Privacy Policy

Privacy policy introduction

Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Tri-State Hearing Services, LLC (DBA Ascent Audiology & Hearing), we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe. We use this privacy policy to clearly disclose to you our privacy practices in a manner that is easy to understand. The information you provide is safeguarded. This Privacy Policy discloses what information we gather and how we use it. It applies to information we collect on this Website, including through electronic messages between you and the Website (for example, when you submit a message using our “Contact Us” form or when you complete the “Request an Appointment” form). It does not apply to products or services provided, or information collected by us offline or through other means, such as over the phone, or to information collected by third parties, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from this Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. Please review it carefully.

We protect health and medical information as required by federal and state privacy laws. If you are a Tri-State Hearing Services, LLC customer, please see our Notice of Privacy Practices for information about how we use your customer information.

This website is operated from within the United States (U.S.) and is intended for a U.S. audience.

Information Tri-State Hearing Services, LLC gathers and tracks

We collect information in several ways. Some of the information we collect is personal to you. Other information is anonymous. We gather two types of information about users:

Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions to our Website or by emailing us. This information may include personal information, such as your name, phone number, email address, state and zip code. When you are on our site and provide personal information, you are sharing that information with Tri-State Hearing Services, LLC and the vendors who provide services to us.

Information that we collect automatically as you visit and navigate the Website or open our emails. This information may include usage details, IP addresses, real-time geographic location of your computer or device, device identifiers and information collected through tracking technologies such as cookies and web beacons. Information Tri-State Hearing Services, LLC gathers through aggregated tracking is used to determine which areas of our sites users like and don’t like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. We collect this information in order to determine how to create the best experience for our customers. We may track search terms entered in our Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users, but this tracking is never associated with an individual user.

Policy amendment

Tri-State Hearing Services, LLC approaches Internet communications with a strong commitment to individual privacy rights and concerns. As the Internet evolves, our policy will continue to change and develop. We therefore reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time with or without prior notice. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of the sites following any changes to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes.

Use of personal information

Tri-State Hearing Services, LLC strictly protects the security of your personal information and honors your choices for its intended use. We disclose your information to no third parties unless it is specifically stated otherwise. We may use third party contractors to help us operate our business and the sites or administer activities on our behalf, and may share your personal information with these contractors for those limited purposes.

We use your information to understand your needs and provide you with better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

We may use the information to help you schedule appointments.

We may use the information to provide you with discount coupons and product information.

We may use this information to respond to requests from users, customize our features for individual visitors who are Tri-State Hearing Services, LLC customers and to notify customers about updates to our site and products or services.

We may disclose, access or monitor your personal information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.

We may use information for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service and improve our products and services and our information security

We may disclose de-identified aggregated data and user statistics to prospective partners and other third parties. De-identified data is data that does not identify an individual person.

As we continue to develop our business, we may buy or sell businesses or assets. In such transactions, confidential customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets. In the event of a transaction involving the sale of Tri-State Hearing Services, LLC’s business, customer and site visitor information may be one of the transferred assets and may be disclosed in connection with negotiations relating to a proposed transaction. In such case, the transferred information may become subject to a different privacy policy.

We may share or use your information for any other legally permitted business purpose in our sole discretion.

Some of the features on this Website allow you to communicate with us using an online form. If your communication requests a response from us, we may send you a response via e-mail. The e-mail response or confirmation may include your personal information, including your name, address, etc. We cannot guarantee that our e-mails to you will be secure from unauthorized interception.

Accessing and correcting your information

You may contact us at (304) 948-5565 if you wish to view, edit, or delete your personal information from our database, and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to accommodate your request. You may also contact us if you believe that any inaccurate or inappropriate information has been obtained or provided to others through your use of this Website.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties for their own use unless we have your permission or are required by law.

Your privacy rights

Consistent with the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

Cookies and other automatic data collection technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.

Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type.

The Website may use “cookies” and other technologies such as pixel tags and web beacons.

We may place a text file called a “cookie” in the browser files of your computer. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Tri-State Hearing Services, LLC uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you’ve set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site; however, it will help you to participate more actively in some features.

Our Website permits you to use a third party social networking platform such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. This includes use of social media plugins such as Facebook “Like”, Tweet and Google “+1” buttons, etc. When you use social networking platforms and plugins, you share your information with them and their privacy policy applies to disclosure of such information. In addition, these social networking platforms may collect information about you, including your use of the Website. Such services may allow your activity to be monitored across multiple websites for purposes of delivering more targeted advertising. Please note that their own privacy polices apply and we encourage you to read them. We may add new social networking plugins and buttons to our Websites from time to time.

Healthcare disclaimer

The information presented on Tri-State Hearing Services, LLC’s Website is not intended to be medical advice and should not be relied upon as such. If you suspect a hearing problem, Tri-State Hearing Services, LLC strongly urges you to contact our office at (304) 948-5565.

Links to other websites and services

The Tri-State Hearing Services, LLC Website may contain links to other sites that are not under our control. These Websites have their own policies regarding privacy. You should review those policies when visiting the Websites. Tri-State Hearing Services, LLC has no responsibility for linked websites and is not responsible for the content of any such site. Tri-State Hearing Services, LLC provides these links solely for the convenience and information of our visitors.

Security

Tri-State Hearing Services, LLC operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk.

Contact us

If you have questions about the Privacy Policy or you need further assistance write us at:

Tri-State Hearing Services, LLC

906 6th Avenue

Huntington, WV 25701

Effective Date: January 8, 2017