Privacy Policy

This Octave Health privacy and cookie policy was last updated on: July 23, 2024.


1. Introduction

Octave Health Group, Inc. (“Octave” or we” or “us”) respects your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This Privacy Notice (our “Privacy Notice”) describes the types of information we may collect, use, maintain, protect, disclose, or otherwise process about you when you visit the websites www.findoctave.com and my.findoctave.com (the “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, disclosing, or otherwise processing that information. 

This policy applies to information we collect:

  • on our Website;
  • in email, text, and other electronic messages between you and our Website; and
  • any other information we may collect about you offline when you use our services.

It does not apply to information collected by:

  • us that is “protected health information” as defined under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended (“HIPAA”). Your protected health information includes, for example, information we collect and process for or on behalf of the healthcare providers employed or contracted with Octave Behavioral Health PC, Octave Psychiatry Behavioral Health PC, Octave Behavioral, PA, Octave Behavioral Michigan, P.C., and Octave Behavioral, P.C. (collectively the “Octave Medical Group”), a group of independent medical practices, pursuant to a HIPAA business associate agreement. For additional information on how your protected health information is collected, used, and disclosed, please see the Octave Medical Group’s HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices: https://www.findoctave.com/consent-to-treatment/#hipaa-notice;
  • us for purposes of creating your account and providing you access to our secure patient platform, as this information is subject to the Octave Medical Group’s HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices; 
  • any other means, including on any other website operated by Octave or any third-party; 
  • us or any of our affiliates or subsidiaries related to your or any other individual’s employment or potential employment with us; or 
  • any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this Privacy Notice carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Notice). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Notice periodically for updates. 

2. Children Under the Age of 18

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on our Website, register on the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of our Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information directly from a child under 18, please contact us at support@findoctave.com.

3. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

Throughout this Privacy Notice, the term “Personal Data” means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or device. However, Personal Data does not include any deidentified or aggregated information. 

Generally

We collect Personal Data from various sources, including:

  • directly from you when you provide it to us;
  • automatically as you navigate through the Website; 
  • information that we create about you as you use our Website; and
  • from third parties, for example, our business partners.

Information You Provide to Us

We collect the following types of Personal Data directly from you when you access or use our Website: real name, alias, home postal address, email address, telephone number. In addition, we also collect other types of information that you may provide when you fill out a form or through your correspondence with us. 

The Personal Data we collect on or through our Website through:

  • information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website;
  • if you contact us, records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses);
  • your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes; and
  • your search queries on the Website.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain Personal Data about your interaction with our Website, including information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns:

  • details of your visits to our Website. This includes: browsing history, search history, traffic data, location data, logs, referring/exit pages, date and time of your visit to our Website, error information, and other communication data and the resources that you access, use, or otherwise interact with on the Website; and 
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, i.e., your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include Personal Data or we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Data we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:

  • estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
  • store information about your preferences;
  • customize our Website according to your individual interests;
  • speed up your searches; and
  • recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. Our Website may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you do not consent to our use of cookies or select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. You can find more information about cookies at http://www.allaboutcookies.org and http://youronlinechoices.eu
  • Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
  • Session Cookies. Our use of cookies also includes “session cookies.” Each time you access the Website, a session cookie containing an encrypted, unique identifier is placed on your browser. These session cookies allow us to uniquely identify you when you use the Website and track which pages of the Website you access. Session cookies are required to use the Website.
  • Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Octave, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity). 

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, analytics providers, social media companies, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Data or they may collect information, including Personal Data, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. 

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

We use Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. It is only used to improve how our Website works. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies. You can find out more about how Google protects your data here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. You can prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our Sites/Apps/Services by downloading and installing the browser plugin available via this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

4. How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Data:

  • to provide and personalize our Website and its content to you;
  • to provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us;
  • to support, develop, troubleshoot, and debug our Website, products, and services;
  • to create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us;
  • to process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud;
  • to provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices;
  • to provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses;
  • to personalize your Website experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Website, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law);
  • to help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business;
  • for internal testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Website, and to develop, improve, or demonstrate our products and services;
  • auditing relating to a current interaction with you and concurrent transactions, including, but not limited to, counting advertising impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with any applicable specification and other standards;
  • detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity;
  • Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
  • to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
  • to notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though them;
  • to allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website;
  • in any other way we may describe when you provide the information; 
  • to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it; and
  • for any other purpose with your consent. 

5. Disclosure of Your Information

We do not share, sell, or otherwise disclose your Personal Data for purposes other than those outlined in this Privacy Notice. However, we may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. 

We may disclose Personal Data that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Notice:

  • to our subsidiaries and affiliates;
  • to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Data confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. These entities provide IT and infrastructure support services;
  • to a potential or actual buyer or other successor in the event of a planned or actual merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Octave’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Octave about our Website’s users is among the assets transferred;
  • to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
  • for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; and
  • with your consent.

We may also disclose your Personal Data:

  • to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
  • to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes; and
  • if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Octave, our customers, or others. 

6. Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We do not control the collection and use of your information collected by third parties described above in Disclosure of Your Information. When possible, these organizations are under contractual obligations to use this data only for providing the services to us and to maintain this information strictly confidential. These third parties may, however, aggregate the information they collect with information from their other customers for their own purposes. 

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can learn more about interest-based advertisements and your opt-out rights and options from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on its website (www.networkadvertising.org) and from members of the Digital Advertising Alliance on its website (www.aboutads.info). 

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see State-Specific Privacy Rights for more information.

7. Accessing, Correcting, and Deleting Your Personal Data

You can review and change your Personal Data by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.

You may also send us an email at support@findoctave.com to request access to, correct or delete any Personal Data that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your Personal Data except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change or delete your Personal Data if we believe the change or deletion would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

The jurisdiction in which you are a resident or are located may provide you with additional rights and choices regarding your Personal Data. Please see Jurisdiction-Specific Privacy Rights for more Information.

8. Jurisdiction-Specific Privacy Rights

The law in some jurisdictions may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of Personal Data. To learn more about any additional rights that may be applicable to you as a resident of one of these jurisdictions, please see the privacy addendum for your state that is attached to this Privacy Notice.

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a resident of California, you have the additional rights described in the California Privacy Addendum.

9. Do Not Track Signals

We also may use automated data collection technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Some web browsers permit you to broadcast a signal to websites and online services indicating a preference that they “do not track” your online activities. At this time, we do not honor such signals and we do not modify what information we collect or how we use that information based upon whether such a signal is broadcast or received by us.

10. Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. 

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. 

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of Personal Data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures deployed on the Website. 

11. Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We may change this Privacy Notice at any time. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Notice on this page with a notice that the Privacy Notice has been updated on the Websites home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Data, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Website’s home page. The date this Privacy Notice was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Notice to check for any changes.

YOUR CONTINUED USE OF OUR WEBSITE FOLLOWING THE POSTING OF CHANGES CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE TO SUCH CHANGES.

12. Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns, complaints, or suggestions regarding our Privacy Notice or the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Data described in this Privacy Notice, have any requests related to your Personal Data pursuant to applicable laws, or otherwise need to contact us, you may contact us at the contact information below or through the “Contact” page on our Website. 

Octave Health Group, Inc.

625 Market Street

Floor 15

San Francisco, CA 94105

Support@findoctave.com 

13. Not for Use Outside the United States of America

OHGI makes no claims that materials on the Platform or the App or any of the Services are appropriate or may be downloaded for use in locations outside the United States of America. Access to the Platform or the App or any of the Services from countries or territories where such access is illegal is prohibited. Furthermore, our databases are located in the United States of America. If you access this website from outside the United States of America, you do so at your own risk. By sending us your data, you consent to its transfer to and storage within the United States of America. Those who access the Platform or the App or any of the Services from outside the United States of America do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, rules and regulations.