Privacy Policy

This is the Privacy Policy ("Policy") of Breast Surgery Philippines ("Breast Surgery PH").

You have been directed to this Policy because a company within the Breast Surgery PH is collecting, using or disclosing your personal data.

In this Policy, when we use"we", "us" or "our", we refer to the company (Breast Surgery PH) which is collecting your personal data, or which is operating the website which you are accessing or using.

This Policy applies to all personal data that you may provide to us and the personal data we hold about you. By providing us with your personal data or by accessing, using or viewing the applicable website or any of its services, functions or contents (including transmitting, caching or storing of any such personal data), you shall be deemed to have agreed to each and all the terms, conditions, and notices in this Policy. If you do not agree, please cease use of the relevant website(s) and/or service(s) and DO NOT provide any personal data to us.

1. What personal data is collected

1.1 When you use our website, any service we provide or in your interaction with us, the personal data we may collect includes:-

a) Data collected directly from you. This may be done through this website, over the phone, by email, or in-person when you meet our staff or representatives. The data collected may include, but is not limited to:

  • your contact information, including your (first and last) name, (billing and/or delivery) address, email address and your telephone number. We need your e-mail address and telephone number so that we may contact you if we have questions or information for you regarding your medical tourism appointment or the service that we are providing or will provide to you;
  • other information required to be able to process your order or to provide you with the service, such as information concerning the medical tourism you have booked or the service we are providing to you, the billing and/or delivery address, banking and/or credit card details; and
  • if you have contacted customer service, the details of this contact and the contact history.

(b) Data collected by automated means. Various technologies may be used on our website and our mobile and web-based applications in order to make them more user-friendly, effective and secure. Such technologies may lead to data being collected automatically by us or by third parties on behalf of us. This data does not generally, but may, contain a user's personal data. Examples of such technologies include:

  • Click-stream data. A visit to one of our websites results in data that is transmitted from your browser to our server being automatically collected and stored by us or by third parties on behalf of us. This data can include, in particular, the following:
    • the visitor's IP address
    • the date and time of the visit
    • the referral URL (the site from which the visitor has come)
    • the pages visited on our website
    • information about the browser used (browser type and version, operating system, etc).
  • Cookies. A number of places on our website and our mobile and web-based applications make use of cookies. These are essentially small text files that are stored on your computer's hard drive or your user device by your web browser. We can use cookies to identify the owner of a user account during the website visiting process. In other words, cookies help to make our website or our (mobile and web-based) applications more user-friendly, more effective and more secure. The cookies usually used by us are so-called "session cookies", which are automatically deleted at the end of the visit to the relevant website. By default, web browsers enable the use of cookies but this function can also be disabled. However, this will result in some services not being available. It is also possible to manually delete cookies after their use via the web browser. More information may be available from your web browser provider.
  • Flash cookies. A particular form of cookie is the flash cookie. In contrast to normal cookies, these cookies are not created and saved by the web browser but are governed by the Adobe Flash plug-in. These can contain more information than normal cookies and cannot be deleted or disabled via the browser; this is only possible if you follow instructions available from the Adobe Flash Player website. You can also obtain more information about these cookies on that website.
  • Web beacons and tracking links. Web beacons (also known as pixel tags and clear GIFs) involve graphics that are not apparent to the user. Tracking links and/or similar technologies consist of a few lines of programming code and can be embedded in our website or our (mobile) applications. In conjunction with cookies, these are primarily used for statistical analysis purposes. This technology can also be used for tracking traffic patterns on websites, as well as finding out if an e-mail has been received and opened and to see if there has been any response.
  • Web analytics. Web analytics is the term given to a method for collecting and assessing the behavior of visitors to websites and (mobile) applications. This includes the analysis of traffic patterns in order, for example, to determine the frequency of visits to certain parts of a website or (mobile) application, or to find out what information and services our visitors are most interested in. For these purposes, we primarily make use of click-stream data and the other techniques listed above. Web analytics are carried out by Google Analytics and/or other selected parties. You can find out more information about the processing of web analytics data by Google Analytics in paragraph 7 below.

2. How is the collected personal data used

2.1 We use your personal data for the purposes of serving you. This includes, where applicable:

  • providing you with the services that you have requested e.g. notifying you regarding the status of your medical tourism appointment;
  • ensuring that your transactions on our websites are safe and secure;
  • providing you with a convenient booking experience;
  • contacting you for feedback after a sale of a service; and
  • resolving any problems or disputes you may encounter in relation to our services.

2.2 We may also use your personal data for purposes connected or relevant to the business of the Breast Surgery PH, such as:

  • complying with legal and regulatory obligations and requirements;
  • researching and developing new services or improving existing services of the Breast Surgery PH;
  • accounting, risk management, compliance and record-keeping purposes;
  • carrying out research, planning and statistical analysis; and
  • staff training.

2.3 If you have consented, your personal data may be used by the Breast Surgery PH for the purposes of marketing products and services offered on the website or other products or services offered by the Breast Surgery PH e.g. informing you of latest activities, special offers, promotions or sending you newsletters.

2.4 In order for us to market services which are of special interest and relevance to you, we may analyse and rely on your overall interaction with us (such as but not limited to your use of loyalty programmes, your ratings and reviews of services, your contact history with our customer service, your newsletter clicks/ opening results, your surfing behaviour (web tracking), the newsletter types you are subscribed to, your participation in promotions or events, your interactions with us and your use of (mobile) applications).

2.5 If you have contacted us with any complaints, feedback, comments, suggestions, we will use and disclose your personal data (including your contact history) to respond to you and provide you with the best service possible.

2.6 When using your personal data to contact you for the above purposes, we may contact you via regular mail, fax, e-mail, SMS, telephone or any other electronic means.

2.7 If we need to use your personal data for any other purposes, we will notify you and obtain your consent beforehand. You will be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for the use of your personal data for these other purposes.

3. Disclosure of information

3.1 We will not sell your personal data to third parties.

3.2 We may disclose or share your personal data with third parties who provide necessary services to us, such as:-

  • service providers and data processors working on our behalf and providing services such as hosting and maintenance services, analysis services, e-mail messaging services, handling of payment transactions, solvency check and address check, etc; and
  • our consultants and professional advisers (such as accountants, lawyers, auditors).
  • the plastic surgery clinic that we collaborate with.

3.3 We will also disclose your personal data to third parties in order to comply with legal obligations or industry requirements. This includes disclosures to legal, regulatory, governmental, tax and law enforcement authorities.

4. Third Parties

4.1 This Policy only applies to our website and information that we collect from you. Our websites may contain links to other websites which are not owned or maintained by us. When visiting these third- party websites or disclosing your personal data to third parties, you should read their privacy policies, or ask relevant questions before you disclose your personal data, We are not responsible for the collection, use or disclosure of your personal data by such third parties.

5. Social Networks

5.1 Our website and mobile or web-based applications may provide you with social plug-ins from various social networks (such as Facebook and Instagram). If you choose to interact with a social network, your activity on our website or via our mobile or web-based applications will also be made available to social networks such as Facebook and Instagram.

5.2 If you are logged in on one of the social networks during the visit of one of our websites or mobile or web-based applications, the social network might add this information to your profile. If you are interacting with one of the social plug-ins, this information will be transferred to the social network. In case you do not wish such a data transfer, please log off on your social network before you enter one of our websites or mobile or web-based applications.

5.3 We cannot influence this data collection and data transfer via the social plug-ins. Please read the privacy policies of those social networks for detailed information about the collection and transfer of personal data, what rights you have and how you can achieve satisfactory privacy settings.

6. Geo-location Services

6.1 Our website and mobile or web-based applications may offer location-enabled services, such as Google Maps and Bing Maps. If you use those mobile or web-based applications, they may receive information about your actual location (such as GPS signals sent by a mobile device) or information that can be used to approximate a location. You are always asked if the geo-location service can be activated and you can also object to this geo-location service within the respective mobile or web-based application.

7. Web analytics by Google Analytics

7.1 Our website and mobile or web-based applications may contain web analytic services provided by Google Analytics. This means that when you visit our website or use any mobile or web-based applications, a cookie will be stored on your computer or mobile device, except when your browser settings do not allow for such cookies.

7.2 This further means that when you visit our website or use any mobile or web-based applications, the personal data described above in paragraph 1.1 - including the "click-stream data", the data from "web beacons and tracking links" and information stored in Google Analytics' cookies - will be sent to Google Analytics for analysis for and on behalf of us. Please note that if you have created an online profile at our website or mobile or web-based application and if you are logged on in this profile, a unique number identifying this profile will also be sent to Google Analytics in order to be able to match the web analytics data to this profile.

7.3 Google Analytics acts as our agent, which means that we solely determine the purposes for which the data is being used. You can find out more about the relationships between Google Analytics and us in the Google Analytics'privacy policy.

7.4 If you do not wish information about your behavior at our website or any mobile or web-based applications being collected and assessed by Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics opt- out browser add-on. This add-on instructs the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) to not send your site visit information to Google Analytics. The browser add-on is available for most modern browsers. The Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on does not prevent information from being sent to the website itself or in other ways to web analytics services.

8. Retargeting Technologies

8.1 Our website and mobile or web-based applications may use retargeting technologies within the internet. This enables us to show our visitors, who were already interested in our services, advertisement from us on partner websites.

8.2 We also work with other companies who use tracking technologies to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet. These companies may collect non-personally identifiable information about your visits to our websites or mobile or web-based applications and your interaction with our communications, including advertising.

8.3 Retargeting technologies analyze your cookies and display advertisements based on your past surfing behavior. For further information on cookies, please refer to paragraph 1 of this Policy.

8.4 We do not store any personal data about you with this technology.

9. Security

9.1 We endeavor to take precautions to ensure that the information you have provided is protected against unauthorized or unintended use, access or disclosure. However, we cannot be held responsible for unauthorized or unintended use, access or disclosure that is beyond our control.

10. Disclaimer

10.1 TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE IN ANY EVENT FOR ANY SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND OR FOR ANY LOSS OF REPUTATION OR GOODWILL, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), EQUITY, STRICT LIABILITY, STATUTE OR OTHERWISE, SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF UNAUTHORISED OR UNINTENDED USE, ACCESS OR DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA.

11. Changes to this Policy

11.1 We may amend this Policy from time to time. The amended Policy will be publicized on our website.

12. Your Rights

12.1 If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data or about our Policy, you are welcome to contact us. The contact details are:

Email: [email protected]

12.2 In many circumstances, we need to use your personal data in order for us to provide you with services that you require or have requested. If you do not provide us with the required personal data, or if you do not accept the amended Policy or withdraw your consent to our use and/or disclosure of your personal data for these purposes, it may not be possible for us to continue to serve you or provide you with the services that you require or have requested.