Privacy Policy:
At Indianvaidyas (“Indianvaidyas,” “we,”
or “us”), we take great care with the personal information we collect when you
use or access IndianVaidyas.com and any associated websites, applications, or
services that are owned and operated by Indianvaidyas and have links to this
privacy statement (collectively, the "Services"). We are committed to
protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy aims to inform users (also
referred to as "Users") who use our services to research providers or
schedule appointments, as well as healthcare professionals (also referred to as
"Healthcare Providers") who use our marketing services and who, along
with Users, are collectively referred to as "you" or
"your").
UPON USING OR ACCESSING THE SERVICES IN
ANY WAY, YOU AGREE TO THE PRIVACY POLICY'S PRACTICES AND POLICIES, AND YOU
HEREBY CONSENT TO OUR COLLECTION, USE, AND SHARING OF YOUR INFORMATION IN THE
WAYS LISTED BELOW. YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICES IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS
PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU UTILIZE THE SERVICES ON BEHALF OF ANOTHER PERSON OR
ENTITY (LIKE YOUR EMPLOYER) OR SOMEONE ELSE (LIKE YOUR CHILD), YOU REPRESENT
THAT YOU HAVE THEIR PERMISSION TO ACCEPT THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
Any use of Indianvaidyas’ Services is at
all times subject to the Agreement (as the term “Agreement” is defined in our
Terms of Use, which incorporates this Privacy Policy). You may print a copy of
this Privacy Policy by clicking here. Thank you so much for choosing Indianvaidyas.
Privacy Policy Table of
Contents
HIPAA and PHI
In order to provide the
Services, indianvaidyas may gather certain demographic, health, and/or
health-related data about Users. This data may be classified as "protected
health information," or "PHI," and is subject to the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and its implementing regulations
(collectively, "HIPAA"). The circumstances are as follows: (i) Indianvaidyas
is offering administrative, operational, and other services to a healthcare
provider that is a “Covered Entity” (as defined by HIPAA); and (ii) in order to
perform those services, Indianvaidyas is acting as a “Business Associate” (as
defined by HIPAA) of the healthcare provider and receives identifiable
information about a user on behalf of the healthcare provider.
HIPAA limits the use and
disclosure of PHI while offering special protections for its security and
privacy. To learn how your PHI may be used and released, please read your
health provider's Notice of Privacy Practices. Any Personal Data (described
below) that is not PHI is not covered by HIPAA. PHI does not apply to personal
information that a user gives to Indianvaidyas while Indianvaidyas is not
serving as a business associate. Creating an account, searching for healthcare
providers or available appointments, completing general medical history forms
that are not provided by or required by a specific healthcare provider, posting
reviews, providing device/IP information, or providing Web Analytics
information are just a few examples of the various actions you may take.
The categories of Personal
Data that we gather and have collected during the last twelve (12) months are
described in detail in the following subsections. Any information that
identifies or is related to a specific individual is considered "personal
data," which also includes information that is referred to as
"personal information" or "personally identifiable
information" in accordance with any applicable laws, rules, or regulations
pertaining to data privacy. These subsections also list the categories of third
parties with whom we disclose Personal Data, the source of the Personal Data
for each category, and our commercial or business reason for obtaining the
Personal Data. Further details about those sources and categories are provided
below.
User Personal
Data
THE FOLLOWING SUBSECTIONS
APPLY ONLY TO USERS. IF YOU ARE A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER, PLEASE SEE
THE HEALTHCARE PROVIDER PERSONAL DATA SECTION BELOW.
Categories of Personal Data We Collect
Payment
Information:
We obtain payment-related
information directly from you, including information about the type of payment
card you use, its last four numbers, your billing contact information, and your
billing email. For transactions, this information is essential. We disclose
this information to our reliable service providers for business purposes,
particularly Paypal, Stripe, Inc. ("Paypal, Stripe"), our partner for
payment processing.
Device/IP
Information:
When you use our services,
automatically obtained data about your device and IP is gathered. This contains
the kind of device, operating system, and browser being used, along with your
IP address, device ID, and domain server. In addition to third parties
including ad networks, analytics partners, service providers, and third-party
business partners that are accessed through the services, information is also
collected directly from you.
Web Analytics:
We use web analytics to
collect information about how users interact with webpages, sources and
webpages that we recommend them to, non-identifiable request IDs, and other
statistics pertaining to how your browser or device interacts with our
services. Ad networks, analytics partners, service providers, and other
third-party business partners that are accessed through the services will
receive this information, which is obtained from you, for business purposes.
Geolocation Data:
Your IP address is used to gather
geolocation data directly from you. This information is shared with ad
networks, analytics partners, service providers, and other third-party business
partners that are accessible through the Services for business purposes.
Other Identifying Information That
You Voluntarily Choose to Provide:
We obtain information directly from you
that you freely give us, such as passwords and personal data you enter in
emails or letters. This data is shared with service providers for commercial
purposes.
User Contact Data:
We obtain your contact details directly from you, including your email address,
phone number, mailing address, and first and last name. This information is
shared for commercial purposes with ad networks, healthcare providers,
insurance providers, service providers, parties you approve, access, or verify,
and health information exchanges.
User Demographic Data:
We obtain your demographic information directly from you. This includes details
such as your gender and/or gender identity, age, date of birth, zip code, race,
and sexual orientation. This information is shared for commercial purposes with
service providers, ad networks, healthcare providers, health information
exchanges, and others you approve, access, or authenticate.
Medical Data:
Health-related data is collected directly from you, including details about
medical conditions, healthcare providers visited, purposes and dates of visits,
and your medical history. This information is shared for business purposes with
insurance companies, healthcare providers, service providers, health
information exchanges, and parties you authenticate, approve, or permit.
Insurance Information:
We obtain information about your insurance directly from you, including the
insurance carrier, insurance plan, member ID, group ID, and payer ID. This
information is shared for business purposes with service providers, hospitals,
health information exchanges, and other partners you permit, access, or
authenticate.
Booking Appointment Data:
Information about scheduling an appointment, including the date and time of the
visit, the provider, the treatment, and whether you are a new patient, is
gathered directly from you and other sources. This data is shared for business
purposes with healthcare providers, analytics partners, service providers, and
health information exchanges.
Social Network Data:
We obtain information about your social networks from both you and third
parties, including your email address, phone number, username, IP address, and
device ID. This information is shared for commercial purposes with ad networks,
service providers, and parties you verify, approve, or provide access to.
Geolocation Data:
Your IP address is used to gather
geolocation data straight from you. Ad networks, analytics partners, service
providers, and other third-party business partners that are accessible through
the services are all given access to this information for business purposes.
Other Identifying Information That
You Voluntarily Choose to Provide:
We obtain information directly from
you that you freely give us, such as passwords and personal data you enter in
emails or letters. This data is shared with service providers for commercial
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Geolocation Data:
Your IP address is used to gather
geolocation data directly from you. This information is shared with ad
networks, analytics partners, service providers, and other third-party business
partners that are accessible through the Services for business purposes.
Other Identifying Information That
You Voluntarily Choose to Provide:
We obtain information directly from
you that you freely give us, such as passwords and personal data you enter in
emails or letters. This data is shared with service providers for commercial
purposes.
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User Contact Data:
We obtain your contact details
directly from you, which includes your email address, phone number, mailing
address, and first and last name. We exchange this information for commercial
purposes with ad networks, healthcare providers, insurance providers, service
providers, parties you approve, access, or verify, and health information
exchanges.
User Demographic Data:
We obtain your demographic
information directly from you. This information includes things like your
gender and/or gender identity, age, date of birth, zip code, race, and sexual
orientation. Service providers, ad networks, healthcare providers, health
information exchanges, and others you approve, access, or authenticate are
among the businesses with which this information is shared for commercial
purposes.
Medical Data:
Direct collection is used to gather
health-related data, such as details about medical illnesses, healthcare
providers visited, visits' purposes and dates, and your own medical history.
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User Contact Data:
We obtain your contact details
directly from you, including your email address, phone number, mailing address,
and first and last name. This information is shared for commercial purposes
with ad networks, healthcare providers, insurance providers, service providers,
parties you approve, access, or verify, and health information exchanges.
User Demographic Data:
We obtain your demographic
information directly from you. This includes details such as your gender and/or
gender identity, age, date of birth, zip code, race, and sexual orientation.
This information is shared for commercial purposes with service providers, ad
networks, healthcare providers, health information exchanges, and others you
approve, access, or authenticate.
Medical Data:
Health-related data is collected
directly from you, including details about medical conditions, healthcare
providers visited, purposes and dates of visits, and your medical history. This
information is shared for business purposes with insurance companies, healthcare
providers, service providers, health information exchanges, and parties you
authenticate, approve, or permit.
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further adjustments or additional sections you need.
Insurance Information
: We obtain information about your
insurance directly from you, including the insurance carrier, insurance plan,
member ID, group ID, and payer ID. We exchange this information for business
purposes with service providers, hospitals, health information exchanges, and
other partners you permit, access, or authenticate.
Booking Appointment Data:
Information about scheduling an
appointment, including the date and time of the visit, the provider, the
treatment, and if you are a new patient, is gathered directly from you and
other sources. This data is shared with healthcare providers, analytics
partners, service providers, and health information exchanges for business
purposes.
Social Network Data:
Both you and third parties provide
information about your social networks, such as your email address, phone
number, username, IP address, and device ID. This information is shared for
commercial purposes with ad networks, service providers, and parties you
verify, approve, or provide access to.
Insurance Information:
We obtain information about your
insurance directly from you, including the insurance carrier, insurance plan,
member ID, group ID, and payer ID. This information is shared for business
purposes with service providers, hospitals, health information exchanges, and
other partners you permit, access, or authenticate.
Categories of Data Considered
“Sensitive” Under Certain Privacy Laws:
We recognize that certain data is
considered sensitive under privacy laws. This includes personal data such as
sexual orientation, health information, and account usernames and passwords.
Rest assured that this sensitive information is treated with the utmost care
and shared only with reputable service providers, insurers, healthcare
providers, health information exchanges, and other parties you approve, access,
or authenticate when necessary for business purposes. We take the security of
your data and your privacy very seriously.
Categories of Sources of Personal
Data
From You:
Your personal information is collected
in various ways, starting with direct interactions when you register for an
account or use interactive features such as looking up healthcare providers or
open appointments, or filling out your medical history before seeing a
healthcare provider. Additionally, data is collected through free-form text
boxes, answering quizzes and polls, and publishing reviews. Emails and other
direct correspondence with us also become valuable sources of information.
Moreover, cookies—which track your
online actions and preferences—automatically gather personal data when you use
the services. Certain apps and software can be downloaded to receive data from
your computer, such as information about your current login status and
availability for updates or alerts. Location and mobile device data may also be
collected if you use our mobile application or a browser that supports location
sharing. Contributions from other parties are also significant, beyond your
direct interactions.
From Third Parties:
Service providers are hired to provide
customer support and analyze your interactions with the services. They play a
crucial role in creating user profiles and lead generation, enhancing our
understanding of user engagement.
Analytics partners collaborate to share
information about website traffic and service usage, aiding in service
marketing and optimization.
Healthcare providers also contribute by
exchanging relevant information to facilitate appointment scheduling and
improve the efficiency of the appointment process.
If you sign in through a third-party website
or enter your credentials, social networks come into play, as data and content
from those accounts could be transferred to your account with us.
Advertising partners support marketing
and promotional initiatives by providing insights into user engagement with
services, ads, or messages.
Overall, there are multiple sources of
personal data, including direct user interactions, automatic data collection,
and contributions from various third parties. Together, these sources create a
comprehensive picture of user participation and preferences.
How We Share Your Personal Data
We may occasionally release your
Personal Data to various companies for specific business purposes while
conducting business. These entities are categorized based on their roles, each
contributing uniquely to the maintenance and enhancement of our services.
Service Providers:
·
Operational
Support: Various
suppliers assist us in hosting, technology, communications, data storage,
analytics, insurance verification, and staffing. Their involvement is crucial
for tasks such as data storage, security measures, hosting services, billing,
fulfillment, insurance verification, web service analytics, and ensuring access
to specific features, services, or functionalities. They also contribute to
debugging processes to identify and rectify errors that may impact the intended
functionality of our services.
·
Temporary
Use of Data: Brief
and transitory uses of personal data are strictly limited to the ongoing
interaction and are not used by third parties to create user profiles or alter
user experiences beyond the initial engagement.
·
Other
Operational Tasks: Our
service providers handle a range of tasks on our behalf, including account
maintenance, customer support, order processing and fulfilment, customer
information verification, payment processing, financing, advertising and
marketing services, analytic services, and other services necessary for company
operations. They also conduct internal research for technology development and
perform actions to ensure the security and quality of our services.
In essence, our collaboration with
service providers aims to enhance the overall quality, security, and
functionality of the services we provide to our customers.
Selected Recipients:
Analytics Partners: Analytics partners play a crucial role in
understanding how users discover and interact with our platform by tracking
user interactions with our services.
Ad Networks: Ad networks are engaged for ad
customization and serving purposes, as well as for auditing related to current
interactions and concurrent transactions. This includes tasks such as counting
ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying placement and quality of ad
impressions, and ensuring compliance with specified standards and regulations.
Healthcare Providers: When users book appointments through our
services, Personal Data is shared with healthcare providers. For example, data
from a Medical History Form filled out by a user may be shared with their
chosen healthcare provider. This sharing also extends to users utilizing our
services for medical condition analysis, treatment referrals, and in emergency
situations.
Insurance Providers: Personal Data is shared with insurance
providers to evaluate eligibility, determine cost-sharing responsibilities, and
obtain information about benefit plans on behalf of consumers.
Health Information Exchanges
(HIEs) and Affiliated Organizations: User information is transmitted to Health Information
Exchanges and affiliated organizations, such as Regional Health Information
Organizations (RHIOs), to enhance the security and accessibility of data for
healthcare professionals. These organizations aim to improve the quality,
effectiveness, and safety of patient-centered care.
Parties You Authorize, Access,
or Authenticate:
There are instances where Personal
Data may intentionally be made public. For example, any information disclosed
in an online forum or through a review posting is considered public and not
private. Users are advised to carefully consider whether to share any Personal
Data in these public areas, as it may be viewed and collected by unaffiliated
third parties.
Additionally, users have the
option to provide specific Personal Data to other business partners accessible
through our services. This occurs when users choose to log in to the services
using credentials from external services. In such cases, the disclosure is
explicitly made to fulfill the original purpose for which the data was provided
to us.
Healthcare Provider Personal
Data
Payment Information: Regarding payment-related data, we collect
details such as the type of payment card, the last four digits of the card,
billing email address, and billing contact information. You are the primary
source of this data, which we share with certain service providers, notably our
payment processing partners like PayPal and Stripe, Inc. ("Stripe"),
for business purposes.
Device/IP Information: We gather information about devices and IP
addresses, including device IDs, domain servers, and details about the type of
device, operating system, or browser used to access our services. This data is
shared with ad networks, analytics partners, service providers, and other
third-party business partners accessible through our services for commercial
purposes.
Web Analytics: Web analytics data includes interactions
on webpages, non-identifiable request IDs, referring webpages/sources through
which you access our services, and device/browser interaction statistics. Ad
networks, analytics partners, service providers, and other third-party business
partners accessible through our services receive this information.
Geolocation Data: We collect geolocation information derived
from IP addresses, contributed by both you and third parties. This data is
shared with ad networks, analytics partners, service providers, and other
third-party business partners accessible through our services for business
purposes.
Other Identifying Information
You Voluntarily Provide:
We collect information freely provided by you, such as passwords, unique
identifiers, personal information shared over the phone or in emails, and
personal data provided in letters. This information is shared with service
providers for commercial purposes.
Healthcare Provider Contact
Data: Contact details of
healthcare providers, including first and last names, email addresses, phone
numbers, and mailing addresses, are obtained from you and shared for business
needs with ad networks, service providers, insurance companies, healthcare
providers, health information exchanges, and parties you authorize, access, or
authenticate.
Healthcare Provider Demographic
Data: Demographic
information about healthcare providers, such as gender and/or gender identity,
age, date of birth, zip code, race, sexual orientation, and spoken language, is
provided by you. Service providers, ad networks, healthcare providers, health
information exchanges, and parties you authorize, access, or authenticate may
receive this information for business purposes.
Professional License
Information: Information
regarding healthcare professionals' specializations, certificates, and
educational background is obtained from you for business purposes and shared
with service providers.
Categories of Data Considered
"Sensitive" under Certain Privacy Laws:
Sensitive information obtained
from you, such as your sexual orientation and unique identifiers like your
account login and password, may be shared for commercial purposes with ad
networks, healthcare providers, service providers, parties you authorize,
access, or verify, and other healthcare providers.
Categories of Sources of
Personal Data
From You:
You provide us with information
directly in several instances. This occurs primarily when you register for an
account on our platform and initiate direct communication. Additionally, your
interaction with us includes instances when you correspond with us via email or
make initial contact. Your direct contributions serve as a fundamental source
of personal information.
Automatic Collection of
Personal Data When Using the Services:
When you use our services, we
automatically collect personal information. This includes data gathered through
cookies, which enhances our understanding of your interactions. Furthermore, if
you download and install any specific software or apps we offer, your computer
device may provide information to us. This data facilitates the provision of
relevant services such as updates or alerts. Additionally, if you use our
mobile application or a browser that supports location sharing, we may also
gather information about your location and mobile device.
From Third Parties:
In addition to directly obtaining
information from users, we also gather data from other parties. Service
providers play a crucial role in helping us analyze your interactions with the
services and providing customer support. These providers also assist in the
development of user profiles and lead generation.
Our analytics partners collaborate
with us to provide insights into website traffic and service usage, which helps
us effectively market and optimize our services.
Public or Government Records:
We may use data from public
sources or government records for onboarding and provider verification. This
ensures a comprehensive and accurate understanding of the licenses and
certifications held by healthcare professionals associated with our platform.
Partners in Advertising:
Among the service providers in our
network are experts in marketing and promotion. These advertising partners
provide valuable data about your interactions with our services,
advertisements, or emails. Through this collaboration, we can better tailor our
marketing efforts to align with the preferences and behaviors of our users,
enhancing their overall experience.
How We Disclose Your Personal
Data
Under certain conditions, we may
share your Personal Data with various types of service providers and other
external parties, each serving distinct business purposes.
Service Providers:
·
Payment
Processing: Your
voluntarily submitted payment card information is collected in partnership with
service providers, including payment processors like Stripe, Inc.
("Stripe"), to facilitate payment processing. For comprehensive
details on how Stripe handles and stores your Personal Data, please refer to
their terms of service and privacy policy.
·
Security
and Fraud Prevention:
Specialists in security and fraud prevention assist in identifying and
investigating security incidents, defending against malicious activities, and
pursuing individuals involved in such activities.
·
Operational
Services: Technology,
communications, hosting, fulfillment, data storage, analytics, insurance
verification, and staffing providers collaborate to deliver operational
services. This includes web service analytics, billing, hosting, fulfillment,
data storage, security, and insurance verification. They also perform services
such as account maintenance, customer service, order processing, payment
verification, financing, advertising, marketing, and analytics. Any transient
use of Personal Data during these interactions is strictly limited to the
current session and not used by another party to create user profiles or alter
user experiences beyond the immediate interaction. Additionally, they conduct
internal research to advance technology and initiatives to ensure the security
and quality of our services.
Selected Recipients:
·
Analytics
Partners: Analytics
partners play a critical role in understanding how users discover and utilize
the platform by tracking user interactions with our services.
·
Ad
Networks: Ad networks are
engaged to customize and serve advertisements, as well as to audit ongoing
interactions and transactions. Audits include tasks such as counting ad
impressions per unique visitor, verifying ad impression placement and quality,
and conducting audits to ensure compliance with specified standards.
·
Health
Information Exchanges and Associated Organizations: Entities like Health Information Exchanges and
related organizations are involved in collecting and organizing user
information to enhance the security and accessibility of data for healthcare
providers. Their aim is to improve the effectiveness, safety, and quality of
patient-centered care by making health information more accessible.
Parties You Authorize, Access,
or Authenticate:
·
Certain
Personal Data is shared with third parties only with your explicit consent
through our services. This occurs when you choose to access the platform
through any third-party service, and the information is disclosed in a manner
that directly fulfills the purpose for which you provided it to us. This
process ensures seamless and secure integration of external services aligned
with your information-sharing preferences.
·
Legal
Obligations
·
As
stated under "Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms"
in the preceding sections on "Our Commercial or Business Purposes for
Collecting Personal Data," we may disclose any Personal Data we collect to
third parties in connection with any of the activities mentioned above.
·
Business
Transfers
In the
event of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other situation where a third
party assumes full or partial control of our business, all Personal Data may be
transferred to such third party. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you
if any of these events occur, ensuring that your information remains subject to
consistent privacy and security practices.
·
Data
that is Not Personal Data
From the
Personal Data we collect, we may derive aggregated and/or de-identified data by
removing information that can uniquely identify a specific user. We may use
such aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized data for our legitimate business
purposes, such as analyzing, developing, and improving our Services, as well as
for promoting our business. However, we will not disclose such data in a manner
that could re-identify you.
Tracking
Tools, Advertising, and Opt-Out
The
following sections provide additional details on how we collect your Personal
Data.
Information
Collected Automatically
The
Services utilize cookies and related technologies, collectively referred to as
"Cookies," to enable our servers to identify your web browser and
gather information about your visitation and usage patterns. These technologies
include pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs, mobile IDs, and JavaScript. We use
this information to operate and enhance our Services, identify trends, learn
more about our user base, and market effectively. For example, we use Cookies
to measure performance, maintain authentication status to avoid repeated login
credentials, customize user experiences, track navigation patterns, employ
analytics and fraud protection, and customize advertisements.
Cookies
are text files or small pieces of data stored on your computer, tablet, phone,
or other device when you access our services. We may also incorporate data from
third parties who have placed their own Cookies on your device(s) into the data
we already possess about you.
Types of Cookies We Use
We
utilize the following types of Cookies:
·
Essential
Cookies: These cookies are
necessary to provide you with the features or services you have requested. For
example, essential cookies enable you to access secure sections of our
Services. Some features and services may not function properly if these Cookies
are disabled.
·
Functional
Cookies: Functional
cookies help us remember your preferences over time, including your choices and
settings related to our services. They also recognize you when you revisit our
site, allowing us to greet you by name, tailor our content for you, and
remember your preferences (such as language or location settings).
·
Performance/Analytical
Cookies:
Performance/Analytical Cookies gather data on the number of visitors to our
Services, which pages they visit, how long they spend on each page, mouse
clicks, mouse movements, scrolling activity, and text entered into the
Services. These cookies help us understand how users interact with our Services
to improve them. They also assist in enhancing our advertising campaigns and
optimizing content for users who interact with our ads. For instance, Google
Inc. ("Google") uses cookies related to its services like Google
Analytics. Data collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our Services
is governed by Google's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
·
Retargeting/Advertising
Cookies: These
cookies track your online activities to understand your interests, allowing us
to display relevant advertisements. More details on interest-based advertising
can be found in the relevant section below.
·
Web
Beacons: These are
small visual files (e.g., clear GIFs or pixel tags) embedded in web pages or
emails. They collect data on how our services are used, as well as interactions
with advertisements, emails, newsletters, and promotions. This helps us analyze
user engagement and improve our interest-based advertising efforts.
·
Mobile
Device Identifiers: Indianvaidyas
uses mobile device identifiers stored on devices to gather data such as
demographics, online behaviors, and app usage. This includes information like
IP addresses, device types, web browsers, and interactions with our services.
This data collection enables personalized advertising and service improvements.
·
Cross
Device Matching: To
understand user engagement across different devices, we collaborate with
partners who analyze device activity data and demographic/interest-based
information. We may share de-identified data with these partners to enhance our
understanding of how our services are used across devices and to deliver
targeted advertisements.
·
Managing
Cookies and Preferences:
You have the option to accept or reject cookies via your browser settings. Most
browsers allow you to manage cookie acceptance preferences, including disabling
them entirely. Mobile device identifier settings can also be adjusted to limit
tracking. However, blocking or removing cookies may affect certain website
features that rely on them.
·
Do
Not Track: The
"Do Not Track" feature in browsers informs website operators that you
prefer not to be tracked across websites over time. Currently, there's no
standard industry consensus on how this signal should be interpreted, and not
all browsers support it. Indianvaidyas does not honor "Do Not Track"
requests due to these reasons and our reliance on cookies for various
functionalities.
To adjust your preferences or
learn more about managing cookies, check your browser's preferences or options
menu. For further details on cookies and their removal, please refer to this
link for additional guidance.
Information about
Interest-Based Advertisements
Through our Services, we offer
advertisements and may allow third-party ad networks, such as ad agencies, ad
servers, and research companies, to do the same. These advertisements, known as
"interest-based ads," are displayed based on specific behaviors,
interests, or general profile categories. We may obtain information for
interest-based ads, including Personal Data, from your online behavior or from
the usage patterns of users on our Services or third-party platforms.
Data Collected for
Interest-Based Ads:
Examples of information collected include IP addresses, mobile device IDs,
operating systems, browsers, interactions with webpages, geographic location,
and demographic data (such as gender and age range). This data may be collected
over time and across unaffiliated websites to tailor advertisements to your
interests. Ad networks may use technologies like cookies and web beacons
(explained in the previous section) to gather this information.
Opting Out of Interest-Based
Ads: We adhere to
Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising by organizations
like the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) and Network Advertising Initiative
(NAI). You can exercise control over receiving interest-based ads from
participating third parties by visiting the DAA's or NAI's opt-out pages.
Additionally, you can use tools like the DAA's AppChoices app for mobile
devices to manage your preferences. Opting out involves setting an opt-out
cookie on your devices to indicate your preference not to receive targeted ads.
Please note that opting out of
interest-based ads does not affect the display of non-targeted ads from Indianvaidyas.
However, our use of tracking technologies may continue for other purposes, such
as analytics and service improvement, even if you opt out of targeted
advertising.
Data Security: We prioritize the security of your
Personal Data and employ physical, technological, organizational, and
administrative measures to prevent unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
These measures comply with industry standards, including the use of Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption for transmitting Personal Data. While we strive
to protect your data, no method of transmission over the Internet or storage is
entirely secure.
Data Retention: We retain your personal information for as
long as necessary to provide our services, fulfill legal obligations, resolve
disputes, and enforce our agreements. Non-personally identifiable information
may be retained in aggregated or anonymized forms for various purposes, including
research and service enhancement.
Children’s Privacy: Our Services are not intended for children
under the age of thirteen (13), and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data
from them. If we discover that Personal Data has been unintentionally collected
from a child under 13, we will delete it promptly.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
