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Privacy Policy

This Version is Dated: February 19, 2010

InsideSurgery, LLC and its affiliates (the ‘Author’) is providing this Privacy Policy to disclose its information gathering, use, and disclosure practices in connection with this web blog, also known as ‘InsideSurgery’ (the ‘Site’). By accessing, using and/or browsing the Site, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your information, including your personally identifiable information, by the Author in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Policy in effect at that time.

In addition, please see the Site’™s Terms of Use Agreement for other terms and conditions governing your use of the Site. You acknowledge that the Author has the right, in its sole discretion, to modify any provisions of this Privacy Policy without notice to you. Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective immediately following the posting of such changes on the Site. For this reason, the Author requires you to review this Privacy Policy on a periodic basis.

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The Author may sell or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information and/or aggregate information to a successor of the Author in connection with an asset sale, merger, stock sale or other transaction, in connection with the due diligence phase of such a transaction, whether consummated or not (subject to confidentiality obligations running to the recipient), or in connection with the administration of a bankruptcy estate.

All information, suggestions, and comments received by the Author will be deemed to be non-confidential. The Author will be free to reproduce, use, disclose and distribute such information to others without limitation. Furthermore, if you use or post content on any public area on the Site, you should be aware that any information, including personally identifiable information, that you submit there can be read, collected, and used by other users of the Site, and may be used to send unsolicited messages. The Author is not responsible for loss of privacy or any claim relating to the information that you choose to submit by these means.

SECURITY

The Site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. However, the transmission of information over the Internet or other publicly accessible networks is not secure, and is subject to possible loss, interception or alteration while in transit. Accordingly, the Author does not assume any liability for any damage you may experience or costs you may incur as a result of any transmissions over the Internet or other publicly accessible networks, including, without limitation, any of your personally identifiable information.

HEALTHCARE PRIVACY LAWS

No information submitted to the Site or used in connection with the Site shall be considered to be ‘protected health information’ pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-191, as amended by Pub. L. No. 111-5 Division A, Title XIII HITECH, and the implementing regulations promulgated thereunder that are more specifically referred to as the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information at 45 C.F.R. Parts 160 and 164; Health Insurance Reform: Security Standards; Final Rule at 45 C.F.R. Parts 160, 162 and 164; Interim Final Rule on Breach Notification for Unsecured Protected Health Information, Interim Final Rule on HIPAA Enforcement and other privacy laws, all of which may be amended from time to time (collectively, ‘Privacy Laws’). Author shall have no liability to you pursuant to the Privacy Laws.

USE BY CHILDREN

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UPDATING INFORMATION

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CONTACTING THE SITE

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