Pregnancy+ and Baby+ provide personalized pregnancy and baby app(s) and other services (“Services”) to users around the world. This Privacy Notice is meant to help you understand our privacy practices when you use our Services, including what data we collect, why we collect it, and what we do with it, as well as your individual rights.
Pregnancy+ and Baby+ use personal data collected or processed by the Pregnancy+ and Baby+ mobile application(s) (“App”).
This Privacy Notice applies to personal data collected or processed by the Device and/or the App, which is controlled by or under control of Health & Parenting Limited (“H&P/”we”/”our””) or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries (”H&P”, “our”, “we” or “us”).
Please also read our Cookie Notice and Terms of Use, which describe the terms under which you use our Services.
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Data collected and used
We receive or collect personal data when we provide our Services, including when you access, download, install the App, or use our Services. We use all the information we have to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services.
Account Data
We collect your personal data when you create an account. You may submit personal data to the App (such as your name, email address, social media user ID, and contact details) including any profile information you grant us access to if you register to use the App through your Facebook, Twitter or Google+ account, when you sign up to the App. Your use of the App will be subject to any additional privacy policy terms of any third party provider including those at http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/, https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, https://twitter.com/privacy and https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/policy/privacypolicy/.
The personal data collected is used to create and manage your account. You can use your account to securely login to the app. If you create an account to login to the app, we will send you a welcoming email, we may send an email to verify your username and password, to communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to send you strictly service-related announcements, or direct marketing communication in case you have opted-in.
Other Provided Data
We use your personal data and the data of your baby which you may submit through the App(s);
Baby+ and Pregnancy+
Baby's due date
Baby's gender
Your name
Your gender
Your photo
Your location
Your email address.
Your relationship to baby
Date baby is born
Your uploaded pictures
Your weekly notes
Your diary entries and memories
Your doctors visits (personal notes that the you may wish to record (pregnancy weight, blood pressure, fetal heart rate, time & date of appointment, name & profession of health care provider)
Mother's weight.
Pregnancy+
Your favourite baby names
Baby's kicks
Your shopping list
Details of multivitamin and other products which you use, and which brands you recognise
Your hospital bag list
Your birth plan
Your to-do list
Your phone numbers of third parties (not all the numbers on the phone, just the ones you wish to input or import into the App for a useful pregnancy list)
Mother's contraction
Mother's belly pictures
Baby+
Baby's name
Baby's photo
Baby's milestones
Baby's activities
Baby's growth data
Baby's sleep data
Baby's feed data
Baby's tooth data
Baby's nappy data
Baby's medication (personal notes that the you may wish to record (dose, name, label)
Baby's vaccines (personal notes that the you may wish to record (name, reaction)
Baby's doctors visits (personal notes that the you may wish to record (weight, time & date of appointment, name & profession of health care provider));
Mother's breastfeeding data
Cookie Notice
We use cookies, tags or similar technologies to operate, provide, improve, understand, and customize our Services. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your mobile device by software that you install. They are widely used in order to make websites/software work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. You may delete cookies and other similar tools from your device by deleting the App. iOS users can also opt out of personalized adverts by visiting https://oo.apple.com on your iOS device. You can opt-out if you wish not to have this information used by Facebook for the purpose of serving you interest based ads: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads.
Cookies allow us to recognize you and collect your personal data including the IP address of your mobile device, the type of mobile internet browser or operating system you use, session and usage data, which is information about your use of the App. For further information about the use of cookies or other similar technologies used in this App, please read our Cookie Notice.
We may use this information for the following purposes: to run, operate and maintain the App generally; for internal record keeping; to improve our products and services; to notify and inform users of updates, new products and / or promotional offers; to enable and process your use of and generally run our products and services; to collect in-app purchases and achievements created in the App; to cross sell other apps to you; to provide advertising / promotions to you based on your location and due date, and other information provided to us; to send push notifications.
We have set out below details of those third party advertising and analytics providers in relation to the App.
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Advertising
Amazon Affiliate Program
We employ Amazon Affiliate Program products to serve affiliate advertising in relation to your usage of the App. Further details of the Amazon Affiliate Program is available here: https://affiliateprogram.amazon.co.uk/
Admob
Depending on your device, we may use Google’s Admob to serve advertising in relation to your usage of the App. Further details of Google’s Admob are available here: https://www.google.co.uk/ads/admob/
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Tracking
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Facebook
We use Facebook Analytics to analyze how you use the App, and the information collected (which is anonymous) may be used to monitor how you use the App and to deliver relevant advertisements. You can find out more about how Facebook uses information by reading their privacy policy (available online at the following address: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/) and you can opt-out if you wish not to have this information used by Facebook for the purpose of serving you interest based ads: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads.
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Google Analytics
We use the Google Analytics service provided by Google Inc. which helps us to analyse how users use the App. This information generated about your use of the App will be transmitted to and stored by Google on its servers. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the App and compiling reports on App activity. Google Analytics Terms of Service are available here: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html An explanation of how Google uses data when you use the App is available here: located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ (or such other link as updated at Google Analytics Terms of Service set out above).
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Flurry
We use Yahoo! Flurry analytics service to obtain analytics reports and usage analysis. This information generated about your use of the App will be transmitted to and stored by Yahoo! Flurry on its servers. Yahoo! Flurry will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the App and compiling reports on App activity. Yahoo! Flurry Terms of Service are available here: http://www.flurry.com/legalprivacy/termsservice and
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Fabric
We use Fabric by Crashlytics to obtain analytics reports and usage analysis. This information generated about your use of the App will be transmitted to and stored by Crashlytics on its servers. Fabric by Crashlytics will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the App and compiling reports on App activity. Fabric by Crashlytics Terms of Use and Privacy Policy are available here: https://fabric.io/terms
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Crashlytics
We use Crashlytics to track performance of the App and collect crash reports. Crash report data is transferred to and processed by Crashlytics on their servers. Crashlytics Terms of Use and Privacy Policy are available here: http://try.crashlytics.com/terms/termsofservice.pdf and http://try.crashlytics.com/terms/privacypolicy.pdf
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Remote configuration
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Firebase
We use Firebase Services by Google to make changes to the App remotely, e.g. to change the look of certain screens and pages. Firebase Services Terms of Use are available here: https://firebase.google.com/terms/. Firebase Services are governed by the Privacy Policy of Google, which is available here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
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Data Backup
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AWS & Heroku
We use Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) (see https://aws.amazon.com) and Heroku (see www.heroku.com) to back up data collected via the App. Use of AWS and Heroku is subject to the Heroku and AWS terms and conditions in force from time to time, including those terms available at https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/?nc1=f_pr and https://www.heroku.com/policy/tos, and https://www.heroku.com/policy/privacy.
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We may update and change the advertising service or analytics providers and products that we use from time to time. Such changes will appear in this section. Where there is any material change to such services, we will, in our reasonable discretion, notify you by posting a notice in a reasonably prominent position in the App or by emailing you to the email address which you have provided at that time. If you continue to use the App after posting such notice or sending such email, you accept any such change.
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Location Data
The App shall access your location for the purpose of ensuring you obtain the localized version of the App (by way of example only, the correct language version), and to be able to send notifications and adverts to you. Your location data is sent to us when you install the App and each time you use the App, and if you choose, by amending the privacy settings, including automatically whilst the App is not operating on your iPhone device so that we may send you push notifications. Your location is made available on a general information basis to other users, and does not provide other users with your detailed location.
We store your location data which is obtained via the App to enable us to provide to provide the functionality to you or otherwise until you delete the App and notify us at support@healthandparenting.com that you wish for the data to be deleted.
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Transactional Information
If you pay for our Services, we may receive information and confirmations, such as payment receipts, including from app stores or other third parties processing your payment.
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Customer support
You may provide us with information related to your use of our Services, including your interaction with H&P, and how to contact you so we can provide you customer support. We operate and provide our Services, including providing customer support, and improving, fixing, and customizing our Services. We also use your information to respond to you when you contact us.
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Combined Data
We may combine your personal data, including account data, data provided by you, cookies, location data, and the data that may be collected during your interactions with H&P.
If you opt-in to receive promotional communications, based on your preferences and behavior, about H&P products, services, events and promotions, we may contact you with promotions and communications of other nature via email, phone and other digital channels, such as Mobile apps and social media. To be able to tailor the communications to your preferences and behavior and provide you with the best personalized experience, we may analyze and combine your personal data.
We use this data to help us improve the content, functionality and usability of the App, Devices and our products and services and to develop new products and services.
We may combine your personal data and share them with other companies of the H&P Group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries and with third parties in accordance with this Privacy Notice, under “Sharing Data”.
Permissions
The App may request your permission to access your phone or sensors (e.g. camera, Wi-fi, geo-location, or Bluetooth) or other data (e.g. photos, agenda, or contacts) on your mobile device.
We use such data only when it is needed to provide you the App Service and only after you provided consent.
Sometimes the permission is a technical precondition of the operating systems of your mobile device. In such case the App may ask permission to access sensors or data, however we will not collect such data, unless when it is required to provide you the App Service and only after you provided consent.
The data collected is used to give you insights in your pregnancy, your well-being, you baby‘s development and to provide you personalized content, messages and tips. We do this by sending you emails, push notifications, in-app messaging.
How we handle your data and privacy
Service Providers
We work with third-party service providers to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services.
We may share your personal data with the following service providers:
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IT and Cloud Providers
These service providers deliver the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, transactional services and/or related technology required to run the App or provide the Services.
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Payment
These providers handle financial data in relation to the payment features of this App, including app stores or other third parties processing your payment.
H&P requires service providers to provide a comparable level of protection of your personal data as H&P provides, to only process your personal data in accordance with our instructions and for the specific purposes mentioned above, and to have access to the minimum amount of data they need to deliver a specific service.
If H&P allows a third party to transfer your personal data outside of your geographic region, we will take steps to protect your privacy rights through the use of contractual arrangements or other means, which will provide a comparable level of protection while the information is being processed by our third parties.
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Other Third Parties
H&P may also work with third parties who process your personal data for their own purposes. Please read their privacy notices as they inform about how they use, process and protect your personal data and privacy
If H&P shares personal data with a third party that use your personal data for their own purpose H&P will ensure to inform you and/or obtain your consent in accordance with applicable law before we share your personal data.
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Apple Health
You can connect to Apple Health and authorize the App to read the data you store in Apple Health, as well as write your data stored in the App to Apple Health. If you give the necessary permissions, other Apps can access the data that is recorded by the connected Philips devices and stored in Apple Health. Apple Health does not sync to Apple, though the user can back up Apple Health data to iCloud or iTunes. H&P doesn’t protect your personal data stored with Apple Health. Please review Apple’s policies and procedures before syncing and backing up your personal data with Apple Health.
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Ad Serving Technology
We use third party ad serving technologies that use precise methods to collect information as a result of ad serving through the App. This data may be used and disclosed in accordance with this Privacy Notice, our Cookie Notice and the privacy policy of the company providing the ad serving technologies. The advertising companies who deliver ads for us may combine the information collected with other information they have independently collected from other services or products. Although we take commercially reasonable steps to instruct such advertising companies to comply with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Notice, we do not have access to or control of third party technologies.
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Links to other sites
The App may contain links to other sites or services of interest. Once you have used these links to leave the App we do not have any control over those third party sites or services. The information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites is not governed by this Privacy Notice.
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Disclosure & transfer
H&P sometimes sells a business or a part of a business to another company. Such a transfer of ownership could include the transfer of your personal data directly related to that business, to the purchasing company. All of our rights and obligations under our Privacy Notice are freely assignable by H&P to any of our affiliates, in connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring, or sale of assets, or by operation of law or otherwise, and we may transfer your personal data to any of our affiliates, successor entities, or new owner.
H&P will disclose personal data only under this Privacy Notice and/or when required by law.
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Data Retention
We will keep your personal data for as long as needed to provide our Services to you or to comply with our legal obligations. If you uninstall or stop using the App for an extended period of time, we will delete your personal data.
Choices and rights
Once we have collected your personal data, you have the following choices and rights:
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Access
You may at any time request access to your personal data.
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Correction
You may at any time request correction of your personal data.
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Delete
If legally possible, you may request your personal data to be deleted at any time.
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Objection to processing
You may at any time object to the processing of your personal data.
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Questions or complaints
You may at any time contact us if you have questions, complaints, concerns or suggestions.
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Withdrawal of consent
If you have given us your consent, you may easily withdraw it at any time.
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Managing your cookies and settings
You may delete cookies and other similar tools from your device by deleting the App. iOS users can also opt out of personalized adverts by visiting https://oo.apple.com on your iOS device. You can opt-out if you wish not to have this information used by Facebook for the purpose of serving you interest based ads: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads. You can find out more about the way Facebook uses information by visiting their privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. You can opt-out if you wish not to have this information used by Facebook for the purpose of serving you interest based ads (if you are located in Europe: http://www.youronlinechoices.eu if you are located elsewhere: http://preferencesmgr.truste.com/).
To exercise your rights you can always contact us in the section ‘Contact Us’’ below. Please note that if you make use of (some of) your choices and rights, you may possibly not be able to use certain features of our Services anymore.
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We protect your personal data
We recognize and take seriously our responsibility to protect the data you entrust to H&P from loss, misuse or unauthorized access. H&P uses a variety of security technologies and organizational procedures to help protect your data. For example, we implement access controls, use firewalls and secure protocols.
Special information for parents
While Pregnancy+ and Baby+ are not generally targeted at children under the age of 18, it is H&P policy to comply with the law when it requires parent or guardian permission before collecting, using or disclosing personal data of children. We are committed to protecting the privacy needs of children and we strongly encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests.
If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child who is under the age of 18 has provided us with his or her personal data without their consent, please contact us at privacy@H&P.com. If we become aware that a child under the age of 18 has provided us with personal data, we will delete his/her data from our files.
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Local specific information: Your California Privacy Rights (US Only)
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our customers who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, information about the personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If applicable, this information would include a list of the categories of personal information that was shared and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please notify us at support@healthandparenting.com.
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Changes to this Privacy Notice
Our Services may change from time to time without prior notice to you. For this reason, we reserve the right to amend or update this Privacy Notice from time to time. When we update this Privacy Notice, we will also update the date at the top of this Privacy Notice.
We encourage you to review the latest version of our Privacy Notice from time to time.
The new Privacy Notice will become effective immediately upon publication. If you do not agree to the revised notice, you should alter your preferences, or consider stop using our Services. By continuing to access or make use of our Services after those changes become effective, you acknowledge you have been informed and agree to the Privacy Notice as amended.
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Contact Us
If you have any question about our Privacy Notice, please contact us at support@healthandparenting.com.
Health & Parenting Limited