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Privacy Notice Health Band

 

 

This Privacy Notice was last updated on April 15, 2020

The Philips Health band (Health band) and its related mobile application (App) measures and tracks movement and physiological parameters of the wearer including energy expenditure, respiration, heart, and activity rates to provide insight for research purposes.

 

This Privacy Notice applies to personal data processed by the Health band and its related App, by Respironics, Inc. and its affiliates (”Philips”, “our”, “we” or “us”), the data processor; therefore processing your personal data only on behalf of and under the instructions of the data controller, the Research Sponsor.

 

The Research Sponsor is responsible for the processing of your personal data, including obtaining your consent for the specific research initiative of which you are a participant. In this notice, we will briefly describe what types of data are processed per the direction of the Research Sponsor within the Health band and App.

 

If you have any questions related to how the Research Sponsor requires us to process your data for the purposes of this research initiative, you should inquire with them directly.

Data Processed on behalf of the Research Sponsor

 

When you wear the Health band and install and access the App to participate in research initiatives, we will process your personal data as specified below and in general to perform the services requested by the Research Sponsor.

account data

Account Data

Under the Research Sponsors supervision, the study coordinator who provides you with the Health band, will provide you a study ID that you will use along with your birth date to permit you to set a User ID and Password to access the App. The personal data collected is used to verify you as a research participant and to establish and verify your App account.

Devices data

Personal and Device Data

Before the App collects your sensitive personal data we will inform you and ask your consent. The data collected from the Health band includes the unique device number, session and usage data, your heart rate, step count, activity duration, energy expenditure, respiration rate and sleep duration.

 

The study coordinator may provide additional data inputs into the App based on the research study which can include your name, gender, primary language, time zone, height, weight, dominant hand, or wrist that you will wear the device on.

 

This data collected is used by the Research Sponsor to conduct the research study. The research consent provided to you will describe any other purposes for the collection of the data.

 

If you wish to withdraw your consent or have any additional questions related to the processing of your personal data please contact the Research Sponsor.

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We use cookies, tags or similar technologies to operate, provide, improve, understand, and customize our Services. Cookies allow us to recognize your mobile device and collect your personal data including your unique user Device number, the IP address of your mobile device, the type of mobile internet browser or operating system you use, session and usage data, or service-related performance information, which is information about your use of the App.

Third parties

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 Services and only after you provided your explicit consent.
  • Sometimes the permission is a technical precondition of the operating systems of your mobile device. In such case, the App may ask your permission to access such 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.
Data about your interactions and usage of the Philips digital channels such as social media, websites, emails, apps and connected product. This data may include: IP address, cookies, device information, communications you click on or tap, location details, websites you visit.

IT Providers

These providers deliver the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, transactional services and/or related technology required to run the App or the services provided.

 
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Master service Providers

These providers deliver specific services for Master such ascalculating heart-age, providing coaching (only for apps that use coaching).

 
 
 

Payment

These providers handle financial data in relation to online purchases, your program fee.

IT Providers

These providers deliver the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, transactional services and/or related technology required to run the App or the services provided.

 
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Cloud Providers

These providers deliver data storage services. Philips is committed to store your personal data in your region, with cloud services in Europe, US, Latin-American, Tokyo or Sydney and China.

 
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Master service Providers

These providers deliver specific services for Master such ascalculating heart-age, providing coaching (only for apps that use coaching).

 
 
 

Payment

These providers handle financial data in relation to online purchases, your program fee.

IT Providers

These providers deliver the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, transactional services and/or related technology required to run the App or the services provided.

 
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Cloud Providers

These providers deliver data storage services. Philips is committed to store your personal data in your region, with cloud services in Europe, US, Latin-American, Tokyo or Sydney and China.

 
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Master service Providers

These providers deliver specific services for Master such ascalculating heart-age, providing coaching (only for apps that use coaching).

 
 
 

Payment

These providers handle financial data in relation to online purchases, your program fee.

IT Providers

These providers deliver the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, transactional services and/or related technology required to run the App or the services provided.

 
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Cloud Providers

These providers deliver data storage services. Philips is committed to store your personal data in your region, with cloud services in Europe, US, Latin-American, Tokyo or Sydney and China.

 
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Master service Providers

These providers deliver specific services for Master such ascalculating heart-age, providing coaching (only for apps that use coaching).

 
 
 

Payment

These providers handle financial data in relation to online purchases, your program fee.

IT Providers

These providers deliver the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, transactional services and/or related technology required to run the App or the services provided.

 
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Cloud Providers

These providers deliver data storage services. Philips is committed to store your personal data in your region, with cloud services in Europe, US, Latin-American, Tokyo or Sydney and China.

 
Spacer
 

Master service Providers

These providers deliver specific services for Master such ascalculating heart-age, providing coaching (only for apps that use coaching).

 
 
 

Payment

These providers handle financial data in relation to online purchases, your program fee.

IT Providers

These providers deliver the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, transactional services and/or related technology required to run the App or the services provided.

 
Spacer
 

Cloud Providers

These providers deliver data storage services. Philips is committed to store your personal data in your region, with cloud services in Europe, US, Latin-American, Tokyo or Sydney and China.

 
Spacer
 

Master service Providers

These providers deliver specific services for Master such ascalculating heart-age, providing coaching (only for apps that use coaching).

 
 
 

Payment

These providers handle financial data in relation to online purchases, your program fee.

Master service Providers

These providers deliver specific services for Master such ascalculating heart-age, providing coaching (only for apps that use coaching).

Master service Providers

These providers deliver specific services for Master such ascalculating heart-age, providing coaching (only for apps that use coaching).

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