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Digby Eye Care Center News
New Doctor!
Digby Eye Care Center is pleased to announce that Dr. Robyn Whynot will soon be joining our practice.
Born and raised in Liverpool Nova Scotia, Dr. Robyn Whynot graduated from Acadia University with a Bachelor of Science (majoring in Biology), and then attended the University of Waterloo. She completed her clerkship rotations for the University of Waterloo first in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan and then in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She received her Doctor of Optometry degree at the University of Waterloo in 2022.
She discovered her love of Optometry when she began volunteering at the age of 15 and then, for the next 10 years, continued working each summer for Dr. Levesque and Associates. She is ecstatic to be returning to her home province of Nova Scotia and is eager to be serving the Digby, Annapolis and surrounding areas.
New Doctor!
Digby Eye Care Center is pleased to announce that Dr. Jeffrey Clarke has joined our practice. Dr. Clarke is now accepting new patients. Please feel free to contact our office at 902-245-1010 to schedule an appointment.
New Member
Welcome to our new Optician Quinton.
Quinton has just recently joined our team following graduation from the optician program
offered by Oulton College in Moncton.
Originally from the Annapolis Royal area, he spent several years in Halifax and Montreal
working for an online contact lens dispensary. This led him to pursue a career in eye
care.
Quinton worked at our Annapolis and Digby locations as a student and is excited to
become a member of our team.
Goodbye Jackie!
After many years of service, Jackie has decided to retire and enjoy the little things life has to offer.
We will miss her greatly, but wish her nothing but rest and relaxation!!
New family members
Our family, here at Digby Eye Care, are thrilled to announce the arrival pf 2 brand new members.
We have been blessed with 2 baby girls. Pictured below are Mom Sabrina with baby Amara, and Mom Kara with baby Georgia. Such an exciting time for us all.
Wedding
It’s not every day that a bride, groom and the entire wedding party pop into the office for a quick visit!!!
We couldn’t be happier for former co-worker Carmen and her family.
New Member
Welcome to our new Optician Steve.
Steve completed the Ophthalmic Dispensing program in 1991. He graduated high school in Ledue, Alberta. Hobbies include sports and travel. Steeve became part of our team in October 2018.
Bursary Recipient
Bailey Ross - 2017
Congratulations to Bailey Ross, a recent graduate of DRHS, on receiving the Digby Eye Care Center Bursary.
Bailey is pursuing his dream of becoming a French Immersion Teacher at the high school level. Afterwards, his dream is to become a politician and help make Nova Scotia rise to its true potential.
Merry Christmas!!
To our friends, their families, and loved ones... Wishing Health, Cheer and Joy During This Holiday Season and sharing our fondest hopes for a Happy New Year.
- From the Doctors and Staff at Digby Eye Care Center
Optical Trunk Show
Thank you to all those who attended our Optical Trunk Show. It was a huge
success!!
Congratulations
Congratulations to our big winner of the day, Erven Cestnick. Erven was the lucky patient
who won his purchase that day and he is wearing them proudly!!
Halloween 2013
NEW ARRIVALS
A WIDE SELECTION OF BOLLE SUNGLASSES HAVE JUST ARRIVED. TASK SPECIFIC LENSES SUCH AS
THOSE NEEDED FOR GOLF AND MARINE. COME ON IN AND TRY A PAIR ON! YOU WILL LOVE
THEM!!
Bursary Winner
Congratulations to Nicole Marie Ring, a recent graduate of DRHS, on receiving the Digby
Eye Care Center Bursary. Nicole will pursue her studies at Universite Sainte-Anne in the
Bachelor of Social Work program.
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We will only use your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy unless otherwise required by applicable law. We take steps to ensure that the personal information that we collect about you is adequate, relevant, not excessive, and used for limited purposes. Privacy laws in Canada generally define "Personal Information" as any information about an identifiable individual, which includes information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person.
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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 our services or to make other inquiries, we collect the content of those communications, as well as your full name, email, phone number, 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
- Refer to Cookie Policy (here)
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.
- To fulfill the purposes for which you provided the information or that were described when it was collected, or any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To improve the Website, products or services, marketing, or customer relationships and experiences.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features, social media, or similar features on the Website.
- 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.
Partnership with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising
We may partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
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;
- to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request within or outside your country of residence when we have a good faith belief that the law requires it;
- to enforce this Privacy Policy, the Terms, or an agreement, including investigation of potential violations thereof;
- 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.
How we store and secure your information
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.
In addition, we limit access to your Personal Information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need-to-know. They will be required to process your Personal Information only on our instructions and they are subject to an obligation of confidentiality. Our service providers are required to maintain adequate security protections in place designed to help safeguard your Personal Information and are not permitted to use it for any purpose other than fulfilling services to us.
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 902-245-1010.