MERIDIAN MEDICAL PRIVACY POLICY

(Effective Date: January 28, 2021)

OVERVIEW

All personal data collected from this site complies with the principles of the EU GDPR data protection act, the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). By accessing this site you agree to the terms of this privacy policy and consent to the collection, processing, use or transfer of data as set out in this policy.

ACCEPTANCE AND USE

This privacy policy covers Meridian Medical Associates LLC and its subsidiaries including (collectively, “Meridian Medical,” “we” “us” or “our”). We provide primary care with weight management and pain treatment and related services through our website, our branded applications for mobile and connected devices.

By using our services, you accept this privacy policy, which is part of our Terms and Conditions. We may modify this privacy policy from time to time. We will post any modified version of our privacy policy at https://meridianhealthnews.com/privacy-policy. If we change the privacy policy in a way that materially lessens our commitments to you, we will provide notice to registered clients by email or other methods.

DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES

“Personal data” means any information that enables us to identify you or the beneficiary of your transaction with us, directly or indirectly, such as name, email, address, telephone number, any form of identification number or one or more factors specific to your identity.

We will collect personal identification information from you only if you voluntarily submit such information to us. We only collect personal data when you request us to provide you with our advisory services and or instruct us to tell you about our products and services.

We are committed to complying with applicable data protection laws and will ensure that personal data is:

Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way;
Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes;
Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes;
Accurate and kept up to date;
Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about;
Kept securely.

DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

Meridian Medical may collect two (2) types of information about you: personal and non-personal.

Privacy Policy for SMS Text Messaging

This Privacy Policy explains how the Meridain Medical collects, uses, discloses, and safeguards your personal information when you interact with our SMS Text Message service. By using our service, you consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect

1.1. Personal Information: When you subscribe to our SMS messaging service, we collect certain personal information, such as your mobile phone number, name and contact information to provide you with our services.
1.2. SMS Interactions: We collect information about your interactions with our SMS messages, such as the content of the messages you send or receive, and the date and time of such messages.
1.3. Device Information: We may automatically collect information about the mobile device used to receive SMS messages, including device type, operating system, and mobile network information. This information is collected solely for the purpose of improving our service delivery and user experience.

Use of Information

2.1. SMS Communication: We use the personal information provided by you to send SMS messages, updates, and relevant scheduling information related to your service / product requests.
2.2. Improvement of Services: The data collected helps us understand how you use our SMS messaging service and enables us to improve our services, content, and user experience.
2.3. Marketing and Advertising: We do not use your personal information for marketing or advertising purposes.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU (PIPEDA)

According to the federal personal information protection and electronic documents act, 2000 (PIPEDA), “personal information” means information about an identifiable individual. The information you provide to Meridian Medical is considered personal information it is possible to relate it back to you through your name, home address, e-mail address, telephone number and any other information that can identify you. If information cannot be related to an identifiable individual it is considered anonymous information (such as laboratory results identified by alpha-numeric identifier instead of individual’s name). Whenever possible, Meridian Medical works with anonymous information. This privacy statement does not apply to anonymous information.

TYPES OF DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU

Personally Identifiable Information (PII). We acquire PII that may include, in certain contexts, your name, home address, payment information, email address, and telephone number. We also acquire your IP address, User ID, and/or Device ID, which certain jurisdictions consider to be PII because it could be used to identify an individual or Device if it were combined with other identifying information.

Anonymous Data. Some of the Data that we acquire cannot identify, distinguish or trace you or your Device, even if combined with other identifying information, and some Data that could be considered PII when combined with other identifying information is not used in a way that identifies, distinguishes or traces you or your Device, but is instead used in an anonymous way, often aggregated with other anonymous Data about other users.

Cookies and other tracking technologies: Meridian Medical and our third-party partners, such as our advertising, data collection and analytics partners, use cookies and other tracking technologies (e.g., web beacons, device identifiers and pixels) to provide functionality and to recognize you across different services and devices. For more information, please see our cookies and tracking notice, which includes information on how to control or opt out of these cookies and tracking technologies.

NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION

Non-personal information refers to information that, by itself, does not identify you as a specific individual (e.g. demographic information or web site visitations). Meridian Medical may collect non-personal information through any of the methods discussed above as well as automatically through use of industry standard technologies described further below.

INFORMATION COLLECTED THROUGH TECHNOLOGY

While you are able to visit the Meridian Medical site and remain anonymous, Meridian Medical or its third party service providers may still collect non-personal information about your use of the Meridian Medical materials (e.g. your internet browser, operating system, IP address, connection speed, and the domain name of your internet service provider). Such information may be gathered by the following methods:

Cookies. Cookies, including local shared objects, are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive which work by assigning to your computer a unique number that has no meaning outside of the Meridian Medical site. Cookies do not generally contain any personal information. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually configure your browser to prevent this. Not accepting cookies may make certain features of the Meridian Medical materials unavailable to you.
IP address. You may visit many areas of the site anonymously without the need to become a registered user. Even in such cases, Meridian Medical may collect ip addresses automatically. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you begin services with an internet services provider. Each time you access Meridian Medical site and each time you request one of Meridian Medical’ pages, the server logs your IP address.
Beacons. Beacons are small pieces of data that are embedded in web pages and e-mails. Meridian Medical may use these technical methods in html e-mails that Meridian Medical sends to users to determine whether they have opened those e-mails and/or clicked on links in those e-mails. The information from use of these technical methods may be collected in a form that constitutes personal information.
Tracking content usage. If you use Meridian Medical services and you post audio visual materials including, without limitation, text, logos, artwork, graphics, pictures, advertisements, sound and other related intellectual property contained in such materials (collectively, “content”) to your app site or to a third party app site, Meridian Medical tracks and captures non-personal information associated with user accounts and the use of content.

OTHER INFORMATION YOU MAY SUBMIT

You may submit data to us for limited purposes such as requesting customer support; answering a questionnaire; participating in a study; entering contests or sweepstakes; or signing up to receive communications from us.

PAYMENT PROCESSING AND PAYMENT PROCESSOR

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Website. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

AUTOMATICALLY-COLLECTED INFORMATION

We automatically collect certain types of data when you use our services, regardless of whether you contracted us. This data includes your IP address, technical information about your device (e.g., browser type, operating system, and basic device information), the web page you visited or search query you entered before reaching us, and your activities. We may track your activities using cookies and similar technologies. By using our services, you agree to our use of these methods as set forth in this privacy policy.

HOW WE USE YOUR DATA

We may use your data for the following purposes:

Communicating with you: we use your data when we communicate with you (e.g., when we respond to a customer support or other inquiry).
Improving our services: we use your data to understand how our services are being used and how we can improve them. In general, we analyze aggregated data, rather than specific user data. We may, however, need to analyze a specific case to address a specific problem (e.g., a bug that affects only a few accounts).
Customizing your experience: we use your data to personalize the service to you. This may include remembering your preferences for language or volume or displaying app that you might enjoy, based upon your viewing choices.
Marketing and advertising: we use your data to display ads and send you offers. We may also use your data in delivering third-party advertisements to you. This may include “targeted ads” based upon your activities.
Exercising our rights: where reasonably necessary, we use your data to exercise our legal rights and prevent abuse of our service. For example, we may use your data to detect and prevent fraud, spam, or content that violates our terms of service.
Legal compliance: we use your data where we are legally required to do so. For example, we may need to gather your data to respond to a subpoena or court order.
Protecting your information: where appropriate, we may anonymize, backup, and delete certain data.

We may use algorithms and other automated means to implement any of the above.

WITH WHOM WE SHARE YOUR DATA

We share data with third parties as follows:

With your consent: we may share your data with third parties where we have obtained your express consent to do so. You may revoke these consents.
Authorized vendors: we may share your data with third-party vendors that help us operate our services, process payments, and comply with your instructions and our contractual obligations. This includes payment processors, content delivery networks (CDNS), cloud-based hosting services, monitoring services, email service providers, quality assurance and testing vendors, fraud and abuse prevention vendors, customer relations management (CRM) vendors.
Advertising: we may share your data with advertising companies to display relevant ads to you. Unless you expressly agree, we will not share or sell your name, email address, or physical address with such persons.
Analytics: we may share your data with persons who provide analytics showing how customers are using our services.
Affiliates and advisors: we may share your data with our affiliates company, and our auditors and advisors for planning, financial reporting, accounting, auditing, tax filings, and legal compliance. Unless you expressly agree, we will not share your data with our parent or any affiliate for other purposes, such as direct marketing.
Certain legal situations: we may share your data where we believe disclosure is necessary to comply with a legal obligation or in connection with a corporate transaction.
Aggregated or anonymized information: we may publicly disclose non-personal aggregated or anonymized information such as our number of visitors and registered users.

DATA RETENTION

We retain your data for as long as you have an account. When you close an account, we will delete your personal information. We may retain logs of automatically collected information (for internal analytics); your email address; your tax information; communications with you; and your transactional information (for auditing, tax, and financial purposes). When we no longer have a business reason for retaining data, we will delete or anonymize it.

If we receive legal process pertaining to your account, we will retain your data for as long as we in good faith believe is necessary to comply with the legal process. Similarly, if we believe that your account has been involved in wrongdoing, we may preserve your data to defend or assert our rights.

YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES

We enable you to make numerous choices about your data:

You may choose not to provide us with certain information.
You may opt out of receiving commercial emails or marketing communications from us.
You may limit the use of cookies. See our Cookie Policy for options.
Users from certain countries may have additional rights.

SECURITY MEASURES FOR SAFEGUARDING YOUR INFORMATION

Meridian Medical takes appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of personal information. These include, but are not limited to, internal reviews of: (a) Meridian Medical’s data collection; (b) storage and processing practices; (c) electronic security measures; and (d) physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where Meridian Medical stores personal information. All Meridian Medical employees, contractors and agents who access personal information are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution or unauthorized use or disclosure of personal information.

Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we cannot (and do not) guarantee the absolute security of personal data.

THIRD-PARTY APP SITE AND LINKS

Meridian Medical contents may contain links to third parties who may collect personal information and non-personal information directly from you. Additionally, Meridian Medical may use third parties to provide components of Meridian Medical contents. In either case, such third parties may have separate privacy policies and data collection practices, independent of Meridian Medical. Meridian Medical: (a) has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies or actions; (b) is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such website; and (c) does not make any warranties or representations about the contents, products or services offered on such website or the security of any information you provide to them.

HIPAA COMPLIANCE

The operation of Meridian Medical is in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). And in accordance with HIPAA security rule, it is our legal duty to safeguard your protected health information (PHI). The information shall only be accessible by an authorized personnel having unique access rights.

Protected health information (PHI) and electronic protected health information (ePHI) are backed up and are recoverable. The information can also be permanently deleted when no longer needed by Meridian Medical.

Use of PHI means when we share, apply, utilize, examine, or analyze information within this practice; PHI is disclosed when we release, transfer, give, or otherwise reveal it to a third party outside the practice. With some exceptions, we may not use or disclose more of your PHI than is necessary to accomplish the purpose for which the use or disclosure is made.

CALIFORNIA / DELAWARE DO NOT TRACK DISCLOSURES

Various third parties are developing or have developed signals or other mechanisms for the expression of consumer choice regarding the collection of information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across third-party web sites or online services (e.g., browser do not track signals). Currently, Meridian Medical do not monitor or take any action with respect to these signals or other mechanisms.

GDPR STATEMENT FOR (EEA USERS)

This applies only to natural persons residing in the European economic area (for the purpose of this section only, “you” or “your” shall be limited accordingly). It is Meridian Medical’s policy to comply with the EU’S general data protection regulation (GDPR). In accordance with the GDPR, we may transfer your personal information from your home country to the United States (or other countries) based upon the following legal frameworks:

Legitimate business interests: we could not provide our services or comply with our obligations to you without transferring your personal information to the United States
Consent: we may transfer your personal information when we receive your express, revocable consent.
You have the right to: opt out of non-essential cookies (see our Cookie Policy); access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to our use of your personal information; be forgotten; port your data; and withdraw consents.

We enable exercise of these rights primarily through our services (which we reserve the right to modify). We also fulfil our obligations in response to direct requests. We will endeavor to process requests within one month. Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to the extent that they would cause us to violate any law or infringe any other person’s rights. We reserve the right to request appropriate identification. We will process requests free of charge unless they would impose an unreasonable cost on us.

If you have a request, complaint or inquiry, please contact our data protection officer at the address listed below. We are committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution of any issue. You also have the right to file a complaint with the supervisory data protection authority of your jurisdiction.

PRIVACY COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE

Where you believe that we have not complied with our obligations under this Privacy Notice, or the applicable law, you may have the right to make a complaint to a relevant Data Protection Authority or through the courts. Although not required, we would encourage you to let us know about any complaint you might have and Meridian Medical will respond in line with our complaints procedure – our contact details are set out in the contact us section below.

We want to deal with your concerns fairly, effectively and promptly. However, some complaints are more complex than others and may take some time to investigate.

We will acknowledge your complaint promptly after receiving it
We will keep you informed throughout any investigation

In order to assist in the speedy resolution of any complaint you may have, it’s important that we understand your complaint fully. Sometimes this means we may ask you to address your concerns to us in writing. This can be either by email or post to the addresses. We have established internal procedures for investigating any complaint, which may also involve experienced members of staff from Meridian Medical considering or investigation the complaint. Where appropriate, the complaint will be dealt with by someone who was not directly involved in the matter which is the subject of your complaint. The member of staff will either have authority to settle your complaint or will have ready access to someone who has the authority. Our response will fully address the subject matter of your complaint and, if appropriate, will offer redress. If you phone us during our investigation and the member of staff handling your complaint is not available, then another member of our team will try to assist you.

Unless applicable data protection laws require responses within shorter timescales, we will try to resolve any privacy complaints you have within 15 business days of receiving your complaint and in exceptional circumstances, within 35 business days (and we will let you know if this is the case).

As noted above, if you are not satisfied with our reply/outcome, or otherwise with the handling of the complaint, you may have the right to lodge a claim before a relevant Data Protection Authority or the courts.

COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW

Our privacy policy has been compiled so as to comply with the United State of America laws and every country or legal jurisdiction in which we aim to do business including the European Union Regions under the GDPR Compliance Regulation. If you think it fails to satisfy the law of your jurisdiction, we should like to hear from you.

REVIEW/MODIFICATION OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This Policy is current as of the Effective Date set forth above. However, Meridian Medical may update this privacy notice from time to time as necessary. The terms that apply to you are those posted here on our website on the day you use our website. We solely advise you to print a copy for your records.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact our Privacy Officer at: Meridian Medical e-mail: info@meridianmedicalassociates.com.

MERIDIAN MEDICAL COOKIE POLICY

Like most websites, www.meridianhealthnews.com uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences and provide anonymized tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics.

Google Analytics is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

For more information about how we use cookies please check our Privacy Policy.

MERIDIAN MEDICAL DISCLAIMER

(Effective Date: January 28, 2021)

Please read the full disclaimer before using this website.

This disclaimer governs your use of www.Meridianhealthnews.com. By using this website, you accept this disclaimer in full. If you disagree with any part of this disclaimer, do not use www.Meridianhealthnews.com or any affiliated websites, properties, or companies. We reserve the right to modify these terms at any time. You should therefore check back periodically for changes. By using this website after we post any changes, you agree to accept those changes, whether or not you have reviewed them.

Information Disclaimer

The information contained within this website is for general information purpose only. It is not official health advice and is not intended to be used as such. Any action you take upon the information you find on this website is strictly at your own risk. If you have any questions pertaining to specific health concerns or you think you may be suffering from a medical condition, you should consult a medical professional immediately. You should also consult a medical professional before making any changes to your normal lifestyle habits.

All posts and information provided within this website is for informational and educational purposes only, and is not to be construed as medical advice or instruction. No action should be taken solely on the contents of this website. Please consult your physician or a qualified health professional on any matters regarding your health and well-being or on any opinions expressed within this website. The information provided in this site is believed to be accurate based on the best judgment of the author/individual member posting. However, you as the reader must be responsible for consulting with your own health professional on matters raised within. Meridian Medical will not accept responsibility for the actions or consequential results of any action taken by any reader or website user.

Product Disclaimer

We aim to accurately represent the information provided in our e-mails, programs, services, and products. You are acknowledging that you are participating voluntarily in using any of our e-mails, programs, services, and/or products, and you alone are solely and personally responsible for your results. You acknowledge that you take full responsibility for your health, life and well-being, as well as the health, lives and well-being of your family and children (born and unborn, as applicable), and all decisions now or in the future.
Before starting any new diet and exercise program, please check with your doctor and clear any exercise and/or diet changes with them before beginning. We are NOT doctors, nutritionists or registered dietitians. We do not claim to help cure any condition or disease. We do not provide medical aid or nutrition advice for the purpose of health or disease.
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By using our website, you hereby consent to our disclaimer and agree to its terms. If you require any more information or have any questions about our site’s disclaimer, please feel free to contact us by email at info@meridianmedicalassociates.com.

Update: This site disclaimer was last updated on: January 28, 2021. Should we update, amend or make any changes to this document, those changes will be prominently posted here.

MERIDIAN MEDICAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

TERMS OF SERVICE

Effective as of January 28, 2021

Welcome to the Meridian Medical website. This website is operated by Meridian Medical Associates LLC. Throughout the site, the terms “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Meridian Medical. We offers this website, including all information, tools, programs, and services available from this site to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance of all terms, conditions, policies and notices stated here.

Please read these Terms of Service carefully before accessing or using our website. By accessing or using any part of the site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the website or use any services. If these Terms of Service are considered an offer, acceptance is expressly limited to these Terms of Service. In order to use our Website, the User must have reached the legal age of 18 (or the age of consent in your jurisdiction) and be able to form a legally binding contract. Use of this Website by minors is not permitted.

The following policy discloses Terms for using our Website. By accessing and browsing the Website, the User accepts, without limitation or qualification, to accept and adhere to the Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this Website are protected by applicable copyright and trademark law.

DEFINITIONS

“Applicable Laws” shall mean all acts, laws, regulations, including but not limited to Data Protection Laws, applicable to each Party.

“Data Protection Laws” shall mean the applicable national laws concerning data protection and, if applicable, the national laws implementing Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of Personal Data and on the free movement of such data and Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the processing of Personal Data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (ePrivacy Directive) and the subsequent directives and regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation no. 2016⁄679) and their national implementations and related national legislation.

“EEA” shall mean the European Economic Area.

“EU” shall mean the European Union.

“Personal Data” shall mean all information that is directly or indirectly referable to a natural living person such as name, email address, IP-address, location data etc.

“Personal Data Breach” shall mean a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, Personal Data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed.

ELIGIBILITY

We make this website available for personal use only, and you are prohibited from using our website (or any other related domain) website for any other purpose, except as put forth in a written consent by www.Meridianhealthnews.com.

Furthermore, you must have reached the legal age of 18 (or the age of consent in your jurisdiction) and be able to form a legally binding contract. If you meet these eligibility criteria, we grant a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, no assignable, and non-sub licensable license to use www.Meridianhealthnews.com in compliance with these terms and conditions.

You may not use this website if you are proscribed from receiving such products under the USA laws or any other country from which you use the website or products.

You represent that you possess the full power and authority to accept these Terms and Conditions; to grant the license; and to execute all the obligations hereunder.

As an eligible user, you may not distribute, transmit, license, or publish the website or its content for commercial purposes; may not remove any copyright, trademark or any other proprietary notices from any part of our website; and/or infringe upon our intellectual property rights in your use of the website.

PRIVACY POLICY

Meridian Medical respects the privacy of all its Website Users and is seriously committed to maintain and protect the confidentiality of personal data from its Users. The Privacy Policy, which rules the use of User data, forms an integral part of the Terms and Conditions.

Our privacy policy incorporates elements from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) as we act in accordance to relevant laws as regards personal information processing rules within the European Economic Area (EEA). Please see our Privacy Policy for detailed information on our privacy practices.

LEGAL AGREEMENT

This is a legally binding agreement between Meridian Medical and you for the provision of the products requested, and these terms shall govern the agreement between you and us to the ruling out of any other terms or conditions.

You agree to abide with these Terms and Conditions as laid out in this agreement and any other terms found on our website

INDEMNIFICATION

You hereby agree to protect, safeguard and hold Meridian Medical Website, its owners, affiliated companies, and their managers, directors, officers, and employees blameless and innocent against all liabilities, charges, damages, legal costs and accounting fees and all other expenses related to any claims or any legal actions brought against Meridian Medical Website because of your breach of any portion of these terms or any other liabilities connected to your use of this website.

COPYRIGHTS

Except as otherwise stated, all materials, which without limitation include spreadsheets and other templates, pictures, graphics, designs, videos, icons, and any other written materials found on and made available through www.Meridianhealthnews.com are copyrighted, trademarked, controlled or licensed by Meridian Medical, its affiliates or by their respective creators. All said materials are protected by the USA law and international copyright laws.

As a User, you may not distribute, transmit, license, or publish the Website or its content for commercial purposes; may not remove any copyright, trademark or any other proprietary notices from any part of our Website; and/or infringe upon our intellectual property rights by using our Website.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Throughout this Website, you may find links to third party websites. The provision of a link to such a website does not mean that we endorse that website. If you visit any third-party website via a link on this Website, you do so at your own risk. Should any legal infringement become known to us, we will happily remove the respective link.

You must note that these third party website have different privacy policies than we do, and that we are in no way responsible for the way they may ask for and collect information from you and/or the way they use and disclose such information.

We advise that you read the privacy policy of all third-party website you visit before using such website.

WEBSITE PROPER USE AND TERMINATION

Use of this Website is only permitted for the intended Purpose. The User shall not upload, distribute, or otherwise publish through this Website any Content, information, or other material that (a) includes any bugs, viruses, worms, trap doors, Trojan horses, or other harmful code or properties; (b) is libelous, threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, pornographic, discriminatory, or could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under the laws of America or the laws of any other country that may apply; or (c)violates, infringes upon the copyrights, patents, trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, or other proprietary rights of any person.

Meridian Medical reserves the right to remove any Content at its sole discretion, if it is false, misleading, or harmful in any way or if it is detrimental or potentially destructive to the stated Purpose or these Terms and Conditions. Meridian Medical also reserves the right to remove Content which might not meet the quality standards deemed to be appropriate.

Meridian Medical reserves the right to discontinue, alter or stop publishing the Website and/or any of its services at any time in its sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any Website services, or if Meridian Medical stops publishing the Website.

LICENSE AND PERMITTED USE

By purchasing Content or Services from Meridian Medical the User receives a temporary, royalty free, strictly personal usage right for services purchased from us for the intended Purpose.

Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software) on Meridian Medical web site for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:

modify or copy the materials;
use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on Meridian Medical web site;
remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
Transfer the materials to another person or “mirror” the materials on any other server.

This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by Meridian Medical at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION UNDER GDPR COMPLIANCE

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.

Our website may allow third-parties, including our authorized service providers and advertising companies to display ads on our website. Some of these companies use tracking technologies such as cookies, to acquire information about the users who view or interact in some way with their advertisements. Please note that our website does not disclose any personal detail to these third parties, in this regard.

We may reveal your personal information, which may include your full name and contact address to our preapproved service providers that carry-out certain services on our behalf. We may also share your private information with appropriate legal authorities/government officials in reply to a subpoena, similar investigative demand, or a court order, if compelled to do so under the EU GDPR compliance Regulation

Barring these, we will under no circumstances knowingly sell, exchange or otherwise give your personal information to third parties.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION UNDER HIPAA COMPLIANCE

The Meridian Medical terms and conditions has been created to Comply complies with the guidelines of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Applicable State Laws.

In accordance with HIPAA security rule, it is our legal duty to safeguard your protected health information (PHI). The information shall only be accessible by an authorized personnel having unique access rights.

GEO-LOCATION TERMS

The Services, the website, and the API may include and make use of certain functionality and services provided by third-parties that allow Meridian Medical to include maps, geocoding, places and other Content from Google, Inc. (“Google”) as part of the Services (the “Geo-Location Services”). Your use of the Geo-Location Services is subject to Google’s then current Terms of Use for Google Maps/Google Earth (http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/terms_maps.html) and by using the Geo-Location Services, you are agreeing to be bound by Google’s Terms of Use.

DATA PROTECTION UNDER EU GDPR REGULATION

IMPORTANT: The Privacy Policy sets out the type of information that we will collect, store and process in connection with your contribution via our website.

The Privacy policy also sets out all of the rights that you have in connection with the personal data we collect, store and our obligations to protect that personal data.

Please ensure that you have read and understood the terms of our Privacy Policy.

You acknowledge that, in collating the KYC information in accordance with these Terms, we may require you to provide information and documents relating to:

your identity;
your personal information
your contact and/or business address;
any information associated with your account held with us; or
any other document from which you may be identified, (the “Personal Data”).

We will not disclose the Personal Data save as expressly permitted by these Terms and/or the Data Protection Legislation.

Meridian Medical shall process the Personal Data in accordance with the Data Protection Law and for the purposes more specifically detailed in the privacy policy.

The user warrants and represents that it has read and understood the privacy policy.

At your request, we shall provide you with a copy of all Personal Data held by it in the format and on the media reasonably specified by you.

You acknowledge, understand, accept, represent and warrant that, in accepting these Terms, you are irrevocably consenting to the ability of us to process and/or transfer your Personal Data to another country within the European Economic Community.

You acknowledge, accept and understand that, if required and permitted under these Terms, we may transfer Personal Data to a country outside of the EEA on the basis that the recipient affords the Personal Data an adequate level of protection and on the basis that you have the same rights (and the ability to enforce those rights) in respect of your Personal Data with the recipient.

PAYMENT/FEES

All clients can access and use our website at no cost at all. You can use the website to purchase your favorite Meridian Medical products on the website; gain access to coupons; and read our blog; at absolutely no cost to you if you are a fan of the website.

You understand and accept that while it is absolutely free to register both as a user and as a buyer on the Meridian Medical website, we will require purchaser/user to pay substantial fees to be able to buy our Diabetes Prevention & Weight Loss products.

We currently use PayPal and onsite credit/debit card payment system as payment for a secure & safe on-line Experience
We do not have any influence on PayPal so you can be sure that Meridian Medical will not be able to see, keep, store or use your credit card details at any time.
Unfortunately, we cannot accept cheques or cash at this time.

DISCLAIMER

Our Website, Resources, Products and Services are provided on an “as is” basis. Meridian Medical does not give any warranties or assurances that it will satisfy the User’s expectations or requirements. There is expressively no warranty provided for any eventual mistakes, omissions of the Content or that all materials are accurate and up to date. The Content might have errors or omissions in it, be outdated or not be applicable to the User’s specific situation.

It is the responsibility of the User to select the appropriate Content suitable and applicable to his specific use case. Meridian Medical will do its best to keep a high-quality standard of the Content and Services offered via its Website and welcomes User input to improve the quality of our Content and Resources.

Opinions, advice, statements, offers, or other information or Content made available through our Website, but not directly by Meridian Medical, are those of their respective authors, and should not necessarily be relied upon. Such authors are solely responsible for such content. Meridian Medical is not responsible for, the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice, or statement made by parties other than Meridian Medical.

Meridian Medical nor its or other associated parties will be liable for any direct or indirect damages or losses which might have occurred directly or indirectly by using the Website, Content or Services from us. Any eventual liability and compensation of damages herewith are excluded.

We cannot guarantee that our Website will be available at all times, as it might be affected by technical issues beyond our control. Where possible, we always try to give advance warning of maintenance issues that may result in Website down time but we shall not be obliged to provide such notice

OUR COOKIES POLICY

Meridian Medical uses the “cookies” technology to make it possible for our users to always enjoy a user friendly registration process. Our use of cookies also helps us to improve users’ general experience. We may automatically, through the use of cookies, collect information about your online activities on our website, such as the links you opened, the pages viewed by you, and the searches you carried out on our website.

You have the choice of denying cookies on your browser but your denial of cookies may mean that you will not be able to use some of the interactive features provided on our website.

Please note that the cookies we employ are saved on your browser’s local storage.

SECURITY OF INFORMATION UNDER GDPR COMPLIANCE

Meridian Medical always does its utmost to protect your personal information. To prevent illegal access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the proper use of information, we use practical administrative practices and actions to protect your information.

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.

You however understand that there is no full assurance of security for information made available on or through the internet. Meridian Medical will thus not bear responsibility for unauthorized access to your information that is beyond our control.

LIMITATIONS

In no event shall Meridian Medical or its suppliers be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption,) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on Meridian Medical Internet site, even if Meridian Medical or a Meridian Medical authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS

When you use Meridian Medical website, or send e-mails, text messages, and other communications from your desktop or mobile device to us, you may be communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically, such as e-mails, texts, mobile push notices, or notices and messages on this site or through the other Meridian Medical features, such as our Message Center, and you can retain copies of these communications for your records.

You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

REVISIONS AND ERRATA

The materials appearing on Meridian Medical Website could include technical, typographical, or photographic errors. Meridian Medical does not warrant that any of the materials on its Website are accurate, complete, or current. Meridian Medical may make changes to the materials contained on its Website at any time without notice. Meridian Medical does not, however, make any commitment to update the materials.

GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

This Terms of Use is construed under and in accordance with the applicable USA law and EU GDPR Compliance. Its courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction in any proceedings or actions arising out of this agreement.

It has also been compiled so as to comply with USA law accordingly implemented, including that required by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and of every country or legal jurisdiction in which we aim to do business. If you think it fails to satisfy the law of your jurisdiction, we should like to hear from you.

However, ultimately it is your choice as to whether you wish to use our website. Any dispute arising in connection with these terms of use shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of America

CONTACT US

Please get in touch with us at info@meridianmedicalassociates.com for any question you might have with respect to these Terms and Conditions.