We at Aequorea Vision Medical, Incorporated (AVM) respect your privacy, and this Internet Privacy Policy explains the ways in which we may collect, use, and disclose personal information from visitors to our websites, while also explaining the options that you have regarding such use and disclosure.

This Internet Privacy Policy applies to our publicly available website, www.aequoreamedical.com including any subsites and any password protected sections of those websites that may exist or hereafter be developed. For convenience, we will refer to all of these sites in this Internet Privacy Policy as the “AVM Sites”.


This Internet Privacy Policy is also incorporated into the Terms of Use for the AVM site(s). By accessing or using the Sites, you agree to accept those Terms of Use. By using AVM Sites, you acknowledge and agree that we may change this Internet Privacy Policy at any time and without prior notice as our online services and AVM website(s) change. Changes to this Internet Privacy Policy will be posted to our website. Please check there periodically for any updates that may be posted for your information.


Please note that the AVM website may contain links to other websites. These may be offered as resources or for your information, however Aequorea Vision Medical, Incorporated does not control those websites nor does AVM have oversight as to their changing content. This Internet Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of sites other than the AVM sites. We suggest you review the privacy polices associated with those sites and contact the owners of those sites if you have questions regarding their information practices.


The AVM Sites may collect both non-public personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable (or `aggregated’) information.

“Personally Identifiable Information” (or “PII”) is that information which can be used to identify you as an individual (or organization) or to contact you. A few examples of when and why we might collection Personal Information on the AVM website include:

-Individuals or organizations requesting information regarding our rates and services; you may be asked for your name, phone number, email address, or identifying facts about your business operations in order to allow us to fulfill your request for a quote or other information.

-Individuals applying for employment opportunities with Aequorea Vision Medical, Incorporated may be asked to provide information to facilitate the hiring process.


At times, we may use information gathering in order to better serve your needs. The gathering of “Aggregated Information” may include non-personally identifiable information such as the IP (Internet Protocol) address, browser type, and operating system of visitors to the site, pages viewed on the AVM website(s), or search terms entered.

Like many sites on the Internet, AVM websites may use “cookies” to collect information. A “cookie” is a small data file that is transferred to your computer and stored there through your Internet browser software. Cookies allow users to view pages without having to log in repeatedly throughout a session, and can be used to track Aggregated Information. If at any point a user of our website acquires an ID number, the cookie may include this information.

From time to time, AVM may allow cookies by affiliated companies to be places on AVM websites. The cookies used by affiliated companies are subject to their own privacy policies, not that of AVM. For example, these affiliated companies may assist us by providing these services to assist the research and reporting for advertisers and delivery of website technology to AVM’s own websites. Please be assured they do not have access to our cookies.

On some pages of our websites, we may also use action tags, sometimes referred to as web beacons or 1 *1 pixel GIFs, to monitor and assess the effectiveness of promotions and marketing. For example these might be used to track how many users requested more information or signed up for the promotion, so that we can gauge their effectiveness and continue to offer useful promotions to our customers.



At present, we do not sell the information we collect.

We use the PII you provide to us on the AVM Sites to simplify your connection to services or functions you may be logging on to use. For example, we may use customer email addresses or mailing addresses to send newsletters, surveys and other forms of customer research, updates or other information relating to our various services or to respond to feedback or requests for information. Information you provide as application related to employment opportunities at AVM may be used to evaluate and process your candidacy for employment. Additionally, some information we collect via online applications for our services may be used to evaluate the availability of our services to your needs.



In order to provide you with quality service, we may also share your PII or Aggregated Information with vendors who assist in maintaining and improving the AVM Sites, or who assist us in providing related services. We may also share your PII or Aggregated Information with third party web consultants and vendors that provide services in support of the AVM Sites.

In some circumstances, AVM may be required by law to share your PII or Aggregated Information with third parties, law enforcement or other governmental entities. We also reserve the right to share your PII or Aggregated Information as needed, in our judgment, to protect AVM, its affiliates or employees, from loss or liability. In the event that AVM merges with or is acquired by another company, the new company may retain and use the information you have provided us as described in this Internet Privacy Policy.


The AVM Sites provide various ways in which you may exercise choice as to how, and the extent to which, we may use your personal information. For example, some of our information requests will be optional (those that are required fields will be marked). We certainly respect your choice to not provide certain information.

When you register as a member on the AVM Sites, we may provide you with the opportunity to specify whether you wish to receive certain types of information such as newsletters or promotional materials regarding billing services, changes in codes, etc. Certain electronic communications may also separately include the opportunity for you to opt out of similar communications in the future. Please note that we reserve the right to send members, providers and producers certain information as required by law, or important information that relates to their relationship with us. We take care not to send you material you have not requested, so please feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns.


Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.


We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.


We have implemented and maintain physical, administrative and electronic security measures with regard to the AVM Sites that we hope will prevent unauthorized use. We also maintain physically secured locations for server operations, use technological safeguards such as firewalls, password protection, and encryption, and limit access to sensitive information to those individuals with a legitimate business need to access such information.


Again, thank you for your interest in Aequorea Vision Medical, Incorporated, a Health Care of Today company. We respect your privacy and hope you feel comfortable with how your privacy is being protected. If you have any questions about what you have read here or experienced on our website, please contact our Privacy Administrator at:

Aequorea Vision Medical, Incorporated
947 Janet Drive
Canyon Lake, TX 78133
Telephone: 830.899.4141
privacy@healthcareoftoday.com

Last updated: April 7, 2010