Privacy Policy
This policy was last modified: May 15, 2015.
This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services, and websites offered by SteriMed Medical Waste Solutions Inc. ,its subsidiaries or affiliated companies, hereinafter referred to collective as “SteriMed”. Sometimes, we may post product specific privacy notices or Help Center materials to explain our products in more detail.
By using our website you consent to our Privacy Policy.
This policy pertains only to information which is collected via this website and not to any other data which you may provide to SteriMed, such as at a tradeshow or other print media event.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or write to us at:
Privacy Matters
SteriMed Medical Waste Solutions
23065 Commerce Drive
Farmington Hills, MI 48335
USA
Information we collect and how we use it
We may collect the following types of information:
- Information you provide – You may visit our website anonymously. However, when you register on our site, fill out a form, sign up for a newsletter, or enter a promotional offering on our website are asked to provide personal information about yourself, including but not limited to your name and email address. We may combine the information you submit via our website with information from other third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services.
- Cookies – When you visit sterimedsystems.com, mcmetech.com, or stercid.com, we send one or more cookies to your computer or other device. We use cookies to improve the quality of our website, including tracking which website visitors have entered our site from, improving variable data which is presented on our website, website image controls; and tracking website user trends, such as how they view and navigate our website.
- Log information – When you access our website via a browser, application or other client our servers automatically record certain information using leading industry web statistics services like Google Analytics. These server logs may include information such as your web request, your interaction with a service, Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser language, originating website, search words that brought you to our website, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your account.
- User communications – When you send email or other communications to SteriMed, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services. We may use your email address to communicate with you about our services and to provide periodic updates and important news regarding our Company.
- Third party applications – We offer some of our services on or through other web sites, including but not limted to such sites as iContact.com, Benchmark Mail.com, Liveperson.com, and LiveHelpNow.com. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to SteriMed in order to deliver the service. We process such information under this Privacy Policy. SteriMed may make available third party applications, such as live chat, through its website. The information collected by SteriMed when you enable a third party application is processed under this Privacy Policy. Information collected by the third party application provider is governed by their privacy policies.
- Other sites – This Privacy Policy applies to SteriMed services only. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results, or links from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.
In addition to the above, we may use the information we collect to:
- Provide, maintain, protect, and improve our services (including advertising services) and develop new services;
- Administer a contest, promotion, or survey or other site feature;
- Personalize a users web experience;
- Send periodic emails (Note: any email which are sent to you will also have information contained within the email as to how to unsubscribe so as to prevent further emails from being sent to you in the future.)
If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.
SteriMed processes personal information on our servers in the United States of America and in other countries. In some cases, we process personal information outside your own country.
Choices
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Information sharing
SteriMed does not share personal information with other companies or individuals outside of our Company, unless:
- We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
- We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
- We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of SteriMed, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If SteriMed becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will ensure the confidentiality of any personal information involved in such transactions and provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
We restrict access to personal information to SteriMed employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it on our behalf. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. We will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes). We will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.
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