Welcome to CosmedicTv – online television featuring cosmetic medical procedures. These Terms and Conditions (as defined herein) apply to all CosmedicTv Internet site which reference these Terms and Conditions. By using a CosmedicTv Site, or any of the products or services available on a CosmedicTv Site (collectively the "Services"), you agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by these terms and conditions and such other additional or alternative terms, conditions, rules and policies which are displayed or to which you may be directed in connection with any particular CosmedicTv Site or Service, all as may be modified by CosmedicTv from time to time (collectively, the "Terms and Conditions"). Please check these Terms and Conditions regularly for updates. If any change is not acceptable to you, you must discontinue your use of a CosmedicTv Site and any of the Services immediately. If you do not agree with these Terms and Conditions, you may not use a CosmedicTv Site or any of the Services on a CosmedicTv Site.
Please note that we reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these Terms and Conditions at any time. Please check periodically for changes. Your continued use of a CosmedicTv Site following the posting of any changes to these Terms and Conditions will mean you accept those changes.
The Privacy Act is described as:
An Act to extend the present laws of Canada that protect the privacy of individuals and that provide individuals with a right of access to personal information about themselves.
The term personal information is defined as information about an identifiable individual that is recorded in any form with some specific exceptions for the purposes of Access to Information Act requests
CosmedicTv respects the privacy of all of its users and is committed to protecting such privacy in accordance with this Privacy Policy. It is the policy of CosmedicTV to control the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information in accordance with all requirements set out in the Privacy Act . The Privacy Act does not apply to personal information that CosmedicTv collects, uses, or discloses only for journalistic, artistic or literary purposes
This Privacy Policy explains CosmedicTv's treatment of your personally identifiable information collected in connection with your activities on or related to all CosmedicTv websites referencing this Privacy Policy (the "Cosmedic Sites") and all services made available on the Cosmedic Sites (collectively, unless noted otherwise, the "Cosmedic Services"). This Privacy Policy also explains how you can ask questions and make suggestions about our privacy practices and review and update your personal information.
We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully and to check back periodically as this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies or websites which are not owned or controlled by CosmedicTv or it's affiliates (Cosmedic Services: such as CosmedicMedia or CosmedicList).
In the course of operating the Cosmedic Services, we may collect two types of information about our users: Personal Information and Non-Personal Information.
"Personal Information" is personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, email address, birth date and gender. Personal Information is collected by us when you choose to provide it to us when registering for a CosmedicTv Service, such as when you choose to subscribe to or a apply for a CosmedicTv Service or participate in a CosmedicTv Show, enter a CosmedicTv promotion, choose to receive a CosmedicTv newsletter, or choose to participate in a CosmedicTv survey. In addition, if you choose to contact any of our customer service representatives, we may keep a record of that correspondence so that we may fully address the subject matter. We may also receive Personal Information from our business partners and other third parties, provided that such third parties confirm to us that you have permitted them to share such information.
Business contact information such as the name, title, business address, email address or telephone number of a business or professional person or an employee of an organization is not considered Personal Information.
"Non-Personal Information" is information of an anonymous nature, such as your Internet Protocol Address ("IP Address"), the domain you may have used to access a CosmedicTv Service, the type and version of browser or operating system you may be using, and the website you may have come from and visit next. Aggregate information, such as demographic statistics of our users (e.g., average age or geographical allocation of our users), number of visitors and average time spent on a CosmedicTv Service, is also considered Non-Personal Information.
Non-Personal Information is collected or derived by us in the course of operating the CosmedicTv Services. For example, our web servers may automatically collect Non-Personal Information which is provided through your browser or stored on a Cookie (as defined herein) or through a Web Beacon (as defined herein) when you choose to visit a CosmedicTv Service. Non-Personal Information is used by CosmedicTv as described in thisPrivacy Policy.
Personal Information may be used by us for the following purposes:
a. Providing you with the Cosmedic Services and information you have requested from us, including your use of the CosmedicTv Sites. We may from time to time use your Personal Information to contact you about changes, enhancements or similar notices related to the Cosmedic Services, including CosmedicTv Shows or Videos;
b. If you indicated that you were interested in receiving offers or information from CosmedicTv or certain of our selected sponsors or advertisers, CosmedicTv may send you email materials and other mailings about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. If at any time you would like to end your subscription to any such email materials, follow the directions posted at the bottom of the email material;
c. If you enter a contest or other promotion offered on a Cosmedic Site or on the CosmedicTV Site, we may, under the rules of the promotion, use your name and certain other information to administer the promotion, such as contacting, announcing and promoting the winners of the promotion; or
d. CosmedicTv may also use Personal Information if it has reasonable grounds to believe the information could be useful when investigating a contravention of a federal, provincial or foreign law or in order to protect or defend a legal interest.
• DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will not sell or rent your Personal Information to anyone.
• We will only disclose your Personal Information to third parties:
a. Where you have specifically given us your consent to disclose your Personal Information for a designated purpose;
b. Who are acting on our behalf as our agents, suppliers or service providers, solely to enable us to more efficiently provide you with the CosmedicTv Services. Such entities act under strict contractual controls, requiring them to maintain the confidentiality of all such Personal Information and to use such information solely for purposes related to the provision of the CosmedicTv Services;
c. As may be set out in the Terms and Conditions applicable to a CosmedicTv Service, to facilitate the provision of such CosmedicTv Service, such as fulfilling legal requirements;
d. As required by law, including by an order of any court, institution or body with jurisdiction or authority to compel the production of information, or in order to protect or defend a legal interest; or
e. In connection with a CosmedicTv corporate re-organization, merger or amalgamation with another entity, or a sale of all or a substantial portion of the assets of CosmedicTv provided that the Personal Information disclosed continues to be used for the purposes permitted by this Privacy Policy by the entity acquiring the information.
A CosmedicTv Service may contain links to other websites and services. While we try to link only to sites and services that share our high standards and respect for privacy, please understand that we are not responsible for the content of, or the privacy practices employed by, other companies or websites. This Privacy Policy applies only to the CosmedicTv Services or Cosmedic Service that reference this Privacy Policy.
The majority of the advertisements which are displayed in connection with the CosmedicTv Services are served through reputable third party advertisement serving partners, in accordance with their policies as described on their own websites.
The security of your Personal Information is important to us. CosmedicTv takes technical, contractual, administrative, and physical security steps to protect Personal Information that you provide to us. We instruct our employees with access to your Personal Information that it is to be used only in adherence with the principles set forth in this Privacy Policy and the laws applicable to each specific business.
In certain areas, such as when you provide credit card information to us, we work to help protect the security of your credit card information during transmission. You can also help to protect your personal information yourself by not sharing your password and by logging out and closing your browser each time you finish accessing the internet.
Please check this Privacy Policy regularly for updates by checking the date of "Last Update" at the top of this document. CosmedicTv may from time to time change this Privacy Policy as new CosmedicTv Services are added or old ones changed. Changes will be effective when notice of such change is posted at a CosmedicTv Site.
Privacy procedures specific to a CosmedicTv Service can be found on a CosmedicTv Site at the location of the particular CosmedicTv Service, or in additional terms referenced at such CosmedicTv Site. Those procedures are an addendum to this Privacy Policy, and are provided to you at the place where they will be of most use to you.
CosmedicTv provides you with the means to access, update, edit or delete any account or registration information you may have provided to us at any time on your own by going to the appropriate page in the account or registration section of the relevant CosmedicTv Service, and changing or deleting such information as desired.
If you are unsure whether we have a record containing any of your Personal Information and would like to confirm whether or not we do, please send an email to CosmedicTv indicating all email addresses that you may have given us.
If you decide at any time that you do not want to receive any email materials to which you have subscribed, you may choose to unsubscribe to these emails by following the instructions at the end of the message.
If you have questions, comments or suggestions about this Privacy Policy or CosmedicTv's privacy practices that were not answered here, send us an email.
Non-Personal Information is collected or derived by us in the course of operating the CosmedicTv Services. For example, our web servers may automatically collect Non-Personal Information which is provided through your browser or stored on a Cookie or through a Web Beacon when you choose to visit a CosmedicTv Service.
In addition to CosmedicTv's practices related to IP Addresses, Cookies or Web Beacons, Non-Personal Information is used generally by CosmedicTv to monitor and improve the operation of the CosmedicTv Services, CosmedicTV does reserve the right to perform statistical analyses of user behaviour and characteristics, in order to measure interest in and use of the various sections of its sites so as to improve design and navigation and to gather marketing information. Only aggregated data from these analyses, not individual data, will be used for this purpose.No Personal Information will be disclosed during these activities.
CosmedicTv may also use Non-Personal Information to inform our sponsors and advertisers as to the performance of a particular sponsorship (such as a contest) or advertisement. In such case we may disclose to those third-party sponsors and advertisers the overall aggregate demographics available regarding, for example, who participated in a contest or who saw and "clicked" on an advertisement. No Personal Information will be disclosed to these sponsors and advertisers as part of this process; only information in an anonymous, aggregate form will be disclosed.
An IP Address is the unique number which is assigned to every direct Internet access point. Many IP Addresses can generally be associated with certain Internet service providers or large organizations. IP Addresses do not contain any Personal Information. When you, through your browser, request a web page or similar Internet information from another computer on the Internet, your browser automatically provides that computer with an IP address to which it will send the requested information.
a. Whenever you request a CosmedicTv Service web page or certain other similar CosmedicTv content, your browser automatically provides our computers with your IP Address, to which our computers will send the requested information. Each such request is logged by our computers with information including the IP Address of the computer that requested the page and is stored by our computers as needed for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy;
b. CosmedicTv may use your IP Address to display more appropriate and relevant content and advertising, such as content and advertising based on your geographic area. Aggregate information derived from IP Addresses may be reported by CosmedicTv to its advertisers and partners. For example, CosmedicTv may report to its advertisers the estimated total number of users accessing a particular CosmedicTv Site from a specific province; and
c. CosmedicTv may use your IP Address to facilitate the diagnoses and remedy of a technical problem reported by you or our technical team.
A "Cookie" is a small text file containing a unique identification number that is transferred (through your browser) from a web site to the hard drive of your computer. The Cookie identifies your browser and will not let a web site know any personal information about you, such as your name and address. Since Cookies are only text files, they cannot run on your computer, search your computer for other information, or transmit any information to anyone. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. If you do not want a cookie placed on your computer, you may disable cookies altogether by modifying the Preferences section of your Netscape or Internet Explorer browser (under Edit/Preferences/Advanced). Note that it is possible that some aspects of some sites may be unavailable to you if you choose this option
a. Monitor website usage and improve the operation and performance of the CosmedicTv Services and to make our CosmedicTv Services easier and more convenient to use. For example, Cookies help us remember who you are through your browser settings so that we can offer and provide more personalized services (e.g. language preference). Cookies also allow us to save passwords and preferences for you so that you will not have to re-enter them the next time you visit a Cosmedic Site or CosmedicTV.
b. Measure aggregate user traffic and demographic statistics related to the CosmedicTv Services and advertisements (e.g., number of users, average time spent, average age and similar statistics). This information helps us to better understand when to update, change or offer new services and provides us with details as to the performance of third party advertisements and content. This information may be reported, in aggregate form only, to our current and prospective sponsors, advertisers and business partners. No Personal Information will be disclosed in such reports; and
c. Displaying advertisements. CosmedicTv and third party advertising providers used by CosmedicTv may use Cookies when serving advertisements.
Cookies are used on many major web sites. Most browsers are initially set up to accept Cookies. If you prefer, you can reset your browser either to notify you when you have received a Cookie, or to refuse to accept Cookies. You should understand that while CosmedicTv does not require you to use Cookies, certain CosmedicTv Services will not function properly if you set your browser to not accept Cookies.
Certain CosmedicTv Services may contain electronic images known as "Web Beacons", sometimes called single-pixel gifs, that allow CosmedicTv to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Web Beacons are not used to access your Personal Information; they are a technique used to compile aggregated statistics about CosmedicTv Service usage. Web Beacons collect only a limited set of information including a Cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web Beacon resides. Certain CosmedicTv Service web pages may also contain Web Beacons placed there by our advertising partners or web analytics service providers to help CosmedicTv determine the effectiveness of our Internet advertising campaigns.
'Personal information' means information about an identifiable individual. Examples of personal information that we may collect, use and disclose include your contact information (name, address, phone number or email address), your billing information (credit card number or banking information), and other information that you may provide to us. Personal information does not include publicly available information or your business contact information.
Certain of the Services and related features made available on a CosmedicTv Site may require registration or subscription. Should you choose to register or subscribe for any such Services or related features, you agree to provide accurate and current information about yourself as required by the relevant registration or subscription process, and to promptly update such information as necessary to ensure that it is kept accurate and complete. You agree to be responsible for: (a) maintaining the confidentiality of any passwords or other account identifiers which you choose or are assigned as a result of any registration or subscription on a CosmedicTv Site, and (b) all activities that occur under such password or account. Further, you agree to notify CosmedicTv of any unauthorized use of your password or account. CosmedicTv shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, in any way for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of, or in connection with, your failure to comply with this Section.
