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Last Updated: June 15, 2007

Veindirectory.org regards your privacy seriously. Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment to excellence in customer service. Our policy was designed to be easy to read and understand what we do with your information and the measures we take to ensure its security. If you have any questions after reading this, please contact us using our Contact Us form. By visiting Veindirectory.org, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact our Network Director by email using our Contact Us form, or by postal mail at 96 Discovery, Irvine, CA, 92618.

What Information Do We Gather?

• Information You Give Us
  This refers to any active information you choose to provide in order to gain the full use of the website (contact a doctor) or through our contact forms. Generally, we require you to disclose your first and last name, phone number and email address. Optional information disclosed includes: address and any medical/personal information that will help the doctor. If you choose to post information through our website(s) or maintain email, postal mail or telephone contact with us, we may retain such information also.
• Automatic Information from Cookies
  For account management and anti-fraudulent purposes, Veindirectory.org uses cookies to collect information on how our site is used. Automatic Information gathered may included the date and time of visits, the site pages viewed, time spent at our site, the sites visited just before and just after our site. The date is used to simplify subsequent interactions with that site by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user's transaction on related web pages. This makes its easier for a user to move from site to site and to complete transactions over the internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized. If you do not wish to transmit cookie information about yourself, please consult the Help section of your web browser to correctly do so.

  We do link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

  If you choose to refuse cookies, then certain features of Veindirectory.org will not work for you.

  Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. Please consult their websites for information on their privacy policies and terms of use.

  This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by Outclick Media only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Does Veindirectory.org Share the Information it Receives?

Unless it is necessary in order to provide you with the service you requested we will not disclose your personal identifying information to any third party. A limited number of Outclick Media employees, such as customer service representatives, directors, sales representatives, executive management and IT personnel, may have limited access to personal identifying information maintained on our systems, but all are required to keep such information strictly confidential and to use it only as a necessary to perform their duties relating to the service that you have requested. Veindirectory.org will never share personal medical or financial information with third parties outside of the Doctors you choose to contact.

How does Veindirectory.org use My Information?

Your personal information is used to send your requests for information only to the doctors, clinics, and medical specialists you choose to contact. This information will also be used to prefill forms on the site to make filling forms easier for you, and we will use this data to customize the information on Veindirectory.org to your personal interests.

We use aggregate (i.e. non-personally identifying) information to determine what our site visitors are viewing on our Web site overall, and analyze the demographics and interests of our users so we can deliver better services to you.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable):

We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information does not identify individual users.

We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.

Personally identifiable information:

We Share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties

• Legal Disclaimer
  We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.
  
  We may disclose anonymous information about user habits, characteristics and user patterns, based on aggregate user statistics to advertisers on our site to Advertisers or other third parties. We may be required by a law or government agency to disclose both active and passive information you have provided us. In the event that Veindirectory.org is sold to a successor company, then all collected information may be transferred to the acquiring /successor company, and that company may publish a new privacy policy.
• Business Transitions
  In the event Outclick Media goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

How Secure is my Personal Information?

The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). To learn more about SSL, follow this link http://www.verisign.com/ssl-certificate/.

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, however, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Your postings on this site and other communications you may have with us via email or postal mail may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures are in place prior to your sending information.

If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can email us using our Contact Us form.

User Age Requirement

No person under 13 should disclose information on this site. If we learn that we inadvertently have collected personal identifying information from a child under the age of 13, we will promptly delete that data from our systems and databases.

Links to Other Websites

We have links to other websites through our site. When you do so you are doing so subject to their policies regarding privacy and data collection and you should read those sites' privacy policies to make sure you agree with them before using or making purchases.

Service Providers

We use other third parties to provide online shopping services on our site. When you use these online shopping services, you are doing so subject to their policies regarding privacy and data collection and you should read those sites' privacy policies to make sure you agree with them before using or making purchases.

Receiving Products and Services

From time to time, you will receive information pertaining to products and services we think you may be interested in. If you would not like to receive this information or if you wish to cancel a request or update your personal information, please email us using our Contact Us form. Users and/or clients who no longer wish to receive our electronic newsletter or promotional materials from Veindirectory.org and/or our partners may follow the directions on the received email to unsubscribe.

Can I Choose to Not Receive Certain Information and/or Opt-out?

If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter, notices, and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us using our Contact Us form.

• Service-related Announcements
  We will send you service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.
  
  Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature.
• Customer Service
  Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you periodic emails. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.
• Email This Page -- Veindirectory.org
  If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site by emailing them a page from our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Outclick Media stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.
  
  Your friend may contact us using our Contact Us form to request that we remove this information from our database.

Supplementation of Information

In order to provide doctor location or educational services, we may on occasion supplement the personal information you submitted to us with information from third party sources.

Changes to Privacy Statement

By using our site, you consent to the collection and use of your information as we have outlined in this privacy statement and to our Conditions of Use. Veindirectory.org may decide to change this privacy statement from time to time. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement 30 days before any new changes go into effect, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently.

Access to Personally Identifiable Information

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may deactivate it by emailing our Client Services Specialists using our Contact Us form, or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below.

VeinDirectory.org
96 Discovery
Irvine, CA 92618