EnteroMedics Privacy Policy

This privacy statement describes how EnteroMedics will protect, gather, and use information from this web site. We may change this privacy statement at any time by posting changes on this web site.

Personal Information

Personal information is information that identifies you individually, such as your name, address, email address, company name, birth date, medical device serial number, phone number, or other information that is specific to you. Some pages on this web site may provide online contact forms that require personal information.

EnteroMedics keeps and uses the personal information collected about you on the contact form to respond to your questions and comments.

In addition, we may use this information for:

• Internal company reports, based on personal information, relating to promotion, research, and web site content
• Tracking web site usage so we can improve site content and functionality
• Formulating personalized web site access based on your site use and areas of interest
• Contacting you about our products or services or those of others that may be of interest to you
• Learning about our customers and markets
  

If we remove all the personal information that identifies you, we will treat the remaining information as non-personal.

Non-Personal Information

Non-personal information is information that does not identify you individually. Non-personal information is information we collect from your computer, such as your web browser, the date and time of your web site visit, the web address from which you accessed our site, the number of visitors to the site, the pages viewed, and the length of time on the web site. EnteroMedics uses non-personal information to collect general information about our site visitors. Non-personal information is used by EnteroMedics and is shared with third parties to:

• Improve our products, services, and web site content
• Generate information about site visitors so we can make this web site more useful
• Personalize information and services when you return to our site

Cookies are a particular type of non-personal information. These are small data files that are sent to your browser and placed on your computer's hard drive when you visit a web site. One example is when a site uses a “shopping cart” to record your purchases. You can set your browser to accept or decline cookies. Some sections of our web site may not work properly if you decline cookies. We use cookies for contact with you, such as maintaining a connection while you are moving through a series of web pages.

Disclosure of Personal Information

EnteroMedics and our affiliates will not share personal information collected through this web site with unrelated third parties, except as provided in this privacy policy. EnteroMedics and our affiliates may share personal information with companies that we hire to perform services for us, where they need your personal information to perform the service. These companies are not authorized to keep or use your personal information for any other purpose.

EnteroMedics and our affiliates also may share your personal information to comply with legal requirements, such as reporting to government agencies.

Children's Privacy

EnteroMedics does not intentionally collect personal information from children under age 13. If you think that a child has provided us with personal information, please email us. We will use reasonable efforts to delete this information.

Links to Other Web Sites

This privacy policy does not apply to web sites of other organizations to which this site links. These links are provided for your convenience. If EnteroMedics does not control a web site we are not responsible for its operation or content. We suggest that you review the privacy policy for each web site you visit.

Security

EnteroMedics takes reasonable steps to protect personal information from loss and misuse. Please keep in mind that no Internet transmission is 100% secure. Some email sent to or from this site may not be secure. Please consider this when sending information to us by email.

Contact EnteroMedics

If you have any questions or comments about this privacy policy, please email us.

 

 

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