Privacy Policy
Effective date: October 1, 2024
JScreen.Org, Inc. including its subsidiaries and affiliates (referred to collectively as “jscreen,” “we”or “us”), is committed to protecting the privacy of our Website users, Program participants, and Service recipients (referred to as “you”). This Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) provides the terms that apply to our Websites, services, and interactions with you (collectively the “Services”). This Policy describes how we collect, use, secure and share your personal information when you:
- Access or use our various products or services, including the jscreen genetic testing support program (the “Program”);
- Access or use our websites that link to this Policy (“Websites”);
- Interact with us, including by email, telephone, social media, and in person; or
- Otherwise communicate with us.
This Policy explains how we use and disclose your personal information, including your protected health information (“PHI”) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996(“HIPAA”) that we collect on behalf of and/or receive from your medical service providers, including your ordering physician and the laboratory that performs your genetic testing. PHI may include, but is not limited to, your genetic testing information and results.
- SEPARATE TERMS OF USE. This Policy is not a contract and does not create any contractual rights or obligations. Your use of the Services is governed by the jscreen Terms of Use or other terms of use or contract linked to a particular Service.
- POLICY UPDATES. jscreen may revise this Policy from time to time. All updates to this Policy will be posted on our Website. An updated Policy will supersede all previous versions. If we make any material changes to this Policy, we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) in addition to posting an updated Policy on our Websites. Your continued use of our Services after we have posted the updated Policy on the Websites constitutes your acceptance of such changes. jscreen may also provide additional "just-in-time" notices or information about its data collection, use, and sharing practices in relation to specific Services.
- TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT. This section lists the general categories of personal information we collect for the Services.
Throughout this Policy we use the term “personal information” to describe any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to a particular person or household. Personal information includes, for example, PHI under HIPAA. This Policy covers all personal information that we collect from you or on your behalf through our Services.
We may collect the following types of personal information:- Personal information provided by you or your clinician. We collect any personal information that you voluntarily provide to us, such as health information you provide to us or your clinician, or that your clinician provides to us either directly or via health information exchanges, to facilitate our provision of Services. If you are an ordering clinician, we may collect your name, phone number, place of business and other contact information you provide when ordering a test.
- Communications between you and jscreen. We collect personal information you submit when contacting us (such as your name and email address).
- Clinical information. From time to time, we collect additional medical records from your treating providers as authorized by you as part of the Program.
- Registration information. When you register with jscreen or create a user account to access our Services, we collect personal information, such as your name, date of birth, billing and shipping addresses, and contact information. We may use your registration information to provide Services to you.
- Payment information. When you place an order that requires payment via our Services, we(or our third party payment processors) collect your payment information (such as payment card, billing, and shipping information, and your contact information).
- Information about your use of the Services. When you browse our Websites, our system automatically collects information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”)address, browser type, browser language, domain names, referring and exit pages and URLs, platform type, pages viewed and the order of these page views, the amount of times pent on a page, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We may collect this information through third-party analytics tools. This information is used to analyze trends, administer our Websites, improve the design of our Websites, and otherwise enhance our Services.
- Cookies. We use technologies like cookies, web beacons, and pixel tags to gather information about how you are interacting with our Services, which may include identifying your IP address, browser type, and referring page.
- CHILDREN'S OR MINORS’ INFORMATION. Our Websites are directed toward adults and are not designed for, intended to attract, or directed toward children under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, you must obtain the authorization of a responsible adult (parent or legal guardian) before using or accessing our Websites, but you are not permitted to participate in the jscreen Program. If we become aware that we have collected any personal information from children under18 without the authorization of a responsible adult, we will promptly remove such information from our databases
- USE AND SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION
This section lists the general ways jscreen uses and shares your personal information we collect for the Services.
- Provide Services. We process your personal information to provide you with our Services. We share this information with third party service providers to the extent necessary to provide you with our Services.
- Maintain legal and regulatory compliance. Certain laws or regulations apply to our Services that may require us to process your personal information.
- Ensure the security of the Services. We may process your personal information to combat spam, malware, malicious activities, or security risks; improve and enforce our security measures; and to monitor and verify your identity so that unauthorized users do not access your account with us.
- Affiliates. jscreen will share your personal information with our affiliates and partners as necessary to provide the Services, or with your consent where required by applicable law.
- Text Messages. You may opt-in to receive occasional text messages from jscreen to receive updates on our Services. Message frequency will vary. You agree that by providing your mobile phone number and opting in to receive text messages, you expressly consent to receive automated text messages from us to the mobile phone number you provide. Consent to receiving text messages is not required to be a jscreen Program participants. Message and data rates may apply, and you should check the rates of your mobile carrier
- RETENTION. We will store personal information provided to us in the context of your participation in the Program for as long as we need it to provide and improve our Services and to perform the activities described in this Policy, all to the extent permitted by law. This information remains subject to the commitments in this Privacy Policy for as long as we retain it.
- SECURITY MEASURES. We use reasonable technical, administrative, and physical measures to protect information contained in our system against misuse, loss or alteration; and to secure information that we receive through our Services. Please recognize that protecting your personal information is also your responsibility. You should keep your username, password, ID numbers, or other access credentials secure as jscreen cannot secure personal information that you release on your own.
- NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS If you wish to exercise your rights specific to the privacy laws of California or your state of residence, please email you request to hello@jscreen.org with the phrase “State-Specific Privacy Rights” in the subject line. You may also send a letter to us at jscreen, 5115 New Peachtree Rd., Atlanta, GA 30341, or call us at 678-729-9104, We will review your request and respond accordingly
5115 New Peachtree Rd., Atlanta, GA 30341
678-729-9104
hello@jscreen.org