March 27, 2016

Privacy policy

November 11, 2020

This Privacy Policy discloses our privacy practices and the possible uses of the information that we gather through www.CDSBureau.com, and via other submissions by you to CDS Bureau (together, the “Site and Services”). By using the Site and Services you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, including having your personally identifiable information (“Personal Information” and “Business Information” as defined below) used in any of the ways described in this Privacy Policy, you may not be able to use certain parts or features of our Site and Services, and in some instances, this may necessitate the revocation of your membership. CDS Bureau may update this Privacy Policy from time-to-time in our sole discretion. It is your responsibility to review the Privacy Policy for any changes each time that you use the Site and Services and you are bound by such changes. Your use of the Site and Services following us posting a new privacy policy on our Site signifies that you agree to and accept the Privacy Policy as modified.

Personal Information

“Personal Information” refers to information that tells us specifically who you are, such as your name, phone number, email, postal address, and possibly information relating to certain support or customer service issues. In many cases, we need this information to provide to you many of the services that you may have requested.

Business Information

“Business Information” refers to information that tells us specifically your business name, business phone number, business email, business address, business facility information and possibly information relating to certain support or customer service issues. In many cases, we need this information to provide to you many of the services that you may have requested.

Submission of Reviews, Ratings, and Comments

We collect information that you voluntarily provide as part of our Site and Services, including messages, posts, comments, responses, reviews, and ratings you submit through the Site and Services, (“User Generated Content”). CDS Bureau may in our sole discretion share your User Generated Content with others such as your business reviews. If you do not want certain information shared with others, you should not submit User Generated Content, or should not submit User Generated Content that contains information or Personal Information you do not want shared in this manner. Once You have submitted User Generated Content, we reserve the right to publish it in any medium to others.

Other Tracking Technologies

Tracking technologies may record information such as Internet domain and host names; protocol (IP) addresses; browser software and operating system types; clickstream patterns; the MAC address or other technical information from your mobile device; location information through GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, or similar technologies; and dates and times that our Site and Services are accessed. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the web. Web servers, the computers that ‘serve up’ webpages, automatically identify your computer by its IP address. The Site and Services may also use technology called “tracer tags”. These may also be referred to as “Pixels”, “Clear GIFs” or “Web Beacons”. This technology allows us to understand which pages you visit on our Site and other ways you interact with our Site and Services, such as purchases made through the Site and Services. These tracer tags are used to help us to optimize and tailor our Site and Services for you and other users of our Site and Services. We may link the information we record using tracking technologies to Personal Information we collect.

Do Not Track

Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set in some web browsers, allowing users to opt out of tracking by websites and online services. At the present time, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has not yet established universal standards for recognizable DNT signals and therefore, CDS Bureau and the Site do not recognize DNT.

Use of Information

The information CDS Bureau collects is used in a variety of ways, including

  • for internal review;
  • to improve the Site and Services;
  • to optimize third-party offers of products and/or services;
  • to verify the legitimacy of reviews and ratings;
  • to notify you about updates to the Site and Services;
  • to let you know about products, services, and promotions that you may be interested in;
  • to get reviews and ratings;
  • for our marketing purposes and the marketing of discounts offered through our Site and Services by service contractors or health care related providers (collectively “Service Providers”);
  • to fulfill and provide products and services, including personalized or enhanced services, requested by you;
  • andinternal business analysis or other business purposes consistent with our mission;
  • and to carry out other purposes that are disclosed to you and to which you consent.

Disclosures and Transfers of Information

We do not disclose Personal Information to third parties, except when one or more of the following conditions are true:

  • We have your permission to make the disclosure;
  • The disclosure is necessary for the purpose for which the personal information was obtained;
  • The disclosure is to financial service providers in order to fulfill and carry out the purchase and provision of goods and services requested by you;
  • The disclosure is permitted by relevant law;
  • The Personal Information to be disclosed is otherwise publicly available in accordance with the applicable law;
  • The disclosure is reasonably related to the sale or other disposition of all or part of our business or assets;
  • The disclosure is for our own marketing purposes, or, with your authorization, for the marketing purposes of third parties;
  • The disclosure is combined with information collected from other companies and used to improve and personalize services, content, and advertising from us or third parties;
  • The party to whom the disclosure is made controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with CDS Bureau;
  • The disclosure is in our sole discretion necessary for the establishment or maintenance of legal claims or legal compliance, to satisfy any law, regulation, subpoena or government request, or in connection with litigation;
  • The disclosure is in our sole discretion about users who we believe are engaged in illegal activities or are otherwise in violation of our CDS Bureau Membership Agreement, even without a subpoena, warrant or court order;
  • or The disclosure is to outside businesses to perform certain services for us, such as maintaining our Site and Services, mailing lists, processing orders and delivering products and services, sending postal mail, processing claims for lost or stolen certificates, providing marketing assistance, and data analysis (“Administrative Service Providers”), including Administrative Service Providers outside the country or jurisdiction in which you reside.

Prior to sharing of your Personal Information with others, agreements are made between CDS Bureau and such outside parties to whom we are transferring data to provide for the allowable use and security of the transferred information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law. If CD SBureau becomes aware that any such outside party is improperly using or disclosing Personal Information, it will notify that outside party and request that it takes reasonable steps to cease such use or disclosure.

We may provide certain Personal Information as a service to others for their marketing purposes. We may also disclose your name and address to Service Providers when you submit User Generated Content relating to those Service Providers. If you properly notify us that you no longer want us to share your Personal Information, we will cease sharing your Personal Information. However, except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not directly control the third parties to which we share such Personal Information and you will need to further notify such third parties directly if you would like them to cease use of your Personal Information.

We may also disclose aggregate visitor data in order to describe the use of the Site and Services to our existing or potential business partners or other third parties, or in response to a government request. We may also share aggregated demographic and preference data with third parties to enable the provision of targeted information, promotions, offers and/or discounts on products and services.

Choice: Accessing Your Information and Opt-in/Opt-out Requests

To help you review, edit, and control how we use much of the information we collect about you, you can visit your “Update profile” webpage. On the “Update profile” webpage, you can update certain information and unsubscribe from receiving of email messages and telephone calls,

Data Security, Integrity, and Access

The Personal Information you provide and we collect is stored within databases that we control directly or through our Administrative Service Providers. As we deem appropriate and as required by the applicable law, we use security measures appropriate for the sensitivity of the Personal Information and consistent with industry standards, including physical, organizational and technological protections, such as firewalls, to protect your Personal Information. We also use industry standard encryption technology to protect credit card and password information. However, since no security system is impenetrable, we cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.

Personal Information may only be accessed by persons within our organization, our third party service providers who require such access to provide you with the services indicated above, or any other party that you have provided us with authorization to share such information with.

We retain Personal Information that we collect only as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or to otherwise meet any legal requirements.

Your information may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state, province/territory, or country where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those where you live. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please be aware that we transfer Personal Information to the United States and process and store it there. As a result, this information may be subject to access requests from governments, courts, law enforcement officials and national security authorities in the United States according to its laws. Subject to the applicable laws, we will use reasonable efforts to ensure that appropriate protections are in place to maintain protections on the Personal Information. By submitting your Personal Information, you consent to having your personal data transferred to, processed, and stored in the United States.

Third Party Websites and Links

Please note that you may have cookies placed on your computer by third party websites that refer you to the Site. Although we do not share your Personal Information with these third party websites unless you have authorized us to do so, they may be able to link certain non-personally identifiable information we transfer to them with Personal Information they previously collected from you. Please review the privacy policies of each website you visit to better understand their privacy practices. In addition, CDS Bureau would like to inform you that anytime you click on links (including advertising banners), which take you to third party websites, you will be subject to the third parties’ privacy policies. While we support the protection of our customer’s privacy on the Internet, CDS Bureau expressly disclaims any and all liability for the actions of third parties, including but without limitation to actions relating to the use and/or disclosure of Personal Information by third parties.

Our Site and Services may contain links to other sites operated by third parties. CDS Bureau does not control such other sites and is not responsible for their content, their privacy policies, or their use of Personal Information. CDS Bureau’s inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such sites or of their owners or operators except as disclosed on the Site and Services. Any information submitted by you directly to these third parties is subject to that third party’s privacy policy.

Children’s Privacy

CDS Bureau does not intend the Site and Services to be used by individuals under the age of majority within the jurisdiction within which they reside without the supervision of a parent or guardian of majority age. CDS Bureau relies upon such parents or guardians to determine if the Site and Services is appropriate for the viewing, access, or participation by such individuals under the age of majority. If an individual under the age of majority uses the Site and Services, such individual may only use the Site and Services under the supervision of a parent or guardian of majority age.

We do not seek or knowingly collect any Personal Information about children under 13 years of age. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 13, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database.

If you are the parent or guardian of a minor child who has provided us with Personal Information, you may contact us using the information below to request it be deleted.

Governing Law; Visitors Residing Outside the United States

This Privacy Policy and the privacy practices of CDS Bureau will be subject exclusively to the laws in which CDS Bureau provides its services.

You may contact us with any questions, or to request a list of third parties to whom we may disclose information for marketing purposes and the categories of information we may disclose. See below how to Contact us.

All requests, questions, concerns, or complaints about your Personal Information or this Privacy Policy, please contact us by mail or email at the following:

CDS Bureau Inc
2020 Sunrise Valley Dr #100
Reston, VA – 20191
Phone: (571)-969-3414
E-mail: contact@cdsbureau.com

We look forward to your questions and comments.