A. ABOUT THIS POLICY
SightGlass Vision Inc and our subsidiaries (“We/our”) respect your privacy and commit to protecting it through our compliance with the practices described below.
This Data Privacy Policy ( “Policy”) describes our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing the personal data we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website (www.sightglassvision.com) or other digital communications that link or refer to this Policy (our “Website”). This Policy applies to personal data collected through our Website regardless of the country where you are located.
The Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, services, social networks, or applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow the third party to collect or process data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
Please read this Policy carefully to understand our practices for processing and storing your personal data. By engaging with our Website, you accept and consent to the practices described in this Policy.
B. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR DATA?
SightGlass Vision Inc. (head office at: 13555 N. Stemmons Fwy, RM342, Dallas, TX 75234 USA) is the data controller of your personal data.
We can be contacted by email at: contact@sightglassvision.com or by post using the address set out above.
C. DATA WE MAY COLLECT ABOUT YOU
We may collect and use different types of data from and about you including:
If we combine or connect non-personal, demographic, or technical data with personal data so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as personal data.
D. HOW WE COLLECT DATA ABOUT YOU
We collect information about Website usage through cookies (see the section on Cookies below) and server logs, which track the IP addresses of users visiting our Website and the pages they visit. Information collected via the our server logs includes users’ IP addresses and the web pages visited. We also use Matomoanalytics, a web analytics service provided by Innocraft Ltd. to understand how visitors engage with our Website and so We can improve it.
E. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We use your personal data to communicate with you, or to conduct other business operations, such as using data to improve and personalize your experiences. Examples of how we may use the personal data we collect include to:
Vision Simulator tool
You may use the vision simulator tool on our Website. If you wish to do so you will be prompted to enter a name, age, sex and rx relating to the individual for whom you wish to see a personalised myopia simulation. This data is only requested and used for personalization and myopia simulation purposes. The name you submit will not be stored or used for any other reason and will be deleted from the system once the simulation has been produced. The other information you provide will be stored by our service provider Ocumetra Ltd in an anonymised form and will only be used to monitor or enhance the functionality of the tool.
We may use non-personal or aggregate data for any business purpose.
F. HOW AND WHEN DO WE SHARE PERSONAL DATA WITH THIRD PARTIES?
We may share your personal data with:
We may also share your personal data:
We may share non-personal data without restriction.
G. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL DATA
Our Website is hosted in Ireland. We may process, store, and transfer the personal data we collect, in and to a country outside your own and/or outside of Ireland, with differentprivacy laws.
For example, We may share your personal data within the our group of companies. This will involve transferring your data outside the EEA.
Some of our external third parties (e.g. service providers) may be based outside the EEA so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
By submitting your personal data or engaging with our Websites, you consent to this transfer, storing, or processing.
You can request further details about the safeguards that we implement by contacting us at: contact@sightglassvision.com.
H. HOW LONG DO WE STORE PERSONAL DATA?
It is our policy to retain your personal data for the length of time required for the specific purpose or purposes for which it was collected (e.g., for the fulfilment of an agreement with you). However, we may be obliged to store some personal data for a longer time, taking into account factors including:
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your personal data: see Section J(Your Rights) below for further information.
In some circumstances we will anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
If you would like to find out how long we keep your personal data for a particular purpose, you can contact us at: contact@sightglassvision.com.
I. HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We have put in place appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal data against the risk of loss, misuse, or unauthorised alteration or destruction. Such measures may include the use of firewalls, encryption (where appropriate), access rights limits and management processes, careful selection of processors and other technically and commercially reasonable measures to provide appropriate protection for your Personal Data. Where appropriate, we may also make backup copies and use other such means to prevent accidental damage to or destruction of your Personal Data. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
J. YOUR RIGHTS
The following section explains your data protection rights that you can exercise. The rights may only apply in certain circumstances and are subject to certain exemptions. Please see the table below for a summary of your rights. You can exercise these rights using the contact details set out in Section N (How to Contact Us).
We will generally respond to your request within one month of receiving your request. We can extend this period by an additional two months if this is necessary taking into account the complexity and number of requests that you have submitted.
We will not charge you for such communications or actions we take, unless:
K. CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY
We do not direct our Website to minors and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If we learn we have mistakenly or unintentionally collected or received personal data from a child without appropriate consent, we will delete it. If you believe we mistakenly or unintentionally collected any information from or about a child, please contact us at contact@sightglassvision.com.
L. THIRD PARTY LINKS
Our websites may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for how they handle your personal data. When you leave one of our websites, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
M. PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
This Policy may change from time to time. Your continued engagement with our Website after any such revisions indicates that you accept and consent to them, so please check the Policy periodically for updates. We will post any changes on this page.
N: HOW TO CONTACT US
If you wish to request further information regarding this Policy or the way we use your personal data or if you wish to exercise any of the above rights set out in Section Jyou can contact us at: contact@sightglassvision.com
Last updated: June 2023
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