WHO WE ARE
Thank you for visiting this online portal, website or mobile application (hereinafter the “Platform”), which is owned and operated by a subsidiary or affiliate of Integra LifeSciences Corporation (collectively “we,” “our,” or “us” refers to Integra LifeSciences).
We are committed to complying with applicable laws and being transparent about how we collect and use personal data.
This Privacy Policy describes the type of information that we collect from you and other users of this Platform, what we do with the information collected from or provided by you, and how you can update and control the use of information you provide. This Privacy Policy applies regardless of whether you access or use this site via a computer, mobile device, or other platform. This Privacy Policy also applies to personal information we obtain through email communications, our online channels (including other websites, online product catalogs, mobile applications and social media websites that reference this Privacy Policy) and to personal information you provide us offline, e.g. at educational events, trade shows, or sales exhibitions, or when you place an order over the phone or when you contact our customer service.
Please be sure to read this entire Privacy Policy before using or submitting information to this Platform.
WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT?
Integra LifeSciences is the controller (“data controller”) of:
- Data you provide us (for example, your name, address, phone number, emergency contact information, etc.)
- Data obtained from our partners (partners may include but are not limited to market research firms and logistics information providers)
- Data obtained from Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources (see details below)
- Data obtained through cookies and other means
DATA YOU PROVIDE US
This site actively collects information from its visitors both by asking you specific questions and by permitting you to communicate directly with us via e-mail and/or Contact forms. Some of the information that you submit may be personally identifiable information (i.e. information that can be uniquely identified with you, such as your full name, address, e-mail address, phone number, etc.). Some areas of this Platform may require you to submit information in order for you to benefit from the specified features (such as newsletter subscriptions, tips/pointers, professional education programs) or to participate in a particular activity (such as educational events). You will be informed at each information collection point what information is required and what information is optional.
Integra LifeSciences may collect personal information in a variety of ways. For example:
- In various places on our websites or mobile applications, you have the possibility to send us personal information about you. For example, you can fill out a registration or email form or answer a questionnaire. You may also allow us to customize your visits, in which case we will ask for certain personal information to make your visits to our sites more successful. By combining this information with non-personal information that we collect through cookies, we will be able to tell you that you have already visited our sites.
- We may collect personal information when you contact us to request information about our products or services.
- We may collect personal information about you in connection with commercial transactions with our customers, suppliers and other business contacts.
DATA OBTAINED FROM THIRD PARTIES OR PUBLICLY AVAILABLE SOURCES
We may receive information about you from other sources, including publicly available databases, third parties from whom we have purchased data or education providers, organizers, hosts, vendors, that collect info for program registration, and combine this data with information we already have about you. This helps us to update, expand and analyze our records, identify new customers, and provide products and services that may be of interest to you. If you provide us personal information about others, or if others give us your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us.
DATA OBTAINED THROUGH COOKIES AND OTHER MEANS
PASSIVE INFORMATION COLLECTION
As is true of most websites or mobile applications, we gather certain information automatically. This information may include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, the files viewed on our site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data to analyze trends in the aggregate. We use your IP address to diagnose problems with our server, report aggregate information, determine the fastest route for your computer to use in connecting to our site, and administer and improve the site.
Integra LifeSciences and its partners use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, improve navigation on our Platform and to collect aggregate statistical information, administer the website, track users’ movements around the Platform, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our Platform.
Under certain circumstances (e.g. if provided by mandatory law), you may be requested to consent to the use of cookies for information collection purposes and/or offered the possibility to oppose to the future use of these. Further information is provided here to acknowledge you are aware that when opposing to the use of cookies or similar technologies we may not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at the site if we cannot identify you, and/or you may not be able to take advantage of some of the site’s features or contents. Information we may receive includes:
- nternet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the Internet, Login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, geo-location, browser plug-in types and versions, or operating system and platform.
- Non-personal details about your interactions with our Platform, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), clickstream to, though, and from the Platform (including date and time), products viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.
- This Platform may contain web beacons (small transparent embedded images or objects, also known as cleargifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs), that send back information from the email recipient like an “Open” or “Click”, that permit us, for example, to count website page traffic or how many users open our email, to identify possible user interests, or to compile other similar statistics such as recording Site content popularity, or verifying system and server integrity.
WHY WE NEED YOUR INFORMATION
Unless otherwise stated, we need your personal data in order to give you access to certain features of this Platform, to customize the site to your preferences, to communicate information to you (if you have requested it), for our marketing purposes, and for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy. If you provide personally identifiable information to this Platform, we may combine such information with other actively collected information unless we specify otherwise at the point of collection. We will take reasonable measures to prevent personally identifiable information from being combined with passively collected information unless you consent otherwise.
FOR WHAT PURPOSES DO WE USE YOUR DATA?
1. Integra LifeSciences may use the information collected about you for the following purposes:
- To answer your requests.
- To contact you by mail (or other means with your permission) to provide you with information of interest to you, including information about our products and services.
- To personalize your access to our sites, for example, by informing you of any news relevant to your medical specialty.
- To enforce these privacy principles and to protect our rights or property.
- To protect your vital interests or the health, safety or well-being of someone else.
- To comply with any law or regulation, court order or other legal obligation.
- For our other legitimate interests.
- In any other way with your consent.
2. We may combine data:
- If we obtain data about you from other sources and add this information to your account information.
- If we combine or connect non-personal or technical data with personal data so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as personal data.
3. Automated Profiling:
We do not use any data for automated profiling.
4. Automated Decision Making
We do not use any data for automated decision making.
SHARING YOUR DATA
We may disclose your personal data to the following:
- Within Integra LifeSciences
- To Business Partners (subject to the conditions below)
- To Third Party Service Providers (subject to the conditions below)
- In the Course of Business Transfers (subject to the conditions below).
We may disclose your personally identifiable information to other Integra affiliates worldwide that agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. In addition, we may disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties, located in the United States and/or any other country, but only:
- Third parties retained to support our business (i.e. technical support), in which case we will require such third parties to agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy
- In connection with the sale, assignment, or other transfer of the business of this Platform to which the information relates, in which case we will require any such buyer to agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy, or
- Where required by applicable laws, court orders, or government regulations. In addition, we will make full use of all information acquired through this Platform that is not in personally identifiable form.
Integra LifeSciences may not share your personal information with any third party without your permission, except as otherwise provided in this privacy policy.
In the normal course of our business, we share certain personal information with companies that we provide to perform services or perform tasks on our behalf. In all cases where we share your personal information with a third party, we prohibit that third party from keeping, disclosing or using your information with others, except as necessary to provide the services we have asked it to provide.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise publish your personal information except as part of a sale, merger, dissolution, or acquisition of the business.
The law may require us to disclose your personal information as a result of a court order, subpoena, search warrant, statute or regulation. We may be required to cooperate with police services in the investigation and prosecution of visitors who break our rules or conduct harmful to other visitors (or illegal).
We may further disclose your personal information to third parties if we deem it necessary to:
- enforce the present principles of confidentiality;
- protect our rights or our property;
- to protect the health, safety or well-being of someone; and/or
- comply with any law, regulation, court order or other procedural act.
HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR DATA FOR (DATA RETENTION)
We only keep the information for the time needed to complete the processing and to give you access to the Platform. Retention periods are determined for each personal information collected taking into account the requirements applicable to the situation and the need to destroy unused and out-of-date information at the first reasonable opportunity. As long as we keep them, we will continue to process your personal information in accordance with these privacy principles.
SECURITY
The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once it is received. If you have any questions about the security of your personal information, you can contact us at the email address provided below.
We use reasonably effective physical, administrative and technical mechanisms to prevent the loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of your personal information. We also restrict access to your personal information to employees and contractors who need to know them to do their job.
Remember that no transmission over the Internet is safe or free of 100% errors. In particular, emails from us or to us may not be secure; it is up to you to pay particular attention to the choice of information that you send us by e-mail.
CONSENT
We require your explicit consent to collect your personal information, and this consent may be altered or withdrawn by you at any time. Consenting to the collection of your personal data is not required in order to browse our Platform, but certain features of our Platform may not operate without access to your personal data.
WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING ACCESS, DELETION, AND CORRECTION
Upon request Integra LifeSciences will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information. You may access, correct, or request deletion of your personal information by contacting us at privacy@integralife.com. We will respond to your request within 30 days. In certain circumstances we may be required by law to retain your personally identifiable information or need to retain your personally identifiable information in order to continue providing a service.
To the extent provided by applicable data protection laws, you may have the right to:
- Request access to certain personal data we hold about you and correct or update it;
- Obtain a copy of the personal data you provided to us or request us to transmit such data to another recipient;
- Restrict or object to the automated processing of your personal data or of other processing of your personal data on legitimate grounds relating to your particular situation, or demand that your personal data be deleted, if it is no longer relevant or justifiable that we keep it; and/or;
- Withdraw your consent at any time if you have granted us explicit consent to process your personal data for a particular purpose.
If you have an account, you may access account information or change your preferences by emailing privacy@integralife.com. You may opt out from direct emailing by clicking the “unsubscribe” link included in all our emails. You may also opt-out from direct communications or exercise any other data subject right available to you under the applicable data protection laws, by contacting us at privacy@integralife.com. Depending on your location, you may have the right to file a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority if you are not satisfied with our response.
DATA RELATED TO CHILDREN
Our services are not intended for anyone under the age of 13. We will not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. In addition, we may limit how we collect, use, and store some of the information of EU users between 13 and 16. In some cases, this means we will be unable to provide certain functionality to these users. If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this Platform prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. This Privacy Policy was last updated on July 21, 2022.
We reserve the right to alter this privacy policy at any time in accordance with this provision. If we make changes to this policy, we will replace this document with the updated privacy policy and change the “Last Updated” field to reflect the new policy.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
This Platform may contain links or references to sites operated by others. We provide links for your convenience, but we do not have control over the privacy policies of sites operated by third-parties. Please be aware that we do not control other sites and that, in any case, this Privacy Policy does not apply to those sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of every Web site you visit.
OTHER TERMS
Your use of this Platform is subject to the Terms of Use
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the information practices of this Platform, please contact us as follows:
privacy@integralife.com
Integra LifeSciences Corporation c/o Data Protection Officer – Compliance Department
1100 Campus Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
1-609-216-5309
Our Data Protection Officer will look into your inquiry and work with to respond within 30 days.