Privacy Policy
Together4Cancer is a provider of patient engagementproducts and services. This website is developed, maintained, and managed byNeedleSpotter Inc.. We care about protecting the personal information of ourcustomers and visitors (“Users”) who use our websites, products, and services.This privacy policy provides details about how your personal information iscollected, shared and used by us. It also describes your rights and how you canreview, change, or delete information we have about you. If you have anyquestions about this privacy policy or the practices described herein, you maycontact info@needlespotter.com, or at 186 ColumbiaTurnpike, #5-205, Florham Park, New Jersey 07932. Please read this PrivacyPolicy carefully. By using this Website, you agree to the terms of agreement inthis Privacy Policy.
INFORMATION COVERED BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy applies to ALL websites, domains,software, offerings, information portals, and registries “Services”) maintainedby NeedleSpotter. This privacy policy covers personal information, includingany information we collect, use and share from you, as described further below.This privacy policy does not cover how our Users may use or share data thatthey collect using our services.
When visitors visit our website personal informationwill be collected, used, and shared. Most Services purchased from NeedleSpotterdo not require data collection. Data that is collected will be consistent withthe provisions of this Privacy policy and its addendum’s.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU
In the course of your use of the Services, we may obtainthe following information about you as described below.
SIGNING UP FOR SERVICES; USER INFORMATION
- Information you provide prior to any registration process, such as your email when you provide it to us;
- Information that you provide during any registration process, including in connection with a co-branded offer (such as your name, company name, email address, phone number, billing address or credit card information, geographic location and industry), when you call or email us (for support, asking questions, or otherwise) or when you use our products or services; and
- Payment information that you provide to us (by way of our Services or otherwise) when you purchase some of our products and services, including credit card data.
USE OF SERVICES, WEBSITE VISITS AND SUPPORT
Data relating to your online activity on our websiteswith respect to our Services, including the following:
- any device or other method of communication you use to interact with the Services
- browser type and version
- geographic location
- how you got to our Services and any links you click on to leave ourServices
- IP address
- issues you encounter requiring our support or assistance
- metadata about your use and your contacts’ use of our Services and your emails you send (including clicks and opens)
- pages you view when you update your information, communicate with us, or order new Services
- your interactions with any videos we offe
We store this data we collect in a variety of places,which include system log files, back end databases and analytics systems. Yourtelephone conversations with us may be monitored or recorded.
SOCIAL MEDIA
- Information from third party social networking sites, including information that social networking sites provide to us if you use your credentials at such social networking sites to log into some of our Services (such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign-up form).
- The information you allow us to access varies by social networking site, and depends on the level of privacy settings you have in place at the social networking site. You can control and find out more about these privacy settings at the applicable social networking site.
OTHER SOURCES
- Information you provide to us at trade shows or to our partners;
- Information you provide to us in surveys;
- Information that is publicly available; and
- Information you consent to us receiving from third parties.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use the information we collect, both on its own andcombined with any other information we collect about you, for the followingpurposes:
- To provide the Services you requested from us to you;\To provide you with useful health content;
- To provide you with useful health content;
- To ensure the proper functioning of our Services;
- To offer and improve our Services;
- To provide you with requested information about our products;
- To provide technical support to you;
- To facilitate your navigation through our websites or your use of our Services;To do a better job of advertising and marketing our Services (our use of your information to do this is performed with your consent where required by applicable law);
- To advertise and market third party products and services (such advertisement is only performed with your permission where your consent is required by applicable law)
- To diagnose problems with our servers or our Services;
- In connection with our security and compliance programs;
- To administer our websites;
- To communicate with you;
- To target prospective customers with our products or services (such targeting is only performed with your permission where your consent is required by applicable law);
- To assist us in offering you a personalized experience or otherwise tailor our Services to you; and
- As otherwise described in this privacy policy.
We also use the information we receive in aggregatedand anonymous formats to produce reports on trends and statistics (such as thenumber of users that have clicked on our web pages).
Payment information that you provide to us, includingcredit card data, will only be used to facilitate payment for our products andservices.
We also use recorded telephone conversations forquality control purposes, to train our employees and for documenting Users’requests.
SHARING OF INFORMATION
As further described below, we will only share certainpersonal information with:
- affiliates of NeedleSpotter;
- our partners who license our content to provide hardware, software, and services to you;
- third party service providers and vendors;
- in connection with a sale, merger, acquisition or corporate reorganization;
- authorized users within your organization; and
- for legal reasons.
SHARING WITHIN THE NeedleSpotter FAMILY
We share personal information with other members ofthe NeedleSpotter corporate family to allow our corporate affiliates to contactyou with offers, services or products that may be of interest to you and toprovide you with their products and services. Any such corporate affiliate mayuse your information only according to the terms of this privacy policy. If youare located in a jurisdiction where such sharing requires your permission, wewill only do so with your consent.
SHARING WITH PARTNERS
When we share personal information with certainthird-party partners, including marketing and advertising partners, thatinformation includes your name, email address and other information enablingpartners to:
- assist you in using our products and services,
- contact you with offers, services or products that may be of interest to you, and
- provide you with their products or services.
If you are located in a jurisdiction where suchsharing requires your permission, we will only do so with your consent. Pleasenote that if you access our services through a tool that hides your location,such as through a virtual private network, you may not receive our request forpermission because we were not able to identify you as being located in ajurisdiction where your permission is required.
Further, our partners are prohibited from using yourcontact information for any purpose beyond those set forth above without yourconsent. We will not provide our partners with your credit card information.
In the event we collect information from you inconnection with an offer that is jointly presented by us and a partner, we willlet you know who is collecting the information and whose privacy policyapplies, as well as any options you may have regarding use of your information.
SHARING WITH THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS AND VENDORS
Occasionally, we enter into contracts with carefullyselected third parties so that they can assist us in servicing you (e.g.,providing you with customer service, providing us with information technologyand storage services) or to assist us in our own marketing and advertisingactivities (including providing us with analytic information and search engineoptimization services). Our contracts with such third parties prohibit themfrom using any of your personal information for any purpose beyond the purposefor which it was shared.
If you purchase a product or service from a thirdparty through one of our brands, we will pass your personal information to suchthird party in order for them to fulfill your order.
We also share non-personal information with certainthird parties, including the media, industry observers, marketing andadvertising partners, vendors, customers, potential customers or partners. Forexample, we disclose mobile trends or the number of users that have beenexposed to our websites.
Merger or Acquisition
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, a sale ofall or a substantial portion of our assets, or other similar sale transaction,your information will be transferred as part of that transaction. We willnotify you by email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any suchtransfer and any choices you may have regarding your information.
AUTHORIZED USERS
All users authorized by you to have access to youraccount can view personal information stored in the account. A primary accountholder can view personal information saved in subaccounts to which they haveauthorized access. We share information about authorized users only forlegitimate purposes consistent with this privacy policy, including servicing youraccount and marketing products and services to you.
LEGAL PROCESS
Lastly, if legally required to do so, or if we have agood faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary, we may discloseyour personal information to courts of law, law enforcement authorities andother relevant third parties, such as internet service providers, to conduct aninvestigation, respond to a third party or law enforcement subpoena or courtorder, bring legal action, prevent harm to others or pursue other relief whenyou or a third party are or may be:
- violating our terms and conditions of use;
- causing injury or other harm to, or otherwise violating the property or other legal rights, of us, other users, or third parties; or
- violating federal, state, local, or other applicable law.
This disclosure can include transferring yourinformation to the U.S. To the extent we are legally permitted to do so, it isour policy to notify you in the event that we are required to provide yourpersonal information to third parties in connection with a subpoena.
SECURITY
The transmission of information via the internet,email or text message is not completely secure. Although we will do our best toprotect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of yourinformation transmitted through the Services or over email; any transmission isat your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will takeappropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard your personalinformation against loss, theft and unauthorized use, access or modification.
When we collect financial account information, such ascredit card numbers, we protect its transmission through the use of encryptionsuch as the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol provided through areputable financial third-party.
TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES AND ONLINE ADVERTISING
We use cookies, web beacons, pixels, tags, scripts andother similar technologies in the course of our business.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small data files placed on your computer orother internet-enabled device that enable our features and functionality. Theyallow us to record information when you visit or interact with our websites,products and services (“Websites”). Other tracking technologies, such as webbeacons and pixels work similarly to cookies, placing small data files on yourdevice that monitor your Website activity.
HOW DO WE USE COOKIES?
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to makeour Websites easier to use and to better tailor them to your interests and needs.We use the information we obtain from cookies and other tracking technologiesto carry out profiling activities in order to learn more about you and offeryou tailored advertising based on your behavior on our Websites. We also usethese technologies to compile anonymous, aggregated information that allow usto better understand our customers and visitors.
WHAT KINDS OF COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES DO WEUSE?
We use two categories of cookies: Persistent cookiesand session cookies.Persistent cookiesare cookies that helpus recognize you. They are stored on your device in between browser sessions,allowing us to remember your preferences and actions across multiple sites andon multiple visits.Session cookiesexpire at the end of yourbrowser session, allowing us to link your actions during a particular browsingsession.
THIRD PARTY COOKIES
In addition to the first party cookies set by us, wealso use third party cookies. Third party cookies are cookies that are set byothers, enabling the third party’s features or functionalities to be providedthrough the Website you are using. The third party setting these cookies canrecognize your device both when it visits our Website and when it visitscertain other websites or services. The service providers of third-partycookies have their own privacy policies, and may use their cookies to targetadvertising to you.
CROSS-DEVICE TRACKING
We perform cross-device tracking which allows us toprovide more relevant advertising to you on multiple devices. We do this byidentifying browsing activity on your smartphones, tablets, desktop computersand other devices connected to the same IP address or logged into the sameaccount to better understand the products and services that might be ofinterest to you.
LOCAL STORAGE OBJECTS
We also use Local Storage Objects (LSOs), such asHTML5, to, among other things, optimize screen presentation, video and otherpreference information.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
We use Google Analytics which is a web analytics toolthat helps us understand how users engage with our Websites. Like manyservices, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track user interactionsas in our case, where they are used to collect information about how users useour Website. This information is used to compile reports and to help us improveour Websites. The reports disclose website trends without identifyingindividual visitors.
WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?
We generally use cookies that are necessary oressential to the functioning of our Websites, cookies that help us improve theperformance or customize the functionality of our Websites, and cookies thathelp us serve you relevant advertisements. The types of cookies described belowmay be set by us or by a third party service provider assisting us in performingthe below functions. Specifically, we use cookies for the following reasons:
- Strictly Necessary: These cookies and tracking technologies let you navigate our Websites and use essential features, including secure areas and shopping baskets. Without these technologies, we are unable to deliver core functionality of our Websites, products and services to you.
- Performance: These cookies and tracking technologies help us understand how customers and visitors interact with our Websites. They provide us with information about areas of our website visited, time spent on our Websites and any error messages you receive, allowing us to improve the performance of our Websites. They do not collect any information that could identify you.
- Functional: These cookies and tracking technologies are used to provide certain services or to remember settings that will improve your visit, but are not essential to your use of our Websites. They may include personal information that you have disclosed to us.
- Targeting or Advertising: These cookies and tracking technologies allow us to deliver content, including advertisements, relevant to your specific interests. This content may be delivered in our Websites or on third party websites or services. They allow us to understand and improve the relevancy of our advertisements. They may track personal information, including your IP address.
- Social Media Cookies: These cookies are set by third parties, including Facebook and Twitter, and allow you to share what you’ve been doing on our Websites on social media.
HOW CAN I CONTROL COOKIES?
Internet browsers allow you to change your cookiesettings via the “options’ or “preferences” menu in your browser. Please notethat if you set your browser to refuse or block all cookies, certain featuresor functionalities of our Websites will be limited or unavailable to you.
You can opt out of Google Analytics without affectinghow you visit our site. For more information on opting out of being tracked byGoogle Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google
page:https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
To learn how to manage privacy and storage settingsfor Flash cookies,
visit: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html.
Further information about deleting and blockingcookies can be found
athttp://www.allaboutcookies.org.
EMAIL Choice/Opt-out
You always have the opportunity to opt out of ourmarketing communications with you or change your preferences by following alink in the footer of all non-transactional email messages from us or byemailing us atinfo@needlespotter.com Some communications from us are‘service communication’, that is, part of your software licensing agreement(for example, important account notifications and billing information), andyour account(s) for NeedleSpotter products and services are provided to youupon the condition that you receive these communications from us. You mustcancel your account(s) for NeedleSpotter products and services, as applicable,if you do not wish to receive service communications. To cancel your NeedleSpotteraccount(s), please follow the instructions found in the terms of service forthe applicable NeedleSpotter service. You may still receive marketingcommunications from us even after you cancel your account unless you alsoopt-out of our marketing communications, as described above.
PHONE
We may contact you by telephone, with your consentwhere applicable, for marketing purposes (including by automatic dialer and/orprerecorded message). If you do not want to receive marketing calls, pleasecontact customer support at info@needlespotter.com. You do not need to agree toreceive automated marketing phone calls or texts from us to use the Services.
INFORMATION FROM THIRD PARTIES
To manage the information we receive about you from asocial networking site or other third parties (if applicable), you will need tofollow the instructions from that party for updating your information andchanging your privacy settings, where available. The information we collect iscovered by this privacy policy and the information the third party collects issubject to such third party’s privacy practices. Privacy choices you have madeon any third party site will not apply to our use of the information we havecollected directly through our Services.
UNAUTHORIZED ACCOUNTS
If an account or profile was created without yourknowledge or authorization, please contact us at info@needlespotter.com torequest removal of the account or profile.
RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We retain your personal information to provideservices to you and as otherwise necessary to comply with our legalobligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We will retain yourpersonal information for no more than seven years following the date on whichyou terminate your use of the Services.
Your Rights
We set out below an outline of those rights and how toexercise those rights. Please note that we will require you to verify youridentity before responding to any requests to exercise your rights by providingdetails only known to the account holder. Please note that for each of therights below we may have valid legal reasons to refuse your request, in suchinstances we will let you know if that is the case.
ACCESS
You have the right to know whether we process personalinformation about you, and if we do, to access data we hold about you andcertain information about how we use it and who we share it with.
PORTABILITY
You have the right to receive a subset of the personalinformation you provide us if we process it on the legal bases of our contractwith you or with your consent in a structured, commonly used andmachine-readable format and a right to request that we transfer such personalinformation to another party. If you wish for us to transfer the personalinformation to another party, please ensure you detail that party and note thatwe can only do so where it is technically feasible. We are not responsible for thesecurity of the personal information or its processing once received by thethird party.
CORRECTION
You have the right to require us to correct anypersonal information held about you that is inaccurate and have incomplete datacompleted. Where you request correction, please explain in detail why youbelieve the personal information we hold about you to be inaccurate orincomplete so that we can assess whether a correction is required. Please notethat while we assess whether the personal information we hold about you isinaccurate or incomplete, you may exercise your right to restrict ourprocessing of the applicable data as described below.
ERASURE
You may request that we erase the personal informationwe hold about you in the following circumstances:
- where you believe it is no longer necessary for us to hold the personal information;
- we are processing it on the basis of your consent and you wish to withdraw your consent;
- we are processing your data on the basis of our legitimate interest and you object to such processing;
- you no longer wish us to use your data to send you marketing; or
- you believe we are unlawfully processing your data.
Please provide as much detail as possible on yourreasons for the request to assist us in determining whether you have a validbasis for erasure.
RESTRICTION OF PROCESSING TO STORAGE ONLY
You have a right to require us to stop processing thepersonal information we hold about you other than for storage purposes in thefollowing circumstances:
- You believe the personal information is not accurate for the period it takes for us to verify whether the data is accurate;
- We wish to erase the personal information as the processing we are doing is unlawful but you want us to simply restrict the use of that data;
- We no longer need the personal information for the purposes of the processing but you require us to retain the data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; or
- You have objected to us processing personal information we hold about you on the basis of our legitimate interest and you wish us to stop processing the personal information while we determine whether there is an overriding interest in us retaining such personal information.
OBJECTION
You have the right to object to our processing of dataabout you and we will consider your request. Please provide us with detail asto your reasoning so that we can assess whether there is a compellingoverriding interest in us continuing to process such data or we need to processit in relation to legal claims.
You also have the right, at any time, to object to ourprocessing of data about you in order to send you marketing, including where webuild profiles for such purposes and we will stop processing the data for thatpurpose.
WITHDRAWAL OF CONSENT
Where you have provided your consent to us processingyour personal data, you can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting info@needlespotter.com.
THIRD PARTY LINKS AND INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USEBY OUR USERS
Some of our Services provide links to other websites.Because we do not control the information policies or practices of these thirdparty sites, you should review their privacy policies to learn about how theycollect and use personal information.
You may also log in to some of our Services usingsign-in services such as Facebook Connect or an Open ID provider. Theseservices will authenticate your identity and provide you with the option toshare certain personal information with us, such as your name and email addressto pre-populate our sign up form. For example, if you take advantage of certainof our social media features, such as the Facebook Like button, and widgets,such as the “Share This” button or interactive mini-programs that run on oursite, the applicable social networking sites may collect your IP address, whichpage you are visiting on our websites, and may set a cookie to enable it tofunction properly.
CHILDREN
Our Services are not directed to persons under 18. Wedo not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If aparent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us withpersonal information without such parent or guardian’s consent, he or sheshould contact us. If we become aware that a child under 18 has provided uswith personal information, we will delete such information from our files.
DATA TRANSFER
In order for us to provide the Services to you, yourpersonal information will be transferred to, and stored at/processed in theUnited States or in India. If you are accessing the website from anywhere inEurope, your personal data is also processed by staff operating outside theEuropean Economic Area (EEA), who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Wewill take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal data istreated securely and in accordance with this policy.
For transfers of personal information within the NeedleSpottercorporate family, such transfer will be under the Commission’s model contractsfor the transfer of personal data to third countries (i.e., the standardcontractual clauses), pursuant to Decision 2004/915/EC and 2010/87/EU.
For transfers of data to third parties, such transferswill either (i) be under the Commission’s model contracts for the transfer ofpersonal data to third countries (i.e., the standard contractual clauses),pursuant to Decision 2004/915/EC and 2010/87/EU; or (ii) rely on the EU-USPrivacy Shield Framework.
You can contact the Data Protection Officer listedbelow to obtain a copy of the data transfer agreement or more information regardingthe relevant safeguard we put in place. For more information about the EU-USPrivacy Shield Framework, please visit the U.S. Department of Commerce’sPrivacy Shield website.
Modifying Our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy atany time, so please review it frequently. If we decide to change this privacypolicy in any material way, we will notify you on our privacy policy link on www.together4Cancer.comby email.
Agreement
By using this Website, you agree to the terms in thisPrivacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or anyrevised policy, please do not use Websites or Services. Your continueduse of any of NeedleSpotter’s Services constitutes acceptance to any suchchanges.