Confidentiality Principles

Welcome
Welcome to www.alvimedica.com.This website belongs to Alvimedica Inc. This Confidentiality Policy was prepared to inform you about the collection, utilization and disclosure of information provided by your party via this website. Please make sure that you have read this confidentiality policy prior to the use of the information on this website or before you transfer any information to this website.

Your Consent
By using this website, you accept the conditions stipulated by our confidentiality policy. Every time you transfer information via this website, it will be considered beforehand that you have given your consent for the collection, utilization and disclosure of such information within the framework of the rules in our confidentiality policy.

About Children
The information provided in this website may not be proper for children under the age of thirteen. Information evidencing personal belonging to such an age group shall not be gathered on purpose. We hereby advise parents to talk to their children about the use of the internet and the information that may be revealed through other communication networks.

Information to be provided by you
In some parts of this website, information evidencing personal belonging may be requested from you in order for you to make use of certain parts (such as communication subscription, certain information and indicators, preparation of orders or summary presentations) or your participation in certain activities. This information, which is necessary and voluntary, shall be indicated hereby.

Involuntary Information Gathering
Whilst you are viewing this website, certain information, the source of which is ambiguous, may be involuntarily collected (even if you do not provide the same on purpose) by means of the utilization of certain technical methods such as cookies, internet labels or network indicators or circulation data gathering (in the files, service files and clicking stream). Your internet browser may automatically transfer information, the source of which is uncertain, such as the URL information of the Website that you have just left or Internet Protocol (IP) address that your computer is still using as well as the circulation type. This website may then collect information, the source of which is unclear, such as the cookies, internet labels and network indicators in your computer. You may set up your browser to inform you when the cookies are offered or to reject the same request completely. However, some parts of this website may not function without cookies.

This website may gather and use such collected information, the source of which is ambiguous, with the intent of offering better services to the visitors of this website, to arrange the same according to your preferences, to collect and analyze numerical information and inclinations and to administer and develop the website for your own use. Such information cannot be used by means of the combination of the same with your identifying personal information without your consent.

“Cookies” are the small bits of information delivered by a website to your Web Browser in order to remember the information about you as well as your preferences. “Status” cookies contain temporary information such as the development of circulation, the blocking of the entry of the information of the visitors in cases that are not suitable (the website “remembers” information that are outside the criterion such as age or originating country from the previous entries and prevents subsequent changes) and they collect structural statistical information about the website. They are erased when you close your Web Browser or otherwise when you turn off your computer.

“Permanent” cookies are the bits of information that you download to your computer and that will remain there unless you erase them. Permanent cookies maintain information for various purposes such as the recalling of the certain information previously provided by yourself (such as your password) as well as the determination of which parts of the Web are deemed valuable by the visitors and the development of the Web as per your choices. The permanent cookies that are placed into your computer by this website contain your personal identifier information provided by you solely when you sign up or with your consent only. Apart from the foregoing, the server of our website defines with the cookie your computer has that an unidentified visitor has returned to the website.

You may set up your browser to accept all the cookies or to reject all of them or to inform you to decide whether to accept or to reject every time that a cookie is offered. In order to obtain further information about cookies and to set your preferences, please explore “cookies” from the “Help” section of your browser.

A website may use an Internet Protocol (IP) address. IP addresses are numbers that are given by companies which provide internet services to your computer and that enable you to access the Internet and assigned by them on their terms. Rather than being constant (not specific to each computer user), they are mostly variable (changes every time you access the internet); they should not be considered as personal identifier information. IP numbers may be utilized in defining the problems arising from the service provider, in reporting  structural information, in determining the fastest way to access this website by your computer and in administering and developing the website.

“Internet labels” (also defined as the single-pixel GIF, transparent GIF, invisible GIF and 1x1 GIF) are smaller than the cookies in size and store information by the Website server with respect to the computer of the visitor such as the IP address and browser type. The labels may be placed into the announcements on the internet, which direct users to the website and to the different pages of the website. These types of labels depict how many times the pages are opened and which kind of information is viewed.

“Circulation information” (files, service files, click-stream information) is utilized with the intent of administering the system, developing the content of the website, market surveys and the communication of  information to visitors.