Privacy Information

Surgical Associates Ltd acts in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, Surgical Associates Ltd provides this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our home page and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

Our Web Site contains links to other web sites operated by third parties. Surgical Associates Ltd is not responsible for the privacy practices or policies of such third party web sites and this Notice does not apply to those web sites. This Notice applies only to the information collected by Surgical Associates Ltd from the users of our Web Site. It does not apply to information collected by Surgical Associates Ltd in any other way, including offline.

Information we Collect

This Web Site is not set up to automatically collect personally identifiable information from each visitor to our Web Site. It does recognize the home server of visitors, but not e-mail addresses. For example, we can tell which Internet Service Provider our visitors use, but not the names, addresses or other information about our visitors that would allow us to identify the particular visitors to our Web Site. This information is used only for internal purposes by our technical support staff.

This Web Site does track certain information about the visits to our Web Site. For example, we compile statistics that show the numbers and frequency of visitors to our Web Site and its individual pages. These aggregated statistics are used internally to improve our Web Site and for product development and marketing purposes generally. Those aggregated statistics may also be provided to advertisers and other third parties, but again, the statistics contain no personal information and cannot be used to gather such information.

This site is compliant with the Data Protection Act in the UK and the Safe Harbor Privacy Agreement between the United States and the European Union.

Use of information for specific purposes

The personal information you provide to us when using our Web Site, such as your name, postal or e-mail address or telephone number will be kept confidential and used to support your customer relationship with Surgical Associates, and to notify you of special offers, updated information and new products and services from Surgical Associates Ltd, offers from third parties that we think may be of interest to you, or used by Surgical Associates Ltd or third parties for the purpose of conducting market research or surveys on behalf of Surgical Associates Ltd. Agents or contractors of Surgical Associates Ltd who are given access to your personal information will be required to keep the information confidential and not use it for any other purpose than to carry out the services they are performing for Surgical Associates Ltd. Surgical Associates Ltd may enhance or merge your information collected at its Web Site with data from third parties for purposes of marketing products or services to you.

With respect to network advertising companies (companies that manage and provide advertising for numerous unrelated companies), to the extent that Surgical Associates Ltd utilizes such advertising companies to provide advertisements on our Web Site, Surgical Associates Ltd may provide them with your log-in name and any demographic information about you that we collect. Those advertising companies may combine that data with non-personally identifiable data collected by the advertising company from your computer solely for the purpose of delivering on our Web Site advertisements that are targeted to you.

Circumstances may arise where we are required to disclose your personal information to third parties for purposes other than to support your customer relationship with Surgical Associates Ltd, such as in connection with a corporate divestiture or dissolution where we sell all or a portion of our business or assets (including our associated customer lists containing your personal information), or if disclosure is required by law or is pertinent to judicial or governmental investigations or proceedings.

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.