1. Context
1.1. What is Patient Application
i. The domain name Patient Application.in.Adroit.com as well
as the software and application Patient Application (“Platform”) is provided by Adroit India,
(hereinafter referred to as Patient Application or “Company” or “We” or “Our” or “Us”). The Platform
serves as a platform for providing information about medical practitioners, doctors
and healthcare service providers to the patients etc. (“End Users” or “User”) in
the nearby areas. Further, the Platform provides the Users with a platform for connecting
with the medical practitioners in relation to their healthcare related requirements.
[The Platform may be used by Users to connect with, and for booking appointments
with the expert medical practitioners and hospitals in relation to their treatment
or second opinion or for any other health related services (“Services”)].
ii. CUSTOMER DATA: For providing its Services, Patient Application
shall host data and information. Patient Application will not review, share, distribute, or reference
any such End User data except as provided in the terms of use, or as may be required
by law. Individual records of End User data may be viewed or accessed only for the
purpose of booking appointments, sharing the medical records with the relevant medical
practitioner or the hospital, resolving a problem, support issues, or suspected
violation of the terms of use, or as may be required by law. If the appointments
are booked through the Platform, the user name and phone number would be shared
for operational purposes. The queries posed by the patient to doctors by the interface
of Consultancy shall be kept confidential with such information being accessible
only by Patient Application Aid and the doctors with whom the queries are shared. The Users through
the Platform can book an appointment and visit the registered medical practitioner,
who shall help the Users for further treatment, by booking appointments with relevant
hospitals and health clinics as may be listed on the Platform. We would take all
reasonable precautions for maintaining confidentiality of data of the Users.
iii. Patient Application can be reached, for all questions and
directions related to this privacy policy, by:
a. Sending a letter marked to the attention of Admin;
or
b. Sending an email to info.adroitinfosystems.com.
1.2. Why this privacy policy?
i. This privacy policy is published in compliance
of:
a. Section 43A of the Information Technology Act,
2000;
b. Regulation 4 of the Information Technology (Reasonable
Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Information) Rules, 2011
(the “SPI Rules”); and
c. Regulation 3(1) of the Information Technology
(Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011.
ii. This privacy policy states the following:
a. The type of information collected from the guests
of the Platform and the End Users, including sensitive personal data or information;
b. The purpose, means and modes of usage of such
information; and
c. How and to whom Patient Application will disclose such information.
1.3. What is personal information?
i. “Personal information” is defined under the SPI
Rules to mean any information that relates to a natural person, which, either directly
or indirectly, in combination with other information available or likely to be available
with a body corporate, is capable of identifying such person.
ii. The SPI Rules further define “sensitive personal
data or information” of a person to mean personal information about that person
relating to:
a. passwords;
b. financial information such as bank accounts, credit
and debit card details or other payment instrument details;
c. physical, physiological and mental health condition;
d. sexual orientation;
e. medical records and history;
f. biometric information;
g. information received by body corporate under lawful
contract or otherwise;
h. guest details as provided at the time of registration
or thereafter; and
i. call data records.
iii. Information that is freely available in the
public domain or accessible under the Right to Information Act, 2005 or any other
law will not be regarded as sensitive personal data or information.
2. Privacy Statements
2.1. Terms for all Users:
i. This section applies to all guests and End Users.
ii. Accordingly, a condition of each User’s use of
and access to the Platform and to the Services is their acceptance of the terms
of use located at Part B below, which also involves acceptance of the terms of this
privacy policy. Any User that does not agree with any provisions of the same is
required to leave the Platform immediately.
iii. In order to have access to the features and
benefits on our Platform, a User must Patient Application create an account on our Platform.
To create an account a User is required to provide the following information, which
such User recognizes and expressly acknowledges is personal information allowing
others, including Patient Application , to identify the [User name, User ID, email address, country,
ZIP/postal code, age, phone number, password chosen by the User and valid financial
account information]. Patient Application may, in future, include other optional requests for
information from the User to help Patient Application to customize the Platform to deliver personalized
information to the User. Without User’s agreement, [●] will not share, rent or sell
any personal information with third parties in any way other than what is disclosed
in this Privacy Policy. However, Patient Application can use the conclusions or inferences from
the data for the purposes of advancement in businesses or for joint ventures or
partnerships or merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the
event of bankruptcy.
iv. All the information provided to Patient Application by a User,
including sensitive personal information, is voluntary. User has the right to withdraw
his/her/its consent at any time, in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy
and the terms of use, but please note that withdrawal of consent will not be retroactive.
v. User can access, modify, correct and eliminate
the data about him/her/it which has been collected pursuant to his/her/its decision
to become a User. If User updates any of his/her/its information, Patient Application may keep
a copy of the information which User originally provided to Patient Application in its archives
for uses documented herein. Patient Application takes User’s rights seriously and encourages
User to use them if User deems this to be appropriate. User may exercise these rights
by emailing Patient Application at hello@Patient Application.com.
vi. All the information provided to Patient Application by a User,
including Personal Information or any Sensitive Personal Data or Information, is
voluntary. You understand that Patient Application may use certain information of yours, which
has been designated as Personal Information or ‘Sensitive Personal Data or Information’
under the SPI Rules,
(a) for the purpose of providing you the Services,
(b) for commercial purposes and in an aggregated
or non-personally identifiable form for research, statistical analysis and business
intelligence purposes,
(c) for sale or transfer of such research, statistical
or intelligence data in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form to third
parties and affiliates
(d) for communication purpose so as to provide the
End User a better way of booking appointments and for obtaining feedback in relation
to the medical practitioners and their practice,
(e) debugging customer support related issues.
Patient Application also reserves the right to use information provided by or about the End User
for the following purposes:
(a) Preparing medical records for providing the Services.
(b) Contacting End-Users for offering new products
or services.
(c) Contacting End-Users for taking product and Service
feedback.
(d) Analyzing software usage patterns for improving
product design and utility.
(e) Analyzing anonymized practice information for
commercial use.
vii. Due to the communications standards on the Internet,
when a User visits the Platform, Patient Application may receive the URL of the sites from and
to which such User navigates. Patient Application also receives the Internet Protocol (IP) address
of each User’s computer (or the proxy server a User used to access the World Wide
Web), User’s computer operating system and type of web browser the User is using,
email patterns, as well as the name of User’s ISP. This information is used to analyze
overall trends to help Patient Application improve its Service. The linkage between User’s IP
address and User’s personally identifiable information is not shared with third-parties
without such User’s permission or except when required by law.
viii. [The Platform uses temporary cookies to store
certain data (that is not sensitive personal data or information) that is used by
Patient Application and its service providers for the technical administration of the Platform,
research and development, and for User administration. In the course of serving
advertisements or optimizing services to its Users, Patient Application may allow authorized
third parties to place or recognize a unique cookie on the User’s browser. Patient Application
does not store personally identifiable information in the cookies.]
ix. Patient Application may keep records (including medical records)
of the patients, prescriptions, advices, consultations rendered by the doctors to
the patients for the purposes of administration of Services, research and development,
for User administration and as required under applicable laws.
x. Patient Application may keep records of telephone calls received
and made for making appointments or other purposes for the purpose of administration
of Services, research and development and for User administration.
xi. Patient Application allows other companies, to serve advertisements
to the Users. These companies include third party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology
vendors and research firms. Patient Application may "target" some ads to User that fit a certain
general profile. [●] does NOT use personally identifiable information to target
ads.
xii. This privacy policy applies to the Platform.
Patient Application does not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or links
from within its Services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other
files on the Users’ computer or mobile device, collect data or solicit personal
information from the Users, for which Patient Application is not responsible or liable. Accordingly,
Patient Application does not make any representations concerning the privacy practices or policies
of such third parties or terms of use of such websites, nor does Patient Application guarantee
the accuracy, integrity, or quality of the information, data, text, software, sound,
photographs, graphics, videos, messages or other materials available on such websites.
The inclusion or exclusion does not imply any endorsement by Patient Application Aid of the website,
the website's provider, or the information on the website.
xiii. Patient Application does not collect information about the
Users of the Platform from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private
organisations, save and except for the purposes of registration of the End Users
(the collection, storage and disclosure of which each End User must agree to under
the terms of use in order for Patient Application to effectively render the Services).
xiv. Patient Application does not knowingly collect personal data
from children.
xv. Patient Application will not disclose any personal information
or data to governmental institutions or authorities unless such disclosure is requisitioned
under any Indian law or judicial decree or when Patient Application, in its sole discretion,
deems it necessary in order to protect its rights or the rights of others, to prevent
harm to persons or property, to fight fraud and credit risk, or to enforce or apply
Our terms of use.
xvi. In addition, User agrees that We are not responsible
and do not have control over any third-parties that User authorizes to access its/his/her
content. If the User is using a third-party website or service and allows them to
access its/his/her content, such User shall do so at its/his/her own risk.
xvii. Patient Application addresses any discrepancies and grievances
of all Users with respect to processing of information in a time bound manner. For
this purpose, Patient Application has designated hello@Patient Application.com as the Grievance Officer,
who will redress the grievances of the Users expeditiously but within 1 (one) month
from the date of receipt of grievance, and who can be reached by:
a. Sending a letter marked to the attention of hello@Patient Application.com;
or
b. Sending an email to hello@Patient Application.com.
2.2. Privacy Terms Applicable for End Users:
i. As part of the registration/application creation
and submission process that is available to End Users on the Platform, certain information,
including sensitive personal data or information is collected from the End Users.
ii. All the statements in this privacy policy apply
to all End Users, and all End Users are therefore required to read and understand
the privacy statements set out herein prior to submitting any sensitive personal
data or information to the Company, failing which they are required to leave the
Platform immediately.
iii. If you have inadvertently submitted any such
information to Patient Application prior to reading the privacy statements set out herein, and
you do not agree with the manner in which such information is collected, stored
or used, then you may send an email to [insert email address]to modify or remove
the same. In addition, any End User can ask Patient Application, by sending an email to [insert
email address] whether Patient Application is keeping personal data about him/her, and every
End User is also entitled to require Patient Application to delete and destroy all such information
relating to him/her (but not other End Users) in its possession.
iv. Users’ personally identifiable information they
choose to provide on the Platform is used to help the Users describe / identify
themselves. Other information that does not personally identify the Users as an
individual, is collected by Patient Application from Users (such as, patterns of utilization
described above) and is exclusively owned by Patient Application. Patient Application may also use such information
in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable form for research, statistical analysis
and business intelligence purposes, and may sell or otherwise transfer such research,
statistical or intelligence data in an aggregated or non-personally identifiable
form to third parties and affiliates. If Patient Application wishes to use any End User’s personal
data for a new purpose, it will seek such End User’s permission before doing so.
Patient Application will communicate with the Users through email and notices posted on the Platform
or through other means available through the service, including text and other forms
of messaging. The Users can change their e-mail and contact preferences by sending
an email to [insert email address].
v. Patient Application may conduct a User survey to collect information
about Users' preferences. These surveys may be optional and if Users choose to respond,
their responses will be kept anonymous. Similarly, Patient Application at times may offer contests
to qualifying Users in which we ask for contact and demographic information such
as name, email address and mailing address. None of this information is shared with
third parties, except for with consent of the User. The demographic information
that the Platform collects in the registration process and through surveys is used
to help the Platform improve its Services to meet the needs and preferences of Users.
This may include targeting advertising to Users about Our Services. Information
we gather through a contest may also be disclosed to third parties, as necessary,
for prize fulfillment and other aspects of any contest or similar offering. The
User specifically agrees that the Users information may be shared with the relevant
medical practitioners in relation to treatment or health related services provided
by such medical practitioners and hospitals to the User.
vi. All employees and data processors of Patient Application,
who have access to, and are associated with the processing of sensitive personal
data or information, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of every End User’s
sensitive personal data and information.
vii. We may also disclose or transfer User’s personal
and other information a User provides, to another third party as part of merger,
acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets of any division of the Company or
the Company as a whole. Any third party to which the Company transfers or sells
its assets will have the right to continue to use the personal and other information
that a User provide to Us.
viii. To the extent necessary to provide Users with
the Services on the Platform, We may provide their Personal Information to third
party contractors who work on behalf of or with the Company to provide Users with
such services, to help Us communicate with Users or to maintain the Platform. Generally,
these contractors do not have any independent right to share this information, however
certain contractors who provide services on the Platform or the Users, including
the providers of online communications services, will have rights to use and disclose
the Personal Information collected in connection with the provision of these services
in accordance with their own privacy policies.
3. Registration Process
3.1. Eligibility: Please note that to register with
the Platform and to enter into a valid contract with Us, User should be eligible
to enter into and perform legally binding contracts under Indian Contract Act, 1872.
The Company shall not be held responsible and/or liable if the User provides any
false information regarding its/his/her age. The Company can delete any Users account/take
all necessary steps, if We become aware that User is not eligible and has provided
Us with false personal information.
3.2. As part
of the registration process, Patient Application collects the following personal information
from End Users
i. Name;
ii. User ID;
iii. Email address;
iv. Address (including country and ZIP/postal code);
v. Gender;
vi. Age;
vii. Phone number;
viii. Password chosen by the User;
ix. Valid financial account information; and
x. Other details as the End User may volunteer.
3.3. All the information listed in section 3.1 of
this privacy policy (“End User Information”) is maintained by the Platform in electronic
form on its equipment, and on the equipment of its employees. End User Information
may also be converted to physical form from time to time. Regardless of the manner
of storage, We will keep all End User Information confidential, and will only disclose
End User Information in the following manner:
i. The Company makes all End User Information accessible
to its employees only on a need-to-know basis, and binds all such employees to strict
confidentiality obligations.
Notwithstanding the above, We shall not be responsible for any breach of security
or for any actions of any third parties that receive Users’ personal data or events
that are beyond the reasonable control of the Company including, but not limited
to, acts of government, computer hacking, unauthorised access to computer data and
storage device, computer crashes, breach of security and encryption, poor quality
of Internet service or telephone service of the User etc.
4. Contact Information
4.1. If any User has any question, issue, complaint
regarding any of our Services, please contact our customer service at 1800-2585-677.
4.2. If a User has any questions concerning Patient Application,
the Platform, this Agreement, or anything related to any of the foregoing, First
Aid can be reached at the following email address - [insert email address].
5.Change to privacy policy
5.1. The Users acknowledge that this Privacy Policy
is part of the terms of use and unconditionally agree that becoming a User of the
Platform and its Services signifies their assent to this Privacy Policy. User’s
visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this policy and terms of use. We
may update this Privacy Policy at any time, with or without advance notice. In the
event there are significant changes in the way Patient Application treats User’s personally identifiable
information, a notice will be displayed on the Platform or We may send Users an
email, as provided for above. Unless stated otherwise, this current Privacy Policy
applies to all information that Patient Application has about Users and their account.
5.2. If a User uses the Service after notice of changes
have been sent to such User or published on the Platform, such User hereby provides
his/her/its consent to the changed practices.