Privacy Policy – Healthwatch Network

Your privacy is very important to us on HealthwatchNetwork.com. Please read carefully the entire Privacy Statement below. By using HealthwatchNetwork.com or any of its services, you are consenting us to have your personal data transferred to us and processed in the United States or any other data storage and processing location of HealthwatchNetwork.com. This privacy statement might change time to time. So you must read this privacy statement carefully every time you visit HealthwatchNetwork.com

HealthwatchNetwork.com is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy statement applies to the any or all types of data collected by HealthwatchNetwork.com through you visiting the HealthwatchNetwork.com or through the account created by you or the Data entered by you on HealthwatchNetwork.com and other online or offline HealthwatchNetwork.com sites, products, or services (the “Service”).

Introduction

HealthwatchNetwork.com is a personal health platform that lets you gather, edit, add to, store, and share health information online. Your health information will be entered by you and you are responsible for adding and updating the accurate information. With this site you can control your own health records. You can also share your health information with family, friends, health care professionals, or anybody you want or anyone who cares about your health.

Your Personal Health Record (which includes your health record and other health related information and your family health history) is very secure and will not be shared with any other member without your permission/authorization. You can view health information for other people (such as your family or You Health Care Provider or Any other Caregiver) if and only if you authorize the person to view your health related information.

You can choose to share information with separate programs and systems that can connect programs to use, edit and add to your health record. Programs can help you manage your information and find relevant health information.

You can choose to share specific information with:

Other people (such as friends and family)
Programs (such as Programs that add data to your health records, provide information to your healthcare provider, or use some of your health records to provide information to you about managing your health )

Collection of your personal information

HealthwatchNetwork.com asks you to enter an identifier and password to sign in. HealthwatchNetwork.com currently accepts either HealthwatchNetwork.com sign-in credentials or Facebook or Tweeter or Linkedin sign-in credentials. HealthwatchNetwork.com does not issue or endorse any third-party credential provider. Before you choose to use Facebook or LinkedInor tweeter sign-in credentials or any other third party sign in service, we recommend that you evaluate the security and privacy commitments offered by the issuer and decide if they are appropriate for your HealthwatchNetwork.com account.

When you sign in, we refer to the e-mail address and password you use as your HealthwatchNetwork.com credentials. After your email is created as your user ID, when you sign in to one HealthwatchNetwork.com site or service, you may find that other HealthwatchNetwork.com sites and services automatically sign you in when you visit those sites and services.

The first time you sign in to HealthwatchNetwork.com, HealthwatchNetwork.com asks you to create an account. To create an account, you must provide personal information such as name, date of birth, e-mail address, postal code, country/region, professional information etc. If you want to sign up by entering emergency profile information in a record, you can enter additional information that might be useful in an emergency.

We will use the e-mail address you provide when you create your account to send you an e-mail requesting that you validate your email address, to include in sharing invitations you send through HealthwatchNetwork.com and to send you Service notifications, such as e-mail notification that information is available to add to your account. As described in their privacy statements, Programs may also use your e-mail address.

An account allows you to manage one or more health records, such as the ones you create for yourself and your family members. You choose what information to put in your records. You can store files and can add or edit information directly when logged into your account. Examples of the types of information you can store in a record include:

Any Medical or Health Information
Discharge summaries from hospitalizations
Your entire Health Summary Report
Diagnosis and vitals from your doctor’s visit
Your Allergy Information
Lab results
Any Surgery and other procedure information
Xray reports
Medications
All other Health History
Your Personal Profile and Insurance Information

By default, you are the custodian of any records you create. You can also create account and health record, manage and be the custodian of the Health records for your minor and elderly family dependents. Some of the information stored in the records you manage may be highly sensitive, so you need to considervery carefully with whom you choose to share the information.

Sharing your personal health information

A key value of HealthwatchNetwork.com is the ability to share your health information and those of your dependents with people and services who can help meet health-related goals. For example, you can share health information from records you control:

With your provider by requesting a “contact” relationship with them.

With your dependent’s providers.

Or any member or non-member user of HealthwatchNetwork.com. If you want to share your health information with a person who not a member of Healthwatchnetwork.com then you can enter his e-mail address and send him the invitation to join the Healthwatchnetwork.com as a member so that he/she can view your health information.

Beware that your private Medical/Health information will be viewable by anybody who gives the access to.

How we use your personal information

We use users or members personal information collected through HealthwatchNetwork.com, including health information, to provide HealthwatchNetwork.com and its team members,officers, directors the ability to help you and other members to create a community that helps providing to as described in this privacy statement. We do not use or disclose your information except as described in this privacy statement.

In support of these uses, HealthwatchNetwork.com may use personal information:

To provide you with important information about HealthwatchNetwork.com, including critical updates and notifications to send you the HealthwatchNetwork.com e-mail.
HealthwatchNetwork.com may only access and/or disclose your personal information if we believe such action is necessary to: (a) comply with the law or legal process served on HealthwatchNetwork.com; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of HealthwatchNetwork.com (including the enforcement of our agreements); or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety and welfare of users of HealthwatchNetwork.com services or members of the public.
Personal information collected on HealthwatchNetwork.com is stored and processed in the United States of America.,

How we use aggregate information and statistics

HealthwatchNetwork.com may use aggregated information from HealthwatchNetwork.com to improve the quality of HealthwatchNetwork.com and for marketing of HealthwatchNetwork.com (for example, to tell potential advertisers how many Service users live in the United States). This aggregated information is not associated with any individual account.

Account access and controls

You choose whether to create an account with HealthwatchNetwork.com. The required account information consists of a small amount of information such as your name, e-mail address, region, Medical College or institution you studies, your profession, your degree, you date of birth, your gender, you, your health information, your health history and your family health history you insurance information, your employer information and Service credentials etc.. We may request other optional information; those optional fields in the registration form will not be required. If you want to sign up by storing emergency profile information in a record, we will collect the information you enter to create a health summary report under your profile. You can review and update your account information. You can modify, add, or delete any optional account information by signing into your HealthwatchNetwork.com account and editing your account profile.

You can close your account at any time by signing into your HealthwatchNetwork.com account and editing your account profile. We wait 90 days before permanently deleting your account information in order to help avoid accidental or malicious removal of your health information.

You can open and manage an account of a person is your disable or elderly relative or minor child who needs your help to manage their help.

Record access and controls

When you create a record, you become a custodian of that record. As a custodian, you decide to whom you wish to grant access to those records. You can view and update records you are custodian of.

You can also share your personal health summary record to any one you want.

Because sharing your personal health information to an inappropriate person could allow a person to violate your privacy we urge you to consider all the consequences carefully before you grant access to your records.

Sharing records through HealthwatchNetwork.com

In order to access HealthwatchNetwork.com, the product or service provider must commit to protecting the privacy of your health data.HealthwatchNetwork.com can revoke your access to HealthwatchNetwork.com if you do not meet the privacy commitments to HealthwatchNetwork.com.

No product or service provider has access to your information through HealthwatchNetwork.com unless and until an authorized user opts in through HealthwatchNetwork.comto grant it access. HealthwatchNetwork.comrequires providers to (i) agree not to disclose your data without express consent unless (ii) a healthcare provider, insurer, or other entity that is subject to laws governing the use and disclosure of health information is a provider or otherwise subject to privacy laws, in which case HealthwatchNetwork.comrequires that the provider comply with those laws.

Deleting records

You can delete any Health record that you are a custodian of by signing in to your HealthwatchNetwork.com account and editing a record’s profile. We wait 90 days before permanently deleting the record information in order to help avoid accidental or malicious removal of your health information.

Deleting health information

A person may delete any of their Health information at any time.

Security of your personal information

HealthwatchNetwork.com is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer servers with limited access that are located in controlled facilities.

Use of cookies

We use cookies with this Service to enable you to sign in and to help personalize HealthwatchNetwork.com. A cookie is a small text file that a web page server places on your hard disk. It is not possible to use cookies to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. A Web server assigns cookies uniquely to you and only a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you can read the cookies.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a Web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Using cookies simplifies the process of delivering relevant content, eases site navigation, and so on. When you return to the Web site, you can retrieve the information you previously provided, so you can easily use the site’s features that you customized.

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 some or all cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline all cookies, you may not be able to use interactive features of this or other Web sites that depend on cookies.

Use of Web beacons HealthwatchNetwork.comWeb pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons sometimes called single-pixel gifs that may be used:

to assist in delivering cookies on our sites to enable us to count users who have visited those pages to deliver co-branded services
We may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or in our newsletters in order to determine whether you opened or acted upon those messages.
HealthwatchNetwork.commay also employ Web beacons from third parties to help us compile aggregated statistics and determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns. We prohibit third parties from using Web beacons on our sites to collect or access your personal information. We may collect information about your visit to account.HealthwatchNetwork.comcom, including the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions taken in connection with HealthwatchNetwork.com We also collect certain standard, non-personally identifiable information that your browser sends to every Web site you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times, and referring Web site addresses.

Modifications to this Agreement

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, and without prior notice, by posting amended terms on this Site. We encourage you to review this Agreement periodically for any updates or changes, which will have an update effective date.

We also encourage you to provide feedback and comments about HealthwatchNetwork.comusing the Feedback or contact us link in the site.

Contact information 

HealthwatchNetwork.com welcomes your comments regarding this privacy statement. If you have questions about this statement or believe that we have not adhered to it, please contact us by using our contact us Web form.

Complete agreement

Except as expressly provided in a particular “legal notice” on the HealthwatchNetwork.com Site, these Terms of Use and the HealthwatchNetwork.com Privacy Policy and Agreement constitute the entire agreement between you and HealthwatchNetwork.com with respect to the use of the HealthwatchNetwork.com Site, and Content.

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