Welcome to the Renew Healthcare website, mobile app, and related sites and digital and online services (“Renew Healthcare Site,” the “Site,” or “Sites”), an online e-commerce, information, and communications service provided by Renew Healthcare and all affiliates (“Renew Healthcare” or “We” or “Us”).
We take your privacy seriously, and we want you to know how we collect, use, share, and protect your information. In addition to this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”), users of the Renew Healthcare site should consult the Renew Healthcare site Terms of Use as well as any product-specific terms and conditions that apply. You may review policies specifically related to patient information (protected health information or PHI)
This Privacy Policy applies to all Sites where it is posted. Other Renew Healthcare online properties may have their own privacy policies that apply to those sites. You should review those privacy policies in connection with your use of those sites.
What information we collect
Information you give us: We respect the right to privacy of all visitors to the Renew Healthcare Sites. We receive and store some information that you enter on our Sites or that you provide to us through the Sites in any other way.
The information we collect or that you provide on or through our Sites or by using our services includes:
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “Posted”) on public areas of the Sites or transmitted to other users of the Sites or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are Posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Sites with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Information we collect automatically: We collect information about you automatically as you navigate through or use our Sites. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, session replay and recording technology (recording your movements, clicks, etc. on our Sites), and information collected through cookies, web beacons, pixels tags, and other tracking technologies. As you navigate through and interact with our Sites, we may use automatic data collection technologies (such as session replay and tracking technologies referred to above) to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, specifically:
The information we collect automatically may include Personal Data or we may maintain or associate information we collect with Personal Data we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Sites and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Email communications, newsletter, and related services
Our Sites provide you with the opportunity to receive communications from us or third parties. For example, you can sign up for a free Renew Healthcare email newsletter. You can unsubscribe from this newsletter at any time. You may use the unsubscribe mechanism or link in our marketing emails if you wish to stop receiving marketing emails from us.
Email communications that you send to us via the email links on our Site may be shared with a customer service representative, employee, medical expert, or agent that is most able to address your inquiry. We make every effort to respond in a timely fashion once communications are received. Once we have responded to your communication, it is discarded or archived, depending on the nature of the inquiry. Note, that email communications that you send us via the email links on our Site are not automatically encrypted, and it is possible that unencrypted email communications with us may be accessed or viewed by another internet user while in transit to us.
Surveys
We occasionally survey visitors to our site. The information from these surveys is used in aggregated, de-identified form to help us understand the needs of our visitors so that we can improve our site. The information may be shared with third parties with whom we have a business relationship. We generally do not ask for information in surveys that would personally identify you; if we do request contact information for follow-up, you may decline to provide it. If survey respondents provide personal information (such as an email address) in a survey, it is shared only with those people who need to see it to respond to the question or request, or with third parties who perform data management services for our site. Those third parties have agreed to keep all data from surveys confidential.
How we use the information we collect
In addition to the uses described above, we use the information we collect for things like:
We may combine this information with any other information we have about you, including, if you are a Renew Healthcare patient, any PHI we have about you. If we combine this information with your PHI, we will treat all of that information as PHI and will only use or disclose that information as set forth in our Notice of Privacy Practices.
Texting
If you sign up to receive text messages from us on any of our Sites, you are consenting to receive text messages related to your relationship with Renew Healthcare, including updates related to your visits, your Renew Healthcare Patient Portal account, one-time passcodes, billing notifications, prescription reminders, and care management. These texts are unencrypted and message and data rates may apply. Message frequency may vary.
You can opt-out of SMS messages by texting STOP to the respective short code. Your opt-out request will generate one final message confirming that you have been unsubscribed. You will no longer receive SMS messages from the short code you opted out from. If you want to join again, sign up using your Renew Healthcare Online Services account or text HELP to the short code for instructions.
If you are experiencing issues with the messaging program, you can reply with the keyword HELP for more assistance. You can also contact Renew Healthcare Customer Assistance via phone at +91 6292269060.
Data retention
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. You may request that we delete your data by contacting us as provided below. However, we may not be able to honour that request in all instances given the laws and regulations that apply to us. For example, under state and federal law, we may be required to maintain some data that is specific to you and that may identify you, such as your medical records or other information. We may also have a legal basis or obligation to maintain medical and other information about you to provide care and treatment or to comply with our professional, legal, and other obligations.
Disclosure of your information
We may share the information we collect about you with third parties who we have engaged to help us provide the Site, as well as the products and services available through our Site. Your Personal Data may be disclosed to affiliates, contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business; any such use of Personal Data that includes protected health information. The services provided by these organizations include providing IT and infrastructure support services, advertising, marketing, and payment processing services. Advertising and marketing partners may receive and use your Personal Data to assist us with our advertising and marketing efforts. In each case, we will ensure that these third parties have agreed to safeguard your data.
We may also disclose your Personal Data:
Choices about how we use and disclose your information
Our sponsors and advertisers have agreed that they will not collect any personally identifiable information from our Site visitors while using our Sites; however, we do not control the use of cookies provided by other third parties, nor do we manage the information collected by other third parties. These third parties may aggregate the information they collect with information from their other customers for their own purposes and in accordance with their own respective privacy policies.
In addition, we strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Data you provide to us. We have created or you have available mechanisms to provide you with control over your Personal Data:
Your rights regarding your information and accessing and correcting your information
For non-patient information, you can Contact Us through the Contact Information below to access and/or find out what information we have about you and to correct that information. You can also review and change your Personal Data by logging into our site and visiting either the Settings or Account Preferences sections. You may also notify us through the Contact Information below of any changes or errors in any Personal Data we have about you to ensure that it is complete, accurate, and as current as possible or to delete your account. We cannot completely delete your personal information except by also deleting your account with us. We may not be able to accommodate your request if we believe it would violate any law or legal requirement or if we have a legal basis or obligation to maintain it, or if it would cause the information to be incorrect.
Security
Whether you are visiting the Renew Healthcare Site or one of our clinic locations, we use reasonable security measures to protect the confidentiality of personal information under our control, and we appropriately limit access to it. We use a variety of information security measures to protect your online transactions with us. The Renew Healthcare Site uses encryption technology to protect your personal information during data transport. SSL protects information you submit via our website, such as ordering information including your name, address, and credit card number. That being said, Renew Healthcare cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. We have taken reasonable steps to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of personally identifiable information that you may provide. You should understand, however, that electronic transmissions via the internet are not necessarily secure from interception, and so we cannot absolutely guarantee the security or confidentiality of such transmissions.
Transfers: Personal data we collect may be transferred to, and stored and processed in, the United States or any other country in which we or our affiliates or processors maintain facilities. We will ensure that transfers of personal data to a country or an international organization outside the EEA, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland are subject to appropriate safeguards.
Complaints or concerns: You are welcome to raise any complaints or concerns to Renew Healthcare by contacting at info@renewhealthcare.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
Protecting children’s privacy
Our Sites are not intended for users under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or through the Sites. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from users under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on or in our Sites or on or through any of their features, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from a user under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from a user under 18, please contact us at the contact information below.
Our Patient Portal is available to patients 18 years of age and older. It is also available to patients who are between the ages of 13 years old and 17 years old with the permission of their parents or legal guardians.
Links to other websites
Our Sites may link to other websites that have their own privacy policies. Be sure to review the privacy policy on the site you’re visiting.
Privacy policy updates
We may need to update our Privacy Policy as technology changes and Renew Healthcare evolves. If we make significant changes to this Privacy Policy, we’ll post a prominent message on our websites.
Contact information
If you have a question or concern regarding your privacy, please contact using the contact information below:
Renew Healthcare
18C, Mandeville Gardens, Kolkata 19.