Scope of Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) collected by Hair Restoration of the South and Nicole Rogers, MD “online” (e.g., web and mobile services, mobile applications, however, accessed and/or used, whether via personal computers, mobiles devices or otherwise) and “offline” (e.g., collection of data through mailings, telephone, or in person) activities owned, operated, provided, or made available by Hair Restoration of the South is referred to in this Policy as the “Company”, “we”, or “us”. Please review this Policy carefully so that you understand our privacy practices.
BY USING AND/OR VISITING THE COMPANY’S “ONLINE” AND “OFFLINE” ACTIVITIES (the “Services”) OR BY OTHERWISE GIVING THE COMPANY YOUR INFORMATION, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS POLICY.
If you do not agree to any of these terms, please do not use the Company’s Services or give the Company any of your information.
The Information Collected
The Company may ask you for Personal Information, such as your name, e-mail address, and mobile number. We may collect this Personal Information through various forms and in multiple places through the Services, including account registration forms, contact us forms, or when you otherwise contact us. Consumer information is not shared with third-parties for marketing purposes.
Use of Personal Information
The Company uses Personal Information for internal and service-related purposes only. Based on the Personal Information you provide us when registering for an account, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries to provide the services you request and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email, telephone, SMS, or text message if you wish.
In addition, we may use your Personal Information that we collect about you to:
- (a) Provide you with information or services or process transactions that you have requested or agreed to receive including to send you electronic newsletters, or to provide you with special offers or promotional materials on behalf of us or third parties,
- (b) Process your registration with the Services, including verifying your information is active and valid,
- (c) Improve the Services, to customize your experience with the Services, or to serve you specific content that is most relevant to you,
- (d) Contract you with regard to your use of the Services and, in our discretion, changes to the Services and/or the Services’ policies,
- (e) For internal business purposes,
- (f) For inclusion in our data analytics, and
- (g) For purposes disclosed at the time you provide your information or as otherwise set forth in this Policy.
The Company does not rent, sell, or share Personal Information about you with other nonaffiliated companies.
Credit card information is used only for payment processing and fraud prevention. Credit card information and other sensitive Personal Information required to process a purchase is not used for any other purpose by our financial services providers or the Company.
The Company may disclose Personal Information in response to legal process, for example, a court order or a subpoena. It also may disclose Personal Information in response to a law enforcement agency’s request or where it believes 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, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing products and applicable laws, or as otherwise required or permitted by law or consistent with legal requirements.
Use of Cookies, Web Beacons, and Embedded Scripts
Cookies are small text files that are placed in visitors’ computer browsers to store their preferences. Cookies themselves do not contain any Personal Information. 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. If you choose to disable cookies on your Device, some features of the Services may not function properly or may not be able to customize the delivery of information to you. 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 Policy.
An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Services, such as the links you click on. The code is temporarily downloaded onto your Device from our web server or a third party service provider, is active only while you are connected to our Services, and is deactivated or deleted thereafter.
Information Given to Third Parties
The Company may share non-personally identifiable information, such as aggregated user statistics and log data, with third parties for industry analysis, demographic profiling, to deliver targeted advertising about other products or services, or for other business purposes. We do not sell, share, rent or trade the information we have collected about you, including Personal Information, other than as disclosed within this Policy or at the time you provide your information. We do not share your Personal Information with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes unless you consent to such sharing at the time you provide your Personal Information.
Security of Your Information
The Personal Information and Usage Information the Company collects is securely stored within our databases. We use standard, industry-wide, commercially reasonable security practices such as encryption, firewalls and Secure Socket Layers (SSL) for protecting your information. However, as effective as encryption technology is, no security system is impenetrable. The Company cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won’t be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet or wireless communication, and any information you transmit to the Company you do at your own risk. We recommend that you not disclose your password to anyone.
Children’s Privacy
The Company does not knowingly collect or solicit any information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register with or use the Services. In the event that the Company learns that it has collected Personal Information from a person under age 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you are a parent or guardian of a minor under the age of 18 and believe he or she has disclosed Personal Information to us, please contact us at 504-315-4247.
Updating the Privacy Policy
From time to time, the Company may update this Policy to reflect changes to our information practices. Any changes will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Policy. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by email or by means of a notice on the Services before the change becomes effective. This will serve as your notification of these changes. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.