Privacy Policy
San Diego Surgical Specialists (“San Diego Surgical Specialists”) operates sdsurgery.com and may operate other websites. It is San Diego Surgical Specialists’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, San Diego Surgical Specialists collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request.
San Diego Surgical Specialists’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how San Diego Surgical Specialists’s visitors use its website. From time to time, San Diego Surgical Specialists may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
San Diego Surgical Specialists also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on sdsurgery.com blogs/sites.
San Diego Surgical Specialists only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to San Diego Surgical Specialists’s websites choose to interact with San Diego Surgical Specialists in ways that require San Diego Surgical Specialists to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that San Diego Surgical Specialists gathers depends on the nature of the interaction.
For example, we ask visitors who sign up at sdsurgery.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with San Diego Surgical Specialists are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions.
In each case, San Diego Surgical Specialists collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with San Diego Surgical Specialists. San Diego Surgical Specialists does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
San Diego Surgical Specialists may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. San Diego Surgical Specialists may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, San Diego Surgical Specialists does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
San Diego Surgical Specialists discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on San Diego Surgical Specialists’s behalf or to provide services available at San Diego Surgical Specialists’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.
Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using San Diego Surgical Specialists’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. San Diego Surgical Specialists will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.
Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, San Diego Surgical Specialists discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when San Diego Surgical Specialists believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of San Diego Surgical Specialists, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of an San Diego Surgical Specialists website and have supplied your email address, San Diego Surgical Specialists may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with San Diego Surgical Specialists and our products.
If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.
San Diego Surgical Specialists takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.
San Diego Surgical Specialists uses cookies to help San Diego Surgical Specialists identify and track visitors, their usage of San Diego Surgical Specialists website, and their website access preferences.
San Diego Surgical Specialists visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using San Diego Surgical Specialists’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of San Diego Surgical Specialists’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, San Diego Surgical Specialists may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in San Diego Surgical Specialists’s sole discretion. San Diego Surgical Specialists encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy.
If you have a sdsurgery.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.