Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting lifeinstruments.com, owned and operated by Life Instrument Corporation (referenced further as “Company,” “we,” “us” and “our”). We respect your individual privacy and value your confidence. Therefore, we have adopted this Privacy Policy to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we may use this information, including our successors, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and related companies, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties.

 

1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy sets forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. We keep this Privacy Policy posted on our Website and you should review it frequently, as it may change from time to time without notice. Any changes will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Privacy Policy.

 

2. Types of Information We May Collect

Our Website collects information: (a) directly from you when you provide it to us in connection with a request for a product, service, or information; and (b) automatically as you navigate through the Website. In some cases, this information is personally identifiable information. Our definition of personally identifiable information includes any information that may be used to specifically identify or contact you, such as your name, postal and email addresses, phone number, etc. If we combine any non-personal information with personally identifiable information, we treat such information as personally identifiable.

Information You Provide

In certain circumstances, we may request, allow or otherwise provide you an opportunity to submit your personally identifiable information in connection with a feature, program, promotion or some other aspect of our Website. For instance, you may: (a) provide your name, address, phone number and email address to register an account with us. Whether or not you provide this information is your choice; however, in many instances this type of information is required to participate in the particular activity or service, realize a benefit we may offer, purchase a product or service, or gain access to certain content on our Website. When you submit your personally identifiable information through the Website, you are giving consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personally identifiable information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

 

Information Automatically Collected

We and our service providers may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device operating system type and version number, manufacturer and model, device identifier (such as Google Advertising ID or Apple ID for advertising), browser type, screen resolution, IP address, the website you visited before browsing to our Website, general location information such as city, state or geographic area; information about your use of and actions on the Website, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, and length of access; and other personal information. A few of the methods and/or avenues that may be used to collect information on the Website include, without limitation, the following (and subsequent technology and methods hereafter developed):

 

Cookies.  “Cookies” are small text files or other similar files placed and stored on the hard drive of a computer, mobile or other device when it is used to access the Website. Cookies may be used for many purposes, including, but not limited to, remembering you and your preferences and tracking your visits to our Website. We may analyze the information derived from these cookies and other technological tools we employ (such as clear gifs/web beacons) and match this information with data provided by you or another party. If you do not want information to be collected through the use of cookies, your browser allows you to deny or accept the use of cookies. Cookies can be disabled or controlled by setting a preference within your web browser or on your Device. You should be aware that the Company cannot control the use of cookies (or the resulting information) by third-parties, and use of third party cookies is not covered by this Privacy Policy. We do not include any features on the Website that allow a third party to track you, in personally identifiable form, on our Website. Similarly, we do not track users over time and across third party websites to provide targeted advertising. Thus, we do not currently respond or take any action with respect to web browser "do not track" signals or other mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of information about an individual’s online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services.

 

Web Traffic and Web Performance Analytics. We may also collect information using a variety of reports from web traffic and web performance analytics companies to improve our Website. This information allows us to better understand users of the Website, and to customize the Website while also tracking our success at reaching new audiences. This Privacy Policy does not govern the ability of any third party analytics company to use and share information collected by such company, but is subject to the third party’s privacy policy.

 

IP Addresses. An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer, mobile or other computing device whenever you are surfing the Internet. Web servers (computers that “serve up” web pages) automatically identify your computer or other computing device by its IP address. When users request pages from our Website, our servers may log their IP addresses. We may collect IP addresses for the following purposes, among others: system administration, to report non-personal aggregate information to others, and to track the use of our Website. IP addresses are considered non-personal information and may also be shared as provided above.

 

email Communications.  If you send us an email with questions or comments, we may use your personally identifiable information to respond to your questions or comments, and we may save your questions or comments for future reference. For security reasons, we do not recommend that you send non-public personal information. In certain instances, we may provide you with the option to set your preferences for receiving email communications from us; that is, agree to some communications but not others. We reserve the right to send you transactional emails such as customer service communications.

 

3. Use of Collected Information

The information collected through our Website is generally used to fulfill your requests for our products and services and to respond to your inquiries about our offerings. We may also use this information to later contact you for a variety of reasons, such as customer service, offering you other products or services that we believe may be of interest to you, or to communicate with you about content or other information you have posted or shared with us via our Website.

 

If the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) or California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) applies, our legal basis for collecting and using the information described in this Privacy Policy will depend on the information concerned and the context in which we collect it.  We collect personally identifiable information from you:

  • where we need it to perform a contract with you (e.g., to fulfill an order);
  • where the processing is in our legitimate interests (which include the purposes listed, above); or
  • if we otherwise have your consent.

4. Sharing of Personally Identifiable Information

We may share your personally identifiable information with affiliated companies and third parties to the extent necessary for them to perform services on our behalf (such as Google Analytics), and persons or entities with whom we have marketing, business, or other relationships. In response to a legal process or law enforcement request, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities, we may also disclose personally identifiable information when we have a good faith basis for disclosure. We also may disclose personally identifiable information if we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. If we sell or otherwise transfer part or the whole of Life Instruments or our assets to another organization (e.g., in the course of a transaction like a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, or liquidation), any information collected through the Website, including personally identifiable information, may be among the items sold or transferred.

 

5. Your Rights

If you would like to access, amend, erase, export, or object to or restrict the processing of, personally identifiable information about you, you may submit a request to [email protected]. We will promptly review all such requests in accordance with applicable laws.

 

Depending on where you live, you may have a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority or other regulatory agency if you believe that we have violated any of the rights concerning Personal Information. We encourage you to first reach out to us at [email protected], so we have an opportunity to address your concerns directly before you do so.

 

6. Keeping Your Information Secure

We have implemented security measures we consider reasonable and appropriate to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Please be advised, however, that while we strive to protect your personally identifiable information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and are not responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your personally identifiable information. In the unfortunate event that your “personally identifiable information” (as the term or similar terms are defined by any applicable law requiring notice upon a security breach) is compromised, we may notify you by e-mail (at our sole and absolute discretion) to the last e-mail address you have provided us in the most expedient time reasonable under the circumstances; however, delays in notification may occur while we take necessary measures to determine the scope of the breach and restore reasonable integrity to the system as well as for the legitimate needs of law enforcement if notification would impede a criminal investigation. From time to time, we evaluate new technology for protecting information, and when appropriate, we upgrade our information security systems.

 

7.  Retention of Personally Identifiable Information

We will retain personally identifiable information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it has been collected as outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required by law.

 

8. COPPA

Our site is intended for adults 18 years of age and older with surgical instrument needs. The features, programs, promotions, services, and other aspects of our Website that require the submission of personally identifiable information are not intended for anyone under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children. If you are a parent or guardian of a child and believe he or she has disclosed personally identifiable information to us please contact us at [email protected]. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.

 

9. Contact

You may contact us at the following contact information if you have questions or comments about our Privacy Policy:

 

Contact Information:
Life Instrument Corporation
[email protected]
91 French Ave.
Braintree, MA 02184
(781) 849-0109

 

10. Sole Statement

This Privacy Policy as posted on this Website at lifeinstruments.com is the sole statement of our privacy policy with respect to this Website, and no summary, modification, restatement, or other version thereof, or other privacy statement or policy, in any form, is valid unless we post a new or revised policy.

 

11. Your Rights under the CCPA

You have the right to request that we disclose: what categories and specific pieces of CCPA personal information have been collected about you; the categories of sources from which CCPA personal information are collected; our business or commercial purpose for collecting, using, or disclosing CCPA personal information; the categories of third parties with whom we share CCPA personal information; the categories of CCPA personal information we have disclosed about you for a business purpose.

 

You have a right to receive a copy of the specific CCPA personal information we have collected about you.

 

You have a right to deletion of your CCPA personal information, subject to exceptions under the CCPA.

 

You have a right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

 

We will not discriminate against you based on your exercise of any of your CCPA rights.

 

You can assert these rights only where we receive a verified request from you.

 

If you are a consumer under the CCPA and wish to contact us through an authorized agent, the authorized agent can submit a request on your behalf at [email protected] along with a statement signed by you certifying that the agent is authorized to act on your behalf. In order to verify the request and your identity, we may ask you to verify your identity.

 

12. Effective Date

This Privacy Policy is effective as of October 26, 2022.

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