Privacy Policy
Acceptance of our Terms
By visiting the Morningside Eye website, viewing, accessing or otherwise using any of the services or information created, collected, compiled or submitted to www.morningside-eye.co.za, you agree to be bound by the following Terms and Conditions of Service. If you do not want to be bound by our Terms your only option is not to visit, view or otherwise use the services of www.morningside-eye.co.za. You understand, agree and acknowledge that these Terms constitute a legally binding agreement between you and www.morningside-eye.co.za and that your use of www.morningside-eye.co.za shall indicate your conclusive acceptance of this agreement.
Provision of Services
You agree and acknowledge that www.morningside-eye.co.za is entitled to modify, improve or discontinue any of its services at its sole discretion and without notice to you even if it may result in you being prevented from accessing any information contained in it. Furthermore, you agree and acknowledge that www.morningside-eye.co.za is entitled to provide services to you through subsidiaries or affiliated entities.
Proprietary Rights
You acknowledge and agree that www.morningside-eye.co.za may contain proprietary and confidential information including trademarks, service marks and patents protected by intellectual property laws and international intellectual property treaties. www.morningside-eye.co.za authorizes you to view and make a single copy of portions of its content for offline, personal, non-commercial use. Our content may not be sold, reproduced, or distributed without our written permission. Any third-party trademarks, service marks and logos are the property of their respective owners. Any further rights not specifically granted herein are reserved.
Submitted Content
When you submit content to www.morningside-eye.co.za you simultaneously grant www.morningside-eye.co.za an irrevocable, worldwide, royalty free license to publish, display, modify, distribute and syndicate your content worldwide. You confirm and warrant that you have the required authority to grant the above license to www.morningside-eye.co.za.
Termination of Agreement
The Terms of this agreement will continue to apply in perpetuity until terminated by either party without notice at any time for any reason. Terms that are to continue in perpetuity shall be unaffected by the termination of this agreement.
Disclaimer of Warranties
You understand and agree that your use of www.morningside-eye.co.za is entirely at your own risk and that our services are provided “As Is” and “As Available”. www.morningside-eye.co.za does not make any express or implied warranties, endorsements or representations whatsoever as to the operation of the www.morningside-eye.co.za website, information, content, materials, or products. This shall include, but not be limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, and warranties that access to or use of the service will be uninterrupted or error- free or that defects in the service will be corrected.
Limitation of Liability
You understand and agree that www.morningside-eye.co.za and any of its subsidiaries or affiliates shall in no event be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or exemplary damages. This shall include, but not be limited to damages for loss of profits, business interruption, business reputation or goodwill, loss of programs or information or other intangible loss arising out of the use of or the inability to use the service, or information, or any permanent or temporary cessation of such service or access to information, or the deletion or corruption of any content or information, or the failure to store any content or information. The above limitation shall apply whether or not www.morningside-eye.co.za has been advised of or should have been aware of the possibility of such damages. In jurisdictions where the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages is not allowed the liability of www.morningside-eye.co.za is limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.
External Content
www.morningside-eye.co.za may include hyperlinks to third-party content, advertising or websites. You acknowledge and agree that www.morningside- eye.co.za is not responsible for and does not endorse any advertising, products or resource available from such resources or websites.
Jurisdiction
You expressly understand and agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the country, state, province or territory determined solely by www.morningside-eye.co.za to resolve any legal matter arising from this agreement or related to your use of www.morningside-eye.co.za. If the court of law having jurisdiction, rules that any provision of the agreement is invalid, then that provision will be removed from the Terms and the remaining Terms will continue to be valid.
Entire Agreement
You understand and agree that the above Terms constitute the entire general agreement between you and www.morningside-eye.co.za. You may be subject to additional Terms and conditions when you use, purchase or access other services, affiliate services or third-party content or material.
Changes to the Terms
www.morningside-eye.co.za reserves the right to modify these Terms from time to time at our sole discretion and without any notice. Changes to our Terms become effective on the date they are posted and your continued use of www.morningside-eye.co.za after any changes to Terms will signify your agreement to be bound by them.
It is Morningside Eye's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://www.morningside-eye.co.za (hereinafter, "us", "we", or "https://www.morningside-eye.co.za"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Morningside Eye collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Morningside Eye's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Morningside Eye's visitors use its website. From time to time, Morningside Eye may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Morningside Eye also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://www.morningside-eye.co.za blog posts. Morningside Eye only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Morningside Eye's websites choose to interact with Morningside Eye in ways that require Morningside Eye to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Morningside Eye gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at https://www.morningside-eye.co.za to provide a username and email address.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Advertisements
Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Morningside Eye and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Links To External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
https://www.morningside-eye.co.za uses Google AdWords for remarketing
https://www.morningside-eye.co.za uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven't completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone's past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google's privacy policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
Aggregated Statistics
Morningside Eye may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Morningside Eye may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Morningside Eye does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, Morningside Eye uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Morningside Eye uses cookies to help Morningside Eye identify and track visitors, their usage of https://www.morningside-eye.co.za, and their website access preferences. Morningside Eye visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Morningside Eye's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Morningside Eye's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Morningside Eye's use of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Morningside Eye may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Morningside Eye's sole discretion. Morningside Eye encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Credit & Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via [email protected] or 011 783 0099.