High levels of compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are of the utmost importance to us here at The Operating Room Global (TORG). If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at privacy@operatingroomissues.org.
At The Operating Room Global (TORG), we consider the privacy of our visitors to be extremely important. This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information is collected and recorded by https://www.operatingroomissues.org/ and how we use it.
The Operating Room Global (TORG) website collect no more data about you than most other websites. Your personal data includes your name, address, localization, online identifier, cultural profile and more. This policy describes our approach to your personal data.
As a general rule, we use information we have collected about you for the purposes for which it was supplied. We also use information we have collected from all our sites to help us understand how those sites are used in order to improve them or to design new policies and procedure related to The Operating Room Global Foundation (TORG).
If you decide to comment to a post, you must keep in mind that comments are published. If you attend our webinars, webinar replays would be published and faces, names and designations and more.. might be visible across TORG Platforms
Under the Data Protection Act, you may at any time request a copy of the information we hold on you (for which we may charge a small fee to offset our administration costs) by writing to us.
This privacy policy will be reviewed, and may be revised, from time to time. You may wish to revisit it regularly.
Supporter information
If you have joined our network, we will use the information you have given us to try to connect you with the right parts of our network.
If you have signed up as a community member, thank you for doing so, we appreciate your support. As a community member you will be able to be more involved in our activities. We will use information you supply us to help you to be more involved. We may use your contact details to get in touch as part of that involvement.
Public data and publishing
Browsing this site doesn’t reveal your identity publicly, though see Private Logging later in this document for more information.
Author identification
When posting a comment or editing a page, a name and email address may be required. You do not have to select your real name or use your regular email address. Your email address will not published. If you are concerned, you may wish to get a free email account or attempt to use a remail service.
Page edits, comments, trackbacks, and pingbacks and other activity on our websites may be identified by your IP address. These numbers could potentially be traceable to identifying information about you, whether it is your home ISP or the University or Work account where the IP address is registered. Your IP address could potentially be used in conjunction with other data to identify you.
If you are concerned about attempts to match your IP address to your identity, you may wish to use an anonymous browsing service or attempt some means to obfuscate your real IP address.
If so, you might like to change your profile to private when logged in.
Email
If you have given us your e-mail address, you agree to allow us to send e-mail to that address in order to deliver our services to you. In practice this will usually involve emails about service down-time or important changes to services to which you subscribe. Some e-mails — such as those subscribed to mailing lists — will receive more traffic as an integral part of the service.
In addition to necessary e-mails, we will also occasionally use the e-mail to contact you for our own purposes. For example we might want to tell you about new posts and articles or we might be seeking volunteers for one of our many activities. We will only do so sparingly. We understand how annoying it can be to receive large quantities of unsolicited mail. We will do our best to ensure that anything we do send to you will be relevant and unobtrusive.
Private logging
The webservers that host this site maintain access logs with the information that you send. This information is used to provide site statistics and to get an idea of popular pages and what sites link here. We do not intend to use these logs to identify legitimate users.
The data logged may be used by us to solve technical problems with the site and, in cases of abuse of this site, to investigate the abuse.
We also use web analytics services to get a general idea of the kinds of traffic our websites get in order to provide better services and to set benchmarks for how we are doing in meeting The Operating Room Global’s goals.
Again, if you are concerned about attempts to match your IP address to your identity, you may wish to use an anonymous browsing service or attempt some means to obfuscate your real IP address.
Data release policy
Our policy is only to release the data we collect in the following circumstances:
As required by law, such as in response to a valid request from law enforcement.
To designated third parties to resolve or investigate abuse complaints.
When the information is related to spiders or bots, usually when investigating technical issues.
For abusive users, we may release information to assist in attempting to block the abusive user or to complain to that user’s Internet Service Provider.
If necessary to defend legal claims against us by third parties.
When we deem it necessary to protect the property or rights of the user community, or this website.
Log Files
Like many other Web sites, this website makes use of log files. These files merely logs visitors to the site – usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting services’s analytics.
The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
Cookies and Web Beacons
https://www.operatingroomissues.org/ uses cookies to store information about visitors’ preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits, and to personalize or customize our web page content based upon visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.
This is often as a convenience for you to enable certain site features. To learn more about the cookie policy for this website, please visit cookies. You may wish to clear these cookies and the browser cache if you wish to refrain from revealing any identifying information, especially if you are using a public or shared computer. You may also wish to disable your browser from accepting cookies.
- Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s previous visits to our website or other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)
DoubleClick DART Cookie
→ Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on https://www.operatingroomissues.org/.
→ Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our site’s visitors based upon their visit to https://www.operatingroomissues.com/ and other sites on the Internet.
→ Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
Our Advertising Partners
Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include …
- PropellerAds (Push Notifications and Onclick Ads)
- Infolinks
- Affiliate Partners
- Company Representatives
While each of these advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their site, an updated and hyperlinked resource is maintained here: Privacy Policies.
You may consult this listing to find the privacy policy for each of the advertising partners of https://www.operatingroomissues.org/
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on https://www.operatingroomissues.org/ and which are sent directly to your browser.
They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our site’s third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.
https://www.operatingroomissues.org/ has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third Party Privacy Policies
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices.
The Operating Room Global’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites. You may find a comprehensive listing of these privacy policies and their links here: Privacy Policy Links.
If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites. What Are Cookies?
Children’s Information
We believe it is important to provide added protection for children online. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to observe, participate in and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
The Operating Room Global (TORG) website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.
If a parent or guardian believes that https://www.operatingroomissues.org/ has in its database the personally-identifiable information of a child under the age of 13, please contact us immediately (using the contact in the first paragraph) and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This privacy policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website and regarding information shared and/or collected there. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
Consent is basically giving us permission to hold and process the information you have already provided to us and any you may give to us in the future. Rest assured, we will continue to treat your personal and sensitive details with care and integrity, keeping them secure in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
You are completely in control of whether you give us consent, and you are free to erase your data, delete your account registration with us, unsubscribed from our mailing list or withdraw your consent at any time simply by emailing privacy@operatingroomissues.org
By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.
Legal Disclaimer / Disclosure
We are not lawyers. Nothing on this website should be considered legal advice. Due to the dynamic nature of websites, no single plugin or platform can offer 100% legal compliance. When in doubt, it’s best to consult a specialist internet law attorney to determine if you are in compliance with all applicable laws for your jurisdictions and your use cases. We make no guarantee that the information that you provide us will be absolutely secure.
Update
This Privacy Policy was last updated on: Sunday, September 29th, 2023.
Should we update, amend or make any changes to our privacy policy, those changes will be posted here.