PRIVACY NOTICE
Last updated January 12, 2022
Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at BioMed Devices ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and
your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice or our practices with regard to your personal information, please contact us at
Custserv@biomeddevices.com. This privacy notice describes how we might use your information if you:
Visit our website at https://www.biomeddevices.com
Engage with us in other related ways ― including any sales, marketing, or events
In this privacy notice, if we refer to:
"Website," we are referring to any website of ours that references or links to this policy "Services," we are referring to our Website, and other related services,
including any sales, marketing, or events The purpose of this privacy notice is to explain to you in the clearest way possible
what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. If there are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not agree with, please
discontinue use of our Services immediately. Please read this privacy notice carefully, as it will help you understand what we do with the information that we collect.
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Website or otherwise when you contact us. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions
with us and the Website, the choices you make and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:
Personal Information Provided by You. We collect names; phone numbers; email addresses; mailing addresses; job titles; billing addresses; and other similar information. All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information. Information collected from other sources
In Short: We may collect limited data from public databases, marketing partners, and other outside sources. In order to enhance our ability to provide relevant marketing, offers and services to you and update our records, we may obtain information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, affiliate programs, data providers, as well as from other third parties. This information includes mailing addresses, job titles, email addresses, phone numbers, intent data (or user behavior data), Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, social media profiles, social media URLs and custom profiles, for purposes of targeted advertising and event promotion.
2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent. We use personal information collected via our Website for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.
We use the information we collect or receive: To facilitate account creation and logon process. If you choose to link your account with us to a third-party account (such as your Google or Facebook account), we use the information you allowed us to collect from those third parties to facilitate account creation and logon process for the performance of the contract.
To post testimonials. We post testimonials on our Website that may contain
personal information. Prior to posting a testimonial, we will obtain your consent
to use your name and the content of the testimonial. If you wish to update, or
delete your testimonial, please contact us at Custserv@biomeddevices.com
and be sure to include your name, testimonial location, and contact
information.
Request feedback. We may use your information to request feedback and to contact
you about your use of our Website.
To enable user-to-user communications. We may use your information in
order to enable user-to-user communications with each user's consent.
To manage user accounts. We may use your information for the purposes of
managing our account and keeping it in working order.
Fulfill and manage your orders. We may use your information to fulfill and
manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the
Website.
Administer prize draws and competitions. We may use your information to
administer prize draws and competitions when you elect to participate in our
competitions.
To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may use your
information to provide you with the requested service.
To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may use your
information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you
might have with the use of our Services.
To send you marketing and promotional communications. We and/or our
third-party marketing partners may use the personal information you send to
us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing
preferences. For example, when expressing an interest in obtaining
information about us or our Website, subscribing to marketing or otherwise
contacting us, we will collect personal information from you. You can opt-out of
our marketing emails at any time (see the "WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY
RIGHTS?" below).
Deliver targeted advertising to you. We may use your information to develop
and display personalized content and advertising (and work with third parties
who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its
effectiveness.
3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?
In Short: We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to
provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.
We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis:
Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to
use your personal information for a specific purpose. Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you,
we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally
required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental
requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in
response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public
authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is
necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations
of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the
safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which
we are involved.
More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal
information in the following situations:
Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection
with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing,
or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
4. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes
outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law. We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the
purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or
permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in
this notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than 2 years.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal
information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not
possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup
archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from
any further processing until deletion is possible.
5. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of
organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures
designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However,
despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic
transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed
to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals,
or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security, and
improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our
best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and
from our Website is at your own risk. You should only access the Website within a
secure environment.
6. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18
years of age.
We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By
using the Website, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or
guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Website.
If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been
collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly
delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have
collected from children under age 18, please contact us at Custserv@biomeddevices.com.
7. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: In some regions, such as the European Economic Area (EEA) and United
Kingdom (UK), you have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your
personal information. You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.
In some regions (like the EEA and UK), you have certain rights under applicable data
protection laws. These may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy
of your personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the
processing of your personal information; and (iv) if applicable, to data portability. In
certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your
personal information. To make such a request, please use the contact details
provided below. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with
applicable data protection laws.
If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you have the
right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note however that this will not
affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal, nor will it affect the
processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing
grounds other than consent.
If you are a resident in the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing
your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data
protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here:
https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.
If you are a resident in Switzerland, the contact details for the data protection
authorities are available here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.
8. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications
include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal your
privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored
and collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and
implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond
to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates
your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that
we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised
version of this privacy notice.
9. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: Yes, if you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rights
regarding access to your personal information.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law,
permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a
year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any)
we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and
addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the
immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like
to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact
information provided below.
If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account
with the Website, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you
publicly post on the Website. To request removal of such data, please contact us
using the contact information provided below, and include the email address
associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will
make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Website, but please be aware that
the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems
(e.g. backups, etc.).
CCPA Privacy Notice
The California Code of Regulations defines a "resident" as:
(1) every individual who is in the State of California for other than a temporary or
transitory purpose and
(2) every individual who is domiciled in the State of California who is outside the
State of California for a temporary or transitory purpose
All other individuals are defined as "non-residents."
If this definition of "resident" applies to you, we must adhere to certain rights and
obligations regarding your personal information.
What categories of personal information do we collect?
We have collected the following categories of personal information in the past twelve
(12) months:
Category Examples Collected
A. Identifiers
Contact details, such as real name, alias,
postal address, telephone or mobile
contact number, unique personal identifier,
online identifier, Internet Protocol address,
email address and account name
YES
B. Personal information
categories listed in the
Name, contact information, education,
employment, employment history and YES
California Customer
financial information
Records statute
C. Protected classification
characteristics under
Gender and date of birth
NO
California or federal law
Transaction information, purchase history,
D. Commercial information
NO
financial details and payment information
E. Biometric information
Fingerprints and voiceprints
NO
Browsing history, search history, online
F. Internet or other similar behavior, interest data, and interactions
NO
network activity with our and other websites, applications,
systems and advertisements
G. Geolocation data
Device location
NO
H. Audio, electronic, visual,
Images and audio, video or call recordings
thermal, olfactory, or similar
created in connection with our business
NO
information
activities
I. Professional or
employment-related
information
Business contact details in order to
provide you our services at a business
level, job title as well as work history and
NO
professional qualifications if you apply for
a job with us
J. Education Information
Student records and directory information
NO
Inferences drawn from any of the collected
personal information listed above to create
K. Inferences drawn from
a profile or summary about, for example,
NO
other personal information
an individual’s preferences and
characteristics
We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories instances
where you interact with us in-person, online, or by phone or mail in the context of:
Receiving help through our customer support channels;
Participation in customer surveys or contests; and
Facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries.
How do we use and share your personal information?
More information about our data collection and sharing practices can be found in this
privacy notice.
You may contact us by email at Custserv@biomeddevices.com, by calling toll-free at
(800) 224-6633, by visiting https://www.biomeddevices.com/contact-bio-med, or by
referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document.
If you are using an authorized agent to exercise your right to opt-out we may deny a
request if the authorized agent does not submit proof that they have been validly
authorized to act on your behalf.
Will your information be shared with anyone else?
We may disclose your personal information with our service providers pursuant to a
written contract between us and each service provider. Each service provider is a for-
profit entity that processes the information on our behalf.
We may use your personal information for our own business purposes, such as for
undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. This
is not considered to be "selling" of your personal data.
Right to request deletion of the data -Request to delete
BioMed Devices has not disclosed or sold any personal information to third parties
for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding 12 months. BioMed Devices
will not sell personal information in the future belonging to website visitors, users and
other consumers.
Your rights with respect to your personal data
You can ask for the deletion of your personal information. If you ask us to delete your
personal information, we will respect your request and delete your personal
information, subject to certain exceptions provided by law, such as (but not limited to)
the exercise by another consumer of his or her right to free speech, our compliance
requirements resulting from a legal obligation or any processing that may be required
to protect against illegal activities.
Depending on the circumstances, you have a right to know:
whether we collect and use your personal information;
the categories of personal information that we collect;
the purposes for which the collected personal information is used;
whether we sell your personal information to third parties;
the categories of personal information that we sold or disclosed for a business
purpose;
the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or
disclosed for a business purpose; and
the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal
information.
In accordance with applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or delete
consumer information that is de-identified in response to a consumer request or to re-
identify individual data to verify a consumer request.
We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.
Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are
the same person about whom we have the information in our system. These
verification efforts require us to ask you to provide information so that we can match it
with information you have previously provided us. For instance, depending on the
type of request you submit, we may ask you to provide certain information so that we
can match the information you provide with the information we already have on file,
or we may contact you through a communication method (e.g. phone or email) that
you have previously provided to us. We may also use other verification methods as
the circumstances dictate.
We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity
or authority to make the request. To the extent possible, we will avoid requesting
additional information from you for the purposes of verification. If, however, we
cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may
request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your
identity, and for security or fraud-prevention purposes. We will delete such
additionally provided information as soon as we finish verifying you.
you may object to the processing of your personal data.
Right to be informed -Request to know
Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy Rights
Verification process
Other privacy rights you may request correction of your personal data if it is incorrect or no longer relevant, or ask to restrict the processing of the data.
you can designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on
your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not
submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in
accordance with the CCPA.
you may request to opt-out from future selling of your personal information to
third parties. Upon receiving a request to opt-out, we will act upon the request
as soon as feasibly possible, but no later than 15 days from the date of the
request submission.
To exercise these rights, you can contact us by email at
Custserv@biomeddevices.com, by calling toll-free at (800) 224-6633, by visiting
https://www.biomeddevices.com/contact-bio-med, or by referring to the contact
details at the bottom of this document. If you have a complaint about how we handle
your data, we would like to hear from you.
10. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be
indicated by an updated "Revised" date and the updated version will be effective as
soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may
notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly
sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently
to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
11. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at
Custserv@biomeddevices.com or by post to:
BioMed Devices
61 Soundview Rd.
Guilford, CT , CT 06437
United States
12. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE
DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request
access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or
delete it in some circumstances. To request to review, update, or delete your
personal information, please visit: https://www.biomeddevices.com/contact-bio-med.
.