Privacy Policy
Effective Date: September 5, 2024
At Miami Vein Institute, we respect and value your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website (miamiveininstitute.com), use our services, or engage with us in other ways. Please read this policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
Miami Vein Institute operates as a business under its own name and is not a subsidiary of any parent company.
1. Information We Collect
We collect several types of information, including:
- Personal Identification Information: Name, email address, phone number, and other similar contact data when you fill out a form, request information about a procedure, or register on our site.
- Technical Information: IP address, browser type, operating system, and browsing habits through cookies and similar technologies.
- Usage Data: Information about how you interact with our website, such as pages visited, time spent, and features used.
- Transaction Information: If you make inquiries or engage in transactions with us, we may collect relevant details to assist with your experience.
2. How We Use Your Information
We may use the information we collect for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our services, such as responding to inquiries about procedures.
- To improve user experience and website functionality.
- To communicate with you regarding updates, promotions, or other information relevant to your engagement with us, such as follow-ups after email or phone inquiries.
- To compile aggregate data about site traffic and interaction to offer better site experiences and tools.
- To comply with legal obligations.
3. Information Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your Personally Identifiable Information to outside parties unless we provide you with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners or other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, as long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.
Non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. Information sharing with subcontractors in support services, such as customer service, is permitted. All other use case categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information when required by law in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal processes.
4. Data Security
We are committed to protecting your personal information. We use regular malware scanning and industry-standard security measures to safeguard your data from unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction. However, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed as 100% secure, and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.
We do not use vulnerability scanning or scanning to PCI standards, as we only provide articles and information and do not collect credit card numbers.
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience on our website. Cookies are small files that enable our systems to recognize your browser and capture certain information to understand your preferences based on site activity. We may also use trusted third-party services to track this information on our behalf.
You may choose to disable cookies in your browser settings, but doing so may affect certain functionalities of our site. If you turn cookies off, some features that make your site experience more efficient may not function properly. You can also set your browser to warn you each time a cookie is sent. Check your browser’s Help Menu for instructions on modifying cookie settings.
We allow third-party behavioral tracking and honor Do Not Track (DNT) signals when a DNT browser mechanism is in place.
6. Third-Party Links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
7. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data, including:
- The right to access, correct, or delete your personal information.
- The right to object to or restrict the processing of your data.
- The right to withdraw consent for data processing where consent is the legal basis.
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information provided below.
8. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control, and we comply with its requirements to protect children’s privacy and safety online.
9. Fair Information Practices
In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices, should a data breach occur, we will take the following responsive action:
- We will notify you via email within 7 business days.
- We adhere to the Individual Redress Principle, which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law.
10. CAN-SPAM Act
We collect your email address to send information, respond to inquiries, and/or address other requests or questions. To be in accordance with the CAN-SPAM Act, we agree to:
- Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
- Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
- Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
- Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if used.
- Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
- Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, follow the instructions at the bottom of each email, and we will promptly remove you from all correspondence.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Phone: (786) 755-5210
Email: [email protected]
Coral Gables: 2600 S Douglas Road, Ste 311, Coral Gables, FL 33134
Weston: 2893 Executive Park Drive Suite 203, Weston, FL 33331