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- Applicability and Scope
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- Personal Information We Collect
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- Newsletter Sign-ups. You may choose to provide us your contact details, such as your name, email address, telephone number, and areas of interest, if you wish to receive information about the products and services that we offer. We may use this information to send you the communications you requested, and other information we believe may be of interest to you
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- Customer Service. When you engage with our support team via email, online form, phone call or website chat widget, we may collect records, copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), chat history, and any additional information you choose to share with us.
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- Webinar/Event Registration. We may collect your name, company, position, telephone number and email address when you register to attend a webinar or event hosted by us. We may use this information to register you for the event and contact you about changes and updates regarding the event. We also may use the information to communicate with you about other events and topics that we believe may be of interest to you.
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- Usage Data. When you browse our Sites, we automatically collect log data such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, domain names, referring and exit pages and URLs, pages viewed and the order of these page views, the date and time you access our servers, and other diagnostic data.
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- Device Information. When you use your desktop or mobile devices to access our Services, we may be able to identify your device’s unique device identifier, MAC address, operating system, and your mobile device’s advertising ID.
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- Location Information. When you use our Services, we may infer the generic physical location and geographic regions of your device from your Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other device settings. For example, your IP address may indicate your general geographic region. You may choose not to share your location details with us by adjusting your mobile or desktop device’s location services settings. For instructions on changing the relevant settings, please contact your service provider or device manufacturer.
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- How We Use Your Information
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- To Provide Our Services. We will use your personal information to provide information or perform Services that you request, such as responding to your inquiries or providing information on the Ophthalmology or LASIK services you request.
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- To Provide You with Service-Related Communications. We will send you administrative related information to keep you updated about the Services. Such communications may include information about Privacy Policy updates, security updates, tips or other relevant Service-related information. Service-related communications are not promotional in nature. You are not able to unsubscribe from such communications, otherwise you may miss important developments relating to the Services.
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- To Maintain Legal and Regulatory Compliance. Our Services are subject to certain laws and regulations which may require us to process your personal information. For example, we process your personal information to fulfill our business obligations, ensure compliance with industry regulator’s standard and policies, to manage risk as required under applicable laws and regulations, or to respond to requests by judicial process or governmental agency.
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- To Enforce Compliance with Our Terms, Agreements and Policies. When you access or use our Services, you are bound to our Terms. We may process your personal information for compliance purposes, such as carrying out our obligations and enforcing our Terms or other legal rights, including those arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
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- To Detect and Prevent Fraud and Security Risks. We may process your personal information to help monitor, prevent and detect fraud and abusive use of our Service, monitor and verify your identity so that unauthorized users do not gain access to your information, enhance system security, and combat spam, malware, malicious activities or other security risks.
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- To Provide Customer Support or Respond to You. We collect any information that you provide to us when you contact us. Without your personal information, we cannot respond to you or ensure your continued use and satisfaction of the Services.
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- To Provide Marketing Communication. We may collect your email address, phone number or other electronic addresses that you voluntarily provide to us when you subscribe to our marketing communications. We will occasionally send you information on products, services and promotions. When you no longer wish to receive these marketing messages from us, you can opt out at any time by using the “Unsubscribe” link that appears at the bottom of such messages and following instructions contained within, or emailing us at no-mktg@nvisioncenters.com.
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- To Research and Develop of Our Services. We may process your personal information and derive analytical and statistical data to better understand the way you use and interact with our Services. For instance, analyzing where, on which types of devices and how our Sites are used, how many visitors we receive, and where they click on the Sites. These types of information may help us improve our existing Services and to build new Services. Please see our Cookies and Other Similar Tracking Technologies section for more information.
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- To Personalize Your Experience. We may process your information to personalize your experience. By personalization, we enable you to interact with our Services more easily across platforms and devices.
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- To Facilitate Corporate Acquisitions, Mergers and Transactions. We may process any information regarding your account and your use of our Services as is necessary in the context of corporate acquisitions, mergers or other corporate transactions.
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- With Your Consent. For any other purpose disclosed to you prior to you providing us your personal information or which is reasonably necessary to provide the services or other related services requested, with your permission or upon your direction.
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- How We Disclose Your Personal Information
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- With Our Service Providers. We may share your personal information with third-party service providers acting on our behalf to help us operate our Services. Service providers and vendors provide us with support services such as website hosting, inquiry and feedback management, analytics services, surveys and research services, and network maintenance. These third parties can only use your information in accordance with our written instructions and must comply with the information security protections we have put in place.
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- Within Our Corporate Organization. We may share your personal information within our organization, to provide you with the Services and take actions based on your request, such as our parent company, subsidiaries, and corporate affiliates, joint venturers, or other companies under common control with us. We may permit these entities to use your information for their own marketing purposes.
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- During Business Transaction or Other Asset Transfers. We may disclose and transfer information about you to buyers, service providers, advisors, potential transactional partners or other third parties in connection with the advisors, potential transactional partners or other third parties of a corporate transaction in which we are acquired by or merged with another company, or we sell, liquidate, or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets. By engaging with us or using our Services, you understand and acknowledge to our assignment or transfer of rights to your personal information.
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- For Legal Compliance & Safety. We may access, preserve, and disclose information about you if we believe doing so is required or appropriate to (1) comply with law enforcement requests and legal processes, such as a court order or subpoena; (2) comply with requests from auditors, examiners or other regulators; (3) exercise, establish or defend our legal rights; or (4) protect your, our, or others’ rights, property or safety.
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- With Our Business Partners. Subject to applicable law, we may share your personal information with our affiliated clinical business partners, such as for permitted marketing purposes, or for co-sponsored events based on your voluntary participation. To learn more about your choices and rights, please review the “Your Choices and Privacy Rights” section below.
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- With Your Consent. We may share your personal information for any other purpose disclosed to you prior to you providing us your personal information or which is reasonably necessary to provide the services or other related services requested, with your permission or upon your direction.
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- Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies
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- Analyze our web traffic using analytics package.
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- Identify whether you already visited our careers websites.
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- Store information about your preferences.
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- To recognize when you return to our Services.
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- How We Protect Your Personal Information
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- Retention of Your Personal Information
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- Your Choices and Privacy Rights
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- Marketing Communications. When you no longer wish to receive these marketing emails or text messages from us, you can unsubscribe at any time by using the “Unsubscribe” link that appears at the bottom of such messages and following instructions contained within, or emailing us at no-mktg@nvisioncenters.com.
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- Managing Cookies. You have the right to decide whether to accept cookies. If you do not want us to deploy cookies in your browser, you may exercise your preference by modifying your web browser setting to either (1) refuse some or all cookies or (2) notify you and ask for your permission when a website tries to set a cookie. If you want to learn the correct way to modify your browser settings, please use the “Help,” “Tools” or “Edit” menu in your browser or review the instructions provided by the following browsers: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari Desktop, Safari Mobile; and Android browser. If you choose to disable cookies in your browser, you can still use our websites, although your ability to use some of the features may be affected.
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- Managing Analytics. We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our career website, such as Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google LLC (“Google”) that tracks and reports website traffic. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics, available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
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- Managing Interest-Based Advertising. We and our third-party service providers may use interest advertising technologies when you interact with our Services. Many advertising companies that collect information for interest-based advertising are members of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) or the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), both of which maintain websites where people can opt-out of interest-based advertising from their members. To opt-out of website interest-based advertising provided by each organization’s respective participating companies, visit the DAA’s opt-out portal available at http://optout.aboutads.info/, or visit the NAI’s opt-out portal available at http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.
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- Right to Know/Access. You may have the right to obtain a copy, or a list of categories of the personal information that we hold about you, as well as other supplementary information, such as the purposes of processing, and the entities to whom we disclose your personal information.
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- Right to Correct/Rectification. You may have the right to correct any of your personal information in our records and systems. You may request us to rectify, correct or update any of your personal information held by us that is inaccurate.
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- Right to Delete/Erasure. Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to request that we delete the personal information that we hold about you. This right is not absolute, and we may refuse your right to delete if it is reasonably necessary for us to provide a service requested by you; to perform a contract between us; to maintain functionality and ensure security of our systems; to enable solely expected internal uses of your personal information; to exercise a right provided by law; to comply with a legal obligation, or if there are compelling legitimate grounds for keeping your personal information.
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- Right to Portability. Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to receive personal information we hold about you in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format so that you can provide that personal information to another entity.
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- Right Against Discrimination. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of the rights described in this section. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.
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- Right to Object to Automated Decision-Making. You may have the right not to be subject to a decision that is based solely on automated processing (where a decision is taken about you using an electronic system without human involvement) which significantly impacts your rights. No decision will be made by us about you solely on the basis of automated decision making which has a significant impact on you.
Jurisdiction | Applicable Rights |
California Residents | (a) Right to Know/Access; (b) Right to Correct/Rectification; (c) Right to Delete/Erasure; (d) Right to Portability; (e) Right Against Discrimination; and (f) Right to Opt-Out of Automated Decision-making or Profiling (upon issuance of regulations by the California Privacy Protection Agency) |
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- Right to Opt Out of Sale. You may have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. We generally do not sell your personal information for profit, but may share your medical information with our affiliated clinical entities where you are interested in seeking services. In addition, like many businesses, we use cookies, pixels, and similar technology on our Sites, and we share certain personal information, such as your IP address or device identifiers, to third-party advertisers in order to improve your user experience and to optimize our marketing activities. Under the broad definition of “sell” contained in some jurisdiction’s privacy laws, this could be considered a sale.
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- Right to Opt Out of Sharing for Targeted Advertising. You may have the right to opt-out of the sharing of your personal information to third parties for behavioral or cross-contextual advertising purposes. Like many websites, we use cookies, pixels, and similar technology, and we share certain information, such as your IP address or device identifiers, to certain third-party advertisers in order to improve your user experience and to optimize our marketing activities. You have the right to direct us not to share or use your personal information for targeted advertising purposes.
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- Children’s Information
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- Third-Party Sites
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- California Consumer Privacy Notice
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- Identifiers such as a name, address, unique personal identifier, email, phone number, your device’s IP address, software, and identification numbers associated with your devices;
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- Internet or other electronic information regarding you browsing history, search history, the webpage visited before you came to our Site, length of visit and number of page views, click-stream data, locale preferences, your mobile carrier, date and time stamps associated with transactions, and system configuration information;
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- Geolocation data, to the extent you have configured your device to permit us to collect such information;
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- Audio or Visual information, such as audio recordings of your voice to the extent you call us, as permitted under applicable law; and
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- Inferences drawn from any of the information listed above, such as your service preferences, characteristics, and behavior.
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- Performing services, including responding in consultation inquiries, providing customer service, and verifying customer information;
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- Providing advertising and marketing services;
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- Auditing related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance;
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- Helping to ensure security and integrity;
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- Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
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- Short-term, transient use, such as non-personalized advertising shown as part of your current interaction with us;
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- Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration; and
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- Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service that is controlled by us.
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- Contact Us
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