Privacy Policy
Effective date: August 13, 2026
1. Who We Are
This website, victoria-thread.com (the "Site"), is operated by BIONICA USA LLC ("we," "us," "our"), a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of New New York, United States. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share information when you visit the Site. The Site is intended for licensed healthcare professionals and provides informational and educational content about VICTORIA PDO Threads (VICTORIA Absorbable polydioxanone surgical suture). We do not sell products through the Site.
2. Information We Collect
We collect the following categories of information:
– Information you provide voluntarily. If you contact us by email (info@victoria-thread.com), we receive your email address, your name if you provide it, and the contents of your message.
– Usage data collected automatically. Like most websites, the Site collects certain technical information through cookies and similar technologies, including IP address, browser type, device type, device identifiers, pages visited, referring pages, and approximate location derived from IP address. This data is collected through our website platform provider, Squarespace, and through the analytics and advertising technologies described in Sections 4 and 5.
We do not collect payment information, health information, patient information, or account credentials. The Site has no user accounts and no e-commerce functionality.
3. How We Use Information
– To respond to your inquiries and communicate with you;
– To operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Site;
– To understand how visitors use the Site (aggregate analytics);
– To comply with applicable law and protect our legal rights.
We do not use your information for automated decision-making or profiling, and we do not send marketing emails unless you have expressly requested information from us.
4. Cookies, Analytics and Advertising Technologies
The Site uses cookies and similar technologies placed by us and by third parties:
– Platform cookies (Squarespace) — required for Site functionality and basic analytics;
– Google Analytics and Google Tag — used to measure how visitors use the Site;
– Google Ads tags — used to measure the effectiveness of our advertising on Google services and to show our ads to relevant audiences, including remarketing to previous Site visitors;
– Meta Pixel (Meta Platforms, Inc.) — used to measure the effectiveness of our advertising on Meta services (such as Facebook and Instagram) and to show our ads to relevant audiences, including remarketing and audience matching.
These technologies may collect device identifiers, IP address, and information about your interaction with the Site, and transmit it to Google and Meta, which may combine it with other information they hold about you under their own privacy policies (see policies.google.com/privacy and facebook.com/privacy). You can manage cookies through your browser settings and through the cookie notice displayed on the Site; disabling cookies may affect Site functionality.
5. How We Share Information
We do not sell your personal information for money. However, our use of advertising technologies described in Section 4 involves the disclosure of certain usage data to Google and Meta for cross-context behavioral advertising, which may be considered "sharing" of personal information under California law. In addition, we disclose information:
– With service providers that host and operate the Site on our behalf (including Squarespace, Inc.), under obligations to protect the information;
– With advertising and analytics partners (Google, Meta) as described in Section 4;
– If required by law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request;
– To protect the rights, safety, and property of BIONICA USA LLC, our visitors, or others;
– In connection with a corporate transaction such as a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
6. Interest-Based Advertising and Your Choices
You can limit the use of your information for interest-based advertising in the following ways:
– Opt out of sharing on this Site: use the cookie notice on the Site to reject non-essential cookies, or contact us at info@victoria-thread.com;
– Google: adjust your settings at adssettings.google.com and via the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on;
– Meta: adjust your advertising preferences in your Facebook/Instagram account settings;
– Industry tools: visit optout.aboutads.info (Digital Advertising Alliance) to opt out of participating companies.
7. Third-Party Websites
The Site contains links to independent third-party websites, including websites of authorized distributors and training providers. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites. We encourage you to review their privacy policies.
8. Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act ("CCPA/CPRA"), may provide you with rights regarding your personal information, including the right to know what personal information we collect, the right to request deletion or correction, the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, and the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights.
We do not sell personal information for money. Our use of advertising cookies may constitute "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising under the CCPA/CPRA; you may opt out as described in Section 6.
9. Data Security and Retention
We use commercially reasonable safeguards, including those provided by our hosting platform, to protect information. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. We retain email correspondence for as long as necessary to address your inquiry and to meet legal and business requirements, and analytics data for the periods set by our platform provider.
10. International Visitors
The Site is operated from the United States and is directed to a U.S. professional audience. If you access the Site from outside the United States, you understand that your information will be processed in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.
11. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.
12. Contact Us
BIONICA USA LLC
Email: info@victoria-thread.com