Overview
We, Indian Orthopaedic Association, respect you,
our user, and your privacy. It is our policy to comply
with internationally recognized standards of personal
data privacy protection.This statement set outs our privacy
policies and practices in relation to the following:
- What
information is collected
- How
the information is used
- With
whom the information is shared
- How
we protect children under the age of 13
- How
you access or change your personally identifiable information
WHAT
INFORMATION IS COLLECTED
We collect three kinds of information from you.
The
first kind is personally identifiable information ("Personally
Identifiable Information") which we collect during
your registration for any Indian Orthopaedic Association
services such as E-mail, chat, message board, etc ("Services").
Personally Identifiable Information includes your first
and last name, year of birth, gender, country, occupation,
annual income range, education, household size and alternative
contact address.
The
second kind is non-personally identifiable information
which includes your IP address (your computer's unique
signature), operating system, browser software, Internet
Service Provider, domain type and other numeric codes
which identify a computer ("Aggregated Information").
We use cookies to collect the Aggregated Information without
your being aware of this. A cookie is a very small text
file placed on your hard drive by a web server with your
permission for record-keeping purposes. Once you register
on one of our web sites, cookies will be used to make
a record of the pages you visit and your passwords and
preferences. Since cookies cannot contain any program
codes, they cannot be used to carry viruses nor can they
be used to extract data from your computer. Only the server
that sets cookies can access the information saved by
using cookies.
Since
the functioning of our system depends on our use of cookies,
our web sites do not allow access by users who do not
accept cookies.
The
third kind is personal information which we collect during
your subscription for certain email marketing programs
such as opt-in email, opt-in newsletter, polling and special
promotions ("Subscription Information"). Subscription
Information includes all your Personally Identifiable
Information, your email address and topic(s) interested
to you.
HOW
INFORMATION IS USED
Personally
Identifiable Information is used solely for the purpose
of identifying, managing and servicing individual user.
Aggregated Information is collected to help us to compile
aggregate statistics on site usage and to analyse our
users' demographics, interests and behaviour. This will
give us a better understanding of the needs of our users
and design our services and products accordingly.
Subscription
Information is used to deliver the emails or newsletters
to users who have chosen to subscribe to such emails or
newsletters.
WITH
WHOM THE INFORMATION IS SHARED
We
do not disclose any of your Personally Identifiable Information
to any third parties except:
We
only share the Subscription Information with email marketers
that IOA carefully selected to work with us in order to
provide users emails or newsletter they selected to receive.
We need to disclose the Subscription Information to the
email marketers in order for users to receive the correct
emails or newsletters which they opt-in to receive or
which the Co-brand Partners and IOA has agreed upon to
send. All opt-in emails or newsletters will be conducted
in a double-opt-in procedure, meaning user will receive
another confirmation email upon subscription, and will
have to reply to confirm the subscription of any emails
or newsletters. The double-opt-in procedure is another
method to ensure that users will only receive materials
they wanted to receive. Any of our e-mails to you containing
marketing materials will also include the details of an
opt-out procedure under which you may choose not to receive
any further marketing e-mails. If you have any questions
regarding marketing e-mails from us or any third parties,
please contact webmaster@ioaindia.org
Please be aware that when you click on the advertising
banners on our web sites or in any marketing emails, you
may be linked to sites which are not operated by us. We
are not responsible for the collection or use of any information
which you provide to those sites. We strongly recommend
that you should review the privacy policy statements of
those sites which collect information from you.
HOW WE PROTECT CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13
As is required in the United States by the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act of the United States of
America, we request a new user to indicate his or her
age in the registration form. If the new user is under
the age of 13 as indicated in his or her registration
form, he or she will be denied access to our services.
HOW
YOU ACCESS OR CHANGE YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
You
have the right to access and change any of your Personally
Identifiable Information collected by us. If you would
like to access or change your information, please follow
the simple instruction in your user account option or
please contact us at webmaster@ioaindia.org
GENERAL
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy Statement
at any time without prior notice and only the current
Privacy Policy Statement may be deemed effective. If you
have any questions concerning our use of your personal
information, please contact us at webmaster@ioaindia.org
