Policies and Disclaimers

Medical Disclaimer

The pages, sources and information, whether local or linked, are for educational purposes only and not to be used for self-treatment. Likewise, information contained in this website is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider for all medical problems, treatments, prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Please note: I do not directly or indirectly practice medicine or dispense medical services or medical advice. I do not assume any liability for the information and data contained in this website or for any diagnosis or treatment made in reliance thereon. Do not rely upon any of the information or links provided on this website for medical diagnosis or treatment. Any medical or other decisions should be made in consultation with your qualified health care provider.

All contents on this website is without warranty of any kind and does not imply endorsement or recommendation by me. I assume no responsibility or liability for any information, links, products or services available from this website or your reliance upon it. I am not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites to which may be linked.

Copyright Information

Permission to use, link to, copy, and distribute this document in whole or in part for non-commercial purpose and without fee is hereby granted.

A majority of this site is made up of content found elsewhere on the web and believed to be free for the public. I try to give appropriate credit to the authors of this content when possible. If material is used on this site that you own and would like it removed please contact me. Commercial use of this material requires prior consent from the author. I assume no responsibility for errors, omissions, or results of using the information contained herein. Likewise I am not responsible for any information linked to these pages. If any of these pages are your property and under copyright restrictions of any kind please contact me and I will no longer link to them.

Funding

SCI-Info-Pages.com is an independently owned and operated website that is privately funded. Some links to external resources and third-party organizations available from this website may represent a source of funding to help keep this site running.

Privacy Policy for Spinal Cord Injury Information Pages

This website, accessible from https://www.sci-info-pages.com/, collects some personal data from its users. I don’t sell or rent users’ data to any third parties for any purpose. The only uses of data are those noted in this policy. Users are the only owner of their data and can request modification or deletion at any time.

This Privacy Policy applies only to online activities and is valid for visitors to the website with regards to the information that they shared in SCI-Info-Pages.com. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Owner and Data Controller

Matthew Ginop
11637 Heilman Road
Levering, MI 49755

Consent

By using this website, you hereby consent to the privacy policy and agree to its terms and conditions.

Types of Data Collected

Among the types of personal data that this website collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: cookies, usage data, first name, last name, phone number, email address, company name, address, city, state, zip/postal code, country, and various types of data.

Complete details on each type of personal data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the data collection.

Personal data may be freely provided by the user, or, in case of usage data, collected automatically when using this website.

Unless specified otherwise, all data requested by this website is mandatory and failure to provide this data may make it impossible for this website to provide its services. In cases where this website specifically states that some data is not mandatory, users are free not to communicate this data without consequences to the availability or the functioning of the Service. Users who are uncertain about which personal data is mandatory are welcome to contact the owner.

Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools – by this website or by the owners of third-party services used by this website serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the user, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document.

Users are responsible for any third-party personal data obtained, published or shared through this website and confirm that they have the third party’s consent to provide the data to the owner.

Cookies

Like any other website, SCI-Info-Pages.com uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing the website content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Advertising – Web Cookies and Beacons

Web cookies (also known as HTTP cookies, or just cookies) are parcels of text that are sent by a server to a web browser, and then sent back unchanged by the browser each time it accesses that server. In other words, a cookie is a piece of data stored on a user’s computer that is tied to information about the user.

Web beacons are objects that are embedded in a webpage or email that are invisible to the user, but allow checking that a user has viewed the page or email. Other names are web bug, tracking bug, tag or page tag.

This website does use cookies. Additionally, some of my business partners (for example, advertisers) may use cookies and web beacons as well. This site has no access to, or control of advertisers’ web cookies or web beacons.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. Please check your browser’s help section for instructions on how to do this.

Advertisers

SCI-Info-Pages.com uses outside advertising networks and companies in order to display ads on this site. These ads may contain cookies and/or web beacons in order to collect data in the ad serving process. These such cookies and/or web beacons are collected by the companies and/or advertising networks, themselves. I do not have any access to this information.

I currently work with several advertising networks and companies. If you have any questions, please check their websites for their respective privacy policies.

Special Note About Google Advertising

Any advertisements served by Google, Inc., and affiliated companies may be controlled using cookies. These cookies allow Google to display ads based on your visits to this site and other sites that use Google advertising services. Learn how to opt out of Google’s cookie usage. As mentioned above, any tracking done by Google through cookies and other mechanisms is subject to Google’s own privacy policies.

Mode and Place of Processing the Data

Methods of Processing

The owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the data. The data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the owner, in some cases, the data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of this website (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as data processors by the owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the owner at any time.

Legal Basis of Processing

The owner may process personal data relating to users if one of the following applies:

Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes. Note: Under some legislations the owner may be allowed to process personal data until the user objects to such processing (“opt-out”), without having to rely on consent or any other of the following legal bases. This, however, does not apply, whenever the processing of personal data is subject to European data protection law;
provision of data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the user and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof;
processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the owner is subject;
processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the owner;
processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the owner or by a third party.

In any case, the owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Place

The data is processed at the owner’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located.

Depending on the user’s location, data transfers may involve transferring the user’s data to a country other than their own. To find out more about the place of processing of such transferred data, users can check the section containing details about the processing of personal data.

Users are also entitled to learn about the legal basis of data transfers to a country outside the European Union or to any international organization governed by public international law or set up by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security measures taken by the owner to safeguard their data.

If any such transfer takes place, users can find out more by checking the relevant sections of this document or inquire with the owner using the information provided in the contact section.

Retention time

Personal data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for.

Therefore:

Personal data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the owner and the user shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.
Personal data collected for the purposes of the owner’s legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by the owner within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting the owner.

The owner may be allowed to retain personal data for a longer period whenever the user has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the owner may be obliged to retain personal data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.

Once the retention period expires, personal data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.

The Purposes of Processing

The data concerning the user is collected to allow the owner to provide its services, as well as for the following purposes: Analytics, contacting the user, SPAM protection and displaying content from external platforms.

Users can find further detailed information about such purposes of processing and about the specific personal data used for each purpose in the respective sections of this document.

Detailed information on the Processing of Personal Data

Personal data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

Analytics

The services contained in this section enable the owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of user behavior.

Google Analytics (Google Inc.)

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the data collected to track and examine the use of this website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.

Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

Personal data collected: Cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant.

Contacting the User

By filling in any form with their data, the user authorizes this website to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.

Personal data collected may include: first name, last name, address, city, state, zip/postal code, email address, phone number, and various types of data.

Displaying Content from External Platforms

This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this website and interact with them. This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when users do not use it.

Google Fonts (Google Inc.)

Google Fonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Google Inc. that allows this website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

Personal data collected: usage data and various types of data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Google reCAPTCHA (Google Inc.)

Google reCAPTCHA is a SPAM protection service provided by Google Inc. The use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google privacy policy and terms of use.

Personal data collected: Cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Links To Other Sites

SCI-Info-Pages.com contains links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. It is strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

I have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

System Logs and Maintenance

For operation and maintenance purposes, this website and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with this website (system logs) use other personal data (such as the IP address) for this purpose.

The Rights of Users

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data I hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that I erase any personal data I hold about you. This does not include any data I’m obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

How To Exercise These Rights

Any requests to exercise user rights can be directed to the owner through the contact details provided in this document. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by the owner as early as possible and always within one month.

Additional Information About Data Collection and Processing

Legal Action

The user’s personal data may be used for legal purposes by the owner in court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this website or the related services. The user declares to be aware that the owner may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.

Additional Information About User’s Data

In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this website may provide the user with additional and contextual information concerning particular Services or the collection and processing of personal data upon request.

Information Not Contained in this Policy

More details concerning the collection or processing of personal data may be requested from the owner at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.

How “Do Not Track” Requests are Handled

This website does not support “Do Not Track” requests. To determine whether any of the third-party services it uses honor the “Do Not Track” requests, please read their privacy policies.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

The owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its users on this page and possibly within this website and/or – as far as technically and legally feasible – sending a notice to users via any contact information available to the owner. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom.

Should the changes affect processing activities performed on the basis of the user’s consent, the owner shall collect new consent from the user, where required.

Definitions and Legal References

Personal Data (or Data)

Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.

Usage Data

Information collected automatically through this website (or third-party services employed in this website), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the users who use this website, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server’s answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the user, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the website) and the details about the path followed within the website with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the user’s IT environment.

User

The individual using this website who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the data Subject.

Data Subject

The natural person to whom the personal data refers.

Data Processor (or Data Supervisor)

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller, as described in this privacy policy.

Data Controller (or Owner)

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of this website. The data controller, unless otherwise specified, is the owner of this website.

Service

The service provided by this website as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/website.

Cookies

Small sets of data stored in the user’s device.

Children’s Information

SCI-Info-Pages.com does not knowingly collect any personal identifiable information from children under the age of 18. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on my website, I strongly encourage you to contact me immediately and I’ll do my best effort to promptly remove such information from my records.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact me by visiting the contact page at: https://www.sci-info-pages.com/contact/

Legal Information

This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations, including Art. 13/14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).

This privacy policy relates solely to this website, if not stated otherwise within this document.

Latest update: June 1, 2019