Privacy and Confidentiality Statement

Atherotech, Inc. is committed to protecting the privacy of personal and health information.

What Information We Collect
Atherotech will collect information that identifies you ("personal information") online only when you voluntarily provide it to us through our site. For example, when you choose to register on our site, we may ask you to provide some business or personal information and may collect information that will allow you to establish a username and password. In addition, we may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us through responses to questionnaires, such as the Heart Risk Assessment and customer satisfaction surveys.

How We Use Personal Information We Collect Online

Internal Uses
We may use your personal information within Atherotech (1) to provide you with the services and products you request, (2) to assist with your questions about our services, billing, payment methods or use of our web site, (3) to process or collect payments made in connection with our services to you, and (4) to evaluate our services and products and to conduct customer surveys.

We may also use your information within Atherotech, with your consent, to send you information that may be of interest to you.

Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties
Atherotech will not disclose to unaffiliated companies any information it gathers from you or your business which could be used to identify or contact you ("Personal Information"). In the following limited circumstances we will consider, and may release, Personal Information to third parties: (1) to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or (2) in special cases, such as a physical threat to you or others. We also may provide Personal Information to contracted vendors where it is necessary for them to provide us with services related to better operation and maintenance of our website ("Vendors"). We will attempt to require that each of these Vendors not further use or disclose your Personal Information for any purpose other than providing us or you with products and services. Of course, we cannot guarantee their compliance with these restrictions.

We also may share aggregate, non-personal information about web site usage with unaffiliated third parties. This aggregate information does not contain any personal information about our users.

Online Information
It is our policy to protect your account information against unauthorized access or release. We use the services of VeriSign to keep our site secure... All the information you provide to us is handled through a Secure Socket Layer ("SSL"). SSL is a leading Web technology that encrypts your account information. Passwords and test results will be stored in encrypted form. Exercise caution when sending sensitive information via e-mail, as e-mail messages do not have the security features that are built into our website.

We limit Atherotech’s employees' and contractors' access to personal information. Only those employees and contractors with a business reason to know have access to such information. We educate our employees about the importance of confidentiality and customer privacy through standard operating procedures, mandatory training programs, and internal policies on data privacy and corporate integrity. We take appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce employee privacy responsibilities.

Links to Other Sites
We want to provide users of our site with information, services and products that are valuable to them. Featured programs and other site content within the Atherotech site may link our users to third party sites. Atherotech does not control, and is not responsible for, the privacy policies or practices of any third-party site. If you link to third party sites from Atherotech, we encourage you to consult the privacy policy of each site you visit.

Your Consent
By using our web site, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of information as described in this policy.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change this privacy policy from time to time, so please check back often. We will let you know when our policy has been modified by changing the effective date at the bottom of this page. We will always let you know what information we collect, how we use it, and the circumstances under which such information may be disclosed by us.