PRIVACY
Please
remember that if you access a third party site from
a link on this Website, any information you reveal on
that site is not subject to this Privacy Policy. You
should consult the privacy policies of each site you
visit.
The
following are the provisions of our Privacy Policy that
describe the information we collect from or about you;
ways we disclose, use and protect that information;
choices you have, and how you can update your information
or contact us with questions. We hope that reading our
Privacy Policy gives you a clear idea of how we manage
information about you.
INFORMATION
COLLECTED ABOUT YOU
A. Information Collected by the Chicago Cryotherapy
Institute
1.
In General
Personally Identifiable Information (PII or Personal
Information) is information that can be used to identify
or contact you. When you visit our Website, the Chicago
Cryotherapy Institute collects only the Personal Information
you provide to us. We collect the Personal Information
that you provide to us in two general and distinct ways:
(1) When you send a Webform or use the telephone to
contact the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute for the purpose
of scheduling a doctor appointment, asking a question,
or for any other purpose and (2) When you choose to
send the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute an e-mail or
participate in surveys. We also collect non-personal
information from you and about your use of our Website,
emails, special promotions and newsletters that we send
to you, and Websites of selected sponsors and advertisers.
For example, the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute may use
"cookies" to collect non-personal information
about your use of our site, selected sponsors' sites,
or emails we send to you. The Chicago Cryotherapy Institute
does not store any Personal Information in any cookies
on your computer. All of these are described in more
detail below.
2.
Registration and Personal Information
You may use our Website without registering or submitting
any Personal Information. In that case, the only information
we collect will be non-personal information collected
through the use of cookies. However, in order to have
access to certain services and content (e.g., using
the nurse-chat feature), you may provide certain Personal
Information. We use the Personal Information that you
provide to respond to questions from you and/or inform
you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy. We
may also use this information to send you emails with
special promotions or newsletters with content that
we think may be of interest to you. You can always opt-out
of receiving such emails or unsubscribe to newsletters
at the time you register or at any time.
3.
Cookies
We also collect anonymous, non-personal information
about your use of our site or your use of emails, special
promotions or newsletters that we send to you. For example,
we collect non-personal information about your use of
our site and your use of the sites of selected sponsors
and advertisers through the use of "Cookies".
Cookies are small computer files that we transfer to
your computer's hard drive that allow us to know how
often someone visits a site and the activities they
conduct while on that site (such as which pages you
visited and the length of time you spent on each of
those pages). Every computer is assigned a different
cookie by the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute. The information
collected by cookies helps us improve the content on
web pages or in emails specifically designed for you
and also allows us to statistically monitor how many
people are using our site, or opening our emails, and
for what purposes. We may use cookie information to
target certain messages to your browser or to determine
the popularity of certain content.
Your
browser software can be set to reject all cookies. Most
browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser
to reject cookies in the "Help" section of
the toolbar. If you reject our cookie, certain of the
functions and conveniences of our site may not work
properly but you do not have to accept our cookie in
order to productively use our site. While it may be
possible to link non-personal cookie information to
Personal Information collected in other ways, please
be assured that if you accept our cookie we will not,
without your consent, link the cookie information we
collect to Personal Information you provide to us on
our site.
4.
E-mails and Newsletters
As noted in the discussion of cookies (see above), we
collect anonymous, non-personal information about your
use of e-mails and newsletters that we may send to you.
In some cases, when you click on a link in an e-mail
or newsletter, your browser may be momentarily directed
to the site of a third party which, acting on the Chicago
Cryotherapy Institute's behalf (see Disclosure to Website
Service and Content Contractors, below), notes or "counts"
your response to the e-mail or newsletter before re-directing
your browser to its proper destination; this re-direction
process will not be apparent to you. When you use the
Chicago Cryotherapy Institute's "Email a Friend"
application, if present, the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute
emails the article or other content you designate to
your friend's email address and lists your email address
as the sender. The Chicago Cryotherapy Institute uses
the friend's email address only for the purpose of sending
your friend the email you requested and for no other
purpose unless otherwise disclosed to you at the time
you send the email.
B.
Children
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children.
This Website is not designed or intended to attract
children under the age of 18. We do not collect Personal
Information from any person we actually know is under
the age of 18.
C.
Emails to the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute
This Privacy Policy does not protect you when you send
questions, business information, ideas, concepts or
inventions to the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute by email
to the various the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute departments
listed on the "Contact Us" link (or other
link) on our Website. If you want to keep business information,
ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary,
do not send them in an email to the Chicago Cryotherapy
Institute. We try to answer every email in a timely
manner, but are not always able to do so.
DISCLOSURE
OF YOUR INFORMATION
Except as set forth in this policy or as specifically
agreed to by you, the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute
will not disclose any Personal Information it gathers
from you on our Website. We may release Personal Information
to third parties: (1) to comply with valid legal requirements
such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena
or court order; or (2) in special cases, such as a physical
threat to you or others. In the event that we are legally
compelled to disclose your Personal Information to a
third party, we will notify you unless doing so would
violate the law or court order.
A.
Disclosure to the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute Subsidiaries
and Divisions
The Chicago Cryotherapy Institute may disclose Personal
Information to its corporate subsidiaries or other divisions
of the organization. Any Personal Information provided
to subsidiaries or divisions of the Chicago Cryotherapy
Institute will be treated by those entities in accordance
with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
B.
Disclosure to the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute Operations
and Maintenance Contractors
The Chicago Cryotherapy Institute operations and maintenance
contractors sometimes have limited access to your Personal
Information in the course of providing products or services
to the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute. These contractors
include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology,
services, and/or content related to better operation
and maintenance of our Website. Unless you have opted
out of receiving emails and newsletters from the Chicago
Cryotherapy Institute, these contractors also may have
access to your email address to send newsletters or
special promotions to you on our behalf or to send emails
to you for purposes such as conducting market research
on our behalf. Access to your Personal Information by
these contractors is limited to the information reasonably
necessary in order for the contractor to perform its
limited function for the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute.
We also contractually require that our operations and
maintenance contractors 1) protect the privacy of your
Personal Information consistent with this Privacy Policy,
and 2) not use or disclose your Personal Information
for any purpose other than providing us with products
and services.
C.
Disclosure to Advertising Partners
The Chicago Cryotherapy Institute does not sell advertising
to or accept advertising from other parties for display
on the Website; consequently, the Chicago Cryotherapy
Institute makes no disclosure of any Personal Information
to such entities.
D.
Disclosure of Information for Physician Appointment
Scheduling
The Chicago Cryotherapy Institute provides Personal
Information to physicians and/or the physician practice
employees with which the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute
has scheduled an appointment for you, through the Chicago
Cryotherapy Institute Website. This information disclosure
is communicated to the Physician in an encrypted format
(as described in "How the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute
Handles Privacy and Security Internally) and is necessary
for the physician to be prepared with information about
you for your appointment. The Chicago Cryotherapy Institute
may also disclose the date of your appointment and physician
name to third parties, in which case no personally identifying
information about you will be disclosed.
E.
Disclosure of Aggregate Information
The Chicago Cryotherapy Institute may provide to third
parties non-personal information about you that does
not allow you to be identified or contacted and that
is combined with the non-personal information of other
users ("Aggregate Information"). For example,
we might inform third parties regarding the number of
users of our site and the activities they conduct while
on our site. We also may not limit the third parties'
use of the Aggregate Information, except that we do
require third parties to whom we disclose Aggregate
Information to agree that they will not attempt to make
this information personally identifiable by combining
it with other databases or otherwise.
How
the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute Handles Privacy and
Security Internally
The Chicago Cryotherapy Institute wants your Personal
Information to remain as secure as possible. That is
why we have a two-tier security system at the Chicago
Cryotherapy Institute that combines leading technical
safeguards and a code of conduct for those employees
who are permitted to access your Personal Information.
On the technical side, the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute
uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology
in transmitting your Personal Information to physicians
to help ensure the integrity and privacy of the Personal
Information you provide to us via the Internet. Encryption
involves systematically scrambling numbers and letters,
so that even if someone managed to intercept the information,
they would not be able to make sense of it. In order
to take advantage of this encryption technology, you
need to have an Internet browser that will support 128-bit
encryption, such as Netscape or Microsoft Explorer.
On the employee side, only a limited number of the Chicago
Cryotherapy Institute employees are authorized to access
your Personal Information. All the Chicago Cryotherapy
Institute employees must abide by our Privacy Policy
and those who violate our Privacy Policy are subject
to disciplinary action, up to and including termination.
Although we will make every reasonable effort to protect
your Personal Information from loss, misuse, or alteration
by third parties, you should be aware that there is
always some risk involved in transmitting information
over the Internet. There is also some risk that thieves
could find a way to thwart our security systems.
YOUR
PRIVACY CHOICES
From time to time on the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute
Website, you may be given the option of receiving recurring
information or newsletters via email from the Chicago
Cryotherapy Institute and/or directly from third parties.
If
you wish to subscribe to such newsletters via email,
we ask for contact information, such as name and email
address. You can unsubscribe from the newsletters by
simply clicking on the "unsubscribe" link
at the bottom of any email newsletter. An email to our
automated unsubscribe service will be created on your
machine. Click the "send" button. You will
then be unsubscribed from that newsletter within two
to three business days. If you are experiencing difficulties
with our automated unsubscribe service, you can email
us at Site Administrator. The Site Administrator will
unsubscribe you from that newsletter in two to three
business days.
This
privacy statement applies only to the Chicago Cryotherapy
Institute Website. The Chicago Cryotherapy Institute
Website does contain links to other sites. Once you
enter another Website (whether through an advertisement,
service, or content link), be aware that the Chicago
Cryotherapy Institute is not responsible for the content
or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage
you to look for and review the privacy statements of
each and every Website that you visit through a link
or advertisement on the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute's
site or any site that collects Personal Information
from you.
UPDATING
YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND CONTACTING THE CHICAGO
CRYOTHERAPY INSTITUTE
You can always contact us in order to (1) delete your
Personal Information from our systems, (2) update the
Personal Information that you have provided to us, and
(3) change your preferences with respect to marketing
contacts or other activities, by contacting us at the
location below. Such changes will not have any effect
on other information that the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute
maintains. If you have a complaint or problem you may
email us at Site Administrator and your complaint will
be forwarded to the appropriate internal the Chicago
Cryotherapy Institute department for a response or resolution.
We try to answer every email in a timely manner but
are not always able to do so. If you do not receive
adequate resolution of a privacy related problem, you
may write to the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute's Privacy
Help Desk at:
Chicago
Cryotherapy Institute
675 W North Avenue
Suite 605
Melrose Park, IL 60160
(708) 450-5055
You
should be aware that it is not technologically possible
to remove each and every record of the information you
have provided to the Chicago Cryotherapy Institute from
our servers. The need to back-up our systems to protect
information from inadvertent loss means that a copy
of your Personal Information may exist in a non-erasable
form that will be difficult or impossible for us to
locate. Nevertheless, we promise that upon receiving
your request, all Personal Information stored in the
databases we actively use for research and daily business
activities, and other readily searchable media, will
be deleted.
Privacy
as it applies to the Internet is a dynamic, rapidly
developing area. In the future, we may make significant
changes to our privacy policy affecting the use of the
Personal Information we collect. We will notify you
by email of any significant changes concerning our use
of your Personal Information and obtain your "opt-in"
consent to any significant new uses of your Personal
Information if it was collected from you prior to a
significant change in this policy. We may also make
non-significant changes to our Privacy Policy that generally
will not affect our use of your Personal Information
and we generally will not notify you of these non-significant
changes. You should check this posted Privacy Policy
for any non-significant changes. If you do not agree
to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy,
please exit the site immediately.
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