Eye Care News: Keep Your Eyes Healthy & Happy
Eyewear Trends and Must-know Eye Disease Information
HOW WELL CAN YOUR CHILD SEE..?
July, 2019
How good is your kid's eyesight? Learn some of the most important facts about your children's eye care, vision and eyesight today!
PRESBYOPIA SUPPLEMENTS, DIET & EYE HEALTH: CAN DIET IMPROVE EYESIGHT?
June, 2019
In a recent BBC program "Trust Me, I'm a Doctor," Dr. Michael Mosley discussed his own vision problems and experiences with nutritional intervention.
WHEN & WHY SHOULD I WEAR SUNGLASSES
May, 2019
Apart from providing relief from bright sun light, sunglasses are important in keeping eyes healthy by slowing the progression of cataracts and macular degeneration.
WHAT'S BEST? GLASSES OR CONTACT LENSES
April, 2019
Contacts were invented in 1801 but have come a long way since! Today you can choose from daily, weekly, or monthly lenses in the high oxygen silicone materials; and can even change your eye colour.
WHAT SHOULD I EXPECT IN AN EYE EXAM?
March, 2019
Our eyes don’t just allow us to see our surroundings in colour, they can be the window to our body’s health. Fortunately, the tests to examine eyes are quick, painless and non-invasive.
WHAT ARE 5 MOST COMMON EYECARE MISTAKES YOU SEE?
February, 2019
Here are 5 common eye care mistakes to be aware of, and some options to help.
HOLISTIC EYE CARE TIPS: IMPROVE YOUR EYESIGHT AND KEEP YOUR EYES HEALTHY
January, 2019
We all know that Eyesight is one of our most precious possessions. In fact, our sense of sight is responsible for 80% of what we perceive. So just like our body, our eyes need regular care and as always prevention is better than cure.
Numerous studies have proven that vision can be protected by optimising diet and lifestyle along with thorough examinations. So here are some tips...
WINTER EYE CAR TIPS : HOW TO PROTECT YOUR EYES DURING THE WINTER
December, 2018
With winter on its way, it’s time to protect your body against flu, asthma and dry skin.
It’s time to bring out the warm coats and scarves, not to mention the (faux) fur-trimmed boots. With winteron its way, here are 5 Eye Care tips to get you through the season.
DO YOUR EYES HURT WHEN WATCHING TV? HERE’S HOW TO PROTECT YOUR EYES
November, 2018
Thanks to on-demand services like Netflix and so much good TV at our fingertips, it’s easy to forget that age-old adage about the effects of TV on eyesight.
But while your eyes won’t go square from watching too much telly, your vision could start to suffer. Here are our Top 5 Tips for Screen Eyecare...
MY CHILD SEES OK - WHY DOES HE/SHE NEED AN EYE EXAM?
October, 2018
Children’s eyecare can sometimes be ‘overlooked’ due to many eye conditions not being apparent.
The eyes may feel and appear normal. Parents can feel reassured by a home vision test; and not knowing any different, children accept poor vision as normal and fail to report the problem.
Due to modern lifestyles leading to increased time spent in front of digital devices, we are unfortunately seeing more children facing vision problems such as: Myopia (short sightedness), Hyperopia (long sightedness), Astigmatism and Amblyopia (lazy eye).
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What information we collect
We collect and use several types of information from and about you, including:
- Personal Information, that we can reasonably use to directly or indirectly identify you, such as your full name, email address, telephone number and any other identifier we may use to contact you online or offline.
- Non-personal information is information that does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity or directly relate to an identified individual, such as demographic information, or statistical or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from Personal Information. For example, we may aggregate Personal Information to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Website feature.
How we collect the information
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect directly from you may include:
- Communicating with us: When you contact us about a customer service issue, Vision Entrepreneur services or to make other inquiries, we collect the content of those communications, as well as your full name, clinic name, email, phone number, city, province, and any additional information that allows us to answer your request.
Information We Collect While You Interact With Us Through Cookies and Other Automatic Data Collection Technologies
- Refer to Cookie Policy (here)
Information We Collect About You From Third Parties
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How we use your information
We use your information, including your Personal Information, to manage our business and to maintain and develop commercial relationships with you. We will collect, use, and disclose such information only to the extent that is necessary for those purposes.
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information:
- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
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- To measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
How we share your information
We will not rent or sell your information to third parties without your consent. We only share your data as specifically provided in this Privacy Policy.
Other Disclosures
In addition to any disclosure you may have consented to or permitted under the terms of this Privacy Policy, we may transfer your data, including Personal Information to third parties in the following limited circumstances:
- information you expressly consent to be shared;
- when relating to anonymized information (individuals cannot be identified by it);
- when you decide to make the information indexable by search engines, to share or to distribute the information to people or otherwise to make it available to the public;
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- to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or protect the operations or you;
- to protect our rights, property or safety as well as yours, the public, or others;
- in connection with an acquisition, merger, change in control, debt financing, reorganization, sales of assets, bankruptcy or other change of our corporate structure or status; or
- as necessary in connection with the performance of requested services or solutions, or as otherwise appropriate in connection with a legitimate need.
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Information Security
We are committed to protecting the confidentiality, integrity, availability and privacy of your Personal Information. We have put appropriate physical, technological and procedural security measures in place designed to help prevent your Personal Information from being lost, used, modified or accessed in an unauthorized way, or improperly disclosed. Examples of such measures include restricted access to offices, training of personnel, using passwords and well-defined internal policies and practices. We also use encryption technology and Secure Socket Layers ("SSL") in all areas of the Website where your personal account information is required.
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If you have any questions about securing your personal data, please contact us in accordance with the “How to Contact Us” section below.
Information Retention
We will retain your Personal Information for as long as it is needed:
- to provide the products and services that you have requested;
- to communicate with you about a purchase or a request you have made to us;
- to manage your choices and rights you have exercised pursuant to this Privacy Policy;
- to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations and to demonstrate compliance,
- to resolve disputes and to enforce our rights and agreements.
We may retain non-personal information that has been sufficiently aggregated or anonymized for a longer period.
Once the retention period is over, we will dispose of your Personal Information as provided for in our internal data retention and disposal policy.
Where We Store Information
We use facilities operated by "Amazon Web Services" and located in Canada as our information storage and processing infrastructure. Our service providers can also, from time to time, store your Personal Information in accordance with purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at [778] 294-2236.