Privacy
Last Updated: 5 August 2024
Hello and welcome to the AI Health Shield, provided by Biovista (together “we” or “our”), websites (www.aihs.com and www.biovista.com, our “Site(s)“).
The Terms of Service (“Terms”) here: 1) are legally binding, 2) any access or use by you of our Site(s) mean that you understand and accept these Terms, 3) all applicable laws or statutes and regulations (“Applicable Laws“) apply to your use or access of our Site(s), and 4) can and may be revised by us at any time and for any reason and the Terms will continue to apply.
We are providing this Privacy Policy to describe how we use personal information that we may obtain about you through our Site(s) and in connection with our business (the “Business”).
If you are outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or the United Kingdom (“UK”), by using our Site(s), you agree to our use of the personal information that we obtain from and about you.
If you are in the EEA or the UK, this Privacy Policy is provided for informational purposes only.
If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, regardless of where you reside, Do Not Use Our Site(s), products or services.
1. Information and data of yours that we collect
In connection with our Business and access or use of our Site(s) we may collect, process, use, store, and transfer the following: personal information when you fill in forms, or correspond with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise, that relates to an identified or identifiable individual or household, such as a name, contact details, or address, and includes the following information which are referred to in this Privacy Policy as “personal information” generally, and “personal data” elsewhere: any contact information; any health information; any demographic information; any testimonials related to how you experienced our Site(s), products or services; any marketing material receipt preferences you may have; any information you designate as sensitive; any payment information you share; any technical information such as your internet protocol address, login and access data, browser type, time zone, operating system and the like; any use data that tells us how you use our Site(s)
2. How we use your data
The personal information you share can only be used as the law allows us to. This includes: To provide services to you or to perform a contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you; To manage our relationship with you; To process your registration on our Site(s) and send you information about changes to our Terms of Service and other policies; To communicate with you and respond to your service-related requests, questions, and feedback; To verify your identity or provide you with the information, products and services that you request; To provide, evaluate, improve, protect, and promote our Site(s) and our products. Note that we use your usage data and technical data, including the actions you take in your account (such as visits to our Site(s), page interaction information, and search history) as well as cookies and other technologies for these purposes; To comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, such as a subpoena, court order, warrant, or similar legal process; Where you have given your consent and as described to you when we collect your personal information; Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and, where consistent with applicable laws; To provide you with access to content and features on our Sites and develop our Business and our Sites; To enhance your experience when you visit our Sites, such as remembering your preferences. We may also use your personal information to provide you with information about our Business we feel may interest you, market new products to you, and send you communications about new features. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, select the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any email communication, or text ‘STOP’ to opt out of any SMS communication, from us; To monitor the use of our Sites and use personal information to help us provide, evaluate, improve, protect, and promote our Sites and our products, both online and offline; To ensure the security of our Sites, by preventing unauthorized or malicious activities; To investigate any complaints received from you or from others about our Sites or our Business; To enforce compliance with our Terms of Service and other policies and to help other organizations (such as copyright owners) enforce their rights; To protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims); and To investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical, or illegal activity.
3. Data Sharing
Some information may be shared as follows: Affiliates. We may share your personal information with our corporate parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates, for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy; Service Providers and Contractors: We uses trusted third parties (e.g., IT services, analytics services, etc.) to help us provide, improve, protect, and promote our Sites and our Business, and to perform business operations. These third parties may contact you on our behalf to perform these business operations. These third parties will access your personal information only to perform tasks on our behalf in compliance with this Privacy Policy; Other Applications and Third-party Links: The Sites may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy policies. When you leave our Sites, we encourage you to read the privacy policies of every website you visit. Please remember that their use of your personal information will be governed by their privacy policies and terms; The Public. We may make available functionality that enables you to disclose information to the public. We do not control how other individuals or third parties use any personal information that you make available to the public. If you gave us consent to post a testimonial on our Sites and/or social media pages but wish to update or delete it, please contact us; For Compliance, Fraud Prevention and Safety: We may share personal information for the compliance, fraud prevention and safety purposes described above and to comply with legal requirements and processes; Business Transfers. We may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of our business or assets, including personal information, in connection with a business transaction (or potential business transaction) such as a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy or dissolution; Legal Purposes: We will disclose your personal information when we think it is necessary to investigate or prevent actual or expected fraud, criminal activity, injury or damage to us or others; when otherwise required by law, regulation, subpoena, court order, warrant, or similar legal process; or if necessary to assert or protect our rights or assets; Other Parties. To another party or parties for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provided your personal information, with your consent or authorization, or as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law.
4. How we protect Your Data
We have implemented reasonable measures and procedures designed to protect your personal information. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.
5. Children
Consistent with the United States Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”), we do not knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requiring parental consent. Any person who provides their personal information to us through our Sites represents that they are 13 years of age or older. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us.
6. Storage and Transfer
The Sites are controlled by us in the United States. We may store and use information in the United States and other jurisdictions and any personal information provided to us will be transmitted to or within those jurisdictions. We make no representation that materials on our Sites are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and access to them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access our Sites from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws.
7. Use of Cookies and Other Technologies
Our Sites may use “cookies” to gather general information about the browsing activities of visitors to those Sites. This allows us to constantly improve our Sites’ design. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. (Nevertheless, we cannot guarantee that cookies will not be accessed by other persons.) You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use other interactive features of our Sites that depend on cookies. To learn more about how to manage cookies on different types of browsers, you can visit the website www.allaboutcookies.org.
8. Retaining Personal Data
We only keep personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected such information, as set out in this Privacy Policy, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, subject to your rights, in certain circumstances, to have your personal information erased. We may be required in law to hold certain personal information for specific periods. In other cases, we will retain your personal information for an appropriate period after our relationship ends to protect ourselves from legal claims or to administer our business. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
9. Contact Information
Biovista, Inc.
By email: aihealthshield@biovista.com