This Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice” or “Notice”) describes how BetterBrain Health, Inc. (“BetterBrain,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) and our affiliates, subsidiaries, and other related entities (collectively, “Related Entities”) and contracted professional entities collect, use, share, and protect personal information when you access or use our websites, applications, services, and related offerings (collectively, the “Services”). Please read it carefully to understand how we collect, use, and protect your information.
BetterBrain operates the BetterBrain platform and manages non-clinical and administrative aspects of the Services, including technology, analytics, and customer experience. Certain health, wellness or diagnostic services available through the Services are provided by licensed professionals affiliated with third-party professional entities with whom BetterBrain has a contract, including: Cognitive Nutrition & Wellness, LLC; Pesto Health, Inc.; Adept Labs, Inc. d/b/a Vital, its affiliate Openloop Healthcare Partners, PC; Cloud Health Medical Group, P.A.; and other medical or laboratory partners (collectively, the “Third-Party Providers”). These entities are responsible for their own clinical operations and the care they provide.
This Privacy Notice does not apply to medical and treatment information collected by health care providers who may use our Services. BETTERBRAIN CANNOT AND DOES NOT ASSUME ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR USE OR MISUSE OF PERSONAL OR OTHER INFORMATION TRANSMITTED, MONITORED, STORED, OR RECEIVED WHILE USING THE SERVICES.
When you engage with Third-Party Providers through our platform, those providers may collect, use, and share “Protected Health Information” (or “PHI”) as defined under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) in accordance with HIPAA and their own Notice of Privacy Practices. When BetterBrain acts as a Business Associate of a Covered Entity as such terms are defined by HIPAA (for example, by handling laboratory or telehealth data on their behalf), we protect PHI as required by HIPAA and our contracts with these Third-Party Providers. Any information we collect or process from your use of our website, non-clinical coaching features, or marketing or administrative tools—will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Notice and in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations at the federal, state, and local levels in the United States (collectively, “Applicable Law”).
By creating an account, scheduling a session, or otherwise accessing or using the Services, you acknowledge and agree that you have read and understand this Notice. This Notice is binding on all those who access or use the Services, whether acting as an individual or on behalf of an entity, including you and all persons, entities, or digital engines of any kind that harvest, crawl, index, scrape, spider, or mine digital content by an automated or manual process or otherwise. If you do not agree to be bound by this Notice including any subsequent modifications to it, you should not access the Services or disclose any personal information through the Services. This Notice is incorporated into and part of our Terms and Conditions.
Questions or concerns? This Notice is intended to help you understand how we may process your personal information, including how BetterBrain collects, uses, and protects your information. If you have questions, please contact our Privacy Officer at legal@betterbrain.com.
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you visit our website, register for our Services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or when you otherwise contact us.
Any personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you should notify us of any changes to such personal information, as applicable. By providing any personal information to us, you represent and warrant that you are providing or obtaining only your own information or the information of others that you are authorized to provide to third parties and/or obtain from third parties on their behalf, and the use of such information by BetterBrain and its Related Entities will not infringe upon or misappropriate the intellectual property rights or otherwise violate the rights (including privacy rights) of any third parties.
Sensitive Data. We may collect certain categories of “Sensitive Personal Information” or “Sensitive Personal Data” as defined under Applicable Law, which may include information about your health, genetic or biometric data, precise geolocation, and other data that reveals personal characteristics. We collect and use this information only as permitted by Applicable Law and, where applicable, in accordance with HIPAA.
Where required by Applicable Law, including for certain categories of Sensitive Personal Information or processing activities, we will obtain your opt-in consent before processing any such Sensitive Personal Information.
We use Sensitive Personal Information solely for the limited purposes described in this Privacy Notice, including to:
We do not sell or share Sensitive Personal Information for cross-context behavioral advertising. We may use Sensitive Personal Information to create de-identified or aggregated data that cannot reasonably be used to identify you. We take reasonable measures to ensure such data cannot be re-associated with any individual, and we will not attempt to re-identify it except for purposes of testing and maintaining our de-identification processes.
Information automatically collected
In Short: Some information — such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our Services.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes. Such information may be collected via cookies and other digital tracking technologies, and we have a Business Associate Agreement in place with vendors who create or receive such information on our behalf, where required. Please see the “DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?” section further below for additional information about our use of cookies and other digital tracking technologies.
The information we collect may include:
Analytics. The Services may use third-party analytics tools to collect and process data about your use of the Services, including when you visit the Services, URLs of the websites that you visit prior to visiting the Services and when you visit those websites, and IP addresses assigned to the devices from where you access the Internet.
Advertising Networks. From time to time the Services may use or participate in third-party advertising networks and related advertising services that are managed and provided by third-party advertising servers, advertising agencies, technology vendors, and research firms.
Such third parties, including advertisers and analytics companies, may collect information, potentially including personal information, about your activities over time and across different websites when you use our Services. Such third parties may provide BetterBrain with data collection, reporting, ad response measurement, and other analytical information. Such third parties may also assist BetterBrain with digital delivery of relevant messages and advertisements. BetterBrain has a Business Associate Agreement in place with all such third parties where required.
Please note that the Services are not set up to respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals. You may opt-out from receiving personalized advertising from some third parties by visiting here. Please note that these choices will not opt you out of receiving advertisements. You will continue to receive generic advertisements.
2. HOW DO WE PROCESS AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We process and disclose your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and as otherwise permitted by Applicable Law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your authorization.
We process and disclose your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:
HIPAA Relationship and Subsidiaries. BetterBrain may act as a Business Associate under HIPAA, depending on the service provided. Third-Party Providers employ the licensed professionals who provide clinical services. PHI collected or received through those services is used and disclosed only as permitted under HIPAA and our Business Associate Agreements with Third-Party Providers. Please review the Notice of Privacy Practices of the healthcare professional who provides you services to find out more information about how your protected health information is handled and your rights regarding that information.
3. DO WE HAVE ANY THIRD-PARTY LINKS OR CONTENT AVAILABLE THROUGH OUR SERVICES?
In Short: Yes, we may provide links to third-party websites and/or embed third-party content through our Services.
Third Party Websites, Links, and Embedded Content. The Services may link to, or be linked to, websites, applications, or services not maintained or controlled by us (collectively, “Linked Sites”). We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any such Linked Sites. This Privacy Notice does not apply to any Linked Sites or to any personal or other information that you may provide to third parties. You should read the privacy policy for any Linked Sites.
Additionally, the Services may incorporate content, including feeds, scripts embedded in the Services’ code, and visible content (e.g., videos), provided by third parties. In some cases, those third parties collect data about how you interact with their content.
Our Services may embed third-party content in video format in order to make such content available to you. By accessing a part of the Services where any such videos are available, watching an embedded video, or otherwise interacting with any content made available through such content, you signify your agreement with YouTube’s terms and conditions. YouTube collects and otherwise has access to usage data (e.g., what videos you accessed and watched) through videos embedded in the Services as further described in YouTube’s Privacy Notice. YouTube adheres to Google's privacy policies and principles, part of which allow you to control certain privacy settings and which data are collected. For more information, please visit https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/user-settings/privacy/.
If you click on one of these links or any related embedded content, please understand that you are leaving our Services, and any information you provide will not be covered by this Notice. All links to Linked Sites are provided only because they may be of interest to users of our Services or offer a service for your convenience. The fact that we offer such links should not be construed in any way as an endorsement, authorization or sponsorship of that Linked Site or its content, products or services. Please read that website’s privacy policy before providing any information. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.
You acknowledge and agree that BetterBrain has no responsibility for the accuracy or reliability of information provided by or through Linked Sites. BetterBrain does not author, edit or have any responsibility to monitor Linked Sites. You should refer to the separate terms of use, privacy policies, and other rules posted on a Linked Site before you use them. You acknowledge that we shall not be responsible or liable for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by, or in connection with, your reliance on any information, any good, any service, or any other material provided through a Linked Site. You bear all risk associated with the use of the Linked Sites, third-party services, and your correspondence or business dealings with third parties (including any advertisers) found on or through our Services. We reserve the right to terminate such links at any time.
4. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.***
The Services automatically use cookies to track your use of the Services for multiple purposes, including to facilitate and enhance the user experience on the Services and for other purposes as described below. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored on your device’s hard drive by your web browser. We use cookies to learn and track how you access and use the Services, including when and how users visit the Services and how popular particular Service pages are and aren’t. We also use cookies to recognize Services users, to help display information on the Services, and to improve your enjoyment and the usefulness of the Services, for example, by remembering and displaying certain information.
The Services may use both cookies that we implement and cookies implemented by our suppliers and other third parties. “First-party” cookies allow your browser to talk to the actual website that you are visiting, whereas “third-party” cookies allow your browser to talk to third-party websites, such as the source of an ad that appears on the website you are visiting or a third-party analytics provider. Our suppliers may use cookies and tracking technologies to track Service users across the Internet to understand how you get to the Services and for the analytics purposes disclosed in this Privacy Notice and pursuant to a Business Associate Agreement, where required.
A cookie can either be a “session” cookie or a “persistent” cookie. Session cookies exist only for so long as you are visiting the applicable website. Session cookies are typically deleted or removed when you exit or quit your browser application. Persistent cookies exist for a set period of time, which may vary. Each time you visit a website that has implemented a persistent cookie, that cookie will remain active until its predetermined expiration date.
You can choose whether to accept certain cookies by changing the settings on your browser or device. Each browser has its own methods for doing this. For example, a browser may allow you to reject cookies from certain websites, reject certain types of cookies regardless of the website, reject or disable all cookies from all websites, and/or delete previously stored cookies. Some browsers also give you the option of being notified every time a cookie is sent to your browser by a website. You can disable or limit cookies but doing so may impact your use and enjoyment of the Services and other websites. For detailed instructions on how to disable, block or delete cookies in your browser, consult your browser's help files or visit How to Manage Cookies.
Please bear in mind that if you choose to disable certain cookies, your experience with our Services may be impaired and some features may not work as they were intended. When we use cookies or other similar technologies, we may set the cookies ourselves or ask third parties to do so to help us.
The Services may also use the following types of tracking technologies: web beacons (also called clear GIFs), flash cookies, and pixels (also called pixel tags). Web beacons are tiny graphics with unique identifiers that function similarly to cookies but, in contrast to cookies, web beacons are embedded invisibly on websites. Flash cookies collect and store information about your use of a website and are commonly used for advertisements and videos.
5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Notice unless otherwise required or restricted by Applicable Law.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by Applicable Law (such as tax, accounting, or for other legal requirements).
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need or legal obligation to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information until we delete or anonymize it.
6. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.
When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means designed to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
Although we will strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and no one can guarantee absolute data security. As a result, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us or that is otherwise provided to us, and we cannot be responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of information. Electronic transmission of information over the internet or using information storage technology can be compromised by hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties who may consequently improperly collect, access, or modify your information, after your personal information has been authorized to be stored, shared with another party, or may be inadvertently disclosed beyond your or BetterBrain’s control. As a result, we cannot ensure or guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us. By using the Services, you acknowledge and accept these risks. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.
7. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.
We do not knowingly solicit data from, or market to, children under 18 years of age. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services.
8. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.
Withdrawing your consent: If we are relying on your authorization to process your personal information for purposes requiring such authorization under Applicable Law, you have the right to withdraw your authorization at any time. You can withdraw your authorization at any time by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the section "HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?" below.
However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when Applicable Law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than authorization.
Opting out of marketing and promotional communications: You can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional communications at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send, or by contacting us using the details provided in the section "HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?" below. You will then be removed from the marketing lists. However, we may still communicate with you about non-marketing matters — for example, to send you service-related messages for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.
Account information: If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can contact us using the contact information provided at the end of this Privacy Notice.
Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our archival or backup files or to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our legal terms and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.
9. DO THE SERVICES USE ANY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?
In Short: Yes, certain aspects of our Services may use or generate content through the use of artificial intelligence enabled or enhanced technologies.
Certain of our Services may generate or analyze content through the use of artificial intelligence-enabled or -enhanced technologies including, without limitation, self-improving language and content models, machine learning software and algorithms, training improvement models, image recognition and categorization, and/or other functionalities as applicable (collectively, “AI Technologies”). Results, analyses or summaries generated by such Services may be derived from the reports, images, records, content and other material that has been furnished by you.
AI Technologies remain subject to ongoing evolution and refinement. BetterBrain remains committed to constantly improving our Services to increase accuracy, reliability and safety. AI Technologies remain dynamic in nature. As such, use of Services that include such technologies may provide results or analyses that do not accurately reflect details. Your reliance upon any information obtained or used by you from our Services is solely at your own risk. BetterBrain is not responsible for the accuracy of any information or content provided to or sent by you. You are responsible for verifying the accuracy of any information, data or records that you send or receive through our Services.
When you use Services enabled or enhanced by AI Technologies, you acknowledge and agree that:
BETTERBRAIN EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO ACTIONS TAKEN OR NOT TAKEN BASED ON ANY AI TECHNOLOGIES OR THE CONTENTS OF THE RESULTS, OUTPUTS OR ANALYSES PREPARED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH. BETTERBRAIN IS NOT ENGAGED IN A COMPREHENSIVE INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF THE SUBSTANCE OR ADEQUACY OF ANY RESULTS, OUTPUTS OR ANALYSES THAT MAY BE GENERATED OR DERIVED IN CONNECTION WITH SERVICES ENABLED OR ENHANCED BY AI TECHNOLOGIES.
10. ARE THE SERVICES FOR INTERNATIONAL USERS?
The Services are intended solely for use by individuals located in the United States. If you visit our website or use any Services, your information, including personal information, may be transferred to and maintained on computers located in the United States, where the data protection laws may differ from those where you reside. By using the Services, you consent to the collection and transfer of information about you, including your personal information, in and to the United States and the use and disclosure of information about you, including your personal information, as described in this Notice.
11. DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: Certain U.S. states require additional disclosures and provide users residing in such U.S. states with additional choices and rights. Please see our “CONSUMER HEALTH DATA NOTICE” further below for additional information.
12. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
In Short: Yes, we may update this Notice from time to time.
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Last Updated" date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible or as otherwise indicated. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy Notice frequently to be informed of how we are processing your personal information and to check for any changes.
13. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
If you have questions or comments about this Notice, you may email our Privacy Officer at legal@betterbrain.com or contact us by post at:
BetterBrain Health, Inc
600 Superior Ave. E., Suite 1800
Cleveland, OH 44114
United States
CONSUMER HEALTH DATA NOTICE
This Consumer Health Data Notice supplements our Notice and applies to Personal Information defined as “consumer health data” under Applicable Laws, including Washington's My Health My Data Act (MHMDA), and the Nevada Health Data Privacy Act (NHDPA). Information that is Protected Health Information under HIPAA is exempt from these laws. Non-PHI that we collect can fall under the following specific categories of consumer health data:
As explained in Section 1 of this Notice, the data we collect and share depends on how you use our Services. Consumer health data is defined broadly, so many categories of data we collect or share may also be considered consumer health data. You can find more information about our purposes for collecting data, including how we use data, in Section 1 of this Notice, and you can find more information about our purposes for sharing data in Section 2 of this Notice.
We may use your consumer health data for the following purposes:
Consumer health data privacy rights: If you are covered by the MHMDA, the NHDPA, or other applicable consumer health privacy law, then you may have certain rights with respect to consumer health data, including rights to access, request erasure, or withdraw consent relating to such data, subject to certain exceptions.
To exercise any of the above rights regarding your consumer health data, please contact our Privacy Officer at legal@betterbrain.com. When submitting your request, we may request sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify your identity and details that allow us to understand, evaluate, and respond to your request.