Privacy Policy

Purpose:

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to operativereview.com, and The Operative Review of Surgery and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to The Operative Review of Surgery include operativereview.com. The Operative Review of Surgery website is a Surgical Education site. By using The Operative Review of Surgery website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Data Collection & Use:

In order to better provide you with products and services offered, The Operative Review of Surgery may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address or phone number. If you purchase The Operative Review of Surgery’s products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction. The Operative Review of Surgery may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your age, gender or race.

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by The Operative Review of Surgery. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of The Operative Review of Surgery website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through The Operative Review of Surgery’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

You may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include: (a) registering for an account; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

The Operative Review of Surgery collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested. The Operative Review of Surgery may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from The Operative Review of Surgery and its affiliates. We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

From time to time, The Operative Review of Surgery may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication.

Third Parties:

The Operative Review of Surgery does not sell, rent or lease its customer information to third parties. The Operative Review of Surgery may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to The Operative Review of Surgery, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

The Operative Review of Surgery may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on The Operative Review of Surgery or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of The Operative Review of Surgery; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of The Operative Review of Surgery, or the public.

Cookies:

The Operative Review of Surgery website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize The Operative Review of Surgery pages, or register with The Operative Review of Surgery site or services, a cookie helps The Operative Review of Surgery to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same The Operative Review of Surgery website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use The Operative Review of Surgery features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of The Operative Review of Surgery services or websites you visit.

Links:

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Right to Deletion:

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will delete your personal information from our records; and direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us; detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity; debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality; exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law; comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act; engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent; enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us; comply with an existing legal obligation; or otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Policy Changes:

The Operative Review of Surgery reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice to you. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this site and these Terms of Use from time to time and to familiarize yourself with any modifications. Your continued use of this site after such modifications will constitute acknowledgment of the modified Terms of Use and agreement to abide and be bound by the modified Terms of Use.