My Ostomy Is (“My Ostomy Is“) operates https://www.myostomyis.com/ and may operate other websites. It is My Ostomy Is’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites. We do comply with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, My Ostomy Is collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. My Ostomy Is’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how My Ostomy Is’s visitors use its website. From time to time, My Ostomy Is may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Data Controller
My Ostomy Is is the controller of any personally-identifiable-information gathered by My Ostomy Is.
Contact us at any time to:
- Request access to any information that My Ostomy Is has about you
- Correct any information that My Ostomy Is has about you
- Delete any information that My Ostomy Is has about you
If you have any additional questions about My Ostomy Is’s collection and storage of data, please contact us at:
support@myostomyis.com[gdpr-guardian-revoke]
Information Collection And Use
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.
Types of Data Collected
Personal Identifiable Information
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with – or gather automatically – certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information collected by My Ostomy Is includes:
- Cookies and Usage Data
- Your computer’s IP address
- Your email address (if you’ve left a comment on the site)
Usage Data
We collect information about how our Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
Tracking & Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.
Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Examples of Cookies we use:
- Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
- Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
- Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
IP Address
Any time you visit this website, a record of that visit is stored on this website’s servers. This data is used to identify any technical issues with the website and is stored by a 3rd party for 36 months.
Email Address
If you leave a comment on this website, you are required to include an email address. This email address is not displayed publicly but is available to the website administrator and stored on the website’s servers until such time as the comment is deleted. That information is used to determine whether future comments should be automatically approved or manually reviewed by the website administrator before the comment can be published in order to reduce spam.
You may request that your comment and email address stored on the website’s servers be deleted at any time by contacting the administrator by sending an email address to support@myostomyis.com.
Use of Data
My Ostomy Is uses the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain the Service
- To notify you about changes to our Service
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
- To provide customer care and support
- To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service
- To monitor the usage of the Service
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
My Ostomy Is only discloses visitor IP addresses, logged in user information and commenter IP addresses and emails under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Transfer Of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
My Ostomy Is will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Disclosure Of Data
Legal Requirements
My Ostomy Is may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- To comply with a legal obligation
- To protect and defend the rights or property of My Ostomy Is
- To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
- To protect against legal liability
Security Of Data
The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
- Google Analytics
- Google Webmaster Tools/Google Search Console
- Iron @lly-Our Hosting Company
- Statcounter.com-Traffic Analysis
Aggregated Statistics
My Ostomy Is may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. My Ostomy Is may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, My Ostomy Is does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described above.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
My Ostomy Is discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on My Ostomy Is’s behalf or to provide services available at My Ostomy Is’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using My Ostomy Is’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. My Ostomy Is will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, My Ostomy Is discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when My Ostomy Is believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of My Ostomy Is, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an My Ostomy Is website and have supplied your email address, My Ostomy Is may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with My Ostomy Is and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. My Ostomy Is takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Business Transfers
If My Ostomy Is, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that My Ostomy Is goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of My Ostomy Is may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Links To Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by My Ostomy Is and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, My Ostomy Is may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in My Ostomy Is’s sole discretion. My Ostomy Is encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a https://www.myostomyis.com/ account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
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Sensitive Personal Information
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Children’s Information
My Ostomy Is does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at support@myostomyis.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we will not request any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about our privacy policy or data collection and usage, please contact the website administrator at support@myostomyis.com.
Further Information
Of course, online privacy and information security is an evolving issue. To help with country regulations governing your online privacy, we are providing useful links to other sources which you may find helpful:
Overview of the GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation
Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003
United States-US Department of State
Canada: Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
Last Updated October10, 2018
