South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute clients use South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute’s code, software and service (“Service”) to obtain information regarding how visitors to their websites are interacting with their web pages (“Visitor Information”). This allows South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute’s clients to evaluate and, if necessary or beneficial, modify its website to improve the functions of its website and make it easier and more valuable for visitors to use. Please note that South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute itself uses the South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute Service to obtain insights into visitors’ activities on http://www.southbayvascular.com/.The data South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute collects may include customized data that varies from client to client but typically includes information about visitors’ activities on the client’s website, such as how visitors navigate around a web page and the most commonly clicked links on a specific web page.South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute may also collect certain Information about a visitor’s computer that may be furnished by the visitor’s browser, such as:
South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute’s Service is not designed to collect Information that could be used to personally identify you, such as your name, address or phone number (“Personally Identifiable Information”) when you visit a website that uses the South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute Service. However, please be aware that South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute allows its clients to provide it with customized data that may, depending on the election of the client, contain Personally Identifiable Information.
South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute Does Not Collect Visitor Information Across Multiple Sites
South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute does not collect or aggregate information about visitor behavior on multiple, different websites.
South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute May Collect Information Contained in the “Referring URL” For the Last Website Visited
If a visitor navigates to a website that uses the South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute Service from another website, South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute may receive certain information from the referring website (i.e., the last website the visitor visited before visiting the client’s website) as part of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (“HTTP”) request. For example, if a user navigates to a website that uses South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute from a search engine, such as Google, South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute may receive information contained in the referring URL for the Google search query, such as the terms the visitor was searching for before visiting the South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute client’s website. South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute may use information contained in the referring URL to analyze and provide information to its clients about the activities that led users to navigate to the client’s website.
South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute’s Disclosure of Visitor Information
Except as disclosed in Section II below, South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute never sells or shares any Visitor Information with individuals or companies other than the specific client on whose website South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute collected the Visitor Information.This Information is provided to clients in the form of aggregated reports and/or statistics that identify the collective behavior of visitors to the client’s website, as opposed to the behavior or activity of specific or identified individuals.
Use of Cookies
It is South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute’s policy to use first-party cookies (small text files that South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute stores locally on your computer) on client sites for one or more of the following purposes: to help identify visitors; assess usage patterns and perform traffic analysis; identify preferences; diagnose problems with our servers; analyze trends; and otherwise administer South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute products and services. Cookies placed by South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute on the computers of visitors to its clients’ websites do not include Personally Identifiable Information such as name, phone number, e-mail address or mailing address, nor does South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute link cookies to such Personally Identifiable Information in its servers or databases.
If you do not wish to have South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute place and use cookies on your computer, you should set your browser preferences to refuse all cookies, including first-party cookies, before accessing South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute or other websites that may use South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute. South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute is not responsible for any failure by you or your browser to accurately implement or communicate your browser preferences or settings. Please note that if you set your browser to reject cookies, some features of the websites you visit may be unavailable. In addition, please be aware that even if you configure your browser settings to reject all cookies, your activity on South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute client websites will still be recorded by the Service. However, if you reject all cookies, South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute will not be able to determine whether or not someone using that computer previously visited the website – i.e. whether or not the visitor is a “unique” visitor.
For more information on how to reject cookies, see your browser’s instructions on changing your cookie settings. If you do not elect to set your browser preferences to refuse cookies, you consent to have cookies, including first-party cookies used by South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute, placed on your computer when you visit websites.
How South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute Collects Visitor Information
South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute clients use customized and proprietary JavaScript tracking code provided by South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute to collect and transmit Visitor Information to South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute’s servers. When a user visits a website that uses South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute’s Service, this code contacts South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute’s servers and enables South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute to collect and analyze the user’s activity while visiting our client’s website. This information is then stored on South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute’s web servers and databases for use in performing analysis and producing reports for the South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute client.
Opting Out: If you wish to opt out of South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute collecting Visitor Information when you visit South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute client websites, please see the South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute’s Opt-out instructions below. Please note that if you use a different computer or Internet browser than you used when opting out of South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute’s Service, South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute will not be able to view the opt-out and will collect Visitor Information when you visit South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute client websites. In these circumstances, you will need to revisit the link above in order to reset your opt-out decision, in order for it to be effective.
Client Information: When individuals or companies register to use the South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute Service, register to use a trial version of South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute, or request additional information about South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute, South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute may require Personally Identifiable Information, such as name, e-mail mailing address, phone number, financial information (e.g., credit card number, billing address), and/or website to be tracked, to process the registration or request (“Client Information”). When a client registers for the South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute Service, some of these pieces of information may be temporarily stored in encrypted format in a session cookie (but are never stored or linked to a permanent cookie). South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute may use this information to process and fulfill your request, register your account, check your qualifications for registration and/or to bill you for products and services. South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute may also use Personally Identifiable Information you submit to us to provide South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute’s products and services, personalize and tailor your experience on South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute, operate our business, understand how clients are engaging with South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute, request additional information necessary to process or fulfill your order; determine if you are satisfied with the South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute service; inform you that an upgrade is available; or to contact you with information about South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute, including information about new or existing products and services or special offers. For example, we may periodically send promotional materials or notifications related to our products and services to the email address associated with your account.
Disclosure of Client Information to Third Parties
South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute may disclose Information (including Personally Identifiable Information) collected from or concerning clients or potential clients (“Clients”) to third parties in the circumstances described below and in Section II of this Privacy Policy. By registering for or accessing South Bay Vascular Center & Vein Institute’s products or services, you consent to such disclosure. This Policy does not apply to the policies or practices of any such third parties.
