UC Care(“us”, “we”, or “UC Care”, which also includes its affiliates) is the author and publisher of the internet resource www.uccare.in (“Website”) on the world wide web as well as the software and applications provided by UC Care, including but not limited to the mobile application ‘UC Care’, and the software and applications of the brand names ‘UC Care Ray’, ‘UC Care Tab’, ‘UC Care Reach’, ‘Hello’, and ‘Health Account’ (together with the Website, referred to as the “Services”).
This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") explains how we collect, use, share, disclose and protect Personal information about the Users of the Services, including the Practitioners (as defined in the Terms of Use, which may be accessed via the following web-link https://Uccare.co.in/privacy (the “Terms of Use”)), the End-Users (as defined in the Terms of Use), and the visitors of Website (jointly and severally referred to as “you” or “Users” in this Privacy Policy). We created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our commitment to the protection of your privacy and your personal information. Your use of and access to the Services is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Any capitalized term used but not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning attributed to it in our Terms of Use.
BY USING THE SERVICES OR BY OTHERWISE GIVING US YOUR INFORMATION, YOU WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED TO THE PRACTICES AND POLICIES OUTLINED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE PRIVACY POLICY. YOU HEREBY CONSENT TO OUR COLLECTION, USE AND SHARING, DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CHANGE, MODIFY, ADD OR DELETE PORTIONS OF THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, AT OUR SOLE DISCRETION, AT ANY TIME. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY AT ANY TIME, DO NOT USE ANY OF THE SERVICES OR GIVE US ANY OF YOUR INFORMATION. IF YOU USE THE SERVICES ON BEHALF OF SOMEONE ELSE (SUCH AS YOUR CHILD) OR AN ENTITY (SUCH AS YOUR EMPLOYER), YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU ARE AUTHORISED BY SUCH INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO (I) ACCEPT THIS PRIVACY POLICY ON SUCH INDIVIDUAL’S OR ENTITY’S BEHALF, AND (II) CONSENT ON BEHALF OF SUCH INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO OUR COLLECTION, USE AND DISCLOSURE OF SUCH INDIVIDUAL’S OR ENTITY’S INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
This Privacy Policy is published in compliance with:
This Privacy Policy states the following:
You do provide consent to the collection of personal information by UC Care. Without prejudice to the generality of the above, information collected by us from you may include (but is not limited to) the following:
The information collected from you by UC Care may constitute ‘personal information’ or ‘sensitive personal data or information’ under the SPI Rules.
“Personal Information” is defined under the SPI Rules to mean any information that relates to a natural person, which, either directly or indirectly, in combination with other information available or likely to be available to a body corporate, is capable of identifying such person.
The SPI Rules further define “Sensitive Personal Data or Information” of a person to mean personal information about that person relating to:
UC Care will be free to use, collect and disclose information that is freely available in the public domain without your consent.
3.1: ALL USERS NOTE:
This section applies to all users.
3.1.1: Accordingly, a condition of each User’s use of and access to the Services is their acceptance of the Terms of Use, which also involves acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy. Any User that does not agree with any provisions of the same has the option to discontinue the Services provided by UC Care immediately.
3.1.2: An indicative list of information that UC Care may require you to provide to enable your use of the Services is provided in the Schedule annexed to this Privacy Policy.
3.1.3: All the information provided to UC Care by a User, including Personal Information or any Sensitive Personal Data or Information, is voluntary. You understand that UC Care may use certain information of yours, which has been designated as Personal Information or ‘Sensitive Personal Data or Information’ under the SPI Rules, (a) for the purpose of providing you the Services, (b) for commercial purposes and in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form for research, statistical analysis and business intelligence purposes, (c) for sale or transfer of such research, statistical or intelligence data in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form to third parties and affiliates (d) for communication purpose so as to provide You a better way of booking appointments and for obtaining feedback in relation to the Practitioners and their practice, (e) debugging customer support related issues. (f) for the purpose of contacting you to complete any transaction if you do not complete a transaction after having provided us with your contact information in the course of completing such steps that are designed for completion of the transaction. UC Care also reserves the right to use information provided by or about the End-User for the following purposes:
If you have voluntarily provided your Personal Information to UC Care for any of the purposes stated above, you hereby consent to such collection and use of such information by UC Care. However, UC Care shall not contact you on Your telephone number(s) for any purpose including those mentioned in this sub-section 4.1(iii), if such telephone number is registered with the Do Not Call registry (“DNC Registry”) under the PDPA without your express, clear and un-ambiguous written consent.
3.1.4: Collection, use and disclosure of information which has been designated as Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information’ under the SPI Rules requires your express consent. By affirming your assent to this Privacy Policy, you provide your consent to such use, collection and disclosure as required under applicable law.
3.1.5: UC Care does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Services and, therefore, UC Care specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Services, and you agree that you waive any claims against UC Care relating to same, and to the extent such waiver may be ineffective, you agree to release any claims against UC Care relating to the same.
3.1.6: You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of the information you submit to us, such as your contact information provided as part of account registration. For deviation in personal information, you may correct, delete inaccuracies, or amend information by making the change on our member information page or by contacting us through privacy@uccare.co.in. The changes will reflect as soon as reasonable time. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, out of date or incomplete (or becomes untrue, inaccurate, out of date or incomplete), or UC Care has reasonable grounds to suspect that the information provided by you is untrue, inaccurate, out of date or incomplete, UC Care may, at its sole discretion, discontinue the provision of the services to you. There may be circumstances where UC Care will not correct, delete or update your Personal Data, including (a) where the Personal Data is opinion data that is kept solely for evaluative purpose; and (b) the Personal Data is in documents related to a prosecution if all proceedings relating to the prosecution have not been completed.
3.1.7: If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you Services, contact us through infouccare@gmail.com. We will retain your information for as long as your account with the services is active and as needed to provide you the Services. We shall not retain such information for longer than is required for the purposes for which the information may lawfully be used or is otherwise required under any other law for the time being in force. After a period of time, your data may be anonymised and aggregated, and then may be held by us as long as necessary for us to provide our Services effectively, but our use of the anonymized data may not be solely limited to analytic purposes. Please note that your withdrawal of consent or cancellation of account may result in UC Care being unable to provide you with its Services or to terminate any existing relationship UC Care may have with you.
3.1.8: If you wish to opt-out of receiving non-essential communications such as promotional and marketing-related information regarding the Services, please send us an email at infouccare@gmail.com .
3.1.9: UC Care may require the User to pay with a credit card, wire transfer, debit card or cheque for Services for which subscription amount(s) is/are payable. UC Care will collect such User’s credit card number and/or other financial institution information such as bank account numbers and will use that information for the billing and payment processes, including but not limited to the use and disclosure of such credit card number and information to third parties as necessary to complete such billing operation. Verification of credit information, however, is accomplished solely by the User through the authentication process. User’s credit-card/debit card details are transacted upon secure sites of approved payment gateways which are digitally under encryption, thereby providing the highest possible degree of care as per current technology. However, UC Care provides you an option not to save your payment details. User is advised, however, that internet technology is not full proof safe and User should exercise discretion on using the same.
3.1.10: The Website uses temporary cookies to store certain (that is not sensitive personal data or information) that is used by UC Care and its service providers for the technical administration of the Website, research and development, and for User administration. In the course of serving advertisements or optimizing services to its Users, UC Care may allow authorized third parties to place or recognize a unique cookie on the User’s browser. The cookies however, do not store any Personal Information of the User. You may adjust your internet browser to disable cookies. If cookies are disabled you may still use the Website, but the Website may be limited in the use of some of the features.
3.1.11: This Privacy Policy applies to Services that are owned and operated by UC Care. UC Care does not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or links from within its Services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on the Users’ computer, collect data or solicit personal information from the Users, for which UC Care is not responsible or liable. Accordingly, UC Care does not make any representations concerning the privacy practices or policies of such third parties or terms of use of such websites, nor does UC Care guarantee the accuracy, integrity, or quality of the information, data, text, software, sound, photographs, graphics, videos, messages or other materials available on such websites. The inclusion or exclusion does not imply any endorsement by UC Care of the website, the website's provider, or the information on the website. If you decide to visit a third party website linked to the Website, you do this entirely at your own risk. UC Care encourages the user to read the privacy policies of that website.
3.1.12: The Website may enable User to communicate with other Users or to post information to be accessed by others, whereupon other Users may collect such data. Such Users, including any moderators or administrators, are not authorized UC Care representatives or agents, and their opinions or statements do not necessarily reflect those of UC Care, and they are not authorized to bind UC Care to any contract. UC Care hereby expressly disclaims any liability for any reliance or misuse of such information that is made available by Users or visitors in such a manner.
3.1.13: UC Care does not collect information about the visitors of the Website from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations, save and except for the purposes of registration of the Users (the collection, use, storage and disclosure of which each End User must agree to under the Terms of Use in order for UC Care to effectively render the Services).
3.1.14: UC Care maintains a strict "No-Spam" policy, which means that UC Care does not intend to sell, rent or otherwise give your e-mail address to a third party without your consent.
3.1.15: UC Care has implemented best international market practices and security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that it has under its control from unauthorised access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorised modification and unlawful destruction or accidental loss. However, for any data loss or theft due to unauthorized access to the User’s electronic devices through which the User avails the Services, UC Care shall not be held liable for any loss whatsoever incurred by the User.
3.1.16: UC Care implements reasonable security practices and procedures and has a comprehensive documented information security programme and information security policies that contain managerial, technical, operational and physical security control measures that are commensurate with respect to the information being collected and the nature of UC Care’s business.
3.1.17: UC Care takes your right to privacy very seriously and other than as specifically stated in this Privacy Policy, will only disclose your Personal Information in the event it is required to do so by law, rule, regulation, law enforcement agency, governmental official, legal authority or similar requirements or when UC Care, in its sole discretion, deems it necessary in order to protect its rights or the rights of others, to prevent harm to persons or property, to fight fraud and credit risk, or to enforce or apply the Terms of Use.
This section applies to all Practitioners.
3.2.1: As part of the registration as well as the application creation and submission process that is available to Practitioners on UC Care, certain information, including Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information is collected from the Practitioners.
3.2.2: All the statements in this Privacy Policy apply to all Practitioners, and all Practitioners are therefore required to read and understand the privacy statements set out herein prior to submitting any Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information to UC Care, failing which they are required to leave the Services, including the Website immediately.
3.2.3: Practitioners’ personally identifiable information, which they choose to provide to UC Care, is used to help the Practitioners describe and identify themselves. This information is exclusively owned by UC Care. You will be the owner of your information and you consent to UC Care collecting, using, processing and/or disclosing this information for the purposes hereinafter stated. UC Care may use such information for commercial purposes and in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form for research, statistical analysis and business intelligence purposes, and may sell or otherwise transfer such research, statistical or intelligence data in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form to third parties and affiliates. UC Care also reserves the right to use information provided by or about the Practitioner for the following purposes:
3.2.4: UC Care automatically enables the listing of Practitioners’ information on its Website for every ‘Doctor’ or ‘Clinic’ added to a Practice using its software. The Practitioner information listed on Website is displayed when End-Users search for doctors on Website, and the Practitioner information listed on Website is used by End-Users to request for doctor appointments. Any personally identifiable information of the Practitioners listed on the Website is not generated by UC Care and is provided to UC Care by Practitioners who wish to enlist themselves on the Website, or is collected by UC Care from the public domain. UC Care displays such information on its Website on an as-is basis making no representation or warranty on the accuracy or completeness of the information. As such, we strongly encourage Practitioners to check the accuracy and completeness of their information from time to time, and inform us immediately of any discrepancies, changes or updates to such information. UC Care will, however, take reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and completeness of this information.
3.2.5: UC Care may also display information for Practitioners who have not signed up or registered for the Services, provided that the Practitioners have consented to UC Care collecting, processing and/or disclosing their information on the Website. Such Practitioners are verified by UC Care or its associates, and UC Care makes every effort to capture accurate information for such Practitioners. However, UC Care does not undertake any liability for any incorrect or incomplete information appearing on the Website for such Practitioners.
This section applies to all End-Users.
3.3.1: As part of the registration/application creation and submission process that is available to End-Users on this Website, certain information, including Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information is collected from the End-Users.
3.3.2: All the statements in this Privacy Policy apply to all End-Users, and all End-Users are therefore required to read and understand the privacy statements set out herein prior to submitting any Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data or Information to UC Care, failing which they are required to leave the website of UC Care (www.uccare.in) immediately.
3.3.3: If you have inadvertently submitted any such information to UC Care prior to reading theprivacy statements set out herein, and you do not agree with the manner in which such information is collected, processed, stored, used or disclosed, then you may access, modify and delete such information by using options provided on the Website. In addition, you can, by sending an email to privacy@uccare.co.in, inquire whether UC Care is in possession of your personal data, and you may also require UC Care to delete and destroy all such information.
3.3.4: End-Users’ personally identifiable information, which they choose to provide on the Website is used to help the End-Users describe/identify themselves. Other information that does not personally identify the End-Users as an individual, is collected by UC Care from End-Users (such as, patterns of utilization described above) and is exclusively owned by UC Care. UC Care may also use such information in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form for research, statistical analysis and business intelligence purposes, and may sell or otherwise transfer such research, statistical or intelligence data in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form to third parties and affiliates. In particular, UC Care reserves with it the right to use anonymized End-User demographics information and anonymized End-User health information for the following purposes:
3.3.5: UC Care will communicate with the End-Users through email, phone and notices posted on the Website or through other means available through the service, including text and other forms of messaging. The End-Users can change their e-mail and contact preferences at any time by logging into their "Account" at www.uccare.in and changing the account settings.
3.3.6: At times, UC Care conducts a User survey to collect information about End-Users' preferences. These surveys are optional and if End-Users choose to respond, their responses will be kept anonymous. Similarly, UC Care may offer something rewarding to qualifying End-Users in which we ask for contact and demographic information such as name, email address and mailing address. The demographic information that UC Care collects in the registration process and through surveys is used to help UC Care improve its Services to meet the needs and preferences of End-Users.
3.3.7: UC Care may keep records of electronic communications and telephone calls received andmade for making appointments or other purposes for the purpose of administration of Services, customer support, research and development and for better listing of Practitioners.
3.3.8: All UC Care employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of sensitive personal data or information, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of every End-Users’ Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Data and Information. UC Care has put in place procedures and technologies as per good industry practices and in accordance with the applicable laws, to maintain security of all personal data from the point of collection to the point of destruction. Any third-party data processor to which UC Care transfers Personal Data shall have to agree to comply with those procedures and policies, or put in place adequate measures on their own.
3.3.9: UC Care may also disclose or transfer End-Users’ personal and other information provided by a User, to a third party as part of reorganization or a sale of the assets of a UC Care corporation division or company. Any third party to which UC Care transfers or sells its assets to will have the right to continue to use the personal and other information that End-Users provide to us, in accordance with the Terms of Use
3.3.10: To the extent necessary to provide End-Users with the Services, UC Care may provide their Personal Information to third party contractors who work on behalf of or with UC Care to provide End-Users with such Services, to help UC Care communicate with End-Users or to maintain the Website or independent third party service providers to process payment instructions including providing a payment deferral facility to End-Users in relation to the Services. These third-party service providers have access to information needed to process payments, but may not use it for other purposes. Generally these contractors do not have any independent right to share this information; however certain contractors who provide services on the Website, including the providers of online communications services, may use and disclose the personal information collected in connection with the provision of these Services in accordance with their own privacy policies. In such circumstances, you consent to us disclosing your Personal Information to contractors, solely for the intended purposes only.
3.4.1: No sensitive personal data or information is automatically collected by UC Care from any casual visitors of this website, who are merely surfingor perusing the Website.
3.4.2: Nevertheless, certain provisions of this Privacy Policy are applicable to even such casual visitors, and such casual visitors are also required to read and understand the privacy statements set out herein, failing which, it is advisable that they leave this Website immediately.
3.4.3: If you, as a casual visitor, have inadvertently browsed any other page of this Website prior to reading the privacy statements set out herein, and you do not agree with the manner in which such information is obtained, collected, processed, stored, used, disclosed or retained, merely quitting this browser application should ordinarily clear all temporary cookies installed by UC Care. All visitors, however, are encouraged to use the “clear cookies” functionality of their browsers to ensure such clearing / deletion, as UC Care cannot guarantee, predict or provide for the behaviour of the equipment of all the visitors of the Website.
3.4.4 You are not a casual visitor if you have willingly submitted any personal data or information to UC Care through any means, including email, post or through the registration process on the Website. All such visitors will be deemed to be, and will be treated as, Users for the purposes of this Privacy Policy, and in which case, all the statements in this Privacy Policy apply to such persons.
4.1 Your Personal Information is maintained by UC Care in electronic form on its equipment, and on the equipment of its employees. Such information may also be converted to physical form from time to time. UC Care takes all necessary precautions to protect your personal information both online and off-line, and implements reasonable security practices and measures including certain managerial, technical, operational and physical security control measures that are commensurate with respect to the information being collected and the nature of UC Care’s business.
4.2 No administrator at UC Care will have knowledge of your password. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password, your computer and your mobile phone. Be sure to log off from the Website when finished. UC Care does not undertake any liability for any unauthorised use of your account and password. If you suspect any unauthorized use of your account, you must immediately notify UC Care by sending an email to infouccare@gmail.com. You shall be liable to indemnify UC Care due to any loss suffered by it due to such unauthorized use of your account and password.
4.3 UC Care makes all User information accessible to its employees, agents or partners and third parties only on a need-to-know basis, and binds only its employees to strict confidentiality obligations.
4.4 Part of the functionality of UC Care is assisting the doctors to maintain and organise such information. UC Care may, therefore, retain and submit all such records to the appropriate authorities, or to doctors who request access to such information.
4.5 Part of the functionality of the UC Care is assisting the patients to access information relating to them. UC Care may, therefore, retain and submit all such records to the relevant patients, or to their doctors.
4.6 Notwithstanding the above, UC Care is not responsible for the confidentiality, security or distribution of your Personal Information by our partners and third parties outside the scope of our agreement with such partners and third parties. Further, UC Care shall not be responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties or events that are beyond the reasonable control of UC Care including but not limited to, acts of government, computer hacking, unauthorised access to computer data and storage device, computer crashes, breach of security and encryption, poor quality of Internet service or telephone service of the User etc.
UC Care may update this Privacy Policy at any time, with or without advance notice. In the event there are significant changes in the way UC Care treats User’s personally identifiable information, or in the Privacy Policy itself, UC Care will display a notice on the Website or send Users an email, as provided for above, so that you may review the changed terms prior to continuing to use the Services. As always, if you object to any of the changes to our terms, and you no longer wish to use the Services, you may contact infouccare@gmail.com to deactivate your account. Unless stated otherwise, UC Care’s current Privacy Policy applies to all information that UC Care has about you and your account.
If a User uses the Services or accesses the Website after a notice of changes has been sent to such User or published on the Website, such User hereby provides his/her/its consent to the changed terms.
UC Care strongly encourages parents and guardians to supervise the online activities of their minor children and consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers to help provide a child-friendly online environment. These tools also can prevent minors from disclosing their name, address, and other personally identifiable information online without parental permission. Although the UC Care Website and Services are not intended for use by minors, UC Care respects the privacy of minors who may inadvertently use the internet or the mobile application.
You acknowledge that this Privacy Policy is a part of the Terms of Use of the Website and the other Services, and you unconditionally agree that becoming a User of the Website and its Services signifies your (i) assent to this Privacy Policy, and (ii) consent to UC Care using, collecting, processing and/or disclosing your Personal Information in the manner and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Your visit to the Website and use of the Services is subject to this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.
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