Privacy Policy

This website (“Website”) and associated websites are maintained by: Reboot Inc and HIPAA Guard, Indianapolis IN

WHAT KIND OF INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT? HOW DO WE USE THE INFORMATION?

The publisher of this Website (“Publisher”) collects personally identifying information and data about individuals, their company, and their company’s demographics (personally identifying information and data) including (i) when you provide information to us, such as when you register or sign up for any of our products such as publications, subscriptions, e-mails, contests, newsletters, memberships, RSS Feeds, webcasts, White Papers, online training, conferences and other communications with the Publisher, (ii) when you register or sign up on one of our Websites, or when you register for any other of our products or click on our links, products individually or through auto register, your information will be known to the Publisher and (iii) from time to time we may add other information that we collect from third party sources to enhance the information that you provided to the Publisher. However, we will not collect any personally identifiable information about you unless you provide it to us voluntarily and give your consent to use it.

The Publisher or one of our affiliated companies, or third party partners or advertisers may place online tracking technology such as a “cookie” in the browser files of a user’s computer. The cookie itself does not contain any personally identifying information, except when such information has been supplied by a subscriber or registered user. In addition, cookies placed in the browser files of a user’s computer by a third party advertiser may be used by the advertiser to collect web viewing data to serve further online interest-based advertising, also known as online behavioral advertising.

If you have registered with our Website, the information in your cookie is used to provide a more personalized experience on our Website.

If you haven’t registered with our Website, we may place a cookie on your system to help provide a more personalized experience. This cookie identifies you as a unique user by means of a tracking ID. However, if you have not registered on our Website, we cannot link that user ID with personally identifying information and data about you such as your name or e-mail address.

Other cookies without personally identifying information and data are used to enable the Publisher to manage the banner advertisements presented or personalized information to the user. Browsers or third-party software can allow you to block the use of cookies while you surf our site.

The aggregated information we collect is used for a number of purposes, including the following:

  • To improve the content and design of our Website.
  • To enable our audit bureau to verify our claims of traffic to our Website.

As clear GIFs, also known as pixel tags, provided by our ad-serving company to help manage online advertising. These clear GIFS let our ad-serving company recognize a browser’s cookie when a user visits our site. The information we collect and share through this technology is not personally identifiable (It does not include your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address).

  • To understand more about the interests of our customers and to offer goods and services we believe may be of interest to our customers, on behalf of the Publisher or select organizations.

Postal addresses, and other personally identifying information and data may be collected from our online users (and, as applicable, our print subscribers) and may be used to promote the Publisher’s and companies’ products and services, and may be rented and/or licensed to select outside firms for promotional purposes. Offers for which the personally identifying information and data are rented and/or licensed for use and the users are required to target their offers carefully.

Telephone numbers may be collected from our online users (and, as applicable, our print subscribers) and may be used by the Publisher to collect re-qualification data, and may be used by HIPAA Guard and/or Reboot Inc., affiliates and its advertisers for promotional purposes. The Publisher may rent and/or license for use phone numbers to select outside firms for promotional purposes. Offers for which the numbers are rented and/or licensed for use are required to target their offers carefully.

E-mail addresses may be collected from our online users (and as applicable, our print subscribers), and may be used for re-qualification purposes. These e-mail addresses may also be used to collect feedback by members of our editorial or research team, to promote the Publisher’s products and services, and they may be rented to select outside firms and/or licensed for promotional purposes. When you provide your email address to us, you agree to receive the email from outside firms and the Publisher. With each e-mail use of the user’s address, you can individually opt-out of receiving further e-mail from outside firms and the Publisher. Offers for which the e-mail address is rented and/or licensed for use require the users to target their offers carefully.

Our Website makes available a large library of content provided to us from third parties. In return for access to this content, we may ask you to provide us with personally identifying information. Once you have submitted your information, you will have access to the full library of third-party content and will not be asked to provide that information again (unless you disable or otherwise modify your cookies). When accessing content contributed by a third party, your personally identifying information may be shared with those third parties, and the information will be governed by those parties’ privacy policies as well as ours. Neither the Publisher nor any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, bear any responsibility for any actions or policies of such third parties. If you do not wish to have your information shared with a third party, please do not access third party content on our site.

Our Website users should be aware that when they disclose personally identifying information (e.g., user name, address, company name, telephone number, demographic information, buying information, other data and E-mail address) in discussion forums, chat rooms or other areas that are publicly accessible by others, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters or parties. Neither the Publisher nor its parent company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates are responsible for any information that you provide in the above areas.

We may use or disclose personally identifying information if we have a good-faith belief that the disclosure is reasonably necessary (a) to satisfy applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, (b) to enforce agreements we have with you, (c) to address fraud or security issues, or (d) to protect against harm to the rights, property, or safety of the Publisher, or our employees or customers.

GROUNDS FOR PROCESSING

When we collect or otherwise process any personal information within the scope of European data protection laws, we do so:

  1. where necessary to provide our services, fulfill a transaction or otherwise perform a contract with you or at your request prior to entering into a contract;
  2. where necessary for our compliance with applicable law or other legal obligation;
  3. where necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest;
  4. where necessary to enable our customers to comply with their legal obligations;
  5. where applicable, with your consent; and/or
  6. where necessary to operate our business, protect the security of our systems, customers, and users, detect or prevent fraud, or fulfill our other legitimate interests as described above, except where our interests are overridden by your privacy rights.
  7. where we rely on your consent to process personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, and where we rely on legitimate interests, you may have the right to object to our processing.

HOW LONG WILL WE HOLD YOUR DATA FOR?

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide our services and fulfill the transactions you have requested, or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, maintaining business and financial records, resolving disputes, maintaining security, detecting and preventing fraud and abuse, and enforcing our agreements. If you access our services through a subscription administered or sponsored by your organization, we retain your organizational contact details after the termination of your organization’s subscription to continue to communicate with you. The publisher may maintain and process such information directly or indirectly in one or more databases in the United States or elsewhere.

LOCATIONS OF PROCESSING OF DATA

Your personal information may be stored and processed in your region or another country where HIPAA Guard and/or Reboot Inc., its affiliates and their service providers maintain servers and facilities. We take steps, including through contracts, intended to ensure that the information continues to be protected wherever it is located in a manner consistent with the standards of protection required under applicable law. Where personal information is transferred from the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or Switzerland to a country that has not received an adequacy decision by the European Commission, we may rely on appropriate safeguards, such as the European Commission-approved Standard Contractual Clauses and the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks, to transfer the data.

PUBLISHER’S POLICIES

This document contains the current policy regarding the usage of personally identifying information, non-personally identifying information and any other data collected by the Publisher. We reevaluate this policy on an ongoing basis based on feedback from readers. The Publisher reserves the right to change its privacy policy at any time in our sole discretion. However, if there are any changes to the use of personally identifying information and data that is different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you by posting a notice on our Website. By using the Website, you agree with this Privacy Policy and consent to all provisions herein. Please read this document carefully and completely. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please discontinue use of the Website and our services. If you are in the European Union, you may withdraw your consent to Publisher’s use of any personally identifying information previously provided at any time by contacting us in writing.

The publisher has implemented generally accepted security standards to protect information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. Only Publisher’s employees and independent contractors have access to the information Publisher collects, and these employees and independent contractors are made aware of and required to comply with Publisher’s Privacy Policy. >

ACCESSING AND UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION

Our services may allow registered users to directly access and review their account information and make corrections or updates upon login at any time. Keeping such information up to date is the responsibility of the user. Registered users may also close their account directly through the services or by contacting customer support. You have the right under European and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as may be applicable, to request free of charge:

  • access to your personal information;
  • rectification or erasure of your personal information;
  • restriction of our processing of your personal information, or to object to our processing; and
  • portability of your personal information.

If you wish to exercise these rights, please submit your request in writing. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable laws. To protect your privacy and security, we may require you to verify your identity.

If the ownership of this Website and/or any of the Publisher’s other products and/or assets are sold or transferred, all lists and data which contain personally identifying information and data including for example user name, address, company name, telephone number, demographic information, buying information, other data and e-mail address, will be transferred to the new owner.

Publisher complies with EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union to the United States.

CHANGES

We will update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. If we make any material changes, we will provide notice through the services or by other means.

CONTACT

If you have any questions, comments, complaints or requests regarding this privacy policy or our processing of your information, please contact us:

HIPAA Guard and/or Reboot Inc.

info@HIPPA-guard.com