Introduction
Your privacy is important to us. Through this privacy policy, Reproductive Institute of South Texas will explain how we collect information from you, what is done with such information, and how you can remove your name or other information from our lists.

1. Personal Information Collected by Reproductive Institute of South Texas
Reproductive Institute of South Texas collects personal information in three ways: email links, sign-up forms for e-mail lists and by filling out the forms located on this website.

A. E-mail Lists
When you sign up for a Reproductive Institute of South Texas e-mail list, you provide us with no personal information other than your e-mail address. Reproductive Institute of South Texas does not require you to provide your real name, address or any other personal information as part of this process.

B. Direct E-Mail
When you send an e-mail message to a Reproductive Institute of South Texas address, you may also be sending us your real name, a “signature” file containing other personal information, and additional information, depending on how your e-mail software is configured. The only information required by Reproductive Institute of South Texas in order to reply to an e-mail message is your e-mail address. If you are concerned about other information being submitted to us, please consult your company system administrator or Internet service provider to learn more about your e-mail settings, or you may wish to use an alternative address, as described below.

C. Filling out online forms
Our online Forms are used to collect information required to process a request for the egg donor program, or as a possible client candidate. This includes the following:

• Your full name
• Your mailing address
• Your e-mail address (optional)
• Your credit-card number and billing information
• Your telephone number
• Your choices of fact sheets and other information

While we exercise security precautions in the collection of such information (see below), we recognize that some people are uncomfortable providing such information via the Internet. Therefore, We allow you to send the form in via fax, mail or telephone number.

D. Passive Information Collection
Reproductive Institute of South Texas monitors traffic to its Website in order to maintain it servers and diagnose any server or system problems. As part of this routine monitoring, we automatically collect certain information from your computer, including your Internet Protocol (IP) address and any link you clicked on to come to the Reproductive Institute of South Texas site. In most cases, this information cannot be personally connected to you. However, under certain circumstances, your IP address may include information that identifies you, as well as your employer, if you are connecting from work, or your Internet service provider if you are connecting from home. Regardless, Reproductive Institute of South Texas will not use any such information to identify you in any way other than as part of an aggregate user base.

Reproductive Institute of South Texas does not perform any other forms of passive information collection, such as the use of “cookies” or session IDs.

2. What We Do – and Don’t Do – With Your Information
The information described above is used for very specific purposes, as described below.

A. E-mail Lists
When you join an e-mail list, your e-mail address is used only to send you messages related to that list. Your e-mail address is not provided to any individuals, organizations or companies, and is only reviewed by the list administrator as part of ordinary list maintenance procedures. Your e-mail address is not linked to any other information about you that may exist elsewhere in our files (such as member databases) and is not used for any purpose other than to provide you with the information you request. However, e-mail is not a secure medium and we cannot be responsible for any interception – however unlikely — of e-mail that may occur outside of our systems. If you are concerned about giving out your e-mail address, you may wish to use an alternative address, as described below. You can have your name removed from our mailing lists at any time (see instructions below).

B. Direct E-mail to Us
When you send an e-mail message to a Reproductive Institute of South Texas address, it is treated as a confidential correspondence between you and Reproductive Institute of South Texas. Your address will not be used for any purpose other than to address the issues raised in your message, and, if appropriate, to respond to you. Under certain circumstances (i.e., if you are reporting technical problems), it may be necessary to provide your address to outside vendors, such as technical support companies for follow-up. Additionally, e-mail is not a secure medium and we cannot be responsible for any interception – however unlikely — of e-mail that may occur outside of our systems. If you are concerned about giving out your e-mail address, you may wish to use an alternative address, as described below.

C. Donor Egg Program Form
When you fill out our Donor Egg Program Form, your name is added to our member database. This information is used to provide you with the material you requested.

This information is never sold, rented or otherwise provided to advertiser, sponsors or other third parties. Reproductive Institute of South Texas does, however, send out information packets from third parties on a periodic basis; you may choose not to receive these packets at the time you register, or by following the opt out procedures listed at 5.B. below.

Reproductive Institute of South Texas may provide sponsors and other third parties with aggregate information about our members. This does not include any personally identifying information, and cannot be used to contact you in any way.

3. Security Precautions We Take to Safeguard Your Information
Whenever we collect information from you, we make the best possible efforts to ensure that such information is kept confidential. E-mail addresses collected for mailing lists are kept on a separate server accessible only by parties that maintain the mailing list. When you send an e-mail message to a Reproductive Institute of South Texas address, the party receiving the message is required by Reproductive Institute of South Texas to keep your e-mail address strictly confidential and is not permitted to use it for any purpose other than to reply to or otherwise address your message. However, e-mail is not a secure medium and we cannot be responsible for any interception – however unlikely — of e-mail that may occur outside of our systems. If you are concerned about giving out your e-mail address, you may wish to use an alternative address, as described below.

4. Security Precautions You Can Take to Safeguard Your Information
A. E-mail
If you prefer not to give us your primary e-mail address, you can create a separate address for use in correspondence with Reproductive Institute of South Texas. A number of companies offer free e-mail accounts that can be used for this purpose, including Hotmail (www.hotmail.com), Yahoo (www.yahoo.com) and Juno (www.juno.com). If you are an America Online member, you can create separate screen names for use as alternate e-mail addresses; see keyword “Screen Names” for more information. You may also wish to disable any automatic “signature” function built into your e-mail software.

B. Other Personal Information
If you are using a computer in a shared environment such as a library or school, and are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, you may wish to make sure that the browser’s “Auto Complete” feature is turned off. This will prevent other users from accessing your credit card number or other data entered on the computer. When filling out an order form, make sure it is on a secure server – usually identified by a lock image in your browser’s status line, or by a Web address that begins with “https.”

5. How You Can Control Your Information
You own all personal information you provide to the Reproductive Institute of South Texas, and can have any information you provide to us removed from our records at any time. Please follow the instructions below to change or remove any information from our records.

A. E-mail Addresses
If you have subscribed to one of our e-mail newsletters, the first message you receive from us will include the instructions on how to unsubscribe. If these procedures do not work, you may contact us at dreobrown@concieveababy.com, and we will remove your address manually (please allow up to 72 hours for any manual removal).

6. Third Parties
Some services on Reproductive Institute of South Texas site are provided by third parties. Please note that when you click on a link to a third-party site, you are no longer in an area directly under Reproductive Institute of South Texas’s control. Reproductive Institute of South Texas is not responsible for the privacy practices of such sites. Reproductive Institute of South Texas does not participate in any ad-serving networks, and does not allow any third parties to place links, banners or other content that may be used to track or identify users on our sites.

7. Contact Information
Please address any questions about Reproductive Institute of South Texas privacy practices to the following:

Privacy Coordinator
Reproductive Institute of South Texas Inc.
110 E. Savannah, Bldg C Suite 103
McAllen TX 78503

(956) 687-2693

dreobrown@concieveababy.com