Deer Valley Vision

14931 Deer Ridge Drive South East Calgary, AB T2J 7C4

Services

Eye Examinations

Key Benefits

Comprehensive vision and eye health testing
Pediatric and Geriatric care
Medical Management of eye disease
Laser vision consultation including post op care
Computerized glaucoma testing
Cataract evaluation and referral

The importance of Eye Exams

Remember, an eye exam is an essential part of your overall health routine.

A lot of people make the assumption that good vision means healthy eyes. Whether you have good vision or not, this is not always a good indication of when to have an eye exam. Vision and ocular health conditions are not always accompanied by obvious symptoms.

Through routine eye examinations your eyecare practitioner can detect early stages of such diseases as diabetes, high blood pressure, glaucoma, cataracts, and retinal problems. Your eyes change over time. Some of these changes may be quite noticeable while others can go unnoticed. Your optometrist will review your personal health and family health history and will then conduct various tests to check the status of your eyes. Remember, an eye exam is an essential part of your overall health routine. Regular visits help to ensure a lifetime of clear vision and healthy eyes.

Here is what you can expect during your eye exam:

History

Your optometrist will review your personal health and family health history, any visual problems that you are experiencing, current medications, as well as specific visual demands of your occupation and hobbies.

Visual Acuity

Using a Snellen letter chart (or picture chart for children), your optometrist will assess your ability to see small detail clearly at both near and far distances.

Digital Retinal Image

This sophisticated computerized instrument allows us to capture an image of your retina and accurately establish a baseline of your eyes to detect small gradual changes that will allow us to see problems related to high blood pressure, diabetes, age changes, blood vessel problems, pigment changes, macular degeneration, tumours, optic nerve problems, and more. In the examination room, we will show you this photo right on the computer screen and discuss it with you. At each visit, we will compare photos from previous years to monitor any changes taking place in your eyes over time.

Refraction

By using an instrument called a phoroptor, your optometrist can check for nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism, and advise if corrective eyewear is necessary.

Eye Movement / Binocular Vision

Using a series of different tests, it is determined how well your eyes align or coordinate when working together and individually.

Peripheral (side) vision

Your eyecare practitioner will use handheld targets or a visual field perimeter to measure how well you see objects that are not directly in front of you. This can help to detect such conditions as glaucoma, certain neurological problems, and diseases of the retina.

Pupil response to light

By shining a light in your eyes and watching the pupil's reaction, your optometrist can detect possible neurological problems..

Colour testing

Your optometrist will ask you to describe figures in a series of illustrations made up of numerous coloured dots or circles. This tests your ability to differentiate colours.

Ocular Health

This is part of the examination that checks the health of the internal and external structures of the eye. An instrument called a slit-lamp is used to assess the health of the external structures of the eye. Your optometrist will use an instrument called an ophthalmoscope to see the retina and optic nerve at the back of the eye. This is where clues to many diseases specific to the eye, as well as to the entire body such as diabetes and hypertension, first appear. Special drops are often used to dilate your pupils to allow a better view of the back of the eyes.

As a reminder Alberta Health Care still covers the fees for examinations on children under 19 years and seniors over 65 years.

Deer Valley Vision Center accepts Alberta Health Care, Alberta Blue Cross and Great West Life insurance plans and, as part of our service, helps you maximize your insurance benefits. We can do this while you are in the office. We’ll go to your insurance company’s website to check eligibility for you and help fill out any paperwork required. In most cases, all you have to do is supply your information. It's really that simple

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Address:
14931 Deer Ridge Drive South East
Calgary, AB
T2J 7C4;
Tel: 403 271-1803.

PUBLISHING FIRM

Deer Valley Vision Centre
14931 Deer Ridge Drive South East
Calgary, AB
T2J 7C4
Tel: 403 271-1803

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Thank you for visiting deervalleyvision.com (the “Website”), provided to you by Deer Valley Vision Centre (“We”). We respect the privacy of every individual who visits the Website and are sensitive to privacy issues on the Internet. We believe it is important that you know how we deal with information received about you.

This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect the personal information of our customers and Website users ("you"), describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide to us, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. The Website is for general audiences and is not specifically targeted to or intended for use by children.

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.

By accessing or using the Website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy, and you are consenting to our processing of your information as set out in this Privacy Policy. We may modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time; if we change this Privacy Policy in a manner that materially impacts your privacy rights, we will provide a notice to you. Your continued use of the Website or our services after any modification to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such modification. However, when required by law, we will confirm your consent to the revised Privacy Policy terms. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and considered a part of the Website Terms and Conditions of Use, located here

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

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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.
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.

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 403 271-1803.