Black & Black Surgical Privacy Policy

  1. Introduction
  2. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
  3. Information You Provide to Us
  4. Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
  5. Links to Third-Party Website and Third-Party Cookies/Tracking Technologies
  6. How We Use Your Information
  7. Disclosure of Your Information
  8. Accessing and Correcting Your Information
  9. Your State Privacy Rights
  10. Rights Specific to Residents of the European Union
  11. Data Security
  12. Children Under the Age of 16
  13. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
  14. Contact Information

Introduction

Black & Black Surgical, Inc. (“Company” or “We”) respects the privacy of you as our user (“you”) and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy (this “Policy”).

This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website BlackandBlackSurgical.com (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This Policy applies to information we collect:

  • On our Website.
  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and our Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

  • Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
  • Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through our Website.

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you must not access or use our Website. By accessing or using our Website, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time in our sole discretion. Your continued use of our Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Policy from time to time for updates.

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Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

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

  • By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”).

  • That is about you individually but does not identify you.
  • About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

We may collect this information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us.
  • Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
  • From third parties, for example, our business partners.
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Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of requesting a quote on our Website, registering to use our Website, purchasing any products from us, or requesting further products or information. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
  • Details of transactions you carry out through our Website or by contacting us
  • Your search queries on our Website.
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Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on our Website.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Keep track of items stored in your shopping cart.
  • Recognize you when you return to our Website.
  • Prevent fraudulent activity.
  • Improve security.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

  • Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

  • Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies.

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

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Links to Third-Party Website and Third-Party Cookies/Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications on our Website may be served by third-parties, including analytics providers, payment providers, or other unaffiliated organizations, whose privacy practices may be different than ours. This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third-parties. You understand and agree that your use of any third-party sites, including if they are linked to or embedded in, our Website, are governed by the applicable privacy policies of those third parties and not by this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the content or policies of third-party websites or for the acts or omissions of third-parties. Please check with these third-party organizations or companies for their specific privacy policies.

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How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

  • To present our Website and its contents to you.
  • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
  • To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

We may use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. You can opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of our marketing messages.

Please note that some communications (such as service messages, account notifications, and billing information) are considered transactional and necessary for account management, and you may not be able to opt out of these messages, in accordance with applicable law.

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Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect, or which you provide as described in this Policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  • With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
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Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You may send us an email at info@blackandblacksurgical.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

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Your State Privacy Rights

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:

  • Confirm whether we process their personal information.
  • Access and delete certain personal information.
  • Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information’s nature processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).
  • Data portability.

  • Opt-out of personal data processing for:

    • targeted advertising (excluding Iowa);
    • sales; or
    • profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).
  • Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.

The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights please contact us at the email address noted above.

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Rights Specific to Residents of the European Union

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”)

Consistent with the requirements of the GDPR, we may process your personal information under the following conditions:

  • Consent: You have given your consent for processing personal information for one or more specific purposes.

  • Performance of a contract: Provision of personal information is necessary for the performance of an agreement with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.

  • Legal obligations: Processing personal information is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject.

  • Vital interests: Processing personal information is necessary to protect your vital interests or of another natural person.

  • Public interests: Processing personal information is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Company.

  • Legitimate interests: Processing personal information is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Company.

In any case, the Company will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to our processing of your personal information, and in particular, whether the Company’s processing of your personal information corresponds to a GDPR provision that permits processing of personal information as a statutory or contractual requirement, or as a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

The Company respects the confidentiality of your personal information and the preservation of your rights to protect your personal information.

You have the right under this Policy, and by law if you are within the European Union (EU), to:

  • Request access to your personal information. The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your personal information directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you. This also enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you.

  • Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.

  • Object to processing of your personal information. This right exists where we are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for our processing and there is something about your particular situation, which makes you want to object to our processing of your personal information on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.

  • Request erasure of your personal information. You have the right to ask us to delete or remove personal information when there is no good reason for us to continue processing it.

  • Request the transfer of your personal information. We will provide to you, or to a third-party you have chosen, your personal information in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

  • Withdraw Your consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent on using your personal information. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with access to certain specific functionalities of our Website.

Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights

You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting us. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. If you make a request, we will try our best to respond to you as soon as possible.

You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, if you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact your local data protection authority in the EEA.

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Data Security

We and/or our service providers have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Although we and our service providers do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to or in connection with your use of our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our Website.

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Children Under the Age of 16

Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age may provide any information to the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website.

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Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to this Policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on our Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on our Website home page. The date this Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this Policy to check for any changes, as they are binding on you. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

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Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

By Email: info@blackandblacksurgical.com

By Mail: 5175 South Royal Atlanta Drive, Tucker, GA 30084