VERASONICS, INC.
PRIVACY POLICY
LAST UPDATED: August 2018
Verasonics, Inc. (“Verasonics”, “we,” “us,” “our”) as data controller values the trust you place in us when you use www.verasonics.com and our affiliated websites, applications, and online services (collectively, our “Websites”). This Privacy Policy describes our collection, use, disclosure, retention, and protection of your information. This Privacy Policy applies to our Websites that link to it, regardless of how you access or use them, including through mobile devices.
By clicking the “I Accept” button, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not click the “I Accept” button or otherwise do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Websites. We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any material changes to our Websites. You may change your preferences regarding use of your personal information as detailed below.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites and mobile applications that may link to the Websites or be linked to on the Websites. We are not responsible for the actions or privacy practices of third-party websites and applications; please consult those websites and applications directly to understand their privacy practices.
- Information We Collect About You
- How We Use Your Information
- How We Share Your Information With Others
- How to Access and Modify Your Information
- How to Limit the Use of Your Information
- Cookies, Tracking Technology and Interest-Based Advertising
- How We Secure Your Information
- Information for Users in Europe and Elsewhere Outside the U.S.
- Other Important Information
- Questions or Report a Problem
- Information We Collect From or About You
We collect, process, and retain information from or about you and any devices you may use when you use or interact with our Websites, and in other ways described below.
Information You Give Us: We receive and store information you enter on our Websites or give us in any other way, the information may include:
- Your name
- Company name
- Title
- Company, home, postal or other physical address
- E-mail address(es)
- Account information (username and password)
- Telephone number, including mobile and VOIP numbers
- Government issued ID information, including social security, passport and taxpayer identification numbers
- DUNS
- Any other information needed to provide you with our products and services
Information We Automatically Collect: We collect information about your use of our Websites, such as the pages you view and other interactions you have. We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with our Websites. Our Websites use “cookies,” tagging and other tracking technologies to help enable us to enhance or personalize your online browsing experience. This information includes computer and connection information such as statistics on your page views, traffic to and from our Websites, referral URL, ad data, your IP address, and device identifiers. This information also may include your browsing history, transaction history, and your web log information.
We use your information to help us provide our products and services personalize and continually improve your experience on the Websites, fulfill requests for information, analyze and compile trends and statistics, and communicate with you. For information about how to manage your information and the choices you have, see How to Limit the Use of Your Information below.
In accordance with your choices when you registered with us, we will use your information solely for the purposes for which you have provided it, which may include providing our products or services to you, fulfilling your requests for assistance, or contacting or notifying you. We may also use your information for internal record keeping purposes or to improve our products or services. For certain services, you are required to provide us with an accurate email address through which we may contact you.
We may share your personal data with certain third party service providers. If we share your personal data with such parties, it is solely as needed for such parties to provide their services to us. We require such third parties to maintain the confidentiality and security of your personal information. We may also share your information with third parties as required by applicable law, or to protect or defend our rights, property, the Websites or other users. Finally, we may change our ownership or corporate organization while providing the Websites. We may transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. Under such circumstances, we will request the acquiring party to follow the practices described in this Privacy Policy with respect to previously collected information. Nevertheless, we cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your information the same as described in this Privacy Policy. For information about how to manage your information and the choices you have, see How to Limit the Use of Your Information.
Public Areas, Interactive Features and Activities
Please remember that any information you share in public areas, such as information posted on our Websites, becomes public and anyone may take and use that information. Please be careful about what you disclose and do not post any information that you expect to keep private. Please consult the applicable guidelines, if any, for use of these features. We cannot control who views information that you post in public areas of the Websites and is not responsible for how third parties, including other users may use or disclose information that you post in public areas of the Websites or otherwise share with other users or third parties.
If you have an online account with us, you can update your account information through your account.
If you would like to request access, modification, correction, or deletion of personal data that you have provided to us or that you believe we may have collected about you, please contact us at [email protected]. We may not be able to delete your personal data without also deleting your user account. You will not be permitted to examine the personal data of any other person or entity. In order to verify your identity, you may be required to provide us with personal data prior to accessing any records containing information about you. We may not accommodate a request to change or delete personal data if we believe doing so would violate any law or legal requirement, or cause the information to be incorrect.
We will honor any legal right that you have to access, modify or erase your personal information. To request access and to find out whether any fees may apply, if permitted by applicable state, federal, or national law (outside of the United States), please contact [email protected].
If you are a user with residence in the European Union please also see your additional rights as outlined belowunder Information For Users In Europe And Elsewhere Outside The U.S.
Please contact us at [email protected]to exercise your choices in the personal information you have provided to us, including rescinding your previously given consents in the use of such personal information.
We may use tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to record your preferences, and track the use of our Websites.
We may also use these technologies to monitor traffic, improve the Websites, and make it easier to use and more relevant. You can usually modify your browser setting to disable or reject cookies. If you delete your cookies or if you set your browser to decline cookies, some features of the Websites may not work or may not work as designed.
We may partner with third-party advertising companies who also use these tracking tools to provide advertisements on our Websites or other websites. These third parties may use these technologies to collect information about you when you use the Websites. They may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may also use persistent identifiers to track your Internet usage across other websites in their networks beyond the Websites. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based advertising or other targeted content. While we do not knowingly provide these entities with information that personally identifies you such third parties may, with sufficient data from other sources, be able to personally identify you, unknown to us.
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Websites may be served by unaffiliated third parties. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement, you should contact the responsible advertiser directly. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices on any website not operated by us to which our Websites link or that link to our Websites.
Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. Our information collection and disclosure practices, and the choices that we provide to visitors, will continue to operate as described in this Privacy Policy, whether or not a Do Not Track signal is received.
Online Tracking and Interest-Based Advertising Choices: You also have choices to limit some tracking mechanisms that collect information when you use the Websites. Many web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser’s setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, certain features of our Websites, including the Websites themselves, may not function properly or remain accessible to you. In addition, you may also render some web beacons unusable by rejecting or removing their associated cookies. Note that if you choose to remove cookies, you may remove opt-out cookies that affect your advertising preferences.
Similarly, you can learn about your options to opt-out of mobile app tracking by certain advertising networks through your device settings. For more information about how to change these settings for Apple, Android or Windows devices, see:
Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4228
Android: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
Windows: http://choice.microsoft.com/en-US/opt-out
Please note that opting-out of advertising networks services does not mean that you will not receive advertising while using our Websites or on other websites, nor will it prevent the receipt of interest-based advertising from third parties that do not participate in these programs. It will, however, exclude you from interest-based advertising conducted through participating networks, as provided by their policies and choice mechanisms.
We take reasonable security measures to help protect the personal data collected through our Websites. Please understand, however, that while we try our best to safeguard your personal data once we receive it, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
You can help protect the privacy of your own information by using encryption and other techniques to prevent unauthorized interception of your personal information. You are responsible for the security of your information that you transmit to us or view, download, or otherwise access when using unencrypted, public or otherwise unsecured networks.
- Information for Users in Europe and Elsewhere Outside the U.S.
If you use our Websites outside of the United States, you understand that we may collect, process, and store your personal information in the United States and other countries. The laws in the U.S. regarding personal information may be different from the laws of your state or country. Any such transfers will comply with safeguards as required by relevant law. If applicable, you may have a right to claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of relevant data protection laws.
Users in the European Union (EEA) and Switzerland
If you are a resident of the EEA or Switzerland, the following information applies.
Purposes of processing and legal basis for processing
As explained above, we process personal data in various ways depending upon your use of our Websites and services. We process personal data on the following legal bases: (1) with your consent; (2) as necessary to perform our agreement to provide services; and (3) as necessary for our legitimate interests in providing the Websites and services where those interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedom related to data privacy.
Right to lodge a complaint
Users that reside in the EEA or Switzerland have the right to lodge a complaint about our data collection and processing actions with the supervisory authority concerned. Contact details for data protection authorities are available here.
Transfers
Personal information we collect may be transferred to, and stored and processed in, the United States or any other country in which we or our affiliates or subcontractors maintain facilities. In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we will ensure that transfers of personal information to a third country or an international organization are subject to appropriate safeguards as described in Article 46 of the GDPR.
Individual Rights
If you are a resident of the EEA or Switzerland, you are entitled to the following rights under the GDPR:
- The right to request data erasure – you have the right to have your data erased from our Websites if the data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, you withdraw consent and no other legal basis for processing exists, or you believe your fundamental rights to data privacy and protection outweigh our legitimate interest in continuing the processing.
- The right to restrict or object to our processing – you have the right to restrict or object to our processing if we are processing your data based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest as an exercise of official authority (including profiling); using your data for direct marketing (including profiling); or processing your data for purposes of scientific or historical research and statistics.
- The right to object to automated decision making – you have a right to avoid being subject to automated decision making and insist on human intervention if we make an automated decision that produces a legal or a similarly significant effect on you.
Children’s Data: Our Websites are intended for users ages 16 and older only. Accordingly, we will not knowingly collect or use any personal data from children that we know to be under the age of 16. If we become aware of personal data in our database that was collected from a child under 16, we will delete such information.
Your California Privacy Rights: If you are a California resident, California law permits you to request certain information regarding the disclosure of your personal data by us and our related companies to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send your request, by mail or email, to the contact details below.
For questions about our Privacy Policy, to make choices about receiving promotional communications, to update your personal information, or to place an order, you can contact us by email, telephone or postal mail:
Verasonics, Inc.11335 NE 122ndWay, Suite 100
Kirkland, WA 98034
(425) 998-9836
email: [email protected]
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