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Safe Harbor Policy
v5.0 Updated: October 1, 2004
Welcome to www.acuvue.com and www.jnjvisioncare.com! This
site is owned by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. This Privacy Policy
is designed to tell you about our practices regarding collection, use, and disclosure
of information that you may provide via this site. Please be sure to read this
entire Privacy Policy before using, or submitting information to this site.
This site is intended for use by residents of the United States.
By using this site, you agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy. Whenever
you submit information via this site, you consent to the collection, use, and
disclosure of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
This site is not intended for children under the age of 13. We will not knowingly
collect information from site visitors in this age group. We encourage parents
to talk to their children about their use of the Internet and the information
they disclose to Web sites.
Like many Web sites, this site actively collects information from its visitors
both by asking you specific questions and by permitting you to communicate directly
with us via email, feedback forms, and/or chat rooms. Some of the information
that you submit may be personally identifiable information (that is, information
that can be uniquely identified with you, such as your full name, address, email
address, phone number, and so on).
As you navigate through this site, certain anonymous information can be passively
collected (that is, gathered without your actively providing the information)
using various technologies, such as cookies, Internet tags or web beacons, and
navigational data collection (log files, server logs, clickstream). Your Internet
browser automatically transmits to this site some of this anonymous information,
such as the URL of the Web site you just came from and the Internet Protocol
(IP) address and the browser version your computer is currently using. This
site may also collect anonymous information from your computer through cookies
and Internet tags or web beacons. You may set your browser to notify you when
a cookie is sent or to refuse cookies altogether, but certain features of this
site might not work without cookies.
This site may use and combine such passively collected anonymous information
to provide better service to site visitors, customize the site based on your
preferences, compile and analyze statistics and trends, and otherwise administer
and improve the site for your use. Such information is not combined with personally
identifiable information collected elsewhere on the site unless you have consented.
A "cookie" is a bit of information that a Web site sends to your Web
browser that helps the site remember information about you and your preferences.
"Session" cookies are temporary bits of information that are used
to improve navigation, block visitors from providing information where inappropriate
(the site "remembers" previous entries of age or country of origin
that were outside the specified parameters and blocks subsequent changes), and
collect aggregate statistical information on the site. They are erased once
you exit your Web browser or otherwise turn off your computer.
"Persistent" cookies are more permanent bits of information that are
placed on the hard drive of your computer and stay there unless you delete the
cookie. Persistent cookies store information on your computer for a number of
purposes, such as retrieving certain information you have previously provided
(such as passwords), helping to determine what areas of the Web site visitors
find most valuable, and customizing the Web site based on your preferences on
an ongoing basis. Persistent cookies placed by this site on your computer may
hold personally identifiable information, but only if you have registered or
have otherwise consented to the retention of personally identifiable information
you have provided at the site. Otherwise, our site’s server only knows
that an unidentified visitor with your cookie has returned to the site.
You can set your browser to accept all cookies, to reject all cookies, or to
notify you whenever a cookie is offered so that you can decide each time whether
to accept it. To learn more about cookies and how to specify your preferences,
please search for "cookie" in the "Help" portion of your
browser.
A site may use Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. An IP address is a number
assigned to your computer by your Internet service provider so you can access
the Internet and is generally considered to be non-personally identifiable information,
because in most cases an IP address is dynamic (changing each time you connect
to the Internet), rather than static (unique to a particular user's computer).
The IP address can be used to diagnose problems with a server, report aggregate
information, determine the fastest route for your computer to use in connecting
to a site, and administer and improve the site.
"Internet tags" (also known as single-pixel GIFs, clear GIFs, invisible
GIFs, and 1-by-1 GIFs) are smaller than cookies and tell the Web site server
information such as the IP address and browser type related to the visitor's
computer. Tags may be placed both on online advertisements that bring people
to the site and on different pages of the site. Such tags indicate how many
times a page is opened and which information is consulted.
"Navigational data" (log files, server logs, and clickstream data)
are used for system management, to improve the content of the site, market research
purposes, and to communicate information to visitors.
Except as otherwise stated, we may use your information to improve the content
of our site, to customize the site to your preferences, to communicate information
to you (if you have requested it) for our marketing and research purposes, and
for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy.
If you provide personally identifiable information to this site, we may combine
such information with other actively collected information unless we specify
otherwise at the point of collection. We will take reasonable measures to prevent
personally identifiable information from being combined with passively collected
information, unless you consent otherwise.
We may disclose your personally identifiable information to other Johnson &
Johnson affiliates worldwide that agree to treat it in accordance with this
Privacy Policy. In addition, we may disclose your personally identifiable information
to third parties, located in the United States and/or any other country, but
only
(i) to contractors we use to support our business (e.g., fulfillment services,
technical support, delivery services, and financial institutions) in which
case we will require such third parties to agree to treat it in accordance
with this Privacy Policy;
(ii) in connection with the sale, assignment, or other transfer of the business
of this site to which the information relates, in which case we will require
any such buyer to agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy;
(iii) where required by applicable laws, court orders, government regulations; or
(iv) to provide products or services you have requested, when we have your permission.
In addition, we will make full use of all information acquired through this
site that is not in personally identifiable form.
To keep your personally identifiable information accurate, current, and complete,
please contact us as specified below. We will take reasonable steps to update
or correct personally identifiable information in our possession that you have
previously submitted via this site.
We take reasonable steps to protect your personally identifiable information
as you transmit your information from your computer to our site and to protect
such information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration,
or destruction. You should keep in mind that no Internet transmission is ever
100% secure or error-free. In particular, email sent to or from this site may
not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information
you send to us via email. Moreover, where you use passwords, ID numbers, or
other special access features on this site, it is your responsibility to safeguard
them.
This site may contain links or references to other Web sites. Please be aware
that we do not control other Web sites and that, in any case, this Privacy Policy
does not apply to those Web sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policy
of every Web site you visit.
Your use of this site is subject to our Legal Notice.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this Privacy Policy or
the information practices of this site, please Contact us.
Safe Harbor Policy
If this Privacy Policy changes, the revised policy will be posted on this site.
Please check back periodically, and especially before you provide any personally
identifiable information.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on October 1, 2004. |