Privacy

UNITED SURGICAL INDUSTRIES understands that your privacy is very important to you. This Privacy Statement tells how we use any information we gather through this website. As UNITED SURGICAL INDUSTRIES maintains and operates this site, it reserves the right to change the Privacy Statement at any time, for any reason without any prior notification. We encourage you to carefully read look Privacy Statement each time you visit the site, especially before providing any personally identifiable information.

If you are using this site, you must agree to the terms of this Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement is the complete agreement between you and UNITED SURGICAL INDUSTRIES with respect to your use of this site. You may be subject to additional terms while you access particular services, materials and/or certain areas of this site.

INTRODUCTION
UNITED SURGICAL INDUSTRIES classifies information received through this website in two categories v.z. non-personal information and personal information.

WHAT IS NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Once you visit this website to read or download information, we may collect information about you from your computer. This information may include:

Type of web browser software you use
Name of the domain from which you access the
Internet Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site
Date and time you access our site
Pages you have visited on our site

If you only read or download information on our site, we do not collect any personal information about you. We may place a text file called a cookie in the browser files of your computer, which may be stored in your computer's hard drive. The information that we collect using cookies is non-personal information. You are always free to decline our cookies, but in that case, some parts of our site may not work properly. We do not allow third parties to place cookies on our site.

WHAT DOES UNITED DO WITH NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION?
There are no restrictions to the way UNITED SURGICAL INDUSTRIES can use non-personal information. We use non-personal information to help us make our site more useful to visitors and for other business purposes. We may prepare reports using non-personal information and share the same with others. All information that is not personal deemed to be non-confidential.

UNITED SURGICAL INDUSTRIES shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, exhibit, display, transform, commercialize and distribute the feedback without limitation. Further, UNITED SURGICAL INDUSTRIES may not be prohibited from using or applying the ideas, inventions, concepts or techniques contained in such feedback or anything else sent to UNITED SURGICAL INDUSTRIES.

WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION?
In some places on this site, you may have the chance to send us information about yourself through registration forms, surveys, e-mail forms etc. Once you register with us, you may need to complete certain fields of which some are mandatory and some are optional. If you choose to withhold personal data requested by us, you may not gain access to certain parts of the site. The personal information that we collect from you may include:

Your name
Address
E-mail address
Other personal information

HOW DOES UNITED USE PERSONAL INFORMATION?
UNITED SURGICAL INDUSTRIES may use personal information to do the following (though not limited):

Responding to your requests
Contacting you via e-mail, regular mail, telephone or otherwise
Providing you with information
Developing records
Developing and improving products/services/content
Protecting someone's health, safety or welfare
Complying with a law or regulation, court order or other legal process

By submitting personal information (such as your name, address, e-mail or telephone number), you agree that we may keep a record of it and may use it in accordance with the above.

SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH OTHERS
Except as otherwise written in this Privacy Statement, we will keep your personal information private and will not share it with others, unless the disclosure is necessary to:

Comply with a law or regulation, court order, subpoena or other legal process
Protect our rights or property
Enforce our terms of use or privacy statement
Protect someone's health or safety

UNITED SURGICAL INDUSTRIES may transfer your personal information to companies and/or individuals under certain circumstances like corporate sale, merger, acquisition or other similar events. However, such companies and/or individuals may not use or share your personal information with others without our prior permission.

UNITED SURGICAL INDUSTRIES will not sell, exchange or publish your personal information without your permission.
You agree that we may use your personal information to inform you about our products and services.

You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, defamatory, pornographic material or any material that could be considered a criminal offense or otherwise violate the law. We will fully cooperate with law enforcement authorities or court to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such materials.

WHAT ABOUT PRIVACY ON OTHER SITES?
This site may contain links to other websites not operated by UNITED SURGICAL INDUSTRIES. Though provided for your convenience, yet we do not review, control or monitor the privacy practices of third party websites. UNITED SURGICAL INDUSTRIES is not responsible for the performance of these sites. The use of other websites is subject to the terms and conditions of those sites.