Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy
As required under applicable laws in certain US states.
Effective Date: March 31, 2024
HE Holdings LLC and its group companies (“TheBestSchools.org” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to respecting your privacy.
What does this Policy cover?
This Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy, supplements our general Privacy Policy and related disclosures, and applies to personal data defined as Consumer Health Data under the privacy laws of certain US states.
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If you are not comfortable with this consumer health data privacy notice, please reconsider your use of this Site / Service.
Consumer Health Data We Collect
Consumer Health Data” (“CHD”) is personal data that is directly or indirectly connected to a consumer and could identify their current, past, or future physical or mental health status under applicable laws.
Given the broad definition of CHD in the applicable law, many categories of personal data may be included, some of which we collect and use to provide our Services. Our collection of CHD will vary depending on your interactions with us, the Services you utilize, and your preferences and consents. These may include:
- Individual health conditions, treatment, status, diseases, or diagnoses (for example: This information may be gathered through surveys or through other means for research purposes and to help enhance Service accessibility)
- Social, psychological, behavioral, and medical interventions
- Health-related surgeries or procedures
- Use or purchase of prescribed medication
- Bodily functions, vital signs, symptoms, or measurements of these various items
- Diagnoses or diagnostic testing, treatment, or medication
- Gender-affirming care information
- Reproductive or sexual health information (for example: Information which could imply your sexual orientation may be collected when you visit certain webpages)
- Precise location information that could reasonably indicate a consumer's attempt to acquire or receive health services or supplies
- Data that identifies a consumer seeking health care services
- Data that is derived, extrapolated, or inferred from non-health information
- Other health-related information you may choose to provide to us.
PROHIBITED CONSUMER HEALTH DATA YOU ARE PROHIBITED FROM PROVIDING US WITH BIOMETRIC DATA, WHICH INCLUDES FACIAL RECOGNITION DATA AND MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF BIOMETRIC IDENTIFIERS, AS WELL AS GENETIC INFORMATION, ENCOMPASSING DETAILS ABOUT GENETIC CHARACTERISTICS DERIVED FROM DNA ANALYSIS OR FAMILIAL GENETIC INFORMATION. |
We will retain and use your CHD for the length of time needed to carry out the purposes outlined in this Policy and in accordance with our data retention policies.
Purposes of the Consumer Health Data We Collect
With any necessary consents from you, we collect and use CHD to provide you with our Services and to operate our business. This includes:
- Communication: Communicating with you when necessary and permitted by law.
- Legal and Compliance: This encompasses risk management, audits, investigations, data rights, reporting, exercising or defending legal claims, mergers and acquisitions or divestitures, and other legal and compliance-related tasks.
- Marketing: Conducting advertising and other marketing activities, both for our Services and other products or services we believe may interest you, as well as advertising and marketing facilitated by third parties on our platforms or elsewhere.
- Personalization: Personalizing features of our Services.
- Recordkeeping and Auditing: Maintaining records, including interactions with consumers, to facilitate the reconciliation and the audit of business activities.
- Security: Helping ensure the security of our Services by detecting threats and safeguarding against malicious or fraudulent activity.
- Service development and troubleshooting: Conducting internal research to innovate new products and services or for addressing existing Service issues.
Consumer Health Data Categories We May Share
We may share each of the categories of CHD specified above with your consent, and as is reasonably necessary for other legitimate purposes.
Third Parties We May Share Consumer Health Data With
As necessary for the purposes described above and with any necessary consents, we may share CHD with the following categories of third parties:
- Affiliated companies and subsidiaries:Where permitted, we may share your CHD with affiliated companies and subsidiaries. Our group of affiliated companies and subsidiaries include:
- Allconnect, Inc
- Bankrate, LLC
- Choose Energy, Inc
- CNET Media, Inc.
- Coverage.com, LLC
- Creditcards.com, LLC
- Forward Home Lending, LLC
- HE Holdings LLC
- Lonely Planet Global, Inc
- MYMOVE, LLC
- New Imagitas, Inc
- Red Ventures, LLC
- Save On Energy, LLC
- The Points Guy, LLC
- Service Providers: We may share your data with parties whose services we use to run our business. Where we use these third party services, our providers are not allowed to use our data for their own purposes.
- Business Partners: With your consent, we may share CHD with our business partners for the purpose of targeting advertisements to you based on interests observed through your interactions with this and other websites. While these advertisements do not target health conditions, they may utilize data that could enable health-related inferences.
- Legal and other professionals: We may share CHD with legal and other professionals when fulfilling legal valid obligations (e.g., subpoenas) or helping ensure safety, when upholding legal rights and protecting our consumers, employees, and property or for addressing emergency situations or illegal activity, or when we are involved with corporate transactions such as mergers, financings, acquisitions, divestitures, or sales of all or part of our business or assets.
Your Consumer Health Data Privacy Rights
You may have the following rights regarding your health data, subject to applicable law:
- Right to Access: You have the right to access your health data.
- Right to Delete/Withdraw: You have the right to request the deletion or withdrawal of your health data.
To exercise these rights, please visit our Data Rights Center.
Please note that, as permitted or required under applicable law, we take steps to verify your request before processing it. If further information is needed to verify your request, we may ask you to provide additional details.
In some instances, we may be unable to fulfill your request. If your rights request is denied, applicable law may entitle you to appeal with us. The response to your rights request will outline any appeal rights you may have and explain how to exercise them.
Updates to This Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update this Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy periodically. Modifications to this Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy may occur at any time, and we will post the revised policy on our website accordingly. Please refer to the revision date at the top of this page to ascertain whether any changes have been made since your last review.