The following sections describe certain circumstances when we may share your Personal Information:
Information Shared with Other Users
If you access or use any Health For Mankind Program, other users will access a range of personal information you share, as further described below. These other users may include your co-workers or other acquaintances. By accessing or using any Health For Mankind Program, you authorize Health For Mankind to disclose to other users that you are clinically eligible for the Services and that you participate in relevant aspects of the Services, which may indicate that you meet the clinical enrollment criteria for relevant aspects of the Services and may identify you as living with or at risk for certain chronic diseases or conditions.
If you enroll in a Health For Mankind Program, on your user profile page, you may provide information about your health, symptoms, and treatments, your feelings about your health information and yourself, or any other information about yourself. You may also upload pictures, videos, and stories to your user profile page. Any information you choose to include in creating, completing or updating your user profile page may be viewable by other users. Other users may post comments and view posted comments on your user profile page.
In addition, in connection with your participation in a Health For Mankind Program, we may place you in an online peer group, and you may choose to enroll in other group-based communities that we may offer. The Site, the Apps, and other aspects of the Services may include the ability to interact with discussion boards, chat rooms, community pages, profile pages, bulletin boards, blogs, instant messaging or other messaging services, activities, polls, games, and other communication forums to which you post or otherwise make information or materials available (“Forums”). Please note that any information, text, and images that you post or disclose on or through the Forums may be visible to the present and future users in those groups or communities. Your User ID and user photo may be viewable to these individuals when you send messages or when you generally disclose information on or through the forums.
We take great care to protect your privacy, but please remember that we cannot control how other users will use or disclose any information shared on your user profile page or disclosed to Forums. We urge you to exercise discretion and caution when deciding to disclose information, including your health information and other Personal Information, on your user profile page, through a Forum, or otherwise through the Services.
WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE USE BY OTHERS OF ANY INFORMATION, INCLUDING PERSONAL INFORMATION, THAT IS DISCLOSED BY YOU OR ON YOUR BEHALF ON YOUR USER PROFILE PAGE OR TO GROUPS OR OTHER PUBLIC-FACING FEATURES OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING DISCUSSION BOARDS, CHAT ROOMS, MESSAGING SERVICES, OR OTHER FORUMS DESCRIBED ABOVE. BY DISCLOSING ANY OF YOUR INFORMATION THROUGH THESE FEATURES, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND ACCEPT ANY RISK AND DAMAGE ARISING FROM THE DISCLOSURE OF THAT INFORMATION.
Communications in Response to User Submissions
As part of the Services, you will receive email and other communications relating to your User Submissions from us. By posting User Submissions, you acknowledge and agree that we may send you email, text messages, phone calls, and other communications that we determine in our sole discretion relate to your User Submissions.
Information Shared with Our Agents
We employ other people and companies to perform tasks on our behalf, and we must share your information with them to provide products and services to you. By accessing or using the Services, you consent to and authorize Health For Mankind to disclose your personal information to our authorized personnel and administrators, including our health coaches for users who enroll in a Health For Mankind Program. Unless we have your authorization or consent, we limit these agents’ rights to use any Personal Information that we share with them to what is minimally necessary to assist us. We do not permit these agents to rent or sell any personal information about you that they receive from us.
Reporting to Sponsors and Third-Party Administrators
In our sole discretion, we may share, transfer, or otherwise disclose certain of your Protected Health Information to entities that are authorized to receive that information for legally permitted purposes under HIPAA, which may include the companies paying for your participation in a Health For Mankind Program. This type of sharing is described in more detail in our Notice of HIPAA Privacy Practices. We only share your Protected Health Information by HIPAA and other applicable legal requirements.
Promotional Offers
We will never disclose your Personal Information to other businesses for their marketing purposes, but we may send you offers that promote other businesses’ products. We intend these offers to benefit you, your health, or your experience with our Services. If you do not wish to receive these offers, you may follow the instructions to unsubscribe contained within the emails, or you may contact us in any of the manners described at the end of this Privacy Policy. We will process your request within the time required by law, if not faster, but you may receive additional offers as we process your request.
Information Available to App Providers
By downloading any of the Apps from an App Provider, such as the Apple App Store or Google Play, please note that the App Provider and its agents may be able to identify you as a user of our Services.
Information Shared with Other Affiliated Businesses We Do Not Control
To provide you with the optimal user experience, we anticipate working with various third-party businesses. In certain situations, we may enable you to buy products or services of third-party businesses through the Services. We may provide services or sell products jointly with affiliated businesses in other situations. You should recognize when an affiliated business is associated with your transactions. We will share personal information related to those transactions with those affiliated businesses throughout those transactions.
Referrals to Family, Colleagues, and Friends
We may ask or invite you to refer our services to family members, colleagues, or friends from time to time. We ask you to limit your invitations to people in your inner circle who may be interested in our Services. In these cases, it is your responsibility to ensure that these persons are indeed family members (by marriage, common-law partnership, or parent-child relationship) or people with whom you have a personal relationship (based on the frequency of communication, sharing of interests or opinions, etc.). If we refer one of these persons to the Services, we may inform them that you have suggested they may be interested in trying our Services. If they request that we do not contact them again, we will not contact them again.
Our Business Transfers
We reserve the right to disclose and transfer all Personal Information to an operator of the Site or of any of the Apps or applicable databases, provided that the operator agrees to be bound by the applicable terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. We also reserve the right to disclose and transfer all Personal Information to a successor in interest of Health For Mankind in connection with a merger, consolidation, restructuring, or change of control, the sale of substantially all of our interests and assets, or another organizational change (including during any due diligence process), provided that the successor entity agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
Protection of Health For Mankind and Others
We may release your Personal Information when we believe in good faith that releasing that information is necessary to comply with applicable law, to enforce our conditions of use and other agreements, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Health For Mankind, our employees, our users, or others. We may exchange information with other companies and organizations to detect, suppress, or protect against fraud and reduce credit risk. If necessary and required by law, we will disclose any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of your Personal Information, including, without limitation, breaches of your unencrypted, electronically stored “personal information” or “medical information” (as defined by applicable laws). To the extent permitted by applicable laws, we may make these disclosures to you via email or a conspicuous posting on your private profile in the Services in the most suitable time possible and without unreasonable delay, so long as this is consistent with the legitimate needs of law enforcement and any other measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system.
De-identified Data
As described in our Terms of Use, we may de-identify the User Submissions you share with us, including any Personal Information, or otherwise process them so that they are no longer attributable to you without additional information (“De-identified Data”). We may use that De-identified Data without restriction in any way allowed by law. For example, we might use De-identified Data to understand, evaluate, or modify the Services, to generate statistical information about the Services that we share with our customers and other third parties who are evaluating, analyzing, accrediting, or researching Health For Mankind’s programs, or for our other business purposes. When an applicable law requires that we use a particular method of de-identifying data or rendering it no longer attributable to you, we will comply with that law. Otherwise, we may use an appropriate method and would not reasonably identify you under the circumstances.