IrisInsights (also referred to as “we”, “our”, “us”, “Company”) operates [IrisInsights App] (the “IrisInsights.us”) to provide an interactive portal by which patients and providers communicate, inform, and assess ongoing patient care. We are committed to protecting the privacy of all persons using the Site.
This Privacy Policy describes users of how IrisInsights and its affiliates gather and use personal information collected by us or through the Site. More information on the use of the IrisInsights patient engagement platform is included in our Terms of Use may be found at [Irisinsights.us]
By downloading and using the Site, You understand and hereby expressly consent to the terms set forth in this “Privacy Policy” and the related Terms of Use for the purposes set forth herein. “You” or “Your” or similar terms refer to you as a user of the Site. By accepting our Privacy Policy during registration, or by using the Site, you expressly consent to our collection, use, disclosure, storage, and processing of your Personal Information (as defined below) in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
While utilizing this Site and associated application(s), IrisInsights may integrate tags to provide patient specific information and improve the user experience. Downloading the IrisInsights patient application(s) will require a digital signature that will create a binding agreement of which the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use are a part. IrisInsights policies may change. Changes shall be posted on this site and communicated via the application(s) while in use. Continuing to utilize the IrisInsights platforms following notification of these changes shall infer acceptance of the changes.
This Privacy Policy covers how we treat your personally identifiable information that could be used to identify you (“Personal Information”) that we collect, receive, maintain, store, or transmit including, but not limited to, information you transmit or submit in connection with your use of, or interaction with, the Site. Your Personal Information includes, but is not limited to, information that individually identifies you or is information about you that can be traced back to you, your IP address, or your location. It may include, but is not limited to, your name, address, email address, phone number, other contact information, and any information you choose to share via the Site.
We collect your Personal Information whenever you interact with us and when you visit our Site. Generally, we will collect and process the following information:
We will ask you for Personal Information in certain fields on the Site or in the Surveys that we need for you to use the Services. The Personal Information we collect is used only for the purpose we state at the time of collection or for purposes listed below. For example, our uses may include, but are not limited to, the following:
To the extent that we collect certain demographic information about you, we may use this information in our market research, but we will do so only after we “anonymize” the data, i.e., remove information that would confirm your identity. We will not use your Personal Information, however, to send commercial or marketing messages to you unless we have your continued consent for which you will have the ability to opt out by sending an email to support@irisinisghts.us.
IrisInsights may share information with compliant partners necessary to complete information requests and maintain the functionality of the IrisInsights application(s). Compliant partners may only use information for its intended purpose. “Compliant Partners” are third-party service providers that provide limited services to help us operate the Site, which may include (not an exhaustive list):
We may also provide your personal data to third parties, or third parties may collect personal data from you on our behalf if we have contracted with that third party to provide some part of the information or service that you have requested. Other than those who act on our behalf, and except as explained in this Policy, personal data you provide to us will not be transferred to unrelated third parties, unless we have a legal basis to do so. However, please note that the personal data you transmit to us may be subject to disclosure pursuant to judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants, or orders.
Authorized individuals and providers will have access to IrisInsights for the management of your information. It is the primary user’s responsibility to designate and terminate each authorized user. Authorized providers will be provided access credentials for the primary user’s Personal Information. IrisInsights is not responsible for how authorized individuals and providers manage the primary user’s information.
We respect your right to access and control your personal data. You have choices about the data we collect. When you are asked to provide personal data that is not necessary for the purposes of providing you with our Products and Services, you may decline. However, if you choose not to provide data that is necessary to provide a particular service or product, you may not have access to certain features on our website.
Please note that your privacy rights may be specific to the state in which you reside. In the list below, we identify the states where certain privacy rights differ or are absent and describe the difference or omission.
For requests sent via email you must put the statement “Your [insert your state of residence] Privacy Rights” in the subject field of your email. All requests sent via postal mail must be labeled “Your [insert your state of residence] Privacy Rights” on the envelope or post card and clearly stated on the actual request. For all requests, please include your name, street address, city, state, and zip code. (Your street address is optional if you wish to receive a response to your request via email. Please include your zip code for our own record-keeping.) We will not accept requests via the telephone or by facsimile. We are not responsible for responding to notices that are not labeled or not sent properly, or do not have complete information.
If you are a California resident under the age of 18, California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 permits you to request and obtain removal of content or information you have publicly posted. Please be aware that such a request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information you have posted and that there may be circumstances in which the law does not require or allow removal even if requested.
In addition, if we process your Personal Information in reliance upon your consent, you can still contact us at any time to withdraw your consent.
We will respond to all legitimate requests within 30 days. If you exercise your right to: (1) opt out of the sale, (2) opt out of the sharing, or (3) to limit the use of SPI (assuming that we even have your SPI), we will cease using and disclosing the SPI as soon as feasibly possible. Requests that fall into these three categories will be fulfilled within 15 days of the request.
We may use third party analytics vendors to evaluate and provide us with information about the use of our Services and viewing our content. Some of the information you see about our Products and Services may be customized based on automated predictions about your interests, which predictions are generated from your visits over time and across different websites using tools such as Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel. This information allows us to create content of greater interest to you and can also be used to serve ads based on your past visits to our website. Note that you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies, including use by Google and Facebook/Meta, by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page (http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/).
For more information about how targeted Network Advertising works, please visit: http://www.youradchoices.com/ or http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising.
You may opt-out of third-party targeted advertising or analytics in two ways: (1) By directly notifying a Network Advertising service provider via its opt-out tools (please see above), or (2) using your browser’s Do Not Track (DNT) settings to indicate that you do not wish to receive targeted advertising based on your overall internet usage. For more information about DNT and how it works, please visit the Future of Privacy Forum’s website: http://www.allaboutdnt.com/.
We will make a good faith reasonable effort to honor your DNT browser settings for opting out of receiving targeted third-party advertising based on your overall Internet usage. Please note that various browsers frequently update their technology or change their settings and business practices without advance notice, and we may not have the latest information on how to honor your preferences. If you exercise either opt-out option – the cookie opt-out or the browser opt-out – you will continue to receive advertising, but such advertising may not relate to your specific interests, previous purchases, or search history.
However, you cannot opt-out of our contextual analytics and advertising, which is based solely on your usage of our Services. We will continue to provide you with contextual advertising. We will also continue to monitor your usage and search or transaction history to provide us with analytics on how well our Services, features, and activities are functioning and used. In addition, we will share this information in an aggregated or anonymized form (meaning that no one individual person can be identified) for our internal use.
You can also opt out of our marketing emails at any time by contacting us at [support@irisinisghts.us] or by sending us a post card to “OPT OUT”, IrisInsights, Royal Oak, MI. 48067.
We are committed to protecting the security of your personal data. Depending on the circumstances, we may hold your information in hard copy and/or electronic form. In either situation, we use technologies and procedures to protect your personal data. We review our strategies and methods update them as necessary to meet our business needs, changes in technology, and regulatory requirements. We take our security obligations seriously and so should you. While we are responsible for maintaining the security of our websites and Services, you must also access and use the Services in a manner that is responsible and secure. In addition, we have implemented a series of policies, procedures, and training to address data protection, confidentiality, and security, and we update and review the appropriateness of these measures on a regular basis.
We will take reasonable security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. However, we cannot guarantee its absolute security or that unauthorized persons will not access or use your Personal Information for improper purposes. In the event of a breach of security affecting Personal Information or data on our servers, we will take such notification and other steps as may be required under applicable law. You hereby agree that we may send you notices via email unless otherwise required by applicable law.
We store data on cloud-based servers located in the United States through Microsoft Azure. Information regarding Microsoft Azure data protection is available on its website at: Data Privacy in the Trusted Cloud | Microsoft Azure.
We retain personal data for as long as necessary to provide our Services and fulfill the transactions you have requested, or for other business purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing our agreements.
Direct communications via phone, email, or fax may be retained to aid in our quality improvement efforts. We are required by law to keep some types of information for certain periods of time (e.g., statute of limitations). If your personal data is no longer necessary for the legal or business purposes for which it is processed, then we will generally destroy or anonymize that information.
We understand the importance of protecting the privacy of all individuals, especially the very young. Our services are intended for United States audiences over the age of 18. Our Site and its Services are not directed to children, and you may not use our Services if you are under the age of 13. You must also be old enough to consent to the processing of your personal data in the country or state where you live (in some countries, parents or guardians may consent on your behalf). Using our Services is restricted to adults who are either 18 years of age or older or as otherwise legally defined by the country or state where you live.
If you click on a link and go to another site, you will be subject to that website’s privacy policy. We encourage you to read the posted privacy policy statement at any website before submitting any personal data.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to keep current with evolving legal requirements. Your acceptance of any minor changes to this Privacy Policy is indicated by your continued use of our Services. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post a notice about the change at a prominent location on our Site. We encourage you to periodically review our Site and this Privacy Policy for any changes.
If you have questions or concerns regarding anything in this Privacy Policy, please feel free to send us an email at [support@irisinisghts.us]
We have adopted the following disclosures to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended, its implementing regulations (“CCPA”) and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in the CCPA, other California privacy laws, or in our Privacy Policy have the same meaning when used in this Notice.
This California Privacy Notice (“Notice”) applies to “Consumers” as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) as a supplement to other privacy policies or notices that we may issue. In the event of a conflict between any of our other policies, statements, or notices and this Notice, this Notice will prevail with regard to California Consumers and their rights under the CCPA.
Consistent with the CCPA, job applicants, current and former employees and contractors, and subjects of certain business-to-business communications acting solely in their capacity as representatives of another business, are not considered Consumers for purposes of this Notice or the rights described herein.
We collect personal data that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“personal data”).
Personal information tracking and collection will discontinue upon the termination of your use of IrisInsights.
The following is a description of our data collection practices, including the personal data we collect, the source of that information, the purposes for which we collect information, and whether we disclose that information to external parties. We may use any and all of the information for any purposes described in this Privacy Notice.
Either we or our Service Providers also may use your information for the following Business Purposes (as defined in the CCPA) on a day-to-day basis:
We do not “sell” your personal data as currently defined under the CCPA, meaning that we do not rent, disclose, release, transfer, make available or otherwise communicate your personal data to a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration. We will not sell your personal data unless we modify this Privacy Policy and take the additional steps required under the CCPA.
Under the CCPA you have the right to find out about the personal data that we have collected and how that information has been used or disclosed. You also have the right to request that we delete your personal data (subject to certain exceptions, including information that we are legally required to retain as noted in Section 16.ii, below). If you wish to exercise any of the rights listed below, or if you would like additional information, please contact us at [support@irisinisghts.us].
a. The Right to Access and Know About Personal Data Collected, Disclosed
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal data over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal data that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
b. The Right to Request Deletion of Your Personal Data
Subject to certain exceptions, you have the right to request that we delete any or all of the personal data that we collected from you and retained over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal data from our records, unless an exception applies. You may request that only a portion of your personal data be deleted.
We may deny all or part of your deletion request if retaining your personal data is necessary for us or our Service Providers to:
c. The Right to Opt-Out of the Sale or Sharing of Your Personal Data
d. The Right to Non-Discrimination
e. Exercising Your Rights
You may authorize a natural person, or a business entity registered with the California Secretary of State, to act on your behalf to make a request to know about personal data collected or to delete your personal data.
To facilitate such an authorization, you must (i) verify your identity to us and provide that authorized agent written permission to make such a request or (ii) provide the authorized agent with power of attorney in your behalf pursuant to the California Probate Code sections 4000 to 4465.
The authorized agent must include those authorizations in your verifiable consumer request.
We do not offer any Financial Incentive (as defined by the CCPA) in exchange for your personal data.
We do not knowingly collect, solicit, or share personal data from children under the age of 16. If we have knowledge that a child under 16 has submitted personal data in violation of this Policy, we will delete that information as soon as possible. If you believe we may have obtained information in violation of this Policy, please email us at [support@irisinisghts.us]
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact us via email at [support@irisinisghts.us].
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the updated Privacy Policy on the Site and update the Policy’s effective date. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes. If we are required by applicable data protection laws to obtain your consent to any material changes before they come into effect, then we will do so in accordance with law.
We are not a “Covered Entity” as defined in and for the purposes of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health of 2009 (“HITECH”) and the regulations adopted thereunder (collectively and as may be amended “HIPAA”). However, to the extent applicable, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards in compliance with federal and state law, including HIPAA, in an effort to help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correct use of the Personal Information we collect. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any Personal Information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, we use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or administrative safeguards. Furthermore, your individual user account is protected by a password for your privacy and security. To ensure that there is no unauthorized access to your account and Personal Information, we suggest that you safeguard your password appropriately and limit access to your computer and browser by signing off after you have finished accessing your account.
Some of our users may be HIPAA Covered Entities. If we store, process or transmit individually identifiable health information (as defined under the HIPAA) on behalf of a covered entity, we may do so as “Business Associate” and as set forth in a separate business associate or provider agreement. In such cases, we are obligated to treat the individually identifiable health information in accordance with the applicable health privacy laws, including HIPAA.
If you are not a Covered Entity and you are registering for the Site for your own personal use and not in connection with a Covered Entity (e.g., a hospital or physician/physician practice), you understand and agree that the Site is not a healthcare provider or other “covered entity” for the purposes of HIPAA and that Personal Information provided by you to us or through the Site will not be subject to HIPAA requirements or deemed HIPAA Protected Health Information (“PHI”) for such purposes provided. However, if you are registering for the Site in connection with health care services to be provided by a Covered Entity, as a Business Associate of such Covered Entity, we are obligated to treat any individually identifiable health information provided by you to us or through the Site (and any other individually identifiable health information created, received, maintained, or transmitted by us on behalf of a Covered Entity) in accordance with the applicable Health Privacy Laws. Under the HIPAA privacy regulations, individuals must be informed about how Covered Entities will use or disclose their PHI and given the opportunity to object to or restrict the use or release of their information. If you are a Patient using the Site in connection with your healthcare services (through your healthcare provider), your rights under HIPAA are set forth in the Notice of Privacy Practices provided by your healthcare provider. The Notice will inform you of the ways your healthcare provider and we may use your information and the occasions on which we may disclose this information to others.
The Notice of Privacy Practices will also explain your rights regarding your health information, including:
If you are an Employer Self-Insured Health Plan, Employer On-site Health Clinic or an Employee of an Employer Self-Insured Health Plan or Employer On-site Health Clinic, and have an account with us, we may also qualify as a Business Associate under HIPAA, in which case you may have the following rights regarding your health information that we maintain on behalf of the health plan / employer clinic:
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated or have questions regarding this Notice, you may contact the Privacy Officer in writing at:
IrisInsights
Royal Oak, MI. 48067
Attn: Privacy Administrator (Officer)
You may also file a complaint with your Authorized Provider or the Office of Civil Rights, US Department of Health and Human Services, by sending a letter to: 200 Independence Ave. S.W., Washington, D.C 20201; by calling 1.877.696.6775 or by email to: OCRComplaint@hhs.gov.
We are not a program for the treatment of substance use disorders (SUD) for purposes of 42 Code of Federal Regulations Part 2. If you are a patient using this Site, to the extent the information that you upload to the Site includes protected SUD records, you expressly consent and agree to the use and disclosure of such SUD records by your Authorized Agents and/or any providers to whom you have granted such access rights in the Site.
The IrisInsights website, like many other websites, uses small files called cookies to help us customize your browsing experience. Find out more about cookies and how you can control them in the information below.
This page contains information on what cookies are, the cookies we use, how to switch cookies off in your browser, how to specifically switch off advertising cookies, and some useful links for further reading on the subject. If this Policy does not provide the information you were looking for, or you have any further questions about the use of cookies on our website, please email [support@irisinisghts.us].
a. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored by the browser (for example, Edge, Firefox, Chrome, or Safari) on your computer, tablet, or cell phone. They allow websites to store things including your user preferences. Think of cookies as providing a “memory” for the website, so that it can recognize you when you come back and respond appropriately.
b. How do we use cookies?
Listed below are the various types of cookies you may encounter and a description of each type. We only use [insert types] on our Website:
c. Site performance cookies
This type of cookie remembers your preferences for tools found on our website, so you don’t have to re-set your preferences each time you visit our website. Examples include:
d. Anonymous analytics cookies
Every time someone visits our website, software provided by another organization generates an “anonymous analytics cookie.” These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited our website before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies and, if you don’t, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how many individual users we have, and how often they visit our website.
Unless you are signed into some registration feature on our website, we cannot use these cookies to identify you. We use them to gather statistics, for example, the number of visits to a page. If you are logged in, we will also know the details you gave to us for this, such as your username and email address.
e. Geotargeting cookies
These cookies are used by software which tries to work out your location from the information supplied by your browser when you click on a web page. This cookie is completely anonymous, and we only use it to help target our content and advertising.
f. Registration cookies
When you register with us, we generate cookies that let us know whether you are signed in or not. Our servers use these cookies to work out which account you are signed in with, and if you are allowed access to a particular Service. It also allows us to associate any comments you post with your username. If you have not selected “keep me signed in,” your cookies get deleted when you either close your browser or shut down your computer. While you are signed into any of our registration offerings, we combine information from your registration cookies with analytics cookies, which we could use to identify which pages you have seen.
g. Advertising cookies
These cookies allow us to know whether or not you’ve seen a particular ad or a type of advertisement, and how long it is since you’ve seen it. We also use cookies to help us use targeted advertising. We may use cookies set by another organization so we can more accurately target advertising to you. These cookies are anonymous – they store information about what you are looking at on our website, but not about who you are.
h. Third party advertising cookies
Some content you see on our website is provided by other organizations. Some of these organizations use their own anonymous cookies to track how many people have seen a particular ad, or to track how many people have seen it more than once. The companies that generate these cookies have their own privacy policies, and we have no access to read or write these cookies. These organizations may use their cookies to anonymously target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to our website.
i. Other third-party cookies
On some pages of our website, other organizations may also set their own anonymous cookies. They do this to track the success of their application, or to customize the application for you. Because of how cookies work, our website cannot access these cookies, and neither can the other organization access the data in cookies we use on our website.
j. How do I turn cookies off?
It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website. However, we cannot tell if you are signed in without using cookies, so if you decline all cookies, you would not be able to post comments.
All browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, or you can use the Help option in your browser for more details.
If you are primarily concerned about third party cookies generated by advertisers, you can turn these off by going to the Your Online Choices site.
You can also visit the trade body representing these advertising platforms for more information: Network Advertising Initiative. The Network Advertising Initiative provides instructions and information on how to opt out of communications: https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.
k. Useful links
If you would like to find out more about cookies and their use on the Internet, you may find the following links useful:
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is an American advertising business organization that develops industry standards, conducts research, and provides legal support for the online advertising industry. The IAB has provided the following website to give information specifically about privacy issues around Internet advertising: https://www.iab.com/topics/privacy/
For further legal information about privacy issues, you may find these links useful:
If you would like to contact us about cookies, please email us: [support@irisinisghts.us].