This Privacy Policy is provided to explain the kind of information Applied Medical Resources Corporation (with its affiliated companies, “Applied Medical”) may collect while you visit us online, whether through our websites, including www.appliedmedical.com and other Applied Medical websites, or through other websites or online applications, blogs, social networks, or other online or wireless means via computer, mobile device, or other technology (“Applied Medical Sites” or “Sites”), and how Applied Medical maintains and uses that information. By using the Applied Medical Sites, you are agreeing to the terms of Applied Medical's Privacy Policy. Please be aware that some individual Applied Medical Sites may have their own or additional privacy policies and terms of use, which you should review before using such site, including the Terms of Use available at www.appliedmedical.com/Legal/LegalNotice.
Some of the information we keep on our server is information that you volunteer to provide through forms and some is collected automatically. Unless you volunteer to submit personal data yourself, Applied Medical will not collect any personal information.
In General. While Applied Medical does not generally require that you provide us with personally identifiable information in order to visit and use the Applied Medical Sites, in order to purchase products or participate in some other functionality of the Applied Medical Sites (such as filling out a contact form, requesting price lists, sales contract, or catalogs; registering for training; or submitting ideas), we may enable you to provide or post personal information about yourself, including patient experiences and other personal medical or health information and/or information that could reasonably be used to contact you or to identify you personally, such as first and last name, email address, mailing address, fax number, account number, medical specialty, title, telephone number, and hospital/facility information (collectively, "Personal Information"). If you choose not to provide Personal Information or other information to us, you may not be able to participate in certain functionalities of the Applied Medical Sites. If we combine any demographic or other information we collect about you with Personal Information about you, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information.
Individuals Under 13 Years of Age. The Applied Medical Sites are open to all individuals. We do not knowingly collect or permit the collection, storage or use of any Personal Information from anyone under 13. If you are a parent or guardian who knows or has discovered that your child under the age of 13 has submitted Personal Information or other information without your permission, upon request, we will promptly: (a) provide direct notice to you indicating what, if any, Personal Information of your child has been collected and how it has been used and/or disclosed; (b) remove your child’s Personal Information or other information from our database, cease the use of such information and direct any other party with access to such information to do the same; and (c) notify you of our compliance with the above.
Consent to Processing. The Applied Medical Sites are administered from in the United States and the Sites may be replicated to various locations around the world to offer better performance to you. If you are located in the European Union or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that information we collect may be transferred to and processed in the United States. By using the Sites, or providing us with any information, you understand and expressly consent to this transfer, processing and storage of your information in the United States, where privacy laws may not necessarily be as comprehensive as those in your country.
Functionality on the Applied Medical Sites may permit interactions between the Sites and third-party websites, enabling you to “like,” “share,” or otherwise post content to third-party websites or applications. If you choose to do so, shared information (including any Personal Information) may become public, including being visible on the Sites. The third-party social network websites or applications may allow us to collect and share (or the third party to share) information about you, including Personal Information. We may also receive information about you if other users of social network websites give us access to profiles and you are a “friend” or other connection, or if information about you is otherwise accessible through your social network or interactive webpage or application.
During your visit, Applied Medical automatically collects and stores the domain and host from which you access the internet, the internet address of the website from which you linked directly to the Applied Medical Sites (if applicable), the date and time you arrived at the Applied Medical Sites, how long you spent on the site, which pages you visited, your internet protocol (IP) address, the location of any device used to access the Applied Medical Sites, and your computer's operating system and browser software.
The technologies used on the Applied Medical Sites to collect Use Information, including Device Identification, may include:
"Cookies" (which may be HTML files, Flash files or other technology) are small text files that help store user preferences and activity. A Cookie is placed on a Device when it is used to visit the Sites or otherwise access our online offerings. Cookies may be used for many purposes, such as remembering you and your preferences, tracking your visits to our webpages and customizing your Site experience. If you choose to disable cookies on your Device, some features of the Sites or our online offerings may not function properly.
“Sessions” are semi-permanent interactive information interchanges between two or more communicating devices. A session is established and later taken down. An established session may involve more than one message in each direction. A session is typically, but not always, stateful, meaning that at least one of the communicating parts needs to save information about the session history in order to be able to communicate. A session is the basic requirement to perform connection-oriented communications. An HTTP exchange between a browser and a remote host may include an HTTP cookie, which identifies state, such as a unique session ID, information about the user's preferences or authorization level.
“Web beacons” (also known as image tags, pixel tags, GIFS or web bugs) are small pieces of code used to collect advertising data, such as counting page views, promotion views or advertising responses. Web beacons or similar technologies may be used for a number of purposes, including, without limitation, to count visitors to the Applied Medical Sites, to monitor how users navigate the Sites, to count how many sent emails were actually opened or to determine whether content sent was actually viewed.
An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Applied Medical Sites, such as the links you click on. The code is temporarily downloaded onto your Device from our server or a third-party service provider, is active only while you are connected to the Sites, and is deactivated or deleted thereafter.
Applied Medical uses commercially reasonable safeguards to help secure and protect your Personal Information. However, no transmission or storage of information can be guaranteed to be absolutely private and secure. Applied Medical does not ensure the security of any information you transmit to us, and your use of the Sites and provision of information to us is at your risk.
Applied Medical will use your personal information for the purpose for which you provided it and related administrative purposes. For example, our use of such personal information may include responding to your requests, developing records of you, your purchase or interest in our products, contacting you with information that might be of interest to you (including information about products of ours and others), improving your experience on the Applied Medical Sites, providing you with support and answering questions or other requests, enforcing this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use of the Applied Medical Sites, protecting our rights and property, and complying with a law or regulation, including responding to government investigations, validly issued subpoenas, and court orders.
Your submission of ideas, patient experiences, orders for product, and registration for training are governed by this Privacy Policy, the Terms of Use, and (as applicable) by other agreements, policies, and terms and conditions. Our use of the information you provide for these purposes is subject to those agreements, policies, and terms and conditions.
In the ordinary course of business, we may share some personal information with third-party companies that we hire to perform services or functions on our behalf and consistent with this Privacy Policy. Such services might include providing content, fulfilling your requests, improving our products, content, services or advertising, or otherwise performing services for Applied Medical. Additionally, we may share your information in order to host or operate the Sites, for data analysis and for administrative purposes. In such cases, we share the minimum amount of information reasonably necessary for the third party to complete its function. In all cases, we will not authorize them to keep, disclose, or use your information except for the purpose of providing the services for which they have been contracted.
Applied Medical will not otherwise sell, rent, publish or exchange your personally identifiable information to any other organization or entity unless you are first notified and expressly agree to it, or as otherwise required by law.
Applied Medical or any of its assets, including the Applied Medical Sites, may be sold, or other transactions may occur in which your Personal Information is one of the assets in the transaction. As a result Applied Medical reserves the right to disclose and transfer user information, including Personal Information, in connection with any significant corporate event, such as a merger, sale, dissolution, or acquisition, in which such information is one of the business assets transferred.
We may transfer and disclose information, including your Personal Information, Use Information, and Device Identification (including IP address), to third parties: (i) when we believe that the law requires it; (ii) at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation; (iii) to enforce the Terms of Use or other applicable policies; (iv) to respond to an emergency; (v) to protect the rights, property, or safety of the visitors to the Sites or others; or (vi) to identify users in cooperation with copyright owners, internet service providers, wireless service providers or law enforcement agencies. These transfers and disclosures may be done with or without notice to you.
If you provide us with your email address, we may send you emails regarding Applied Medical or the products we offer. You can choose to opt out of receiving email from Applied Medical at any time. If you wish to opt out with respect to more than one email address, you must provide a separate request for each email address. Every email sent from Applied Medical will include appropriate unsubscribe instructions. To opt out of all email marketing messages from us, you must follow the instructions provided with each email.
The Applied Medical Sites may contain links to other websites. Site content or widgets may be included on websites of third parties. These other websites may send their own cookies to you, and they may independently collect data or Personal Information. A link or other connection from the Applied Medical Sites to any other website does not indicate that Applied Medical endorses or recommends that website. Applied Medical provides such links and connections for your convenience. These other sites are neither controlled by Applied Medical nor subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Applied Medical is not responsible for any of the content of, or information collected by, those sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of all such sites you may visit.
California Privacy Rights: If you are a California resident, you have the right to receive: (a) information identifying any third party(ies) to whom Applied Medical may have disclosed, within the preceding calendar year, your personal information for that third party’s direct marketing purposes; and (b) a description of the categories of personal information disclosed. To obtain such information free of charge, please write to us at Applied Medical, 22872 Avenida Empresa, Rancho Santa Margarita, California 92688, Attn: California Privacy, or submit your request to AppliedMedicalPrivacyPolicy@appliedmedical.com. Applied Medical will respond to these requests within thirty (30) days. Requests that come to Applied Medical by other means may receive a delayed response.
Applied Medical may at any time update this Privacy Policy. We will provide notice about significant changes by either sending a notice to the primary email address we have on file for you or by placing a prominent notice on the Privacy Policy webpage. Any changes become effective immediately upon posting. Your continued use of the Applied Medical Sites after any changes to the Privacy Policy are made will constitute your agreement to be bound by those changes.
Last reviewed: January 1, 2023
