Terms of Use

This Privacy Policy is effective November 1, 2021 for all users.

This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how SJH Derm, LLC. (“Company”) collects, uses,  and discloses information about you in connection with your use of our services, including those offered through the Website at www.dermatologyillinois.com (“Website”). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.  If you do not agree to our practices, please do not register, subscribe, create an account, use the Website, or otherwise interact with the Company.

The Company respects the privacy of visitors to our Website. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully so that you understand what information we collect and what we do with that information. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected online through the Website and does not describe the ways in which we may collect or use information obtained offline or through any other means.

Please contact us if you have any questions or comments about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy. You can reach us by email at marketing@SJHderm.com. You can reach us via postal mail at the following address:

SJH Derm, LLC
5201 Willow Springs Road
Suite 320
La Grange, IL 60525

PROTECTING THE PRIVACY OF CHILDREN

Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any information about themselves (such as their names, email addresses, and phone numbers) over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. Our Website is not directed at children under 13 and we won’t knowingly allow anyone under the ago of 13 to provide us any personally identifying information (PHI); if you’re under 13, please don’t use this Service and therefore don’t provide any information about yourself on this Website.

Table of Contents

1.           Types of Personal Information We Collect

2.           How We Collect Personal Information

3.           How We Use Personal Information

4.           When and Why We Disclose Personal Information

5.            Cookies and Related Technologies

6.            Controlling Your Personal Information

7.            Security of Personal Information

8.            Privacy Practices of Third Parties

9.            Changes to this Privacy Policy

10.         Illinois Residents

11.         HIPAA

1.           Types of Personal Information We Collect

Personal Information is information that can be used to identify, locate, or contact an individual. It also includes other information that may be associated with Personal Information. In some cases, Personal Information is used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. We collect the following types of Personal Information:

  • Contact Information that allows us to communicate with you, such as your name, postal addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, or other addresses at which you receive communications from or on behalf of the Company.
  • Relationship Information that helps us to understand who you are and what types of services may interest you. This also covers your contacting the Company to share your concerns with us and for us to respond to you regarding what those concerns are.

2.           How We Collect Personal Information

We ask you for Personal Information (which may include Contact Information and Relationship Information when you contact us or otherwise interact with the Website or contact the Company.

If you use a social media platform or your mobile device (or other method of communication) to interact with the Company or the Website, the application may have a specific privacy policy that governs the use of Personal Information related to that application. For example, if you use a mobile application and your mobile device’s settings allow it, we may collect Mobile Location Information (which tells us where your mobile phone is when you are using it) from your device. Our application may be designed to collect information even if you are not logged into the Company Website. If you have questions about the security and privacy settings of your mobile device, please refer to instructions from your mobile service provider or the manufacturer of your device to learn how to adjust your settings.

3.           How Company Uses Personal Information

The Company uses Personal Information to:

  • Operate and improve our Website;
  • Evaluate the types of offers, products or services that may interest customers;
  • Provide customer support, including to our merchants or business partners;
  • Fulfill requests for the Company’s services;
  • Communicate and provide additional information that may be of interest to you about the Company, including the Company’s news, special offers and coupons, announcements, and marketing materials;
  • Send you reminders, technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages service bulletins, or marketing;
  • Provide advertisements to you through the Website, email messages, text messages, applications, or other methods of communication;
  • Administer surveys, or other promotional activities or events sponsored by us.
  • Manage our everyday business needs such as Website administration, forum management, fulfillment, analytics, fraud prevention, enforcement of our corporate reporting obligations, Terms of Use or to comply with the law.

4.           When and Why Company Discloses Personal Information

We will not disclose your Personal Information to third parties except to:

  • Affiliated companies (e.g., subsidiaries and other companies owned by or controlled by the Company) who may only use the Personal Information for the purposes described in Section 3 above.
  • Our service providers that provide services for us such as sending emails on our behalf. Our service providers are bound by law or contract to protect the Personal Information and are only allowed to use the Personal Information in accordance with the terms of our service agreements with them.
  • We may also disclose information about you that is not personally identifiable. For example, we may particpate in a study or interact with other third parties and provide them with reports that contain de-identified,  aggregated and statistical data about our users.

5.           Cookies and Related Technologies

We use certain analytics software tools, including Google Analytics, and optimization services for our Websites. We use anonymous, de-identified information and not any personally-identifiable information of a specific user.  The use of Google Analytics may involvethe use of cookies, but the use of cookies is limited to that purpose only.

6.           Controlling Your Personal Information

We think that you benefit from a more personalized experience when we know more about you and how you use our Website and our services. However, you can limit the information you provide to the Company, and you can limit the communications that the Company sends to you.

You can manage your subscriptions by following subscription management instructions contained in the commercial messages that we send you. You may choose to subscribe to some types of messages, and may choose to unsubscribe from others. You may update your subscription preferences from time to time. Please note that even if you unsubscribe from promotional email messages, we may still need to contact you with important transactional information related to your account and your transactions.

You may manage how your browser handles cookies and related technologies by adjusting its privacy and security settings. Browsers are different, so refer to instructions related to your browser to learn about cookie-related and other privacy and security settings that may be available.

You may manage how your mobile device and mobile browser share Location Information with the Company, as well as how your mobile browser handles cookies and related technologies by adjusting your mobile device privacy and security settings. Please refer to instructions provided by your mobile service provider or the manufacturer of your device to learn how to adjust your settings.

You may also manage the sharing of certain Personal Information with us when you connect with us through a social media platform or application, such as Facebook. Please refer to the privacy settings of the social media website or application to determine how you may adjust our permissions and manage the interactivity between the Company and your social media account or your mobile device.

If you wish to opt-out of receiving offers or updates directly from the Company, you can follow the opt-out instructions in the emails that we send you.

7.           Accessing and Correcting Personal Information

You can do several things to help keep Personal Information about you current. You can access, update and delete your Contact Information, Financial Account Information, and the other information you provided to use in your profile by logging into your account and accessing the “Account” section of the Website.

If you want to close your account, please follow the instructions of deactivating the account on the Website or contact us at Marketing@SJHDerm.com .While we are ready to assist you in removing your active profile, we cannot always delete records of past interactions and transactions. For example, we may be required to retain records for compliance reasons.

We will retain and use your information only as necessary to comply with our legal obligations.

8.           Security of Personal Information

The Company uses commercially reasonable controls that are designed to reasonably safeguard Personal Information. Your Personal Information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential..  We implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.  All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers. Not all information stored on the Company’s servers is stored in an encrypted format.

In the event that we become aware of unauthorized access to your Personal Information in a manner that exposes, or risks exposure of, your Personal Information in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy, we will notify you and the other affected users via email, and display a notification on the Website, within 7 business days of the date that the Company has actual notice of such event. We also agree to cooperate with any individual who pursues legally enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law.

9.           Privacy Practices of Third Parties

This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information by the Company through your interaction with the Company’s Website. Other websites that may be accessible through links from our Website may have their own privacy Policies and personal information collection, use, and disclosure practices. Our merchants and business partners may have their own privacy Policies, too. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy Policies provided by these other parties prior to providing them with information or taking advantage of an offer or promotion.

10.         Changes to this Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy to clarify our practices or to reflect new or different privacy practices, such as when we add new features to our Website. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the email address specified in your account) or by means of notice on the Website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information about our privacy practices.

11.         Illinois Residents

What we do relates to the practice of medicine in the State of Illinois and the information we provide is intended for use by Illinois residents or individuals seeking medical treatment in the State of Illinois.  This does not mean that we will not protect the Personal Information of out-of-state individuals, but the Website is intended to serve that particular group of individuals.

12.         HIPAA

In addition to the protections outlined in this Privacy Policy, we are and intend to remain fully compliant with the applicable provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, as amended (“HIPAA”) to the extent that the Personal Information we collect from you is governed by HIPAA and any related state or federal laws.