This Privacy Notice was last updated on October 9, 2024
At HealthTech Partners, Inc. (“HealthTech Partners”) your privacy is important to us. Our Privacy Notice describes the information we collect, how we collect the information, the reasons we collect information, and how we share or use the information we collect. This Privacy Notice also describes the choices you have with the information we collect, including how you can manage, update, or request to delete information.
Please take a moment to review this Privacy Notice. You may scroll through this Privacy Notice or use the headings below. It is important that you understand this Privacy Notice. By using our Platform, you are agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Notice. If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Notice, you may Contact Us at any time.
Table of Contents
I. Who is HealthTech Partners?
II. Key Terms & Definitions and Our Privacy Notice
VI. Does HealthTech Partners respond to Do Not Track signals?
IX. California’s Shine the Light Law.
HealthTech Partners is not a medical group or a health care provider. HealthTech Partners provides its users with the ability to obtain telehealth clinical consultations provided by independent medical practitioners including, but not limited to, StationMD, P.C. (“Medical Group”), an independent medical group with a network of United States based health care providers (each, a “Provider”). Medical Group (or your own medical provider if you do not use a Medical Group Provider) is responsible for providing you with a Notice of Privacy Practices describing its collection and use of your health information, not HealthTech Partners.
Medical Group is dedicated to serving individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities (“I/DD”). Providers are available via telemedicine for urgent and non-urgent medical matters. Medical Group also offers scheduled psychiatry and primary care telemedicine to individuals with I/DD. In providing this suite of services, Medical Group enables individuals with I/DD faster access to high-quality care and substantially reduces unnecessary medical costs.
It is helpful to start by explaining some of our key terms and definitions used in this Privacy Notice.
| Key Term | Definition |
| App | StationMD, our mobile application |
| Personal Information | Any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual and any information listed here. |
| Platform | Our App and/or Website. |
| Privacy Notice | This privacy policy. |
| Services | Any of the clinical services provided by the Medical Group or Providers through the connectivity and use of our Platform. The Services are not provided by HealthTech Partners. The Services are provided by the Medical Group and independent Providers and made available through our Website and App. |
| Terms of Use | Our terms of use located here. |
| our “Website(s)” |
Our website, including: |
| “HealthTech Partners,” “we,” “us,” or “our” | HealthTech Partners, Inc. |
This Privacy Notice describes the types of information we may collect from you when:
This Privacy Notice does not apply to information collected by any other website operated either by us or by a third party, unless the website is listed above or links to this Privacy Notice. It also does not apply to any website that we may provide a link to or that is accessible from our Platform.
This Privacy Notice does not apply to information collected from users who log-in and authenticate to the password-protected and secure portions of our Platform (the “Secure Platform”). The Secure Platform allows users who obtain the Services (“Customers”) to perform certain functions or obtain the Services (such as telehealth visits from Medical Group or Providers). All information collected and stored by us or added by Customers into the Secure Platforms is considered Protected Health Information (“PHI“) and/or medical information and is governed by applicable state and federal laws that apply to that information, for example the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”). How we use and disclose such PHI is in accordance with the applicable Notice of Privacy Practices provided to you by the Medical Group. We will not use or disclose PHI collected from the Secure Platform or received from Medical Group or your Provider except as provided in that Notice of Privacy Practices.
The Notice of Privacy Practices (and not this Privacy Notice) also applies to Personal Information collected on our Platform if specific symptoms or health conditions are also collected, as such information may be considered PHI under HIPAA.
This Privacy Notice is incorporated into our Terms of Use, which also apply when you use our Platform.
Personal Information is information from and about you that may be able to personally identify you. We treat any information that may identify you as Personal Information. For example, your name and e-mail address are Personal Information.
We may collect and use the following Personal Information (hereinafter, collectively referred to as “Personal Information”):
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Categories of Personal Information |
Specific Types of Personal Information Collected |
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Personal Identifiers |
Legal first and last name, alias, mailing address, online identifier, social security number, birth date, and e-mail address. |
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Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with a particular individual |
Legal first and last name, mailing address, physical characteristics or description, telephone number, credit card number, debit card number, health insurance information, or other financial information, health or medical information, photographs, video, and voice. |
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Internet or other electronic network activity information |
IP address, browser type, operating system, traffic data, device ID, information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Website, application, or advertisement. |
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Geolocation data |
Physical location or movements, local time, and local time zone. |
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User Generated Content |
Information you provide to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “Posted”) on public areas of our Website or transmitted to other users of the Website or other third parties. |
We collect most of this Personal Information directly from you. For example, when we speak to you by phone, text message, and e-mail. Additionally, we will collect information from you when you visit our Website or App and fill out forms or purchase the Services.
We may also collect Personal Information in the following ways:
We will also collect information automatically as you navigate through our Platform. We use the following technologies to automatically collect data:
We may use your Personal Information for the following purposes:
We may share Personal Information with third parties in certain circumstances or for certain purposes, including:
This section of our Privacy Notice provides details and explains how to exercise your choices. We offer you choices on how you can opt out of our use of tracking technology, disclosure of your Personal Information for our advertising to you, and other targeted advertising. We do not control the collection and use of your information collected by third parties. These third parties may aggregate the information they collect with information from their other customers for their own purposes. You can opt out of third parties collecting your Personal Information for targeted advertising purposes in the United States by visiting the National Advertising Initiative’s (NAI) opt-out page and the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) opt-out page.
Each type of web browser provides ways to restrict and delete cookies. Browser manufacturers provide resources to help you with managing cookies. Please see below for more information.
For other browsers, please consult the documentation that your browser manufacturer provides.
If you do not wish to have your e-mail address used by HealthTech Partners to promote our own Services, you can opt-out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any e-mail or other marketing communications you receive from us. This opt out does not apply to information provided to HealthTech Partners as a result of your use of our Platform and/or the Services. You may have other options with respect to marketing and communication preferences through our Platform.
You may also see certain ads on other websites because we participate in advertising networks. Ad networks allow us to target our messaging to users through demographic, interest-based, and contextual means. These networks track your online activities over time by collecting information through automated means, including through the use of cookies, web server logs, and web beacons. The networks use this information to show you advertisements that may be tailored to your individual interests.
You may Contact Us to inform us of any changes or errors in any Personal Information we have about you to ensure that it is complete, accurate, and as current as possible or to delete your account. We cannot delete your Personal Information except by also deleting your account with us. We may also not be able to accommodate your request if we believe it would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
HealthTech Partners operates subject to state and federal regulations, and the Platform and/or the Services may not be available in your state. Our Platform is designed for use by individuals in the United States only. You represent that you are not a person barred from enrolling for or receiving the Services under the laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions in which you may be located. Access to and use of the Platform and/or the Services is limited exclusively to users located in states within the United States where the Platform and/or the Services is/are available. The Platform and/or the Services are not available to users located outside the United States. Accessing the Platform and/or obtaining the Services from jurisdictions where content is illegal, or where we do not offer the Platform and/or the Services, is prohibited.
HealthTech Partners is committed to protecting the privacy of children in connection with the use of our Services. This section explains our online information collection, disclosure, and parental consent practices with respect to information collected from children under the age of 13 (“child” or “children”) in accordance with the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and its rules (collectively, “COPPA”). For purposes of this section, any references to a parent also encompasses legal guardians. This section only applies to children under the age of 13 and supplements the other provisions of this Privacy Notice.
Our Services include online services that may be used to facilitate I/DD support for a child. A parent or legal guardian can create a HealthTech Partners account on behalf of a dependent child and attest that they have legal authority to do so. We require that all child accounts be created by a parent or legal guardian, and associated with the parent’s or legal guardian’s account, in order to ensure that we can comply with our notice and consent obligations under COPPA.
During the account registration process, the parent or legal guardian can create a child’s account by following our instructions for doing so and providing certain information about the child, including name, date of birth, email address, and/or mailing address. We may also collect information directly from your child as the child uses our Services, such as when your child interacts with our Platform or during appointments with your child.
When creating an account for a child, parents and legal guardians are asked to review and consent to our COPPA Notice, which provides parents and guardians with direct notice of our information practices before we collect any Personal Information from their child. Before we collect Personal Information from a child, we obtain the parent or guardian’s verifiable parental consent through a video conference with the parent or guardian or through another method acceptable under COPPA for obtaining verifiable parental consent.
If a parent or legal guardian chooses not to consent to the collection and use of their child’s Personal Information, they may not create an online account for the child. At any time, a parent or legal guardian may revoke their consent. Once consent is revoked, a child may not use any Services online, unless a new consent is obtained.
The above sections of this Privacy Notice contains details about the information we collect, which extend to information we collect about children. The information we collect will be used and disclosed for the purposes described above. We will not require a child to disclose more information than is reasonably necessary to participate in an activity.
No Personal Information about a child will be made available to the public or sold. We may share information with our service providers if necessary for them to perform business, professional, or technology services for us, always in accordance with all applicable laws, including HIPAA. You have the right to agree for us to collect and use your child’s Personal Information but still not allow disclosure to third parties unless such disclosure is part of our Services.
In addition to your right to revoke your consent for the collection of your child’s Personal Information, you may request to review the Personal Information we have collected from your child or ask to delete the Personal Information we have collected from your child unless we are required by law to maintain that Personal Information. Please submit your request or any questions to us at clientservices@stationmd.com.
Some web browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature. This feature lets you tell websites you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. These features are not yet uniform across browsers. At this time, we do not honor such signals and we do not modify what information we collect or how we use that information based upon whether such a signal is broadcast or received by us.
We have taken steps and implemented administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect against the risk of accidental, intentional, unlawful, or unauthorized access, alteration, destruction, disclosure, or use. The Internet is not 100% secure and we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted through the Internet. Where you have been given or you have chosen a password, it is your responsibility to keep this password confidential.
The sharing and disclosing of information via the internet is not completely secure. We strive to use best practices and industry standard security measures and tools to protect your data. However, we cannot guarantee the security of Personal Information transmitted to, on, or through our Services. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our Platform, in your operating system, or mobile device.
You may have the opportunity to receive SMS or “text” messages from HealthTech Partners, its affiliates and related entities as well as third parties. Such messaging may be used to authenticate your identity or mobile device, as well as provide you with informational updates about services you may have requested. In providing your mobile device number or cell phone number to HealthTech Partners, you knowingly consent to such communications from HealthTech Partners or for HealthTech Partners to use your cell phone number or mobile device number in accordance with HealthTech Partners’ Terms of Use. In providing your number, you represent that you have the authority to agree to receive text messages at the telephone number that you provide to HealthTech Partners, or from which you sent the text message request to us. You further acknowledge that no purchase is required to opt into this service, and you may opt out of receiving such texts at any time. You can reply STOP to opt-out of further messaging. Care should always be taken to limit the Personal Information included in such messages. PHI should never be sent via text message and should only be sent and received through the Secure Portal. Any such communications you receive from us will be administered in accordance with your preferences and this Privacy Notice.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 (California’s “Shine the Light” law) permits users of our Platform and/or the Services that are California residents and who provide Personal Information in obtaining products and services for personal, family, or household use to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. If applicable, this information would include the categories of Personal Information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared your Personal Information with for the immediately prior calendar year (e.g., requests made in 2023 will receive information regarding such activities in 2022). You may request this information once per calendar year. To make such a request, please Contact Us using the information below.
We may update our Privacy Notice periodically to reflect changes in our privacy practices, laws, and best practices. We will post any changes we make to our Privacy Notice on this page with a notice that the Privacy Notice has been updated on our Website’s homepage. If we make material changes to our practices with regards to the Personal Information we collect from you, we will notify you by e-mail to the e-mail address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Platform. The date this Privacy Notice was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable e-mail address for you, and for periodically accessing the Platform and reviewing this Privacy Notice to check for any changes.
If you have any questions, concerns, complaints or suggestions regarding our Privacy Notice or otherwise need to contact us, you may contact us at the contact information below.
How to Contact Us:
HealthTech Partners
515 Valley Street, Suite 203
Maplewood, NJ 07040
Telephone: (877) 675-2680
E-mail: clientservices@stationmd.com
