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Privacy Notice
Privacy Notice
Shamir Website
Last
updated: November 2023
Shamir
Websites Privacy
Notice
Introduction
We, at Shamir Optical Industry Ltd. its
subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively the Company, we, us,
our), respect the privacy and data protection rights of our website
visitors, portal users and business contacts.
This Privacy Notice (the "Notice")
describes the personal information we have and the policies and procedures we
use regarding personal information we collect on or through the websites,
including https://shamir.com/us/ ; http://www.rcpvrewards.com and https://thevitaminsee.com/ (together, the Website).
This Notice may be amended from time
to time. We will post any change to this Notice on our Website a reasonable
time in advance of the effective date of the change, and we will also make
efforts to proactively notify you by email of the changes to the Notice if we
have your email address.
Contact us
If you
have any questions, comments or concerns regarding this Notice or our
processing of your personal information, please contact us at admin@shamirlens.com.
What we collect and why
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Scenario |
Purposes |
Categories
of information processed |
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Accessing
and using the Website |
Processing analytics about how the
Website is used to better manage the website, the content on the Website and
further develop the content on the Website. |
Information regarding your interaction
with our Website, as well as type and version of browser, keyboard
language, screen resolution, number of pages visited by the user etc. |
|
Contacting us with an inquiry through the Websites contact us
form |
Our business development |
Name, email address, city, state, and the content of your inquiry. |
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Subscribing to our latest trends,
products, & news |
Our
business development |
Email
address. |
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Accessing and using the Shamir
personal portal |
Administering your access
to the Shamir personal portal. |
Name, email address,
company; password. |
|
Our Rewards and Rebate
program for eyecare practices. |
Administering rewards and rebates to eyecare practices. Administering the Rewards and Rebate program account. |
Name and mail of owner or primary contact of eyecare practice; Account
password; Address and phone number of eyecare practice; IRS Form W9
(including Social Security Number). Report of sales made to eyecare practices which details Shamir Product ID/OPC, number of units purchased, Lab account number, and vision Insurance plan used for purchase if applicable. Entitlements to rewards and rebates; Rewards and
rebates given. |
|
If a person abused their rights to
use the Website, the portal, or violated any applicable law while doing
business with us |
Responding to,
handling, and mitigating suspected violations of law in connection with our
business |
Any of the information
mentioned above. |
Methods and sources for collecting your personal
information
We collect the personal information from three
sources:
Directly
from you as when you provide it to us through a registration or contract-us form.
Through
the device you use to access the Website.
Practitioners
sales report are provided by our partner Optical Labs which sell to eyecare
practices.
Disclosing your personal information
|
Scenario |
Purposes |
Examples
of Third parties involved |
|
If
you abused your rights to use the Website or violated any applicable law while
using the Website or doing business with us. |
Responding to, handling, and mitigating
suspected violations of law in connection with our business. |
Competent authorities, legal
counsels, and advisors. |
|
If
a judicial, governmental, or regulatory authority requires us to disclose
your information. |
Complying with a binding request
from a competent authority. |
Competent authorities. |
|
If
the operation of the Website or our business is organized within a different
framework, or through another legal structure or entity (such as due to a
merger or acquisition). |
Enabling a structural change in the
operation of the Website and our business. |
The target entity of the merger or
acquisition, legal counsels, and advisors. |
Data retention and security
We retain your
information for the duration we need it to operate the Website, the portal, and
our business, and interact with you, and thereafter as needed for
record-keeping matters.
We will retain your information for the
duration needed to support our ordinary business activities operating the
Website, the portal and interacting with existing and potential customers and partners.
Thereafter, we will still retain your personal information as necessary to
comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, establish, and defend
legal claims and enforce our agreements.
We implement
measures to secure your information
We
implement measures to reduce the risks of damage, loss of information and
unauthorized access or use of information. However, these measures do not
provide absolute information security. Therefore, although efforts are made to
secure your personal information, there is no guarantee that it will be immune
from information security risks.
Additional information under state privacy laws
in the United States
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We provide you with the following information
pursuant to the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and other state privacy
laws in the United States. This is also the information we have collected in
the past 12 months. We do not use sensitive personal information
for purposes other than those permitted under the California Privacy Rights
Act (CPRA).
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Disclosing your
information to third parties
The chart below
explains the personal information we disclosed for business purposes to third
parties in the preceding 12 months.
|
Categories of personal
information (under the CPRA) |
Categories of third
parties to whom we disclose your information and the specific business or
commercial purpose for the disclosure |
|
Identifiers |
With our partners and affiliates, to maintain or
service accounts, provide customer service, and verify customer information.
With outside legal counsel and authorities,
for the purpose of responding to, handling, and mitigating suspected
violations of law in connection with our business.
With third parties to which a law or binding order
requires us to disclose your information. Our purpose in doing so is to
comply with our obligations under the law or the binding order.
With the target entity of our
merger, acquisition or reorganization, and legal counsels, and advisors, for
the purpose of facilitating the structural change in the operation of our
business within a different framework, or through another legal structure or
entity (such as due to a merger or acquisition). |
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Other information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is
capable of being associated with, the individual |
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Commercial information,
including records of personal property, products or services purchased,
obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or
tendencies |
|
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Internet
or other electronic network activity information |
Sharing your
information for online behaviorally targeted ads
The chart below
explains about the personal information we shared
for online behaviorally targeted ads in the preceding 12 months.
We do not have
actual knowledge that we share the personal information of consumers under 16
years of age for online behaviorally targeted ads.
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Categories of personal
information |
Categories of third
parties to whom we share your information for online behavioral-targeted ads |
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Identifiers |
Advertising networks |
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Other information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is
capable of being associated with, the individual |
|
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Commercial information,
including records of personal property, products or services purchased,
obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or
tendencies |
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Internet or other electronic network activity information |
Your rights under state privacy laws in the United States
Notice of the Right to Opt-Out Using the Opt-Out Preference Signal
You have a
right to opt-out of sharing your personal information for behavioral targeted
ads. You can exercise this right by using the opt-out preference signal as
explained here.
We process
the opt-out preference signal if it is sent by your browser in accordance with
the "global privacy control". For more information on how to install
and implement the global privacy control, please visit globalprivacycontrol.org/#download.
If you
turn on this global privacy control in your browser, we will receive the
signal, process it in a frictionless manner, and treat it as a request to
opt-out of the use of your personal information for behavioral-targeted ads.
The opt-out request is specific to the browser in which you have it turned on.
It is effective as an opt-out request only while you use that browser to surf
the web.
Knowing the personal information we collect about you
You have
the right to know:
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Whether
we process personal information about you.
●
The
categories of personal information we have collected about you.
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The
categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.
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Our
business or commercial purpose for collecting personal information.
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The
categories of third parties with whom we share personal information, if any.
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The
specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
Right to deletion
Subject to
certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you,
we will:
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Delete
your personal information from our records; and
●
Direct
any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.
Please
note that we may not delete your personal information if it is necessary to:
●
Complete
the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the
terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with
federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably
anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you,
or otherwise perform a contract between you and us.
●
Detect
security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or
illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity.
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Debug
to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
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Exercise
free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right
of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
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Comply
with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
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Engage
in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research that
conforms or adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our
deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair
the ability to complete such research, provided we have obtained your informed
consent.
●
Enable
solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based
on your relationship with us and compatible with the context in which you
provided the information.
or
●
Comply
with an existing legal obligation.
We
also will deny your request to delete if it proves impossible or involves
disproportionate effort, or if another exception applies. We will provide you a
detailed explanation that includes enough facts to give you a meaningful
understanding as to why we cannot comply with the request to delete your
information.
Right to correct inaccurate personal
information
If we receive a verifiable request from you to correct your information
and we determined the accuracy of the corrected information you provide, we will correct
inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.
In determining the accuracy of the personal information that is the
subject of your request to correct, we will consider the totality of the
circumstances relating to the contested personal information.
We also may require that you provide documentation if we believe
it is necessary to rebut our own documentation that the personal information is
accurate.
We
may deny your request to correct in the following cases:
●
We
have a good-faith, reasonable, and documented belief that your request to
correct is fraudulent or abusive.
●
We
determine that the contested personal information is more likely than not
accurate based on the totality of the circumstances.
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Conflict
with federal or state law.
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Other
exception under law.
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Inadequacy
in the required documentation.
●
Compliance
proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort.
We will provide you with a detailed explanation that includes enough
facts to give you a meaningful understanding as to why we cannot comply with
the request to correct your information.
Protection against discrimination
You have
the right to not be discriminated against by us because you exercised any of
your rights under state privacy laws.
Exercising your rights under state privacy laws, methods for
submitting requests and appeals
If you
would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Notice (other
than the right to opt-out), please contact us by e-mail at admin@shamirlens.com, or call (877) 514-8330 (Toll Free).
We will
ask you for additional information to confirm your identity and for security
purposes, before disclosing the personal data requested to you, by using a two
or three points of data verification process, depending on the type of
information you require and the nature of your request.
If we
decline your request, you have the right to appeal against our decision. To do
so, please contact us by email at admin@shamirlens.com and indicate in the subject line of your email that your message
is an appeal. We will then reconsider our decision considering your appeal,
with a higher-level executive at Connatix. We will inform you of our decision
by return email, including a written explanation of the reasons for the
decision.
You may
also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. To do so,
you need to provide the authorized agent written permission to do so and the
agent will need to submit to us proof that they have been authorized by you. We
will also require that you verify your own identity, as explained below.
Disclosures to third parties
California
Civil Code Section 1798.83 (and other, similar state statutes) permits our
customers who are California residents (or residents of states with similar legislation)
to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Data to
third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request,
please send an email to admin@shamirlens.com. Please note that we are only required to respond
to one request per customer each year.
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