Website Privacy Policy
Last Updated October 29, 2024
UVPsych Inc. (“UVPsych”, “we”, or “us”) is a mental health care company that delivers high quality psychiatry services. We provide one or more applications that connect users to care coordinators and experienced mental health professionals (the “Application”). We also operate a website (the “Site”) to promote our services. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to the Site and Application together as the “Services.“
This Privacy Policy explains:
How we collect, use, and share personal information about visitors to our Site (see ‘Website Information’ below); and
How we handle your information when you sign up for and use the Application (see ‘Application Information’ below).
1. Website Information
This section describes how we collect, use, and share personal information relating to visitors to our Site who do not sign up to use the Application.
How We Use Personal Information
We use personal information for the following purposes:
Operating and administering the Services. This includes:
Providing, operating, and monitoring the Services;
Responding to inquiries, providing customer service, communicating with you, and addressing your questions and feedback; and
Understanding your needs and interests, and personalizing your experience and our communications.
To market our Services. Where permitted by applicable laws, we may use personal information for marketing and advertising purposes, including:
Development and improvement of the Services. We may use personal information for research and product development purposes, including to develop aggregated or de-identified statistics, to analyze and improve the Services, to identify usage trends, and to operate and expand our business activities.
Direct marketing. We may send you newsletters and email and text message marketing in accordance with your preferences, and we may tailor our communications with you to accommodate your interests and use of the Services. We may also contact you by telephone to provide you with information about our Services.
Interest-based advertising. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, we may engage third-party advertising companies to display ads promoting our services across the web. These companies may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about interactions over time across the Internet and use that information to serve online ads that they think will be of interest.
Compliance and protection. We may use your personal information to: protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims); audit our internal processes; comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process; and prevent, identify, investigate and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.
How We Share Your Personal Information
We may share personal information with the following parties:
Service providers. We may share personal information with companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Services (such as text messaging platforms hosting, analytics, marketing, and other information technology services).
Advertising partners. We may share personal information that we collect on our Sites with third party advertising companies, where permitted by applicable laws.
Professional advisors. We may share personal information with professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers, and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
Authorities and others. We may share personal information with law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties, where we believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate for the compliance and protection purposes described above.
Business transferees. We may share personal information with acquirers and other relevant participants in business transactions (or negotiations for such transactions) involving without limitation, a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, sale or other disposition of all or any portion of the business or assets of, or equity interests in, UVPsych (including, in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings) in accordance with applicable law.
Your Choices
2. Application Information
When you use the Application, we may collect the following categories of information:
Contact details, such as name and phone number.
Biographical information, such as date of birth, gender, and zip code.
Health information that you provide on our intake questionnaire to sign up for the Application and to be connected to an appropriate provider. This includes information about your care history, treatment history, medication history, mental state, and any other information you provide.
Treatment and scheduling information, such as information about previous and upcoming appointments, health conditions and diagnoses, and treatments and care requirements.
Billing, payment, and insurance information, such as address, payment information, and insurance number and provider.
Any other content you provide on the Application.
Data we collect automatically through your use of the Application, including usage data and device data as defined in the ‘Personal Information We Collect’ section above.
Personal information from other sources, including personal information you provide to third-parties, such health plans and other health care professionals.
We may share this information with healthcare organizations that provide services to you through or in connection with the Application, such as our affiliated health care providers and/or medical groups. We may also share this information as otherwise necessary to provide the Services. For example, we may share information with service providers, such as IT providers that host and support the Services, and with insurance verification service providers. We may also share this information where required by law and for the “compliance and protection” purposes described below.
The information we collect from patients on the Application may be “Protected Health Information” or “PHI” subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”). As a “business associate” under HIPAA to healthcare organizations, we are required to protect PHI in accordance with HIPAA.