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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is designed to inform users of American Diabetes Association What Can I Eat (“What Can I Eat”,"WCIE") program, software application, related solutions, and services (collectively, “App”) about how we gather and use personal information collected by us in connection with your use of the App. You may have been invited to use, download or install the App by WCIE or a third party as part of a lifestyle change or clinical care initiative. This Privacy Policy covers how WCIE treats your Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”) and Protected Health Information (“PHI”) (PII and PHI, collectively hereafter “Personal Information”) that WCIE collects, receives, maintains, stores, or transmits, including information you transmit or submit to the App. Your Personal Information includes information that individually identifies you or is information about you that can be traced back to you, your IP address, or your location. It may include but is not limited to your name, address, employer, email address, phone number, and information about your health. Please note that by using or accessing the App, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to all the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the App. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a new version online. You should check this page occasionally to review any changes. Your continued use of the App after any modification to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such modification.

 

Information Collection and Use

Project Power collects Personal Information when you register with WCIE or when you use the App. When registering with WCIE, we ask you to provide us with your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, and monitored health data for which you are registering, and other related information that WCIE may ask of you from time to time, and you may submit additional information and comments through the App.

 

We may use your contact information to send you information about the App or the other services we may provide to you, or information relating to your health. It is always your choice whether to provide us with such information. If you choose not to provide the requested information you may not be able to use certain features or functions of the App or services. Whenever you visit our website, WCIE also receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, WCIE cookie information, and the pages you request, and relates it to the Personal Information you provide.

WCIE collects and uses the Personal Information you provide for the following purposes:

  1. Registration: When you register for the App, we collect your Personal Information as part of the registration process, including but not limited to your name, address, location, and program preference.

  2. Self-Reported Health-Related Information: We collect the information that you enter during the course of using the App such as information regarding your health and related behaviors.

  3. Provider or Device-Reported Health-Related Information: We collect the information about you that is submitted with your permission by your health monitoring device during the course of using the App, such as information regarding your health activities and/or medical condition, including information that is protected under the HIPAA privacy and security regulations.

  4. Social Information: We collect information that you provide to us pertaining to the people with whom you consent to share your Personal Information (such as a family member, another patient, or a doctor).

  5. Communications with a Health Professional: We collect communications that take place through the App between you and your lifestyle coach.

  6. Public Forums: We collect information that you publicly post through the App on our community chat portal.

  7. Email: If you communicate with us via email, then we will collect your email address.

  8. Automatically Tracked Health-Related Information: We may use automated tracking methods such as cookies and connected accelerometers, to collect information regarding your behaviors relative to the App.

  9. Demographic Information: We may also collect demographic information, such as age, gender, and geographic location, as part of your profile in the App.

  10. Surveys and User Research: From time to time, we may send you to survey questions or contact you with questions related to your experience to provide us with feedback on our App. We collect any responses that you provide. Participation in surveys or research tasks is elective and does not necessarily impact your access to the Software.

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