Privacy Policy
Effective: January 1st, 2020
Welcome to www.appliedmedical.net (“Site”, “Website”). This Site is owned by Applied Medical Technology, Inc. (“We”, “Us”) This Privacy Policy is designed to tell users (“You”, “Your”) about our practices regarding collection, use, and disclosure of information that you may provide through this Site or through our mobile app AMT ONE Source (“AMT App”). By using this Site or the AMT App you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Please be sure to read this entire Privacy Policy before using or submitting information to this Site. California Residents please see the Privacy Notice for Residents of California below. Your use of this site is also subject to the Terms of Use.
Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Your Information
We collect information about users through our Website and AMT App both actively and passively. Active information collection is when you actively provide information to us through our Website or ATM App using forms, email, or other means. Passive information collection is when we collect data about you as you navigate the Site, we do this through IP addresses, cookies, and navigational data.
- Active Information Collection
- How we actively collect information. We collect information that you actively provide us through our Website or AMT App using forms, email, or other means.
- Why we collect this information. We use this information to improve your experience, answer questions, provide customer service, listen to your feedback, hear your stories, and for Website development, AMT App development, marketing, research, product development, or other business purposes. Some of the information you provide may be personally identifiable information including Protected Health Information.
- What information is actively collected. We actively collect the following information: name, phone number, email address, country, state, age, product information, and other information they may have provided us. Some of this information may be personally identifiable.
- Who can access this information. Information you actively provide is not used by or disclosed to anyone outside of AMT unless we are legally required to disclose it. Especially sensitive health information which is always kept strictly confidential within AMT in accordance with federal law, including HIPAA. Within AMT access to your information is limited only to those who need it to fulfill your request or the purpose of your message.
- Passive Information Collection
- How we passively collect information. We passively collect information about you as you navigate our Website or the AMT App through Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, cookies (session cookies and persistent cookies), and navigational data (log files, server logs, and clickstream data).
- Why we collect this information. We use this information to help optimize your experience by collecting information to improve our Website, the AMT App, marketing, research, customer service, and customer experience.
- What information is passively collected. We passively collect information including time of visit, URL/title of the webpage, time spent on the page, referring URL, web browser, operating system, IP address, user location, and document downloads.
- Who can access this information. We use this information internally and share it with service providers to help us optimize our website, AMT App, marketing, research, and business.
- Use of Personal Information
- Internal Business Purposes. We use the information we collect both actively and passively internally for purposes described above. This information includes your name, phone number, email address, country, state, age, product information, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, cookies, navigational data, and other information you may provide us.
- Third Party Service Providers. We use and disclose your information to service providers to help us optimize our Website, research, marketing, and business. We disclose time of visit, URL/title of the webpage, time spent on the page, referring URL, web browser, operating system, IP address, User location, and document downloads. We do not receive any monetary benefit for disclosing this data to our third party service providers and do not sell any personal information.
- Protected Health Information and HIPAA
- In certain cases some information you actively provide us may be considered Protected Health Information (“PHI”) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”). We do not passively collect PHI.
- We keep all PHI strictly confidential, and do not disclose it to any party unless we are legally required to do so or you specifically consent to any disclosure in a signed writing.
- We limit internal use and access to PHI to those individuals who need to access your PHI in order to fulfill your request, comply with a legal obligation, or any other use you have consented to in a signed writing.
Consent
- Passive Data Collection. Because we respect your privacy we use a tool that allows you to select the type of cookies that collect your information as described in this Privacy Policy. Please note however that certain features may not be available, or at full functionality if cookies are disabled.
- Active Data Collection. Whenever you choose to actively submit information through the Site, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
- Do Not Sell My Personal Information. You may request that we not sell your information by clicking this link or the link found on our homepage. AMT does not sell any personal information.
- Information about Children. This Website and the AMT App are not intended for children under the age of 13. We will not knowingly collect information from users under the age of 13. We encourage parents to talk to their children about their use of the internet and the information they disclose on the internet. AMT does not sell any personal information.
- If any applicable law or regulation has any specific consent requirements the requirements of the applicable law or regulation shall apply. Specifically, California Residents please see the Privacy Notice for Residents of California below.
Updating and Correcting Information
Contact us using one of the methods below if you would like to update your information. We will take reasonable steps to update or correct your information in our possession so we have accurate, current, and complete information. For additional rights that may apply California Residents please see the Privacy Notice for Residents of California below.
Security
We take reasonable steps to protect information we collect about you from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, you should be aware that no internet transmission is 100% secure or error-free. In particular, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via email as it may not be secure. Additionally, when you use passwords, ID numbers, or other special access features on this site it is your responsibility to safeguard them.
Links to Other Websites
This Site and the AMT App may contain links or references to other web sites owned and operated by third parties. Please be aware that we do not control these other websites and that this Privacy Policy does not apply to those third party websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
Contact Us
We can be contacted through the means listed below for requests, questions, or comments regarding this Privacy Policy or our information practices.
- Website: https://www.appliedmedical.net/contact/
- Email: cs@appliedmedical.net
- Phone: 1-800-869-7382
- Applied Medical Technology, Inc.
8006 Katherine Blvd.
Brecksville, Ohio 44141
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be changed from time to time and the revised policy will be posted to this site. Please check back periodically and especially before you provide any personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy was last updated 6/5/2020.
Privacy Notice for Residents of California
Effective: January 1st, 2020
This Privacy Notice for California Residents is an addition to the information in the Privacy Policy above and applies only to California residents. This notice does not apply if it is inconsistent with applicable federal law including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Personal Information Collection and Use
- Active Information Collection
- How we actively collect information. We collect information that you actively provide us through this Website and the AMT App when you provide it through website forms, email, or other means.
- Why we collect this information. We use this information to improve your experience and to answer questions, provide customer service, listen to your feedback, hear your stories, and for website development, marketing, research, product development, or other business purposes. Some of the information you provide may be personally identifiable information including health information.
- What information is actively collected. In the past 12 months through our Website forms and other means users may have provided the following information: name, phone number, email address, country, state, age, product information, and other information they may have provided us. Some of this information may be personally identifiable.
- Who can access this information. Information you actively provide us is not used by or disclosed to anyone outside of AMT. Especially sensitive health information which is always kept strictly confidential within AMT in accordance with federal law, including HIPAA. Within AMT access to your information is limited only to those who need it to fulfill your request or the purpose of your message.
- Passive Information Collection
- How we passively collect information. We passively collect information about you as you navigate this Website and the AMT App through Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, cookies, and navigational data.
- Why we collect this information. We use this information to help optimize your experience by collecting information to improve our Website, the AMT App, marketing strategies, research, customer service, and customer experience.
- What information is passively collected. In the past 12 months we passively collected information including time of visit, URL/title of the webpage, time spent on the page, referring URL, web browser, operating system, IP address, User location, and document downloads.
- Who can access this information. We use this information internally and share it with service providers to help us optimize our website, marketing, research, and business.
- Use of Personal Information
- Internal Business Purposes. We use the information we collect both actively and passively internally for purposes described above. This information includes your name, phone number, email address, country, state, age, product information, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, cookies, navigational data, and other information you may provide us.
- We Do Not Sell Your Personal Information. We use and disclose your information to service providers to help us optimize our website, research, marketing, and business. We disclose time of visit, URL/title of the webpage, time spent on the page, referring URL, web browser, operating system, IP address, User location, and document downloads. We do not receive any monetary benefit for disclosing this data to our third party service providers and do not sell personal information.
Data Rights for California Residents
- Exercising Data Rights
- California residents may send requests to exercise the following data rights through our website form on the Contact Us page or through our toll free number 800-869-7382.
- We may require additional information to verify any request, and any information provided for the request will only be used to process the request.
- For exercising your rights under the CCPA which are covered by this notice we cannot discriminate against you including but not limited to by denying goods or services to you, charging or suggesting different prices or rates for goods or services, or providing a different level or quality of goods or services to you.
- Right to Information
- California residents have the right to request that we disclose information about personal information we have collected about you. This includes the right to request that we disclose information we collect about you including the categories, sources, and purpose of any personal information we collect and the categories of third parties with whom we share this information.
- California residents have the right to request that we disclose information about personal information we have sold or disclosed about you. This includes the right to request categories of your personal information we have sold in the preceding 12 months; categories of third parties to whom your personal information has been disclosed, and categories of personal information we disclosed about consumers for a business purpose.
- Right to Erasure
- California residents have the right to request that we delete any personal information that we have collected from them.
- We may be permitted not to comply with this request if it is necessary to:
- Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a 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 the ongoing business relationship, or otherwise perform a contract between AMT and you.
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious fraud, deceit, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for that activity.
- Debug, identify, and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise that consumer’s right of free speech, or any other right protected 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 when deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, if the consumer has provided informed consent.
- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with the expectations of the consumer based on the consumer’s relationship with the business.
- To comply with a legal obligation.
- Otherwise use the consumer’s personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which the consumer provided the information.
- Right to Opt-Out
- California residents have the right to direct a business that sells personal information about the consumer to third parties not to sell the consumer’s personal information. To make an opt-out request submit a request as identified in this notice or by clicking this link: Do Not Sell My Personal Information.
- Right for Minors to Opt-In
- This website is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 13 and we do not collect personal information on minors who we know to be 13 years of age or younger. We do not sell personal information, especially that of minors. California residents under the age of 16 have the right to not have their information sold unless:
- For minors under 16 years old to 13 years old, if they opt-in and consent to an entity selling the information.
- For minors under 13 if their parent or guardian opts-in and consents on the minor’s behalf to an entity to sell the information.
- This website is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 13 and we do not collect personal information on minors who we know to be 13 years of age or younger. We do not sell personal information, especially that of minors. California residents under the age of 16 have the right to not have their information sold unless: