VERSION: 02.16.16
Howard Sofen, MD. strives to make interaction with our website a positive and user friendly experience. In order to better assist our existing and future customer base, we may collect certain information about your visit to our website to help improve functionality or make enhancements to our website.
We collect information about your computer that may include your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and in order to create reports. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
Our website uses cookies that interact with Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps us understand how visitors engage with our website. Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We then use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site.
Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. These cookies are used to store information, such as the time that the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before and what site referred the visitor to the web page.
Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page.
Information Collection
Howard Sofen, MD. is the sole owner of the information collected on drsofen.com. If you choose to provide your information to Howard Sofen, MD. through our online connection tool, we will only use that information for the purpose of contacting you regarding studies for which you may qualify. Your information will be collected and stored by processes and services designed to protect your privacy.
Registration
A user is not required to complete a registration form in order to use this Web site.
Log Files
Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.
Links
This Web site may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we, Howard Sofen, MD., are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware that when they leave our site and go to another site, they need to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
Security
This Web site takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the Web site, their information is protected both online and off-line. If users have any questions about the security at our Web site, users can send an email to ktravers@drsofen.com.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
Contact Information
If users have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at:
Tel. (310) 337-7171
ktravers@drsofen.com
8930 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. 114
Los Angeles, CA 90045
