Privacy Policy
Ascension Medical Educators, LLC (“Company”,”we”, “our”, or “us”) respects your privacy and
are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Notice. This Notice describes
how we collect, process, retain, and disclose personal data about you when providing services
to you through our website and services that link to this Notice (our “Services”) and our
practices for using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This Notice applies only to information we collect:
· Through the Services.
· In communications, including email, text, chat, and other electronic messages, between
you and the Services.
It does not apply to information collected by:
· Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that
may link to or be accessible from or through the Services.
We may provide additional or different privacy policies that are specific to certain features,
services, or activities.
Please read this Notice carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your
information and how we treat it. By interacting with our Services or providing us with your
information, you agree to the collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in this
privacy Notice. This Notice may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy).
Your continued use of the Services after we make changes as described here is deemed to be
acceptance of those changes, so please check the Notice periodically for updates.
CHILDREN’s AND MINORS DATA
Our Services are not intended for, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data from,
children under the age of 18. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a
child under 18 years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.
What Data Do we Collect?
“Personal data” is information that identifies, relates to, or describes, directly or indirectly, you
as an individual, such as your name, email address, telephone number, home address, or
payment information (for example, account information such as name, postal address, and
email address, credit card number, social security number, or any other identifier we may use to
contact you online or offline).
The types and categories of personal data we collect or process include:
· Account and contact information, including name, address (such as home address, work
address, or other address), email address, phone number, username, and other contact
information you provide us.
· Payment information, including credit card or debit card information and information
about the payment methods and services (such as PayPal or Venmo) you use in
connection with the Services. Although this is largely done via our third party payment
processors accessed via this website (e.g., Stripe, Klarna).
· Account history, including information about your subscription, account, transactions,
purchases, order history, or discounts.
· Demographic information, including your age, gender, or education, if you have
consented to such information collection.
· Location information, including general geographic location such as country, state or
province, or city and precise geolocation, if you have enabled and consented to location
information collection.
· Device information, including your IP address, device identifiers, operating system and
version, preferred language, hardware identifiers, browser type and settings, and other
device information.
· Content and information you elect to provide as part of your profile or in any reviews you
make through the Services or emails, chats, or other communications sent to us.
We also collect:
· Statistics or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly
identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data
from personal data. For example, we may aggregate personal data to calculate the
percentage of users accessing a specific Services feature.
· Technical information. Technical information includes information about your internet
connection and usage details about your interactions with the Services, such as
clickstream information to, through, and from our Services (including date and time),
products that you view or search for; page response times, download errors, length of
your visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and
mouse-overs), or methods used to browse away from a page.
If we combine or connect non-personal statistical or technical data with personal data so that it
directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as personal
information.
How Do We Collect Your Personal and Other Data?
You Provide Information to Us
We collect information about you when you interact with our Services, such as when you create
or update an account, place an order, subscribe, or make a purchase, participate in surveys, or
create, or upload, or post content to the Services, including reviews, media such as photos,
videos, or audio recordings.
Automatically Through Our Services
As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection
technologies to collect information that may include personal data. Information collected
automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system, and browser type,
and information collected through cookies, pixels, and other tracking technologies including
details of your interactions with our Services, such as traffic data, location data, logs, and other
communication data, and which resources and Services features that you access and use.
Using automatic collection technologies helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better
and more personalized experience.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
· Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device when you interact with the
Services. You may refuse to accept or disable cookies by activating the appropriate
setting on your browser or device. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable
to access certain features of the Services.
· Pixels. Some parts of the Services and our emails may contain small electronic files
known as pixels that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited
those parts or opened an email and for other related statistics (for example, recording
the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity).
To the extent any of these automated technologies are considered a personal data sale,
targeted advertising, or profiling, under applicable laws, depending on where you live, you may
opt out from use of these automated technologies for such uses by info@ascenmed.com.
Please note that some Services features may be unavailable as a result.
When you interact with the Services, there are third parties that may use automatic collection
technologies to collect information about your or your device. These third parties may include:
· Advertisers, ad networks, and ad servers.
· Analytics companies.
· Your device manufacturer.
· Your internet or mobile service provider.
These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect information about you when you
use the Services. The information they collect may be associated with your personal data or
they may collect information, including personal data, about your online activities over time and
across different websites, apps, platforms, and other online services. They may use this
information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you
have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the
responsible provider directly.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal
data, to:
· Provide you with the Services and any contents, features, information, products, or
services that we make available through the Services.
· Fulfill and manage subscriptions, purchases, orders, payments, and exchanges.
· Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
· Provide you with notices about your account/subscription, including expiration and
renewal notices.
· Improve our Services, including by analyzing your information and creating aggregated
data derived from your information) to develop, maintain, analyze, improve, optimize,
measure, and report on our Services and their features and how users interact with
them.
· Promote our Services, business, and offerings by publishing advertising on our own
Services.
· Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into
between you and us, including for billing and collection.
· Notify you when Services updates are available and about changes to any products or
services we offer or provide though them.
· In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
· For any other purpose with your consent.
The usage information we collect, whether connected to your personal data or not, helps us
improve our Services and deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to:
· Estimate our audience sizes and usage patterns.
· Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize the Services
according to your individual needs and interests.
· Speed up your searches.
· Recognize you when you return to our Services.
We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of
interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the
relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data or adjust your user preferences
in your account profile. For more information, see Your Rights and Choices About Your
Information.
Who We Disclose Your Information To
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify
any individual, without restriction.
We may also disclose personal data that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy
Notice:
· To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
· To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our
organization and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal data
confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
· To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring,
reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Company’s assets,
whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding,
in which personal data held by Company is among the assets transferred.
· To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
· For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
· With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal data:
· To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any
government or regulatory request.
· To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and
collection purposes.
· If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or
safety of our organization, our customers/clients, or others.
· The categories of personal data we may disclose include:
· Account and contact information.
· Payment information.
· Account history, including information about your subscription, account, transactions,
purchases, order history, or discounts.
Your Rights and Choices About Your Information
This section describes mechanisms you can use to control certain uses and disclosures of your
information and rights you may have under state law, depending on where you live.
Advertising, marketing, cookies, and other tracking technologies choices:
· Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or
some browser cookies or other tracking technology files, or to alert you when these files
are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies or similar tracking files, some Services
features may be inaccessible or not function properly. Some browsers include a ‘‘Do Not
Track’’(DNT) setting that can send a signal to the online services you visit indicating you
do not wish to be tracked.
· We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-
based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose
not to have your information collected or used in this way. To learn more about opting
out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”),
including how to add the NAI Global Privacy Control (GPC) extension to your Chrome
web browser, see NAI: How to Opt Out.
Your State Privacy Rights
Depending on your state of residency, you may have certain rights related to your personal
data, including:
· Access and Data Portability. You may confirm whether we process your personal data
and access a copy of the personal data we process. To the extent feasible and required
by state law, depending on your state, data will be provided in a portable format.
Depending on your state, you may have the right to receive additional information and it
will be included in the response to your access request.
· Correction. You may request that we correct inaccuracies in your personal data that we
maintain, taking into account the information’s nature and processing purpose.
· Deletion. You may request that we delete personal data about you that we maintain,
subject to certain exception under applicable law.
· Use of Personal Data for Targeted Advertising, Profiling, and Sales.
We do not use, transfer, sell, or otherwise provide access to third parties for the purposes of targeted
online behavioral advertising, or any other form of advertising.
Important: The exact scope of these rights vary by state. There are also several exceptions
where we may not have an obligation to fulfill your request.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact info@ascenmed.com.
How We Protect Your Personal Data
We use commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to
protect your personal data from accidental loss or destruction and from unauthorized access,
use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic
storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your
personal data transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the Services. In particular,
email, texts, and chats sent to or from the Services may not be secure, and you should carefully
decide what information you send to us via such communications channels. Any transmission of
personal data is at your own risk.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are responsible for taking
steps to protect your personal data against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access.
How We Retain Your Personal Data
We keep the categories of personal data described in this Notice for as long as reasonably
necessary to fulfill the purposes described or for as otherwise legally permitted or required, such
as maintaining the Services, operating our organization, complying with our legal obligations,
resolving disputes, and for safety, security, and fraud prevention. This means that we consider
our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm, and nature of the information when
deciding how long to retain personal data. At the end of the retention period, personal data will
be deleted, destroyed, or deidentified. When an account is deactivated, associated data with
such account is deprecated and deleted within 90 days.
Changes to Our Privacy Notice
We may update this Notice from time to time, and we will provide notice of any such changes to
the Notice as required by law. The date the privacy Notice was last updated is identified at the
top of the page. We will notify you of changes to this Notice by updating the “last updated” date
and posting the updated Notice on the Services. We may email or otherwise communicate
reminders about this Notice, but you should check our Services periodically to see the current
Notice and any changes we have made to it.
Contact Information
To exercise your rights or ask questions or comment about this privacy Notice or our privacy
practices, contact us at: info@ascenmed.com