES FROM TIME
TO TIME. PLEASE CHECK BACK FREQUENTLY FOR UPDATES.
The information collection, use, and dissemination
practices of Cosmetic Surgery Affiliates, Inc. (the "Company")
are discussed in this policy. This policy applies to
Company's information collection (a) on Company's website
(seniorpsychiatry.com and any other websites Company
may produce or operate in the future) ("Websites"),
(b) on various third party websites, and (c) through
the use of Company's desktop software applications.
1. Collection of Information.
1.1 Survey Information.
The Company collects information from individuals when
an individual voluntarily completes a Company survey,
order form, or submits information via an online form
accompanied by a pre-checked or non-pre-checked checkbox
indicating that the individual consents to receiving
marketing communications from Company (a "Co-registration"),
or a registration page either online or offline, or
by means of online or offline surveys, order forms,
or registration pages operated by third parties (collectively,
a "Survey"). (As used herein, "online" means
using the Internet, including the Websites and related
technologies, and "offline" means by methods
other than online, including in person, via postal
mail, using telephones and cell phones, and other similar
means.) In the Surveys, the Company or a third party
(a "Third Party") may ask an individual to
provide various information to the Company, which may
include his or her name, email address, street address,
zip code, telephone numbers (including cell phone numbers
and carriers), birth date, gender, salary range, education
and marital status, occupation, employment information,
personal and online interests, and such other information
as may requested from time to time (together, "Survey
Information"). Company or third party may also
collect information such as what browser you are using
and your Internet Protocol ("IP") address.
Completing the Surveys is completely voluntary, and
individuals are under no obligation to provide Survey
Information to the Company or Third Party, but an individual
may receive incentives from the Company or a Third
Party in exchange for providing Survey Information
to the Company.
1.2 Third Party List Information.
The Company may collect information from individuals
when an individual provides information to a third
party, and the Company subsequently purchases, licenses,
or otherwise acquires the information from the third
party (the "Seller"). Such purchased information
may include, but is not limited to, an individual's
name, email address, street address, zip code, telephone
numbers (including cell phone numbers and carriers),
birth date, gender, salary range, education and marital
status, occupation, industry of employment, personal
and online interests, and such other information as
the individual may have provided to the Seller (together, "Third
Party List Information"). When acquiring Third
Party List Information, the Company seeks assurances
from the Seller that the Seller has a right to transfer
the Third Party List Information to the Company and
that the Company has a right to provide offers from
advertisers to the individuals whose personal information
is included on the Seller's list.
1.3 Other Information. Other occasions
when the Company obtains information from individuals
include (1) when an individual is making a claim for
a prize or seeking to redeem an incentive offered by
the Company or by a third party, (2) when an individual
requests assistance through Company's customer service
department, (3) when an individual voluntarily subscribes
to a Company service or newsletter, and (4) when an
individual voluntarily downloads, installs, and uses
Company's desktop software application(s) (independently
or as part of a third party offering (together, "Other
Information").
1.4 Cookies, Web beacons, and Other Information
Collected Using Technology. The Company
currently uses cookie and web beacon technology to
associate certain Internet-related information about
an individual with information about the individual
in our database. Additionally, the Company may use
other new and evolving sources of information in
the future (together, "Technology Information").
(a) Cookies. A cookie is a small
amount of data stored on the hard drive of the individual's
computer that allows Company to identify the individual
with his or her corresponding data that resides in
Company's database. You may read more about cookies
at www.cookiecentral.com. Individuals who use the Websites
need to accept cookies in order to use all of the features
and functionality of the Websites.
(b) Web beacons. A web beacon is
programming code that can be used to display an image
on a web page (by using an <img src="x"> programming
function -- see www.www.org for more information),
but can also be used to transfer an individual's unique
user identification (often in the form of a cookie)
to a database and associate the individual with previously
acquired information about an individual in a database.
This allows Company to track certain web sites an individual
visits online. Web beacons are used to determine products
or services an individual may be interested in, and
to track online behavioral habits for marketing purposes.
For example, Company might place, with the consent
of a third party website, a web beacon on the third
party's website where fishing products are sold. When
Joe, an individual listed in Company's database, visits
the fishing website, Company receives notice by means
of the web beacon that Joe visited the fishing site,
and Company would then update Joe's profile with the
information that Joe is interested in fishing. Company
may thereafter present offers of fishing related products
and services to Joe. In addition to using web beacons
on web pages, Company also uses web beacons in email
messages sent to individuals listed in Company's database.
If you wish more information about web beacons, you
may wish to visit http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/Web_beacon.html.
(c) General Behavior Tracking. The
Company may track online behaviors ("Behaviors")
through our own technologies, including our desktop
software products, in order to increase the effectiveness
of the advertisements we deliver. An example of such
behaviors may include advertisement responses, web
sites that you visit, and products that you purchase.
You can prevent your behaviors from being tracked by
globally unsubscribing from our marketing materials
or by uninstalling our software. As described in Section
2.1, the Company reserves the right to use such technologies
for any purpose permitted by law, whether such use
is expressly specified herein.
(d) New Technology. The use of technology
on the Internet, including cookies and web beacons,
is rapidly evolving, as is Company's use of new and
evolving technology. As a result, Company strongly
encourages individuals to revisit this policy for any
updates regarding its use of technology.
1.5 Outside Information. The Company
may receive information about individuals from third
parties or from other sources of information outside
of the Company including information located in public
databases ("Outside Information").
1.6 Individual Information. As used
herein, Individual Information means Survey Information,
Third Party List Information, Other Information, Technology
Information, and Outside Information, and any other
information the Company gathers or receives about individuals.
1.7 No Information Collected from Children.
The Company will never knowingly collect any personal
information about children under the age of 13. If
the Company obtains actual knowledge that it has collected
personal information about a child under the age of
13, that information will be immediately deleted from
our database. Because it does not knowingly collect
such information, to the best of the Company's knowledge,
the Company has no such information to use or to disclose
to third parties. The Company has designed this policy
in order to comply with the Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act ("COPPA").
1.8 Credit Card Information. The
Company may in certain cases collect credit card numbers
and related information, such as the expiration date
of the card ("Credit Card Information") when
an individual places an order from Company. When the
Credit Card Information is submitted to Company, such
information is encrypted and is protected with SSL
encryption software. The Company will use the Credit
Card Information for purposes processing and completing
the purchase transaction, and the Credit Card Information
will be disclosed to third parties only as necessary
to complete the purchase transaction.
2. Use of Individual Information.
2.1 Discretion to Use Information.
THE COMPANY MAY USE INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION FOR ANY
LEGALLY PERMISSIBLE PURPOSE IN COMPANY'S SOLE DISCRETION.
The following paragraphs in Section 2 describe how
the Company currently uses Individual Information,
but the Company may change or broaden its use at any
time. As noted below, the Company may update this policy
from time to time. The Company may use Individual Information
to provide promotional offers to individuals by means
of email advertising, telephone marketing, direct mail
marketing, online banner advertising, among other possible
uses.
2.2 Email. The Company uses Individual
Information to provide promotional offers by email
to individuals. The Company may maintain separate email
lists for different purposes. If email recipients wish
to end their email subscription, they need to follow
the instructions at the end of each email message to
unsubscribe.
2.3 Targeted Advertising. The Company
uses Individual Information to target advertising to
an individual. When an individual is using the Internet,
the Company uses Technology Information (see also Section
2.5 below) to associate an individual with that person's
Individual Information, and the Company attempts to
show advertising for products and services in which
the person has expressed an interest in, whether directly
or indirectly through behavior monitoring. The Company
may, at its discretion, target advertising by using
email, direct mail, telephones, cell phones, and other
means of communication to provide promotional offers.
2.4 Direct Mail and Telemarketing.
The Company may use Individual Information to advertise,
directly or indirectly, to individuals using direct
mail marketing or telemarketing using telephones and
cell phones.
2.5 Profiles of Individuals. The
Company uses Individual Information to make a profile
of an individual. A profile can be created by combining
Survey Information and Third Party List Information
with other sources of Individual Information such as
information obtained from public databases.
2.6 Storage of Individual Information.
The Company stores the Individual Information in a
database on Company computers. Our computers have security
measures (such as a firewall) in place to protect against
the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information
under Company's control. Notwithstanding such measures,
the Company cannot guarantee that its security measures
will prevent the Company computers from being illegally
accessed, and the Individual Information on them stolen
or altered.
3. Dissemination of Individual Information.
3.1 Sale to Third Parties. The Company
may sell or transfer Individual Information to third
parties for any legally permissible purpose in the
Company's sole discretion ("Data Sale").
A Data Sale shall not be defined to mean a merger,
acquisition, change in capital structure, or any activity
specified in Section 3.2, 3.3, or 3.4 below.
Each time the Company enters into a Data Sale, the
Company will send an email ("Data Sale Notice")
to individuals who have entered a valid email address
into a Survey. The Data Sale Notice will contain instructions
on how to prevent the individual's data from being
sold to such specific third party. There is no guarantee
that an individual will receive the Data Sale Notice
due to technical failure, service provider email filtering
mechanisms, or other unpredictable failures of transmission.
Individuals that did not provide valid email addresses,
or who no longer have the same email address, will
not receive a Data Sale Notice. Failure to receive
a Data Sale Notice shall not restrict Company's ability
to sell data under Section 3.1.
3.2 Order Fulfillment. The Company
will transfer Individual Information to third parties
when necessary to provide a product or service that
a person orders from such third party while using Company
web sites or when responding to offers provided by
Company.
3.3 Legal Process. The Company may
disclose Individual Information to respond to subpoenas,
court orders, and other legal process.
3.4 Summary Data. The Company may
sell or transfer non-individualized information, such
as summary or aggregated anonymous information about
all persons or sub-groups of persons.
4. Privacy Practices of Third Parties.
4.1 Advertiser cookies and web beacons.
Advertising agencies, advertising networks, and other
companies (together, "Advertisers") who place
advertisements on the Websites and on the Internet
generally may use their own cookies, web beacons, and
other technology to collect information about individuals.
The Company does not control Advertisers' use of such
technology and the Company has no responsibility for
the use of such technology to gather information about
individuals.
4.2 Links. The Websites and email
messages sometimes contain hypertext links to the web
sites of third parties. The Company is not responsible
for the privacy practices or the content of such other
web sites.
4.3 Affiliated Companies. The Company
may disclose, transfer, and sell Individual Information
to entities affiliated with Company in Company's discretion.
5. Unsubscribe from Cosmetic Surgery Affiliates list.
To unsubscribe from the Cosmetic Surgery Affiliates list, click
the link included in the footer of any message delivered
by Cosmetic Surgery Affiliates, and follow the instructions provided.
6. More Information. For more information
about protecting your privacy, please contact
us.
THE COMPANY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO UPDATE THIS POLICY
FROM TIME TO TIME, SO YOU SHOULD REVIEW THIS POLICY
FREQUENTLY.
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