SIDC Lebanon — Mobile Services

Privacy Policy

Effective date: 30 October 2020  ·  Version 1.0

How SIDC — Health Care Association collects, uses, stores and protects the information of people who use our mobile application services.

1. Who we are

This Privacy Policy explains how the HYPE (by AMAD) mobile application handles the information of the people who use it.

The application is owned and operated by the Health Care Association, an association licensed by the Lebanese Ministry of Interior and Municipalities under number 9/AD dated 18/01/1992, with its centre in Sin el Fil – Matn, Lebanon. The Association is also referred to by the abbreviation of its French name, Soins Infirmiers et Développement Communautaire (SIDC).

In this policy, “the Association”, “we”, “us” and “our” mean SIDC; “the Application” or “the App” means HYPE (by AMAD); “Beneficiary” or “you” means any adult person, of any nationality or gender, who accesses or uses the Application for any reason; and “Admin” means the person assigned by the Association to supervise the Application and chat with Beneficiaries.

Data controllerSIDC — Health Care Association
AddressSin el Fil – Youssef Karam St. – Daou Bldg., First floor – P.O. Box 55391, Sin el Fil, Lebanon
Emailinfo@sidc-lebanon.org
Telephone+961 1 482 428 · +961 1 480 714

2. Your agreement to this policy

To use the Application, your use must be subject to these privacy policies. When you use the Application you are bound by its data protection terms and policies, and you confirm that you have read, understood and agreed to this policy and to all other documents referred to in it and linked to the Application, without reservation.

If you do not agree to these terms and policies, or to any of them, for any reason, you should stop using the Application.

Any personal information or data you provide is processed in accordance with these policies. By using the Application you authorise the Admin and/or the Association to process your information and data, and you declare that all information and data you provide is genuine and accurate.

These terms and policies may be amended at any time by the Admin and/or the Association, for any reason and at their sole discretion. It is your responsibility to read them periodically: the terms that apply are those in force at the time you use the Application.

3. Information we collect

HYPE is highly committed to protecting the confidentiality of your personal information, and aims to give you safe and flexible access to its systems and to health information.

Information you give us

The Application obtains from you only your age, gender, area of residence and nationality.

Chat content

Communication with the Admin takes place through the chat service. The Application saves all chats in order to evaluate the Services, and chats may be viewed by the Association’s management.

Technical information

In order to provide certain features, the Application may request information from servers and systems owned or managed by the Association. Those servers and systems may record technical information about the request, such as the IP/MAC address and information about the type of device, the platform and the operating system you use with the Application.

By contacting or attempting to contact the Application and/or the Association, you acknowledge that we have the right to collect, store, process, maintain, upload, synchronise, transfer, share, disclose and use certain data and related information — including information or data about how you use your device, your system, your software and peripheral devices, in addition to your personal information, location data and other content.

4. Chat recording, quizzes and feedback

Please noteIn specific cases that the Association considers necessary, and at its discretion, the Application may record the chats held with Beneficiaries in order to ensure the best treatment of, and good communication with, them.

The Association and/or the Application may also run short drop quizzes in order to better understand the needs of Beneficiaries. These quizzes are not binding on you and you may decline to take them.

At the end of a chat, the Application and/or the Admin may ask you some questions in order to determine how far you benefited from the Services.

5. Where your information is stored

The security of your information and data while you use the Application is very important to us.

The Application does not save your information on your phone. Information is saved on FIREBASE servers, which offer a high level of security guaranteed by Google, and access to the server is restricted to authorised persons only.

The Application attempts to reduce the amount of your personal or health information stored or saved on your device. However, at the sole discretion of the Admin and/or the Association, the Application may allow you to store your personal information temporarily in memory or on the device while you are using it.

6. How we protect your information

In addition to the measures above, the Admin you contact may use a variety of physical, administrative and technical measures to further protect your personal information.

The Association warrants that its systems are, and will always be, compliant with the sound standards of security and privacy in effect from time to time. The Association maintains data and network security protocols in order to ensure the ongoing security and integrity of all Beneficiary Data, and takes appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect the Data against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, alteration, or unauthorised disclosure or access.

We take all measures reasonably necessary to protect against unauthorised access to, and the unauthorised use, alteration or destruction of, personally identifiable information.

7. Confidentiality and ownership of information

All personal and health data of Beneficiaries — including but not limited to mailing addresses, phone numbers, application form information, templates, drawings and any other data of any kind and description, including electronic data recorded or retrieved by any means, and any other data and information, whether disclosed or made available to the Association or to the Application directly by the Beneficiary or by any of his family members or relatives, and whether made available orally, in writing or in any other form (the “Data”) — is and shall remain at all times confidential and the exclusive property of the Association.

The Association acknowledges and undertakes that it shall not use, or permit access to, such Data by any entity or individual, except for the exclusive purposes of providing its Services, on a need-to-know basis only, and to personnel who have signed confidentiality agreements or are otherwise bound by confidentiality obligations. In all cases, the Association shall not grant access to, or divulge, any Data to any third party. The Association shall ensure that all third parties it contracts with are bound by the same obligations of confidentiality, data ownership and privacy protection.

The Association confirms that it does not sell or assign any information you provide while using the Application. Except as set out in this policy, the Application does not send your personal information directly to any other application, and stores it only on its own servers.

8. When the duty of confidentiality does not apply

The obligation of confidentiality imposed on the Association does not apply to Data in either of the following cases:

  • the Data was already in the public domain at the time it reached the Association; or
  • disclosure is required under any applicable law, judicial order, decision of a competent governmental entity, governmental regulation or rule, any competent court, or any competent authority. In that case the Association will disclose the Data only to the extent legally required.

9. Access to your Data

Where practical, and at your request, the Association will grant you access to your Data and make available to you a complete, searchable copy of it.

The Association will destroy all Data or material (including, without limitation, all copies, summaries, analyses or extracts thereof) whenever it decides to do so and at its discretion, in a manner that renders the information unreadable.

To make a request about your Data, contact us using the details in the “Contact us” section below.

10. Transfers outside Lebanon

The Association will not transfer the Data to another country or territory unless that transfer does not breach any applicable data protection law.

11. Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that the Application stores on your device, and that your browser provides to the Application each time you return. We use cookies to help us identify and track Beneficiaries, their use of the Application and their access preferences.

Beneficiaries who do not wish to have cookies placed on their devices should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the Application, with the drawback that certain features may not function properly without cookies.

12. How we may contact you

If you supply your email address, the Application and/or the Association may email you to tell you about new features, ask for your feedback, or keep you up to date with what is happening with the Association or its services. We primarily use our various service blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.

SIDC/HYPE may occasionally contact Beneficiaries by post, email, telephone call or SMS with details of changes in legal and regulatory requirements, or of other developments that may be relevant to the Services provided, where the Association considers it useful and without being obliged to do so. If you do not wish to receive such information, you must tell us using the details in the “Contact us” section below.

If you send us a request (for example by support email or through one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request, or to help us support other Beneficiaries — always without revealing the identity of the person, which the Association does not know in the first place.

13. Links to other sites

If the Application contains links to other websites or to materials belonging to third parties, those links are provided for information purposes only. The Application and/or the Association have no control over the content of those websites or materials, and accordingly accept no direct or indirect liability for any material, moral or physical harm of any kind resulting from your use of those sites and/or materials.

14. Age requirement

The HYPE Application and its Services are not available for use by persons under the age of 18. Any Beneficiary who accesses the Application must confirm that he or she is over the age of 18. Any liability of whatever nature arising from wrong information in this respect is borne solely by the Beneficiary, and the Association reserves all its rights in this respect.

Exceptionally and at SIDC’s full discretion, some parents or guardians may be given access to use the Services for their children (persons under 18). Parents or guardians undertake to guard their children’s privacy.

15. Compliance and safeguarding

The Association represents that it is fully compliant with all applicable data protection laws, including all rules, requirements and provisions of European Union General Data Protection Regulation no. 2016/679 (the “GDPR”). The Association agrees to hold the Beneficiary harmless from and against any and all actions, claims, liabilities, losses and damages which may be made against, suffered or incurred by the Beneficiary as a result of the Association’s direct or purported breach of any applicable data protection laws and regulations, including the GDPR.

The Association declares that it adopts strict policies on anti-fraud and anti-corruption, conflicts of interest, and the protection of children and vulnerable persons. Following such policies provides Beneficiaries with additional protection.

16. Contact us and complaints

We are pleased to address Beneficiaries’ complaints as soon as possible in accordance with our system. Please send your complaints, comments and privacy requests to:

Emailinfo@sidc-lebanon.org
Telephone+961 1 482 428 · +961 1 480 714
Mobile+961 70 591 029
MailSin el Fil – Youssef Karam St. – Daou Bldg., First floor – P.O. Box 55391, Sin el Fil, Lebanon

17. Governing law and binding language

This policy, together with all our policies and procedures, is governed by and construed in accordance with Lebanese law, and the relevant courts of Lebanon have exclusive jurisdiction.

This policy was drafted in Arabic. Any translation into another language is not binding, and in case of any contrast or difference between the Arabic text and its translation, only the Arabic text is relied upon.

This Privacy Policy forms part of, and should be read together with, the HYPE (by AMAD) Terms and Conditions.