eMeds Privacy Policy

Taking effect on February 1^st, 2019

eMeds attaches great importance to protecting user’s privacy and personal information. When you use our products or services, we might collect or use your personal information. We wish to explain to you how we collect, use, save, share or transfer this information when you use our products or services, and how you give us authorization to collect, use, save, share and transfer your personal information according to this privacy policy.

This privacy policy helps you understand the following contents:

1. Why we collect and use your personal information
2. How we share, transfer and disclose your personal information
3. How you manage your personal information

 

1.Why We Collect and Use Your Personal Information

Personal information refers to all sorts of information recorded electronically or by other means that can individually or in combination with other information to identify natural person or reflect the activities of natural person. The personal information concerned in this privacy policy includes: basic information (including name, date of birth, gender, address, phone number, email, drug name on prescription, drug taking record, various examinations and the date of returning for checkup); personal identification information (including identity card, officer certificate, passport, etc). The functions that are necessary to update our products or services and the functions that are necessary to ensure the information security.

We will only collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

Realizing the functions of recording and setting up the time of taking drug and other reminder functions.

Our products and services include some core functions such as automatically importing the drugs on prescription, drug taking instructions, reminding the date of various examinations and returning for checkup and the function of recording the time of taking drug. If you do not provide the related information, you will be unable to enjoy our products or services.

The functions that are necessary for updating our products or services

We might collect the information on the drug name and your drug taking record to conduct data analysis to help you and your physician to learn about the actual situation of drug taking and whether you have achieved the desire effects; if there are other drugs or health care products to cure the same type of illness.

Functions that are necessary to ensure information security

To strengthen the system security when you use our products or services, your drug taking record can only be accessed through the third-party guardian (except for hospital) appointed by you and viewed at eMeds.
 

2.How to Share, Transfer and Disclose Your Personal Information

Share

1.We will never share your personal information with companies, organizations and individuals other than eMeds, but the following cases are exceptions:

（1）Obtaining your explicit agreement or authorization in advance;
（2）in accordance with the applicable laws or regulations, mandatory administrative or legal requirements;
（3）for the purpose of protecting the public interests, assets or security of eMeds, related parties or business partners
（4）Only by sharing your personal information can we realize the core functions of our products or services or provide the services you need (such as hospital, clinic or drug store);
（5）Resolving the conflicts between you and others in response to your requirements.
（6）In accordance with the agreement signed with you (including electronic agreement signed online or corresponding platform rules) or other law documents
（7）Use for academic research
（8）Use for public interests in accordance with laws and regulations

2.We might share your personal information with third party like our related parties or business partners. Rest assured that we only share necessary personal information and are bound by the purposes stated in this privacy policy. Our related party are obligated to ask your permission if they wish to change the purpose of processing personal information. Our related party and business partner have no rights to use the shared personal information for other purposes. Our business partner include the following types:

(1) Product or technology service supplier. We might share your personal information with the third party that support our functions. This support include providing products for us or infrastructure technical services, data processing, etc. The goal of us sharing this information is to realize the core shopping function for our products or services. For example, we must share your information with technical services supplier to record medication or conduct data analysis, etc.

(2) Business partners that entrust us to promote product or services. Sometimes, we present promotional services to our customers on behalf of other companies. We might share your personal information with the business partners who entrust the promotional services to us. However, we only provide the information of coverage or effectiveness of promotion to the entrusting parties. We will not provide your personal information. Or we will summarize this information in order that you will not be identified. E.g. we could tell the entrusting party how many people have seen their promotion information or buy their products after seeing the promotion information. Or we provide the statistical information that cannot identify you and help them learn about their potential customers.

Transfer

We will not transfer your personal information to any company, organization or individual, but the following cases are exceptions:

1. Getting your explicit agreement or authorization;
2. According to the applicable laws and regulations, mandatory administrative or legal requirements.
3. When business merging, acquiring, asset transferring or similar trade is involved, if personal information transfer is concerned, we will require the new holder of your personal information to continue to be bound by this privacy policy, otherwise, we will request the particular company or organization to regain your agreement or authorization.

Public Disclosure

We will only disclose your personal information under the following circumstances:

1. According to your needs, we disclose the personal information appointed by you in a way explicitly agreed by you.
2. Under the circumstances when your personal information is requested in accordance with the laws and regulations, mandatory administrative or legal requirements, we might disclose your personal information according to the information type or way of disclosure requested. In compliance with the law, when we receive the request to disclose your personal information, we will request to be presented the relevant law documents such as court summons or survey letter. We maintain that we keep the information as transparent as possible within legislation. We examine all the requests discreetly to make sure of their legality and all of them are made to fulfill particular investigation purposes.

How to Manage Your Personal Information

When you download eMeds app, please read our privacy policy and press the button of agreeing to give authorization and the button of use to start using our product or services.

1. Fill in user profile after entering the menu page.
2. Click menu to enter system setting, and adjust the medication reminding according to the user’s personal schedule.
3. By clicking “＋” Rx added on the top right and authorizing the app to scan the QR code on the recipe with the smart phone’s camera, you can see that all drugs in the recipe corresponding the method of medication and other reminders are automatically imported to the user’s smart phone.
4. Click the NFC mark on the right side of the medicine, gently touch the NFC mark on the lid of the smart cap with the rear side of the smart phone. when the drug in the smart cap is consistent with the one set for reminding, “√” is displayed on the page. When the drug in the smart cap is inconsistent with the one set for reminding, click “confirm” to repeat the above-mentioned action.
5. Confirmed that all the medicine imported into the cell phone is consistent with the recipe, and then click the clock icon on the top right to automatically schedule medication reminding within 24 hours.
6. Click the icon of eMeds at the bottom, you can check today’s or tomorrow’s medication reminding app scheduled for you. If you want to check the medication records, you can click the magnifying glass on this page (to open the calendar) and click the date of the medication record that you want to check.
7. How to record medication. When the medication reminder goes off, gently touch the NFC icon on the smart cap with the rear side of the smart phone. When the drug in the smart cap is consistent with the one set for reminding, the app will start to record the medication time. Please take drug following the instructions of eMeds, do not break off for fear of untrue medication record. If the drug in the smart cap is inconsistent with the one set for reminding, click “confirm” to repeat step 3.
8. Deleting eMeds app or deleting personal profile from the menu page, you will not be able to retrieve any information on medication record. If conflicts or controversies are caused after deleting the app, it does not exempt or alleviate the previous medication record or relevant responsibilities.

Personal information protection of juveniles or the natural person entrusted to third party.

1. If you are juvenile under 18 or natural person entrusted to a third-party, you are supposed to obtain the written permission of your parents, family or legal guardian.
2. With regard to the situation of collecting information on juvenile with the permission of parents, family or legal guardian, we only use or disclose this information when explicitly permitted by law, parents or guardian or third party entrusted to look after the natural person.
3. If we collect the person information on juvenile or the natural person entrusted to third party without the permission of parents, family or legal guardian, we will manage to delete the data as soon as possible.

Notifying and Revising

To better serve you with the business expansion of eMeds, we will keep updating this privacy policy. Without your explicit permission, we will not undermine your rights based on this privacy policy. We will post the updated version through the website of eMeds. Before the updated version takes effect, we will inform you of the update of the relevant content through website announcement or other proper ways. Please visit the website of eMeds to learn about the latest privacy policy.