General

At CorCell, we recognize and respect the privacy of our cord blood bank customers. Although CorCell takes reasonable measures to ensure the security of your personal and health-related personal information, no security system is completely invulnerable to hackers. In addition, you are accessing our web site through a network (either your own ISP or your employer’s network) that we cannot control. As a result, we cannot be responsible for any harm that you believe is caused to you, your family, or your business due to unauthorized leaks of information or equipment failures that are beyond our control, or to your inability to access our site.

Information We Collect

CorCell collects and maintains statistics about the web servers used to contact us, which helps us track the total number of visitors to the site and to specific parts of the site. Our web site uses “cookies” which deposit certain record-keeping information on your hard drive. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates.

We use cookies to keep track of your preferences, deliver content specific to your interests, and for other similar purposes. We collect and store: the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com or princeton.edu); the Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using; the browser software you use and your operating system; the date and time you access our site; and the Internet address of the web site from which you linked directly to our site. IP addresses are used to customize the web site, analyze trends and site usage, and improve our content, services, and product offerings to make your experience easier and faster.

If you choose to obtain CorCell cord blood stem cell information or services online you will be asked to provide personal information to us or, in some cases, to our business partners who help deliver this information or services. The information collected may include:

• contact information (like email addresses),
  
• unique identifiers (like social security numbers),
  
• financial information (like account numbers), and
  
• demographic information (like zip code, age, or income level).

This information will be used only to process your order or to respond to your cord blood banking inquiry. Financial information is used to check your qualifications and bill you for the products and services you request. Unique identifiers (such as social security numbers) are collected in order to verify your identity. We do NOT sell nor distribute to third parties the customer information described above.

Communicating with us using email

If you choose to communicate with us via email, you are advised of the following:

• Information you exchange with us using these methods may not be secure.
  
• Any information that you create or receive on your employer’s computer or through your employer’s network may be the legal property of your employer. Your employer may review and save this information or turn it over in response to a legal subpoena.
  
• If you email an article found on our web site about a disease or condition to a friend who receives email at a work address, you could be revealing sensitive information about your friend’s medical condition or health interests to that friend’s employer.

If you send us Ideas, Pictures or Similar Things

All pictures, comments, suggestions, ideas and other information or materials you submit to us will become and remain our exclusive property. By making a submission, you disclaim any proprietary rights in such submissions, and you acknowledge CorCell’s unrestricted right to use (or not use), and reproduce (or not reproduce), them in any medium, now and in the future, without notice, compensation, acknowledgment of its source or other obligation to you or anyone else.

CorCell’s rights of ownership in such information shall extend to, and CorCell shall be free to use, any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in information a visitor provides CorCellluding but not limited to developing, manufacturing, and marketing products or services incorporating or otherwise based on such information.