Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement

Your privacy is a primary concern to us at American Medical Depot. Our goal in expanding and clarifying our policy on the collection and use of customer data is to ensure the highest level of confidentiality and security. Rest assured this policy is a corporate-wide policy, not limited to our growing online business.

When you provide your personal information to American Medical Depot (such as name, address, phone number, company name, or the products you are shopping for or purchasing) we will not give or sell your individual information to any outside company for its use in marketing or solicitation without your consent. We will maintain the confidentiality of your personal information and it will be used only to support your customer relationship with American Medical Depot. Additionally, our internal practices help protect your privacy by limiting employee access to and use of customer data.

When American Medical Depot asks for customer information, it is done with the goal of improving the relationship between American Medical Depot and the customer.

At American Medical Depot, we are helping you maintain control over your personal data while fostering the growth of a more interactive online environment. Our intention is to send e-mail only to customers or to individuals whom we believe have chosen to receive such e-mails. At any time, you have the right to 'opt out' of receiving future American Medical Depot communications. And our Web site offers robust encryption technology to help protect the transmission of customer information over the Internet.

Encryption and Cookies

In order to help you better understand our commitment to privacy we have prepared the following sections on our use of encryption and cookies.

Please take a moment to read about the steps that we have taken to help protect your information and make your online transmissions safer. We also invite you to review the steps you can take to help protect yourself further.

Encryption

What is Encryption?
Encryption is a process by which we use software to scramble sensitive information while it is in transit to American Medical Depot.

How Does Encryption Work?
Encryption is based on a key that has two different parts. The public part and the private part. The public part of the key is distributed to those you want to communicate with. The private part is for the recipient's use only.

When you send personal information to American Medical Depot, you use American Medical Depot's public key to encrypt your personal information. That means, if at any point during the transmission your information is intercepted, it is scrambled and very difficult to decrypt. Once American Medical Depot receives your encrypted personal information, we use the private part of our key to decode it.

What Kind of Encryption Software Does American Medical Depot Use?
American Medical Depot currently uses the industry-standard SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption. We also continue to keep up with the current technologies in order to provide the best security for our customers.

What information Does American Medical Depot Encrypt?
American Medical Depot encrypts all personal information you give us when you place an order online.

How Safe is Encryption Really?
Providing encrypted information online is as safe as doing it over the phone.

Cookies

What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a tiny piece of text asking permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. If you agree, then your browser adds the text in a small file.

If you have set your browser to notify you before accepting a cookie, you will notice that American Medical Depot requests a cookie to be set on your computer. Its purpose is to let us know when you visit our site. This cookie, by itself, only tells us that a previous American Medical Depot visitor has returned. It doesn't tell us your e-mail address or who you are. If you want to give us that information later via registration, that's your choice.

Why are Cookies Persistent?
If the web server does not detect a Unique ID for your session, it will generate one and send it to the client in the form of a cookie. So, if you accept the cookie, you only get it once. If you do not accept the cookie, it will try to send you one with every hit until you accept it. This means every page and item on that page you request from American Medical Depot will come with a cookie request unless you already have one.

Are All Cookies the Same?
No. On the American Medical Depot site we have two kinds; temporary and log cookies. Temporary cookies are necessary to maintain the user session and tell our server which page to pull up next. The traffic log cookie tells us what pages are being used and which ones aren't. This helps us make improvements to the site to better meet your needs and cut down on pages that don't get used.

So What Does A Cookie Do For Me, The Visitor?
There are several immediate advantages on American Medical Depot that you can see through the use of cookies. For example, the American Medical Depot support area retains your service tag number between visits. When you return, you'll notice that the service tag number for your computer is already typed in.

When you are browsing in the store, you can add items to your shopping cart and return several days later to pick up where you left off, with the items still in the cart.

Also, special access areas of the site will soon be easier to use with the cookie technology. Overall, cookies help us give you a better Web site to use, by letting us monitor what's working and what isn't through site traffic analysis. In the future, a cookie may allow you to tell us what information you prefer to read and what you don't.

Why Do I Need to Know This?
Because we want you to know why we ask you to accept a cookie. We want to be sure you understand that accepting a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any personal information about you. We know that a lot of people have concerns about cookies, but in talking with many of our users, we feel that the benefit we both gain from their proper use is worthwhile. We value the relationships we have with our customers and future customers, so we respect these concerns.