Privacy Policy
Effective: November 20, 2017, last updated June, 10 2019
Welcome to the website (the “Site”) of Optum Ventures and its affiliates (the “Company”, “we”, “us” and/or “our”). This Site is operated by the Company and has been created to provide information about our company to our Site visitors (“you”, “your”). This privacy policy sets forth the Company’s policy with respect to information including personally identifiable data (“Personal Data”) and other information that is collected from Site visitors (“Privacy Policy”).
1. Information We Collect: When you interact with us through the Site, we may collect Personal Data and other information from you, as further described below:
1.1. Personal Data That You Provide Through the Site: We collect Personal Data from you when you voluntarily provide such information, such as when you contact us with inquiries via our email address available on the Site’s contact page. We will collect Personal Data, such as your email address, and any other Personal Data that you elect to provide when corresponding with us such as first name, last name, address and telephone number.
By voluntarily providing us with Personal Data, you acknowledge our right to use it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. By using the Site, and/or providing Personal Data to this Site, you acknowledge and agree that such Personal Data may be transferred from your current location to the offices and servers of the Company and the authorized third parties referred to herein located in the United States.
1.2. Other Information:
a. Non-Identifiable Data: When you interact with the Company through the Site, we receive and store certain personally non-identifiable information. Internet protocol (IP) addresses may be considered Personal Data in certain jurisdictions, such as in the European Economic Area, and will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Such information, which is collected passively using various technologies, cannot presently be used to specifically identify you. The Company may store such information itself or such information may be included in databases owned and maintained by Company affiliates, agents or service providers. This Site may use such information and pool it with other information to track, for example, the total number of visitors to our Site, the number of visitors to each page of our Site, and the domain names of our visitors’ Internet service providers. It is important to note that no Personal Data is available or used in this process.
In operating this Site, we may use a technology called “cookies.” A cookie is a piece of information that the computer that hosts our Site gives to your browser when you access the Site. For more information on cookies and deletion of cookies, please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org. For further details on the cookies and tracking technologies used on this Site please refer to the section headed ‘Cookies And Other Technologies’ in this Privacy Policy.
b. Aggregated Personal Data: In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the Site, the Company may conduct research on its customer demographics, interests and behavior based on the Personal Data and other information provided to us. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and the Company may share this aggregate data with its affiliates, agents and business partners. This aggregate information does not identify you personally. The Company may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
2. Do Not Track: As detailed above, we may (and we may allow third party service providers to) use cookies or similar technologies to collect information about your browsing activities over time and across different websites following your use of our Site. Our Site currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” (DNT) signals and operate as described in this Privacy Policy whether or not a DNT signal is received. If we do so in the future, we will describe how we do so in this Privacy Policy.
3. Our Use of Your Personal Data and Other Information: The Company uses the Personal Data you provide in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data for a certain reason, we may, as necessary for certain legitimate interests, use the Personal Data in connection with the reason for which it was provided. For instance, if you contact us by e-mail, we will use the Personal Data you provide to answer your question or resolve your problem. The Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates (the “Related Companies”) may also use your Personal Data and other personally non-identifiable information collected through the Site to help us improve the content and functionality of the Site or to better understand our users, as necessary for certain legitimate interests. The Company and its affiliates may use this information to contact you in the future to send you newsletters and/or tell you about services we believe will be of interest to you. If you reside in territories where your consent is required to send you such communications, we will only do so if you have consented to receive them. If we send you these communications, each communication we send you will contain instructions permitting you to “opt-out” of receiving future communications. In addition, if at any time you wish not to receive any future communications or you wish to have your name deleted from our mailing lists, please contact us as indicated below. We will also collect and process Personal Data for reasonable business purposes, including for the purpose of fulfilling your request, and, where applicable, to comply with a legal obligation. We will not use your Personal Data for any other purpose without your permission. If The Company intends on using any Personal Data in any manner that is not consistent with this Privacy Policy, you will be informed of such anticipated use prior to or at the time at which the Personal Data is collected. Your Personal Data will be stored on serves in the United States.
4. Our Disclosure of Your Personal Data and Other Information: The Company is not in the business of selling your information. We consider this information to be a vital part of our relationship with you. There are, however, certain circumstances in which we may share your Personal Data with certain third parties without further notice to you, as set forth below:
a. Business Transfers: As we develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event, Personal Data may be part of the transferred assets.
b. Related Companies: We may also share your Personal Data with our Related Companies for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
c. Agents, Consultants and Related Third Parties: The Company, like many businesses, sometimes hires other companies to perform certain business-related functions. Examples of such functions include mailing information, maintaining databases and processing payments. When we employ another company to perform a function of this nature, we only provide them with the information that they need to perform their specific function.
d. Legal Requirements: The Company may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) comply with a legal obligation, (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the Company, (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public, or (d) protect against legal liability.
5. Your Choices: You can use the Site without providing any Personal Data. If you choose not to provide any Personal Data, you may not be able to use certain features of the Site.
6. EU rights: Individuals who benefit from the European data protection laws have certain data subject rights which may be subject to limitations and/or restrictions. These rights include the right to: (i) request access to and rectification or erasure of Personal Data, (ii) obtain restriction of processing or object to processing of Personal Data; and (iii) the right to data portability. If you have a concern about our privacy practices, including the way we handled your Personal Data, you can report it to your local data protection supervisory authority. You may exercise your rights by contacting us via our ‘contact’ page.
7. Exclusions: This Privacy Policy does not apply to any Personal Data collected by the Company other than Personal Data collected through the Site. This Privacy Policy shall not apply to any unsolicited information you provide to the Company through this Site or through any other means. This includes, but is not limited to, information posted to any public areas of the Site, any ideas for new products or modifications to existing products, and other unsolicited submissions (collectively, “Unsolicited Information”). All Unsolicited Information shall be deemed to be non-confidential and the Company shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, and distribute such Unsolicited Information to others without limitation or attribution.
8. Children: The Company does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any Personal Data through the Site. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Data on this Site without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Data to the Company through this Site, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.
9. Links to Other Websites: This Privacy Policy applies only to the Site. This Site may contain links to other websites, plug-ins and applications not operated or controlled by the Company (the “Third Party Sites”). The policies and procedures we described here do not apply to the Third Party Sites. The links from this Site do not imply that the Company endorses or has reviewed the Third Party Sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy policies. We do not monitor, control, or endorse the privacy practices of any third parties. This Privacy Policy applies solely to Personal Data collected by us through our Site and does not apply to these third party websites and third party service providers.
10. Cookies And Other Technologies: Our cookies help provide additional functionality to the Site and help us analyze Site usage more accurately. For instance, our Site may set a cookie on your browser that allows you to access the Site without needing to remember and then enter a password more than once during a visit to the Site. In all cases in which we use cookies, we will not collect Personal Data except with your permission. On most web browsers, you will find a “help” section on the toolbar. Please refer to this section for information on how to receive notification when you are receiving a new cookie and how to turn cookies off. We recommend that you leave cookies turned on because they allow you to take advantage of some of the Site’s features. The following sets out how we use different categories of cookies, as well as information on your options for managing the settings for the data collection by these technologies.
Our Site uses Analytics/Performance cookies to recognise and count the number of Site visitors, to gather statistics regarding how visitors move around the Site (including number of page views, number of visitors, and time spent on each page) and for conversion tracking and click hotspots. This helps us improve the way our Site works and the user experience on it, for example by making sure users can find what they need easily. We use the following analytics/performance cookies:
| Cookie | Type | Purpose | Expiry |
| _ga | Third-party persistent | Used to distinguish users. | 2 years |
| _gid | Third-party persistent | Used to distinguish users. | 24 hours |
| _gat | Third-party persistent | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>. | 1 minute |
| AMP_TOKEN | Third-party persistent | Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. | 30 seconds to 1 year |
| _gac_<property-id> | Third-party persistent | Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. Learn more. | 90 days |
| _ _utma | Third-party persistent | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and no existing _utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 2 years from set/update |
| __utmt | Third-party persistent | Used to throttle request rate. | 10 minutes |
| __umtb | Third-party persistent | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 30 minutes from set/update |
| __utmc | Third-party persistent | Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __umtb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. | End of browser session |
| __utmz | Third-party persistent | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 6 months from set/update |
| __utmv | Third-party persistent | Used to store vistor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 2 years from set/update |
11. Security: The Company takes reasonable steps to protect the Personal Data provided via the Site from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from this Site may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Data to the Company via the Internet.
12. Data Retention: We will keep your Personal Data for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, while we have a legitimate business need to do so, or as required by law (e.g. for tax, legal, accounting or other purposes), whichever is the longer. To determine the appropriate retention period for your Personal Data, we will consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we use your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
13. Other Terms and Conditions: Your access to and use of this Site is subject to the Terms of Use located above on this page.
14. Changes to the Company’s Privacy Policy: The Site and our business may change from time to time. As a result, at times it may be necessary for the Company to make changes to this Privacy Policy. The Company reserves the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time without prior notice. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically, and especially before you provide any Personal Data. This Privacy Policy was last updated on the date indicated above. Your continued use of the Site after any changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy shall indicate your agreement with the terms of such revised Privacy Policy.
15. Access to Information; Contacting the Company: To keep your Personal Data accurate, current, and complete, please contact us as specified below. We will take reasonable steps to update or correct Personal Data in our possession that you have previously submitted via this Site. Please also feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the Company’s Privacy Policy or the information practices of this Site.
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You may contact us as follows:
Optum Ventures
75 State Street
29th Floor
Boston, MA 02109
Email: [email protected]