Privacy Policy

MEDWATCH TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

PRIVACY POLICY

1. OVERVIEW

This document (“Privacy Policy”) explains how we collect, use, process, share, store, and protect your personal information when you access and use our website and participate in our surveys (collectively, “Services”).

This Privacy Policy constitutes a binding legal agreement by and between you, an individual (“User”, “you,” “your”), and MedWatch Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”) (each User and Company referred to individually as a “Party”, and collectively as the “Parties”).

Defined terms are as specified throughout this Privacy Policy, and are identified in quotes. The singular meaning of a defined term will have the same meaning as the plural meaning and vice versa. When section is used, it is referring to a section of this Privacy Policy.

By accessing and using the Services, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

If you do not wish to be bound by this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Services.

This Privacy Policy includes the following sections:

Categories of personal information that we collect and when we collect personal information;

Our use, processing and storage of your personal information;

Providing your personal information to third parties and transfer of personal information;

Your privacy rights;

Cookies and other similar technologies that we use;

Protecting your personal information;

Contact information about your rights under this Privacy Policy; and

Changes to this Privacy Policy.

2. CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT AND WHEN WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you (“personal information”). Personal information does not include publicly available information from government records or de-identified or aggregated information.

We may collect, store and use different categories of personal information about you when you access our website or to receive marketing emails from us, including:

Categories of information	Type of information
General information	first and last name; user name and password; country of residence; email address; date of birth
internet information	internet protocol address

We may collect, store and use different categories of personal information about you when you participate in a survey, including:

Categories of information	Type of information
personal information	first and last name; country of residence; email address; date of birth
sensitive information	gender; race, medical; health; financial
internet information	internet protocol address

We collect your personal information when you:

Interact with us using accessing our website

Interact with us when participating in a survey;

Communicate with us via our website; and

Use our website which includes cookies.

We also may collect your personal information from our third party marketing representatives.

Note: If you fail to provide certain personal information to us when requested, we may not be able to perform all our legal and contractual obligations or carry out all activities requested by you within the Services.

3. OUR USE, PROCESSING, AND STORAGE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use, collect and process your personal information for the following purposes:

Legal Basis	Purpose
Contract	To provide you with information that you request, participate in a survey
Consent	To collect your sensitive information when you participate in a survey
Legitimate Interest	To enable participation in interactive features of our website, notify you of changes to this Privacy Policy
Legal Obligation	To comply with our legal obligations

In some instances, we may use your personal information in combination with information belonging to others. In this process, we use various methods to remove the identifying portions of any personal information before combining it with the information of others. The output of this process is aggregate data, which is incapable of identifying you or any others. We use this aggregate data for several reasons, including improving the features and functions of our products.

We will store your personal information in the United States, and will store it for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, and to allow us to satisfy any legal and reporting requirements.

Automated Processing: We do not conduct automated decision-making processing; such as profiling.

We do not sell personal information. We do not sell your personal information to third parties for a monetary payment or something else of values received in return. However, we may provide your personal information to third parties where we do not receive a monetary payment (as described in the next section).

Children’s Personal Information: We do not knowingly collect, process, or store the personal information of a user who is not of legal age in their country, state, region or province where they reside. If we learn that we have collected, processed or stored the personal information of a user who is not of legal age in their country, state, region or province where they reside, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete such personal information as soon as possible.

4. PROVIDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may provide your personal information to third parties, where we do not receive a monetary payment, including:

Third Party	Purpose for providing personal information
Service providers	A “Service Provider” is a company or person which processes your personal information for a business purpose under a contract between us and the Service Provider. We may transfer your personal information to a third party Service Provider for business purposes. Examples of a business purpose are hosting our website, hosting our survey data, analyzing our survey data.
Marketing agencies	To assist in marketing and email campaigns
Public authorities & legal proceedings	To respond to a subpoena, warrant or other legal processes issued by a court or public authority; discovery requests and demands as part of a civil lawsuit or similar legal process; disclosure is required to comply with applicable laws, and similar legal processes
Business transfer	If we sell a business, your personal information may be sent to the buyer of that business. If we buy a business, we may acquire your personal information
Professional advisors	To our attorneys and accountants who assist us in providing our products and services to you

If you reside outside of the United States, we will transfer your personal information to the United States, and we will put in place the required safeguards so that the transfer of your personal information complies with data protection laws.

5. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

Subject to applicable laws, you may have some or all of the following additional rights. It is your responsibility to understand your rights in the country, state, region, or province where you reside. You may contact us as specified in section 8 to exercise your rights.

Right	Your rights and the actions you may take
Be Informed	You have a right to know your Personal Information that we collect, use, process, and store.
Access	You have a right to access your Personal Information that we collect, use, process, and store.
Correction (also known as Rectification)	You have a right to correct your Personal Information that we collect, use, process, and store.
Deletion (also known as Right to be Forgotten)	You have a right to delete your Personal Information that we collect, use, process, and store. Note: We may retain your personal information for as long as we believe it is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the personal information was collected, or as otherwise required by law. There are instances where applicable law allows or requires us to refuse to delete your personal information. In the event that we cannot delete your personal information, we will inform you of the reasons why.
Restrict Processing	You may have a right to request that we restrict processing of your personal information under certain circumstances, including if you believe the personal information is not accurate.
Portability or copy of	You may have the right, if it is possible, given our then-current automated systems and data architecture, to receive your personal information in machine readable format or receive a copy of your personal information.
Objection	You may have the right, in limited circumstances, to object to our processing of your personal information.
Opt-Out	You may have the right to object to our processing of your personal information to deliver advertisements according to our target-audience preferences.
Withdraw Consent	Where we collect and process your personal information based on your consent.
Lodge a Complaint	You have a right to file a complaint with the appropriate government agency if you believe we have not complied with this Privacy Policy or have violated the applicable privacy law.

We will not discriminate against you by (a) denying you use of our products or services; (b) charging different prices or rates to similarly situated customers; (c) providing a different level or quality for use of our products or services; (d) for exercising your rights.

If you are a resident of the State of California, under California Civil Code known as the “Shine The Light”, your may request and obtain from us, once a year, and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes, and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared your personal information during the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a resident of the State of California and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing via email to us as specified in section 8.

When you contact us, we may request information from you to enable us to confirm your identity. We will use reasonable means to confirm that the individual that is making the request is you. If we cannot verify that the individual making the request is you, we may deny the request.

There will be no charge to request and receive access to your personal information which we have collected about you. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal information, we will inform you of the permissible reasons why we may not be able to provide access.

In addition, we may not always be able to fulfill your request to your satisfaction. In some cases, we may be prohibited by law, agreement or legitimate interest to fully comply with your request. When those situations arise, we will inform you of why we are unable to fulfill your request.

6. COOKIES AND OTHER SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES THAT WE USE

We use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies on our website to enhance and improve your experience when you use our website.

A “cookie” is a small text file that is stored in your computer’s internet browser when you access and use a website or app. There are many different types of cookies. Some cookies are used to make websites or apps function properly, called “strictly necessary cookies”. Other cookies, called targeting, functional, or performance cookies, are used to analyze site performance and traffic, or to tailor advertisements to users. Some cookies contain unique identifiers about you or your device.

“Web beacons” are site instrumentation that helps to determine the kind of response the online activities generate. Web Beacons may also be used by a third party to monitor a user’s activity on a website. For example, web beacons can document how many times a page has been viewed or how many of the e-mails, requested by visitors, are actually opened. Generally, any electronic image that is part of a web page or html-based email, including ad banners, can act as a web beacon.

When you access and use our website, we will send that identifier to your device and it will be stored on your device. Your device will send the identifier back to us each time you access and use our website. A cookie will be either a “session” cookie or a “persistent” cookie: (a) a session cookie will expire when you stop using our website, and (b) a persistent cookie will be stored in your device’s web browser, and will remain in use until the expiration date has expired (you can delete a persistent cookie before its expiration date by using the web browser on your device).

We use the following types of cookies on our website:

Type of cookie	Who’s cookies	Purpose of cookie
Strictly necessary cookies	our cookies	These cookies are session cookies and enable you to move around our website and access certain feature; and belong to us

We use the services of Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google so that we can improve our product features and functionality, as well as, your user experience.

Managing and Opting Out of Cookies. Many cookies can be disabled through the browser on your device by following the instructions on your web browser. The instructions are usually located in the ‘Help’ or ‘Tools’ menus of your web browser. Please note: you cannot disable a strictly necessary or essential cookie. Blocking all cookies can have a negative effect on your ability to access and use our website.

7. PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We are committed to protecting the security of the personal information that we collect from you. We use reasonable physical, technical, and administrative measures to help protect your personal information from the risk of accidental loss, and unauthorized or inappropriate access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.

8. CONTACT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THIS PRIVACY POLICY

If you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or storage of your personal information, or to exercise your rights under this Privacy Policy, please contact us either (a) via email at legal@medwatchtech.com or (b) via our website at https://medwatchtech.com.

9. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Occasionally, we may make changes to this Privacy Policy. The most recent version of this Privacy Policy is the one that applies to you. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will provide you with notice by displaying a prominent notice on our website or by sending you an email. Please make sure you read any such notice carefully. Having received notice of any changes to this Privacy Policy, if you continue to access and use our website and participate in our surveys, then you agree to the updated Privacy Policy. Neither the course of conduct between the Parties nor trade usage will act to modify or alter the provisions of this Privacy Policy.

These Terms of Use were last updated: August 12, 2024