Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice sets forth the information gathering, use, and dissemination practices of Athens Hearing Aid Center in connection with the World Wide Web site located at www.athenshearingaidcenter.com (its "website"). This Privacy Notice addresses Athens Hearing Aid Center's practices regarding information collected only directly through or from its website - it does not address or govern any information gathering, use, or dissemination practices related to information collected other than directly through or from its website, including, without limitation, from or via telephone, facsimile, postal mail, personal delivery, or other or additional offline means or media
Athens Hearing Aid Center collects, uses, and stores information on the domain you use to access its website, the Internet address of the site from which you linked directly to its website, and the date and time of your visit to its website. This information may be used to measure the number of visitors to the various pages on the Athens Hearing Aid Center website, to help make improvements to the information contained on the site, and to better serve site visitors through special marketing and service programs, among others Athens Hearing Aid Center also collects, uses, and stores the e-mail addresses of users that communicate with Athens Hearing Aid Center via e-mail, information knowingly provided by website users, and information regarding which website pages users access.
Personal information contained in e-mail sent by individuals may be used by Athens Hearing Aid Center to answer questions, follow-up on suggestions or complaints, process requests or transactions, or improve the level of service Athens Hearing Aid Center provides.
Athens Hearing Aid Center may share personally identifiable information obtained on its website with any company or marketing group internal to Athens Hearing Aid Center, Inc. or its subsidiaries. Except as provided below, Athens Hearing Aid Center does not share any personally identifiable information obtained on its website with or sell information obtained on this website to any company or marketing group external to Athens Hearing Aid Center, Inc. and its subsidiaries. Athens Hearing Aid Center may, however, share aggregate information with other persons or entities for purposes determined by Athens Hearing Aid Center to be appropriate.
Athens Hearing Aid Center may disclose identifiable information (i) to another entity with which Athens Hearing Aid Center enters or reasonably may enter into a corporate transaction, such as, for example, a merger, consolidation, acquisition, or asset purchase, (ii) to a third party pursuant to a subpoena, court order, or other form of legal process or in response to a request by or on behalf of any local, state, federal, or other government agency, department, or body, whether or not pursuant to a subpoena, court order, or other form of legal process, or (iii) to a third party if determined by Athens Hearing Aid Center in its sole judgment that such disclosure is appropriate to protect the life, health, or property of Athens Hearing Aid Center or any other person or entity. (The foregoing is not intended to obviate or displace any legal obligations or duties applicable to Athens Hearing Aid Center.)
Except as necessary for Athens Hearing Aid Center to provide the services, information, or products requested by a website user, or except for the disclosures identified in the preceding paragraph, the user may opt out of having his or her personally identifiable information, which has been voluntarily provided to Athens Hearing Aid Center through or from its website, prospectively retained by Athens Hearing Aid Center, used by Athens Hearing Aid Center for secondary purposes, or disclosed by Athens Hearing Aid Center to third parties, by contacting Athens Hearing Aid Center via postal mail at the address set out below or at the following e-mail address: ahac@bellsouth.net
While Athens Hearing Aid Center may undertake efforts to see that another party to which Athens Hearing Aid Center shares personal information is under a contractual obligation to use the personal information solely for the purposes for which the information was disclosed by Athens Hearing Aid Center, Athens Hearing Aid Center exercises no control over such parties and Athens Hearing Aid Center is not responsible for their conduct, actions, omissions, or information handling or dissemination practices.
Athens Hearing Aid Center has implemented physical, electronic, and procedural security safeguards to protect against the unauthorized release of or access to personal information. Additionally to further safeguard this information, our employees are asked to agree to Athens Hearing Aid Center's Standards of Conduct and Work Rules as well as Confidentiality Agreements, and are subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment if they fail to follow signed agreements.
Athens Hearing Aid Center may change this Privacy Notice at any time. Notice of any new or revised Privacy Notice, as well as the location of the new or revised statement, will be posted on the website for at least 60 days after the change. It is the obligation of users visiting the website before the change to learn of changes to the Privacy Notice since their last visit. Any change to this Privacy Notice shall be effective as to any website user who has visited the website before the change was made.
