Privacy Policy

HelioMetrics Privacy Statement

HelioMetrics practices a strong privacy policy and enforces it with any partners. This statement discloses the privacy practices for the HelioMetrics.net (and all sub domains) and HealthcarePatientPrivacy.com. When you visit a website that is part of the HelioMetrics network of sites, you can expect to be notified of: What personally identifiable information of yours is collected; What organization is collecting the information; How the information is used; With whom the information may be shared; What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information; What kind of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under the company’s control; and How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

HelioMetrics has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices at our HelioMetrics.net and network websites.

DEFINITIONS:

Partner: means any third party that processes Personal Information solely on behalf and under the instructions of HelioMetrics.

Personal Information: means any information or set of information that identifies or can reasonably be used to identify an individual.

INFORMATION COLLECTION

I. Personally-Identifiable Information (PII)

Personally-identifiable information collected with your consent may include, for example, name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, date of birth, user id and password (if you have one), information that you may supply in connection with applying for an account with us, information about orders you place, any responses you choose to provide to survey questions, or any inquires you may make through our website. We do not share, sell, rent or trade PII with third parties for their promotional purposes.

Using your personal data

Personal data submitted on this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website. In addition to the uses identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may use your personal information to:

(a) improve your browsing experience by personalizing the website;
(b) send information (other than marketing communications) to you which we think may be of interest to you by post or by email or similar technology;
(c) send to you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology.
(d) provide other companies with statistical information about our users – but this information will not be used to identify any individual user.

In accordance with COPPA, HelioMetrics does not, at any time, knowingly collect information from customers or channel partners of children under the age of 13, in addition we do not market our products to children under the age of 13.

II. Cookies

“Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. This website uses first and third party cookies (session and persistent), however personally identifiable information is not collected through the use of cookies, except as described in the “Personally Identifiable Website Activity Monitoring” section below. Cookies are used to determine whether a visitor is unique or whether a visitor has viewed our site before. This site uses session cookies and persistent cookies for website traffic analysis. Cookies are also used in sections of this site which require user log-in to authenticate and validate users and to determine whether a user’s session is active or has timed-out. While most browsers are set to accept cookies by default, you can set yours to refuse cookies or to alert you before accepting them. Your browser manufacturer has information on changing the default setting for your specific browser.

III. Personally Identifiable Website Activity Monitoring

In the case of visitors to our website, who either (i) submit inquiries to us via web forms or (ii) have been directed to our website after clicking on a link in marketing e-mail from us, we may use software to connect such information submitted to us (such as e-mail addresses and contact information) with the IP address and cookie on the computer that has submitted the information to us (see “Cookies” above for a further description of cookies).

Once a visitor has submitted a web form to us or clicked on a particular link in a marketing e-mail from us, we may maintain a personally-identifiable record of certain information about their visits to our website, such as the pages viewed on our website, the time of the visit, the order of pages accessed and the amount of time spent on each page. We may combine this information with other information about you or your company. We use this information to better tailor the marketing of our products and services to you; we do not sell or share personally-identifiable Website activity information to third parties.

If you would prefer that we not link your personally identifiable information with data from your visits to our website, disable cookies in your Web browser. If you disable cookies, you would need to do so from each computer that you use to access our site. (For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookie by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.) This will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including this one.

IV. Non-personally identifiable information

While visiting this site, certain anonymous information maybe passively collected (i.e., gathered without you actively providing the information) using technologies like cookies or web beacons.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provider by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files placed on your computer; the help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to their parties where required by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP Address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse or control the user of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purpose set out above.

This website utilizes the services of webtracking software. When visitors view a page, a tracking operation retrieves data about the page request. This information is then forwarded to tracking software server via a list of parameters attached to a single-pixel image GIF request, known as a web-beacon. The data tracked includes page viewed, referring page and IP address. The data is then processes and forwarded to HelioMetrics.

(1) What information do we collect?

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of data:

(a) information about your visits to and use of this website;
(b) information about any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website, including information relating to any purchases you make of our goods or services;
(c) information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us and/or subscribing to our website services and/or email notifications.

(2) Information about website visits.

We may collect information about you computer and your visits to this website such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views. We may use this information in the administration of this website, to improve the website’s usability, and for marketing purposes.

We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The text file is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.

We may send a cookie which may be stored on by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. We may use the information we obtain from the cookie in the administration of this website, to improve the website’s usability and for marketing purposes. We may also use that information to recognize your computer when you visit our website, and to personalize our website for you.

V. Third Party Links

Our website may offer links to other sites. If you visit one of these sites, you may want to review the privacy policy on that site. In addition, you may have visited our website through a link or a banner advertisement on another site. In such cases, the site you linked from may collect information from people who click on the banner or link. You may want to refer to the privacy policies on those sites to see how they collect and use this information.

VI. Choice:

HelioMetrics will offer individuals the opportunity to choose (opt-out) whether their personal information is (a) to be disclosed to a non-agent third party, or (b) to be used for a purpose other than the purpose for which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized by the individual. HelioMetrics will provide individuals with reasonable mechanisms to exercise their choices.

VII. Security:

HelioMetrics will take reasonable precautions to protect personal information in its possession from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. HelioMetrics has put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the Information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration or destruction. HelioMetrics cannot guarantee the security of Information on or transmitted via the Internet.

VIII. Data Integrity:

HelioMetrics will use personal information only in ways that are compatible with the purposes for which it was collected or subsequently authorized by the individual. HelioMetrics will take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information is relevant to its intended use, accurate, complete, and current.

ACCESS: Upon request, HelioMetrics will grant individuals reasonable access to personal information that it holds about them. In addition, HelioMetrics will take reasonable steps to permit individuals to correct, amend, or delete information that is demonstrated to be inaccurate or incomplete.

CONTACT INFORMATION: Questions or comments regarding this Policy should be submitted to the HelioMetrics Privacy Office by mail to:

HelioMetrics Privacy Office
HelioMetrics
(E-mail to [email protected])

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 2016