Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
Our Sites allow you to provide us with information through a screening form (“Form”) which enables us to recruit, screen, and refer participants for clinical trials and specialty procedures (the “Programs”) to hospitals, private practices, cancer centers, pharmaceutical companies, CROs, and biotech or pharmaceutical companies, (collectively, “Researchers”). If, by filling out a Form, you are matched to a particular Program, Researchers may contact you. We are not responsible for any direct communications that you may have with any Researchers or any consumer health data that such Researchers may collect from you directly.
2. Consumer Health Data We Collect, Purpose for Collection, Data Sharing
A. Category of Consumer Health Data
- Information about your health-related conditions, treatments, diseases, or diagnoses
- Social, psychological, behavioral, and medical interventions
- Health-related surgeries or procedures
- Use or purchase of prescribed medication
- Bodily functions, vital signs, symptoms, or health measurements
- Diagnoses or diagnostic testing, treatment, or medication
- Gendering-affirming care information
- Reproductive or sexual health information
- Biometric data (data generated from measurement or technical processing of physiological, biological, or behavioral characteristics that identifies you, such as imagery of the iris, retina, fingerprint, face, hand, palm, vein patterns, and voice recordings from which an identifier can be extracted)
- Genetic data (data in any form that concerns your genetic characteristics, such as health data you provide that we analyze in connection with raw sequencing data such as DNA)
- Precise location information that could indicate your attempt to acquire or receive health care services or supplies
- Data that identifies an individual seeking health care services
- Categories of information noted above when derived or inferred from non-health information
B. Purpose for Collecting, Using, or Sharing
Each of the categories as set forth above in section 2(A), Category of Consumer Health Data, are collected, used or shared for the purpose of:
- providing our services you request, including communicating with you about potential research studies, clinical trials or specialty procedures for which you may qualify;
- to fulfill a legal obligation or protect our legal rights; or
- in connection with a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or similar transaction.
C. Categories of Third Parties with Whom Consumer Health Data is Shared
Each of the categories as set forth above in section 2(A), Category of Consumer Health Data, are shared with the following third parties:
- Service providers or contractors;
- Researchers and other clinical research partners (as necessary to provide our services);
- regulatory bodies, governmental authority, or law enforcement agencies as required by law; or
- with a third party in connection with a merger, acquisition, or similar transaction.
3. Sources of Consumer Health Data
4. Your Rights and Choices
Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, subject to certain limitations at law, you have certain privacy rights regarding your consumer health data, as listed below:
- You have the right to confirm whether AutoCruitment is collecting, sharing, or selling your consumer health data and to access such data, including a list of all third parties with whom AutoCruitment has shared or sold the consumer health data and an active email address or other online mechanism that you may use to contact these third parties.
- You have the right to withdraw consent from AutoCruitment’s collection and sharing of your consumer health data.
- You have the right to request to have your consumer health data deleted.
Exercising Your Rights
To exercise your consumer health data rights, please submit a verifiable request to us by any of the following:
- Emailing us at info@autocruitment.com.
- Visiting https://autocruitment.com/contact.
We cannot respond to your request if we cannot verify your identity and confirm the consumer health data relates to you.
Right to Appeal Declined Requests
In the event we decline to take action on your request, in certain cases, you may submit an appeal within 30 days of receiving such notice. You may submit an appeal through email at datainquiry@autocruitment.com. We will respond to your request for appeal within 45 days of receipt to inform you in writing any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If your appeal is denied, we will provide you with an online mechanism, if available, or another method through which you may contact the Washington State Attorney General to submit a complaint.
Additional Information for Nevada Residents
We do not permit third parties to collect consumer health data over time and across different Internet websites or online services when you use our Sites or services.
If your appeal is denied, we will provide you with the contact information for the Nevada Office of the Attorney General.
5. Changes to our Policy
AutoCruitment’s patient recruitment platform supports Sponsors, CRO Partners and Research Sites by decreasing time, risk and cost to bring new therapies to market.