Date of Last Revision:19 MARCH 2015
Health & Parenting Limited (“H&P/”we”/”our””) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This privacy and data policy (the “Privacy Policy”) tells you about how H&P collects, manages, uses and stores information about you which you provide in connection with the Android app Pregnancy + (the “App”).
Firstly please note that this Privacy Policy should be read in connection with the privacy policy of any applicable third party service provider, such as Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Google, Flurry and Admob. An up to date list of our third party service and advertising analytics providers at the date these terms have been updated is set out in our Cookies, Beacons and Tracking section (paragraph 12 below).
Your attention in particular is drawn to Facebook's privacy policy (http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/) and Twitter’s privacy policy (https://twitter.com/privacy), paragraph 5 (Location data) and paragraph 12 (Cookies, Beacons and Tracking) below.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully as it sets out the basis on which any personal data and other data (“Data”) that H&P collects from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed.
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By installing, accessing, registering to or otherwise using the App, you agree to this Privacy Policy and give your explicit and informed consent to the processing of your Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not install, access, register to or otherwise use the App.
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If we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when the App, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
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We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
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The App is intended for use by those 18 or older for personal information purposes only, or who are older than 13 if they have obtained their parental or guardian's consent to use the App. In any event H&P does not knowingly collect personal information from people under the age of 13. If H&P learns that a person under the age of 13 has provided it with personal information, H&P will take steps to delete such information as soon as possible.
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Location Data
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The App shall access your location for the purpose of ensuring you obtain the localised version of the App (by way of example only, the correct language version), and to be able to send notifications and adverts to you.
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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 Android device so that we may send you push notifications.
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Your location is made available on a general information basis to other users, and does not provide other users with your detailed location.
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By using the App you accept and agree to us obtaining, storing and using your location data.
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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@health-and-parenting.com that you wish for the data to be deleted.
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In addition during your use of the App you agree that the following terms will apply:
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We may ask you for certain information and you may submit personal data to the App (such as your name, email address and contact details) when you sign up to the App.
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You agree and acknowledge that all data submitted by you in connection with 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/, and https://twitter.com/privacy.
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You may upload the following Data to the App, which shall be stored on your device and our servers which we (or our third party service providers) operate:
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Baby due date;
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Your name;
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Your relationship to baby;
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Mother's weight during pregnancy;
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Doctor visits (personal notes that the you may wish to record (pregnancy weight, blood pressure, feral heart rate, time & date of appointment, name & profession of health care provider);
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Baby shopping list;
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Hospital bag list;
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Mother's Birth plan;
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Your to-do-list;
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Your favourite baby names;
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The 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);
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Baby's kicks;
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Mother's contractions;
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Date baby is born;
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Your email address;
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Baby's gender;
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Your gender;
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Your photo;
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Your location;
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Your belly pictures;
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Your weekly notes and uploaded pictures.
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We may also record which parts of the App you use and as user patterns. 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 their servers. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the App and compiling reports on App activity.
See also paragraph 12 (Cookies, Beacons and Tracking) below).
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Data be kept securely in accordance with good industry practice and, in addition to the other uses set out in this Policy, we may use the Data:
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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;
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.
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All Data, including any sensitive personal data will be kept securely in accordance with good industry practice.
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If you believe we have information about you that you do not want us to have or that is incorrect please contact us as described above and H&P shall provide details for you to correct or remove the data as you request as soon reasonably practicable.
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If you have any other concerns over privacy, this Privacy Policy or the App please contact us as described below.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 2000 women aged under 40 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in SE1). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.
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Disclosure of your Information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.
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In addition as set out in the rest of this policy, we may disclose, sell or licence your Data to third parties:
In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
If H&P Limited or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets;
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If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of H&P, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
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Use of Cookies, Beacons and Tracking by Us
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 Android device by deleting the App.We have set out below details of those third party advertising and analytics providers in relation to the App:
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://affiliate-program.amazon.co.uk/
Admob
We use Google's Admob to serve advertising in relation to your usage of the App. Further details of Google's Admob is available here:
https://www.google.co.uk/ads/admob/
Tracking
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.
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/legal-privacy/terms-service and
http://www.flurry.com/legal-privacy/terms-service/flurry-analytics-terms-service
Data Backup
Parse
We use Parse (see https://www.parse.com) to back up data collected via the App. Use of Parse is subject to Parse’s terms and conditions in force from time to time, including those terms available at https://www.parse.com/about/policies.
You consent to your data being backed up to Parse.
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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Please note:
You use the App at entirely your own risk. It is a known risk of internet usage that people are not necessarily who they say they are. People may provide information or behave in a way that is unreliable, misleading, unlawful or illegal. H&P has no way of telling if statements made by other users are true. This is a decision that can only be made at your discretion and the exercise of some degree of caution is recommended. By using the App and its services you accept that this is the case and accept the risk associated with it. Users must take particular care in relation to the disclosure of their own personal information.
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Third Party Communications
We may share the information you have provided with partners of H&P and its affiliates. We may also share this information with other carefully selected companies or organisations in order that they may inform you of their products and services. We may also share information you have provided “fully anonymised” with carefully selected companies or organisations for research purposes.
In certain circumstances we may share your information with H&P’s partner companies and services who act on our behalf with activities such as, but not limited to, fulfilling orders, processing payments, carrying out, promotional services and data management.
H&P will only provide these companies with the information which they need to carry out their services and they will not be allowed to use the information for other purposes. They will only be allowed to use your information in the way in which we instruct them and as permitted by the UK's Data Protection Act 1998.
You also acknowledge and agree that in certain circumstances we may be obliged to disclose personal information relating to you to third parties, for example, to conform to any requirements of law, comply with any legal process, to prevent and detect fraud and to protect and defend H&P’s rights and property.
You may opt out of marketing communications by clicking the “unsubscribe” link on any marketing email or amending your settings. Sending your data overseas
It may be necessary for us to transfer your information to countries outside the European Economic Area which do not provide the same level of protection as the UK. If we for any reason need to do so, we will make sure that the information is transferred in accordance with this Privacy Statement and the UK's Data Protection Act 1998 and other applicable data protection laws so that your personal data is kept secure.
Third Party Products and Services
The App may contain links to other sites or services of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave the App, you should note that we do not have any control over those third party sites or services. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question. Such sites and services have not been verified or reviewed by us and we have no liability for any use and access of them.
Ad Serving Technology
We may employ third party ad serving technologies that use precise methods to collect information as a result of ad serving through the App. Third parties may collect and use data for this purpose including software, applications, hardware, browser information, internet and on-line usage information and in-game information. The aforementioned data may be used and disclosed in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the privacy policy of the company providing the ad serving technologies. See also paragraph 12 (Cookies, Beacons and Tracking) above for further information here).
You recognise and accept that 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. These companies collect and use information under their own privacy policies. Although we take commercially reasonable steps to instruct such advertising companies to comply with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, we do not have access to or control of third party technologies.
Your Rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at support@health-and-parenting.com
Access to Information
The UK Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
About H&P
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998, the data controller is Health & Parenting Limited. We are a company registered in England and Wales, with company number 07895461.
Contact Information
All questions, comments or enquiries should be directed:
By email to support@health-and-parenting.com
We will endeavour to respond to any query or questions within two business days.