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COOKIE POLICY

LAST UPDATED: August 1, 2022

This Cookie Policy explains how Implantable Provider Group, Inc. d/b/a (IPG), a Delaware corporation or Surgical Collections Group (SCG)  (collectively, “IPG”, “SCG”, “us”, “we”, or “our”)  uses cookies and other tracking technologies to deliver and improve our website at https://ipg.com/ (“Website”) and to display relevant content, products, services and advertising. Such technologies, include cookies, pixels, web beacons, and flash cookies. This Cookie Policy explains what these technologies are, why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them. This Cookie Policy is and will be treated as part of our Privacy Policy at https://ipg.com/privacy-statement/ , and is automatically incorporated therein, and any capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined in this Cookie Policy have the meanings given to those terms in the Privacy Policy. In some cases we may use cookies and other tracking technologies described in this Cookie Policy to collect personal information or to collect information that becomes personal information if we combine with other information. Please see our Privacy Policy for a detailed description of how we collect, use, process and to whom we may share your personal information.

By using the Website, you agree that we can use these technologies as described in this Cookie Policy. We hope that this Cookie Policy helps you understand, and feel more confident about, our use of cookies and other analytics and tracking technologies. If you have any further queries or requests, please find the appropriate support channel by contacting us at compliance@ipg.com.

We may change this Cookie Policy at any time. Please look at the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page to see when this Cookie Policy was last revised. Any changes in this Cookie Policy will become effective when we make the revised Cookie Policy available on or through the Website. The Internet is a rapidly changing medium, and the Website may include services provided by third parties. The cookies and third party websites listed in this Cookie Policy are intended to provide timely information and may be updated from time to time; however, due to the nature of the Internet, these lists may not exactly and inclusively represent all such items at every point in time. You should check back periodically to review updates to this Cookie Policy. This Cookie Policy is intended to provide you with as much detail as possible regarding our use of cookies and the choices you may make regarding how you choose to interact with us on the Website.

1. WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work in a better, more efficient way. For example, they can recognize you and remember important information that will make your use of a website more convenient (e.g., by remembering your user preferences).

2. WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?

Below we list the different types of cookies we may use on the Website– strictly necessary cookies, functionality cookies, analytics cookies, and advertising cookies. We may also use cookies and similar tools to relate your use of the Website to personal information obtained about you. For example, if you have asked us to provide you information about our upcoming products or promotions, cookie and/or clickstream data about your activities on the Website may allow us to limit the materials we provide you to items we think you will find interesting, based on your prior online activities and preferences.

STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES

These cookies are essential to the Website in order to facilitate our log-in process (if applicable) and enable you to move around it and to use its features. Without these cookies, we may not be able to provide certain services or features, and the Website will not perform as smoothly for you as we would like.

Because strictly necessary cookies are essential to operate our services on the Website, if you choose to use a product on our Website, there is no option to opt out of these cookies other than not using the Website.

FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES:

In some circumstances, we may use functionality cookies. Functionality cookies allow us to remember the choices you make while browsing the Website and to provide enhanced and more personalized content and features, such as customizing a certain webpage, remembering if we have asked you to participate in a promotion and for other services you request, like watching a video or commenting on a blog. In order to permit your connection to the Website, our servers receive and record information about your computer, device, and browser, potentially including your IP address, browser type, and other software or hardware information. If you access the Website from a mobile or other device, we may collect a unique device identifier assigned to that device (“UDID”), geolocation data, or other transactional information for that device. All of these features help us to improve your visit to the Website.

To manage the use of functionality cookies on our Website, or to opt out of their use, follow the instructions in Section 4 of this Cookie Policy.  Note that opting out may impact the functionality you receive when using our Website.

ANALYTICS COOKIES:

We and our service providers may use analytics cookies, which are sometimes called performance cookies, to collect information about your use of the Website and enable us to improve the way it works. Analytics cookies collect information about how you use the Website, for instance, which pages you go to most. The information allows us to see the overall patterns of usage on the Website, help us record any difficulties you have with the Website, and show us whether our advertising is effective or not.

To manage the use of analytics cookies on our Website, or to opt out of their use, follow the instructions in Section 4 of this Cookie Policy.  Note that opting out may impact the functionality you receive when using our Website.

Analytics cookies on this Website may include:

GOOGLE ANALYTICS:

By default, the analytics.js library uses a single cookie named ga to store a unique client identifier (“Client ID”), which is a randomly generated number. Once the Client ID is generated, it is stored in the cookie and is included with each hit or request sent to Google Analytics. This Client ID is later used by Google Analytics servers to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data. The ga cookie is a first-party cookie that can only be accessed by the domain on which the JavaScript is run. For certain implementations, you might need to modify how Google Analytics sets its cookie. For more information about how analytics.js uses cookies, read Security and privacy in Universal Analytics. For more information about cookies in general, read this HTTP Cookies article. Analytics cookies can be managed via the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

SOCIAL NETWORKING COOKIES:

These social plug-in tracking cookies can be used to track both members and non-members of social networks for “additional” purposes, such as behavioral advertising, analytics, and market research. Social Networking Cookies on this Website may include:

LINKEDIN:

We use cookies and similar technologies, including mobile application identifiers, to help us recognize you across different Services, improve your LinkedIn experience, increase security, measure use and effectiveness of our Services, and serve advertising. You can control cookies through your browser settings and other tools. For more information, including the types of cookies found on LinkedIn, please read LinkedIn’s Cookie Policy. By visiting LinkedIn, you consent to the placement of cookies and beacons in your browser and HTML-based emails in accordance with LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy and LinkedIn’s Cookie Policy. Learn more at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie_policy.

TWITTER:

Twitter uses cookies and other similar technologies, such as pixels or local storage, to help provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience. Twitter provides services SMS, APIs, email notifications, applications, buttons, and widgets that use these technologies to log you into Twitter, save your preferences, personalize the content you see, protect against spam and abuse, and show you more relevant ads. Information relating to Twitter, including the cookies that it uses along with a way to opt out, can be found at  https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies. 

ADVERTISING COOKIES:

We may also use cookies and similar tools to correlate your use of the Website to personal information obtained about you. For example, if you have asked us to provide you information about our upcoming campaigns, our services or any promotions, we may utilize our cookie and/or clickstream data about your activities when you engage with us on the Website. By evaluating this information, we may more clearly target the information we provide you to the specific items we think you will find interesting, based on your prior online activities and preferences.

We also use third party advertising cookies. We and our service providers may use advertising cookies to deliver ads that we believe are more relevant to you and your interests. For more information, see Targeted Online Advertising in Section 3 below.

To manage the use of advertising cookies on our Website, or to opt out of their use, follow the instructions in Section 4 of this Cookie Policy. Note that opting out may impact the functionality you receive when using our Sites.

3. HOW DO THIRD PARTIES USE COOKIES ON THE WEBSITE?

In some circumstances, we may work with third parties to provide services on our Website. For example, we use analytics services supported by third party companies who generate analytics cookies on our behalf. We may not have access to these cookies, although we may use statistical information arising from the cookies provided by these third parties to customize content and for the other purposes described above. These companies may also transfer this information to other parties where required to do so by law, or where such other parties process the information on their behalf.

Targeted Online Advertising

We and our service providers may work with a variety of third-party advertisers and other organizations (“Ad Partners”) that may also use technologies, including their own cookies, to collect information about your activities on our Website or the advertisements you have clicked on as well as your IP address, device identifier or mobile advertising identifier, in order to deliver relevant advertising.[1] This information, which may be combined with other information acquired from third parties, may be used by them to serve advertisements on our Website and third party sites that they believe are most likely to be of interest to you based on content you have viewed.

Third-party advertisers may also use this information to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to track aggregate usage statistics.

We may not control these third-party cookies and their use may be governed by the privacy policies of the third parties employing these cookies. Please note that our Privacy Policy and this Cookie Policy do not cover the practices of our Ad Partners. To learn about these cookies and to disable or reject third-party cookies, please refer to our Ad Partner’s website.

You can also learn more about controlling cookies in Section 4 below.

4. HOW CAN YOU CONTROL COOKIES?

You may refuse to accept cookies from the Website at any time by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse cookies. Further information about the procedure to follow in order to disable cookies can be found on your Internet browser provider’s website via your help screen. These settings will typically be found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful; otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.

You may also wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html for comprehensive information on commonly used browsers, how to disable and/or clear cookies, and other useful information. Please note, however, that these links will take you to third party sites over which IPG has no control.

Please note that by disabling or blocking any or all cookies some features of the Website may not operate as intended, or you may not have access to features or personalization available through the Website. Analytics cookies can also be managed via the following links:

Opting Out of Targeted Online Advertising

You may also wish to refer to https://optout.aboutads.info/ for more information about how our Ad Partners use of the information collected by the technologies on our Website and your options to opt out of such collection or refer to the Network Advertising Initiative’s website at https://optout.networkadvertising.org/ and follow the directions to opt out of additional third party advertising networks. Please note that such opt-outs are device and browser specific and may not work on all devices. If you choose to opt-out through any of these opt-out tools, this does not mean you will cease to see advertising. Rather, the ads you see will just not be based on your interests.

5. HOW DO WE RESPOND TO DNT (“DO NOT TRACK”) BROWSER SIGNALS?

In compliance with California AB 370, Section 22575, we have a responsibility to inform you that the Website does not take any specific automated action in response to browser Do Not Track signals or other similar mechanisms (collectively, “DNT signals”). As specified in Sections 2 and 4 above, there are actions which you can take to restrict or eliminate the use of tracking technologies within the Website; however, no actions are taken automatically in response to DNT signals.