Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy

Last Updated: May 7, 2024

This Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy supplements the standard Drugs.com Privacy Policy and applies to personal information identified as "Consumer Health Data" in WA, NV and CT.

Rights Related to Consumer Health Data

Consumers are granted the following privacy rights concerning their Consumer Health Data;

• The right to confirm whether or not a company is collecting, sharing, or selling your Consumer Health Data.
• The right to a list of all third parties and affiliates with whom a company has shared or sold your Consumer Health Data.
• The right to withdraw consent to a company's collection and sharing of your Consumer Health Data, except in certain circumstances.
• The right to delete Consumer Health Data.

Consumer Health Data We Collect

If you register with Drugs.com, we may collect specific personal information that could be classified as "Consumer Health Data". Drugs.com may collect Consumer Health Data from you, through your interactions with, or usage of, some of our services. This may occur when you submit information about your health conditions, treatments, diseases or diagnoses; when building and saving a medicine list; or utilizing other interactive services. Drugs.com may collect the following categories of Consumer Health Data;

• Individual health conditions, treatment, diseases, or diagnoses.
• Social, psychological, behavioral, and medical interventions.
• Health-related surgeries or procedures, diagnostic testing, and treatment.
• Use or purchase of prescribed medication.
• Bodily functions, vital signs, symptoms, or related measurements.
• Gender-affirming care information.
• Reproductive or sexual health information.
• Biometric and genetic data.
• Precise location information that could reasonably indicate a consumer's attempt to acquire or receive health services or supplies.
• Data that identifies a consumer seeking health care services.
• Any information that a regulated entity or a small business, or their respective processor, processes to associate or identify a consumer with the data that is derived or extrapolated from non-health information, such as proxy, derivative, inferred, or emergent data. 

These activities may be considered a service requested by the consumer, in a manner consistent with the purpose for which the data was collected.

How We Use Consumer Health Data

We may collect and use Consumer Health Data in the course of delivering the Services that you request. This information may be reasonably required to;

• Provide site analytics to help improve the Service.
• Serving, managing and reporting on relevant advertising.
• Prevent, detect, defend against, or address security incidents, identity theft, fraud, harassment, deceptive activities, malicious activities, or violate Washington state or federal law.
• Maintain the integrity and security of systems; investigate, report, or prosecute individuals responsible for any such illegal activities under Washington state or federal law.

Disclosures of Consumer Health Data

Drugsite Trust may also disclose your Consumer Health Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to;

• Provide site analytics to help improve the Service.
• Serving, managing and reporting on relevant advertising.
• Comply with a legal obligation.
• Protect and defend the rights or property of Drugs.com.
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service.
• Protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public.
• Protect against legal liability.

Updates to The Consumer Health Data Policy

Our Consumer Health Data Policy may be updated periodically. The date of the most recent revisions will always be noted. For substantial changes, we will make the notice more prominent.

Contact Us

For questions regarding our Consumer Health Data Policy, please contact us at privacy@drugs.com.

Please be aware that we may need to verify your identity through reasonable steps when processing your request. If your request is not acted upon, you have the right to appeal this decision by following the instructions included in our response.