This Privacy Policy describes how Accuity and its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Accuity Healthcare”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) collect, use, store, and share your information when:
- You use our websites, applications, and other digital properties where this Privacy Policy is posted, including but not limited to accuityhealthcare.com (“Site”);
- You communicate with us, whether online or offline (“Communications”); and
- We engage with certain third-party partners and providers (“Third Parties”).
Please note, additional privacy policies and notices may apply and be provided depending on the nature of your interaction with Accuity.
Acknowledgment
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. Please note that our practices and your choices may vary by region.
BY USING OUR SITES, COMMUNICATING WITH US, AND/OR ENGAGING WITH OUR SERVICES, YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
What information do we collect about you?
Depending on where you live, how you interact with our Sites, the nature of your Communications, and the types of Third Parties with which we may engage, we may collect the following pieces of information from and about you:
- Mailing address;
- Shipping address;
- City, state, and zip code;
- E-mail address;
- Employer and job title;
- Telephone number;
- Information you provide to us in response to surveys and contests;
- Information you provide to us on forms available on our Sites;
- History of your interactivity with our Sites;
- Reports of issues with our Sites;
- Correspondence (including email);
- Submissions and voting and polling activities;
- Usage and activity information relating to the Sites;
- Search queries on our Sites, including through certain forms;
- Information about your interests; and/or
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Technical information gathered automatically when you use the Sites, including:
- Device information
- Browser information
- Internet service provider or mobile carrier
- Referring and exit pages
- Date and time stamps
- Clickstream data (including page clicks and scrolls)
- Location (for access and use verification)
- Bandwidth speed
- IP address and device ID
- Information from cookies and similar technologies (see below for more information)
How do we use your information?
Depending on where you live, how you interact with our Sites and/or Services, the nature of your Communications, and the types of Third Parties with which we may engage, we may use your information for a variety of purposes, including to:
Perform a contract with you to:
- Provide our Sites and Services to you;
- Notify you about changes to our Sites and Services;
- Enforce our terms, conditions, and policies;
- Administer the Sites and Services; and
- Personalize content you receive and provide you with tailored content.
Use internally to:
- Perform data analytics (including market research, trend analysis, financial analysis);
- Operate, evaluate, develop, manage and improve our Sites (including operating, administering, analyzing, and improving our Sites, developing new Sites and Services, managing and evaluating the effectiveness of our Communications, and other internal functions);
- Protect against, identify and prevent fraud and/or other criminal activity, claims and other liabilities; and
- Comply with and enforce relevant industry standards and policies, including this Privacy Policy and other related terms of use.
Comply with a legal obligation and/or protect the vital interests of our customers and employees by:
- Preventing and responding to abuse and fraud;
- Preventing and responding to illegal activity;
- Preventing and responding to other harmful content distributed through our Sites;
- Preventing the unlawful use and/or sale of our Sites and/or Services; and
- Enforcing our terms, conditions, and policies.
How do we share your information?
With Your Consent. We may, from time to time, disclose or share your information with your consent. We may obtain your consent in writing, online through “click-through” or related agreements, when you accept terms of service on our Sites, orally, in person, on the telephone, or by other means. We may share your information in these circumstances to complete a transaction or to perform or offer you a Service.
With Our Subsidiaries and Affiliates. We may, from time to time, disclose your information to our subsidiaries and affiliates for organizational and internal purposes.
With Third Parties. We may share your information with certain Third Parties, such as business partners, advertising networks, marketing partners, data analytics providers, online and offline data collectors, operating systems and platforms, and service providers who provide services to us (e.g., customer service, auditing, marketing, debugging to identify and repair error and/or protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity).
Business Transfers/Bankruptcy. We may transfer your information as part of a corporate business transaction, such as a merger or acquisition, joint venture, corporate reorganization, financing, or sale of company assets, or in the unlikely event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, in which to any successor or to any person or entity that acquires ownership or control of the Sites and/or Services. This may occur in the event of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other sale of all or a portion of our assets. Other than to the extent ordered by a bankruptcy or other court proceeding, the use and disclosure of all transferred information will be subject to this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise provided.
By Law Or To Protect Rights. We may share your information to satisfy any law, regulation, legal process, governmental request, or where we have a good belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to: (1) enforce or apply agreements; (2) protect our rights or interests, property or safety or that of others; (3) in connection with claims, disputes, or litigation (in court or elsewhere); or (4) protect users of our Sites.
Do we transfer your information to other countries?
The information we collect from and/or about you may be stored on servers and with Third Parties in the United States (where we are headquartered) or other countries, and whose laws may differ from the jurisdiction in which you live. Any transfer of your information is done with reasonable consideration of the applicable laws in the jurisdictions in which we operate. Where required by applicable law, we implement appropriate safeguards for cross-border data transfers.
How do we store & protect your information?
Although no system can guarantee the complete security of your information, we take commercially reasonable steps, appropriate to the nature of information at issue, to ensure your information is subject to appropriate organizational, technical, and physical safeguards in alignment with applicable laws and regulations.
How long do we keep your information?
We keep your information for as long as necessary in accordance with the purposes for which it was collected, our business needs, and applicable legal and regulatory obligations. If we dispose of your information, we will do so in a way that is secure and appropriate to the nature of the information subject to disposal, consistent with applicable laws and regulations.
Links to other sites
We may, from time to time, offer links to other websites from our Sites and through our Services. These third parties may have terms of use and privacy policies that are different than ours. We recommend you review such site’s terms of use and privacy policies prior to use or submitting any information to them. We cannot verify, warrant, endorse or take responsibility for the availability, accuracy, completeness, quality, practices, or policies of such sites or content available from such sites. We do not make any representations or warranties as to the security of any information (including, without limitation, credit card and other personal information) you might be requested to give any third party.
Cookies, consent management & tracking technologies
From time to time, our Sites use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, and other similar technologies (“Cookies”) to collect and store information when you visit our Sites.
We use a consent management platform provided by Cookiebot CMP by Usercentrics (“Cookiebot”) to manage user consent for Cookies and similar technologies in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and other relevant regulations.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. Cookies may be:
- Session cookies, which expire when you close your browser; or
- Persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a specified period of time.
Cookies may also be first-party (set by us) or third-party (set by external providers).
Categories of cookies we use
Non-essential Cookies (including Preference, Statistics, and Marketing Cookies) are only placed on your device where required by law after you provide your consent through our Cookiebot consent banner.
We use the following categories of Cookies:
- Necessary Cookies: These Cookies are required for the operation of our Sites and cannot be disabled in our systems. They are typically set in response to actions made by you such as setting privacy preferences, logging in, or filling out forms.
- Preference Cookies: These Cookies allow our Sites to remember choices you make (such as language or region) and provide enhanced, more personalized features.
- Statistics (Analytics) Cookies: These Cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our Sites by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This allows us to improve functionality and performance. Example provider: Google Analytics
- Marketing Cookies: These Cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads or marketing communications that are relevant to the individual user. Example provider: HubSpot
Cookie declaration
A detailed and automatically updated list of the Cookies we use – including the cookie name, provider, purpose, expiration period, and category – is available in our Cookie Declaration, which is dynamically generated by Cookiebot. The Cookie Declaration is accessible via the cookie consent banner and through the “Cookie Settings” link available in the footer of our website. This declaration is updated automatically following regular scans of our Sites.
Managing your consent
When you first visit our Sites, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner allowing you to:
- Accept all Cookies
- Reject non-essential Cookies
- Customize your cookie preferences
You may change or withdraw your consent at any time by clicking the “Cookie Settings” link available on our website. Your consent choices are stored and documented by Cookiebot for compliance, audit, and record-keeping purposes in accordance with applicable law. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
To learn more about your choices as it relates to our use of cookies and related technologies, please see the Your Choices section below.
Your choices
We provide you the ability to exercise certain controls and choices regarding your information. To exercise any of the rights described below, send your request to [email protected]. We will respond to your request as soon as possible and in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
You may submit your request directly, or through an authorized agent, subject to additional verification of your identity and/or the agent’s authorization. To protect your identity, we may also use reasonable efforts, consistent with applicable law, to verify your identity before responding to your request.
Correct Your Information: Depending on where you live, you may have a right to request that we correct incorrect or inaccurate information about you. If appropriate, we will use reasonable efforts to allow you to update or correct the information we collect from and about you.
Access Your Information: Depending on where you live, you may have a right to know what information we have collected about or from you, how that information is being used, and with whom it is being shared.
Delete Your Information: Depending on where you live, and subject to certain exceptions recognized by applicable law, you may have a right to ask that we delete your information.
Withdraw Consent: You may withdraw your consent at any time. For consent related to Cookies and similar tracking technologies, you may do so through the “Cookie Settings” link available on our website, which will reopen the Cookiebot consent manager and allow you to adjust your preferences.
Control Cookies Through Your Browsers: You may be able to disable and manage some cookies through your browser settings. If you use multiple browsers on the same device, you will need to manage your settings for each browser.
Please note that disabling certain Cookies via your browser may impact the functionality of our Sites. Where required by law, non-essential Cookies will not be placed on your device unless and until you provide your consent through our Cookiebot consent banner.
Analytics Provider Opt-Outs: To disable analytics cookies, you can use the browser controls discussed above or, for some of our providers (e.g. Google), you can use their individual opt-out mechanisms.
Interest-Based Advertising: For more information or to opt-out of receiving interest-based advertising from participating third-party advertisers please visit:
Digital Advertising Alliance: https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN
Digital Advertising Alliance App Choices Application: www.aboutads.info/appchoices
Network Advertising Initiative: https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1
Email Opt-Out. If at any time you wish to opt out or “unsubscribe” from receiving commercial emails related to our Sites or Services, you may use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of each commercial email you receive or respond to the e-mail with “unsubscribe” written into the body of the reply email. Please note that even if you opt-out of receiving commercial emails from us, we reserve the right to send transactional or relationship communications to you (e.g., if we need to contact you regarding your account status, technical support, changes to our Sites or Services, etc.).
Non-Discrimination. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under applicable law and this section. That means if you exercise any of your rights in connection with your information, we will not deny you access or use of our Sites or our Services, charge you a different price or rate for any Services, or provide you a different level of service, subject to exceptions under applicable law.
If you have questions or complaints about how we have handled your information, or responded to any requests above, please contact us below. You also have the right, depending on where you live, to file a complaint with any competent data protection authority, regulator, or governmental agency, where appropriate.
Notice to California residents
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
All phrases used under this heading have the same meaning as those phrases defined under the CCPA, as amended.
Notice at collection
To learn more about the categories of personal information we collect, and have collected from and about California residents over the past 12 months, including the sources of collection, please see What Information Do We Collect About You and How Do We Use Your Information sections above. To learn more about how we use and share that information, please see How Do We Share Your Information section above.
Notice of disclosure for a business purpose
To learn more about the categories of personal information we have disclosed for a business purpose about California residents in the past 12 months, please see What Information Do We Collect About You and How Do We Share Your Information sections above.
Notice of sale
Accuity does not sell the personal information of California residents. We also do not have any actual knowledge of selling the personal information of any California resident who is 16 years or younger.
Rights
California residents have certain rights under the CCPA, including the right to access, delete, and to non-discrimination. To learn more about these rights, please see Your Choices above.
Do not track signals
Some browsers support a “Do Not Track” (DNT) feature intended to signal to websites that you do not wish to be tracked across different websites. Our Sites currently do not change the way they operate based upon a “Do Not Track” or similar signal. You may disable certain tracking as discussed in the Your Choices section. Where required by applicable law, we honor user consent preferences collected through our Cookiebot consent management platform.
Children
Our Sites are not intended for children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect or use any information from individuals under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian who has discovered that your child under the age of 18 has submitted his or her information without your permission or consent, you can ask us to remove your child’s information by contacting us at [email protected].
Changes
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any and all changes will be reflected on this page, and where appropriate and consistent with applicable law and regulation, provided to you in person or by another electronic method. The last updated date will be stated at the top of this Privacy Policy. You should regularly check this page for any changes to this Privacy Policy.
Accessibility
To request a copy of this Privacy Policy in an alternative format, please contact us at the information provided below.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].