PRIVACY POLICY
Last Modified: September 19, 2023
Introduction
Garsantis Inc. (“Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).
This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.comparemedsrx.com (the “CompareMedsRx Site”) or the Company’s mobile application (the “CompareMedsRx App,” and collectively with the CompareMedsRx Site, the “CompareMedsRx Platform”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
The purpose of the CompareMedsRx Platform is to provide you a simple way to access estimates of medication costs from companies offering discounting pricing for medication for estimating and preliminary planning purposes. To be clear, the CompareMedsRx Platform is not meant to be, and cannot be used as, a substitute for your medical treatment or as an insurance plan. The CompareMedsRx Platform is not intended for those under the age of 18. We may also restrict access to CompareMedsRx Platform from certain locations.
We recognize that the privacy of your information is important to you, and it is of paramount importance to us. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to let you know how we handle the information you voluntarily provide to us or that we collect through your voluntary use of the CompareMedsRx Platform. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. There are two main categories of information we collect from users: (a) information necessary to fulfill or verify transactions entered into through the CompareMedsRx Platform (“Required Information”), and (b) information that is helpful for the Company to operate the CompareMedsRx Platform but is not necessary (“Voluntarily Provided Information” or “VPI”). We aggregate and anonymize Required Information and VPI on a regular basis (“Aggregated and Anonymized Data”). You may opt out of providing VPI by logging into your online account, selecting Profile and selecting Edit then select Opt Out or by contacting us at info@comparemedsrx.com. If you opt out, we may still retain Required Information to extent is remains necessary for ongoing business relations and Aggregated and Anonymized Data for any legal purpose. Please understand that your use of the CompareMedsRx Platform is strictly voluntary. If you believe your use of the CompareMedsRx Platform is not voluntary, at any time, for any reason, please contact us immediately. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you may choose to not to use (or continue to use) our CompareMedsRx Platform.
This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect:
- On the CompareMedsRx Platform.
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and the CompareMedsRx Platform.
It does not apply to information collected by:
- us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
- any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the CompareMedsRx Platform.
Some information collected through the CompareMedsRx Platform may be considered “protected health information,” as that term is defined in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and its implementing regulations, as well as all other applicable laws. This Privacy Policy is in addition to the HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices provided by your health care professionals (collectively, “Health Care Professionals”), which describe how your Health Care Professional uses and/or discloses your protected health information. You should contact your Health Care Professional for its HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices.
Persons Under the Age of 18
You must be 18 years of age or older in order to use the CompareMedsRx Platform. You represent and warrant that any profile information you submit is true and accurate and that you are 18 years of age or older. No one under age 18 is permitted to provide any personal information to or on the CompareMedsRx Platform. We do not knowingly collect personal information from persons under 18 years of age. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on the CompareMedsRx Platform or on or through any of its features/register on the CompareMedsRx Platform, make any purchases through the CompareMedsRx Platform, use any of the interactive or public comment features of the CompareMedsRx Platform or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a person under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a person under 18, please contact us at info@comparemedsrx.com.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our CompareMedsRx Platform, including information:
- by which you may be personally identified, such as name, e-mail address or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
- that is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or
- about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our CompareMedsRx Platform and usage details.
We may collect this information:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us;
- Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies;
- From your Health Care Professional, employer or professional employer organization (if applicable); or
- From any pharmacy, pharmaceutical company or company offering discounting pricing for medication.
Information You Provide to Us or Others
The information we collect on, through or in connection with our CompareMedsRx Platform may include:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our CompareMedsRx Platform. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our CompareMedsRx Platform or requesting services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our CompareMedsRx Platform.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
- Details of transactions you carry out through our CompareMedsRx Platform and of the fulfillment of those transactions, including with pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies or companies offering discounting pricing for medication.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our CompareMedsRx Platform, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our CompareMedsRx Platform, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the CompareMedsRx Platform.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Please contact us at info@comparemedsrx.com for information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking on this website and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.
The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our CompareMedsRx Platform and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our CompareMedsRx Platform according to your individual use.
- Recognize you when you return to our CompareMedsRx Platform.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our CompareMedsRx Platform. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our CompareMedsRx Platform.
- Flash Cookies. Certain features of our CompareMedsRx Platform may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our CompareMedsRx Platform. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
- Web Beacons. Pages of our the CompareMedsRx Platform and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
- To present our CompareMedsRx Platform and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it, including in connection with any transaction entered into through use of the CompareMedsRx Platform, which may include disclosures or other transfers to your Health Care Professional, your employer and/or your professional employer organization (if applicable) and any pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies, companies offering discounting pricing for medication or other health care providers.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
- To notify you about changes to our CompareMedsRx Platform or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:
- To your Health Care Professional, employer or professional employer organization (if applicable);
- To any pharmacy, pharmaceutical company, company offering discounting pricing for medication or health care provider;
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; or
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
- To enforce or apply our terms of use https://comparemedsrx.com/terms-of-service and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes; or
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.
Certain users may have additional personal information rights and choices based on where they live. Please see Your Privacy Rights for more information.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the CompareMedsRx Platform and visiting your account profile page.
You may also send us an email at info@comparemedsrx.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
Certain users may have additional personal information rights and choices based on where they live. Please see Your Privacy Rights for more information.
Your Privacy Rights (including International Privacy Practices)
The laws in certain jurisdictions require us to provide users, to the extent those laws apply to such users, with certain rights and information. This means that certain users may have additional personal information rights and choices based on where they live, and with respect to those users, to the extent this portion of the Privacy Policy conflicts with any other portion of this Privacy Policy, this portion of the Privacy Policy shall supersede and control. We have tried to provide links to websites that provide more information below. If you feel that this list does not cover your rights, please immediately notify us at info@comparemedsrx.com.
If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy.
If you are a resident of the European Union or European Economic Area (the “EU”), the General Data Protection Law (“GDPR”) may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your GDPR privacy rights, visit https://eugdpr.org/the-regulation/. A list of European Union data protection authorities is available at: http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_id=612080.
If you are a Canada resident, Canadian law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your Canada privacy rights, visit https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/.
For example, certain users (such as users in California or the EU) may have the following rights with respect to their personal information:
- The right to know what information the Company collects from you, why it is collected, and how it is shared.
- The right to have access to your personal information in a portable format, to the extent technically feasible.
- The right to have your personal information deleted by the Company and its service providers (see below) and to be notified when such deletion has been completed, colloquially known as the “right to be forgotten”.
- The right to have incomplete or inaccurate personal information rectified and to be notified upon rectification.
- Withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information.
- The right to request information about the categories of information that are sold and/or to opt out of the sale of personal information.
Below is a list of our service providers or other entities with whom we may share user information and the services they generally provide.
Service Provider/Other Entity | Purpose of Data Sharing |
Discount Card Providers | Data to fulfill or verify transactions entered into through the CompareMedsRx Platform |
Professional Employer Organization / Employer | Data to fulfill or verify transactions entered into through the CompareMedsRx Platform |
Cookies | We, or other parties we do business with, may store or retrieve data about you using cookies and similar technologies (“cookies”). Cookies may be necessary for the basic functionality of the website as well as other purposes. Please refer to your device settings or your internet browser’s help section for more information on disabling and deleting certain types of cookies. |
Service Providers and Third Parties | We may share your information with the following service providers and third parties to perform services on our behalf such as:Customer engagement or relationship management platformsSurvey and customer feedback providers and platformsSoftware development toolsData providers, text delivery and email delivery softwareCustomer service softwarePrivacy management platform, such as to manage deletion requestsPrepaid card and gift card vendor |
The rights and options described above are subject to limitations and exceptions under applicable law. In situations in which the Company processes personal data on behalf of a user, the Company may refer the request to the relevant user and cooperate with their handling of the request, subject to any special contractual arrangement with that user.
If you are using the CompareMedsRx Platform, including the CompareMedsRx Site, out of the United States, your data and information is collected in the country in which you are located and is transferred to the United States or another country where our servers are located.
If you would like to request to review, correct, restrict or delete personal information that you have previously provided to us, object to the processing of 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 this right to data portability is provided to you by applicable law), please contact us at info@comparemedsrx.com. We will respond to your request in accordance with the applicable law that governs the collection, use and deletion of your data and information. The requested deletion will be as comprehensive as possible but is always subject to issues outside of our control, including applicable regulations and laws, your actions and the actions of third parties. It is important to note that we may retain a copy of the information for archival purposes and to avoid identity theft or fraud.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority of your habitual residence, place of work or place of alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of your personal data infringes applicable law. However, we encourages any such user to contact us first at info@comparemedsrx.com, and we will do our very best to promptly address such user’s issue(s) and resolve the concern(s).
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our CompareMedsRx Platform, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our CompareMedsRx Platform. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the CompareMedsRx Platform.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page with a notice that the Privacy Policy has been updated on the CompareMedsRx Platform home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the CompareMedsRx Platform home page. The date the Privacy Policy 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 email address for you, and for periodically visiting our CompareMedsRx Platform and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
info@comparemedsrx.com.
To register a complaint or concern, please contact us at: info@comparemedsrx.com.