Please note that Users in different regions may be subject to different data protection standards; this document has a section dedicated to Californian consumers and their privacy rights, as well asa section dedicated to European Union consumers and their privacy rights.
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By using this website or mobile application(the “Site”), or the services provided by Mederva Medical Corporation, (“Company”, “we”, “our” or “us”), you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site, the Company’s services, or the Company’s mobile applications.
This Privacy Policy discloses Company’s personal information gathering and dissemination practices with respect to the Site, mobile applications, and our services. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.
We have also created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our commitment to privacy. We recognize that when you provide us with information about yourself that you trust us to act in a responsible manner with that information. We are committed to making sure we earn that trust.
The following describes the types of personal and other information the Company may collect about you, and how the Company may use and maintain that information, including, but not limited to:
Eligibility and claims. If you are eligible for Company services through your employer (together, your “employer”), your employer may provide to us data required to verify your eligibility, to allow us to communicate with you, and to understand your health. This information may include your name, email address, phone number, medical history and claims, and information used to verify your identity (such as birthday, and/or employee ID number).
Registration. Before you can utilize certain services that we offer on the Site or otherwise, we may ask that you register with the Site and provide us with your email address, a password, your first and last name and other contact information and personal details. We request this information for identification purposes, to communicate with you regarding your account, and to facilitate the functioning of certain services. We may keep this information indefinitely.
Forms. To fully utilize the services we offer, you may be required to fill out forms that will contain personal information such as your name, address, telephone number, social security number, account information, employment, health status and other personal information relevant to your health insurance coverage, diagnosis and treatment.
Medical Records. In order for the medical professionals giving second-opinions regarding your health, you may be required to provide us with past and current medical records, description of symptoms, a medical history and life-style descriptions.
Correspondence. If you correspond with us via email, we may gather in a file specific to you the information that you submit. We may keep this information indefinitely.
URL and IP addresses. Like many other websites, Company collects information about users’ utilization and navigation of our Site. This information helps us to design our Site to better suit our users’ needs. For example, our Site will track the URL that you visited before you came to our Site, the URL to which you next go and your Internet Protocol (IP) address. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Site. Your IP address also is used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information.
Information Collected With Cookies. Like most major websites, Company uses cookies on certain pages of our Site. Cookies make using the Internet easier by, among other things, saving your preferences for you. For example, a cookie lets the Site remember that you’ve registered, which allows us to speed up your future activities at our Site, and which allows you to enter your registration information less frequently while visiting our Site. We may also use cookies to deliver content tailored to your interests. Our cookies may enable us to relate your use of our Site to personally identifying information that you previously submitted, such as calling you by name when you return to our Site. If your browser is set to reject cookies, or if your browser notifies you that you are about to receive a cookie and you reject it, then your use of the Site may not be as efficient or as enjoyable as it would be if the cookie were enabled. The information that we collect with cookies allows us to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze Site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to customize our Site’s content, layout and services. However, we only use information collected with cookies on an aggregated basis without the use of any information that personally identifies you. You may learn more about specific cookies later in this document.
We will not share, rent, sell or otherwise disclose any of the personally identifiable information that we collect about you, except when we have your permission or in any of the following situations:
If you use our Site or services outside of the United States, information that we collect about you will be transferred to servers inside the United States, which may involve the transfer of information out of countries located in the European Economic Area. By allowing Company to collect information about you, you consent to such transfer and processing of your data.
You have certain rights regarding protected health information that we maintain about you.
If we deny your request to amend, we will notify you in writing. You then have the right to submit to us a written statement of disagreement with our decision and we have the right to rebut that statement.
Your request for an accounting of disclosures must be made in writing and must state a time period for which you want an accounting. Your request should indicate in what form you want the list (for example, on paper or electronically). The first accounting that you request within a 12-month period will be free. For users outside the GDPR regime, we may charge for providing the accounting additional lists within the same time period, but we will tell you the cost in advance.
To help protect the privacy of data you transmit through this Site, where personally identifiable information is requested, we also use technology designed to encrypt the information that you input before it is sent to us using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology or similar encryption technology. In addition, Company takes steps to protect the user data we collect against unauthorized access. However, you should keep in mind that this Site and our services are run on software, hardware and networks, any component of which may, from time to time, require maintenance or experience problems or breaches of security beyond our control.
Please also be aware that despite our best intentions and the guidelines outlined in this Privacy Policy, no data transmission over the Internet or encryption method can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
You may correct or update information collected about you by managing your account profile or by contacting Company at the email or mailing address noted below. We will use reasonable efforts to update our records. If necessary, we may retain original and updated information for reasons such as technical constraints, dispute resolution, troubleshooting and agreement enforcement.
This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. You should be aware that when you are on the Site, you can be directed to other websites that are beyond our control, and Company is not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties or the content of linked websites. We encourage you to read the posted privacy policy whenever interacting with any website.
Company reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Please visit this page periodically so that you will be apprised of any changes.
We do not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information from persons under 18 years old, and no part of our Site is directed to persons under 18. IF YOU ARE UNDER 13 YEARS OFAGE, PLEASE DO NOT USE OR ACCESS OUR SITE AT ANY TIME OR IN ANY MANNER. If Company learns that personally identifiable information of persons less than 13 years old has been collected without verifiable parental consent, then Company will take the appropriate steps to delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian and discover that your child under the age of 18 has obtained a Company account, then you may alert Company at the address below and request that we delete that child’s personal information from our systems.
We do collect from employers information regarding members of all ages, so that we may know who is eligible to receive Services. A parent/guardian may request that we stop processing that information if eligible under CCPA or GDPR, as further described below, however you should contact your employer if you would like that information no longer provided to health carriers.
By choosing to visit this Site, use our services, or otherwise provide information to Company, you agree that any dispute over privacy or the terms contained in this Privacy Policy will be governed by the law of the State of California. You also agree to abide by any limitation on damages contained in our Terms of Service or other agreement that we have with you.
How to contact us / data controller? If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or need to reach the owner / data controller for any other reason, you may contact us by e-mail at privacy@medervahealth.com or by mail:
Mederva Medical Corporation
415 Mission St, 37th floor,
San Francisco, CA 94105
1-800-988-5534
The policies indicated in this Privacy Policy will remain effective, even if the Member’s coverage is terminated, to the extent we retain information about a member. We may change this Privacy Policy at any time and will inform you of any changes as required by law or regulation.
The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”).Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of thisApplication, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with otherGoogle services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy
Google Analytics on this Application might use Google’s Interest-based advertising, 3rd-party audience data and information from the DoubleClickCookie to extend analytics with demographics, interests and ads interaction data.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy
MixPanel is an analytics service provided by Mixpanel Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage data.
Place of processing: US – PrivacyPolicy
This Website uses an internal analytics system that does not involve third parties.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Google Tag Manager is an analytics service provided by Google Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy
Facebook Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Facebook,Inc. that connects data from the Facebook advertising network with actions performed on this Website.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data, Tracking Pixel.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy
Facebook Analytics for Apps is an analytics service provided by Facebook, Inc.
Personal Data collected: Usage Data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy
Google AdWords conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by GoogleInc. that connects data from the Google AdWords advertising network with actions performed on this Website.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data, Tracking Pixel.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy
LinkedIn conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by LinkedInCorporation that connects data from the LinkedIn advertising network with actions performed on this Website.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data, Tracking Pixel.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy
Content commenting services allow Users to make and publish their comments on the contents of this Website. Depending on the settings chosen by the Owner, Users may also leave anonymous comments. If there is an email address among the Personal Data provided by theUser, it may be used to send notifications of comments on the same content.Users are responsible for the content of their own comments.
If a content commenting service provided by third parties is installed, it may still collect web traffic data for the pages where the comment service is installed, even when Users do not use the content commenting service.
Disqus is a content commenting service provided by Big Heads Labs Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies, Usage Data and various types of Data asspecified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt out
This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this Website and interact with them.
This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
Wistia is a video content visualization service provided by Wistia, Inc. that allows this Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy
This type of service allows this Website to monitor the use and behavior of its components so its performance, operation, maintenance and troubleshooting can be improved. Which Personal Data are processed depends on the characteristics and mode of implementation of these services, whose function is to filter the activities of this Website.
Rollbar is a monitoring service provided by Rollbar, Inc.
Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: US – PrivacyPolicy
This type of services makes it possible to manage a database of email contacts, phone contacts or any other contact information to communicate with the User.
These services may also collect data concerning the date and time when the message was viewed by the User, as well as when the User interacted with it, such as by clicking on links included in the message.
Marketo Email Marketing is an email address management and message sending service provided by Marketo, Inc.
Personal Data collected: email address and Usage data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy
This type of services allows interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of this Application. The interaction and information obtained through this Application are always subject to the User’s privacy settings for each social network. This type of service might still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
The Facebook Like button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Facebook social network provided by Facebook, Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy
The Google+ +1 button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Google+ social network provided by Google Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy
The Twitter Tweet button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Twitter social network provided by Twitter, Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage data.
Place of processing: US – PrivacyPolicy
ShareThis is a service provided by ShareThis Inc., which displays a widget that allows interaction with social networks and external platforms as well as sharing the contents of this Website.
Depending on the configuration, this service can display widgets belonging to third parties such as the managers of social networks where interactions are shared. In this case, also the third parties that provide the widget will be informed of interactions and Usage Data on the pages where this service is installed.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – PrivacyPolicy
The LinkedIn button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the LinkedIn social network provided by LinkedIn Corporation.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy
This type of services allows this Application and its partners to inform, optimize and serve advertising based on past use of this Application by theUser.
This activity is performed by tracking Usage Data and by using Cookies, information that is transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioral targeting activity.
Google Analytics for Display Advertising is a Remarketing and Behavioral Targeting service provided by Google Inc. that connects the tracking activity performed by Google Analytics and its Cookies with the Adwords advertising network and the Doubleclick Cookie.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt Out
AdRoll is an advertising service provided by Semantic Sugar, Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt Out
LinkedIn Website Retargeting is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by LinkedIn Corporation that connects the activity of this Website with the LinkedIn advertising network.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – OptOut
This type of services allows the Owner to build user profiles by starting from an email address, a personal name, or other information that the User provides to this Application, as well as to track User activities through analytics features. This Personal Data may also be matched with publicly available information about the User (such as social networks’ profiles) and used to build private profiles that the Owner can display and use for improving thisApplication.
Some of these services may also enable the sending of timed messages to theUser, such as emails based on specific actions performed on this Application.
Marketo Lead Generation is a User database management service provided by Marketo, Inc.
Personal Data collected: email address and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy
Heat Mapping services are used to display the areas of a page where Users most frequently move the mouse or click. This shows where the points of interest are. These services make it possible to monitor and analyze web traffic and keep track of User behavior.
Some of these services may record sessions and make them available for later visual playback.
Crazy Egg is a heat mapping service provided by Crazy Egg, Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – PrivacyPolicy
The services contained in this section allow the Owner to track and analyze theUser response concerning web traffic or behavior regarding changes to the structure, text or any other component of this Website.
Optimizely is an A/B testing service provided by Optimizely, Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy
Contact form (this Website)
By filling in any contact form with their Data, the User authorizes thisWebsite to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.
Personal Data collected: various types of Data.
System logs and maintenance
For operation and maintenance purposes, this Website and any third-partyservices may collect files that record interaction with this Website (Systemlogs) use other Personal Data (such as the IP Address) for this purpose.
Additional Information for EU / EEC Users
Data Is required to provide services
Unless otherwise specified, all data requested is mandatory and your choice to not provide data may make it impossible to provide services to you. In cases where we have made clear that some Data is not mandatory, you are free not to communicate this Data without any consequences on the availability or the functioning of the service. If you are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory then you are welcome to contact us at the address specified above.
Additional information about your PersonalData
In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, upon your request we may you with additional and contextual information concerning particular services or the collection and processing of Personal Data.
Your GDPR rights
Solely to the extent applicable to the Company, if you are subject to the GDPR regime, then you have the right, at any time, to know whether your PersonalData has been stored. You and can consult the Company to learn about their contents and origin, to verify their accuracy or to ask for them to be supplemented, cancelled, updated or corrected, or for their transformation into anonymous format or to block any data held in violation of the law, as well as to oppose their treatment for any and all legitimate reasons. Requests should be sent to the Data Controller at the contact information set out above.
Additional information regarding methods of processing
The Owner takes security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data. The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of this Website (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. If applicable, this list may be requested and by a GDPR-coveredPerson from the Owner at any time.
Legal basis for processing
The Owner may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies:
In any case, the Owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
Place of processing
The Data is processed at the Owner’s operating offices, in data centers located in the United States and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. The United States has different (and often lesser)privacy protections than other jurisdictions. By providing data, using this website, using mobile applications provided by Company, or requesting services, you consent to the transfer of your data to the United States and the processing of such data in the United States.
Retention time
Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for.
Therefore:
The Owner may be allowed to retain PersonalData for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation (including but not limited to retention of records of healthcare services performed or recommended) or upon order of an authority.
The right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after information has been deleted.
Data about you is collected to allow us to provide services to you, as well as for the following purposes: Analytics, Remarketing and behavioral targeting,Interaction with external social networks and platforms, Managing contacts and sending messages, User database management, Heat mapping session recording,Content commenting, Displaying content from external platforms, Content performance and features testing (A/B testing), Generation models of medical and clinical conditions, Generation models of physician and clinical performance, Infrastructure monitoring and Contacting the User.
Information not contained in this policy
More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Data Controller at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.
Legal Basis
This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations, including the U.S. Health Insurance Portability andAccountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”), the U.S. Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (“HITECH”). and Art. 13/14 of Regulation(EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation or “GDPR”).
Information for Californian consumers
This part of the document integrates with and supplements the information contained in the rest of the privacy policy and is provided by the business running this Website and, if the case may be, its parent, subsidiaries and affiliates (for the purposes of this section referred to collectively as “we”,“us”, “our”).
The provisions contained in this section apply to all Users who are consumers residing in the state of California, UnitedStates of America, according to “The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018”(Users are referred to below, simply as “you”, “your”, “yours”), and, for such consumers, these provisions supersede any other possibly divergent or conflicting provisions contained in the privacy policy.
This part of the document uses the term“personal information“ as it is defined in The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”).
Categories of personal information collected, disclosed or sold
Please refer to the list above under “What information do we collect from users and how is it used?”
We will not collect additional categories of personal information without updating this document.
How we use the information we collect: sharing and disclosing of your personal information with third parties for a business purpose
We may disclose the personal information we collect about you to a third party for business purposes. In this case, we enter a written agreement with such third party that requires the recipient to both keep the personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose(s) other than those necessary for the performance of the agreement.
We may also disclose your personal information to third parties when you explicitly ask or authorize us to do so, in order to provide you with our Service.
To find out more about the purposes of processing, please refer to the relevant section of this document.
Your right to opt out of the sale of personal information
We do not sell lists of members. We do not sell your personal health information to any party. We do not provide any information to pharmaceutical companies.
However, some actions such as remarketing or statistical analysis may be considered “sales” under some interpretations of the CCPA. Accordingly, we will make it possible to opt out of those activities.
You have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information. This means that whenever you request us to stop selling your data, we will abide by your request.
Such requests can be made freely, at any time, without submitting any verifiable request, simply by following the instructions below.
Instructions to opt out of the sale of personal information
If you’d like to know more, or exercise your right to opt out in regard to all the sales carried out by this Website, both online and offline, you can contact us for further information using the contact details provided in this document.
What are the purposes for which we use your personal information?
We may use your personal information to allow us to render services to you and your employer (if applicable), the operational functioning of this Website and features thereof (all together, “business purposes”). In such cases, your personal information will be processed in a fashion necessary and proportionate to the business purpose for which it was collected, and strictly within the limits of compatible operational purposes.
We may also use your personal information for other reasons such as for commercial purposes as well as for complying with the law and defending our rights before the competent authorities where our rights and interests are threatened or we suffer an actual damage.
We will not use your personal information for different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without notifying you.
The right to know and to portability
You have the right to request that we disclose to you:
If we deliver our response electronically, the information enclosed will be “portable”, i.e. delivered in an easily usable format to enable you to transmit the information to another entity without hindrance – provided that this is technically feasible.
The right to request the deletion of your personal information
You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information, subject to exceptions set forth by the law (such as, including but not limited to, where the information is used to identify and repair errors on thisWebsite, to detect security incidents and protect against fraudulent or illegal activities, to exercise certain rights etc.). For example, we cannot delete information that explains medical treatment decisions, as we are legally obligated to keep such information.
If no legal exception applies, as a result of exercising your right, we will delete your personal information and direct any of our service providers to do so.
How to exercise your rights
To exercise the rights described above, you need to submit your verifiable request to us by contacting us at privacy@medervahealth.com, by calling on your designated toll-free number (or our general toll-free number at 1-800-988-5534), or by submitting a message through the“chat” experience once logged-in.
For us to respond to your request, it’s necessary that we know who you are. Therefore, you can only exercise the above rights by making a verifiable request which must:
We will not respond to any request if we are unable to verify your identity and therefore confirm the personal information in our possession actually relates to you.
If you cannot personally submit a verifiable request, you can authorize a person registered with the California Secretary of State to act on your behalf.
If you are an adult, you can make a verifiable request on behalf of a minor under your parental authority.
You can submit a maximum number of 2 requests over a period of 12 months.
How and when we are expected to handle your request
We will confirm receipt of your verifiable request within 10 days and provide information about how we will process your request.
We will respond to your request within 45 days of its receipt. Should we need more time, we will explain to you the reasons why, and how much more time we need. In this regard, please note that we may take up to 90 days to fulfill your request.
Our disclosure(s) will cover the preceding 12 month period.
Should we deny your request, we will explain you the reasons behind our denial.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable request unless such request is manifestly unfounded or excessive. In such cases, we may charge a reasonable fee, or refuse to act on the request. In either case, we will communicate our choices and explain the reasons behind it.