Privacy Policy
Effective Date: March 1, 2022 This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes the data handling practices of Beam Together MSO, LLC and Beam Healthcare S.C. and their respective affiliates (collectively, “Beam,” “we,” “our,” or “us”), including when you visit any Beam website or mobile device that links to this Privacy Policy and those that host the Beam platform or otherwise communicate with us or use our services, including services provided or hosted via third-party platforms (together referred to as our “Services”).
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using our Services and providing your personal information to us.
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- Identifiers and contact information, such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, account log-in credentials (if you create an account), and your IP address. We generally use this information to provide you with our Services, respond to your communications with us, for identity verification, and to help manage your account, if you create an account with us. Transactional information, such as your billing information, payment card information, and identity verification information. Our third-party payment processor collects this information on our behalf for purposes of processing your payments in connection with your use of the Services.
- Health-related information, such as your medical conditions, treatment options, specialist referrals, prescriptions, and lab results, or other related health information, such as your physical and emotional characteristics. We generally use this information to provide you with our Services, including to facilitate your interaction and the healthcare related services provided by health care providers.
- Commercial information, such as information about your purchases or other transactions with us. We generally use this information to provide you with our services and to keep records of the products and services you have purchased from us.
- Certain protected characteristics, such as demographic information like your gender and age. We generally use this information to help provide our Services to you.
- Professional and employment-related information, such as information you provide to us in a job application, if you apply for a position at Beam. We use information for purposes of evaluating your candidacy for the position you applied for.
- Any other personal information you choose to directly provide to us, such as user-generated content you post on public forums on our Services.
- Internet and other electronic network activity information, such as your IP address, browser type, browser language, operating system, the location from which you access our Services, device IDs, referring and exit pages and URLS, platform type, the number of clicks, files you download, domain names, landing pages, pages your viewed, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the terms you used to conduct searches on our Platform, the date and time you used our Services, error logs and other similar information. We collect this information generally for our own business analytics and marketing purposes as well as to better customize our content and Services to your preferences. You can learn more about how we use tracking technologies in Section 3 entitled “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies” below.
From Third Parties Partners. We work closely with third parties, including, for example, physicians, medical professionals, labs, and pharmacies with whom we partner to provide you with the Services and to help facilitate their provision of their healthcare-related services. These third parties may provide us with your personal information.
From Social Media and Other Content Platforms. When you “like” or “follow” us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or other social media sites, we may collect some information from you including your name, email address, and any comments or content you post relevant to us. We also collect your information if you sign up for one of our promotions or submit information to us through social media sites.
In addition to how we use your personal information as described above in this section, we may also use your personal information for the following purposes:
- Carry out, improve, and manage the Services and, as applicable, facilitate the provision of health care services to you by physicians or other health care providers and ensure that the physicians or health care providers have the services and support necessary for health care operations.
- Engage in internal research to understand the effectiveness of our Services, improve our Services, and better understand our user base. If we publish or provide the results of this research to others, such research will be presented in a de-identified and aggregate form such that individual users cannot be identified.
- Communicate with you about the Services, your use of the Services, or your inquiries related to the Services and send you communications on behalf of physicians, labs, pharmacies or other health care providers utilizing the Services to meet your needs.
- Communicate with you by email, postal mail, or phone about surveys, promotions, special events or our products and Services and those of our subsidiaries, affiliates, and parent companies and any of their related businesses and those of our third-party partners.
- Provide you with technical support and customer service. Verify your identity and administer your account, including processing your payments and fulfilling your orders.
- Take steps designed to ensure that content from our Services is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or device, allow you to participate in interactive features of our Services (when you choose to do so), and as part of our efforts to keep our Services safe and secure.
- Measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising and content we serve to you and others, and to deliver and customize relevant advertising and content to you.
- Help us better understand your interests and needs, such as by engaging in analysis and research regarding use of the Services.
- Comply in good faith with any procedures, laws, and regulations which apply to us where it is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of others.
- Establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights where it is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of others.
Aggregate/De-Identified Data. We may aggregate and/or de-identify any information collected through the Services so that such information can no longer be linked to you, your household, or your device (“Aggregate/De-Identified Information”). We may use Aggregate/De-Identified Information for any purpose, including for research and marketing purposes, and may also share such data with any third parties, including advertisers, promotional partners, and sponsors.
- Service Providers. We provide access to and may share your personal information with select third parties who use the information to perform services on our behalf (“Service Providers”). They provide a variety of services to us, including for example, billing, sales, marketing, advertising, analytics, research, customer service, shipping and fulfillment, data storage, IT and security, fraud prevention, payment processing, and auditing and legal services. These entities may also include health care organizations, medical device manufacturers and vendors, pharmacies, and other third parties we use to support our business or in connection with the administration and support of the Services. Our policy is to require Service Providers to only use your personal information for purposes of providing their services to us.
- Affiliates and Subsidiaries. We may share information we collect within any Beam member or group (i.e., our subsidiaries and affiliates, including our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries) to deliver products and services to you, ensure a consistent level of service across our products and services, and enhance our products, services, and your customer experience.
- Health Care Providers. We may share your personal information with health care providers: (i) to schedule and fulfill appointments and provide health care services as part of the Services, (ii) to whom you send messages through our Services, and (iii) for other treatment, payment or health care operations purposes, including pharmacy services, upon your request.
- Other Third Parties. We may share your personal information with third-party
companies or individuals outside of Beam (a “Third Party”). For example:
- Certain features of our Services make it possible for you to share comments publicly with other users. Any information that you submit through such features is not confidential, and we may use it for any purpose (including in testimonials or other marketing materials). For example, if you submit a product review on our Platform, we may display your review (along with the name provided, if any) on other Beam websites and on third-party websites. Any information you post openly in these ways will be available to the public at large and potentially accessible through third-party search engines. Accordingly, please take care when using these features.
- From time to time, we may be required to provide personal information to a Third Party in response to a court order, subpoena, government investigation, or as otherwise required by law or legal process.
- We may share your personal information with Third Parties, such as law enforcement agencies, other government agencies, or health authorities (i) when we, in good faith, believe you or others are acting unlawfully, (ii) when we believe it is necessary or appropriate to satisfy any law, regulation or other governmental request, (iii) to operate our business and Services properly, (iv) to protect or defend our rights or the rights or well-being of our users, even without a subpoena, warrant or court order, or (v) we believe disclosure is necessary to protect the health and safety of our personnel, clients, guests, and the general public.
- Business Transfers. We may, as a result of a sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of assets, reorganization or liquidation of our company (a “Reorganization Event”), transfer or assign your personal information to parties involved in the Reorganization Event. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and are permitted by and subject to this Privacy Policy.
- With Your Consent. We may also disclose your personal information in other ways you direct us to and when we have your consent.
Online Advertising. The Services may integrate third-party advertising technologies
(e.g., ad networks and ad servers such as Facebook, Google Ad Words, Criteo and
others) that use cookies and other technologies to deliver relevant content and
advertising for Beam products on the Services, as well as on other websites you visit
and other applications you use. The ads may be based on various factors such as the
content of the page you are visiting, information you enter such as your searches,
demographic data, and other information we collect from you. These ads may be based
on your current activity or your activity over time and across other websites and online
services.
Notice Concerning Do Not Track. Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that
users can set in certain web browsers. We are committed to providing you with
meaningful choices about the information collected on our website for third party
purposes, and that is why we provide the variety of opt-out mechanisms listed above.
However, we do not currently recognize or respond to browser-initiated DNT signals. To
learn more about Do Not Track, you can do so here.
- In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have collected the categories of personal information as described above in Section 1 entitled “How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information.”
- In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have used and shared your personal information as described in Section 1 “How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information” and Section 2 “How We Share and Disclose Your Personal Information.”
- We have not sold your personal information in the past twelve (12) months.
- The right to know. You have the right to request to know (i) the specific pieces of personal information we have about you; (ii) the categories of personal information we have collected about you in the last 12 months; (iii) the categories of sources from which that personal information was collected; (iv) the categories of your personal information that we have sold or disclosed in the past 12 months; (v) the categories of third parties to whom your personal information was sold or disclosed in the past 12 months; and (vi) the purposes for collecting and selling (if applicable) your personal information.
- The right to deletion. You have the right to request that we delete the personal information we have about you. We may deny your request under certain circumstances, such as if we need to comply with our legal obligations or complete a transaction for which your personal information was collected. If we deny your request for deletion, we will let you know the reason why.
- The right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. However, we do not sell your personal information.
- The right to equal service. If you choose to exercise any of your privacy rights, we will not discriminate against you in any way. If you exercise certain rights, however, please understand that you may be unable to use or access certain features of our Services.