Website Privacy Policy

We at CP Medical know you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing your information (the “Privacy Policy”). By using or accessing our website, cpmedical.com and sutureseal.com (the “Website”), you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use, and share your information in the following ways.

Remember that your use of our Website is at all times subject to our Terms of Use, which incorporate this Privacy Policy. Any terms we use in this Privacy Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms of Use.

 

What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use and disclose personal information (“personal information” or “information”) that we gather when you are accessing or using our Website. Except as specifically provided below in the Your Rights and Choices, this Privacy Policy does not apply to any other information collected by the Company by any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries) or any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

When we refer to ourselves as “we”, “us”, or the “Company”, we mean CP Medical.

If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy Section). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

 

Information We Collect

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, directly from you, automatically through your use of our Website, and from third parties.

Information We Collect Directly From You

We collect personal information you choose to provide us, e.g. information provided at the time of subscribing to our newsletter or when completing any “Contact Us” form. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website or engage in any other form of correspondence with us.

Information We Collect Automatically

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we and our third party business partners, including analytics and advertising partners, may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information such as your browser type and operating system, web pages or content interacted with on our Website, links you clicked, your IP address or other identifiers, the length of time you visit our Website, the referring URL or webpage that led you to our Website, the information or content viewed, downloaded or printed, and browsing actions and patterns.

The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties.  It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including enabling us to estimate our audience size and usage patterns; speed up searches, navigations, and inquiries; and recognize you when you return to our Website.

Automatic Data Collection Technologies

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager

We use Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager to collect and analyze data about how users interact with our Website. These tools help us better understand user behavior and improve our Website’s performance and content. If you have any concerns about the use of Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager on our website or would like to opt-out of tracking, please refer to Opting Out of Sales for more information on how to manage your preferences.

California Privacy Notice

If you are a California resident, please see California Privacy Notice within this Privacy Policy.

 

How We Use Personal Information

We may use your personal information in the following ways:

To Serve You

We use your personal information to:

• Operate our business and present our Website and its contents to you;
• Provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us;
• Provide customer service and respond to requests or inquiries; and
• Provide you with newsletters, articles, announcements, invitations, and other information about products, brands, health topics and our business.

For Analytical Purposes

We and our third party business partners, including advertising partners, may use your personal information to analyze and track your interactions and movements around the Website for our use and purposes.

In Aggregate or De-identified Form

We may aggregate and/or de-identify data about users to our Website and use it for any purpose. To the extent we de-identify any data originally based on personal information, we will maintain and use such data only in de-identified forma and will not attempt to re-identify the data.

 

How We Disclosure Your Personal Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy as follows:

To Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates

Theragenics Corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates may disclose your personal information amongst and between each other for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Business Transfers

Theragenics Corporation may disclose your personal information to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Theragenics Corporation’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Theragenics Corporation about our Website users is among the assets transferred.

Providers

CP Medical may disclose your personal information to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

To Comply with Law

We may disclose your personal information to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

In Aggregate or De-identified

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

 

Your Rights and Choices

You have the following rights and choices with respect to your information.

Rights to Know

Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights with respect to your personal information. We extend these rights to all individuals who are entitled to such rights under applicable law and may extend some or all of these rights to all individuals, regardless of residency, subject to this Privacy Policy. Specifically, applicable individuals have the right to ask us to:

• Inform you about the categories of personal information we collect or disclose about you; the categories of sources of such information; the business or commercial purpose for collecting your personal information; and the categories of third parties with whom we disclose personal information (“right to know”).
• Provide you access to and/or a copy of certain personal information we hold about you in some cases in a portable format, if technically feasible.
• Correct or update personal information we hold about you.
• Delete certain personal information we have about you. See Right to Delete section below.
• Opt-out of the processing of your personal information for purposes of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects, if applicable.

Right to Delete

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions (“right to delete”). Once we receive your request and confirm your identity (see Exercising Your Rights to Know or Delete), we will review your request to see if an exception allowing us to retain the information applies. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

• Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
• Comply with a legal obligation.
• Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

We will delete or de-identify personal information not subject to one of these exceptions from our records and will direct our service providers to take similar action.

Exercising Your Rights to Know or Delete

To exercise your right to know or right to delete described above, please submit a request here.

Only you, or a legally authorized agent to act on your behalf, may make a request to know or delete related to your personal information. You may designate an authorized agent to submit certain requests on your behalf by providing the authorized agent with signed, written permission to make such requests or a power of attorney; either document must be supplied to us prior to responding to any request. We may also follow up with you to verify your identity before processing the authorized agent's request.

You may only submit a Request to Know twice within a 12-month period. Your request to know or delete must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative, which may include:
  • Name and Email Address;
  • Authorized Agent permission form or power of attorney;
  • Additional verification information dependent on the sensitivity of information requested;

• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. We will only use personal information provided in the request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make it.

Opting Out of Sales/Sharing of Personal Information

We do not currently sell the personal information of users, however personal information may be visible to third parties, affiliates, and partners during the normal course of business and according to their contracts with us. These disclosures may be considered a “sale” of personal information under applicable law. You may opt-in or opt-out of disclosures at any time. If you would like to opt out of our online disclosure of your personal information for purposes that could be considered “sales” or “sharing” for purposes of targeted advertising, please contact us here.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Minors

Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any personal information to the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, contract information, or email address. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us here.

California Privacy Notice

This California Privacy Notice (“Notice”) gives California residents the additional information about our information collection and use practices required by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020. Any term capitalized in this Notice but not defined herein, has the definition as found within this Privacy Policy.

This Notice provides information about the categories of personal information that we collect from California residents, the purposes for which we use the information, the categories of third parties to whom we disclose the information for business purposes and retention practices. Personal information does not include: (a) publicly available information from government records; or (b) de-identified or aggregated consumer information.