Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Effective October 1, 2017

FORCE Communications, LLC (“FORCE”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how FORCE collects, uses, and shares your information when you use and interact with our Services and applies to persons in the United States and anywhere else in the world who use our Services (“Users”). Our Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of all FORCE operated and controlled websites including forcemed.com.

Agreement & Eligibility

Your Agreement With FORCE

This Privacy Policy constitutes a binding legal agreement between you, as a User who uses and interacts with the Services, and FORCE. Before accessing, using, or interacting with the Services you should carefully review the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. In addition, your use of FORCE NUCLEUS™ and FORCE GENOME™ is governed by the terms of their respective Software License Agreements which are incorporated into your agreement with This Privacy Policy applies only to the Services, and FORCE’s collection, use, disclosure, and protection of your information. It does not apply to third party websites, applications, or services.

By using or interacting with our Services you signify your consent to our Privacy Policy and, as applicable, the FORCE NUCLEUS™ and FORCE GENOME™ Software License Agreements or Website Terms of Service, and the collection, transfer, storage, disclosure, and use of your information described in those documents. If you do not agree to the terms of our Privacy Policy or the described ancillary documents, then you may not use or interact with the Services.

If you have questions about FORCE’s Privacy Policy or practices, or if you need to contact us about the information we collect about you, our contact information is at the end of this Privacy Policy.

Eligibility To Use The Services

The Services are not directed to children under the age of 13. You may not use the Services if you are under the age of 13.

Information Collection & Use

FORCE collects information about you and your use of the Services through various means, including when you provide information to us and when we automatically collect information about you when you access, use, or interact with the Services. We use this information for a variety of different reasons, including to improve the Services and to tailor the Services to you. The types of information FORCE may collect include:

Information You Provide To Us:

FORCE Account Information: FORCE may require you to register for an account in order to use certain Services (a “FORCE Account”). We do not require you to register to use all of our Services. However if you do register for Services offering a FORCE Account, you will gain access to those areas and features of the Services that require registration. FORCE will collect certain information about you in connection with your registration for your FORCE Account, which may include Personally Identifiable Information and other information such as a username, password, personal profile, pictures, your location, and information about your contacts. “Personally Identifiable Information” refers to information about you that may be used to identify you, such as your: first name, last name, gender, birth date, address, email address, phone number, professional experience, salary requirements, available start date, and U.S. work eligibility. Some of your FORCE Account information may be displayed publicly. You are not required to provide your Personally Identifiable Information; however, if you choose to withhold certain Personally Identifiable Information, we may not be able to provide you with certain Services.

Form Information: We may use forms to request certain information from you in order to perform certain Services, such as your location to assist you in locating our products, or your contact information to assist with contacts or service requests. This information may include Personally Identifiable Information.

Correspondence Information: If you sign up, email us, subscribe to our newsletters mailing lists, or blogs, we may keep your message, email address, and contact information to respond to your requests, provide the requested products or Services, and to provide notifications or other correspondences to you. We do not share or sell any personal information to other organizations for commercial purposes. If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, you may let us know by sending us an email or by writing to us at the address below. Please note requests to remove your email address from our lists may take some time to fulfill. We may also still contact you as needed to provide important announcements or notifications regarding the Services.

Support Information: You may provide information to us via a support request submitted through the Services. We will use this information to assist you with your support request and may maintain this information to assist you or other Users with support requests. Please do not submit any information to us via a support submission, including confidential or sensitive information that you do not wish for FORCE or our Service Providers to have access to or use in the future.

Information We Collect Automatically:

Cookies, Web Beacons, Links, And Other Tracking Technologies: FORCE may keep track of how you use and interact with the Services through the use of web beacons, links, and other tracking technologies. We do this to help analyze the use of and improve the Services. Through these technologies we may automatically collect information about your use of the Services and other online activities, including our email correspondences, third-party services, and client applications, and certain online activities after you leave the Services. Link information is generally only analyzed on an aggregate basis. Some Services may not function properly if you disable cookies.

Unique Identifiers:When you use or access the Services, we may access, collect, monitor, store on your device, and/or remotely store one or more “Unique Identifiers,” such as a universally unique identifier (“UUID”). A Unique Identifier may remain on your device persistently, to help you log in faster and enhance your navigation through the Services. Some features of the Services may not function properly if use or availability of Unique Identifiers is impaired or disabled.

Log File Information:When you use our Services, we may receive log file information such as your IP address, browser type, access times, domain names operating system, the referring web page(s), pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search terms, and cookie information. We receive log file data when you interact with our Services, for example, when you visit our websites, sign into our Services, or interact with our email notifications. FORCE uses log file data to provide, understand, and improve our Services, and to customize the content we show you. FORCE may link this log file to other information FORCE collects about you via the Services.

Public Information:FORCE may also collect information about you from publicly available sources. Information you make publicly available in any public or open forum, such as on a social network, may be considered public information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy, and may be accessed and collected by FORCE. Please be aware that any content or information you share with or provide to third parties using or related to your use of the Services is neither private, nor confidential. FORCE is not responsible for any content or information you post or share with third parties. If you do not wish for certain information to be public, please do not share it.

Information Sharing

FORCE will not share, sell, rent, or otherwise disclose your private personal information to third parties without your consent, except in the limited circumstances described in this Privacy Policy, including to:

FORCE Personnel: FORCE’s personnel may have access to your information as needed to provide and operate the Services in the normal course of business. This includes information regarding your use and interaction with the Services.

Service Providers: FORCE works with various organizations and individuals to help provide the Services to you (“Service Providers“), such as hosting companies and companies providing analytics information, like Google Analytics. We may share your personal information with our Service Providers for the purpose of providing the Services. The information we share to our Service Providers may include both information you provide to us and information we collect about you, including Personally Identifiable Information and information from data collection tools like cookies, web beacons, log files, Unique Identifiers, and location data. FORCE takes reasonable steps to ensure that our Service Providers are obligated to reasonably protect your information on FORCE’s behalf. If FORCE becomes aware that a Service Provider is using or disclosing information improperly, we will take commercially reasonable steps to end or correct such improper use or disclosure.

Business Transactions: FORCE may purchase other businesses or their assets, sell our business assets, or be involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets (a “Business Transaction”). Your information, including Personally Identifiable Information, may be among assets sold or transferred as part of a Business Transaction.

Lawful Requests: We may be required to disclose User information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We generally do not disclose User information unless we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. We may share your information when we believe it is necessary to comply with applicable laws, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Services or using the FORCE name, or to protect the safety of any person. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents, or government agencies. Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party’s, including a government’s, request to disclose your information.

Accessing & Modifying Your Information

Access To The Information FORCE Has Collected About You

FORCE provides certain tools and settings within the Services to help you access, correct, delete, or modify your personal information associated with the Services . FORCE welcomes you to contact us regarding the information we have collected about you, including regarding the nature and accuracy of the data has collected about you, or to request an update or deletion of your information. Requests to delete or remove your information do not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information posted, and removed information may persist in backup copies indefinitely. Please note that if you choose to delete your information or opt-out of the collection and use of your information, you understand that certain features, including but not limited to access to the Services, may no longer be available to you.

We may store the information we collect about you indefinitely, but information generally will be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the information was collected , or as otherwise required by law. Following termination or deactivation of a FORCE Account, FORCE may retain your information and content for a commercially reasonable time for backup, archival, and audit purposes.

Opting-Out Of Communications From FORCE

Users may opt-out of receiving certain communications from FORCE by following the unsubscribe process described in an email communication, or by contacting us using the contact information provided below. However, please note you may not opt-out of Services-related communications, such as account verification, changes or updates to features of the Services, or technical and security notices.

Do Not Track

FORCE honors Do Not Track signals and does not plant cookies or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place. Per industry standards, third parties may be able to collect information, including Personally Identifiable Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites or online services when you use Services. You may opt out of online behavioral ads at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. You also may limit certain tracking by disabling cookies in your web browser.

Information Security

Security Of Your Information

FORCE takes reasonable efforts to secure and protect the privacy, accuracy, and reliability of your information and to protect it from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. FORCE implements security measures as we deem appropriate and consistent with industry standards. As no data security protocol is impenetrable, FORCE cannot guarantee the security of our systems or databases, nor can we guarantee that personal information we collect about you will not be breached, intercepted, destroyed, accessed, or otherwise disclosed without authorization. Accordingly, any information you transfer to or from Services is provided at your own risk.

Please do your part to help us keep your information secure. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and FORCE Account, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or FORCE Account. FORCE specifically reserves the right to terminate your access to the Services and any contract you have with FORCE related to the Services in the event it learns or suspects you have disclosed your FORCE Account or password information to an unauthorized third party.

Additional Provisions Regarding The Services & Your Information

Transfer And Storage Of Your Information

Please note information FORCE collects about you may be transferred, processed and/or accessed by us in the United States, or another country where we, or our Service Providers operate. Please be aware Personally Identifiable Information may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state or country where privacy laws may differ from and may not be as protective as those where you live. If you are located outside the United States and choose to allow us to collect information about you, please be aware that FORCE may transfer your Personally Identifiable Information to the United States and process and store it there. By allowing collection of your Personally Identifiable Information, you consent to having your personal data transferred to, processed, and stored in the United States.

If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note that we may transfer information to a country or jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction. It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of Service Providers. By submitting your information, registering for, or using the Services, you consent to the transfer, processing, and storage of your information in the United States, or any other country in which FORCE or our Service Providers maintain facilities, and to the use and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy.

Safely Using FORCE’s Services

Despite FORCE’s safety and privacy controls, we cannot guarantee the Services are entirely free of illegal, offensive, pornographic, or otherwise inappropriate material, or that you will not encounter inappropriate or illegal conduct from other Users when using the Services. You can help FORCE by notifying us of any unwelcome contact by contacting us using the information below.

Your California Privacy Rights

Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83 (known as the “Shine the Light” law), FORCE customers who are residents of California may request certain information about our disclosure of personal information during the prior calendar year to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please write to us at the address below or at compliance@forcemed.com with “Request for California Privacy Information” on the subject line and in the body of your message. We will comply with your request within thirty (30) days or as otherwise required by the statute. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the “Shine the Light” requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

FORCE may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of this Privacy Policy will govern our use of your information and will be located at forcemed.com/privacy. We will notify you of material changes to this policy by posting a notice at the Services or by emailing you at an email address associated with your FORCE Account, if applicable. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.

Contact FORCE

FORCE Communications, LLC
8440 Woodfield Crossing Blvd, Suite 400
Indianapolis, IN 46240
USA
317-829-9710
compliance@forcemed.com

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