SST Privacy Policy

If you are a California resident, please see our supplemental Privacy Policy for California Residents pursuant to the CCPA.

Surgical Safety Technologies Inc. (“SST”) is committed to respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how we collect, use, disclose, store and otherwise process information through this website, its affiliate websites and other online products and services (“SST Services”), including where this Policy appears or is referenced.

By providing your personal information to SST in the ways described in this Policy, you agree that you are authorized to provide such information and are accepting this Policy and any supplemental privacy statement that may be relevant to you. You have the right at any point to revoke consent and SST will stop using and processing your personal information. If you disagree with our practices, please do not register, subscribe, create an account, or otherwise interact with our services, SST’s websites or mobile-device applications.

This website is hosted and operated from Canada, and is subject to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”). This Privacy Policy also complies with the General Data Protection Regulation as set forth by the European Parliament on April 27, 2016 and which came into force on May 25, 2018. This regulation mandates that SST protects the Personal Information and privacy of EU residents. If there is any conflict between the policies in this Privacy Policy and the GDPR, the GDPR principles shall govern.

Information We Collect

If you access SST Services, you may be asked to provide personal information. Personal information refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, such as an identification number, physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural, or social identifiers (“Personal Information”). Personal Information may include, but is not limited to:

• First name and last name

• Email address

• Phone number

• Mailing address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

• Username

• Password

• Usage Data

• Credit card information

In addition, you may be providing Personal Information when:

• Communicating with SST via phone calls, chats, emails, web forms, social media, and other methods of communication

• Subscribing to SST’s marketing materials

• Applying for a job

• Providing services to SST

  
  

Use of Your Personal Information

We collection your Personal Information to provide you products and services, such as fulfill your requests for products or services or to help us personalize our offerings to you. In some cases, we also use Personal Information for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain SST Services, including to monitor the usage of SST Services.

• To manage your account: to manage your registration as a user of SST Services. The Personal Information you provide can give you access to different functionalities of SST Service that are available to you as a registered user.

• For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contractfor the products or services you have purchased or of any other contract with us through the SST Services

• To contact you: To contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

• To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.

• To manage your requests: To attend and manage your requests to us.

• We may share your personal information in the following situations:

• With service providers: we may share your Personal Information with our service providers for the purpose of providing SST Services to you and for providing you with information, products, or services you have requested.

• For business transfers: we may share or transfer your Personal Information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of SST assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

• With affiliates: we may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.

• With Business partners: we may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.

• With other users: when you share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If you interact with other users, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activity, communicate with you and view your profile.

Website Usage Data

We may also collect Usage Data about your when you visit SST websites, which your web browser automatically sends whenever you visit a website on the internet. “Usage Data” is information that does not, by itself, identify a specific individual but which could be used to indirectly identify you. Our servers and analytic services automatically record this information, which may include your internet protocol (“IP”) address (a number that is automatically assigned to your computer by your internet service provider), the address of the website you are coming form , the amount o time you spend visiting our website, the pages visited, how you interact with those pages, if you link to us through a search engine, the keywords you used to find our website, browser type, browser language, and the date and time of your request.

Gathering your information helps us track visits to the SST website, understand and evaluate customer experience, improve the content and layout of our website and customize the web experience, ensure our websites and other services work correctly, and support our customer analytic efforts. SST will only attempt to link the logs to the identifiable individual if that is necessary for investigating a data security breach, a breach of contract, a violation of SST’s policies and procedures or a contravention of laws.

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