PRIVACY POLICY

About Little Steps Pediatric Physical Therapy, P.C. and this Privacy Policy

Little Steps Pediatric Physical Therapy, P.C. is committed to protecting your privacy. We understand how important privacy is to you, and we are committed to providing a safe and secure online environment. This privacy policy discloses the privacy practices for Little Steps Pediatric Physical Therapy, P.C. (“Little Steps,” the “Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”). This Privacy Policy outlines how we may use your personal information and provides an overview of how we protect your privacy. Please read this policy carefully before sharing any of your personally identifiable information with us.

Little Steps reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice to users other than posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. After posting such amended Privacy Policy, all information provided to us will be subject to the terms of the amended Privacy Policy. Please visit this page periodically so that you will be apprised of any changes. Your use of Little Steps’ website indicates an acceptance of the terms of the Privacy Policy.

Collection of Personal Data

We collect information in two ways: (i) directly, as in when you provide the information on various forms or registration pages on this website; and (ii) indirectly, as in when this information is provided through your IP address. By providing Little Steps with your personal information, you are expressly accepting the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

Cookies and Web Site Information. Little Steps may use “cookie” technology and web server logs to collect information about how the Company’s website is used by you and to customize advertising that you may see on our website and other sites with which we have a business relationship. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by your web browser on your hard drive. The cookies allow our web servers to recognize the computer used by you to access our websites. Cookies allow you to move from page to page on our website, remembering the information about the entire session at Little Steps’ website. Information gathered through cookies and by our web server logs may include the date and time of visits, your IP address, the pages viewed, time spent at our website, and the websites visited just before and just after our website. This information may be collected on an aggregate basis and shared with or collected by third-party web analytics services to help Little Steps understand our users’ aggregated website usage patterns and related trends; however, such information cannot reasonably be used to identify you. You can instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cook from the websites you visit. If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use all portions of the website.

User Communications. When you send e-mail or other communications to Little Steps, we may retain those communications to process, respond or improve our services.

Use of Personal Data

Except as provided in this Privacy Policy, we will not share any of your personally identifiable information with any third parties. Notwithstanding the foregoing, by providing your personal information on the Little Steps website, you authorize Little Steps to disclose personal information, including contact information and credit card information, when such disclosure is made in connection with making a payment through Little Steps’ website. However, be advised that Little Steps does not store your credit card information, so you will be required to re-enter such information any time that you make a payment through our website.

In addition, Little Steps may use your information to customize our website to your interests and/or needs, enhance your overall experience and customize advertising that you may see on our website. Little Steps uses various methods to recognize you, including, without limitation, the use of cookies. As described above, we utilize passive information to learn more about how you interact with our website. This passive information may be combined with your other information for purposes such as testing and improving your experience at our website and the compilation of broad aggregate, demographic data and related usage information for internal purposes and for disclosure to third parties, including advertisers and content and web analytics partners. This aggregate passive information does not contain any personal information which can identify any individual user.

Contacting You by E-Mail. If you provide us with your e-mail address, Little Steps may use your contact information periodically in order to send you e-mail regarding updates. Note that e-mail messages from third parties are not governed by the opt-out provisions of this Privacy Policy.

Sharing of Information

Little Steps will not knowingly sell, share, rent or otherwise transfer your information other than in accordance with the terms set forth in this Privacy Policy.

We maintain appropriate technical and organizational measures and safeguards to keep your personal information and browsing information that is disclosed to us secure. We may provide personal information and/or browsing information to our affiliates and other businesses or persons for the purposes of (1) processing such information on our behalf and (2) promoting our services and the services of our affiliates and trusted business partners as permitted by applicable privacy law. We require that these parties agree to process such information in compliance with our Privacy Policy or in a similar, industry-standard manner that complies with applicable privacy laws, and we use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information and to use other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. The use of your information by a trusted business partner may be subject to that party’s own privacy policy.

We may share browsing information with third parties to demonstrate the usage patterns for Little Steps’ advertisements, content, functionality, promotions and/or services to provide us with analytics services in connection with our website.

We also reserve the right to disclose personal information and/or browsing information to take precautions against liability, to comply with any legal process, to investigate and defend against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our website, and to protect the rights, property or personal safety of Little Steps, our users or others. We reserve the right to transfer your personal information, browsing information, and any information about or from you, in connection with the merger, sale or other disposition of all or part of our business and/or assets. We cannot make any representations regarding the use or transfer of your personal information, browsing information or other information that we may have in the event of our bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, receivership or an assignment for the benefit of creditors. You expressly agree and consent to the use and/or transfer of the foregoing information in connection with any of the above-described proceedings. We cannot and will not be responsible for any breach of security by any third party or for any actions of any third party that receives any of the information that is disclosed to us.

You may find on our website links to third party websites in a format that enables us to keep track of where those links have been followed. This Privacy Policy applies only to the Little Steps website. As we do not control other sites to which we may link, such other websites are not subject to our Privacy Policy. Please realize that we do not control the information provided by you to any other third-party site to which you may link from our site.

Phishing

We do not and will not, at any time, request your credit card information in any non-secure or unsolicited e-mail or telephone communication. We advise you not to respond to any such inquiry and promptly report any such correspondence. If you ever have any questions as to whether an e-mail or telephone call originated from Little Steps, please contact us.

Do Not Track Signals

Note that your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to websites and online services you visit. Like many websites and online services, Little Steps currently does not alter its practices when it receives a “Do Not Track” signal from a visitor’s browser. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” you may wish to visit www.allaboutdnt.com.

Data Retention

As provided above, Little Steps does not retain your credit card information after a payment is made. However, Little Steps may retain your other personal information and/or browsing information in accordance with its ordinary business practices.

Choices With Your Information

Whether you submit personal information or browsing information to Little Steps is entirely up to you. If you decide not to submit any such information, we may not be able to provide certain services to you.

You may opt out of any disclosure or use of your personal information for purposes that are incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected or for which you subsequently gave authorization by following the instructions at the end of this Privacy Policy, or by following the procedures set forth in an electronic communication from us, if applicable. There are some uses from which you cannot opt out, such as our use of information about you in connection with providing support that you request, Little Steps retaining your files or a copy of your files related to rendering services to you, or Little Steps enforcing its rights with respect to you or others, or defending itself against a claim brought by you or others.

Information From Children

Little Steps website and data collection practices are not intended or designed to attract children under the age of thirteen (13). We do not collect personal information from any person that we know to be under the age of thirteen (13) unless in connection with rendering therapy services and always with the requisite permission of that individual’s parent or guardian. THE WEBSITE IS NOT INTENDED FOR CHILDREN UNDER 13 WHO ARE UNACCOMPANIED BY SUCH CHILD’S PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN.

European Union Users

Little Steps’ website is hosted in the United States and is governed by United States law. If you are using the website from outside the United States, please be aware that your personal information and/or browsing information may be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. By using the website, you consent to your personal information and browsing information being transferred to our facilities and to the facilities of those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Privacy Policy. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) gives certain rights to European data subjects in relation to their personal data.

If you are a data subject in the European Union and you believe that our processing of your personal data infringes applicable law, you may submit a complaint with a supervisory authority. The name and contact details of the Data Protection Authorities in the European Union can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/structure/data-protection-authorities/index_en.htm.

Your Rights

If applicable, you may have the following rights under some circumstances:

  1. You may request information about what personal information we have about you.

  1. You may request rectification, deletion and limitation of the processing (blocking) of your personal information as long as this is legally permissible and possible within the framework of an existing contractual relationship.

 

  1. You have the right to transfer the personal information that you have provided us on the basis of a consent or a contract (data portability).

 

  1. If you have given us consent for personal information processing, you can revoke it at any time in the same way that you have granted it. The revocation of the consent does not affect the legality of the processing done before you revoked your consent.

To exercise your rights, contact us by one of the methods set forth at the end of this Privacy Policy. We will endeavor to respond to your request within thirty (30) days. We may not be able to accommodate your request in every situation, but if that is the case, we will let you know. We may charge you an administrative fee for subsequent requests.

Application of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected by or submitted to Little Steps. There is no such thing as complete security on the Internet or otherwise. Little Steps uses various security techniques on its website to help protect against the loss, misuse or modification of information that we have collected from you. When you access your personal information or transmit information to us, that information is stored on servers that we have taken steps to protect from unauthorized access or intrusion. While we strive to protect your information, Little Steps cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. You acknowledge and assume this risk when communicating with Little Steps, its partners and affiliates.

California Privacy Rights

Under California’s “Shine the Light” law, California residents who provide certain personal information in connection with obtaining products or services for personal, family or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us once a calendar year information about the customer information we shared, if any, with other businesses for their own direct marketing uses. If applicable, this information would include the categories of customer information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared customer information for the immediately prior calendar year (e.g., requests made in 2019 will receive information regarding 2018 calendar year sharing activities).

To obtain this information, please contact us at the e-mail address provided below with “Request for California Privacy Information” in the subject line and in the body of your message. We will provide the requested information to you at your e-mail address in response. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the “Shine the Light” requirements, and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response.

Limitation of Liability

YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ANY DISPUTE OVER PRIVACY IS SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, AS WELL AS THE TERMS OF SERVICE OF THIS WEBSITE (INCLUDING LIMITATIONS ON DAMAGES). YOU AGREE THAT THE COMPANY’S LIABILITY FOR ANY BREACH OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE VALUE OF THE TRANSACTIONS OR SERVICES PROVIDED TO YOU BY LITTLE STEPS TO THE EXTENT SUCH CLAIM IS NOT OTHERWISE BARRED BY OUR TERMS OF SERVICE.

Access and Correction

Please contact us in the manner specified at the end of this Privacy Policy to access your personal information in our possession and correct inaccuracies of that information in our records. We ask individuals to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed and amended before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests in limited circumstances as permitted by applicable privacy legislation.

Company Contact Information

Your privacy is important to Little Steps. If you have additional questions or comments or would like to access your recorded personal information or opt-out of certain sharing, please let us know by e-mail or by sending your comments or requests to:

Little Steps Pediatric Physical Therapy, P.C.
41 Waukegan Road
Glenview, Illinois 60025
Attn: President
T: (847) 707-6744
F: (949) 862-8247
info@littlestepspt.com

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