Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of February 15, 2018.


This Privacy Policy of Simply Dermatology PLLC (“Company”) covers the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information that may be collected by the Company anytime you interact with the Company, such as when you visit our website, when you purchase the Company’s products online or in our offices, or when you call our offices. Our Medical Privacy Policy also describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please click here to read our Supplemental Medical Privacy Policy. Our policy is designed in such a way that it helps you understand these collection practices. Please take a moment to carefully read the following to learn more about our information practices, including what type of information is gathered, how the information is used and for what purposes, to whom we disclose the information, and how we safeguard your personal information. Your privacy is, of course, a priority at the Company, and we go to great lengths to protect it.


I. Reasons the Company Collects Personal Information

We collect your personal information because it helps us deliver a superior level of customer service. It enables us to give you convenient access to our products and services and focus on categories of greatest interest to you. In addition, your personal information helps us keep you posted on the latest service and product announcements, special offers, and events that you might like to hear about.
 
If you do not want the Company to keep you up to date with our news and the latest information on products and services simply unsubscribe at the bottom of any email we send you.
 

II. Information the Company Collects and How the Information May be Used

There are a number of situations in which your personal information may help us give you better service and products. For example:
We may ask for your personal information when you’re discussing an issue with an order or service on the phone with an associate, participating in an online survey, or purchasing merchandise.
When you interact with the Company, we may collect personal information relevant to the situation, such as your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, and contact preferences; your credit card information and information about the Company products you own, such as the date of purchase; and information relating to a product or service issue; your IP address, browser type, domain name, access times and referring website addresses.
We may also collect information for market research purposes — such as your occupation and how you use the Company products and services purchased —to gain a better understanding of our clients and patients and thus provide more valuable services and products in future.
We collect information regarding user activities on our SimplyDerm.com website. This helps us to determine how best to provide useful information to our customers and to understand which parts of our website and products are of most interest to them.
We may use personal information to provide products that you have requested, as well as for research and analysis to improve our products and services.
This information may be shared with third parties or in special circumstances as described elsewhere in this policy. We do not sell, rent or lease our user lists to third parties.

III. Gift Cards and Services

The Company also enables you to purchase and send gift certificates and products to family members, friends or colleagues. To fulfill your request, the Company may require personal information about the person to whom you are sending the product such as their name, physical address, email address, and so on. The personal information you provide about that person is used only for the purpose for which it is collected.

IV. Publicly Displayed Information is Public

If you use social media platforms operated by the Company, whether on our DrPapantoniou.com website or on a respective social media website, you should be aware that any information you share is visible to other users. Personally identifiable information you submit to one of these forums can be read, collected, or used by other individuals to send you unsolicited messages. The Company is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. For example, if you choose to make information, which was previously nonpublic, available by enabling certain user features, the Company will collect that information from your interaction and the information will become publicly available.

V. When the Company Discloses Your Information

The Company takes your privacy very seriously. The Company does not sell, lease or rent your contact information to other marketers. For information of Protected Health Information please click here to read our Supplemental Medical Privacy Policy
 
To help us provide superior service and products, your personal information may be shared with affiliated legal entities within our corporate group who will take steps to safeguard it in accordance with our privacy policy.
 
There are also times when it may be advantageous for the Company to make certain personal information about you available to companies that the Company has a strategic relationship with or that perform work for the Company to provide products and services to you on our behalf. These companies may help us process information, extend credit, fulfill customer orders, deliver products to you, manage and enhance customer data, provide customer service, assess your interest in our products and services, or conduct customer research or satisfaction surveys. In such situation these companies are prohibited from using your personal information for any unauthorized purposes and are also obligated to protect your information in accordance with the Company’s policies, except if we inform you otherwise at the time of collection. Without such information being made available, it would be difficult for you to purchase products, have products delivered to you, receive customer service, provide us feedback to improve our products and services, or access certain services, offers, and content on our website.
 
The Company may take the personal information we receive from individuals responding to our customer surveys and combine (or aggregate) it with the responses of other customers we may have, to create broader, generic responses to the survey questions (such as gender, age, residence, hobbies, education, employment, industry sector, or other demographic information). The Company then uses the aggregated information to improve the quality of its services to you, and to develop new services and products. This aggregated nonpersonally identifying information may be shared with third parties.
 
We also reserve the right to disclose your personal information for any reason if, in our sole discretion, we believe that it is reasonable to do so, including credit agencies, collection agencies, merchant database agencies, law enforcement, litigation or to satisfy laws, such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Child Online Privacy Act, regulations, or governmental or legal requests for such information. We may also disclose personal information that is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our contracts, policies and procedures. Finally we may also disclose information about you if we determine that for national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary.

VI. How the Company Protects Your Personal Information

The Company takes precautions—including administrative, technical, and physical measures—to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
 
Our website use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption on all web pages where personal information is required and to make online purchases you must use an SSL-enabled browser in order to protect the confidentiality of your personal and credit card information while it’s transmitted over the Internet. You can help us by also taking precautions to protect your personal data when you are on the Internet. Change your passwords often using a combination of case sensitive letters and numbers, and make sure you use a secure web browser.
 
While we make every effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party “hackers” from illegally obtaining your personal information. Please be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and we are unable to guarantee the absolute security of the personal information we have collected from you.

VII. Integrity of Your Personal Information

The Company has safeguards in place to keep your personal information accurate, complete, and up to date for the purposes for which it is used. You always have the right to access and correct the personal information you have provided and can help us ensure that your contact information and preferences are accurate, complete, and up to date by checking at DrPapantoniou.com. In addition, you can request a copy of your personal information, your product registration history, and your interactions with our associates by contacting us at the email address below

VIII. Privacy of Children

Protecting children’s privacy is especially important to us. The Company recognizes that parents, guardians, or other adults often purchase our products for family use, including use by minors. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 for marketing purposes, but because some information is collected electronically, it can appear to be the personal information of the Company purchaser of the product, and will be treated as such by this privacy policy. If a child under 13 submits personal information to the Company and we learn that that personal information is the information of a child under 13, we will attempt to delete the information as soon as possible. It is our policy to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and all other applicable laws. Therefore we restrict our website to persons 18 years or older.
 
YOU MUST BE EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OR OLDER TO ACCESS THE COMPANY’S WEBSITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ACCESS THE COMPANY’S WEBSITE FOR ANY REASON. DUE TO THE AGE RESTRICTIONS FOR USE OF OUR WEBSITE, NO INFORMATION OBTAINED BY OUR WEBSITE FALLS WITHIN THE CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT OF 1998 AND IS NOT MONITORED AS DOING SO.

IX. Cookies and Other Technologies

As is standard practice on many websites, our website uses “cookies” and other technologies to help us understand which parts of our website are the most popular, where our visitors are going, and how much time they spend there. We also use cookies and other technologies to make sure that our online advertising is bringing customers to our products and services. We use cookies and other technologies to study traffic patterns on our website, to make it even more rewarding as well as to study the effectiveness of our customer communications. And we use cookies to customize and personalize your experience and provide greater convenience each time you interact with us.
 
If, however, you prefer not to enable cookies, please go to http://www.networkadvertising.org, which explains step by step how you can disable cookies on your browser. Please note that certain features of our website will not be available once cookies are disabled.
 
As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The Company will not use the information collected to market directly to that person.
 
In some of our email messages we use a “click-through URL” linked to content on our website. When customers click one of these URLs, they pass through our web server before arriving at the destination web page. We track this click-through data to help us determine interest in particular topics and measure the effectiveness of our client communications. If you prefer not to be tracked simply avoid clicking text or graphic links in the email.
 
In addition we use pixel tags (clear GIFs)—tiny graphic images—to tell us what parts of our website customers have visited or to measure the effectiveness of searches customers perform on our website. Pixel tags also enable us to send HTML email messages in a format customers can read and they tell us whether emails have been opened to ensure that we’re sending only messages that are of interest to our customers. We may use this information to reduce or eliminate messages sent to a customer. We store all of this information in a secure database located in the United States.

X. Commitment to Your Privacy

As we said, the Company takes protecting your privacy very seriously. To make sure your personal information is secure, we communicate these guidelines to our employees and strictly enforce privacy safeguards within the company.
The Company itself does not respond to “do not track” signals, and we do not control whether third parties do. For more information about third-party ad networks that use cookies and the other technologies discussed above, and to opt-out of their tailoring of ads on third-party sites based on this information, see http://www.networkadvertising.org.

XI. Links to Sites of Other Companies

Our website has links to the sites of other companies. We are not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of those companies.

XII. Further Questions Regarding Privacy

If you have questions or concerns about the Company’s Privacy Policy or data processing, please use the email address (see below) to contact us. The Company will respond to your inquiry within 30 days.
 
Simply Dermatology PLLC
900 Walt Whitman Road, Suite 101, Melville, NY 11747
Email Address: support@DrPapantoniou.com
Telephone: (631) 377-7222

If you do not want the Company to keep you up to date with Company news and the latest information on products and services simply unsubscribe at the bottom of any email we send you or login to your account at DrPapantoniou.com and update your personal contact information and preferences and update your personal contact information and preferences. Naturally, if you notify us that you do not want us to use your information for a particular purpose, we will not do so.

XIII. Effective Date; Updates to Privacy Policy

The terms and conditions in this policy statement came into effect on February 15, 2018. The Company reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this policy at any time and in any manner. When we change the policy in a material way a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated privacy policy. Your use of our website and any other services provided by the Company after such changes are implemented constitutes your acknowledgement and acceptance of these changes. Please consult this privacy statement prior to every use for any changes.

XIV. Notice of Compliance to California Residents

California law requires that we provide you with a summary of your privacy rights under the California Online Privacy Protection Act (“California Act”) and the California Business and Professions Code. As required by the California Act, this privacy policy identifies the categories of personally identifiable information that we collect through our website about individual consumers who use or visit our website and the categories of third-party persons or entities with whom such personally identifiable information may be shared.
Depending on the visitor’s activity at our website, certain “personally identifiable information” (as that term is defined in the California Act) may be collected, in addition to information set forth in other sections of this document. For purposes of the California Act, the term “personally identifiable information” means individually identifiable information about an individual consumer collected online by us from an individual and maintained by us in an accessible form, and may include any of the following: (1) A first and last name;(2) A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town; (3) An email address; (4) A telephone number; (5) Any other identifier that permits the physical or online contacting of a specific individual; (6) Information concerning a user that the website collects online from the user, and maintains in personally identifiable form, in combination with an identifier described within this privacy policy.
See Section VII above entitled “Integrity of Your Personal Information” for a description of the process maintained by the Company for an individual consumer who uses or visits our website to review and request changes to any of his or her personally identifiable information that is collected through our website.
See Section XIII above entitled “Effective Date; Updates to Privacy Policy” for a description of the process by which the Company notifies consumers who use or visit our website of material changes to the Company’s privacy policy. The effective date of this privacy policy is also included in Section XIII above.