HopeQure online counselling security- Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

HopeQure Wellness Solutions Private Ltd (“us”, “we”, or “HopeQure”, which also includes its affiliates) is the author and publisher of the internet resource www.HopeQure.com (“Website”) on the world wide web as well as the software and applications provided by HopeQure, including but not limited to the mobile application ‘HopeQure’, (together with the Website, referred to as the “Services”).

This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") explains how we collect, use, share, disclose and protect Personal information of the Users, including the Practitioners (as defined in the Terms of Use), the End-Users (as defined in the Terms of Use), and the visitors of Website (jointly and severally referred to as “you” or “Users” in this Privacy Policy). By the means of this Privacy Policy we commit to protect your privacy and personal information that has been shared with us on the HopeQure Platform. Any Service availed by “You” through the HopeQure Platform is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Any term used but not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning attributed to it in our Terms of Use.

By using the Services or by otherwise giving us your Information, you will be Deemed to have Read, Understood and Agreed to the Practices and Policies outlined in this Privacy Policy and agree to be bound by the Privacy Policy. You hereby provide your Consent for Collection, Use, Sharing, Disclosure of your Information as described in this Privacy Policy. We reserve the Right To Change, Modify, Add or Delete portions of the Terms of this Privacy Policy, at our Sole Discretion, at any given Time. If you do not Agree with this Privacy Policy, you are at liberty to opt out of the services provided by “Us” at any given time. If you use the Services on behalf of someone else (Such as your child) Or An Entity (Such as your employer), It would be assumed that “You” are Authorised by such Individual or Entity To;
(I) Accept this Privacy Policy on Such Individual’s or Entity’s Behalf, And;
(II) Consent on behalf of such Individual or Entity to our Collection, Use, Sharing, Disclosure of such Individual’s or Entity’s Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

1. WHY THIS PRIVACY POLICY?

  • This Privacy Policy is published in compliance with, inter alia:
  • The Information Technology Act, 2000;
  • The Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Information) Rules, 2011 (the “SPI Rules”);
  • The Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011.
This Privacy Policy states the following:
  • The type of information collected from the Users, including Personal Information (as defined in paragraph 2 below) and Sensitive Personal Data or Information (as defined in paragraph 2 below) relating to an individual;
  • The purpose, means and modes of collection, usage, processing, retention and destruction of such information; and
  • How and to whom HopeQure will disclose such information.

2. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Generally some of the Services require us to know who you are so that we can best meet your needs. When you access the Services, or through any interaction with us via emails, telephone calls or other correspondence, we may ask you to voluntarily provide us with certain information that personally identifies you or could be used to personally identify you. You hereby consent to the collection of such information by HopeQure. Without prejudice to the generality of the above, information collected by us from you may include (but is not limited to) the following:

  • Contact data (such as your email address and phone number);
  • Demographic data (such as your gender, your date of birth and your pin code);
  • Data regarding your usage of the services and history of the appointments made by or with you through the use of Services;
  • Insurance data (such as your insurance carrier and insurance plan);
  • Other information that you voluntarily choose to provide to us (such as information Shared by you with us through emails or letters.
  • The information collected from you by HopeQure may constitute ‘personal information’ or ‘sensitive personal data or information’ under the SPI Rules.
    “Personal Information” is defined under the SPI Rules to mean any information that relates to a natural person, which, either directly or indirectly, in combination with other information available or likely to be available to a body corporate, is capable of identifying such person. The SPI Rules further define “Sensitive Personal Data or Information” of a person to mean personal information about that person relating to:
    • passwords;
    • financial information such as bank accounts, credit and debit card details or other payment instrument details;
    • physical, physiological and mental health condition;
    • sexual orientation;
    • medical records and history;
    • biometric information;
    • information received by body corporate under lawful contract or otherwise;
    • visitor details as provided at the time of registration or thereafter; and
    • call data records.
  • HopeQure will be free to use, collect and disclose information that is freely available in the public domain without your consent.

3. CLAUSES GOVERNING YOUR PRIVACY:

3.1 Provisions Governing All and are not User specific: This section applies to all users.

3.1.1 Accordingly, a condition of each User’s use of and access to the Services is their acceptance of the Terms of Use, which also involves acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy. Any User that does not agree with any provisions of the same has the option to discontinue the Services provided by HopeQure immediately.

3.1.2 An indicative list of information that HopeQure may require you to provide to enable your use of the Services is provided in the Schedule annexed to this Privacy Policy.

3.1.3 All the information provided to HopeQure by a User, including Personal Information or any Sensitive Personal Data or Information, is voluntary. You understand that HopeQure may use certain information of yours, which has been designated as Personal Information or ‘Sensitive Personal Data or Information’ under the SPI Rules, (a) for the purpose of providing you the Services, (b) for commercial purposes and in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form for research, statistical analysis and business intelligence purposes, (c) for sale or transfer of such research, statistical or intelligence data in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form to third parties and affiliates (d) for communication purpose so as to provide You a better way of booking appointments and for obtaining feedback in relation to the Practitioners and their practice, (e) debugging customer support related issues. HopeQure also reserves the right to use information provided by or about the End-User for the following purposes:

  • Publishing such information on the Website.
  • Contacting End-Users for offering new products or services.
  • Contacting End-Users for taking product and Service feedback.
  • Analysing software usage patterns for improving product design and utility.
  • Analysing anonymised practice information for commercial use.

If you have voluntarily provided your Personal Information to HopeQure for any of the purposes stated above, you hereby consent to such collection and use of such information by HopeQure. However, HopeQure shall not contact You on Your telephone number(s) for any purpose including those mentioned in this sub-section 3.1.3, if such telephone number is registered with the Do Not Call registry (“DNC Registry”) under the PDPA without your express, clear and un-ambiguous written consent.

3.1.4 Collection, use and disclosure of information which has been designated as Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information’ under the SPI Rules requires your express consent. By affirming your assent to this Privacy Policy, you provide your consent to such use, collection and disclosure as required under applicable law.

3.1.5 HopeQure does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Services and, therefore, HopeQure specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Services, and you agree that you waive any claims against HopeQure relating to same, and to the extent such waiver may be ineffective, you agree to release any claims against HopeQure relating to the same.

3.1.6 You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of the information you submit to us, such as your contact information provided as part of account registration. If your personal information changes, you may correct, delete inaccuracies, or amend information by making the change on our member information page or by contacting us through privacy@HopeQure.com. We will make good faith efforts to make requested changes in our then active databases as soon as 'reasonably practicable.’ If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, out of date or incomplete (or becomes untrue, inaccurate, out of date or incomplete), or HopeQure has reasonable grounds to suspect that the information provided by you is untrue, inaccurate, out of date or incomplete, HopeQure may, at its sole discretion, discontinue the provision of the Services to you. There may be circumstances where HopeQure will not correct, delete or update your Personal Data, including (a) where the Personal Data is opinion data which is kept solely for evaluative purpose; and (b) the Personal Data is in documents related to a prosecution if all proceedings relating to the prosecution have not been completed.

3.1.7 If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you Services, contact us through  support@HopeQure.com . We will retain your information for as long as your account with the Services is active and as needed to provide you the Services. We shall not retain such information for longer than is required for the purposes for which the information may lawfully be used or is otherwise required under any other law for the time being in force. After a period of time, your data may be anonymised and aggregated, and then may be held by us as long as necessary for us to provide our Services effectively, but our use of the anonymised data will be solely for analytic purposes. Please note that your withdrawal of consent, or cancellation of account may result in HopeQure being unable to provide you with its Services or to terminate any existing relationship HopeQure may have with you.

3.1.8 If you wish to opt-out of receiving non-essential communications such as promotional and marketing-related information regarding the Services, please send us an email at support@HopeQure.com .

3.1.9 Payment: HopeQure may require the User to pay with a credit card, wire transfer, debit card or cheque for Services for which subscription amount(s) is/are payable. HopeQure will collect such User’s credit card number and/or other financial institution information such as bank account numbers and will use that information for the billing and payment processes, including but not limited to the use and disclosure of such credit card number and information to third parties as necessary to complete such billing operation. Verification of credit information, however, is accomplished solely by the User through the authentication process. User’s credit-card/debit card details are transacted upon secure sites of approved payment gateways which are digitally under encryption, thereby providing the highest possible degree of care as per current technology. However, HopeQure provides you an option not to save your payment details. User is advised, however, that internet technology is not full proof safe and User should exercise discretion on using the same.

3.1.10 Usage of data in anonymised form: Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when a User or the End-User or anyone who visits the Website, HopeQure automatically receives the URL of the site from which anyone visits. HopeQure also receives the Internet Protocol (IP) address of each User’s computer (or the proxy server a User used to access the World Wide Web), User’s computer operating system and type of web browser the User is using, email patterns, as well as the name of User’s ISP. This information is used to analyse overall trends to help HopeQure improve its Service. The linkage between User’s IP address and User’s personally identifiable information is not shared with or disclosed to third parties. Notwithstanding the above, HopeQure may share and/or disclose some of the aggregate findings (not the specific data) in anonymised form (i.e., non-personally identifiable) with advertisers, sponsors, investors, strategic partners, and others in order to help grow its business.

3.1.11 Cookies: The Website uses temporary cookies to store certain (that is not sensitive personal data or information) that is used by HopeQure and its service providers for the technical administration of the Website, research and development, and for User administration. In the course of serving advertisements or optimising services to its Users, HopeQure may allow authorised third parties to place or recognise a unique cookie on the User’s browser. The cookies however, do not store any Personal Information of the User. You may adjust your internet browser to disable cookies. If cookies are disabled you may still use the Website, but the Website may be limited in the use of some of the features. (We can add a link for separate cookie policy)

3.1.12 To Create an Account with Us: A User may have limited access to the Website without creating an account on the Website. Unregistered Users can make appointments with the doctors by providing their name and phone number. In order to have access to all the features and benefits on our Website, a User must first create an account on our Website. To create an account, a User is required to provide the following information, which such User recognises and expressly acknowledges is Personal Information allowing others, including HopeQure, to identify the User: name, User ID, email address, country, ZIP/postal code, age, phone number, password chosen by the User and valid financial account information. Other information requested on the registration page, including the ability to receive promotional offers from HopeQure, is optional. HopeQure may, in future, include other optional requests for information from the User to help HopeQure to customise the Website to deliver personalised information to the User.

3.1.13 Limited Liability: This Privacy Policy applies to Services that are owned and operated by HopeQure. HopeQure does not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or links from within its Services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on the Users’ computer, collect data or solicit personal information from the Users, for which HopeQure is not responsible or liable. Accordingly, HopeQure does not make any representations concerning the privacy practices or policies of such third parties or terms of use of such websites, nor does HopeQure guarantee the accuracy, integrity, or quality of the information, data, text, software, sound, photographs, graphics, videos, messages or other materials available on such websites. The inclusion or exclusion does not imply any endorsement by HopeQure of the website, the website's provider, or the information on the website. If you decide to visit a third party website linked to the Website, you do this entirely at your own risk. HopeQure encourages the User to read the privacy policies of that website. The Website may enable User to communicate with other Users or to post information to be accessed by others, whereupon other Users may collect such data. Such Users, including any moderators or administrators, who are not authorised HopeQure representatives or agents, and their opinions or statements do not necessarily reflect those of HopeQure, and they are not authorised to bind HopeQure to any contract. HopeQure hereby expressly disclaims any liability for any reliance or misuse of such information that is made available by Users or visitors in such a manner.

3.1.14 Collection of Information: HopeQure does not collect information about the visitors of the Website from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations, save and except for the purposes of registration of the Users (the collection, use, storage and disclosure of which each End User must agree to under the Terms of Use in order for HopeQure to effectively render the Services).

3.1.15 No-Spam: HopeQure maintains a strict "No-Spam" policy, which means that HopeQure does not intend to sell, rent or otherwise give your e-mail address to a third party without your consent.

3.1.16 HIPPA: HopeQure is HIPPA compliant and we are focused on providing high quality, affordable and accessible mental health care which includes regards and considerations for the rights of the clients to preserve the privacy of their health information and to ensure the appropriate security of all safeguards health information. Standards for the protection of patient health information are set out in federal legislation defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). We abide by all the standard norms of information privacy and at no point the confidentiality of the client information is compromised.

3.1.17 Latest Data Protection Practices: HopeQure has implemented best international market practices and security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that it has under its control from unauthorised access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorised modification and unlawful destruction or accidental loss. We further implement reasonable security practices and procedures and have a comprehensive documented information security programme and information security policies that contain managerial, technical, operational and physical security control measures that are commensurate with respect to the information being collected and the nature of HopeQure’s business. However, for any data loss or theft due to unauthorised access to the User’s electronic devices through which the User avails the Services, HopeQure shall not be held liable for any loss whatsoever incurred by the User.

3.1.18 Disclosure Clause: HopeQure takes your right to privacy very seriously and other than as specifically stated in this Privacy Policy, will only disclose your Personal Information in the event it is required to do so by law, rule, regulation, law enforcement agency, governmental official, legal authority or similar requirements or when HopeQure, in its sole discretion, deems it necessary in order to protect its rights or the rights of others, to prevent harm to persons or property, to fight fraud and credit risk, or to enforce or apply the Terms of Use.

3.2 Provisions governing Practitioners: This section applies to all Practitioners/Therapist.

3.2.1 Collection of Information: As part of the registration as well as the application creation and submission process that is available to Practitioners on HopeQure, certain information, including Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information is collected from the Practitioners.

3.2.2 Applicability of provisions of Privacy Policy: All the statements in this Privacy Policy apply to all Practitioners, and all Practitioners are therefore required to read and understand the privacy statements set out herein prior to submitting any Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information to HopeQure, failing which they are required to depart from HopeQure’s Platform.

3.2.3 Usage of Information Provided by You: Practitioners’ personally identifiable information, which they choose to provide to HopeQure, is used to help the Practitioners describe and identify themselves. This information is exclusively owned by HopeQure You will be the owner of your information and you consent to HopeQure collecting, using, processing and/or disclosing this information for the purposes hereinafter stated . HopeQure may use such information for commercial purposes and in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form for research, statistical analysis and business intelligence purposes, and may sell or otherwise transfer such research, statistical or intelligence data in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form to third parties and affiliates. HopeQure also reserves the right to use information provided by or about the Practitioner for the following purposes:

  • Publishing such information on the Website.
  • Contacting Practitioners for offering new products or services subject to the telephone number registered with the DNC Registry.
  • Contacting Practitioners for taking product feedback.
  • Analysing software usage patterns for improving product design and utility.
  • Analysing anonymised practice information including financial, and inventory information for commercial use.

3.2.4 Responsibility of Practitioners in regards to accuracy of Information provided by them: As HopeQure automatically enables the listing of Practitioners’ information on its Website for every ‘Doctor’ or ‘Clinic’ added to a Practice using its software. The Practitioner information listed on Website is displayed when End-Users search for doctors on Website, and the Practitioner information listed on Website is used by End-Users to request for doctor appointments. Any personally identifiable information of the Practitioners listed on the Website is not generated by HopeQure and is provided to HopeQure by Practitioners who wish to enlist themselves on the Website, or is collected by HopeQure from the public domain. HopeQure displays such information on its Website on an as-is basis making no representation or warranty on the accuracy or completeness of the information. As such, we strongly encourage Practitioners to check the accuracy and completeness of their information from time to time, and inform us immediately of any discrepancies, changes or updates to such information. HopeQure will, however, take reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and completeness of this information.

3.2.5 Sharing of Information of Unregistered Practitioners: HopeQure may also display information for Practitioners who have not signed up or registered for the Services, provided that the Practitioners have consented to HopeQure collecting, processing and/or disclosing their information on the Website. Such Practitioners are verified by HopeQure or its associates, and HopeQure makes every effort to capture accurate information for such Practitioners. However, HopeQure does not undertake any liability for any incorrect/incomplete information appearing on the Website for such Practitioners.

3.3 Provisions governing End-Users :This section applies to all End-Users.

3.3.1 Collection of Information: As part of the registration/application creation and submission process that is available to End-Users on this Website, certain information, including Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information is collected from the End-Users.

3.3.2 Applicability of provisions of Privacy Policy: All the statements in this Privacy Policy apply to all End-Users, and all End-Users are therefore required to read and understand the privacy statements set out herein prior to submitting any Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information to HopeQure, failing which they are required to leave the HopeQure immediately.

3.3.3 Modification/Deletion of Information provided by You: If you have inadvertently submitted any such information to HopeQure prior to reading the privacy statements set out herein, and you do not agree with the manner in which such information is collected, processed, stored, used or disclosed, then you may access, modify and delete such information by using options provided on the Website. In addition, you can, by sending an email to privacy@HopeQure.com, inquire whether HopeQure is in possession of your personal data, and you may also require HopeQure to delete and destroy all such information.

3.3.4 Usage of Information provided by You: End-Users’ personally identifiable information, which they choose to provide on the Website is used to help the End-Users describe/identify themselves. Other information that does not personally identify the End-Users as an individual, is collected by HopeQure from End-Users (such as, patterns of utilization described above) and is exclusively owned by HopeQure. HopeQure may also use such information in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form for research, statistical analysis and business intelligence purposes, and may sell or otherwise transfer such research, statistical or intelligence data in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form to third parties and affiliates. In particular, HopeQure reserves with it the right to use anonymised End-User demographics information and anonymised End-User health information for the following purposes:

  • Analysing software usage patterns for improving product design and utility.
  • Analysing such information for research and development of new technologies.
  • Using analysis of such information in other commercial product offerings of HopeQure.
  • Sharing analysis of such information with third parties for commercial use.

3.3.5 Modes of Communication: HopeQure will communicate with the End-Users through email, phone and notices posted on the Website or through other means available through the service, including text and other forms of messaging. The End-Users can change their e-mail and contact preferences at any time by logging into their "Account" at www.HopeQure.com and changing the account settings.

3.3.6 Collection of Demographic Information: At times, HopeQure conducts a User survey to collect information about End-Users' preferences. These surveys are optional and if End-Users choose to respond, their responses will be kept anonymous. Similarly, HopeQure may offer contests to qualifying End-Users in which we ask for contact and demographic information such as name, email address and mailing address. The demographic information that HopeQure collects in the registration process and through surveys is used to help HopeQure improve its Services to meet the needs and preferences of End-Users.

3.3.7 Recording of Electronic Communication and Phone Calls: HopeQure may keep records of electronic communications and telephone calls received and made for making appointments or other purposes for the purpose of administration of Services, customer support, research and development and for better listing of Practitioners.

3.3.8 Ensuring Confidentiality and Data Protection: All HopeQure employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of sensitive personal data or information, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of every End-Users’ Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data and Information. HopeQure has put in place procedures and technologies as per good industry practices and in accordance with the applicable laws, to maintain security of all personal data from the point of collection to the point of destruction. Any third-party data processor to which HopeQure transfers Personal Data shall have to agree to comply with those procedures and policies, or put in place adequate measures on their own.

3.3.9 Transfer of End-User Information to Third Party(Exception): HopeQure may also disclose or transfer End-Users’ personal and other information provided by a User, to a third party as part of reorganisation or a sale of the assets of a HopeQure corporation division or company. Any third party to which HopeQure transfers or sells its assets to will have the right to continue to use the personal and other information that End-Users provide to us, in accordance with the Terms of Use.

3.3.10 Disclosure of Personal Information: To the extent necessary to provide End-Users with the Services, HopeQure may provide their Personal Information to third party contractors who work on behalf of or with HopeQure to provide End-Users with such Services, to help HopeQure communicate with End-Users or to maintain the Website. Generally these contractors do not have any independent right to share this information, however certain contractors who provide services on the Website, including the providers of online communications services, may use and disclose the personal information collected in connection with the provision of these Services in accordance with their own privacy policies. In such circumstances, you consent to us disclosing your Personal Information to contractors, solely for the intended purposes only.

3.4 Policies Governing Casual Visitors:

3.4.1 No sensitive personal data or information is automatically collected by HopeQure from any casual visitors of this website, who are merely perusing the Website.

3.4.2 Nevertheless, certain provisions of this Privacy Policy are applicable to even to such casual visitors, and such casual visitors are also required to read and understand the privacy statements set out herein, failing which they are required to depart from this Website immediately.

3.4.3 If you, as a casual visitor, have inadvertently browsed any other page of this Website prior to reading the privacy statements set out herein, and you do not agree with the manner in which such information is obtained, collected, processed, stored, used, disclosed or retained, merely quitting this browser application should ordinarily clear all temporary cookies installed by HopeQure. All visitors, however, are encouraged to use the “clear cookies” functionality of their browsers to ensure such clearing / deletion, as HopeQure cannot guarantee, predict or provide for the behaviour of the equipment of all the visitors of the Website.

3.4.4You are not a casual visitor if you have willingly submitted any personal data or information to HopeQure through any means, including email, post or through the registration process on the Website. All such visitors will be deemed to be, and will be treated as, Users for the purposes of this Privacy Policy, and in which case, all the statements in this Privacy Policy apply to such persons.

4. CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY:

  • 4.1 Your Personal Information is maintained by HopeQure in electronic form on its equipment, and on the equipment of its employees. Such information may also be converted to physical form from time to time. HopeQure takes all necessary precautions to protect your personal information both online and offline, and implements reasonable security practices and measures including certain managerial, technical, operational and physical security control measures that are commensurate with respect to the information being collected and the nature of HopeQure’s business.
  • 4.2 No administrator at HopeQure will have knowledge of your password. It is important for You to not to share your password with anyone to protect yourself against unauthorised access either through your computer or your mobile phone. Be sure to log off from the Website when finished. HopeQure does not undertake any liability for any unauthorised use of your account and password. If you suspect any unauthorized use of your account, you must immediately notify HopeQure by sending an email to support@HopeQure.com You shall be liable to indemnify HopeQure due to any loss suffered by it due to such unauthorised use of your account and password.
  • 4.3 HopeQure makes all User information accessible to its employees, agents or partners and third parties only on a necessity basis, and binds only its employees to strict confidentiality obligations.
  • 4.4 A Part of the functionality of HopeQure is assisting the doctors to maintain and organise such information. HopeQure may, therefore, retain and submit all such records to the appropriate authorities, or to doctors who request access to such information.
  • 4.5 A Part of the functionality of the HopeQure is assisting the patients to access information relating to them. HopeQure may, therefore, retain and submit all such records to the relevant patients, or to their doctors.
  • 4.6 Notwithstanding the above, HopeQure is not responsible for the confidentiality, security or distribution of your Personal Information by our partners and third parties outside the scope of our agreement with such partners and third parties. Further, HopeQure shall not be responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties or events that are beyond the reasonable control of HopeQure including but not limited to, acts of government, computer hacking, unauthorised access to computer data and storage device, computer crashes, breach of security and encryption, poor quality of Internet service or telephone service of the User etc.

5. CHANGE TO PRIVACY POLICY

HopeQure may update this Privacy Policy at any time, with or without advance notice. In the event there are significant changes in the way HopeQure treats User’s personally identifiable information, or in the Privacy Policy itself, HopeQure will display a notice on the Website or send Users an email, as provided for above, so that you may review the changed terms prior to continuing to use the Services. As always, if you object to any of the changes to our terms, and you no longer wish to use the Services, you may contact support@HopeQure.com to deactivate your account. Unless stated otherwise, HopeQure’s current Privacy Policy applies to all information that HopeQure has about you and your account.
If a User uses the Services or accesses the Website after a notice of changes has been sent to such User or published on the Website, such User hereby provides his/her/its consent to the changed terms.

6. Policy Pertaining to Mobile Application:

HopeQure as a whole includes its Mobile Application as well. It is very important for HopeQure to maintain the same standards of Data Protection that it has for its Website. As per the Information & Technology Act, 2000 read with all the applicable rules therein, this privacy policy would be applicable to all the Mobile Application users as well, whether be it Therapists/clients/casual visitors. Although there are several permissions/information that are required for the Mobile Application to work as intended for the users, such information/permission would be governed by this policy only. Any other information that is collected/released/stored/disposed/modified from the users other than that which has already been stated in this Privacy policy, a separate permission would be taken from the users in the form of Pop-ups/disclaimers/permissions for e.g., Audio/video permission, location permission, Notification service, App Background permission, etc.,(These examples are not exhaustive in nature). There might be other permissions/information which HopeQure would require to provide a smooth experience to its Mobile Application Users, HopeQure reserves the right to ask any such information from the user as it deems fit to serve its Objective as an Intermediary. Needless to say that HopeQure adheres to strong data protection and privacy policy and it is HopeQure’s prime objective to protect it’s clients Privacy. HopeQure is also HIPPA Compliant and have to comply with a much higher threshold of Data Protection than any other Mobile Application. By Agreeing to this Privacy Policy, the user including the Mobile Application User would be bound by the Terms of this Policy and would also agree to provide any other information that HopeQure requires from its Users at any time to time.

7. CHILDREN'S AND MINOR'S PRIVACY

HopeQure strongly encourages parents and guardians to supervise the online activities of their minor children and consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers to help provide a child-friendly online environment. These tools also can prevent minors from disclosing their name, address, and other personally identifiable information online without parental permission. Although the HopeQure Website and Services are not intended for use by minors, HopeQure respects the privacy of minors who may inadvertently use the internet or the mobile application.

8. CONSENT TO THIS POLICY

You acknowledge that this Privacy Policy is a part of the Terms of Use of the Website and the other Services, and you unconditionally agree that becoming a User of the Website and its Services signifies your:

  • assent to this Privacy Policy, and
  • consent to HopeQure using, collecting, processing and/or disclosing your Personal Information in the manner and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

Your visit to the Website and use of the Services is subject to this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.

9. Grievance Redressal/Contact Us:

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or HopeQure's information collection, use and disclosure practices, you may contact, the Data Protection Officer appointed by HopeQure in accordance with the provisions of PDPA. We will use reasonable efforts to respond promptly to any requests, questions or concerns, which you may have regarding our use of your personal information. If you have any grievance with respect to our use of your information, you may communicate such grievance to the Data Protection Officer: HopeQure Wellness Solutions Private Ltd. Address: HopeQure Wellness Solutions Private Ltd., 1204, 12th Floor World Trade Tower, Sector 16, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201301 Email: contactus@HopeQure.com