Website terms of use

Welcome to the SM Clinic website. As a visitor to our website, we ask that you comply with the terms and conditions set forth below. By viewing or using this website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.

Information

The website owner will take all reasonable care to ensure that the information provided is accurate and up to date. However, the website owner reserves the right to change the content of the website at any time without prior notice and/or to discontinue updating the website, and accepts no responsibility for updating the website.

The use of trademarks is only permitted with the prior consent of the website owner.

Limitation of liability

All text, images, and other content displayed on the website have been selected and edited by the website owner and are intended for informational purposes only.

Except for direct damage caused by intentional distortion of information by the owner or due to the owner’s negligence, the owner or any other legal or natural person who participated in the creation of this website is not liable for any indirect, direct, special or incidental damages arising from the visitor’s misunderstanding of the content of the website.

The website and all its content may not be copied, reproduced, republished, transferred to a remote computer, published, transmitted, distributed or used to create derivative works without the prior express permission of the website owner.

Business relations

These web pages may contain links to websites, sources, and information from third parties. However, the website owner is not familiar with the content of the information on third-party websites and therefore accepts no responsibility for the information provided there. As a visitor to this website, you acknowledge and agree that the website owner is not responsible for the availability of such external websites or resources, nor is it responsible for any content, services, products, or other materials available on such websites.

Privacy

On the website, we collect contact details and certain information (e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, names) of visitors who wish to receive additional information about treatment options at our clinic. Visitors are solely responsible for the accuracy of the data and contact information provided. We use contact information to contact visitors if necessary or at their request. Users may revoke their consent to data processing at any time. In this case, we will take all necessary measures to comply with this request as soon as possible.

We will use the data and contact information received exclusively for the purposes for which it was provided, in accordance with your consent. We do not pass this data on to third parties.

To improve your online communication on our website, we sometimes use short text files (cookies) that are stored on your browser depending on your settings. This makes it easier for you to navigate the website. We use this technology to tailor our communication to your preferences. Some cookies are stored in your computer’s memory on our servers. The use of cookies is standard practice on most websites. If you do not agree to their use, you can disable cookies in your browser settings, but this may limit your ability to interact with our website.

Cookie usage policy

To optimize system performance, ease of use, and provide useful information, information is automatically collected and stored in log files on the user’s computer. This includes the user’s IP address, browser type and language settings, operating system, Internet service provider (ISP), and the date and time of the visit.

This information is used by the owner of the SM Clinic website for the effective management of the website, to study user behavior on all of its pages, to analyze trends, and to compile comprehensive demographic information about users. The collected data may be used for marketing and advertising services and for communication.

In the event that non-personal data is used in conjunction with personal data, such data shall be treated as personal data for as long as it remains combined.

The privacy statement contained in these terms and conditions also applies to data collected through the use of cookies and other similar technologies.

What is a “cookie”?

Websites, e-mail messages, online services, advertising, and interactive applications may use so-called cookies to optimize their services.

A cookie is a small file, usually containing a string of letters and numbers, that is downloaded to the user’s terminal device (computer, mobile device, etc.; in this case, usually referred to as a “computer”) when the user visits the clinic’s website (it is sent from the web server to the cookie folder of the browser on the user’s computer hard drive). For example, it allows our website to recognize the user’s device when a connection is established between the web server and the web browser. The main purpose of a cookie is to enable the web server to display customized web pages to the user, making the visit to the website more personal and better tailored to the individual needs of the user. Cookies are also used to help the SM Clinic team learn more about how users use the project’s websites and to improve the user experience when visiting the websites.

What cookies does the SM Clinic website use?

The SM Clinic team may use the following types of cookies on its websites:

temporary or session cookies: these are temporary cookies that are stored in the user’s browser cookie file until the end of the browsing session (during browsing and deleted after the session ends). These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of certain applications or features of the website;

Persistent cookies: persistent cookies can be used to improve the user experience (for example, to store registration data, language settings, etc.). These cookies are stored in the user’s browser cookie file for a longer period of time until they are deleted. This period depends on the choice made by the user in their browser settings. Persistent cookies allow information to be transferred to the web server each time someone visits the website. Persistent cookies are also known as tracking cookies.

Basic cookies are cookies from the website that the user is viewing and can be either permanent or temporary. Websites use these cookies to store information that will be used the next time the user visits the website.

Third-party cookies come from other partner websites (for example, to measure traffic). Third parties may collect user data from different websites and use it for various purposes: from advertising and analytics to improving their products.

Where the use or installation of cookies requires the user’s consent, the SM Clinic team obtains the user’s consent before using or installing them on the user’s device (computer).

Tracking and analysis

In order to continuously optimize the interaction on our websites, we use the Google Analytics service provided by Google Inc., which uses cookies to analyze traffic (counting visitors, determining browsers and keywords that lead to the website, navigation problems). The user’s website informs them that cookies are being stored on their device (computer) and allows them to refuse cookies.

This allows the monitoring of user behavior on the Internet; during the data collection phase, cookies store information about how users use the website, including the number of pages viewed, the user’s geographical location, the time of the visit, and the number of visits, in order to improve the website and ensure comfortable use. This data is collected using cookie tracking. The data obtained through cookies is anonymous and is not linked to personal data. SM clinic and its partners do not pass this data on to third parties for their own use. If the user does not accept cookies, no information is stored.

* Cookies from external websites/services

Cookie name Purpose Storage duration Company

Website viewing statistics 1 minute Google Inc.

In accordance with the law, the technical storage of data or access to it is permitted exclusively for the purpose of transmitting a message via an electronic communications network or in the event of an urgent need to provide an information society service explicitly requested by the user. The SM Clinic team uses the following cookies for these purposes: own session cookies and cookies for counting website visitors; cookies are stored only for as long as necessary to achieve their purpose, or at most for the duration of the browsing session, and are deleted upon its termination.

Enabling and disabling cookies and similar technologies

The user can accept or reject all cookies on all websites they visit, bearing in mind that most browsers automatically accept cookies; or they can block their use by changing their web browser settings. For example, if you are using Internet Explorer 8.0, you must follow these steps:

If cookies are disabled, some features and the entire functionality of the website will no longer be available or will not work properly.

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