This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is provided by SD Medical Arts (“SD Medical,” “we” or “our”) and applies to all users of our website, https://svetlanadanovich.com/ (“Website”), and our social media accounts, and attendants at our in-person events. For information on how we use Protected Health Information, as regulated by the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), please see Notice of Privacy Practices.
We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this Policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we access, collect, process, store, use and share your personal information, which is any information that may be associated with a particular individual (“Personal Information”).
We reserve the right to amend this Notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make material changes, we will notify you in a manner in which we regularly interact with you, such as by email, or through a notice on our Website’s homepage. You will also be able to determine the date that our current Policy has become effective, by viewing the Effective Date at the top of this document.
Our computer systems are currently based in the United States and the content of our Website is directed to U.S. residents and is not directed to residents of other countries. As such, we do not intentionally collect or process personal information of non-U.S. residents and do not market our services to non-U.S. residents. However, if you visit our Website or subscribe to our services, we will collect and process your personal data in the United States, where data protection and privacy regulations may or may not be equal to the level of protection as in other parts of the world, such as in Canada and the European Union. BY VISITING OUR WEBSITE OR SUBSCRIBING TO OUR SERVICES, YOU UNEQUIVOCALLY AND UNAMBIGUOUSLY CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION AND PROCESSING IN THE UNITED STATES OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED OR OBTAINED BY US THROUGH YOUR VOLUNTARY SUBMISSIONS, AND THAT UNITED STATES LAW GOVERNS ANY SUCH COLLECTION AND PROCESSING.
We may collect, use, and/or share some or all of the following Personal Information categories:
This Personal Information is required to provide services to you. If you do not provide the Personal Information we ask for, it may delay or prevent us from providing services to you.
Please note that if you are a patient at our practice, the collection, use and sharing of your personal information is governed by HIPAA. Please see Notice of Privacy Practices.
We collect the majority of your Personal Information directly from you through our Website and, under certain circumstances, via email, a form on our Website, by telephone or at in-person or virtual events. We may also supplement the data collected through our Website with Personal Information from data analytics providers in order to understand how our Website visitors engage with our content and to improve our content.
Through SD Medical’s Website and events, we aim to provide information about cosmetic surgery and the services and products that we offer. In furtherance of these objectives, we may collect Personal Information for the following purposes:
We will not collect additional categories of Personal Information or use the Personal Information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you with an advance notice, including by updating this Policy.
We do not sell your Personal Information and have not sold your Personal Information to any third party in a traditional sense of that term. However, some laws broadly interpret the term “sale” to include sharing of personal information to third parties in exchange for any valuable consideration. Please note that we may allow certain third parties, such as data analytics or online advertising service providers, to collect information about your browsing activity on our Website. For more information about these practices and how to limit information-sharing with third parties, see the Cookies and Similar Technologies section below.
We may disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on us, (b) protect and defend our rights or property or our customers or users, or (c) under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of our users, customers, or the general public.
SD Medical may disclose or share some of the Personal Information we collect about you to third parties such as service providers who aid us in processing and protecting your Personal Information to host the Website, send email or other communications, manage our events, provide analytics and advertising services. Our service providers are given only that Personal Information they need to perform their designated functions, and we do not authorize them to use or disclose Personal Information for purposes other than those outlined in this section.
Cookies are small text files placed on your device to store data that can be recalled by a web server in the domain that placed the cookie. We may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies (such as scripts and tags) on our online services. We collect information from cookies via third party technology platforms such as Google Analytics. We also use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to help our online services function properly, to collect information about how users interact and use our online services, and to ensure the security of our network and related networks.
We classify cookies in the following categories:
Through our use of these third-party tools, we may have shared with such third parties the following categories of personal information of our Website users:
You have a variety of tools to control the data collected by cookies and similar technologies. For example, you can use controls in your internet browser to limit how the websites you visit are able to use cookies, alert you about the cookies and to withdraw your consent by clearing or blocking cookies.
Our Website may contain links to other sites ("Third Party Websites"). These links are provided solely for the convenience of our Website visitors. We do not necessarily endorse, sanction or verify the accuracy of the information contained on Third Party Websites. Once you access a Third-Party Website through a link on our Website, you are no longer covered by this Policy. Concerns regarding a Third-Party Website should be directed to the Third-Party Website itself. We bear no responsibility for any action associated with any Third-Party Website.
This Website, including our social media accounts, are not intended for children or individuals under the legal age of majority in their place of residence, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from or relating to such individuals. Policy for Children Under 13: Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”), we will never knowingly request Personal Information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. In the event that we discover that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Information to us, we will delete the child’s personal information in accordance with COPPA.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, pursuant to 47 U.S.C. Section 230 (d), as amended, we hereby notify you that parental control protections are commercially available to assist you in limiting access to material that is harmful to minors. More information on the availability of such software can be found through publicly available sources. You may wish to contact your Internet Service Provider for more information.
Consistent with our record retention policy, legal, and contractual obligations, we will keep your Personal Information for the duration of the time necessary to provide the services or products you requested from us. Thereafter, we may retain your Personal Information only to the extent necessary to:
We will not retain your Personal Information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Different retention periods apply for different types of Personal Information. When it is no longer necessary to retain your Personal Information, we will delete or anonymize it.
We have implemented reasonable technical, physical, and administrative security measures to prevent Personal Information from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way. These measures offer appropriate reasonable security levels, taking into account the state of the technology, the implementation costs and also the nature, the scale, the context and the processing purposes. We limit access to your Personal Information to those who have a genuine business need to access it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorized manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. The measures are also intended to prevent unnecessary collection and further processing of Personal Information. The Personal Information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential. We also have procedures in place to deal with a suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
You are also responsible for taking reasonable steps to protect your personal information against unauthorized disclosure or misuse. Please keep your devices secure and do not share devices, logins or passwords to such devices with others as there is a risk that they make access Personal Information that you stored on your device or that you request be transmitted to you from us to your device. If you receive login information, including passwords, to an encrypted account or application, please do not share this information with others. PLEASE SECURE YOUR INFORMATION AND DO NOT DISCLOSE YOUR PASSWORDS AND ANY SENSITIVE INFORMATION TO ANYONE ELSE. If you believe that your Personal Information was compromised while requesting or receiving services from us, or if your device or login and password have been stolen, please notify us immediately at info@sdmd.co. We will not be responsible for anyone accessing your information if they use your device or login and password.
By using our online services, you are agreeing to our practices described in this Policy, which includes the collection and use of your Personal Information. Your continued use of our online services following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes. Our Privacy Policy will contain the Effective Date, indicating the date it was last updated. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or seek to make any changes, please contact us at the contact information below.
If you have any questions or comments about this Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Information, or wish to unsubscribe from our services, please do not hesitate to contact us at: