Digital Privacy Policy of Carolina Orthopaedic & Neurosurgical Associates, PA (CONA)
Purpose of This Policy
CONA operates the cona.care and carolinaona.com websites, which provides services as a
source of information for patients of a medical practice in South Carolina (CONA).
This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and
disclosure of Personal Information for those using the websites managed above.
If you choose to use our website, then you agree to the collection and use of information in
relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and
improving the websites. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as
described in this Privacy Policy.
Information Collection and Use
For a better experience while using our website, we may require you to provide us with certain
personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and
postal address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you.
Log Data
We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Service, we collect information that your
browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your
computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you
visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
Cookies
Cookies are files with small amounts of data that is commonly used as an anonymous unique
identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on
your computer’s hard drive.
Our website uses these “cookies” for collecting information and to improve our Service. You
have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent
to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some
portions of our website
Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:
To facilitate our website.
- To perform service-related services.
- To assist us in analyzing how our website is used.
We want to inform our website users that these third parties may have access to your Personal
Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they
are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.
Security
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use
commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission
over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot
guarantee its absolute security.
Links to Other Sites
Our website may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be
directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we
strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over,
and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party
sites or services.
Minor’s Privacy
Our websites do not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal
identifiable information from minors under 18. In the case we discover that a minor under 18
has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you
are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal
information, please contact us so that we will be able to perform necessary actions.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page
periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy
Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this
page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to visit our Contact Us page and reach out to us. We’ll get back to you as soon as possible.