This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") explains:
1. The types of information collected by Healthline and its
partners through the Services and the purposes for which we use it.
2. How Healthline collects, stores, and shares your information.
3. Your rights with respect to such information collection.
Any capitalized terms used, but not defined, in this Privacy
Policy have the meanings provided in the Terms
of Use or as defined by applicable
data protection and privacy laws.
What Types of Information Do We Collect?
We receive information from or about you depending on the nature
of your interaction with our Services.
Information you provide to us
You may provide us with information in several ways, including:
● Registering/signing up in the Services and using our
Products. Your name, email address, physical
address, birth date, gender, zip/city, marital status, other location
information (when using specific products that are not available in all
geographies), and health information (diagnosis, when you were diagnosed, what
medications you're taking, or what type of care you're looking for). We also
may collect information relating to the actions that you perform while logged
into your account or that you provide when using a product, such as scheduling
medical care. Accounts can be used for easy checkout, save your preferences,
select areas of interest, and transaction history. The purpose for collection
and use of this data is that we have a business need to provide account related
functionalities to our users.
● Information you post on the Services. When available on the Services, we may collect Personal
Information from you when you provide or post information to our Services,
including your username, comments, likes, interests, status, pictures, and
references to your online presence. We may use this information for our
purposes and/or make this information available to others as you request.
● Information you provide about others. Sometimes, you may provide information about others; for
example, to refer a friend for a newsletter. We may use this information
to make our Services available to the people you refer.
● Feedback/support. If
you provide us feedback or contact us for support, we may collect your name and
email address, as well as any other content that you send to us, to reply. The
purpose for collection and use of this data is that we have a business need to
receive and act upon your feedback or issues.
● Mailing list. If
you sign up for one of our mailing lists, we collect your email address and/or
postal address. The purpose of collection and use of this data is that we have
a business need to share information about our products or services.
● Lead Forms and Order Placement. We collect
information when you use our lead and order forms on our Services. This may
include your name, email, phone number, billing address, shipping address, and
payment information (e.g., credit card number). In addition, these forms may
ask for information specific to your request, such as car make and model for
auto insurance, military service for secondary education, or other information
requested by one of our business clients. The purpose of collection and use of
this data is that we use your information to perform activities associated with
a contract to provide you with products or services.
● Partner promotion. We
collect information that you may choose to provide as part of a promotion with
another company. The purpose of collection and use of this data is that we have
a business need to fulfill our promotions.
● Surveys and Quizzes. When
you participate in a survey and/or quiz, we collect information that you
provide through the survey or quiz. If it is provided by a third-party service
provider, the third party’s privacy policy also applies to the collection, use,
and disclosure of your information. The purposes of collection and use of this
data are that we have a business need to understand your opinions and collect
information relevant to our organization, use your responses to personalize
your onsite and email experiences, and, if you consent, use your responses to
provide you with personalized advertising and partner offers.
● Sweepstakes or contests. When
you choose to participate in a sweepstakes or contest, we collect information
about you, which includes contact information to notify you if you are
selected. The purpose of collection and use of this data is that we have a
business need to operate the contest or sweepstakes. In some contexts, we are
also required by law to collect information about those that enter our
sweepstakes, and we have a business interest in complying with those laws.
● Apps: The Apps in our Services may
request to send you push notifications from time to time in order to update you
about any events or promotions that we may be running. The Apps may also ask
for your permission to access your camera and your photos. If you no longer
wish to receive these types of communications, or if you've initially agreed
for the application to access your camera and photos and you would like to stop
the Apps from accessing them, you may turn them off at the device level. To
ensure you receive proper notifications, we will need to collect certain
information about your device such as operating system and user identification
information.
● Employment-related data (directly from you). When you choose to apply for employment with Healthline, a
Red Ventures Company, we collect information necessary to process your
application or to retain you as an employee. This may include, among other
things, your resume or CV, Social Security Number, and other information you
provide during the application and recruitment process. The purpose of collection
is to help us match you to open positions, facilitate the recruiting process,
and perform our contract of employment or the anticipation of employment with
you.
Information we collect about you
When you use our Services, we may automatically collect information,
when:
● E-mail interconnectivity. If
you receive email from us, we may use tools to capture data related to when you
open our message, click on any links or banners it contains and make purchases.
The purpose for collection and use of this data is that we have a business need
to understand how you interact with our communications to you and honoring your
requests based on our communications, such as to unsubscribe.
● Mobile devices (such as phones, tablets, and other digital media
streaming devices).We may collect information from your
Mobile Device, such as unique identifying information broadcast from your
device when visiting one of our Services. The purposes of collection and use of
this data are that we have a business need to identify unique visitors and
understand how users interact with us on their devices.
● Website interactions. We
use technology to discover how you interact with our website (e.g., session
replay). This may include which links you click on, or information that you
type into our online forms. This may also include information about your device
or browser. The purposes of collection and use of this data are that we have a
business need to understand how you interact with our website to better improve
it, and to understand your preferences and interests in order to select
offerings that you might find most useful. We also have a business need to
secure our Services and detect and prevent fraud.
● Location data. When
you use certain of our Services, we may solicit your permission to collect your
location data. Some features within our Services (such as location-based
offers, such as a nearby medical office or pharmacy) may only function upon
confirmation of your location, and therefore such features will not be
available if you choose not to provide your location data. The specificity of
the location data may depend on several factors, including the device you are
using and how you are connected to the Internet. If you enable location
services for our Services, we may collect location data periodically as you use
or leave open our Services. Depending on the platform you use to access our
Applications (e.g., Apple’s iOS, Google's Android) you may be able to control
whether location data is collected from with the controls on your device.
● Cookies, generally. We
and our service providers operating on our behalf, and other businesses who
collect information on our pages may automatically collect or receive certain
information associated with you and/or your device(s) as part of your use of
the Services through device-based tracking technologies such as cookies,
pixels, tags, beacons, scripts or other similar tracking technology
(collectively “Cookie”). The purposes for collection and use of this data is
that we have a business need to make our website operate efficiently, provide
you with different website experiences, and to provide you with ability to save
your preferences such as login and preferred language. See our Cookie Policy
for more information.
● Cookies, for advertising. Some
of our Services participate in behavior-based advertising, which means that
technology (e.g., a Cookie) is used to collect information about your use of
our Services to provide advertising about products and services tailored to
your interests on our Services, or on other websites. The purposes for
collection and use of this data are that we have a business need to engage in
behavior-based advertising and capture analytics on our Services. The
information we collect may include geolocation data, such as (a) information
that identifies the precise location of your mobile device (when you agree to
allow an App or Service to collect this) and (b) your IP address, which may be
used to estimate your approximate location. We use this information to ensure
that the Services work properly, and to deliver customized content and
advertising, including personalized ads, to you. See our Cookie Policy for more
information.
● Cross-device tracking. We
and our service providers may collect and store information about users’
interactions with unaffiliated websites and applications that use our
technologies, including cookies and similar tracking technologies. This allows
us to infer the presence of a common user or household behind multiple devices
or browsers, for instance, and then link those browsers and devices into a
device graph. The purposes for collection and use of this data are that we have
a business need to understand our users’ use of our sites across devices in
order to allow users to use our services on one device and pick up seamlessly
where they left off on another device. We also have a business need to provide
personalized advertising on each device that is inferred from the browsing
patterns on all of the devices.
● Data analytics. We
use certain web analytics services, including third-party services such as
Google Analytics, to help us understand and analyze how visitors use our
Services. We may collect information, including your browser type, operating
system, Internet Protocol (IP) address, domain name, click-activity, referring
website, and/or a date/time stamp for visitors. The purpose for collection and
use of this data is that we have a business need to monitor our networks and
the visitors to our websites. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies
on both an individual and aggregated basis. These analytics services, including
third-party services such as Google Analytics, also use this information to
place advertisements for our products on other websites that you visit after
your use of the Site. These advertisements may be based on actions such as the
pages you visited and actions you take during your use of the Site. For further
information about how Google may use data it collects through the Site you
may click
here. You also may choose to
install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on to opt out of Google Analytics data collection.
Information we receive from other sources
● Client information. We
may collect contact information such as name, e-mail, address and/or phone
number of our business clients and their employees with whom we may interact.
The purposes for collection and use of this data is that we have a business
need to make our website operate efficiently and to provide our business
clients with ability to save preferences such as login and preferred language.
● Financial information. We
may collect information from credit reporting services when you use certain of
our Services. We use the information as needed in the course of providing
services you request, ongoing customer relationships, to service an account,
and as permitted by state and federal law.
● Demographic information. Personal
Information such as your age, gender, family size, and/or educational level.
The purpose for collection and use of this data is that we have a business need
to customize content, advertising and learn about our audiences.
● Activity and usage information. Including information about your interests, purchase behavior,
and other navigation data, such as websites visited and advertisements viewed
or clicked on, used to customize content and advertising.
● Publicly observed data. Such
as activities on blogs, videos, and other online postings used to customize
content and advertising.
● Social media platforms and other third-party services. Some of our Services may include features that are designed to
interact with social media platforms and other third-party services (e.g.,
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and loyalty programs). If you access the Services
using one of these social media platforms or provide us access to third-party
services, we may receive information about you from those third parties such as
account and profile data and we may combine this data with information we
already have about you. For more information on the use of social
platforms, please refer to the Social Features section below.
We
may also collect information about you through interactive applications (e.g.,
mobile devices, third party social networking services, and embedded audio and
video players), from co-branded partners and websites (e.g., on our Facebook
pages), from our advertisers, and from commercially available sources (e.g.,
data aggregators and public databases). This Privacy Policy does not cover the
practices of third parties, including those that may disclose information to
us.
● Employment-related data. When
you choose to apply for employment with Healthline, a Red Ventures Company,
including information from a recruitment agency. The purpose of collection is
to help us match you to open positions and facilitate the recruiting process.
In order to continue to provide the Services free of charge, we
are supported by advertisers and other partners. As part of our advertising and
partnerships, we work closely with third parties (for example, business
partners, advertising networks, analytics providers and search information
providers) and may receive information about you from them. In those
circumstances, the privacy policy of that third party will apply.
How Do We Use Your Information?
We use personal information about you in connection with the
following purposes:
● To identify you when you engage with us and our Websites,
Services, and Products.
● To provide content and product recommendations based on your
interactions and interests.
● To make our Services available to you and to complete orders
placed in our Services and with our Partners.
● To process transactions associated with your use of Services for
which there is a charge, including to process payments and verify your identity
or payment information for your security and protection.
● To communicate with you (e.g., about your account or updates to
our terms) and to respond to inquiries related to support, employment
opportunities, or other requests.
● To deliver marketing and promotional materials related to our
Services in accordance with applicable laws, including information relating to
our products, services, sales, marketing research or promotions.
● To provide you with personalized advertising on our Services
based on your online activity. We use the information we have to improve our
advertising systems so we can show you relevant interest-based advertising,
measure the effectiveness and reach of advertisements and services, verify
delivery and track performance of an advertising campaign, and ensure that an
ad is only delivered when a real person is visiting the site and that the same
users don’t see the same ads too frequently. You may update your preferences
regarding personalized advertising by visiting the Cookie Settings link in the
footer of each site to manage your settings.
● To verify your entry into and eligibility to participate in
contests, giveaways, or sweepstakes and inform you if you’ve won. If your entry
information will be used for any other purposes, we will disclose that in the
applicable rules governing that contest, giveaway, or sweepstakes.
● To monitor, improve, and conduct analytics on our Services and
advertiser product offerings.
● For internal administrative purposes, such as safety and
security of our Services, and to manage our relationships.
● To permit you to participate in social sharing, including live
social media feeds and to implement Social Features you choose to use.
● The Apps in our Services may request to send you push
notifications from time to time in order to update you about any events or
promotions that we may be running. The Apps may also ask for your permission to
access your camera and your photos. If you no longer wish to receive these
types of communications, or if you've initially agreed for the application to
access your camera and photos and you would like to stop the Apps from
accessing them, you may turn them off at the device level. To ensure you receive
proper notifications, we will need to collect certain information about your
device such as operating system and user identification information.
● To detect security incidents, and protect against malicious,
deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, including attempts to manipulate or
violate our policies, procedures, and terms and conditions.
● To comply with legal obligations, to establish or exercise our
rights, to defend against a legal claim, and to investigate, prevent, or take
action regarding possible misconduct.
● For such other purposes not described in this Privacy Policy as
you may consent (from time to time) and as otherwise permitted by law.
Although the sections above describe our primary purpose(s) in
collecting your information, in many situations we have more than one
purpose.
For example, if you complete an online purchase, we may collect
your information to perform our contract with you, but we also collect your
information as we have a business need in maintaining your information after
your transaction is complete so that we can quickly and easily respond to any
questions about your order. As a result, our collection and processing of your
information is based in different contexts upon your consent, our need to perform
a contract, our obligations under law, and/or our legitimate business reasons.
How and When Do We Share Or Disclose Your
Information?
In addition to the specific situations discussed elsewhere in
this policy, we may disclose your Personal Information in the following
situations:
● With the Healthline family of Websites and Apps, affiliates, and
acquisitions. We may share your information
with our Websites (www.myhealtylife01.blogspot.com), and Apps (Bezzy Breast Cancer, Bezzy Depression, Bezzy IBD,
Bezzy Migraine, Bezzy MS, Bezzy PsA, Bezzy Psoriasis, Bezzy RA, and Bezzy T2D)
for purposes and uses consistent with this Privacy Policy. We also may share
your Personal Information with our corporate affiliates (e.g., parent company,
sister companies, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common
control). If another company acquires, or plans to acquire, our company,
business, or our assets, we will also share your Personal Information with that
company using appropriate safeguards, including at the negotiation stage.
● Our business clients. When
we collect information on behalf of our business clients, we share that
information with those clients.
● To enhance our Services. We
may share your information with third parties who provide services on our
behalf to help with our business activities such as ad technology providers,
authentication services, email service providers, data analyzers, and business
intelligence providers for the purpose of enhancing our products and services.
These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as
necessary to provide these services to us.
● Partner promotion. We
may offer contests, sweepstakes, or other promotions with third party partners.
If you decide to enter a contest, sweepstakes, or promotion that is sponsored
by and/or associated with a third-party partner, then the information that you
provide will be shared with us and with them. Their use of your information is
not governed by this privacy policy.
● Audience measurement services. We
may share your Personal Information with audience measurement companies
like Comscore and Nielsen that help us and
other websites measure and understand the audiences that view our content.
● Video viewing behavior. Consistent
with applicable law, we may share your video viewing behavior with third
parties including advertising companies, analytics partners, and social media
sites.
● Aggregated and anonymous information. We may share aggregated, anonymous information with any
third party. This information is not linked to personal information that can
identify you or another individual person.
● Advertising. We may share certain data
with Advertising platforms, such as Google and Social Networks such as Twitter,
Facebook, LinkedIn and Snapchat to allow us to target existing users and
customers with highly relevant advertising campaigns. For the purposes of such
campaigns. We may share a unique code (such as a hashed email address) with the
applicable Advertising platform in order for that identifier to be matched
against existing users of the relevant Advertising Platform and to identify
potentially relevant audiences for targeted advertising. We use services such as
Google Ads’ Customer Match, LinkedIn Matched Audiences, ID5, LiveRamp, and
Facebook Custom Audiences for these purposes.
In
addition to advertisements for our own goods and services, we may also
facilitate third parties to advertise their own goods and services including by
targeting those advertisements to those that might be most interested in them.
These advertisements may be shown within our Services. In order to provide
advertisements relevant to you, your IP address may be used, as well as your operating
system and device type. Information about your particular device will be used
to show you advertisements which work properly on that device. You may be able
to adjust your preferences by visiting our Cookie Policy or below in the 'Your
Choices' section of this policy. To opt-out of advertising on a person-based
level from ID5, please click here, and for LiveRamp, please click here.
● Public. Some of our Services may
provide the opportunity to post comments, or reviews, in a public forum. If you
decide to submit information on our Services, that information may be publicly
available
● Other persons or entities with your consent. With appropriate consent when required, certain Services
may share your Personal Information with third party marketing partners, and
they may contact you by email, telephone, postal mail or other common
communication methods with marketing and promotional messages about their
products or services. Sometimes we will give you the option to receive further
communications from one of our advertising partners, for example when we run a
competition with that advertiser. When you provide consent to receive
communications from that third party advertiser, your personal information will
be managed by that third party’s own privacy policy. In some cases, we may also
ask if you would like us to share your information with other third parties
that are not described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.
● Other disclosures without your consent. We may disclose information in response to subpoenas,
warrants, or court orders, or in connection with any legal process, or to
comply with relevant laws. We may also share your information to establish or
exercise our rights, to defend against a legal claim, to investigate, prevent,
or take action regarding possible illegal activities, suspected fraud, safety
of person or property, or a violation of our policies.
Social Features
Some of our Services may include features that are designed to
permit interactions that you initiate between our site and third-party websites
or services, including third-party social networks (collectively, "Social
Features"). For example, you may be able to "like" or
"share" content from our Services on other websites or
services, such as Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, YouTube/Google, and LinkedIn. By choosing to like or share information from our Services
through these services, you should review the privacy policy of that service.
If you use Social Features on our Services or access our
Services from Social Features, both Healthline and the social media services
that operate those Social Features may have access to certain information about
you and your use of both our site and theirs. If you are a member of a social
media site and logged in, the interfaces configured on our Services may allow
the social media site to connect your site visit and browsing behavior to the
personal data held on your social media site. We may use this information on an
aggregate basis to place ads that are based on your interests on these social
media sites. These practices are governed by the privacy statements of these
social networking sites and you are advised to review these separately.
In addition, we may request your permission to a) access and
collect information available from your social networking account; and b) post
information to your friends on your behalf. When you connect your social
networking service with your Red Ventures account, you authorize us to access
certain information about you from your social networking service to provide
content and services, including to help us tailor our communications to you and
to develop rich online content and services across the Services. The
information we may access from your social networking services is governed by
the privacy policies and settings of those third-party services.
The information collected and stored by the social media sites
remains subject to those sites’ privacy practices, including whether they
continue to share information with us, the types of information shared, and
your choices with regard to what is visible to others on those third-party
websites or services.
Cookie Policy
Cookies on our services
When you use our Services, you may receive cookies or other
similar technologies such as pixel tags (collectively, “Cookies”) from us and
the third parties that collect information on our Services.
A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer
when you visit a website. Tracking pixels (sometimes referred to as web beacons
or clear GIFs) are tiny electronic tags with a unique identifier that are sometimes
embedded in websites, online ads and/or email, and that are designed to provide
usage information like ad impressions (how many times an ad is viewed) or
clicks, to measure popularity of the Services and associated advertising, and
to access information from user cookies.
Cookies can be set by either us on the site that you visit
(“first-party cookies”) or a third party involved in providing content,
functionality, or services such as analytics or advertising for the site that
you visit (“third-party cookies”).
We use cookies to determine that we give you a high-quality
experience on our Services.
We use session cookies that expire at the end of a browser
session (from when a user opens the browser window to when they exit the
browser) and persistent cookies that remain on your hard drive until you erase
them or they expire.
How long a persistent cookie remains on your browser depends on
how long the visited website has programmed the cookie to last or they can be
stored for longer.
If you access our Services from your mobile device, we may
collect unique user ID, cell phone model, operating system, and carrier.
Gathering your information helps us ensure our website and other
services work correctly and support our customer analytic efforts.
We also use cookies to show you advertising that is relevant to
your interests. We may share your information with third parties who provide
services on our behalf to help with our business activities such as ad
technology providers, authentication services, email service providers, data
analyzers, and business intelligence providers for the purpose of enhancing our
products and services. These companies are authorized to use your information
only as necessary to provide these services to us.
We also may share information that has been “hashed” with
certain third-party partners. “Hashed” information is information that has been
converted to an anonymized string of characters in an effort to prevent third
parties from unscrambling the anonymized string of characters to recover the
underlying information. To opt out of our sharing of “hashed” information,
please click here.
Categories of cookies used on our Services (except for UK and
EEA):
1. Strictly
Necessary cookies. These cookies enable you to use our Services. These
cookies are essential to enable you to browse our Services and use certain
features. Disabling them may prevent you from using certain parts of the
Services. Without these cookies, services such as shopping activity and paying
activity cannot be provided. These cookies also help keep our Services safe and
secure.
2. Preference
cookies. These cookies store information such as your preferred
country and language selection, login data and website preferences. Without
these cookies, our Services may not be able to remember certain choices you've
previously made (such as a saved country / language preference) or personalize
your browsing experience by providing you with relevant information. These
cookies can also be used to recognize your device so that you do not have to
provide the same information more than once.
3. Performance
cookies. These cookies collect information about how you use our
Services such as which pages you visit regularly. These cookies are used to
provide you with a high-quality experience by doing things such as tracking
page load, site response times, and error messages.
4. Targeting
/ Advertising cookies. These cookies gather information about your use
of our Services so we may improve your experience and provide you with more
relevant content and advertising. They are also used to gather feedback on
customer satisfaction through surveys. They remember that you've visited our
Services and help us understand usage of our Services. Some of these cookies
are from third parties that collect information about users of our Services (as
described below under "Information collected by third parties on our
Services") in order to provide advertising (on our Services and elsewhere)
based on users’ online activities (so-called "interest-based
advertising") on our Services and elsewhere online. The third parties
involved in interest-based advertising collect internet browsing information
(e.g., websites visited, time of visit) across different websites and over
time, and they may use the information they collect on our Services to provide
you ads (from us and other companies) across the internet.
Categories of cookies used on our Services (in UK, EU, and EEA):
1. Store
and/or access information on a device. Cookies, device identifiers, or
other information can be stored or accessed on your device for the purposes
presented to you.
2. Select
basic ads. Ads can be shown to you based on the content you’re
viewing, the app you’re using, your approximate location, or your device type.
3. Create
a personalised ads profile. A profile can be built about you and your
interests to show you personalised ads that are relevant to you.
4. Select
personalised ads. Personalised ads can be shown to you based on a
profile about ads that are relevant to you.
5. Create
a personalised content profile. A profile can be built about you and
your interests to show you personalised content that is relevant to you.
6. Select
personalised content. Personalised content can be shown to you based
on a profile about you.
7. Measure
ad performance. The performance and effectiveness of ads that you see
or interact with can be measured.
8. Measure
content performance. The performance and effectiveness of content that
you see or interact with can be measured. be measured.
9. Apply
market research to generate audience insights. Market research can be
used to learn more about the audiences who visit sites/apps and view ads.
10. Develop
and improve products. Your data can be used to improve existing
systems and software, and to develop new products.
11. Ensure
security, prevent fraud, and debug. Your data can be used to monitor
for and prevent fraudulent activity, and ensure systems and processes work
properly and securely.
12. Technically
deliver ads or content. Your device can receive and send information
that allows you to see and interact with ads and content
13. Match
and combine offline data sources. Data from offline data sources can
be combined with your online activity in support of one or more purposes.
14. Link
different devices. Different devices can be determined as belonging to
you or your household in support of one or more of purposes.
15. Receive
and use automatically-sent device characteristics for identification. Your
device might be distinguished from other devices based on information it
automatically sends, such as IP address or browser type.
However, if you prefer, you can change your cookie settings.
Some browsers have options that allow the visitor to control whether the
browser will accept cookies, reject cookies, or notify the visitor each time a
cookie is sent. You may elect to reject cookies by adjusting your settings, but
doing so will limit the range of features available to you on our Services and
other major websites that use cookies. Blocking cookies may prevent our
Services from operating as expected and may also prevent your consent choices
from being stored. That may mean that if you opt-out, then block cookies, we
may not know about, or be able to honor, your opt-out. You should also be aware
that blocking cookies on your computer will not affect your consent choices on
a different device, such as a mobile device.
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