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Legal Statements

NOT MEDICAL ADVICE

The content, products, and services offered herein are intended to educate consumers about health care and medical issues that may affect their daily lives. Nothing in the content, products, or services should be considered or used as a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This Site and its services do not constitute the practice of medicine, eye care, or any other professional health care advice, diagnosis, or treatment. You should always consult your health care provider for diagnosis and treatment, including your specific medical needs. None of the products or services offered through this Site represents or warrants that any particular service or product is safe, appropriate, or effective for you. We advise users to seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions regarding personal health or medical conditions.

IF YOU HAVE OR SUSPECT THAT YOU HAVE A MEDICAL PROBLEM OR CONDITION, PLEASE CONTACT A QUALIFIED HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU ARE IN THE UNITED STATES AND ARE EXPERIENCING A MEDICAL EMERGENCY, PLEASE CALL 911 OR SEEK EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IMMEDIATELY.

OTHER COMMUNICATIONS WITH VISION CARE PARTNERS

Communication with Vision Care Partners through this website, by email, text, telephone, online appointment scheduling, or any other means of communication prior to coming into the office for an examination by an eye care provider IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE, DOES NOT CONSTITUTE ACCEPTANCE AS A PATIENT, DOES NOT ESTABLISH A DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP, AND DOES NOT OBLIGATE VISION CARE PARTNERS TO PROVIDE ANY RESPONSE, CARE, OR TREATMENT.

DISCLAIMERS OF LIABILITY

Vision Care Partners makes no warranties or representations, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or usefulness of any opinions, advice, services, or other information contained in or referenced by this website. Vision Care Partners does not assume any risk for your use of this website. Users of this website should be aware that information about health care changes constantly; because this website is updated periodically, it may not contain the most current information. Vision Care Partners reserves the right to update or change information contained on this website at any time. None of the materials presented here may be relied upon by any person for any purpose other than informational purposes. It is NOT MEDICAL ADVICE. Vision Care Partners disclaims any liability for any injury or other damages resulting from the review or use of information obtained from this website. Any person reviewing the materials presented here should obtain specific medical advice and answers to specific medical questions from a qualified health care professional. Vision Care Partners is not responsible for information appearing at hyperlinks on this website. This is a comprehensive limitation of liability that applies to all damages of any kind, including, without limitation, compensatory, direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, loss of data, loss of income or profit, loss of or damage to property, and claims of third parties.

By using this website, you consent to our practices as set forth in our Website Privacy Policy and any supplemental privacy statements posted on this website.

In consideration for your use of and access to this website, you agree that in no event will Vision Care Partners, or any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering this website or any site linked to this website, be liable to you in any manner whatsoever for any decision made or action taken, or not taken, by you in reliance upon the information provided through this website.

PRIVACY OF INFORMATION

At Vision Care Partners, we continually seek new ways to maintain your trust as a user and improve our offerings. To provide new and better services, we monitor user traffic patterns and analyze what users like and do not like about our current offerings so we can design better services. We may also use certain information for testing purposes, site development and planning, and during the normal course of maintaining the site. When you use our site, you authorize us to collect information related to these uses. In these cases, researchers, business analysts, system designers, and others may have access to the data we collect.

What We Collect

We may collect the following information:

  • Name
  • Contact information, including email address, mailing address, phone number, and mobile phone number
  • Demographic information such as date of birth, eyewear history, preferences, and interests
  • Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

We do not intend to use or disclose any personal information or personal health information you provide on our site to an unrelated third party without your express permission, except as explained in this section.

You should know that there are circumstances in which, in the ordinary course of business, we may share some information about you with related third parties:

  • We work with vendors and suppliers that may ship products ordered on our site directly to customers. In those cases, we provide the vendor with the information necessary to fulfill the order, such as the items ordered, your name, and shipping address. We require these third parties to adhere to privacy and security standards consistent with our own.
  • We may share aggregated statistical information regarding users, sales, traffic patterns, and site usage with business affiliates and sponsors. This information does not identify or contact you personally.
  • We may engage vendors to provide services such as data analysis, data storage, email processing, customer service, sweepstakes administration, or special promotions. We require those vendors to adhere to our confidentiality standards and do not permit them to use customer information for any other purpose. In many cases, you will be given the opportunity to opt in to such collection and may opt out at any time.
  • We may share registration data with business affiliates.
  • In certain limited circumstances, we may be legally compelled to release personal information in response to a court order, subpoena, search warrant, law, or regulation. If we are compelled to disclose personal information and/or personal health information to a third party, we will notify you unless doing so would violate the law or court order. We also reserve the right to cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating and prosecuting users who violate our rules or engage in behavior that is harmful or unlawful.

Vision Care Partners takes privacy seriously. In using this website, or in providing information to Vision Care Partners in preparation for an examination with an eye care provider, certain personal information may be provided to Vision Care Partners. Vision Care Partners will take reasonable precautions to protect that information from unauthorized third-party disclosure. Personal information may be shared, compiled, and analyzed as group data for internal use only. All information given to Vision Care Partners is used only for its stated intended purpose and for general tracking. We will not sell your information to third parties.

SMS consent and phone numbers collected for SMS purposes will not be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing purposes.

Note: If law enforcement agencies request personal information you provided to Vision Care Partners, we may cooperate with such authorities as required by law.

Visitors to our site may also receive an advertising browser-based cookie so that we can market to them online in the future. The cookie may provide us with your IP address, cookie identifiers, and general website activity. With this information, we are better able to share marketing messages associated with what interested you when you visited our site. If you receive an advertisement from Vision Care Partners and do not wish to continue receiving such ads, you may click the ad and indicate that you do not wish to receive additional ads.

SECURITY

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

HOW WE USE COOKIES

A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We use this information only for statistical analysis purposes, and the data is then removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links that enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you use those links to leave our site, please note that we do not have any control over the other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites, and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and review the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

HOW CAN YOU MODIFY OR REMOVE YOUR INFORMATION?

If you wish to update or remove the personal information you have provided, please contact us directly using the information provided in the Contact Us section. Please note that we may retain certain details as necessary to comply with legal obligations or for recordkeeping purposes.

SMS PRIVACY POLICY

Terms of Service for SMS Communications

Information obtained as part of the SMS consent process will not be shared with third parties.

Types of SMS Communications

If you have consented to receive text messages from Vision Care Partners, you may receive text messages related to appointment reminders, marketing, services, and scheduling changes.

Standard SMS Messaging Disclosures

Message and data rates may apply. Rates depend on your mobile carrier, and you should contact your carrier for more information. Message frequency may vary, but we will not contact you more than twice in a given day without a response from you.

Opt-in Method: Customers may opt in for SMS messaging from Vision Care Partners through forms on our website and other designated intake or contact forms.

This SMS consent agreement will not be shared with third parties for marketing purposes.

Opt-out Method: You may opt out of SMS messaging from Vision Care Partners at any time by replying STOP. Once you opt out, you will receive no further SMS communications unless you opt back in. You may opt back in at any time by replying START.

For assistance, reply HELP or visit our website.

For more information, please review our Privacy Policy.

ACCEPTABLE USE

You agree that you will not:

  • Use this website for any purpose in violation of local, state, national, or international law.
  • Use this Site as a means to distribute advertising or other unsolicited material to any third party.
  • Use this website to post or transmit material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, slanderous, hateful, or embarrassing to any other person or entity.
  • Attempt to disable, hack, or otherwise interfere with the proper functioning of this website.
  • Violate or attempt to violate the security of the Site, including without limitation:
    • Accessing data not intended for Site users or logging onto a server or account that Site users are not authorized to access;
    • Attempting to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; or
    • Accessing or using the Site or any portion thereof without authorization, in violation of these Terms of Use, or in violation of applicable law.
  • Use any scraper, crawler, spider, robot, or other automated means of any kind to access or copy data on the Site, deep-link to any feature or content on the Site, or bypass robot exclusion headers or other measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Site.
  • Use any device, software, routine, or other means to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Site or any activity being conducted on this Site.

Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. Vision Care Partners will investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users involved in such violations.