Privacy Policy for https://www.hansbiologics.com/ Website
Updated: July 26, 2022

This Privacy Policy describes how Hans Biomed USA, INC. collects, uses, and discloses Your Personal Information in connection with https://www.hansbiologics.com/ (the “Site), mobile applications, and the services We provide in relation. The term “GBR,” “HANSGBR,” “Hans Biomed,” “We,” “Our,” and “Us” means Hans Biomed USA, INC. Please reference our Terms of ServiceLimitations of LiabilityReturns/Refund, and Shipping policies in association with this Privacy Policy.

Please carefully read the following Privacy Policy before using the Site and all of Our associated websites, products, and Services.

Your privacy is very important to Us. Our Privacy Policy spell out Our commitment to respecting the privacy of the Customers and Visitors to Our Site. We reserve the right to change this policy at any time, but We do, We will give You prior notice by an email message sent directly to You or by another permitted means required by law.

This Privacy Policy is designed to help You understand how We collect and process the Personal Information you share when You use Our Site. It also describes the choices available to You regarding Our use of Your personal information and how You can access and update this information. We want You to know that We are and will continue to be very careful with what We do with Your Personal Information.

This Site is not intended for use by any person under the age of 18.

 

Terms and Definitions

In reference to language used in this Privacy Policy:

  • Business – This refers to Us as Hans Biomed USA, INC. as the legal establishment and organization collecting Personal Information as well as Data associated. We determine which Information will be used to process specific analysis and support to any individual accessing and inquiring business on the Site alone, or in conjunction with our Affiliates.
  • You – For the identification of the individuals using Our Services on this Site. This includes every persons in the region of the United States of America and all of its territories who provide Data that includes Order Information and all Data associated to Customer Registration. Terms “You”, “Your” includes the customers. Our Site does not sell to residents of any foreign nation including but not limited to Canada, European Union, United Kingdom, and Brazil.
  • Site – Refers to our online store (https://www.hansbiologics.com/)
  • Services – Any products and information offered to the customer by Us.
  • Account – A personalized profile created for You. With an Account, a customer will have credentials to access Our Site and Services.
  • Order – Any sales processed through Our checkout procedure whether automatic or manual upon purchase of Our Goods.
  • Social Media Services – Public profiles Our Business created for social networking purposes and to provide additional news and updates to You.
  • Personal Data – Refers to any information provided by You while accessing Our Site and Goods and Services. This Data may include information that is reasonably linked, both directly and indirectly with You or Your Account.
  • Usage Data – Refers to the data collected automatically upon registration or access of the Site.
  • Cookies – Information connected to any browsing history of the device You use. This also includes the browsing history in reference to any third-party links you click within the Site.
  • Sales Representative – The specialist within Hans Biomed USA, INC. that is assigned to You based on geographic location region. Information about You or Your Account is used to provide the needed customer support.
  • Customer Support – Includes any technical assistance and/or inquiries in association with You or Your Account with Hans Biomed USA, INC.

Hans Biomed USA, INC. Data Collections

When You visit our Site, We collect certain information about Your device, Your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process Your purchases. We may also collect additional information if You contact Us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, We refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.

Disclosure for a business purpose: Data collected from Our users is shared with our processor Shopify.

Personal Data

While accessing our Site, We may ask You to provide specifics on identifiable information that can be used to contact or find association to You. Personal Data may include, but is not limited to:

  • Business or personal Names
  • First Name and Last Name of persons
  • Email Addresses
  • Medical License credentials associated with persons
  • Phone Numbers
  • Address, State, City, Zip/Postal Code
  • Usage Data
  • Order Information

 

Specific Personal Information and Data Collected

In collecting this Personal Information, as is the common practices of many sales websites, We automatically gather Information about You and Your operating systems, browsers, and acting devices, which most commonly comprises this information:

  • Your purchase history, browsed products, and saved items;
  • IP address, time, and data of visit;
  • Browser information;
  • Referring/exit pages;
  • Operating system;
  • Operating System;
  • Agent version;
  • Platform;
  • Software Development Kit (SDK) version;
  • Timestamp;
  • API Key (identifier for application);
  • Application version;
  • Devise identifier;
  • iOS identifier for Advertising
  • iOS identifier for Vendors;
  • Media Access Control (MAC) address;
  • International mobile equipment Identity (IMEI);
  • Model;
  • Manufacture and OS version of device(s);
  • Session start/stop timer;
  • Locale (specific location where a given language is spoken);
  • Time zone;
  • Network status (WiFi, etc.)

We may catalog this Information (via cookies, analytics tracking and weblog technology) for system administration and improvement, Order verification, marketing, and system troubleshooting purposes.

Use of Your Personal Information and Data

We may use this Information to:

  • Fulfill Your Order;
  • Send You an Order confirmation;
  • Assess Your needs to determine suitable products;
  • Send You requested product or Service information;
  • Send product updates or warranty information (if applicable);
  • Respond to Customer Service requests;
  • Process returns;
  • Administer Your account specifics and profile;
  • Send You a newsletter;
  • Send You marketing, advertising, promotions, and communications;
  • Administer a referral program;
  • Administer a loyalty program;
  • Respond to Your questions and concerns;
  • Improve Our website, user experience, and marketing efforts;
  • Create and maintain a secure environment;
  • Conduct research analysis, training, and quality insurance;
  • Display content based upon Your interests

Information from Third-Party Social Media Services

Our Site prompts navigation by You to connect to Your Third-Party Social Media Services.

In this regard, You may be prompted out of Our Site to access the following Third-Party Social Media Services:

Once You register on the Site and connect to Your Facebook or another SNS account, any information that We collect from Your Facebook or other SNS account may depend on the privacy settings You have with that SNS. Please consult the SNS’s privacy and data practices. These SNS privacy and data collection and protection practices may be more or less restrictive than the privacy settings for Our Site and we have no control over them.

Order information

Examples of Personal Information collected from You: Clinic Name, First and Last Name of Clinic Personnel, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number.

Order Information data collection is for Hans Biomed USA, INC. to provide Hans GBR Goods  to You in fulfillment of Our contract, to process Your payment information, arrange for shipping, provide for You with invoices and/or Order confirmations, and communicate with You after purchase to make You aware of new offers of Goods, Sales programs, and Advertising programs for Our Goods. In addition, We screen Our Orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences You have shared with Us, provide You with information or advertising relating to Our Goods or Services.

Payment card details will not be collected or stored at Hans Biomed USA, INC. or by any Our sales fulfillment vendors such as Shopify and the card used to process Your purchase will be encrypted for Your security purposes. Information on card details is solely provided to Shopify.

Customer Support Information

Additional Personal Information may be collected as necessary in the case that You contact Us for support with different credentials other than what has been given to Us by You and is contained within Your Account on the Site.

To provide further Customer Support, it is Our business purpose to use any publicly available offline data that We may locate and reference, that We have not obtained directly from You online and have otherwise gathered by any legal means, such as from our associated Sales Representative assigned by Us based on Your geographical Clinic regions.

Sharing Personal Information

We will share Your Personal Information with third-party Service providers who provide services to Us, but only in the ways that are described in this Privacy Policy and only for the purposes necessary to provide these Services. These third parties are not authorized to use or disclose Your Personal Information for any purpose other than to perform the Services designated by Us. The services provided by those third parties are:

  • Operating Our Site;
  • Hosting Our Site;
  • Providing the products and Services You request;
  • Obtaining the authorization from You and processing of Your payments;
  • Product fulfillment;
  • Fraud protection and credit risk reduction;
  • Product customization;
  • Serving advertisements to You
  • Marketing and promotional material distribution (including direct mail marketing);
  • Providing a relevant Site experience;
  • Customer Service and support
  • Loyalty program management;
  • Promotions fulfillment; and
  • Website evaluation

We and Our third-party Service providers in the U.S. may also disclose Your Personal Information:

  • As required or permitted by law to comply with a court order, or a legal process such as a subpoena, or a search warrant;
  • To investigate a breach of contract by You or another or the contravention of law by You or another;
  • To protect Our rights, protect Your safety or the safety of others, establish, exercise or defend a legal claim, investigate fraud or respond to a government request as We believe is necessary, or;
  • In any circumstance with Your prior consent to do so.

We may engage with trusted partners in a joint promotion to improve Your shopping experience, Our products, or the services We provide. We will assure such partner is in full compliance with their obligation to protect Your Personal Information ad will only share it with them to the extent necessary to effectuate a limited joint promotion, after which they will delete it.

We may share non-personal information (such as the number of daily visitors to a particular we-page or the size of an order placed on a certain date) with third parties such as advertising partners.

If We are involved in a merger, acquisition or sale of all or a portion of Our assets, You will be notified via email of any change in ownership or uses of Your Personal Information, as well as any choices You may have regarding Your Personal Information.

The Site uses Shopify Payments to process Orders delivered to Customers. We only use processors who have shown Us their compliance with all legal requirements of providing sufficient guarantees to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures in such a manner that processing will meet the legal requirements and ensure the protection of Your rights.

Behavioural Advertising

As described above, We use Your Personal Information to provide You with targeted advertisements or marketing communications We believe may be of interest to You. For example:

  • We may use Google Analytics to help Us understand how Our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses Your Personal Information here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
  • We use MailChimp (Email marketing) subscription services to help Us provide You with updated information on Our products, events, specials, and much more. You can also opt-out of MailChimp email subscription at any time at MailChimp.com, whose Privacy Policy can be accessed at  https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.
  • We share information about Your use of the Site, Your purchases, and Your interaction with Our ads on other websites with Our advertising partners. We collect and share some of this information directly with Our advertising partners, and in some cases through the use of cookies or other similar technologies.

For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by going to these URL locations and following their procedures:

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

Retention of Personal Data

When You place an Order through the Site, we will retain Your Personal Information for Our records unless and until You ask Us to erase this information. The retention of Your Personal Data will be to the extent of complying with Our legal affiliations. This includes but is not limited to the applicable laws in which Hans Biomed USA, INC. abides by, while providing You the Services We offer, the legal procedure to resolve error and inquiries, or the policies We establish to You and our Business Partners.

Your Information may also be retained for Our internal purposes in conducting Our operation. This means that Your Personal Data may be transferred internally and managed within one of Our databases located in the United States. We have and will take all reasonably necessary security measures to manage and protect Your Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy protocols and applicable laws.

Selling Personal Information

Hans Biomed USA, INC. does not sell any Personal Information. However, associated third-party Service providers may use Your Personal Information.

In the case You would like to opt-out of any Personal Information being used by these third-party Service providers, You may do so, through the following options:

Please advise that Your activity and interests may be shared between third-party Service providers in the case that Your Google and/or Facebook credentials were used to log in.

Security & Links to Other Websites

The security of Your Personal Information is important to Us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Information submitted to Us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Our Site may contain links that navigate to other websites, not operated by Us, such as companies offering related Goods or Services or advertising on Our Site. If You click on a third-party link, You will navigate to the third-party’s website. It is recommended that You review the third-party website’s Privacy Policy to ensure the protection of Your Personal Information by them, and We do not have responsibility for any of the actions of Your Personal Information by them, and We do not have responsibility for nay of the actions by these third-party sites. along with the Services associated may contain links that navigate to other websites.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to Your computer or device when You visit Our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make Your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember Your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means You don’t have to re-enter this information each time You return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.

We use the following cookies to optimize Your experience on Our Site and to provide Our Services.

Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store

Name

Function

_ab

Used in connection with access to admin.

_master_udr

Used in connection with access to admin.

koa.sid

Used in connection with access to admin.

koa.sid.sig

Used in connection with access to admin.

_secure_session_id

Used in connection with navigation through a storefront.

cart

Used in connection with shopping cart.

cart_sig

Used in connection with checkout.

cart_ts

Used in connection with checkout.

cart_ver

Used in connection with checkout.

cart_currency

Used in connection with checkout.

checkout

Used in connection with checkout.

Checkout_token

Used in connection with checkout.

currency

Used in connection with checkout.

discount_code

Used in connection with checkout.

previous_checkout_token

Used in connection with checkout.

remember_me

Used in connection with checkout.

tracked_start_checkout

Used in connection with checkout.

secure_customer_sig

Used in connection with customer login.

storefront_digest

Used in connection with customer login.

Reporting and Analytics

Name

Function

_tracking_consent

Tracking preferences.

_landing_page

Track landing pages

_orig_referrer

Track landing pages

_s

Shopify analytics.

_shopify_fs

Shopify analytics.

_shopify_s

Shopify analytics.

_shopify_sa_p

Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.

_shopify_sa_t

Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.

_shopify_y

Shopify analytics.

_y

Shopify analytics.

The length of time that a cookie remains on Your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until You stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies We use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to Your device.

You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact Your user experience and parts of Our website may no longer be fully accessible.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but You can choose whether or not to accept cookies through Your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in Your browser’s help file or through such sites as www.allaboutcookies.org.

Additionally, please note that blocking cookies may not completely prevent how We share information with third parties such as Our advertising partners. To exercise Your rights or opt-out of certain uses of Your information by these parties, please follow the instructions in the “Behavioural Advertising” section above.

Do Not Track

Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, We do not alter Our data collection and usage practices when We detect such a signal from Your browser.

Dispute Resolution

Any dispute or claim relating in any way to:

  • Your registration on Our website,
  • Your use of Our website,
  • Your purchase of Goods from Our website,
  • Any other access You make to Our website,
  • Your Personal Information shared with Us,
  • Your relationship with Us or Our website, or
  • The subject of a purported class action litigation in which You are not a member of a certified class;

Will be resolved by binding arbitration. The Federal Arbitration Act and federal arbitration law will control and apply to this agreement. There is no judge or jury in a arbitration.

To begin a disputed claim, you must send a letter/email to Us describing Your claim to Our registered agent at hansgbr@hansbiomed.us and at one of our offices below.

Hans Biomed USA, INC. – CA Office       Hans Biomed USA, INC. - NJ Office

 

If We are unable to resolve it then You may then proceed to file a petition to arbitrate. The arbitration will be conducted by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its rules, under the AAA’s rules available at www.adr.org. At its conclusion, the Arbitrator will issue a written finding. Payment of all filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the AAA’s rules. Neither party will recover its attorney fees and costs in arbitration. You may choose to have the arbitration conducted by telephone, written submission, or in person, either in the county where You live, or in Los Angeles County, California, as you choose.

We each agree that We waive any right to a jury trial, and that any dispute resolution proceedings will be conducted only on an individual basis and not in a class, consolidated or representative action, and that You will not act as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding or act as a private attorney general. We also both agree that You or We may bring suit in court to enjoin infringement or other misuse of intellectual property rights.

The parties agree to submit the dispute to binding arbitration in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) then in effect. Within thirty (30) calendar days after the arbitration demand is served up on a party, the parties must jointly select an arbitrator who has knowledge of and experience with the subject matter of the dispute. The decision of the arbitrator shall be final and binding, and no party shall have rights of appeal except for those provided in section 10 of the FAA. Each party shall bear its share of the fees paid for the arbitrator and the administration of the arbitration.

 The arbitrator shall have no authority to award punitive damages and each party hereby waives any right to seek or recover punitive damages on an individual basis, and this agreement does not permit class arbitration or any claims brought as a plaintiff or class member in any class or representative arbitration disclose the existence, content, or results of any arbitration without the prior written consent of both parties, unless to protect or pursue a legal right. If any term or provision consent of both parties, unless to protect or pursue a legal right. If any term or provision of this Section is invalid, illegal, or unenforceable to any jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality, or unenforceability shall not affect any other term or provision of this Section or invalidate or render unenforceable such term of provision in any other jurisdiction. The parties hereby waive any right to a jury trial. This arbitration provision shall survive any cancellation or termination of Your agreement to participate in any of our Programs.

Patient Disclaimer

Hans Biomed USA, INC.’s provision of Products, training, or other Services to a medical provider, or the listing of a medical provider using Our Products or Services, including trainings, does not constitute Hans Biomed USA INC.’s endorsement, representation of assurance regarding the medical provider’s qualifications, skills or experience, or affiliation. Medical providers are independent from Hans Biomed USA INC. and subject to their jurisdiction’s licensing requirements. Hans Biomed USA INC. assume no liability for Services provided by any medical provider. Patients are advised to independently investigate the qualifications of any medical provider. The medical provider in Our case is the main Account holder within our Site.

Our provision of Products, training or other Services to medical providers is not intended, in any way, as the practice of medicine. Our Product Information in any website, Product brochure, or in responses to any patient inquiry is intended for informational purposes only and makes no guarantee regarding any medical procedure. Decisions whether to use Hans Biomed USA, INC. Products of their appropriateness for use should be done in consultation with One’s medical provider.

Contact

For more information about Our privacy practices, if You have questions, or if You would like to make a complaint, please contact Us by e-mail at hansgbr@hansbiomed.us or by mail using the details provided below:

CA Office: 10350 Heritage Park Drive, Suite 201, Santa Fe Springs CA 90670, United States

NJ Office: 140 Sylvan Ave, Suite 301, Englewood Cliffs NJ 07632, United States