Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Last updated: April 09, 2024
American Academy of Cosmetic Medicine and its affiliate companies (collectively “AACM”) respect the privacy of its online visitors. This Privacy Policy describes AACM’s policies and procedures for the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use the Service and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you
By using this website, you signify your assent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use or websites. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time, so please check periodically to ensure that you are aware of any changes. If we make a material change to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting the change on our websites or in this Privacy Policy and, if necessary, give you additional choices regarding such change prior to the change becoming effective. You continued use of the website will signify your acceptance of these changes.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
What type of information is collected?
While using our service, AACM may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. This may include your name, home address, phone number, and/or email address. We do not require this information to gain access to our website; however, you may need to provide it to access certain products, services, to register to receive marketing materials, such as newsletters or information about upcoming opportunities and events, or newsletters.
How do we use your personal information?
The personal information you provide AAMC will allow us to handle route your customer service or technical support questions or issues and provide to you information about special events and offers. We may use your personal information for internal marketing, profiling, or demographic purposes, so we can adapt our products and services to better suit your needs. We do this better understand and serve our customers.
What type of communication will you receive from us?
Special Offers and Updates
We will occasionally send you information on products, services, special deals, and promotions. Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please the “Choice” section below.
Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rate occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature.
Who is collecting your information?
When you are asked for information while a AAMC website, you are sharing that information with AAMC, its parents, and its various affiliates and sister companies, unless specifically stated otherwise. As a result of this sharing, you may receive communications from any of AAMC’s affiliates. From time to time, AAMC may use third party contractors to collect and process personal information on its behalf.
Our websites may include certain social media features such as a “Like” or “Share” button that interact with our websites. These features may collect your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, which page you are visiting on our websites, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our websites. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy of the company providing it.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
As is true with most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include a unique identifier such as your Internet Protocol address and non-personal information such as your browser type, Internet Serice Provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data,. We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve the services we offer you, to improve marketing, analytics, or website functionality.
AAMC and our partners, such as marketing partners and analytic providers, may use tracking technologies such as cookies, beacons, tags and scripts. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the websites, tracking users’ movements around the websites, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.
We use cookies for various purposes including our shopping cart, to remember users’ settings such as language preferences and for authentication. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our websites, but your ability to use some features or areas of our websites may be limited.
We may also use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. For this reason, these types of clear gifs are tied to personally identifiable information.
What are Internet Protocal (IP) Addresses?
An Internet Protocal address is the unique number assigned to your server or Internet Service Provider (“ISP”). AAMC may track such IP addresses for system administration, to report aggregate information, site tracking, and security purposes.
What do you do if you want to correct or delete your personal information?
You may update, amend, or delete your information at any time by signing in to your account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage your personal information. You may also contact us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us, please contact [email protected].
In some cases, we may not be able to delete your personal information and will retain and use your information as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and/or enforce our agreements.
Please note that the deletion of your data will lead to the termination of your account and all applicable services.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
With Whom with your personal information be shared?
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
- Protect against legal liability
If at any time you wish to opt out of having your personal information shared with third parties and/or receiving information AAMC (via email or postal mail) about new products, classes, services, or promotions, you can do so. You may contact us at [email protected]
How secure is my personal information?
The security of Your Personal Data is important to us. AAMC has taken steps to assure that all information collected will remain secured and in its original form, e.g. free from alteration. As such, access to all personal information is strictly controlled. When credit card information is transmitted, for example, we use industry standard encryption. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once it is received.
In addition, we will take reasonable steps to assure that third parties to whom we transfer any data will provide sufficient protection of personal information.
If you have any questions or wish to file a complaint, please feel free to email us at [email protected].
Children’s Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.
If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent’s consent before We collect and use that information.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites 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.
California Residents
Under California law, our customers that are California residents may request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. As detailed above, we do not share our customer’s personal information with unaffiliated third parties for direct marketing purposes without their approval.
If at any time you wish to opt out of having your personal information shared with third parties and/or receiving information from AAMC (via email or postal mail) about new products, services, or promotions, you can do so. You can contact us at: [email protected].
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:
By email: [email protected]
By visiting this page on our website: https://cosmeticinjectors.org/privacy-policy/
By phone number: 425.864.3777