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Privacy policy
Updated October 5, 2026 after Realists' review. Final wording subject to approval by Realists AG and Realists USA, Inc.
Short version. realistsusa.com collects what you type into our forms, and, only if you allow it, analytics and advertising data about how the site is used. Nothing beyond essential cookies loads until you choose. We do not sell personal information. You can see, correct or delete what we hold about you, and you can opt out of targeted advertising at any time through Your Privacy Choices.
Realists USA, Inc., 540 Enterprise Drive, Lewis Center, OH 43035, United States, operates this website on behalf of Realists AG (Realists Training Technologies AG), Heinrich-Heine-Str. 35, 04178 Leipzig, Germany. Questions about this policy and requests about your data go to privacy@realistsusa.com.
Essential cookies make the site and the forms work and are always on. Analytics and advertising cookies load only after you accept them in the banner shown on your first visit. You can change your choice at any time through the Your Privacy Choices link in the footer of every page, which also serves as our "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" control. Your choice is stored in your browser for twelve months.
Global Privacy Control. If your browser or extension sends the Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as a request to opt out of targeted advertising and of any sale or sharing of your personal information. Advertising cookies will not load, whatever you select in the banner.
Do Not Track. There is no accepted standard for how websites should respond to browser "Do Not Track" signals, so this site does not change its behavior when it receives one. It does honor the Global Privacy Control signal described above.
LinkedIn. To opt out of LinkedIn\'s own use of the Insight Tag data, reject advertising cookies here, or use LinkedIn\'s guest controls and, if you have an account, your LinkedIn advertising settings.
To answer your request and arrange a demonstration, to send you information you asked for, to operate and secure the website, to understand how the site performs and to measure and our advertising. For visitors from the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, the legal basis is your consent for analytics and advertising cookies, our legitimate interest in operating and securing the site, and the steps needed to respond to your request.
Realists USA, Inc. and Realists AG, which may process your request from Germany. Service providers that host the website, deliver form submissions and provide analytics and advertising measurement (Google and LinkedIn for the tools named above), under terms that limit their use of your data. We do not sell personal information for money. The only sharing for targeted advertising is the LinkedIn Insight Tag, and only with your consent.
In the twelve months before the date above, this site has collected the following categories of personal information. None of it is sensitive personal information as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act, and we do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16.
Depending on where you live, you can ask us to tell you what personal information we hold about you and how we use it, to correct it, to delete it, to opt out of targeted advertising and of the sale or sharing of your information, and to stop using it for marketing. We never treat you differently for exercising a right: same service, same terms. To make a request, write to privacy@realistsusa.com or use Your Privacy Choices for the advertising opt out.
Verification. We match a request against the email address and details you gave us, and we may ask for more information when we need it to confirm it is you. Authorized agents. Someone acting for you may make a request with your written permission; we may check directly with you. Timing. We answer within 45 days. If we need more time we tell you why and take up to 45 more. Appeals. If we decline a request, reply to our decision within 30 days and say you are appealing. We answer the appeal within 45 days, and if we still decline we tell you how to contact your state attorney general.
Visitors from the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom have the rights set out in the GDPR and UK GDPR, including the right to withdraw consent at any time and to complain to a supervisory authority.
The site is served over HTTPS. Form submissions travel encrypted to the mailboxes that receive them, access to those mailboxes is limited to the people who answer requests, and the providers that host the site and deliver forms are bound by contract to protect your data. No system is perfectly secure; if we learn of a breach that affects you, we will tell you and the authorities as the law requires.
Form submissions are kept as long as needed to handle your request and the business relationship that may follow. Analytics data is kept for the retention period set in the respective tool, currently 14 months for Google Analytics. Server logs are kept for a short period for security purposes.
This site is for professionals in spine surgery training. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16.
We update this policy when the site or the tools behind it change. The date at the top tells you the current version.
Realists USA, Inc., 540 Enterprise Drive, Lewis Center, OH 43035, United States. privacy@realistsusa.com. See also the Terms of Use.