Cameric Global Health Services operates and maintains this Web site related to international pediatric surgical services. Your privacy is important to Cameric Global Health Services. For this reason, Cameric Global Health Services has established the following Privacy Policy.  Please also see a second policy statement in response to and compliance with HIPAA regulations.

COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION

In order to enable you to access certain features of the Sites or to enhance your experience on the Site, Cameric Global Health Services may collect personal information from you. However, Cameric Global Health Services will only collect and maintain personal information that you provide voluntarily (e.g., by filling out a form). For example, the Sites may contain features such as surveys, forums, chats, requests for suggestions, and requests for services. In connection with these features, you may be asked to provide contact information (such as your name, postal address or email address), or demographic information. Cameric Global Health Services may use such personal information for its own internal purposes, and may only share such personal information with third parties as described below.

In addition, Cameric Global Health Services may collect and maintain non-personal information made available through your use of the Sites (e.g. your IP address, the type of browser you are using, your operating system and the pages you visit) and non-personal information that you provide voluntarily (e.g., aggregate demographic information) (see Cookies below). Cameric Global Health Services collects this information to monitor usage of its Site, to improve the Sites and to enhance your experience on the Sites. Cameric Global Health Services may use such non-personal information for its own internal purposes and may share such non-personal information with third parties.

Cameric Global Health Services may disclose personal information to third parties if Cameric Global Health Services has reason to believe that disclosing such information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating Cameric Global Health Services’ Terms of Use, or interfering (either intentionally or unintentionally) with Cameric Global Health Services' intellectual property rights, the rights of other users of the Sites or other persons.

SECURITY 

Cameric Global Health Services has implemented security measures in order to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the personal information that you provide. While these measures are taken to protect you, Cameric Global Health Services cannot ensure or warrant that transmission over the Internet is absolutely secure, and as such, you alone must assume the risk of transmitting such information unless you proceed to obtain a Personal Certificate which allows you to encrypt messages and use a digital signature. Once received, all unencrypted personal identifying information is encrypted for further transit using 128-bit encryption.  Persistent storage of all personal identifying information and personally identifiable health information is on database servers that are not visible to the Internet.  The hosting environment and Cameric Global Health Services’ servers are firewall-protected.

On all Website areas where personal information can be collected or entered you are advised to send all confidential and personal health information encrypted.  Information regarding Personal Certificates can be found at:  https://www.thawte.com/ucgi/gothawte.cgi?a=w35420040567010000.  Thawte is a Certifying Authority that issues digital certificates to consumers and businesses. They are trusted by almost all secure software currently available to issue certificates guaranteed to contain valid identity information.  Personal certificates are the best technology available to perform secure authentication across public networks like the Internet. They combine the ease of use of password-based access control with the sophistication and security of public key cryptography. You can use personal certificates to create secure communications between business partners, across an enterprise or in an extranet environment.  You can use your Thawte Personal Certificate to digitally sign and encrypt your email communications. Thawte Personal Certificates are trusted out of the box by all major S/MIME-compliant secure mail clients, such as Microsoft Outlook Express and Netscape Communicator 4.x. S/MIME has been adopted by most messaging vendors as the leading email and messaging security standard. 

The Thawte Personal Certification System is free and it can be used indefinitely at no cost. The certificate can be deactivated by you at any time.  A free personal certificate can be obtained at:  https://www.thawte.com/cgi/enroll/personal/step1.exe.  You can log in to your certification account from anywhere in the world, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

CHANGES AND UPDATES TO PRIVACY POLICY

From time to time Cameric Global Health Services may revise this Privacy Policy. You should review this Privacy Policy periodically so that you will be up-to-date on Cameric Global Health Services‘ procedures and policies relating to information Cameric Global Health Services obtains from users of the Site. Any consent provided by a parent or legal guardian to Cameric Global Health Services will be deemed to apply to the revised privacy policy, unless there is a material change in Cameric Global Health Services‘ data collection, use or disclosure practices, in which case Cameric Global Health Services will contact all parents and legal guardians who have consented to the collection of their child's personal information by Cameric Global Health Services to notify them of the change and request a new consent. If a renewed consent is not received, Cameric Global Health Services will not collect or use personal information about a child in a manner which is inconsistent with the privacy policy under which the child's parent or legal guardian previously provided their consent.

COOKIES

Cameric Global Health Services uses cookies and similar devices on the Site to facilitate site-navigation and to customize the information that appears on the Site. Cameric Global Health Services also uses cookies and similar devices to collect non-personal information about users of the Cameric Global Health Services website, such as (i) a user's IP address, the type of web browser and operating system being used, (ii) the pages of the website a user visits and (iii) other websites visited after a user leaves the Site. Cameric Global Health Services collects this information in order to monitor usage of the Site and to improve aspects of the Site, or to allow a third party to conduct such activities on Cameric Global Health Services' behalf.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but can be configured not to do so or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. We recommend that you do not disable your browser from accepting cookies, as it will prevent you from moving freely from page to page and from taking advantage of all of the features offered by Cameric Global Health Services on the Site.

HOW TO OPT OUT OR REQUEST CHANGES TO YOUR INFORMATION

If you would like to change or delete the personal information that you have provided to Cameric Global Health Services, you may contact Cameric Global Health Services by e-mail at info@camericlglobal.com. The request to change or delete the personal information must come from the original E-mail address that you registered with Cameric Global Health Services. All reasonable steps will be taken to remove your personal information from Cameric Global Health Services’ database. Please note that Cameric Global Health Services can only comply with requests to change or delete information that is contained in Cameric Global Health Services’ databases. Parents or legal guardians will be required to provide identification before their child's information is released to them.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you may contact Cameric Global Health Services by mail at 454 Carson Plaza Drive, Suite 110, Carson, CA  90746, by telephone at 310 516-6018, or by e-mail at info@camericglobal.com

This Privacy Policy was last revised on March 21, 2003