Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to Shady Grove Fertility Reproductive Center. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. This Privacy Policy is subject to the Terms and Conditions posted on this Site and may be amended without notice. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Privacy Policy on this site. Site users are encouraged to periodically check this policy to see if any changes have been made that may affect them. By using the Shady Grove Fertility Center site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Personal-identifying information is data that can be used to identify or contact you. Shady Grove Fertility Center collects only the personal-identifying information you provide to us through this Site, such as when you register as a member of the site, or when you use certain services provided by the Site, signing up to receive a newsletter, registering for an event, or applying for financing. All personal-identifying information, however collected, is used only by Shady Grove Fertility Center, for the sole purpose of supplying the services requested by the user, and is never disclosed to any third parties.

Shady Grove Fertility Center reserves the right to disclose any personally identifying or non-personal identifying information if we are required to do so by law or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary in order to: fulfill a government request, conform with the requirements of the law or to comply with legal process served on us; protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Site; transfer to a successor entity in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, sale of assets or other corporate change respecting Shady Grove Fertility Center or this Site; protect or defend the legal rights or property of Shady Grove Fertility Center, this Site or its users; or, in an emergency, to protect the health and safety of this Site’s users or the general public.

We may also collect non-personal-identifying information through the use of "cookies", which are small text files stored on your computer’s hard drive or web server and are used to aid in web page navigation. Shady Grove Fertility Center does not store any personal identifying information in any cookies on your computer. Site users have the option whether or not to accept cookies by resetting their web browsers to give notice when a cookie is being sent to their hard drive. Cookies may also be deleted from a hard drive, however, some parts of this Site may not function properly or may be slowed considerably if cookies are not accepted or disabled.

This Site is not intended for use by minors. Shady Grove Fertility Center does not knowingly allow anyone under the age of 14 to participate in any activity on the Site.

Shady Grove Fertility Center does not provide services outside of the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, by submitting information to Shady Grove Fertility Center you are consenting to our processing of your data in the United States in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Shady Grove Fertility Center does not partner or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

Certain features on this Site request information about you which will be forwarded to a member of the Shady Grove Fertility Center community to respond to your question or inquiry. If you fill out a contact form on-line you will be contacted by a representative of the Shady Grove Fertility Center community. If you provided your telephone number on-line you may be contacted by a representative of the Shady Grove Fertility Center community in order to provide you with the information you requested. A privacy notice pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) is made available at the time any prospective or actual patient first receives services from a member of the Shady Grove Fertility Center community.

Shady Grove Fertility Center takes reasonable steps to ensure the security of its website infrastructure and data, including hosting the site in its own secure data facility and encrypting network and data transmissions, we make no guarantees or warranties concerning the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and cannot be responsible for the theft, destruction or inadvertent disclosure of personally identifiable information.

The Shady Grove Fertility Center Site may contain links to other web sites that Shady Grove Fertility Center does not own or control. Shady Grove Fertility Center does not endorse the content on any third-party websites and is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites, sites framed within the Shady Grove Fertility Center Site, the privacy practices employed by third-party sites, or third-party advertisements, and does not make any representations regarding their content or accuracy. Your use of third-party websites is at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such sites. Shady Grove Fertility Center does not endorse any product advertised on the Shady Grove Fertility Center Site.

In the course of developing Shady Grove Fertility Center’s business, Shady Grove Fertility Center may buy or sell assets. If another entity acquires Shady Grove Fertility Center or all or substantially all of its assets, personally identifiable information and other information collected from users of the Site may be transferred to the entity as one of the transferred assets. If any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against Shady Grove Fertility Center, all such information may be considered an asset of Shady Grove Fertility Center and as such may be sold or transferred to third parties.

Upon request we provide site visitors with access to a description of information that we maintain about them and offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information. Consumers can have this information corrected by writing to us at the below address.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy please contact the Webmaster at:
Shady Grove Fertility Center America, Inc. ATTN: Webmaster
Shady Grove Fertility Reproductive Science Center
15001 Shady Grove Road, Suite 340
Rockville, MD 20850
888-761-1967

Read our Joint Notices of Privacy Practices

updated 9.7.11