Privacy Policy

GugiHealth.com understands how important the privacy of personal information is to our users. This Privacy Policy will tell you what information we collect about you and about your use of GugiHealth.com and its services. It will explain the choices you have about how your personal information is used and how we protect that information. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.

This Privacy Policy applies to websites owned and operated by GugiHealth.com that are intended for use by consumers (non-professionals) for non-commercial personal, family or household purposes, and our subdomains.

We refer to the GugiHealth.com and our sub-sites, along with the information and services made available to you through the GugiHealth.com and sub-sites, as the “Services.”

Except where noted, statements in this Privacy Policy with respect to the GugiHealth.com also apply to the sub domains. If you do not want us to collect, use or disclose information about you and your use of the Services as described in this Privacy Policy, then you should not use the Services. By using the Services, you must agree to the GugiHealth.com Terms of Use, which is the contract between us and users of the Services. By accepting the GugiHealth.com Terms of Use, you confirm that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy and the GugiHealth.com Cookie Policy and you acknowledge that we will store, use and otherwise process your information in the United States where we are located.

References to “GugiHealth.com,” “we” or “us” mean GugiHealth.com, including any company that GugiHealth.com LLC controls (for example, a subsidiary that GugiHealth.com owns). GugiHealth.com may share information among its subsidiaries or websites that it owns or controls, but information collected under this Privacy Policy is always protected under the terms of this Privacy Policy. Except as otherwise noted in this Privacy Policy, GugiHealth.com LLC is the data controller responsible for the processing of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collected About You

None of our Services retain any of your personal information, unless otherwise noted below.

If you do not register with or provide any personal information to GugiHealth.com, we may collect information about your use of the GugiHealth.com and Apps and the Services. We may also acquire information about our users from external sources.

When you use the Services, we collect information as follows:

Registration

While you may use most of the Services without registering, certain Services do require that you register with GugiHealth.com for them to function properly. If you choose to register or update an existing account with GugiHealth.com or access certain Services, you may be required to provide certain personal information, such as your name, address, telephone number, gender, email address and date of birth, and a username and password to access your GugiHealth.com account. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the personal information that you submit to GugiHealth.com.

Market Research

From time to time, GugiHealth.com may conduct online research surveys on behalf of itself and third parties through email invitations, pop-up surveys and online focus groups. When participating in a survey, we may require you to provide your location, age and if there’s a sweepstakes associated with the market research survey, your name and contact information for purposes of sweepstakes administration. The information you submit in a survey may be used by GugiHealth.com for research and measurement purposes, as described below, including to measure the effectiveness of content, advertising or programs. The personal information you provide in connection with a sweepstakes entry will be used for the sole purpose of administering the sweepstakes and as required by applicable law. We will not knowingly invite individuals who are under the age of 13 to participate in market research surveys. Market research surveys conducted by or on behalf of GugiHealth.com will contain a link to this Privacy Policy.

User Reviews and Other Public Forums

In connection with the use of our Physician Directory, users are able to submit provider reviews. Our reviews feature in the Physician Directory and are open to the public and should not be considered private.

Any information (including personal information) you share in any review, or other forum is by design open to the public and is not private. You should think carefully before posting any personal information in any public forum. What you post can be seen, disclosed to or collected by third parties and may be used by others in ways we cannot control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes. As with any public forum on any site, the information you post may also show up in third-party search engines.

Emails You Send to GugiHealth.com

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information, content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you send to GugiHealth.com by email. If you want to keep content or business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to GugiHealth.com.

Services and Device Information

When you access and use the Services, GugiHealth.com automatically collects and stores in its server logs information from your browser or mobile device such as your IP address or unique device identifier, browser information (including referring URL), your preferences and settings, cookies and information about the content you have viewed and actions taken (e.g., search queries, ad engagement, clicks and the associated dates and times). GugiHealth.com may also collect device-specific information when you install and use an App including your device model, operating system information, advertising ID (which is a unique, user-resettable identification number for advertising associated with a mobile device) and App version and usage information. When enabled by you, we collect precise location information provided by your mobile device, which you may disable through the device settings.

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We and our partners use cookies to collect information about your use of the Services. “Cookies” are small data files assigned to your browser when you visit a GugiHealth.com which enable recognition of your browser and collect and store information about your use of the Services, as described above. In addition to cookies, we and our partners use other tracking technologies that collect information about your use of the Services, including mobile identifiers and "web beacons" which are small graphic files (sometimes called “clear GIFs” or “web pixels”) embedded in a web page or email typically used to monitor activity and send relevant information back to a home server (which can belong to the host site, a network advertiser or some other third party). The information collected by such tracking technologies may be combined with other information that our partners have access to, including your name, email address and physical address, so that we can send you materials, either electronically or by direct mail, that may be of interest to you.

Our advertising service partners may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about your use of the GugiHealth.com, including content you have viewed. These third parties may use this information to help GugiHealth.com deliver advertising on the GugiHealth.com and on other third party websites based on your browsing activity on the GugiHealth.com. GugiHealth.com may further tailor the advertising on the GugiHealth.com and these other third party websites based on additional information to the extent known by GugiHealth.com or these third parties. Two of the third parties that GugiHealth.com works with are Google and Facebook. In addition to using the information it collects performing services for GugiHealth.com, Google may also use such information as described in its privacy policy. To see how Google may use information collected through our use of the Google services on the GugiHealth.com visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners. While Facebook does not provide any personal information to GugiHealth.com, Facebook may use information that it has about you and that it collects performing services for GugiHealth.com (which may be associated with personal information that Facebook has about you) as described in its privacy policy available at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy.

We also work with third party ad networks to display advertising on our GugiHealth.com and on third party websites. Our ad network vendors use technologies to collect information about your activities on the GugiHealth.com and in our flagship GugiHealth.com App to provide you cookie-based targeted advertising on our GugiHealth.com and on third party websites based upon your browsing activity and your interests.

For more information about our how cookies and other tracking technologies are used in connection with the Services, please read our Cookie Policy.

Cross-Device Tracking

We and our service providers collect and store information about users' interactions with unaffiliated websites and applications that use our technologies, including cookies and similar tracking technologies. This allows us to infer the presence of a common user or household behind multiple devices. We do so in order to:

- provide personalized advertising on each device that is inferred from the browsing patterns on all of the devices;
- detect and prevent fraud;
- allow users to use our service on one device and pick up seamlessly where they left off on another device;
- limit the number of times a user is shown the same advertisement, across known or inferred devices

How Information Collected About You Is Used

Information about your use of the Services may be used for the following purposes:

- to provide, improve and create new Services,
- to respond to your inquiries and to send you administrative communications about the GugiHealth.com and Services,
- to obtain your feedback about the GugiHealth.com and Services, reminders and opportunities from GugiHealth.com,
- to statistically analyze trends and user behavior and activity including how frequently areas of the GugiHealth.com are visited, how the Services are being used and how many emails are received and opened,
- to provide you and people with similar demographic characteristics and interests with more relevant content including advertising both on and off the GugiHealth.com and Apps ,
- to offer lead generation services,
- to detect and defend against fraud and other threats to the Services and our users,
- to identify issues with the Services,
- to conduct research and measurement activities, including those described below, and
- to administer your account.

In addition, GugiHealth.com may use personal information about you for other purposes that are disclosed to you at the time we collect the information and/or with your consent.

GugiHealth.com may combine your personal information and other information collected about your use of the Services, and also supplement with information from external sources for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. For example, information that GugiHealth.com collects about you may be combined by GugiHealth.com with other information available to GugiHealth.com through third parties for research and measurement purposes, including measuring the effectiveness of content, advertising or programs. This information from other sources may include age, gender, demographic, geographic, personal interests, product purchase activity or other information. We may report aggregate information, which is not able to be identified back to an individual user of the GugiHealth.com, to our current or prospective advertisers and other business partners.

Sharing Your Information

We may share your information with our subsidiaries, affiliates and companies acquired by or merged with us and our affiliates. In the event of a corporate change in control resulting from, for example, a sale to, or merger with, another entity, or in the event of a sale of assets or a bankruptcy, GugiHealth.com reserves the right to transfer your personal information to the new party in control or the party acquiring assets. In the event of such a change, your personal information will continue to be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy unless any changes to the Privacy Policy are made in accordance with the section below that discusses “Changes to This Privacy Policy.”

Companies and Contractors that Work with GugiHealth.com

GugiHealth.com works with third party companies and contractors that help us provide the Services and to otherwise assist in the operation of the GugiHealth.com and Apps, including those that provide services relating to technology, data analysis, research, email management and deployment, sweepstakes and contest administration, advertising and marketing and/or content. GugiHealth.com contractors sometimes have limited access to your information in the course of providing products or services to GugiHealth.com. We contractually require that our contractors not use or disclose your information for any purpose other than providing the limited service or function for GugiHealth.com.

Third Party Advertisers and Third Party Websites

We may share information that we have about you, such as a cookie ID or IP address, with third party advertising service providers who may use this information, on our behalf, to help GugiHealth.com deliver advertising on the GugiHealth.com as well as on third party websites, as further described in our Cookie Policy.

Certain content, services and advertisements offered to you through the GugiHealth.com are served on, or contain links to, websites hosted and operated by a company other than GugiHealth.com ("Third Party Websites"). GugiHealth.com does not share your personal information with these Third Party Websites without your consent, but you should be aware that any information you disclose to these Third Party Websites once you access these Third Party Websites is not subject to this Privacy Policy. GugiHealth.com does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party Websites. You should review the privacy policy posted on the Third Party Website to understand how that Third Party Website collects and uses your information. GugiHealth.com makes an effort to make it obvious to you when you leave a GugiHealth.com and enter a Third Party Website, either by requiring you to click on a link or by notifying you on the GugiHealth.com before you visit the third party site. In addition, if you see a phrase such as "Powered by" or "in association with" followed by the name of a company other than GugiHealth.com, then you are on a website hosted by a company other than GugiHealth.com. When you use a co-branded service (a service operated with a partner of GugiHealth.com, such as GugiHealth.com Lab Testing), or register or otherwise provide information on a co-branded site, where applicable, we may pass the collected information back to that partner, which may include third party service providers whose services are embedded into and/or appear within the Services.

We may also include social widgets on the GugiHealth.com which enable you to interact with the associated social media services, e.g., to share an article. These widgets may collect browsing data which may be received by the third party that provided the widget, and are controlled by these third parties. You may be able to manage your privacy preferences directly with the applicable social network platform.

Compliance with Law, Regulation, and Law Enforcement Requests

To cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with law, we may release personal information to third parties: (1) to comply with legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; (2) when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request; or (3) in special cases, such as in response to a physical threat to you or others, to protect property or defend or assert legal rights. In addition, we may disclose personal information as described below.

How Your Information is Secured and Retained

We take reasonable security measures to protect the security of your personal information. Despite GugiHealth.com's efforts to protect your personal information, there is always some risk that an unauthorized third party may find a way around our security systems or that transmissions of your information over the Internet may be intercepted.

The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter personal information (including personal health information in various Services), we encrypt the transmission of that information or use SSL connections (Secure Socket Layer) technology.

We will retain your personal information as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you Services. At any time you can remove your personal information or instruct us to remove it, but you should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to GugiHealth.com from our servers. See “Your Choices and Rights” below for more information on how you can update or remove your personal information. We will also retain your personal information as necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

Your Choices and Rights

Cookies: Most browser software can be set to reject Cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject Cookies in the "Help" or “Settings” or “Preferences” section of your browser’s toolbar. Refer to our Cookie Policy for additional information about opting out of Cookies.

Mobile Opt-out: You may also control interest-based advertising on your mobile device by enabling the “Limit Ad Tracking” setting in your iOS device’s settings or “Opt out of Ads Personalization” in your Android device’s settings. This will not prevent you from seeing advertisements, but will limit the use of device advertising identifiers to personalize ads based on your interests. If you have questions about how to reject cookies on your specific device please check with the device manufacturer.

Children

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. The GugiHealth.com are not designed or intended to attract children under the age of 13. The GugiHealth.com do not collect personal information from any person we actually know is under the age of 13. A parent or guardian, however, may use GugiHealth.com Health Manager to establish a personal health record and a GugiHealth.com Health Manager home page for a minor. The parent or guardian is solely responsible for providing supervision of the minor's use of GugiHealth.com Health Manager. The parent or guardian assumes full responsibility for ensuring that the registration information is kept secure and that the information submitted is accurate. The parent or guardian also assumes full responsibility for the interpretation and use of any information or suggestions provided through GugiHealth.com Health Manager for the minor.

Additional Information for GugiHealth.com’s Visitors from the European Economic Area (“EEA”) When you use the Services, we collect, store, use and otherwise process your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. We rely on a number of legal bases to process your information, including where: (i) necessary for our legitimate interests in providing and improving the Services including offering you content and advertising that may be of interest to you; (ii) necessary for our legitimate interest in keeping the Services, Sites and Apps safe and secure; (iii) necessary for the legitimate interests of our service providers and partners; (iv) necessary to perform our contractual obligations in the GugiHealth.com Terms of Use; (v) you have consented to the processing, which you can revoke at any time (however a revocation does not affect the lawfulness of processing of your personal data that occurred prior to the date of revocation); (vi) you have expressly made the information public, e.g., in public forums; (vii) necessary to comply with a legal obligation such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order or to exercise or defend legal claims; and (viii) necessary to protect your vital interests, or those of others.

If you are a GugiHealth.com user in the EEA, you can: (i) access personal information we have about you (we will try to provide information within 30 days of your request); (ii) have your personal information corrected or deleted (in most cases you can correct personal information you have submitted to us by going back to the specific Service, logging-in and making the desired change); (iii) in certain circumstances, you can object to our processing of your personal information and we will discontinue such processing unless we have compelling legitimate grounds to continue; (iv) withdraw consent previously provided (however a withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing of your personal data that occurred prior to the date of withdrawal); or (v) if you believe that we have not complied with applicable data protection laws, you may lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. If you wish to inquire as to whether we maintain any of your personal information and if so, whether you wish to exercise any of those rights that are available to you with respect to such personal information, you may contact us as described in the Contacting GugiHealth.com About Your Personal Information or Privacy section below. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.

Where we process your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you can opt-out through the unsubscribe link in the email communications we send to you, by changing your subscription preferences in your account settings or as otherwise specified in this Privacy Policy.

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the Services to you and fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. This is also the case for third parties within whom we share your information to perform services on our behalf. When we no longer need to use your personal information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we will either remove it from our systems or anonymize it. If you have registered with GugiHealth.com and you no longer want us to use your registration information to provide the Services to you, you may close your account.

Contacting GugiHealth.com About Your Personal Information or Privacy

Please send us an email at: legal@GugiHealth.com

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change or modify this Privacy Policy and any of our Services at any time and any changes will be effective upon being posted unless we advise otherwise. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy we will notify you by means of a notice on the GugiHealth.com and/or by email to our registered users (sent to the email address specified when you register) prior to the change becoming effective. By continuing to use the Services after changes are made to this Privacy Policy, you agree to such changes. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy for the latest information on our privacy practices. If you do not accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, we ask that you do not register with us and that you do not use the GugiHealth.com. Please exit the GugiHealth.com immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.