Healthtech Women

Your privacy is very important to us. This Privacy Policy is designed to explain how Healthtech Women (“Healthtech Women,” “we,” or “us”) collects, uses, and discloses information, including information collected in connection with our website (https://healthtechwomen.com/) (“the Site”), and in-person (“offline”). By using the Site, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect

Information You Provide Us

When you submit an application to become a member, add yourself to a distribution list, or otherwise contact us, we collect information from you such as:

• Name
• Postal address
• Telephone number
• Email address
• Name of company
• Any other information you choose to provide

Information We Collect Automatically From Your Use of the Site

When you use our Site, we and our third party service providers may collect information from you through automated means, such as cookies, web beacons, and web server logs. By using the Site, you consent to the placement of cookies, beacons, and similar technologies in your browser in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The information collected in this manner includes IP address, browser characteristics, device IDs and characteristics, operating system version, language preferences, referring URLs, and information about the usage of our Site.

We may use this information, for example, to ensure that the Site functions properly, to determine how many users have visited certain pages, or to prevent fraud. We use IP address to derive your approximate location.

We use Google Analytics, which uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the Site and report on activities and trends. This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and opt out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline cookies or be given the choice of declining or accepting the transfer to your computer of a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular site. You may also wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html. If, however, you do not accept cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Site. The Site does not respond to browser do-not-track signals.

How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect:

• To operate, maintain, enhance and provide features of the Site, to provide information that you request, to respond to comments and questions, and otherwise to provide support to users.
• To contact you for administrative or informational purposes.  This may include responding to a membership applicant or notifying members of changes to our policies.
• We may anonymize or aggregate information we collect and may use and disclose it for any purpose.
• For purposes relating to the operation of the organization, such as data analysis, audits, security, fraud monitoring and prevention; and operating and expanding our organization’s activities.
• To enforce this Policy or other legal rights.

How We Share Your Information

We do not disclose the information that we collect to third parties except in the following circumstances:

• To our third party service providers who provide services such as website hosting, conference accommodations and related services, data analysis, information technology and related infrastructure provision, auditing, and other services.
• To a potential or actual acquirer, successor, or assignee as part of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our organization, or assets (including in bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
• If required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

We do not share your personal information with unaffiliated third parties for their own direct marketing purposes, unless we have your permission to do so.

We may use and disclose information that does not identify or otherwise relate to an individual for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law.

Third Party Services

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or service to which the Site links. The inclusion of a link on the Site does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.

Security

We use certain physical, organizational, and technical safeguards that are designed to maintain the integrity and security of information that we collect. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and thus we cannot and do not guarantee that your information will not be accessed, viewed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or organizational safeguards.

Use of Site by Minors

This Site is not intended for use by minors. Individuals under the age of eighteen (18) are not permitted to provide personal information through the Site.

International Cross-Border Data Transfer

Healthtech Women uses servers hosted in the United States. Please note that we may be transferring your information outside of your region for storage and processing in the United States and around the globe. By using the Site you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country.

Updates to This Privacy Policy

We may make changes to this Privacy Policy. The “Last Updated” date at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site. Your use of the Site following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected]

Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include sensitive information in your emails to us.