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Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands respect your privacy and is committed to protecting it. This Privacy Policy describes the policies and procedures that govern the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information when you use Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands. We will not use or share your confidential information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information we collect from other sources. Information that you submit to Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands may be publicly available and disclosed. Capitalized terms that are not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meaning given them in Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands ’s Terms of Service.
SCOPE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy applies only to your relationship with “the Covered Parties” as defined in the Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands Terms of Service. It does not apply to the interactions that you have with any other individual, entity, investor or other group on or through Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands.
This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you use Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands , and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.
This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect:
- On Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands;
- In e-mail, text and other electronic messages between you and Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands, on the site or otherwise; and
- When you interact with our links and applications on third-party websites and services if they include a link to this Privacy Policy.
It does not apply to information collected by:
- Us offline or through any other means; or
- Any third party (including our partners, affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands .
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands. By accessing or using Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)
The GDPR is an EU Regulation to improve the protection of the personal data of EU citizens and increase the obligations of organisations who collect or process personal data. These new regulations take effect on the 25th of May 2018. The regulations greatly enhance the data privacy and security of our customers and extend to them exercisable rights enabling greater control over one’s personally identifiable information.
The full specification of the GDPR rights and regulations can be found (here).
Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands functions as both a controller and processor of our customers’ personally identifiable information (PII). Additionally, we employ a number of sub-processors to which we transmit data for storage or processing beyond feature sets under our immediate control.
As a controller of data, we store PII such as customer names, IP addresses, and email addresses. We use databases through GDPR compliant service providers (Godaddy, AWS, Heroku) to store sensitive customer data.
Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands is also a processor of customer data. We use customer data to surface content and email newsletters. Sub-processors are leveraged by Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands systems for purposes of emailing customers, internal analytics, and system monitoring.
Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands is owned and operated by Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands, Inc. We have a system-wide GDPR compliance effort underway which will manifest itself on the core Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands platform as well as any of our hubs (such as Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands ), satellite applications, or other owned properties.
For more information, please email us to info@advatechhealth.com or call us FREE 0800 980 6891 to exercise your personal data access rights.
DEFINITIONS
This Privacy Policy is a part of the Terms of Service for Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands . The terms “Covered Parties,” “Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands and “Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands Content,” as well as all other capitalized terms not otherwise defined in the Privacy Policy have the same meaning set forth in the Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands Terms of Service.
WHAT IS “PERSONAL DATA”?
“Personal data” is any data that (1) is recorded in any form, (2) is about or pertains to a specific individual and (3) can be linked to that individual. For example, and without limitation, your first and last names, address, email address, telephone number, and other contact information are “personal data.” Personal data does not include website data, aggregated data, uploaded documents, or profile information about a commercial business or not-for-profit organization.
WHAT KIND OF PERSONAL DATA IS COLLECTED?
We collect personal data at different stages of your use of Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands .
- When you visit Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands : If you visit Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands or use an interface which interacts with Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands , we collect your IP address, the location of your Internet Service Provider, the type and version of Internet browser that you are using, and the website from which you came. We also collect information regarding your site usage, such as the time spent on a page and the number of pages you viewed.
- When you interact with Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands : We also collect personal data that you provide when you interact with Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands such as, for example, by sending a message or uploading documents, or when exchanging correspondence with us such as through support emails.
- When you use submit User Content:
- If you submit content as an Investor, you may record in your profile within your Organization’s information about yourself, such as your contact information, picture, biography, experience, or other groups to which you belong. While the Organization’s name will be name public, no investor information will be publicly disclosed.
- If you are a Patients, you may record information about yourself, your company, and your company’s management team. You may also include a video recording or picture. All information you put onto Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands is considered to be intended for publication and may published on Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands and other websites, except the submitter’s name and email address, as well as the email addresses of any management team members included in the submitted profile.
If you provide any information about or personal data of a third party (such as a person’s name or photograph), you are representing to the Covered Parties that you have all necessary authority and/or have obtained all necessary consents from such individual to enable the Covered Parties to collect, use and disclose his or her personal data as set forth in this Privacy Policy. If we receive a written complaint or direction from the person, we will take down his or her information and notify you that we have done so.
HOW IS PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?
We collect personal data directly from you when you provide it through your use of Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands , such as in emails or when you fill out forms that are displayed on Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands . We also use cookies that are sent to your computer, or action tags that are placed on Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands . For additional explanation on cookies and action tags, see Cookies and Action Tags.
FOR WHAT PURPOSE WILL MY PERSONAL DATA BE USED?
The Covered Parties use your personal data to respond to requests that you make of us, and to contact you and to provide you with information that we believe may be of interest to you. We may also use your name and contact information to make queries to social networking and other sites, such as LinkedIn, for a variety of purposes, including, but not limited to, verifying your identity.
WITH WHOM MAY THE COVERED PARTIES SHARE PERSONAL DATA?
Under certain business or legal conditions, Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands may have to disclose your personal data to others as follows:
- Within the Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands Family: Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands may now or in the future have a parent, subsidiary or related company or companies within the Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands family of companies. Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands has the right to share all personal data with all such affiliated companies.
- Service Providers: Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands may engage other companies and individuals to perform necessary business functions on behalf of Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands (e.g. outside contractors or service providers). If it is necessary to perform these functions, these companies or individuals may have access to personal data of our users. These service providers have agreed not to use the personal data for any other purpose other than providing the required services.
- Legally Required Disclosure: Under certain circumstances, disclosure of your personal data may be required by law. Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands may disclose your personal data (1) if, in its own best judgment, it is required to do so in order to comply with a facially valid judicial or governmental subpoena, warrant, or other order, or (2) to a government institution that has asserted its lawful authority to obtain the information, or (3) in connection with the exercise or defense of its rights.
- Change of Ownership: If ownership of Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands changes as a result of a merger, acquisition, or transfer to another company, your personal data may be transferred to the successor entity. If such transfer takes place, you will be notified of any material changes to the Privacy Policy and provided with the ability to opt-out of the transfer of your personal data to the successor entity.
- With Partners: Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands may share the organization’s contact information provided by you when you submit User Content. You may opt-out of communications from such Partners by unsubscribing at Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands or the Partner websites or by emailing to info@advatechhealth.com
CAN I ACCESS OR CHANGE MY PERSONAL DATA?
All users of Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands can access the personal data that Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands holds about them and can see it listed in their profiles, by logging into Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands .com with the login credentials provided when the data was submitted through either Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands or Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands .com. They can correct, amend, or delete this data at their convenience.
CAN I HAVE MY PERSONAL DATA DELETED?
You can contact info@advatechhealth.com to delete any personal data that is recorded in the profile that you create for yourself as an investor or for your company, or as a client.
WHAT IS AGGREGATED DATA, AND HOW IS IT USED?
Data aggregation is a process in which information is gathered and expressed in a summary form for purposes such as statistical analysis, in order to obtain information about a particular group based on specific variables. Data used for aggregation purposes are collected in a form that removes all identifiers, and may be combined with other data for which all identifiers have also been removed. Aggregated data may be packaged and licensed to third parties such as governments, economic development agencies and financial institutions. Examples of aggregated data may include:
- Data about industries and geographies related to companies seeking investors and those successfully obtaining investments.
- Data about your healthcare and transport preferences
WHAT IS WEBSITE DATA, AND HOW IS IT USED?
Website data is aggregated data about the overall traffic to, and usage of Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands. Examples include the number of visitors to the website and the number of content submissions. Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands may extract and use website data for internal purposes, in order to analyse the performance of Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands and applications. For example, we may use these data for traffic analysis and business decision making, in order to determine how we can improve our site or its functionalities. Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands may share this website data with partners, in order to analyse the performance of Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands and the content thereon.
The statistics generated in this manner contain no personal data and cannot be used to gather any information about individual visitors to the site.
COOKIES AND ACTION TAGS
- CookiesAdvatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands uses ‘cookies.’ A cookie is a small amount of data sent to a user’s web browser from a web server, which is then stored on the user’s hard drive. Cookies are used to make site navigation easier, and can help recognize a returning visitor. The cookies we set enable Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements. Google Analytics stores information about:
- The pages you visit on Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands
- The amount of time you spend on each Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands page
- Where you came from to get to the site
- The content you select while you’re visiting the site
- Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands ’s cookies do not generate any personal data, do not read personal data from your computer, and are not tied to any personal data. Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can instruct your browser, by editing its options, to stop accepting cookies, or to prompt you before accepting cookies from the sites that you visit. If you decide not to accept our cookies, some or all features of the site may not be available because cookies facilitate navigation on the site. You can delete cookies from your computer at any time. You can learn more about cookies by visiting: allaboutcookies.orgor www.networkadvertising.org.
- Action TagsAdvatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands uses action tags. An action tag is a small piece of code that is placed on a webpage or in an email in order to track the pages viewed or the messages opened, the date and time when someone visited our website, the website from which the visitor came, the type of browser used, and the domain name and address of the user’s Internet Service Provider. Action tags allow us to better understand how users and visitors use our site or browse through our pages, so that we can improve access to and navigation through the site, add or modify pages, according to our user’s patterns. Action tags cannot be removed or deleted by our users, because they are part of the programming of a webpage.
- Log FilesLog file information is automatically reported by your browser each time you access a web page. When you use Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands , our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends out whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, IP address, browser type, referring/exit pages and URLs, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other similar information.
- Web BeaconsWhen you use Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands, we may employ web beacons, which are used to track the online usage patterns of Users anonymously. No personally identifiable information from your account is collected using these beacons. In addition, we may also use web beacons in HTML-based emails sent to Users to track which emails are opened by recipients.
- Do Not Track SignalsAdvatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands does not track or use Do Not Track signals.
WHAT SECURITY MEASURES IS IN PLACE TO PROTECT MY PERSONAL DATA?
Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands uses physical, technical, and administrative procedures in order to safeguard and protect personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, while we do our best to implement reasonable security measures, we do not guarantee that our safeguards will always work.
Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands uses industry-standard technological means to protect your personal data while in transit through the Internet. We use encryption and a comprehensive authentication protocol to provide reasonable security. However, please remember that no security system on the Internet is perfect.
WHAT ABOUT UPLOADED DOCUMENTS?
Documents that are uploaded to Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands for sharing are stored at a third party (AWS. Go Daddy) data-storage service. All uploads and downloads are transmitted through the web between users and the data storage service using the same encryption techniques as those that are used with personal data. However, uploaded documents are neither stored redundantly, nor backed up. Therefore, we recommend that users keep back-up copies of their documents if they upload them to Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands.
WHEN WILL ADVATECH HEALTHCARE EUROPE LTD AND ALL ITS BRANDS OR ANYONE ELSE CONTACT ME?
Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands will communicate with you in response to your inquiries regarding content partnerships, website support, business development, or existing content on Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands. We will contact you by phone or by email, according to your preference. Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands may also send you an email in order to notify you of new services or features, or updates to the Privacy Policy or Terms of Service. If you proactively opt-in to receive periodic news or digests from the site, Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands will also send you such news or digest emails until such time as you proactively opt-out.
Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands will send you service-related emails if it becomes necessary to do so. Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands may also send you an email in order to notify you of new services or features, or updates to our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, or other agreement(s) that you have with Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands .
The public information you provide in company or organization profiles, including contact information for the organization such as a mailing or email address, may also be shared with a limited number of partners/sponsors of Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands , including IBM. All partners will safeguard such information subject to the terms of their own Privacy Policies, and you may opt out of sharing any information with any such partners by emailing info@advatechhealth.com, or through other means provided on the Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands web site.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands may provide links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these sites. In order to safeguard your privacy, please review the privacy policies of any sites that you may visit before providing any personal data to these third party sites.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
The Covered Parties exercise reasonable efforts to safeguard the security and confidentiality of your personal data; however, transmissions protected by industry standard technology and administered by humans cannot be guaranteed to be secure. The Covered Parties will not be liable for unauthorized disclosure of personal data that occurs through no fault of the Covered Parties including, but not limited to, errors in transmission, access to your account by anyone uses your user ID and password, your failure to comply with your security obligations, and the unauthorized acts of the Covered Parties’ employees.
MINORS
Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands do not provide products or services for individuals under the age of 18. We do not intentionally collect nor maintain information from users actually known to be under the age of 18, and we will not use that information if we learn that it has been provided by someone under 18.
CHOICE
If at any time Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands wishes to disclose, or use your personal data in a way, or for a purpose other than as described in this Privacy Policy, Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands will give you the opportunity to choose (opt out) whether your personal data (1) may be disclosed to a third party and (2) may be used for a purpose other than the purposes that are set forth in this Privacy Policy.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to info@advatechhealth.com or write us at: Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands , c/o Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd 83 Ducie Street, Manchester M1 2JQ
CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY
From time to time, this Privacy Policy may be updated in order to reflect changes in practices. Whenever such changes are made, an updated Privacy Policy will be posted on Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands and users who have shared their contact information may be emailed. All changes will apply to the personal data that are already collected, and to personal data that are collected after the effective date of the revised Privacy Policy, and will become effective when posted. You will have the right to delete your profile at any time.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
If you have any concerns or claims with respect to our Privacy Policy, please contact us at wecare@advatechhealth.com . We will investigate and attempt to resolve any complaints and disputes regarding our use and disclosure of personal data. If the complaint or dispute cannot be resolved through our internal process, and/or we do not adequately respond to your question, please contact the New York office of the American Arbitration Association, which will serve as a liaison with Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands to resolve your concerns.
If arbitration is necessary, it will be conducted by telephone and email, and if it must be done in person, it will be conducted in New York, NY. The arbitration will be conducted by one arbitrator member of the American Arbitration Association, and under the rules of commercial arbitration of the American Arbitration Association. Both parties will bear equally the cost of arbitration (exclusive of legal fees and expenses). All decisions of the arbitrator(s) will be final and binding on both parties and enforceable in any court of competent jurisdiction.
CONTACTING ADVATECH HEALTHCARE EUROPE LTD AND ALL ITS BRANDS
Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd and all its brands is operated by Advatech Healthcare Europe Ltd.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or believe that its terms have not been complied with, please email us at: