Privacy Policies

InterCure, the maker of RESPeRATE, is committed to preserving your privacy.

Overview

Intercure is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program Effective as 05/30/2005. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build user's trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy policy covers the site www.resperate.com. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact us. If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily address, you should contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.

InterCure believes that when you share your personal information with us, it is our responsibility to live up to your trust by preserving your privacy. We have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy and to make clear what happens to any information we collect. This statement discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the web site www.resperate.com. However, we cannot be responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other sites to which this site provides links.

InterCure's commitment to your privacy

  • We will not share information you have given us with other parties unless you explicitly give us permission to do so.
  • We will not send you advertising materials or other communications from any third party unless you have specifically requested them or joined a mailing list, or we are mandated to do so by law (for example, in the case of a product recall).
  • We will adhere to industry standards in keeping your identifying information safe from unauthorized access.

The information we collect

We use your IP address (a number that identifies you on the internet, the way a phone number identifies you on the phone system) to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you.

Our online order forms, e-mail newsletter and warranty registration forms require you to give us contact information (such as name and e-mail address) and financial information (credit card information). We use customer contact information from the registration form to send you information about our company, its products, and related news when requested to do so. Your contact information is also used to contact you when necessary. All information collected through these forms, including medical information, is held by InterCure in the strictest confidence, and will not be shared with other parties. Financial information that is collected is used to bill you for products and services.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. Intercure uses cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser's "help" file. Our site uses cookies (small data files placed on your hard drive) to keep track of visits and purchases. These cookies do not contain credit card information. Persistent cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will be limited.

Email pages to friends

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Intercure stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us (at either support or our US, Call toll-free number : 1-877-988-9388) to request that we remove this information from our database.

Public Forums

This site makes or may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. In particular, all credit card and other transactional information is transmitted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology - the industry standard for protected credit card transactions.

Legal Disclaimer

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

Changes in this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you areaware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

Changing your information

You can opt-out of receiving communications from us and/or ask to change or delete information you have previously provided to us by contacting us in one of the following ways:

  • Send e-mail to: support
  • Send postal mail to:
    InterCure, Inc.
    589 8th Avenue, 6th Floor
    New York, NY 10018
    USA
    Attention: Customer Service
  • In the US, Call toll-free : 1-877-988-9388

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