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Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to the https://www.southtexaseyeinstitute.com/ and South Texas Eye Institute and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to South Texas Eye Institute include https://www.southtexaseyeinstitute.com/. The South Texas Eye Institute website is a Medical site. By using the South Texas Eye Institute website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

South Texas Eye Institute may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name. If you purchase South Texas Eye Institute’s products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction. South Texas Eye Institute may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your age, gender, household income, political affiliation, race and religion. We may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by South Texas Eye Institute. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the South Texas Eye Institute website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through South Texas Eye Institute’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

South Texas Eye Institute encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from South Texas Eye Institute so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. South Texas Eye Institute is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the South Texas Eye Institute website.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

South Texas Eye Institute collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.

South Texas Eye Institute may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from South Texas Eye Institute and its affiliates. South Texas Eye Institute may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

South Texas Eye Institute may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within South Texas Eye Institute, in order to determine what South Texas Eye Institute services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within South Texas Eye Institute to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

South Texas Eye Institute will disclose your personal information, without notice, only 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 South Texas Eye Institute or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of South Texas Eye Institute; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of South Texas Eye Institute, or the public.

USE OF COOKIES

The South Texas Eye Institute website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize South Texas Eye Institute pages, or register with South Texas Eye Institute site or services, a cookie helps South Texas Eye Institute to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same South Texas Eye Institute website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the South Texas Eye Institute features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the South Texas Eye Institute services or websites you visit.

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

South Texas Eye Institute secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

CHILDREN UNDER THIRTEEN

If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website. If you are a parent and you have questions regarding our data collection practices, please contact us using the information provided at the end of this Statement of Privacy.

OPT-OUT & UNSUBSCRIBE

We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving announcements of certain information. Users may opt-out of receiving any or all communications from South Texas Eye Institute by contacting us here:
– Web page: _________________
– Email: _________________
– Phone: _________________

CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT

South Texas Eye Institute will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. South Texas Eye Institute encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how South Texas Eye Institute is protecting your information.

CONTACT INFORMATION

South Texas Eye Institute welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that South Texas Eye Institute has not adhered to this Statement, please contact South Texas Eye Institute at:

South Texas Eye Institute
2424 Babcock Rd Suite 101
San Antonio, Texas 78229

Email Address:
info@steionline.com

Telephone Number:
210-692-1388

Effective as of June 29, 2016