NH4H Privacy Policy

FAQs

Q: What information about me is being collected?
A: As a hacker / participant, we will need your email address in order to grant you access to resources (e.g. our Teams meeting). We hope that you will enter additional profile information to help us put you into a team, but this is optional.

Q: Who will have access to information about me?
A: The organizers of the event will have access to your email from the point you register and through the end of the event.

The full NurseHack4Health Privacy Policy is listed below:

NURSEHACK4HEALTH PRIVACY POLICY

 

The Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, and Leaders (SONSIEL)  care about your privacy and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use, and disclose information. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we or our service providers collect through the website or application (hereinafter the “Service”) operated and controlled by us from which you are accessing this Privacy Policy. By providing personal information to us or by using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy.

USE BY MINORS
The Service is not directed to individuals under the age of 16 and we request that these individuals not provide personal information through the Service. If your child has submitted Personal Information and you would like to request that such Personal Information be removed, please contact us as explained below under Contacting Us.

INFORMATION COLLECTION
We may ask you to submit personal information in order for you to benefit from certain features (such as Microsoft Teams meetings or newsletter subscriptions) or to participate in a particular activity (such as the NurseHack4Health competition). You will be informed what information is required and what information is optional.

We may combine the information you submit with other information we have collected from you, whether on‑ or offline, including, for example, information we receive about you from publicly available information sources (including information from your publicly available social media profiles), and other third parties.

If you submit any personal information relating to another individual to us, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

SENSITIVE INFORMATION
Unless we specifically request or invite it, we ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive personal information (e.g., Social Security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or philosophical beliefs, health, sex life or sexual orientation, criminal background, or trade union membership, or biometric or genetic data for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual) on or through the Service or otherwise to us.

AUTOMATIC INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
We and our service providers may collect certain information automatically as you navigate around the Service. If you do not disable cookies and continue to use our Service, we will infer your consent to their use.

We and our service providers may also automatically collect and use information in the following ways:

Through your browser: Certain information is collected by most browsers, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Mac), screen resolution, operating system name and version, and Internet browser type and version. We may collect similar information, such as your device type and identifier, if you access the Service through a mobile device. We use this information to ensure that the Service functions properly.

IP address: Your IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider. An IP address is identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user visits the Service, along with the time of the visit and the pages visited. Collecting IP addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many online services. We use IP addresses for purposes such as calculating Service usage levels, diagnosing server problems, and administering the Service. We may also derive your approximate location from your IP address.

Device Information: We may collect information about your mobile device, such as a unique device identifier, to understand how you use the Service.

HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE INFORMATION
We use and disclose information you provide to us as described to you at the point of collection. Please see the section entitled “Choices and Access,” below, to learn how you may opt out of certain of our uses and disclosures.

Where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent to our use of your personal information at the point of information collection. We may also use information from or about you as necessary to perform a contract, to comply with a legal obligation, or for our legitimate business interests. We may also rely on other legal bases, specifically for:

Providing the functionality of the Service and fulfilling your requests.

  • to provide the functionality of the Service to you and providing you with related customer service;

  • to respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send you documents you request or e‑mail alerts;

  • to send you important information regarding our relationship with you or regarding the Service, changes to our terms, conditions, and policies and/or other administrative information.

We will engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you and/or to comply with a legal obligation.

Accomplishing our business purposes.

  • for data analysis, for example, to improve the efficiency of the Service;

  • for audits, to verify that our internal processes function as intended and are compliant with legal, regulatory, or contractual requirements;

  • for fraud and security monitoring purposes, for example, to detect and prevent cyberattacks or attempts to commit identity theft;

  • for developing new products and services;

  • for enhancing, improving or modifying our website or products and services;

  • for identifying Service usage trends, for example, understanding which parts of our Service are of most interest to users; and

  • for determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, so that we can adapt our campaigns to the needs and interests of our users.

We will engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you, to comply with a legal obligation, and/or because we have a legitimate interest.

Analysis of Personal Information to provide personalized services.

  • to better understand you, so that we can personalize our interactions with you and provide you with information and/or offers tailored to your interests;

  • to better understand your preferences so that we can deliver content via the Service that we believe will be relevant and interesting to you.

We will provide personalized services either with your consent or because we have a legitimate interest.

We also disclose information collected through the Service to our third party partners with whom we offer a co‑branded or co‑marketed promotion; to our third party service providers who provide services such as website hosting and moderating, mobile application hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, e‑mail and direct mail delivery services, auditing, and other services, in order to enable them to provide services; and as permitted by applicable law, to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

In addition, we may use and disclose your information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) to comply with legal process or applicable law, which may include laws outside your country of residence; (b) as permitted by applicable law to respond to requests from public and government authorities, which may include authorities outside your country of residence; (c) to enforce our terms and conditions; and (d) to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others. We may also use and disclose your information in other ways, after obtaining your consent to do so.

We may use and disclose information we collect automatically as described above, under “Automatic Information Collection and Use.”

In addition, where allowed by applicable law, we may use and disclose information that is not in personally identifiable form for any purpose. If we combine information that is not in personally identifiable form with information that is identifiable (such as combining your name with your geographical location), we will treat the combined information as personal information as long as it is combined.

CHOICES AND ACCESS
Your choices regarding our use and disclosure of your personal information
We give you choices regarding our use and disclosure of your personal information for marketing purposes. You may opt out from:

Receiving marketing communications from us: If you no longer want to receive marketing communications from us on a going forward basis, you may opt out of receiving them by contacting us via email (info@sonsiel.org). In your request to us, please provide your name, identify the form(s) of marketing communications that you no longer wish to receive, and include the address(es) to which it/they are sent. For example, if you no longer wish to receive marketing e‑mails or direct mail from us, tell us that, and provide your name and e‑mail or postal address. You may also opt out of receiving marketing communications from us by visiting the Service to update your online profile. In addition, you may opt out of receiving marketing e‑mails from us by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in any such message.

Our sharing of your personal information with third‑party partners: If you previously opted in to receiving marketing communications from our third party partners, you may opt out of our sharing of your personal information with those parties for their direct marketing purposes on a going‑forward basis by contacting us via email (info@sonsiel.com). In your communication to us, please state that we should no longer share your personal information with our third‑party partners for their marketing purposes, and include your name and e‑mail address.

We will seek to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt out as described above, we will not be able to remove your personal information from the databases of our third-party partners with which we have already shared your information (i.e., as of the date that we implement your opt‑out request). Please also note that if you opt out of receiving marketing‑related messages from us, we may still send you important transactional and administrative messages, from which you cannot opt out.

How you can access, change, or delete your personal information
If you would like to review, correct, update, restrict, or delete your personal information, or if you would like to request to receive an electronic copy of your personal information for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent these rights are provided to you by applicable law), please contact us via email (info@sonsiel.com). We will respond to your request as soon as reasonably practicable and no later than one month after receipt. If circumstances cause any delay in our response, you will be promptly notified and provided a date for our response. You may also visit the Service to update your online profile.

SECURITY
We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures designed to protect personal information under our control. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or data storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below.

RETENTION PERIOD
We will retain your personal information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include: (i) the length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Service to you; (ii) whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject; and (iii) whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations).

THIRD PARTY SITES AND SERVICES
This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or online service (including, without limitation, any application) that is available through this Service or to which this Service contains a link. The availability of, or inclusion of a link to, any such site or property on the Service does not imply endorsement of it by us or by our affiliates.

CONTACTING US
Sonsiel is the company responsible for collection, use, and disclosure of personal information under this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email (info@sonsiel.com).

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may change this Privacy Policy. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Service. Your use of the Service following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy. We recommend that you regularly review the Privacy Policy when you visit the Service. This policy was last updated on August 2022.

PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

Effective: January 1, 2020

This Privacy Notice for California Residents supplements the information contained in the Sonsiel Privacy Policy (above), and applies only to California residents (“You,” “your” or “consumer”).

Personal Information Collection and Purposes of Use

We collect and use information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to you or your devices when you visit this website, provide us your personal information, or have a contractual or business relationship with us or any of our affiliates, (“Personal Information”). Such Personal Information includes direct identifiers like a name, postal address, email address, social security number or other government identifier, and indirect identifiers that may identify, relate to, or be associated with a particular individual, such as a telephone number, device identifier, IP address and browsing history, credit card information, or inferences about consumer preferences or characteristics.

We collect this Personal Information for the following purposes:

  • to respond to your inquiries and to fulfill your requests;

  • to send you important information regarding our relationship with you or regarding this website, changes to our terms, conditions, and policies and/or other administrative information;

  • for audits, to verify that our internal processes function as intended and are compliant with legal, regulatory, or contractual requirements;

  • for fraud or crime prevention, and for technical security monitoring purposes;

  • to facilitate the development of new products and services;

  • to enhance, improve or modify our website or products and services;

  • for data analysis that will allow us to understand website usage trends;

  • to determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, so that we can adapt our campaigns to the needs and interests of our users.

  • to better understand you, so that we can personalize our interactions with you and provide you with information and/or offers tailored to your interests;

Your Privacy Rights

You have the following rights regarding our collection and use of your personal information. To exercise those rights, you must submit a request by emailing us at info@sonsiel.com. We may ask you to provide additional information to verify your request. We may not discriminate against you if you exercise your rights as described in this notice. For example, we may not deny goods or services to you, or charge you different prices or rates, or provide a different level of quality of products or services.

Right to Information

You have the right to request the following information regarding the personal information we have collected about you:

  • Categories of personal information collected about you, and sources from which collected;

  • Our purpose for collecting personal information;

  • Categories of third parties with which the personal information was shared; and

  • Specific pieces of personal information collected about consumers.

You have the right to request the following information regarding the personal information we have sold or disclosed about you:

  • Categories of your personal information sold in the preceding 12 months;

  • Categories of third parties to whom your personal information has been disclosed;

  • Categories of personal information that we disclosed about consumers for a business purpose.

Right to Opt Out of Sharing, Disclosure, or Sale of Personal Information

You have the right to direct us to not share, disclose, or sell your personal information. To exercise this right, you or your authorized representative may submit a request by emailing us at info@sonsiel.com.

Right to Request Deletion

You have the right to request that we delete the personal information we have about you. However, we are not required to delete information if it is necessary to retain your information to:

  • Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a good or service requested by you, or a transaction reasonably anticipated within the context of our or one of our affiliate’s ongoing business relationship with you, or to otherwise perform a contract we have with you.

  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity or prosecute those responsible for that activity.

  • Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.

  • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.

  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act pursuant to Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1546) of Title 12 of Part 2 of the Penal Code.

  • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impact the achievement of such research, if you have provided informed consent.

  • Facilitate solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us or one of our affiliates.

  • Comply with a legal obligation.

  • Otherwise use the personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which it was provided.

Contact Us
You can contact us with questions about this Privacy Notice for California Residents or to exercise your rights as described in this Notice.

Email: info@sonsiel.com

 

SUPPLEMENTAL PRIVACY NOTICE FOR NEVADA RESIDENTS

Effective: October 1, 2019

This Supplemental Privacy Notice for Nevada Residents adds to the information contained in the Sonsiel Privacy Policy (above), and applies only to Nevada residents (“You,” “your” or “consumer”).

Personal Information Collection and Purposes of Use

We collect certain personal information of Nevada consumers through our Internet websites or other online service. This information includes one or more of the following elements of personally identifiable information:

  1. A first and last name.

  2. A home or other physical address that includes the name of a street and the name of a city or town.

  3. An electronic mail address.

  4. A telephone number.

  5. A Social Security Number.

  6. An identifier that allows a specific person to be contacted either physically or online.

  7. Any other information concerning a person collected from the person through the Internet website or online service of the operator, and maintained by the operator in combination with an identifier in a form that makes the information personally identifiable.

We collect this personal information for the following purposes:

  • to respond to your inquiries and to fulfill your requests;

  • to send you important information regarding our relationship with you or regarding this website, changes to our terms, conditions, and policies and/or other administrative information;

  • for audits, to verify that our internal processes function as intended and are compliant with legal, regulatory, or contractual requirements;

  • for fraud or crime prevention, and for technical security monitoring purposes;

  • to facilitate the development of new products and services;

  • to enhance, improve or modify our website or products and services;

  • for data analysis that will allow us to understand website usage trends;

  • to determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, so that we can adapt our campaigns to the needs and interests of our users.

  • to better understand you, so that we can personalize our interactions with you and provide you with information and/or offers tailored to your interests.

Your Privacy Rights

Right to access and/or correct your personal information, or opt out of sale of personal information

If you would like to review, correct, or update your personal information, you or your authorized representative may submit your request via email to the following address: info@sonsiel.com. We will respond to your verified request as soon as reasonably practicable, but no later than sixty (60) days after receipt. If circumstances cause any delay in our response, you will be promptly notified and provided a date for our response.

We generally do not disclose or share personal information for profit. Under Nevada law, you have the right to direct us to not sell or license your personal information to third parties. To exercise this right, if applicable, you or your authorized representative may submit a request via email to the following address: info@sonsiel.com. We will respond to your verified request as soon as reasonably practicable, but no later than sixty (60) days after receipt. If circumstances cause any delay in our response, you will be promptly notified and provided a date for our response.

Contact Us
You can contact us with questions about this Privacy Notice for Nevada Residents or to exercise your rights as described in this Notice.