Sema4 Provider Portal Privacy Policy
Updated: April 2022
This privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) explains what information Sema4 (“Sema4”, “we” or “us”) collects from you when you use our online portal available to health care providers (available at my.sema4.com) (“Provider Portal”) or interact with our third-party partners (“Partners”), as applicable. Please take a moment to review this information.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATIONSema4 is committed to protecting your privacy. We employ a range of physical, technical and administrative safeguards to secure the personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) you entrust to us and protect it from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, corruption or destruction. We take reasonable measures to protect your Personal Information to prevent against unauthorized use, access, disclosure, and destruction. Your name and email address, along with other information that can be used to identify you, constitute your Personal Information. Please be aware that, despite our best efforts, security measures are not impenetrable, and we can’t guarantee against misuse.
WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT IT Personal Information You Provide Account InformationWhen you register for a Provider Portal account, we collect your name, email address, and occupation directly from you as part of the registration process.
Other Personal InformationWhen you interact with us, you may directly provide us with personal information, such as your name, email address, phone number, business address, and content of any messages you send to us.
Personal Information We Collect Automatically Provider Portal Usage DataDirectly or through the use of third-party data analytics services (including Google Analytics), we collect information, including your IP address and server log data (the address of the web page you visited before using the Provider Portal, your browser type and settings, the date and time of your use of the Provider Portal, language preferences). We may gather your information about the device you are using to access the Provider Portal, including what type of device it is, what operating system you are using, device settings, application IDs, location, unique device identifiers, and crash data. Other data is collected, including data generated by your use of the Provider Portal and links you interact with. Further information on how Google uses data collected by Google Analytics can be found at support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en. Information about how to opt out of Google Analytics can be found at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION- We use your Personal Information to provide and improve our programs and services. We share this information with third-party service providers or Partners upon your request, or our service providers or Partners to the extent necessary to provide you with our Services.
- We use your Personal Information to contact you about research opportunities, clinical trials, or clinical treatments for your patients, as permitted by law.
- We use your information to operate, manage, and improve our Provider Portal, and for marketing and administrative purposes.
- If you communicate with us, we may send you newsletters and marketing information, until you decide to opt out. We may also send you notifications, updates, and changes about our Provider Portal and contact you to provide customer service and support.
- We may use your information to comply with legal or regulatory requirements, to respond to lawful requests, court orders and legal process, to enforce our rights, to prevent fraud, to protect the security of the Website and for safety.
- We may use your IP address and location data to analyze usage, administer our Provider Portal, and gather demographic information for aggregate use.
- With your consent, we may use your Personal Information in other ways.
We do not knowingly sell, trade or otherwise share your Personal Information with any third parties without your consent, except as disclosed in this Privacy Policy, as required by law, and when we reasonably believe it is necessary to prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, or to protect the safety of any person.
We may share Personal Information in collaboration with our Partners, including companies that assist with business analytics, data processing, customer and user management, and other services. We instruct these parties to use your Personal Information only to the extent necessary to provide the services we have requested.
In the event we go through a business transition, including without limitation any merger, acquisition, partnership, business reorganization, debt finance, or sale of association assets, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership (together a “Business Transition”), we may use information collected in accordance with this Privacy Policy and subject to its restrictions, as part of any such Business Transition. In such instances, your information can be part of the assets transferred.
COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES What are cookies?A cookie is a small file that can be placed on your computer’s hard disk or on a website server. Cookies do not retrieve information stored on your hard drive and do not corrupt or damage your computer or computer files. For those using our Provider Portal, we may link cookie information to your email address to maintain and recall your preferences within the Provider Portal.
Why we use cookiesWe may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to improve or administer the Website, analyze trends, track users’ movements around the Provider Portal, support security features on the Provider Portal, and to gather demographic information about our user base.
How to manage cookie preferencesDepending on their purpose, some cookies will only operate for the length of a single browsing session, while others have a longer life span to ensure that they fulfill their longer-term purposes. Your web browser can be set to allow you to control whether you will accept cookies or reject cookies, to notify you each time a cookie is sent to your browser, or to delete cookies that have already been set. If your browser is set to reject cookies, certain aspects of the Website that are cookie-enabled will not recognize you when you return to the Website, and some Website functionality may be lost. The “Help” section of your browser may tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies. To find out more about cookies you may visit aboutcookies.org.
OPT-IN /OPT-OUT OF COMMUNICATIONSBy using the Provider Portal, you expressly allow us to contact you and use your information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. You may opt-out of receiving marketing emails anytime by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in the email that contains the marketing communication.
LINKSThe Provider Portal may contain links to other third-party websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties and their other websites. This Privacy Policy applies only to the information we collect through the Provider Portal. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of other websites you link to or otherwise visit them.
YOUR CHOICE TO ACCESS, EDIT, OR DELETE INFORMATIONWhenever reasonably possible, we strive to provide you with choices and control regarding your Personal Information. Upon receiving your request, we will make reasonable efforts, subject to applicable laws, to correct, delete, and/or block your Personal Information from further use to the extent it remains in our possession. If you have questions or requests in connection with your Personal Information or this Privacy Policy, please contact us as noted below.
DO-NOT-TRACKYou may have implemented a “do-not-track” signal through your browser. As there currently is no fixed standard for do-not-track signals, we currently do not respond to do-not-track signals from your web browser.
DATA RETENTION AND DESTRUCTIONWe will retain Personal Information for as long as necessary to accomplish our purposes for such data as set forth in this Privacy Policy. You can request that your information be deleted by contacting us at the address provided at the bottom of this Privacy Policy. At the time your information is deleted, we will destroy your Personal Information using reasonable data destruction practices. We may, however, retain certain information to comply with legal or contract obligations or to facilitate law enforcement requests.
CHANGESWe may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post the revised policy here. If changes are significant and materially affect your rights under this Privacy Policy, we may provide a more prominent notice on the Website. In certain cases, we may also provide email notification of the revised Privacy Policy and give you the right to opt out from our use of your Personal Information in accordance with the revised Privacy Policy. However, because we may make changes at any time without notifying you, we suggest that you periodically consult this Privacy Policy.
NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTSCertain California residents have additional privacy rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). When we operate as a “service provider” (as defined under the CCPA) for our customers and they provide us with your personal information for business purposes under a service contract, the CCPA applies primarily to those customers, not to us. In such cases, we will direct any requests you send us to exercise your rights under the CCPA to the applicable customer.
Your Rights Regarding Your Personal InformationThe CCPA gives certain rights to California residents regarding their personal information. We summarize below what those rights are and how you may exercise them. You do not need to have an account with us to exercise these rights.
The CCPA also gives California residents the right to opt out of (or for minors under 16, the ability to opt in to) sales of their personal information. However, we do not and will not sell your personal information. If, in the future, we decide to sell personal information, we will provide you with notice and the right to opt-out of (or for minors, opt-in to) such sales.
Right to Know About the Collection, Use, Disclosure and Sale of Personal InformationUpon providing us with a verified consumer request, you may ask us to disclose certain types of your personal information we have collected and used over the 12-month period prior to the date of your request. You may make this request only twice within any 12-month period. You may request:
- The categories of personal information we collected about you
- The categories of sources of the personal information we collected about you
- The business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information
- The categories of third parties with whom we shared that information
- The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (except to the extent prohibited under CCPA including, for example, disclosure of Social Security numbers or other government, health insurance or medical identification numbers, account passwords)
- If we disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, a list identifying the personal information we disclosed to each category of recipient.
Generally, within the preceding 12 months, Sema4 has:
- Collected the categories of personal information described in Section 2 above from the sources described in Section 2.
- Disclosed the following personal information about you to our service providers for a business purpose as described in Sections 3 and 4 above: account information and other personal information you provide to us.
You have the right to submit a verified consumer request at any time that we delete any of your personal information collected and retained by us, unless an exception under the CCPA applies.
If no exception applies, and if we have been able to verify your consumer request, we will delete, aggregate or de-identify your personal information from our records in accordance with the CCPA. We will also direct third parties to whom we have disclosed your personal information to delete it, although we cannot guarantee that such third parties will comply with our direction.
Please note that we may deny your deletion request based on certain provisions of the CCPA, including where it is necessary for us or our service providers to carry out certain business functions, comply with laws or to engage in other internal and lawful uses of the information within the context in which you provided it to us.
Making a Verified Consumer Request to UsTo make a request to exercise your rights under CCPA described above, please submit a verifiable request to us by either:
- Calling 1-844-SEMA4-34, or
- Completing and submitting the form available on our Websites at sema4.com/ccpa-contact-form. A verifiable consumer request must be made by you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State whom you have authorized to make the request on your behalf. (A representative must be authorized by you in writing or have a valid power of attorney under California probate law.) You may also make a verifiable request to us on behalf of your minor child.
To be considered a proper verified request, your request must:
provide us with sufficient information allowing us to reasonably verify that you are the same person about whom we collected the personal information or the authorized representative, and
describe your request in reasonable detail so we can correctly understand, evaluate and respond to the request.
We may ask you for additional information if needed in order to verify your request, but if we do, we will use such additional information only to verify your identity (or the authority of the representative) and for security and fraud-prevention purposes.
We will also ask you to separately confirm any request to delete personal information.
Responding to Your Verifiable Consumer RequestWe will use reasonable efforts to respond to your verifiable consumer request within 45 days of receiving it. If some cases, we may require more time (up to 90 days). If that is the case, we will communicate to you in writing (by postal mail or electronically, at your option) the reason and the length of anticipated delay. We will not be able to fulfill your request if we cannot verify your identity (or the authority of your representative) and confirm that the personal information subject to the request relates to you.
Disclosures we provide in response to a verified consumer request will cover only the 12-month period before we received the request. If your request involves the porting of your personal information, we will use a format that is reasonably designed to allow you to transmit the information to another entity. If we deny part or all of a verified consumer request, we will provide a reasonable explanation for the denial.
We do not charge fees for responding to verifiable consumer request unless they are excessive, repetitive or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that a fee is appropriate, we will provide you with an explanation and a cost estimate before we complete your request.
We will keep records of consumer requests and our responses as required under the CCPA.
Non-DiscriminationWe will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA. This means that, except where permitted under the CCPA, if you make a request for disclosure or to delete your personal information, we will not (i) deny you goods or services, (ii) charge you different prices for goods or services (e.g., through penalties or withholding of otherwise available discounts), (iii) giving you a different level of goods or services, or (iv) suggesting to you that we will take any of the actions in (i) through (iii).
CONTACT USIf you have questions about our Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your rights, please feel free to contact us at: privacyquestion@sema4.com and/or 1-844-SEMA4-34, or at the mailing address below:
Sema4
333 Ludlow Street
North Tower, 8th floor
Stamford, CT 06902
Attn: Compliance Officer