Posted as of: March 18, 2003

The Witlin Center for Advanced Eyecare is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following statement to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our website. If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to contact us on e-mail at info@newjerseyeye.com.

GATHERING OF INFORMATION

Voluntary Submission

The Witlin Center for Advanced Eyecare does not collect personally identifying information about any individual website user except when knowingly provided by an individual, such as when you fill in our Feedback Request form.

Cookies

A cookie is a data file that certain websites write to your computer's hard drive when you visit such sites. A cookie file can contain information, such as a user identification code, that the site uses to track the pages you have visited. The Witlin Center for Advanced Eyecare uses cookies solely to track user traffic patterns throughout our own website. We use this data on an anonymous basis and we do not correlate this information with personal data of any user.

Most website browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings to display a warning before accepting a cookie, or to refuse all cookies. However, if you choose to disable the receipt of cookies from our website, you may not be able to use certain features of the site.

Browser Level Information

The Witlin Center for Advanced Eyecare web servers automatically collect information about a site user's IP address, browser type and referrer by reading this information from the user's browser (information provided by every user's browser). This information is collected in a database and used in an aggregated, anonymous manner in our internal analysis of traffic patterns within our website. This information is automatically logged by most websites.

Use of Information

Our primary goal in collecting user information is to enhance your experience on our website. We achieve this goal by, among other things, providing interactive communications such as emailing you detailed answers to your online queries, and developing future editorial content based on your interests. To develop content targeted to your interests, we use aggregated user information to determine which areas of our website users prefer based upon traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but instead how well each page or content area performs overall.

The Witlin Center for Advanced Eyecare may also disclose information about our users when we believe, in good faith, that the disclosure is required by law.

Kids under 16: Do not send any information about yourself to us - including information such as your name, address, or e-mail address. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 16. In the event that we learn we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as possible.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to contact us by e-mail at info@newjerseyeye.com.

This statement may change from time to time, so please check back periodically.

DEFINITIONS:

IP address: Every computer connected to the Internet has a numeric address called an "IP address." This may or may not correspond uniquely to a particular computer. In some cases, IP addresses can be resolved to domain names, which may indicate a site visitor's Internet service provider, employer, university, etc. As part of its database analysis olypusfn.com resolves IP addresses to domain names.

Browser type: A user's browser is a software program running on a computer that allows users to access documents on the World Wide Web. Browsers can be either text or graphic. They read HTML coded pages that reside on a server and interpret the coding into what the user sees as Web pages. Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer are examples of Web browsers. Browser type typically discloses hardware platform, operating system, and browser software and version.

Referrer: The referrer is the URL of the Internet resource or page that causes a browser to request a page or image from The Witlin Center for Advanced Eyecare servers.

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