Privacy Policy
Tethys Health Ventures understands how important the privacy of personal information is to our users. This Privacy Policy will tell you what information we collect about you and about your use of Tethys Health Ventures and its services. It will explain the choices you have about how your personal information is used and how we protect that information. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.
This Privacy Policy applies to website(s) owned and operated by Tethys Health Ventures that are intended for use by consumers and payers. This Privacy Policy also applies to the consumer-facing version of the Tethys Health Ventures Product and Services. Except where noted, statements in this Privacy Policy with respect to the Tethys Health Ventures Website also apply to the Tethys Health Ventures Mobile Device Applications (or "Apps") for iPhone, iPad and Android devices.
References to "TETHYS" mean Tethys Health Ventures LLC, including any company that Tethys Health Ventures LLC controls (for example, a subsidiary that Tethys Health Ventures LLC owns). Tethys Health Ventures may share information among its subsidiaries or websites that it owns or controls, but information collected under this Privacy Policy is always protected under the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Information Collected About You
Emails You Send to Tethys Health Ventures
This Privacy Policy does not apply to information, content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you send to Tethys Health Ventures by email. If you want to keep content or business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to Tethys Health Ventures.
Non-Personal Information
Even if you do not register with or provide any Personal Information to Tethys Health Ventures, we collect Non-Personal Information about your use of the Tethys Health Ventures Website. “Non-Personal Information” means information that does not specifically identify an individual person. We may also acquire Non-Personal Information about our users from external sources. While you may use some of the functionality of Tethys Health Ventures without registration, many of the specific tools and services on the Tethys Health Ventures Website require that you register with Tethys Health Ventures.
Cookies and Web Beacons
As is true of most websites, we gather certain information through your use of our Site. This information may include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, the files viewed on our site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data.
“Cookies” are small data files that are stored on the hard drive of the computer you use to view a web site. Every computer that accesses the Tethys Health Ventures Websites is assigned a different Cookie by Tethys Health Ventures. “Web Beacons” are graphic image files imbedded in a web page typically used to monitor activity on a web page and send back to its home server (which can belong to the host site, a network advertiser or some other third party) information from your browser, such as the IP address, the URL of the page on which the Web Beacon is located, the type of browser that is accessing the site and the ID number of any Cookies on your computer previously placed by that server.
Third parties under contract with Tethys Health Ventures may use Cookies or Web Beacons to collect Non-Personal Information about your usage of the Tethys Health Ventures Websites, including which health topics you have viewed. These third party advertising service providers may use this information to help Tethys Health Ventures deliver advertising on the Tethys Health Ventures Websites as well as on other sites on the Internet based on your browsing activity on our sites. Tethys Health Ventures may further tailor the advertising on Tethys Health Ventures and these third party sites based on additional Non-Personal Information to the extent known by Tethys Health Ventures or these third parties. One of the third parties that Tethys Health Ventures works with are (e.g. Google). In addition to using the Non-Personal Information it collects performing services for Tethys Health Ventures Google may also use such information as described in its privacy policy.
Non-Personal Information Collected by Third Parties Not Acting on TETHYS’s Behalf
Sponsors or advertisers on the Tethys Health Ventures Website may use their own Cookies, Web Beacons or other online tracking technologies in the banner advertisements and sponsored links and on the pages ("Brand Pages") on the Tethys Health Ventures Website that consist solely of advertisements or other content from our advertisers. This advertiser content may also be served in emails, special promotions or newsletters we send you. Their advertisements may be displayed on the Tethys Health Ventures Website or on other sites that you visit after you visit the Tethys Health Ventures Website. Some advertisers use companies other than Tethys Health Ventures to serve their ads and to monitor users' responses to ads, and these ad servers may also collect Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons on the Tethys Health Ventures Website.
While we generally permit the use of these third party cookies on the assumption that they comply with our Advertising Policy and we assist our advertisers with the placement of cookies or beacons on Brand Pages, we do not control how third parties use Cookies or Web Beacons or how they manage the Non-Personal Information they gather through the use of these technologies on the Tethys Health Ventures Website and we may be unable to verify compliance with our Advertising Policy.
Updating/Removing Your Personal Information
If you do not want your Personal Information used by Tethys Health Ventures as provided in this Privacy Policy, you should not register as a member or for any specific tool or application that collects Personal Information. You can correct, update or review Personal Information you have previously submitted by going back to the specific tool or application, logging-in and making the desired change. You can also update any Personal Information you have submitted by contacting us using the contact information listed below.
If you have registered and desire to delete any of your Personal Information you have provided to us from our systems please contact us using the contact information listed below. Upon your request, we will delete your Personal Information from our active databases and where feasible from our back-up media. You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to the Tethys Health Ventures website from our servers.
Cookies
Most browser software can be set to reject Cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject Cookies in the "Help" section of the toolbar. If you reject our Cookies, certain of the functions and conveniences of the Tethys Health Ventures Website may not work properly but you do not have to accept our Cookies in order to productively use the Tethys Health Ventures website.
How Information Collected About You Is Used
Information collected by Tethys Health Ventures about you is used by Tethys Health Ventures to:
- provide you with access to particular tools and services,
- respond to your inquiries you send to us and to send you administrative communications about the Tethys Health Ventures website or services,
- obtain your feedback about the Tethys Health Ventures website or our offerings,
- statistically analyze trends and user behavior and activity including how frequently areas of the site are visited and how many emails are received and opened,
- conduct research and measurement activities, including those described below.
- Send you personalized emails or secure electronic messages pertaining to your health interests, including news, announcements, alerts, and opportunities from Tethys Health Ventures; or
- Send you relevant offers and informational materials on behalf of our affiliate centers pertaining to your health interests.
Tethys Health Ventures may combine Personal and Non-Personal Information collected by Tethys Health Ventures about you, and may combine this information with information from external sources.
We also use Cookies in order to enable us to conduct surveys for our own use and on behalf of our advertisers. These Cookies are used to determine whether you have seen certain content or advertising so that we may request your opinions. We may also use Cookies to authenticate respondents or to help you pick up where you left off in a survey. If you have Cookies disabled you may not be able to participate in some surveys.
Research and Measurement Activities
Information that Tethys Health Ventures collects about you, may be combined by Tethys Health Ventures with other information available to Tethys Health Ventures, through third parties for research and measurement purposes, including measuring the effectiveness of content, advertising or programs. This information from other sources may include age, gender, demographic, geographic, personal interests, product purchase activity or other information. We may report aggregate information, which is not able to be identified back to an individual user of the Tethys Health Ventures website, to our current or prospective advertisers and other business partners. We do not sell or share any Personal Information with any third parties, except that contractors performing services on our behalf may be provided access to Personal Information when performing these services. These contractors agree not to use this information for any purpose other than performing services on our behalf.
With Whom Do We Share Your Information?
Except as described in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, Tethys Health Ventures will not disclose any Personal Information it gathers from you through the Tethys Health Venture’s Websites. We may only release Personal Information to third parties: (1) to comply with legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; (2) when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request; or (3) in special cases, such as in response to a physical threat to you or others, to protect property or defend or assert legal rights. In addition, we may disclose Personal Information as described below. We may share Non-Personal Information that we have about you, including about your browsing activity on Tethys Health Ventures, with third party advertising service providers who may use this information, on our behalf, to help Tethys Health Ventures deliver advertising on the Tethys Health Venture’s Website as well as on other sites on the Internet.
In the event of a corporate change in control resulting from, for example, a sale to, or merger with, another entity or in the event of a sale of assets or a bankruptcy, Tethys Health Ventures reserves the right to transfer your Personal Information to the new party in control or the party acquiring assets. In the event of such a change, your Personal Information will continue to be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy unless any changes to the Privacy Policy are made in accordance with the section below that discusses “Changes to This Privacy Policy.”
Disclosures to Tethys Health Ventures Contractors
Tethys Health Ventures contractors sometimes have limited access to your Personal and Non-Personal Information in the course of providing products or services to Tethys Health Ventures. These contractors include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, data analysis, research, advertising and marketing assistance and/or content in connection with our operation and maintenance of the Tethys Health Ventures Website. We contractually require that our contractors: 1) protect the privacy of your Personal and Non-Personal Information consistent with this Privacy Policy and 2) not use or disclose your Personal or Non-Personal Information for any purpose other than providing the limited service or function for Tethys Health Ventures.
Disclosures to Third Party Web Sites
Certain content, services and advertisements offered to you through the Tethys Health Ventures Website are served on, or contain links to, web sites hosted and operated by a company other than Tethys Health Ventures ("Third Party Websites"). Tethys Health Ventures does not disclose your Personal Information to these Third Party Websites without your consent, but you should be aware that any information you disclose to the other web sites once you access these other web sites is not subject to this Privacy Policy. Tethys Health Ventures does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party Websites. You should review the privacy policy posted on the other website to understand how that Third Party Website collects and uses your Personal Information. Tethys Health Ventures makes an effort to make it obvious to you when you leave our website and enter a Third Party Website, either by requiring you to click on a link or by notifying you on the site before you visit the third party site. In addition, if you see a phrase such as "Powered by" or "in association with" followed by the name of a company other than Tethys Health Ventures, then you are on a website hosted by a company other than Tethys Health Ventures.
How Do We Secure and Retain Your Information?
We take reasonable security measures to protect the security of your Personal Information. Despite Tethys Health Ventures's efforts to protect your Personal Information, there is always some risk that an unauthorized third party may find a way around our security systems or that transmissions of your information over the Internet may be intercepted.
The security of your Personal Information is important to us. When you enter Personal Information (including personal health information in various tools on our website), we encrypt the transmission of that information or use SSL connections (Secure Socket Layer) technology.
We will retain your Personal Information as long as your account is active or needed to provide you services. At any time you can remove your Personal Information or instruct us to remove it, but you should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to Tethys Health Ventures from our servers. Tethys Health Ventures tools that collect and store Personal Information allow you to correct, update or review information you have submitted by going back to the specific tool, logging-in and making the desired changes. We will also retain your Personal Information as necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
Contacting Tethys Health Ventures About Your Personal Information or Privacy
Please send us an email by using the Contact Us link at the bottom of every page of our site if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the Personal Information we maintain about you.
You can also contact Tethys Health Ventures’s Privacy Office at:
4 North Park Drive, Suite 104, Hunt Valley, MD 21030
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change or modify this Privacy Policy or any of our tools or services at any time and any changes will be effective upon being posted unless we advise otherwise. If we make any material changes to this policy we will notify you by email (sent to the email address specified when you register) and/or by means of a notice on this website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this website for the latest information on our privacy practices. If you do not accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, we ask that you do not register with us and that you do not use the Tethys Health Ventures Website. Please exit the Tethys Health Ventures Website immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.