Collecting
and Using Personal Information
Welcome to the Defend Web site. We appreciate your interest in
Defend's leading line of disposable infection-control products
for the healthcare industry. We encourage you to read and familiarize
yourself with the following privacy policy.
When you visit and navigate our site and when you use the links
within our site, from time to time we may collect information
that you voluntarily provide to us. Defend has implemented security
measures and technological safeguards to protect this non-public
information received from you. It is our goal to protect all
of our systems and information against theft or unauthorized
disclosure. In addition, Defend will not sell, license, transmit
or disclose information received from you to any person or entity
outside of Defend or its affiliated companies, except and unless
necessary to enable Defend contractors or vendors to perform
work or to render service for Defend, or unless required or permitted
by law. In cases where we disclose information consistent with
applicable laws and regulations, we will require the recipient
to protect the information and use it only for the purpose it
was provided.
For purposes of the federal Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996, commonly referred to as "HIPAA,"
we do not intend to use this site to collect Protected Health
Information, as defined under HIPAA, or personally identifiable
health information. You should not use this site to transmit
personal health questions or information regarding identified
individuals, or to address specific health issues pertaining
to an identified or identifiable person.
Security
Defend has implemented stringent security measures to protect
non-public personal information at Defend against accidental
or unauthorized access or disclosure. The safeguards developed
for this site include encryption software and other administrative,
physical and technical barriers that together form a protective
firewall around the information stored at this site.
Using E-Mail to Communicate With Us.
Please do not transmit personally identifiable health information
to us using e-mail. Of course, we welcome your non-confidential
comments and questions about our Web site and about the Defend
product line. We will share your comments and inquiries with
our customer service representatives and those employees most
capable of addressing your questions and concerns. Your e-mail,
like most non-encrypted Internet e-mail, may be accessed and
viewed by other Internet users, without your knowledge and permission,
while in transit to us. For that reason, to protect your privacy,
do not use e-mail to communicate personally identifiable health
information to us, or to deliver information to us that you would
otherwise consider confidential.
"Cookies"
When you visit our Web site, we collect certain information
that does not identify you personally, but provides us with "usage
data," which includes the number of visitors we receive
or what pages are visited most often. Information of this sort
helps us to analyze and improve the efficiency of our site. We
may also use what is known as "cookie" technology.
"Cookies" are intended to make your visit to the Defend
Web site convenient and efficient. Cookies are elements of data
sent to your browser. Cookies are widely used by many Web sites
to enhance users' experience online, and to speed up Web surfing.
Cookies are not programs and have no ability to read data stored
on your hard drive or to perform any such function. Your browser
typically will provide a simple procedure that will enable you
to control whether you want to receive cookies, and enable you
to remove cookie files.
Links to Non-Defend Sites
From time to time, the Defend site may contain links to other
Web sites, which are not owned or controlled by us, but which
may be useful or of interest to you. Naturally we cannot be responsible
for the privacy practices used by other Web site operators or
the content or accuracy of their sites. Links to various non-Defend
sites do not constitute or imply endorsement by Defend of those
sites, any products or services described there, or of any other
material contained in them.
Changes to Defend's Privacy Statement
Defend may change this Privacy Statement from time to time
without notice. This Statement is not intended to and does not
create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf
of any party.