This Policy describes how Volodoc, Inc. (“Volodoc”, “We”, “Us”, or “Our”), may collect, use, share, retain and protect Personal Data through this Website. This Privacy Policy applies to Your Personal Data, which can include any information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with You, Your house, or Your Device (“Personal Data”). “You”, “Your” and similar terms refer to any Healthcare Providers, and Guests, Users who access or use the Site and/or Services.
Please note, We collect different Personal Data and use it for different purposes depending on whether You are accessing the Service and Site as a Guest, a Healthcare Provider, or a User. Please see Our definitions section below for a clear definition of those roles and click on the section of the Privacy Policy that applies to You in the role that You are using the Site or Service to get more information. Some of our Services, including the ability to book an appointment through our Services, are limited to Users with a Volodoc account. In addition, the definition of Personal Data can vary by jurisdiction. If We collect information from You that is considered Personal Data in Your jurisdiction, We will treat it as such in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Our privacy practices are subject to privacy laws in multiple jurisdictions. You may see references to practices that only apply to individuals living in certain U.S. states.
Please read this Policy carefully. By using the Website and/or the Services, You agree to the collection and use of Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to this Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after We make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.
Your privacy is important to Us and We follow the following principles:
- For Healthcare Providers, We store information about Your practice, including Personal Data, to allow You to book appointments for health care services with Users. We are a third party marketplace where Healthcare Providers voluntarily provide us with their credentials, services they provide and geolocation for Guests and Users to browse on the Website. Your use of health-related information is not stored when You are using the Services. You can delete or modify any Personal Data in your account at any time. We may use your Personal Data to market Our services to You both directly and through targeted marketing.
- For Guests, We do not retain or store any health-related information even if you use it to browse for Healthcare Providers while browsing the Website. If You apply for a job with Us, We collect Personal Data related to Your job application.
- For Users, We collect limited Personal Data that you provide when setting up Your account to allow Healthcare Providers to book appointment with you and We do not retain or store any health-related information. Your inquiries and communications with Healthcare Providers are not stored when You are using our Services. We do not sell or share your Personal Data.
Any use of the Services is subject to the Agreement (as the term “Agreement” is defined in our Terms of Use located at http://volodoc.com/Terms, which incorporates this Privacy Policy).
Definitions. It would be helpful to start by explaining some defined key terms that are used in this policy:
Account | a unique account created for Healthcare Providers or Users to access Our Services. |
Cookies | Cookies are small files that are placed on Your Device by a website, containing (among other things) the details of Your browsing history and/or connection information when using the Website. |
Device | means any device that can access the Services such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet. |
Geolocation Data | IP address-based location information and zip code, city or address as provided by You |
Guest | visitors to our Site and users of our Services who do not have an Account (for example, if you visit our websites or download our mobile application without creating an Account or to run Healthcare Provider queries). |
Healthcare Provider | doctor, medical group, or other healthcare professional who has signed up as a “Healthcare Provider” to use Volodoc Services. |
Services | Volodoc software, applications, and services provided to Healthcare Providers for use with their Users |
Usage Data | Data that is collected automatically and generated by the use of the Services or from the Services infrastructure itself, including: o When You access the Services by or through a Device, the following may be collected about Your Device: its type, unique ID, IP address, operating system, Internet browser, possibly other identifiers; and o Information that Your browser sends whenever You visit this Website or when You access the Services by or through a mobile device, such as the pages of the Website that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, and the time spent on those pages. |
User | Individuals who are interested in identifying Healthcare Providers and have signed up as users of the Services, including the ability to book appointments with Healthcare Providers. |
Web Beacon | Small electronic files (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit counting of users who have visited web pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity) |
Website or Site | Volodoc.com |
If You are a Healthcare Provider
This section applies only if You sign up and have been given access to a Healthcare Provider Account. Some features are not activated automatically and require explicit authorization by You.
What Personal Data Do We Collect?
The Personal Data that We collect from You depends on how You interact with Us, the Websites, and the Services. The following includes the categories and types of Personal Data We have collected from Healthcare Providers within the last twelve (12) months:
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Identifiers:
- Email address
- Name
- Phone number
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Professional/non-public education information:
- Specialty
- Position or title
- National Provider Identifier (NPI)
- States licensed to practice
- Geolocation Data
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Commercial Information:
- Records of the Services Purchased or Used
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Internet Activity:
- Usage Data such as browsing history and search history on the Website
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Content Not Directed At Volodoc, which may include Sensitive Personal Data that your Patients or you provide:
- Information regarding the health condition a User that are collected and transmitted through the Services but not stored or retained by Volodoc.
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* This information is optional.
- In addition, to the extent that You have visited Our Site as a Guest or a User, We have also collected the Personal Data as stated under the subheading “If You Are Browsing This Website As a Guest or a User.”
What Personal Data do We intentionally NOT Collect?
Although Volodoc Services are targeted to the healthcare community, Volodoc does not collect or store any health or sensitive information You disclose while searching for or communicating with a Healthcare Provider. Any health or other sensitive information You disclose or share with a User is encrypted over a secure channel using the HTTPS Internet protocol with TLS encryption that are captured and stored for a transitory period on Our servers as further described below.
What Personal Data Do We or our Service Providers collect, securely transmit, and delete?
Invitations
You may invite Patients to Sessions by the following methods:
- Email sent by the Service via a third-party Service Provider
- Email sent by Your computer or smartphone email system
- Mobile text message via a third-party Service Provider
- Calendar
Any information You enter into the invitation sent by the Services will be used to create and send the message. Once that task is completed, the information is no longer used and will be permanently deleted by the service provider in the ordinary course.
How Do We Collect Personal Data?
When using this Website as a Healthcare Provider, We collect Personal Data:
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Directly from You:
- When You sign up for the Services;
- When You log into or make changes to Your Account;
- Details of transactions You carry out through the Website; and
- When You contact Us for information or customer support.
- Automatically, when You navigate through the Website, such as Usage Data (as described under “If You are Browsing the Website as a Guest; How do We Collect Personal Data; Usage Data”).
- From third party public sources, such as LinkedIn and NPI databases.
How and Why Do We Use Your Personal Data?
The Personal Data shall be collected for the business purpose of identifying You to the Patients using the Services and to assure full operation of the Services during all Sessions. Volodoc may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain Our Service, including to monitor the usage of Our Services.
- To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Services. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Services that are available to You as a registered user.
- To notify You: If You enable email or text notifications within the Services, We will send You an email notifying You about a User’s interest in contacting You. To opt-out of these notifications, please log onto Your Account and update the notification settings as needed. We also notify You about appointments made, and send reminders about appointments as well, and request reviews on Users.
- To contact You: to contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
- To inform You: about news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which We offer that are similar to those You have already purchased or enquired about. By using the Service, You allow Us to contact You by email or within the Services regarding the Services' features, changes, maintenance, and other products that may be introduced by Us from time to time. You have the right to opt-out of receiving such information by clicking on an unsubscribe link embedded within the email message.
- To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
- For our legitimate interests or those of a third party. A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, as long as that is not overridden by your own rights or interests.
- To provide directory information, if you have given your consent to be included in the public directory.
- For any reason for which you have given consent.
- To provide marketing and promotional material: To provide marketing and promotional services, such as to send certain marketing, advertising and promotional communications to show You advertisements for Our Services tailored to your interests on social media and other websites; to deliver content and service offerings relevant to Your interests, including targeted offers and ads through Our Website, third-party sites, and via email. We do not control third parties' collection or use of your Personal Data to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide You with ways to choose not to have your Personal Data collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website.
How Do We Share Your Personal Data?
- With Service Providers: We may share Your Personal Data with Google to provide single sign-on services, and to provide, monitor and analyze the use of Our Services and to contact You or to facilitate contact between You and Your Patients if You use Our email, calendar or text features to send Your Patients the Healthcare Provider appointments. For a list of Service Providers, please visit https://Volodoc.com/ sub-processor-list/
- For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your Personal Data in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Volodoc assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another Volodoc.
- With business partners: We may share Your Personal Data with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services, or promotions.
- With third-party advertisers: We use Personal Data that We collect and that You provide to Us to deliver advertisements according to Our advertiser's targeted audience preferences. Please see "How We Use Your Personal Data" for information on how to opt-out if You do not wish Us to use this Personal Data. If You are a California resident, You may have additional rights to Your Personal Data. For more information, please see the California Residents' Privacy Rights policy.
- With law enforcement: under certain circumstances, Volodoc may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
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Volodoc discretion: Volodoc may also disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of Volodoc
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Services or the public
- Protect against legal liability
If You are a Guest or a User
What Personal Data Do We Collect?
The Personal Data that We collect from You depends on how You interact with Us, the Websites, and the Services. If you are a Guest that is browsing the Website and only searching for potential Healthcare Providers, we do not collect or store any Personal Data other than Your Usage Data relating to your activity on the Site unless you are a job applicant (see below). Guests my elect to become Users by setting up an account and self-reporting certain required Personal Data prior to being able to set up appointments with Healthcare Providers. The following includes the categories and types of Personal Data We have collected from Users while setting up accounts within the last twelve (12) months:
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Identifiers:
- Name*
- Email Address**
- Date of birth**; and
- Telephone Number**
- Geolocation Data
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Content not Directed at Volodoc, which may include Sensitive Personal Data that you provide:
- descriptions of Your health condition provided by You to identify Healthcare Providers that transmitted through Our servers (see disclosure below) ***
- Appointment date/time, provider information, appointment procedure, whether you are a new patient of a particular Healthcare Provider***
- Heath information such as health conditions, Healthcare Providers visited, reasons for visit, dates of visit, medical history, and other health information you provide Us***
- Health insurance information, such as: insurance plan, member ID, group ID, payer ID***
- Sensitive demographic data, such as gender identity (specifically status as transgender or non-binary), race, sexual orientation. ***
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Internet Activity:
- Usage Data such as history of access to the Website.
Job Applicants
For Guests or Users that are job applicants, the following includes the categories and types of Personal Data We have collected from Guests within the last twelve (12) months: identifiers/professional/on-public educational information: If You apply for a job with Us through the website We may collect the following information: name, email address, mailing address, phone number, resume, LinkedIn profile, state of residence, desired salary, experience level, and sample work product.What Personal Data Do We intentionally NOT Collect or Retain?
Although Volodoc Services are targeted to the healthcare community, Volodoc does not collect or store any health or other sensitive information You provide to a Healthcare Provider. Any health or other sensitive information You discuss or send the Healthcare Provider is sent over a secure channel using the SSL Internet protocol.
How Do We Collect Personal Data?
We collect Personal Data:
- Directly from You when You set up an account and input the required account information or if You contact Us for information about the Services or the Website, including from customer service.
- Automatically, through Usage Data we collect from usage of the Website.
How and why Do We Use Your Personal Data?
The Personal Data shall be collected for the business purpose of identifying You to the Healthcare Provider using the Services at Your direction. Volodoc may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain Our Service, including to monitor the usage of Our Services. Usage Data may, in particular, be used to estimate audience size and usage patterns, store information about Your preferences, speed up searches and recognize You when You return to Our Website.
- To notify You: If Your Healthcare Provider enables email notifications within the Services, We will send You an email notifying You when it is time for Your appointment. Your Healthcare Provider may also enable You to be notified by text message should You provide Your mobile number. To opt-out of such notifications, please contact Your Healthcare Provider.
- To manage Your support requests: To respond to Your customer support requests to Us.
- For our legitimate interests or those of a third party. A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, as long as that is not overridden by your own rights or interests.
- For any reason for which you have given consent.
- To provide marketing and promotional material. To provide marketing and promotional services to Users only, such as to send certain marketing, advertising, and promotional communications to show You advertisements for Our Services tailored to your interests on social media and other websites; to deliver content and service offerings relevant to Your interests, including targeted offers and ads through Our Website, third-party sites, and via email. We do not control third parties’ collection or use of Your Personal Data to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide You with ways to choose not to have your Personal Data collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI's website.
How Do We Share Your Personal Data?
- With Service Providers: We may share Your Personal Data with Service Providers to provide, monitor, and analyze the use of Our Services and to contact You with Healthcare Provider Links. For a list of Service Providers, please visit https://Volodoc.com/en/sub-processor-list/.
- For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your Personal Data in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Volodoc assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
- With law enforcement: under certain circumstances, Volodoc may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
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Volodoc discretion: Volodoc may also disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of Volodoc
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Services or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Additional Important Information applicable to Healthcare Providers, Guests, and Users
Usage Data
Anytime you are browsing and using the Website as a Healthcare Provider, Guest, or User, Usage Data may be collected by server logs, tags, web beacons, or cookies.
Unless You have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, Our system will issue cookies when You direct Your browser to Our Website. The length of time that a cookie remains on Your Device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until You stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies We use are persistent and will expire between thirty (30) minutes and two (2) years from the date they are downloaded to Your Device.
Any use of cookies by Us or by Google Analytics serves the purpose of providing the Services as requested by You and maintaining the functionality of the Website. If You opt to disable all or certain cookies, Your experience may be diminished and You may not be able to use the Service.
Some content or applications on the Website are served by Google Analytics whom may use cookies to collect information about You when You use Our Website. The information Google Analytics collects may be associated with Your Personal Data or they may collect information, including Personal Data, about Your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. For example, We use Google Analytics (see Google privacy policy and Google opt-out) to evaluate use of Our Website. We use these tools to help Us understand use of, and to improve, Our Website, performance, and user experiences.
Children's Privacy
Our services are not designed for, or intentionally targeted at, children under the age of 13. It is not our policy to intentionally collect or maintain information about anyone under the age of 13. No one under the age of 13 should submit any personal data to the platform, and if we learn that we have collected or received personal data from a child under 13, we will delete that information. If you are the parent or guardian of a child under 13 years of age whom you believe might have provided us with their personal data, you may contact us to request the personal data be deleted.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide You with choices regarding the Personal Data You provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide You with the following control over Your Personal Data:
Tracking Technologies and Advertising
You can set Your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert You when cookies are being sent. If You disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Site may then be inaccessible or not function properly. To learn more about controlling and deleting cookies, please visit this external website: https://www.aboutcookies.org/
Accessing and Correcting Your Personal Data
If You are a Healthcare Provider, You can review and change Your Personal Data by logging into the Website and visiting Your account profile page.
You may also send Us an email at info@Volodoc.com to request access to, correct or delete any Personal Data that You have provided to us. We cannot delete Your Personal Data except by also deleting Your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change Personal Data if We believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the Personal Data to be incorrect.
If You have provided transferred any materials, photos or shared any Personal Data between User and Healthcare Provider, You should be aware that We do not have access to this Personal Data and cannot control its retention or destruction except as expressly stated below.
Retention of Your Personal Data
We will retain and use Your Personal Data that may include name, email, telephone numbers, and with respect to Healthcare Providers, payment transaction information (but not credit card information) to the extent necessary to comply with Our legal obligations (for example, if We are required to retain Your Personal Data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce Our legal agreements and policies.
We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Services and the Website. We will also keep all Usage Data We are legally obligated to retain for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
By using this Site, You consent to the collection, storage, processing, and transfer of Personal Data in and to the United States, or other countries and territories, pursuant to the laws of the United States. Data processed by Us is in the United States. Our Service Providers generally process Personal Data in the United States, although certain Personal Data is processed in other countries. For a full list of Our sub-processors and their jurisdictions of processing, please visit https://Volodoc.com/sub-processor-list/.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such Personal Data represents Your agreement to that transfer.
Security of Your Personal Data
All transmitted data is encrypted over a secure channel using SSL Internet Protocol. All file transfers are encrypted both in transfer and temporary storage. All Personal Data are processed in secure cloud-based systems.
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially standard means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Data, your choices, and rights regarding such use, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
- E-mail: info@volodoc.com
- Address: Volodoc, Inc., 125 South 9th Street, Suite 1005, Philadelphia PA 19107
- Phone: [PH #]