Last revised: September 22, 2017
Personal Information Collection, Methods and Use
By using any PostureCo, Inc. service or application you agree that you are over the age of 18. You may be asked to provide your personal information anytime you are in contact with PostureCo, Inc. or an PostureCo affiliated companies. PostureCo, Inc. and its affiliates may share this customer information with each other and use it consistent with this Privacy Policy. They may also combine it with other information to provide and improve our products, services, content, and advertising.
Examples of the types of personal information PostureCo, Inc. may collect and how we may use it. This information includes everything except your personal passwords under the “Clinic Info” in our application including the following: Clinic/facility Name, Phone Number, Website address, physical address including state and zip code, along with the email address you are utilizing for all email fields.
What Types of information will PostureCo, Inc. collect?
- We collect your clinic/facility information
- We do not collect your client/patient information or “PHI” as it is defined by HIPAA
- We collect anonymized client data for research and other purposes to improve our application. There will never be any PHI information tied to this anonymized data.
How will PostureCo, Inc use your information?
- The personal information we collect allows us to keep you posted on PostureCo, Inc.’s latest product announcements, software updates, and upcoming events. It also helps us to improve our services, content, and advertising. If you don’t want to be on our mailing list, you can opt out anytime by emailing us at info@postureco.com using the subject “opt out of email” and ask. We will promptly put you on a never contact list.
- We also use personal/clinic information to help us develop, deliver, and improve our products services, content, and advertising.
- We may email you important updates to our software or affiliated emails from our affiliate companies which would impact your experience utilizing our software.
- Further we may use your clinic information for internal purposes such as auditing, data analysis, and research to improve PostureCo, Inc.’s products, services, and customer communications.
- Anonymized client data may be used for scientific research studies
Non-Personal Information
We also choose to collect non-personal information − data in a form that does not permit direct association with any specific individual. We may collect, use, transfer, and disclose non-personal information for any purpose.
If we do combine non-personal information with personal information the combined information will be treated as personal information for as long as it remains combined.
Cookies and Other Technologies
PostureCo, Inc.’s website, applications, email messages, and web based advertisements may use “cookies” or other methods/utilities to obtain your information. You must be opt-in to this at time of your first exercise prescription otherwise your personal data will not be shared. These tools help tell us which parts of our website people have visited, and aid and gauge the efficacy of advertisements and web searches. We treat information collected by cookies and other technologies as non-personal information. However, to the extent that Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or similar identifiers are considered personal information by local law, we also treat these identifiers as personal information. Similarly, to the extent that non-personal information is combined with personal information, we treat the combined information as personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.
PostureCo, Inc. and its partners use utilities and “cookies” in advertising services to control the number of times you are served an advertisement, and thus measure its reach and effectiveness.
PostureCo, Inc. and our partners also use cookies and other technical data collection to remember personal information when you use our website, online services, and applications. Our goal in these cases is to make your experience with our website and applications from PostureCo, Inc. are more personal and easier to use.
If you want to disable cookies please review steps with your internet browser. For information gathered with our mobile apps, you can not utilize the WebExercises service without sharing your clinic information with our company as well as affiliates as this is required to modify the client’s outgoing email from you. With our website, we collect some information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type and language, Internet service provider (ISP), referring and exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information to understand and analyze trends, to manage the site, to learn about user performance on the site, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. PostureCo, Inc. may use this information in our marketing and advertising services.
In some of our email messages, we use a “click-through URL” linked to content on the PostureCo, Inc. website or the WebEexercises, Inc website when prescribing exercise prescriptions. When customers click one of these URLs, they pass through a separate web server before arriving at the destination page on our website. We track this data to help us determine interest in particular topics and measure the effectiveness of our customer communications. If you prefer not to be tracked in this way, you should not click text or graphic links in the email messages.
When utilizing emails to you directly from our company, we will track open status and read or clicked links and they tell us whether mail has been opened. We may use this information to reduce or eliminate messages sent to customers.
3rd Party Disclosures
At times PostureCo, Inc. may make certain personal information available to strategic partners that work with PostureCo, Inc. to provide products and services, or that help PostureCo, Inc. market to customers. Personal information will only be shared by PostureCo, Inc. to provide or improve our products, services and advertising; it will not be shared with third parties for their marketing purposes. Our current partners include WebExercises, Inc. and CBP Seminars, Inc.
Legal Disclosure Requests
It may be necessary − by law, legal process, litigation, and/or requests from public and governmental authorities within or outside your country of residence − for PostureCo, Inc. to disclose your personal information. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that for purposes of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary or appropriate.
We may also disclose information about you if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and conditions or protect our operations or users. Additionally, in the event of a reorganization, merger, or sale we may transfer any and all personal information we collect to the relevant third party.
Protection of Personal Information
PostureCo, Inc. takes safeguards to best defend your personal information against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. We utilize SSL encryption when handing off data to WebExercises and/or other affiliates. Doing so protects the confidentiality of your personal information while it’s transmitted over the Internet.
Access to Personal Information
If you wish to see what information we have collected about you, simply send us an affidavit notarized in form of a fax, and we will disclose your information on file.
Children Under Age
We will not under any circumstances knowingly collect demographic data to be used by PostureCo, Inc or affiliates directly under age of 18. If we learn that we have collected the personal information of a child under 18 we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible. By using our applications and clicking through this agreement you authenticate that you are 18 years or older.
Location-Based Services
To provide location-based services on PostureCo, Inc. products, PostureCo, Inc. and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your PostureCo, Inc. computer or device. This location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you and is used by PostureCo, Inc. and we along with our affiliates provide periodic “Push Notifications” which aid in use of our application and/or our services.
Third-Party Sites and Services
PostureCo, Inc. websites, products, applications, and services may contain links to third-party websites, products, and services. Information collected by third parties, which may include such things as location data or contact details, is governed by their privacy practices. We encourage you to learn about the privacy practices of those third parties.
International Users
Information you provide may be transferred or accessed by entities around the world as described in this Privacy Policy. PostureCo, Inc. abides by the “safe harbor” frameworks set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information collected by organizations in the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
Commitment to Your Privacy
To make sure your personal information is secure, we communicate our privacy and security guidelines to PostureCo, Inc. employees and strictly enforce privacy safeguards within the company.
Privacy Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions or concerns about PostureCo, Inc.’s Privacy Policy or data processing, please contact info@postureco.com. PostureCo, Inc. may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. When we change the policy in a material way, a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated Privacy Policy.