SHAREPATH PRIVACY POLICY
(LAST UPDATED January 5, 2023)
Thank you for visiting SHAREPATH. This Privacy Policy describes how SHAREPATH INC. and its subsidiaries and affiliated companies (collectively, “SHAREPATH”, “we” or “our”) collect, use and disclose personal information of visitors to our websites, users of our online and offline services and others to whom we expressly provide that this Privacy Policy will apply.
THE INFORMATION SHAREPATH COLLECTS AND HOW WE USE THIS INFORMATION
SHAREPATH only obtains personally identifiable information such as your name, email address, mobile phone number, practice specialty and other information. For example, personal information may be collected from you to:
- Opt-in to via our website or other communications
- Transmit RSVP program participation information regarding any of our programs
- Register for our program invitation lists
- Register as user of online or mobile products or services we offer
- Register for programs or offers conducted through our websites or mobile communications
- Respond to offer inquiries and speaker applications submitted by you
- Respond to other information submitted by you through any of our communications
- Respond to your comments regarding a SHAREPATH programs or communications
This information will be used for the purposes for which you provide it. We may also use this information to communicate with you from time to time for other purposes, such as to create personalized communications by combining your personal information with non-personal information about you, such practice location, intra-practice peers and health system affiliations.
In addition, we may verify your status as a Healthcare Professional using publicly available information, such as the National Provider Identifier (NPI) registry, A federal government website managed by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services https://npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov/. This publicly available information may be collected about you even if you have not interacted with us.
We may also use information you provide us for additional purposes as described under “Sharing of Personal Information.”
In addition to personally identifiable information about you, SHAREPATH may collect aggregated data or anonymized data that does not directly identify you. For example, we may automatically collect website use information, such as information about your Internet service provider, your operating system, browser type, domain name, Internet protocol (IP) address, your access times, the website that referred you to us, the Web pages you request, and the date and time of those requests.
CALIFORNIA’S DO NOT TRACK NOTICE
SHAREPATH does not support Do Not Track browser settings and does not currently participate in any Do Not Track frameworks that would allow any of our sites to respond to signals or other mechanisms from you regarding the collection of your personal information. However, our sites do not track any personally identifiable information on our sites unless you intentionally provide it to us (such as when you join our network, opt-in to our invitation lists).
MOBILE TERMS & CONDITIONS
MOBILE ALERTS
You must be 21 years of age or older to participate in the SHAREPATH mobile text program.
By participating in the SHAREPATH mobile text program and signing up for mobile offers, invitations and text , you consent to receive future promotional text messages to the mobile number provided from or on behalf of SHAREPATH.
Message and data rates may apply. All charges are billed by and payable to your mobile service provider. SHAREPATH does not charge you for sending or receiving text messages.
If you would like to be removed from the SHAREPATH mobile text program, you must text STOP to any text message received to opt-out. This is the exclusive method for opting out. After texting STOP to any text message you may have received, you will receive one additional message confirming that your request has been processed.
SHAREPATH reserves the right to remove subscribers from our messaging database at our discretion.
In the event that you change or deactivate your mobile number, it is your responsibility to notify SHAREPATH to have your number removed.
SHAREPATH will not be liable for any delays in the receipt of any SMS messages or undelivered messages.
Data obtained from you in connection with this SMS service may include your cell phone number, your carrier’s name, the date, time and content of your messages and other information you provide to us as part of this service. We may use this information to contact you and to provide the new, notifications, invitations and other promotional services requested by way of “opting-in” to SHAREPATH mobile text program.
These mobile terms and conditions as well as the rest of the privacy policy are subject to change at any time without notice.
You will receive 1 marketing message to the number provided at entry. Message and data rates may apply. Text STOP to cancel.
View our Terms of Use here.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION, ARBITRATION CLAUSE AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER
You agree that any claim or dispute at law or equity that has arisen or may arise relating in any way to or arising out of this Privacy Policy will be resolved in accordance with the provisions set forth in this Dispute Resolution section.
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR RIGHTS AND WILL HAVE A SUBSTANTIAL IMPACT ON HOW CLAIMS YOU AND WE HAVE AGAINST EACH OTHER ARE RESOLVED.
You agree that whenever you have a disagreement with SHAREPATH arising out of, connected to, or in any way related to this Privacy Policy, you will send a written notice to SHAREPATH (“Demand”). You agree that the requirements of this Dispute Resolution section will apply even to disagreements that may have arisen before you accepted this Privacy Policy.
You must send the Demand to the following address (the “Notice Address”):
Legal Department
SharePath Inc.
100 Weston Estates,
Cary, NC 27513
You agree that you will not take any legal action, including filing a lawsuit or demanding arbitration, until 20 business days after you send a Demand. If the disagreement stated in the Demand is not resolved to your satisfaction within 10 business days after it is received, and you intend on taking legal action, you agree that you will file a demand for arbitration with the American Arbitration Association (the “Arbitrator”). This arbitration provision limits the ability of you and SHAREPATH to litigate claims in court and you and SHAREPATH each agree to waive your respective rights to a jury trial or a state or federal judge. There is no judge or jury in arbitration, and court review of an arbitration award is limited. However, an arbitrator can award on an individual basis the same damages and relief as a court (including injunctive and declaratory relief or statutory damages), and must follow this Privacy Policy as a court would. You agree that you will not file any lawsuit against SHAREPATH in any state or federal court. You agree that if you do sue in state or federal court, and SHAREPATH brings a successful motion to compel arbitration, you must pay all fees and costs incurred by SHAREPATH in court, including reasonable attorney’s fees. For any such filing of a demand for arbitration, you must effect proper service under the rules of the Arbitrator and notice to the Notice Address may not be sufficient. If, for any reason, the American Arbitration Association is unable to conduct the arbitration, you may file your case with any national arbitration company. The Arbitrator shall apply the AAA Consumer-Related Disputes Supplementary Procedure effective September 15, 2005 (as may be amended) and as modified by the agreement to arbitrate in this Dispute Resolution section. You agree that the Arbitrator will have sole and exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute you have with SHAREPATH. The Federal Arbitration Act allows for the enforcement of arbitration agreements and governs the interpretation and enforcement of the agreement to arbitrate.
You agree that you will not file a class action or collective action against SHAREPATH, and that you will not participate in a class action or collective action against them.
You agree that you will not join your claims to those of any other person. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Privacy Policy, if this class action waiver is invalidated, then the agreement to arbitrate is null and void, as though it were never entered into, and any arbitration dispute at that time will be dismissed without prejudice and may be refiled in a court. Under no circumstances do you or SHAREPATH agree to class or collective procedures in arbitration or the joinder of claims in arbitration. SHAREPATH agrees that we will submit all disputes with you to arbitration before the Arbitrator.
USE OF COOKIES
We may use cookies for a variety of purposes to improve your visits to our websites. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to the hard drive on your computer for record-keeping purposes. These cookies will allow the website to remember important information that will make your use of the website more convenient. For example, we track the total number of visitors to our websites on an anonymous aggregate basis. We also use cookies so that we remember you when you return to our websites.
You can use the options in your web browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or otherwise change your cookie preferences. Click on the “Help” section of your browser to learn how to make those changes. But remember, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of all the exciting features of our websites.
SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
SHAREPATH uses its best efforts to protect your personally-identifiable information and privacy. We may from time to time disclose your personal information to third parties for the limited purposes described in this policy.
We may send marketing information to you, such as promotional offers or information about our programming, invitations or events. If you do not want to receive this information, you can contact us to opt out and we will not send it to you thereafter. We may send marketing information to you on behalf of one of our sponsors (e.g. pharmaceutical or healthcare organization). On our websites, during our events, or elsewhere, we may ask if you want to receive marketing materials from our sponsors. SHAREPATH may share your personal information with any of its sponsors. Often this sharing is required to satisfy Sunshine Act requirements. In some cases, it’s to help our sponsors understand the segment of healthcare professions we have with communicated as part of our programming. We may send your mailings, e-mails, text messages or similar communications on behalf of the business partner.
We keep your inquiries to work with us confidential. However, we may share personal information within our affiliated companies for purposes of evaluating you as a candidate for Speaker / Educator opportunities.
SHAREPATH does reserve the right to use or disclose any information as needed to satisfy any law, regulation or legal request, to fulfill your requests, or to cooperate in any law enforcement or similar investigation.
Finally, we may also share aggregated or anonymized information that identifies you by your NPI number https://npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov/.
ACCESS AND OPTING OUT
You are in control of any personal information you give us. If at any time, you want to correct the personal information we have about you, or if you want to change your preferences for contacts from us or on behalf of our business partners, send us an e-mail or a letter.
Web Address: www.sharepath.com/contact
Contact Customer Service here:
SharePath Inc.
100 Weston Estates Way.
Cary, NC 27513
SHAREPATH’ WEB SITE SECURITY
We take reasonable steps to maintain physical, technical and administrative security of personal information you provide to us. Although we take these steps to safeguard your personal information, no system or transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. In addition, although we generally obligate third parties who support our websites and their related offers or other programs to use any personal information only for the purpose of performing their work, we do not control such third parties’ website or other security measures.
In the event you send SHAREPATH an e-mail, please remember that the e-mail is not necessarily secured against interception by another party. If you do not want any sensitive personal information to be subject to this risk (i.e. information that you may supply us), please contact us by mail or telephone at:
SharePath Inc.
100 Weston Estates Way
Cary, NC 27513
Phone: (919) 380-9800
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Some of our invitations to education, tools and resources link to sites other than those maintained by SHAREPATH. If you visit one of these linked websites, you are then subject to the privacy policies and other policies of the new website and are no longer protected by our policies. We are not responsible for, or able to monitor or control, the policies and practices of other companies.
CHANGES TO SHAREPATH’ PRIVACY POLICY
From time to time, SHAREPATH may change this privacy policy. Thus, you should check here periodically to see if anything has changed.
INDEMNIFICATION
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless SHAREPATH, its affiliates, its providers, and its officers, directors, employees, attorneys, and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, costs (including reasonable attorneys’ fees), and expenses that arise directly or indirectly out of or from: (1) your breach of this Privacy Policy; and/or (2) your activities in connection with the services and/or materials, programs, and features to which we expressly provide that this Privacy Policy will apply.