Health at Hand (“We” or “Us”, as the context may be) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) (“Privacy Policy”) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. The purpose of this policy is to give you confidence as you visit and use the www.myhealthathand.com and/or our app (“Site”), and to demonstrate our commitment to fair information practices and the protection of privacy. This policy is only applicable to this Site.
Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By using the Site you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not understand any aspect of our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us using the information found at the end of the Privacy Policy.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998, the data controller is Health at Hand of 4207 BB1 Tower Mazaya Business Avenue, Jumeirah Lake Towers, Dubai, PO Box 340536, United Arab Emirates.
This version was last updated on 7 August 2018.
European Union General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)
The data protection law in the European Union (“EU”) changed on 25 May 2018. From this date onwards, requests made by you under the data protection law applicable to us where you reside will be attended to by us in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the said data protection law.
In the event of a conflict between laws or regulations set forth by the relevant authorities in our country of operation (“Local Regulations”) and any other laws or regulations, the Local Regulations will prevail.
Under 18 Years of Age
Our Site is not eligible for use by persons under 18 years of age without legal parental or guardian consent. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to or on our Sites without legal parental or guardian consent. We do not knowingly collect personal information from persons under 18 if such information is provided without legal parental or guardian consent. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any screen name or user name you may use without legal parental or guardian consent. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a person under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a person under 18 for which there is no legal parental or guardian consent, please contact us.
Information we collect from you
We will collect and process the following data about you:
How is your data collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Cookies
Cookies are small computer files that are transferred to your computer’s hard drive that contain information such as user ID, user preferences, lists of pages visited and activities conducted while browsing the Site. At your option, expense and responsibility, you may block cookies or delete cookies from your hard drive. However, by disabling cookies, you may not have access to the entire set of features of this Site. Our Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site and also allows us to improve our services.
Location Information
You can choose whether or not to allow our Sites to collect and use real-time information about your device’s location through the device’s privacy settings. If you block the use of location information, some parts of our Sites may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Change of Purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
Links to Third Party Sites
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
How we use your personal data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. We use information held about you in the following ways:
Purposes for which we will use your data
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we may use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Purpose/Activity | Type of data | Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest |
To register you as a new customer/user | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile |
(a) Fulfilment of a contract with you (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
To process your purchase including: (a) Manage payments, fees and charges (b) Collect and recover money owed to us (c) Submit claims to your insurer (if applicable) |
(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Financial (d) Transaction (e) Marketing and Communications |
(a) Fulfilment of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us) |
To manage our relationship with you which will include: (a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy (b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey (c) communicate with you about our products and services and respond to you when you contact us (d) managing your queries through our Customer Service team – this may include recording calls to our teams. |
(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Marketing and Communications |
(a) Fulfilment of a contract with you (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services) |
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications |
(a) Fulfilment of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business) |
To administer and protect our business and the Sites (including troubleshooting, improvement, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, security, support, reporting and hosting of data) | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications (f) Technical |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To deliver better and more personalised Site content so that you have a beneficial and valuable experience when using our Sites, products and/or services | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications (f) Technical |
Fulfilment of a contract with you |
To enable you to utilize a feature of a product or service provided to you. | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Health Information |
Fulfilment of a contract with you |
To provide to your insurance company/ies who may contribute to the cost of the products or services you request to use | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Financial Information (d) Health Information (e) Diagnosis (f) Treatment advice (g) Date and Time of Service |
(a) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (b) Existence of a contract between you/your employer and your insurance company |
To provide to your other healthcare providers such as another clinic/ healthcare service provider | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Health Information |
Fulfilment of a contract with you |
To use data analytics to improve our Sites, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences | (a) Identity (b) Technical (c) Usage (d) Transaction (e) Special Categories of Personal Data |
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our Sites updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy) (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you | (a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical (d) Usage (e) Profile |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business) |
To fulfil our legal obligations to the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) | As applicable | (a) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
Any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the personal data | As applicable | (a) Fulfilment of a contract with you (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
Marketing
We will always give you the option to choose not to receive marketing communications from us.
If you do not wish to have your personal data used by Us to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by contacting us. If we have sent you a promotional e-mail, you may send us a return e-mail asking to be omitted from future e-mail distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Us as a result of a product or service purchase, product service experience or other transactions.
Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by contacting us.
Promotions
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data and Special Categories of Personal Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you.
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or created an account or purchased services from us or if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered for a promotion and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
Third-party Marketing
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third-party company for marketing purposes. We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.
Marketing Opt Out
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience or other transactions.
Disclosure of Your information
You agree that we have the right to share your personal information, with the exception of your personal health records, with any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries.
We may disclose your personal information to:
You further agree that we may make your patient notes (whether provided by you or created by a doctor during a Health at Hand consultation) available to any and all other doctors and clinics on the Health at Hand platform.
International Transfers
We may share your personal data within the Health at Hand platform. This may involve transferring your data outside of your country of residence, including the European Economic Area (EEA).
We ensure your personal data is protected by requiring all our group companies to follow the same rules when processing your personal data.
External third parties may be based outside your country of residence so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside your country of residence. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of your country of residence, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe or other relevant jurisdiction. Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between Europe and the US.
In the event of a conflict between laws or regulations set forth by the relevant authorities in our country of operation (“Local Regulations”) and any other laws or regulations, the Local Regulations will prevail.
Where we store your personal data
We will at all times comply with the Local Regulations in our country of operations and will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We store all your personal health data – including your primary care information, secondary care information, medication information and diagnostic information – on secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
We do not store any credit or debit card information. Payments are processed via a third party payment provider that is fully compliant with Level 1 Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards. Any payment transactions are encrypted using SSL technology.
Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures, industry standard physical, technical and administrative safeguards and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Protection of Passwords
Your account is protected by your account password, and we urge you to take steps to keep your personal information safe by not disclosing your password and by logging out of your account after each use. It is your responsibility to control the dissemination and use of your password, and to control access to and use of your user ID and password. If you need to deactivate your account, promptly inform us. You agree to promptly notify us of any unauthorized use of your username, password, or any other breach of security that you become aware of.
Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. This includes the legal directives specified by the Dubai Health Authority as the medical regulator.
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 unauthorised 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.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
Your Rights
You have the right to make the following requests at any time:
You can exercise the right at any time by contacting us at support@myhealthathand.com
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
You may also request that a copy of your information be provided to another person.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
Any changes we make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Continued use of our Site following notice of such changes will indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes. By using the Site, you are agreeing to our collection, use and disposal of you personal information and other data as described in this policy, both as it exists now and as it is changed from time to time. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be addressed to support@myhealthathand.com.