This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) outlines how GuidingPatients, Inc. and our affiliated companies (“GuidingPatients”, “we,” “our,” or “us”), use Personal Information (defined below) that we process in connection with you use of our website and all software, services, extensions, subdomains, and application programming interfaces (collectively, our “Service”). Any capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning assigned to them in the User Terms of Service, available here.

1. Introduction.

We strive to respect privacy and we recognize the need for appropriate protection and management of any Personal Information that is shared with us as part of using our Service. As used in this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means any information relation to an identified or identifiable person. You may choose whether or not to provide or disclose Personal Information in connection with your use of the Service. If you choose not to provide the Personal Information we request, you may still visit and use parts of our Service but may be unable to access or use certain features, options, programs, products, and services. Our Service may contain links to third-party website, products, services, and advertisements that are not owned or controlled by GuidingPatients. We are not responsible for those third-party websites, products, services, and advertisements and you visit them at your own risk.

2. Categories of Personal Information We Collect.

The types of information we collect about you varies based on your interactions with us. We collect information directly from you in a variety of ways. Any information you provide to us is voluntary, but please note that some information may be necessary for us to provide you with our Service. You may also provide Personal Information about another person for whom you may be seeking post-acute care services (“Potential Resident”).

We and our third-party service providers may collect the below categories of Personal Information when you use our Service:

• Identifiers, such as your name, physical address, email address, and phone number;
• Employment information, including title and relation to Facility (if applicable);
• Characteristics of protected classifications under state or federal law, such as age, sex/gender, marital status, medical condition and disability information;
• Information you provide on our Service for yourself or another person (i.e. a Potential Resident), for example your location, zip/postal code, mailing address, fax number, and email address;
• Financial information, including the Potential Resident's budget for post-acute care facility options and whether the Potential Resident receives Medicare or Medicaid;
• Feedback you provide to us about our Service;
• For Potential Residents, their gender; household income; budget; care needs, including general health information and medical conditions; as well as other information you may choose to voluntarily provide, such as marital status, religion, or ethnicity; and
• Communications you send to us via any method or channel.

3. When Personal Information is Collected

In connection with our provisions of the Service to you, we may request Personal Information from you. The exact Personal Information that we collect from you may vary depending on the purpose.

For example, we may collect Personal Information via our Service. You may be asked to provide your or the Potential Resident’s name, phone number, physical address, email address, age, zip code, and other similar information.

For example, we may collect Personal Information via our Service. You may be asked to provide your or the Potential Resident’s name, phone number, physical address, email address, age, zip code, and other similar information.

Please note that we use certain third-party service providers on our Service to enhance your experience or deliver certain features, functionality, products or services to you. These third-party service providers may collect Personal Information about you when they are performing services on our behalf and/or you are using certain functions on our Service that are operated by these third parties. Any information, including Personal Information collected by such third-party service providers will be subject to those third parties’ privacy policies rather than this Privacy Policy. For more information related to our third-party service providers please see Section 6(b) of this Privacy Policy.

4. Information Collected Automatically.

Certain information on our Service is collected automatically by means of various software tools, as described below. We have a legitimate interest in using such information to assist in systems administration, information security, abuse prevention, to understand the usage of our Service, to analyze the effectiveness of our Service, and to improve our Service. Alone or in combination with other information, some or all of the automatically collected information may constitute Personal Information under certain laws pertaining to data privacy depending on where you live.

Some of our third-party service providers may also use cookies or other methods to gather information regarding your use of our Service. These third-party service providers may use these cookies or other tracking methods for their own purposes by relating information about your use of our Service with any Personal Information about you that they may have. The use of this information, including any Personal Information they may have about you, by these third-party service providers is subject to those third parties’ privacy notices or privacy policies, rather than this Privacy Policy.

a. Log Files on Our Service. We maintain certain log files relating to the access and use of our Service. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (“IP”) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider, date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, clicked pages and any other information your browser may send to us (collectively, “Log Data”). This Log Data may be used to monitor and analyze use of the Service, technical administration, to enhance functionality and user-friendliness, and to better tailor our Service to your and our other users’ needs. We do not treat Log Data as Personal Information or use it in association with other Personal Information, though we may aggregate, analyze and evaluate such information for the purposes provided in this Privacy Policy.

b. Cookies. We use cookies, which are small pieces of data stored in text files, to make interactions with our Service easy, efficient, and meaningful. When you visit our Service, our servers may send a cookie to your computer or other device. Standing alone, cookies do not personally identify you; they merely recognize your web browser. Unless you choose to identify yourself to us, either by responding to an email, creating a profile or account, or filling out a web form, you remain anonymous to us. We may use cookies that are session-based or persistent. Session cookies exist only during one session – meaning, they are downloaded to your web browser when you visit our Service, but then they disappear from your computer/device when you close your browser software or turn off your computer/device. Persistent cookies, on the other hand, are used for multiple visits to our Service and remain on your computer/device after you close your browser or turn off your computer/device.

Cookies may be set by us when you are visiting or using our Service (these are “first party cookies”) or by third parties, like our third-party service providers and/or third-party advertisers, (these are “third party cookies”). If you are primarily concerned about third party cookies generated by advertisers, you may be able to turn these off by going to the Your Online Choices or by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative’s Opt-out page, where you may be able to control third party online advertising. Please note that there are more networks listed on those sites than we may use as part of our Service.

Most browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the options or preferences menu of your browser. Please note that if you disable your web browser’s ability to accept cookies, you will be able to navigate through parts of our Service, but you may not be able to successfully use all of the features of our Service.

c. Do Not Track Signals. At this time, we do not currently respond or take any action with respect to a web browser’s "do not track" signal or other mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of Personal Information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across third-party websites or online products/services.

d. Analytics Service. We may use certain third-party analytics services to improve the functionality, features, or delivery of our Service. We may also use these analytics services to record mouse clicks, mouse movements, scrolling activity, as well as any text that you type into our Service. For example, we use Google Analytics on our Service to track user trends and usage. For more information on Google Analytics’ processing of Personal Information as it relates to our Service, please see http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. By using a browser plugin provided by Google, you can opt out of Google Analytics.

5. The Purposes for Which We Use Personal Information.

If you submit or we collect Personal Information through our Service, then such Personal Information may be used in the following ways:

• To provide, analyze, administer and improve our Service and related services;
• To obtain additional information about you from third parties;
• To fulfill our responsibilities to you, our other users, and Facilities;
• To ensure the technical functionality and security of our Service;
• To respond to your inquiries regarding the Service;
• To provide maintenance and update our Service to better serve our users;
• To provide support to you upon request;
• To detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be illegal; and
• For other purposes related to the reasons for which you provide your Personal Information.

6. How We Disclose Personal Information.

We do not sell, lease, rent or otherwise disclose the Personal Information collected from or through our Service to third parties unless otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy or unless you otherwise consent to us doing so. The following sets forth when and to whom we disclose Personal Information collected through our Service:

a. Third-Party Service Providers. We transfer Personal Information to our third-party service providers to perform tasks on our behalf and to assist us in providing our Service. For example, we may share your Personal Information with third-party service providers who assist us in performing core functions (such as hosting, data storage, and security) related to our operation of our Service and/or by making certain interactive tools available to you as a user of our Service. We also use third-party service providers for technical support, application development, tracking and reporting functions, quality assurance and other services. In the performance of our Service, we may share your Personal Information with these third-party service providers so that we can deliver the highest quality user experience. We use commercially reasonable efforts to only engage with third party-service providers that post a publicly available privacy policy or notice.

b. De-Identified and Aggregated Information. To better serve you and improve our Service, we may conduct research utilizing certain anonymized Personal Information in statistical form. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and we may share this de-identified or aggregated information with our affiliates and third parties with whom we do business. This de-identified or aggregate information does not identify a user personally. We may also disclose de-identified or aggregated information with our affiliates and third parties with whom we do business. This de-identified or aggregated information does not identify a user personally. We may also disclose de-identified or aggregated information in order to describe our Service to current and prospective third parties with whom we conduct business and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.

c. Advertisers. From to time-to-time, we may engage third parties to provide advertising services to assist us in advertising our brand and Service. Those advertising services may target advertisements on third-party websites based on cookies or the information indicating previous interaction with our Service.

d. Third Parties with Whom We Conduct Business. We may conduct business with certain third parties to jointly offer products or services. In such cases, we may share Personal Information collected in connection with your expression of interest with these third parties with whom we conduct business. We do not control these third parties’ use of Personal Information we collect, and their use of the Personal Information will be in accordance with their own privacy policies.

e. In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Change of Control. We may transfer or assign this Privacy Policy and any Personal Information to a related or third-party entity as part of a merger, acquisition, sale or other change of control of our business, assets, or stock, including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings.

f. Other Disclosures. We may disclose Personal Information if we have a good faith belief that disclosure of such information is helpful or necessary to: (i) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request; (ii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud or security; or (iii) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of GuidingPatients, our users, or the public.

7. Your Choices.

If you have questions regarding Personal Information collected via our Service, you may submit an inquiry to info@guidingpatients.com and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to respond in a timely manner in accordance with applicable law. You may choose to not receive future promotional or advertising emails from us by selecting the unsubscribe link at the bottom of each email that you receive from us, and by responding to the emails directly and requesting removal if such a link is unavailable. Additionally, you may send a request specifying your communications preferences to info@guidingpatients.com. Please note that even if you opt out of receiving promotional or advertising emails, you cannot opt out of receiving transactional emails related to the Service.

8. International Users.

Please note that our Service is directed towards users who reside in the United States. By using our Service, you consent to the collection, storage, processing and transfer of Personal Information in and to the United States, or other countries or territories, pursuant to the laws of the United States. While some of these countries may not offer the same level of privacy protection as your own, we commit to uphold the privacy protections as explained in this Privacy Policy.

9. Retention of Personal Information.

We reserve the right to retain any Personal Information as long as the Personal Information is needed to (i) fulfill the purposes that are described in Section 5 (The Purposes for Which We Use Personal Information); (ii) comply with applicable law; or (iii) satisfying any legal, regulatory, accounting, or reporting requirements. In some circumstances, we may de-identify, aggregate, or otherwise anonymize your Personal Information consistent with applicable laws and industry standards so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case it is no longer treated as Personal Information.

10. Data Security.

The security of Personal Information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect Personal Information that is submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of Personal Information on our Service.

11. Children’s Privacy.

We do not target children and do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from children under the age of thirteen (13). When a user discloses Personal Information on or through our Service, the user is representing to us that they are at least thirteen (13) years of age.

If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child who you believe has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at info@guidingpatients.com. We use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly reply to any request to delete the Personal Information of children.

12. Feedback.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to any unsolicited free-form information you provide to GuidingPatients through the Service or through any other means. This includes, but is not limited to, information posted to any public areas of the Service, such as forums, blogs, and any ideas for new services or modifications to our Service, and other unsolicited feedback (collectively, “Feedback”). All Feedback shall be deemed to be non-confidential and GuidingPatients shall be free to use, reproduce, disclose, and distribute such Feedback to others without limitation or attribution. You are responsible for the Personal Information you choose to submit in these instances.

13. Your California Privacy Rights.

If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of Personal Information about you by GuidingPatients to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to info@guidingpatients.com.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy.

As our organization changes over time, this Privacy Policy is expected to change as well. GuidingPatients reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time, for any reason, without notice to you, other than the posting of the amended Privacy Policy on our Service. Such changes will be effective immediately upon posting to our Service. By continuing to use or access our Service or by providing us with Personal Information after posting the updated Privacy Policy, you hereby consent to any changes. Thus, you should check our Service frequently to see the current Privacy Policy that is in effect and any changes that may have been made to it.

15. Contacting Us.

If you have any questions, comments, concerns or complaints regarding our Privacy Policy, or would like to make any request mentioned in this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@guidingpatients.com.