Privacy policy and Terms & Conditions.

Last updated November 22th 2022.

 

PRIVACY POLICY

We are committed to protecting your privacy, and will ensure that any information you provide to us will be collected and used in accordance with concurrent legislation; the Algemene Verordening Gegevensbescherming (AVG) when applicable to patients and/or treatments in the Netherlands and with the Ley Orgánica de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal (LOPD) de 15/1999 of December 13, with regard to patients and/or treatments in Spain. We only use the personal information provided by you, such as, but not limited to; name and surname, email address and contact information, in case you provide us with such, in requesting information or asking for an appointment. We will not share your data with any third party except for administrative purposes relating to the services we provide and where we may be required to do so by law.

 

An important notice is that any medical consultation and or medical treatment will fall under contract with the clinic where the patient presents him or herself, as this website serves informational purposes only. 

 

WEBSITE DISCLAIMER

The information provided by vanderveen-oculoplastics and/or its employees and/or its colleagues in affiliated institutions (from hereon in referred to as “We”, “Us” o “Our”) on www.vanderveen-oculoplastics.com, www.vanderveen-oculoplastics.nl and www.vanderveen-oculoplastics.es (the “Site”) is for general information purposes only. All information on the Site is provided in good faith, however we make no representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, availability or completeness of any information on the Site. Under no circumstance shall we have any liability to you for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of the Site or reliance on any information provided on the Site. Your use of the Site and your reliance on any information on the Site is solely intended as informatory and should not be construed as a replacement of visiting a trained specialist at any moment. In using the Site you confirm having read, understood and agree with this.

 

EXTERNAL LINKS

The Site may contain links to other websites or content belonging to, or originating from, third parties or links to websites and features in banners or other advertising. Such external links are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy, reliability or completeness by us. We do not warrant, endorse, guarantee or assume responsibility for the accuracy or liability of any information offered by third-party websites linked through the Site or any website or feature linked in any banner or other advertising. We will not be a party to, or in any way responsible for, monitoring any transaction between you and third-party providers of products or services.

 

PROFESSIONAL DISCLAIMER

The Site cannot and does not contain medical/health advice. The medical/health information is provided for general information and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice. Accordingly, before taking any action based upon such information, we encourage you to consult with the appropriate professionals. We do not provide any kind of medical/health advice on this Site. The use or reliance of any information contained on the Site is solely at your own risk. In other words, reading the information on this Site cannot, and is not intended to, substitute the visit to and evaluation by a trained medical specialist.

 

TESTIMONIALS

The Site contains testimonials by users of our services. These testimonials reflect the real-life experiences and opinions of such users. However, the experiences are personal to those particular users, and may not necessarily be representative of all users of our services. We do not claim, and you should not assume, that all users will have the same experiences. Your individual results and experiences may vary.

The testimonials on the Site are submitted in various forms such as text, audio and/or video and are reviewed by us before being posted. They do appear on the Site verbatim as given by the users, except for the correction of grammar or typing errors. Some testimonials may have been shortened for the sake of brevity where the full testimonial contained extraneous information not relevant to the general public.

The views and opinions contained in the testimonials belong solely to the individual user and do not reflect our views and opinions. We are not affiliated with users who provide testimonials, and users are not paid or otherwise compensated for their testimonials.

The testimonials on the Site are not intended, nor should they be construed, as claims that our services can be used to diagnose, treat, mitigate, cure, prevent or otherwise be used for any disease or medical condition.

 

(NEWS)BLOG CONTENT

The material and content posted in the News section of the Site is, as is the rest of the content of the Site, solely intended for informational purposes and is under no circumstance intended to replace or substitute the professional medical evaluation by a trained health care professional. We therefore explicitly disclaim all responsibility, liability, and damage be it physical or financial, one might suffer for actions taken upon reading this information. See the WEBSITE DISCLAIMER ABOVE, as it is also applicable to the blog/ News section of the Site.

The posts in the News section are furthermore only to be considered Our opinions and/ or experiences and in no way are to be construed as being related to affiliated clinics and/ or collaborators.

 

STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY MODELS

This website includes stock photography models (Models) who are not actual patients of, nor are affiliated with Us. We have obtained the rights to use the photographs via license agreements with a third-party stock photography company, either directly or through a collaborating clinic/entity to whom We lend our professional services. The photographs showing Models are used on this website for illustrative purposes only. Where photos of real patients (not Models) are used they are indicated with a descriptive text adjacent to it for explanatory purposes. Pre-operative and postoperative photographs (in a section to be added to the Site) are patients of van der Veen - Oculoplastics and are treated by Us, as indicated by the descriptive text adjacent to these images which can be found under the tap "Gallery" (EN), "Galería" (ES) or "Voor & na" (NL).

 

WEBSITE CONTENT AND AFFILIATED CLINICS

All information posted on the Site should be considered being intellectual property of vanderveen-oculoplastics.com, vanderveen-oculoplastics.nl and vanderveen-oculoplastics.es (with exception of published peer reviewed scientific articles, which of course are joint efforts of multiple entities and have been published as such, at which point the publisher becomes the legal owner of said article) and its employees and are in no way meant to be conceived as the opinions or content from affiliated or collaborating clinics to which We lend our services. Vice versa, We do not claim content or opinions mentioned on linked websites to be our own and We therefore explicitly disclaim all such assertions.

 

CONSENT

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