User Privacy Policy
At Empatica, protecting User privacy is of utmost importance to us.
This User Privacy Policy (“Policy”) apply exclusively to User’s access to and use of any Empatica owned products and services made available for research purposes, collectively referred to as Empatica Health Monitoring Platform (“EHMP”). By visiting, accessing, or otherwise using any or all components of the EHMP, you confirm to have read, understood and agree to this Policy.
1. DEFINITIONS
“User” includes persons who participate in a Research Study, either as a recipient of the investigational product under investigation or as a control and are directed by the Providers to use Empatica Products.
“Research Study” refers to, without limitation, randomized controlled trials (RCTs), cohort studies, case-control studies experimental studies.
“Provider” includes persons, firms or entities that are purchasers or end-users of services or products offered, provided, developed, designed, sold, or leased by Empatica during the relevant time periods.
“Products” shall mean all product, including hardware and software products, planned, researched, developed, tested, manufactured, sold, licensed, leased, or otherwise distributed or put into use by Empatica or any of its Affiliates, together with all Services provided or planned by Empatica or any of its Affiliates.
“Device” shall mean each and any of Empatica’s hardware products designed to collect physiological data through skin contact of the Users.
“App” means a mobile application used in the Research Study designed to collect and transfer data from the Device worn by Users.
“EHMP” Empatica Health Monitoring Platform provides a remote patient monitoring system utilizing Hardware and Software products that allow Providers to monitor User’s health data throughout the Research Study.
“Personal Information” means information relating to an identified or identifiable individual (i.e., a natural person)
“Subject Data” is a natural person about whom a Provider holds personal data and who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to that personal data.
"Services" means the Subscription Services, Could Services and Support Services that Provider purchased.
2. INTRODUCTION
This Policy is designed to help you to understand what kind of information Empatica collects in connection with our products and services and how such information is used and processed. EHMP products are exclusively sold to researchers belonging to not-for-profit research institutions (like hospitals and universities) and for-profit research institutions (like pharmaceutical companies) collectively referred to as “Providers”.
