Privacy Policy

Last Updated: September 23, 2022

This Privacy Policy of MD Cote applies to information that MD Cote obtains from its websites, including the MD Cote site located at www.mdcote.net (the “Site”) and its featured services (collectively, the “Service”), as well as the information you may provide to us via other means of communication. We respect your privacy and will strive to protect your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes how MD Cote collects, uses, shares and secures the information you provide. It also describes choices you may make regarding use, access and correction of your personal information. Please note that this Privacy Policy is incorporated into our Terms of Service (“Terms”) for MD Cote and, unless we otherwise define a term in this Privacy Policy, a capitalized term used in this Privacy Policy has the meaning set forth in the Terms.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy, and in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you an email notification). We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access or use the Services to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy.

Collection of Information

Information You Provide to Us

We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information when you make a purchase, create an account, create and share recommendations or participate in any other interactive features of the Services, request customer support, participate in a survey, contest or promotion or otherwise communicate with us. The types of information we collect may include your name, email address, username, password, photos, address, payment method, and associated information (e.g., comments, messages, custom tags and search queries) and any other information you choose to provide.

Information We Collect Automatically When You Use the Services

When you access or use the Services, we automatically collect information about you, including:

Log Information: We log information about your use of the Services, including your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, web request, access times, pages viewed, web browser, links clicked and the page you visited before navigating to the Services.

Device Information: We collect information about the computer or mobile device you use to access or use the Services, including the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers and mobile network information. In addition, certain features of the Services may require access to your device’s native phonebook and camera applications, with your consent, to facilitate your use of certain features of the Services. For more information about how you can control our access to these applications, please see “Your Choices” below.

Location Information: We may collect information about the location of your device, including general location information (e.g. IP address, city/state and/or zip code associated with an IP address), when you access or use the Services or otherwise consent to the collection of this information. For more details, please see “Cookies” under “Your Choices” below.

Information Collected by Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: We use various technologies to collect information, and this may include sending cookies to your computer or mobile device. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us to improve the Services and your experience, see which areas and features of the Services are popular and count visits. We may also collect information using web beacons (also known as “tracking pixels”). Web beacons are electronic images that may be used in the Services or emails and help deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage and campaign effectiveness and determine whether an email has been opened and acted upon.

For more information about cookies, and how to disable them, please see “Your Choices” below.

Information We Collect From Other Sources

We may also obtain information from other sources and combine that with information we collect through the Services. For example, if you create or log in to your account through, or using your credentials from, a third-party social media site, we will have access to certain information from that site, such as your name, account information and friends lists, in accordance with the authorization procedures determined by such third-party social media site.

Use of Information

We may use information about you for various purposes, including to:

  • Provide, maintain and improve the Services and send you related information, including notifications and confirmations;
  • Facilitate your communications with other users;
  • Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
  • Respond to your comments, questions and requests, and provide customer service;
  • Communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, rewards and events, and provide other news and information about MD Cote and our select partners;
  • Monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with the Services;
  • Personalize the Services and provide advertisements, content or features that match your interests and preferences;
  • Process and deliver contest, promotion and sweepstakes entries and rewards;
  • Link or combine with information we receive from others to help understand your needs and to provide you with better service; and
  • Carry out any other purpose for which the information was collected.

Sharing of Information

We may share information about you as follows or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:

  • With other users in connection with the privacy preferences you establish through your MD Cote account settings;
  • With vendors, consultants and other service providers who are working on our behalf and require access to your information to carry out their work;
  • In response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with any applicable law, regulation or legal process, or as otherwise required by any applicable law, rule or regulation;
  • If we believe your actions are inconsistent with the spirit or language of our user agreements or policies, or to protect the rights, property and safety of MD Cote or others;
  • In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or transfer of all or a portion of our business to another company; and
  • With your consent or at your direction.

We may also share aggregated or de-identified information, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

Social Sharing Features

The Services may offer social sharing features and other integrated tools (such as the Facebook “Like” button), which let you share actions you take on the Services with other media, and vice versa. The use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the entity that provides the social sharing feature. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the entities that provide these features.

Analytics Provided by Others

We may allow others to provide analytics services in connection with the Services. These entities may use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect information about your use of the Services and other websites, including your IP address, web browser, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked and conversion information. This information may be used by MD Cote and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand your online activity.

We work with analytics providers such as Google Analytics and others, which use cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the Site and report on activities and trends. This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps, and online resources. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners, and opt out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Security

MD Cote takes reasonable measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.

Your Choices

Cookies

Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of the Services.

Some web browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” feature. Because there is not yet an accepted standard for how to respond to Do Not Track signals, our website does not currently respond to such signals.

Promotional Communications

You may opt out of receiving promotional emails or text messages from MD Cote by following the instructions in those emails or text messages or by contacting us at hello@mdcote.net. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.

Children’s Privacy

MD. Cote does not knowingly collect or solicit any information from anyone under the age of 13 and no part of our Site is directed to users under 13. If you believe that we might have any information from a child under 13, please contact us at Hello@mdcote.net

California Privacy Rights

Residents of California have the right to request a disclosure describing what types of personal information we have shared with third parties for their direct marketing purposes, and with whom we have shared it, during the preceding calendar year. For more information, please see below.

International Use

The Service is hosted in the United States and is intended for visitors located within the United States. If you choose to use the Service from the European Union or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, then please note that you are transferring your personal information outside of those regions to the United States for storage and processing. Also, we may transfer your data from the U.S. to other countries or regions in connection with storage and processing of data, fulfilling your requests, and operating the Service. By providing any information, including personal information, on or to the Service, you consent to such transfer, storage, and processing.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email at hello@mdcote.net or write to us at:

MD Cote
27203 216th Ave SE
Suite A
Maple Vallley, WA 98038

CCPA Privacy Notice

Information for California Residents

In addition to our full Privacy Policy at https://www.mdcote.net/privacy-policy, this CCPA Privacy Notice applies to certain California residents (“Consumers”) from whom we collect personal information as a business under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (California Civil Code §§ 1798.100 to 1798.199) and its implementing regulations, as amended or superseded from time to time (“CCPA”).

For the purposes of this CCPA Privacy Notice, “Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household, or as otherwise defined by the CCPA.

Personal Information does not include information that is:

  • Lawfully made available from government records;
  • Deidentified or aggregate information; or
  • Otherwise excluded from the scope of the CCPA.

Consumer does not include a natural person acting as a job applicant to, employee of, owner of, director of, officer of, medical staff member of, or contractor of MD Cote to the extent such person’s Personal Information is collected within the context of the person acting in such role.California Consumers’ Rights and Choices

If you are a Consumer, the CCPA may permit you to request information regarding the:

  • Categories of Personal Information (as defined by the CCPA) collected, sold or disclosed by us;
  • Purposes for which categories of Personal Information collected by us are used;
  • Categories of sources from which we collect Personal Information;
  • Categories of third parties with whom we share Personal Information; and
  • Specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you and in some cases your Household.

In addition, if you are a Consumer, you may:

  • Opt out of the sale of your Personal Information, in some circumstances;
  • Opt out of receiving marketing communications from us; however, you may still receive administrative communications regarding our services;
  • Opt in to certain financial incentive programs we may offer related to the collection, retention, or sale of your Personal Information; and
  • Request that we and our service providers delete Personal Information we have collected from you, in some circumstances.

Further, the CCPA provides Consumers with the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by a business for the exercise of these CCPA privacy rights, subject to certain limitations.Collection and Disclosure of Personal Information from Consumers

The table(s) below outline how we handle Personal Information collected about Consumers in the preceding 12 months from the date this CCPA Privacy Notice was last reviewed.

Category of personal information we may collect: Identifiers
The personal information contains:The Identifiers contain the following information: names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses.
Whether we have sold or otherwise disclosed the Personal information in the previous 12 months:We have not sold the personal information in the previous 12 months. However, we may have otherwise shared the personal information with third parties in the previous 12 months.
Categories of Third Parties, If Shared:Our Service Providers, Advertising networks, Social networks
Category of personal information we may collect: Internet/Electronic Activity
The personal information contains:The Internet/Electronic Activity contain the following information: browsing history.
Whether we have sold or otherwise disclosed the Personal information in the previous 12 months:We have not sold the personal information in the previous 12 months. However, we may have otherwise shared the personal information with third parties in the previous 12 months.
Categories of Third Parties, If Shared:Our Service Providers, Advertising networks
Category of personal information we may collect: Geolocational Data
The personal information contains:The Geolocational Data contain the following information: city, state, country.
Whether we have sold or otherwise disclosed the Personal information in the previous 12 months:We have not sold the personal information in the previous 12 months. However, we may have otherwise shared the personal information with third parties in the previous 12 months.
Categories of Third Parties, If Shared:Our Service Providers, Advertising networks, Data analytics providers, Social networks
Category of personal information we may collect: Professional Information
The personal information contains:The Professional Information contain the following information: employment history.
Whether we have sold or otherwise disclosed the Personal information in the previous 12 months:We have neither sold nor otherwise shared the personal information with third parties during the previous 12 months.
Categories of Third Parties, If Shared:We have neither sold nor otherwise shared the personal information with third parties during the previous 12 months.
Category of personal information we may collect: Educational Information
The personal information contains:The Educational Information contain the following information: institutions attended.
Whether we have sold or otherwise disclosed the Personal information in the previous 12 months:We have neither sold nor otherwise shared the personal information with third parties during the previous 12 months.
Categories of Third Parties, If Shared:We have neither sold nor otherwise shared the personal information with third parties during the previous 12 months.

Use of Personal Information

Such information may be used for the purposes disclosed in our Privacy Policy, https://www.mdcote.net/privacy-policy, and the purposes described below, or as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or disclosed to Consumers at the time of collection: Providing our services, Communicating with Consumers, Developing and providing marketing materials, Personalizing the experience of Consumers on our services including providing tailored content, Facilitating transactions and payments, Detecting security incidents; protecting against malicious; deceptive; fraudulent; or illegal activity; and prosecuting those responsible for that activity.

In the preceding 12 months since this CCPA Privacy Notice was last reviewed, we have collected Personal Information from the following categories of sources: Directly from you (e.g. forms you complete or products and services you purchase), Indirectly from you (e.g. from observing your actions on our website), Advertising networks.Requests

We have not sold your Personal Information for the preceding 12 months from the date of the last review of this CCPA Privacy Notice.

Please be aware that we do not accept or process requests through other means (e.g., via fax or social media).

We will review the information provided and may request additional information to ensure we are interacting with the correct Consumer. If you have a password-protected online account with us, you may be required to log-in to your account for identity verification. If you do not have an account with us, additional information to verify your identity may be required by law before we may take action upon such a request. This additional information may vary depending on the nature of your request and/or the nature of the information about which your request relates. In some cases, we may also be required by law to obtain a signed declaration under penalty of perjury from you that you are the subject of the request being made. If we suspect fraudulent or malicious activity on or from your account, we will delay taking action on your request until we can appropriately verify your identity and the request as authentic.

By law, we are not required to collect Personal Information that we otherwise would not collect in the ordinary course of our business, retain Personal Information for longer than we would otherwise retain such information in the ordinary course of our business, or reidentify or otherwise link information that is not maintained in a manner that would be considered Personal Information. If we have not requested specific additional information from you to verify your request, please do not send such information.

We generally will aim to avoid requesting additional information from you for the purposes of verification. However, if we cannot reasonably verify your identity or more information is needed for security or fraud-prevention purposes, we may consider any of the following factors, alone or in combination, in requesting additional information:

  • The type, sensitivity, and value of the Personal Information collected and maintained about the Consumer, as applicable law requires a more stringent verification process for sensitive or valuable personal information;
  • The risk of harm to the Consumer posed by any unauthorized access or deletion;
  • The likelihood that fraudulent or malicious actors would seek the Personal Information;
  • Whether the Personal Information to be provided by the Consumer to verify their identity is sufficiently robust to protect against fraudulent requests or being spoofed or fabricated;
  • The manner in which we interact with the Consumer;
  • Available technology for verification; and
  • Other factors that may be reasonable in the circumstances, are consistent with industry practice, are recommended by California government officials, or which may be required by law or regulation following the effective date of this CCPA Privacy Notice.

If your request is regarding household information, the same verification steps above may be required before we can provide you with aggregate household information. In addition, if you do not have a password-protected online account with us, for us to process a request for access to or deletion of specific pieces of information regarding your household, we may need all members of the household to make the request, and we may need to individually verify each household member and that each member making the request is currently a member of the house.

We reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee or take other appropriate action in response to requests from a Consumer or household that are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of their repetitive character.

You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf pursuant to applicable law. We accept documentation of your designation in the form of a valid power of attorney and/or a written authorization signed by you and the authorized agent. You must submit evidence of your designation of an authorized agent in writing to: 27203 216th Ave SE Suite A, Seattle, WA 98038, United States. We may require verification of your authorized agent in addition to the information for verification above for Consumers and households.

Our services are not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect or sell Personal Information from children under the age of 16. If you learn that a child has provided us with Personal Information, then you may contact us through the Contact Us section below. Notice of Financial Incentive

We offer financial incentives to Consumers based upon the collection, retention or sale of a Consumer’s Personal Information calculated based on a good-faith estimate of the value of the Consumer’s data, which forms the basis for offering such financial incentives. The financial incentive offered is a percentage discount on our products. The categories of Personal Information that are implicated by the financial incentive or price or service difference include: Identifiers.

The method we use to calculate the value of a Consumer’s data is as follows: The marginal value to us of the sale; collection; or deletion of a Consumer’s data.

You may enroll in or withdraw from our financial incentive program at any time by updating your preferences at hello@mdcote.net.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this CCPA Privacy Notice, contact hello@mdcote.net

Last updated: November 23, 2022