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Brigitte Piniewski MD Specialist for web3 healthcare evolution
Hello world, I am Brigitte Piniewski!
I am a physician, ex-healthcare executive, researcher, author and angel investor who has witnessed healthcare from every angle. More recently, while providing investor education in the Web3 ethos, I have appreciated the potential for pivotal health transformation now possible using new distributed ledger approaches. Thus rather than continue advising teams and corporations engaged in incremental innovations that simply digitize our analog healthcare, I decided to write Wealthcare: Demystifying Web3 and the Rise of Personal Data Economies. This book provides a wide audience of healthcare professionals, policy makers, developers and patients a common framework from which to both see and build our preferred health futures.
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Demystifying web3 and the rise of personal data economies in healthcare
Her seminal book, “Wealthcare: Demystifying Web3 and the Rise of Personal Data Economies”, also available as an NFT, is an essential guide for anyone aiming to spearhead innovations in healthcare.
Dr. Piniewski covers how a dramatic elevation in personally relevant health intelligence is poised to not only enable cutting-edge products and services but also a myriad of new data-dependent business models which will lay the foundation for society’s next leap in wealth production.
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Health intelligence has always been based on study populations – a vast sea of statistics, trends and averages. Yet not one of us exists as average. Each of us are a unique tapestry of genetics and experiences.
Today, when seeking medical advice, physicians consider just a few parameters to dictate our care. This is akin to seeing merely the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the surface lie hundreds, if not thousands, of personal parameters that may meaningfully impact our health outcomes.
The dilemma deepens when we consider the price of sharing these intimate details. In an era where data has proven to be the new gold, we are desperate to strike a reliable balance between privacy and sophisticated, truly personalized care.
Enter the power of web3. Underpinned by groundbreaking technologies, web3 allows us to transform our health experiences into digital assets granting us the autonomy to determine their use. Empowered by AI, these assets can be tokenized and come alive, as algorithms dive deeper to uncover patterns and insights previously unimaginable.
And here’s the game-changer: contributing data is no longer a one-off event. Our data packets, once tokenized, ensure that any future value created is distributed among the contributors into perpetuity. Your personal data, in this paradigm, isn’t just a means to better care; it’s a valuable economic asset, a bridge between individual privacy and robust collective health intelligence.
Industry today can only deliver average outcomes based on populations. Yet average is not acceptable. We deserve exceptional. With web3, we the people can co-create the firehose of digital truths to train AI and deliver truly individualized health capable of providing personally-relevant insights to reach exceptional outcomes.
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A Tri-Zone Extension
Building Upon a16z’s Vision for the Biggest Company in the World
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) put forth a provocative notion of a consumer-obsessed healthcare-native tech company becoming the biggest company in the world. We all long to rectify a system that has for too long been mired in inefficiencies and patient dissatisfaction but without a more detailed explanation of this new paradigm, it will be difficult to build our preferred tomorrow. To this end, the following both highlights and enlarges the a16z blueprint to provide further clarity regarding the necessary elements, including the three zones, critical to delivering our consumer-obsessed health tech behemoth.
First a quick recap:
Clearly any industry that captures 20% of GDP will house some of society’s biggest companies. UnitedHealth Group (UHG), in the top ten, cannot claim to be a tech company nor does it excel in consumer engagement. Apple has figured out consumers but has struggled to offer compelling health tech.
A16z suggests two paths: vertical or horizontal.
Vertical integration: think UHG and Apple combined in some manner. Unfortunately many core issues would remain unresolved. Here the customer is not the individual patient. The customer remains the payor and thus lacks effective incentives to ensure great consumer engagement. Some efforts have paid off such as Noom, Headspace and Calm but these seem locked within employee wellness with valuations of only $10Billion or less.
One would expect our future colossal health behemoth to be valued over $2Trillion.
Horizontal option: think infrastructure for all the others: an Amazon or Visa
Healthcare stands alone when it comes to financial transactions: patients and doctors do not know how much particular services cost. Patients are confused about what a bill covers or if they need to pay it. Repeat billing for events already paid are not easily reconciled. The list goes on. There is no shortage of repair needed here.
Thus my bet is this second option: “a horizontal path of building a consumer marketplace or infrastructure layer that enables all other care delivery companies”.
Imagine 90% of healthcare is managed in the palm of your hand on your phone. The system is built natively with web3 and AI and you’re off to the races.
The largest company in the world will reward and harness crowdsourced data with cutting-edge AI to achieve unparalleled consumer engagement. In other words, this patient-first paradigm will leverage unprecedented solutions to the following:
- Low health intelligence
- Low consumer engagement
- Low transaction volume
Low Health Intelligence
Given the technology at our disposal, it is unacceptable for us to remain in the shadow of grossly limited health knowledge. Now, more than ever, future generations will be dumb founded to learn that our health system treats everyone as a population. Everyone diagnosed with diabetes this year should expect an average lifespan of a person with diabetes.
Clinical guidelines that dictate care pathways are based on populations. Yet none of us exist as a population. Nor do we want an average outcome. Faced with a serious illness, each of us hope for the best possible outcome; and outlier achievement. Sadly given current approaches, we can only expect an average outcome as the nuances necessary to deliver an exceptional outcome are not documented in health records, therefore not part of working health intelligence and not available to those making decisions on our behalf. Yet technology today is ready to enable data-driven access to the best achievable outcomes for each of us. We just have to make it happen.
A consumer-obsessed heath-native tech company would provide the web3 infrastructure for each of us to safely and securely collect the nuances of our daily lives.
Together, we would tap into the transformative capabilities of wearables and apps, translating physical health manifestations into dynamic digital assets. This would unravel a wealth of intricate details, propelling individualized health intelligence at an unprecedented rate. With an optimally designed user experience that prioritizes both
security and unmatched privacy, and using a correlations-only AI, we are likely to amplify our current health intelligence by profound orders of magnitude.
Low Consumer Engagement
Imagine if accessing your emails or photos was akin to requesting special permission from the hosting platform like Google or Apple. The mere thought of waiting days or weeks to revisit a message or share a photo seems unthinkable. Yet, shockingly, this cumbersome process mirrors how we continue to access our health data today. Patients are mere ‘visitors’ to their data that resides in a tangle of bureaucratic procedures.
Enter our consumer-centric colossus. Individuals will find it effortless to integrate medical notes into their personal health chronicles. Need a lab test or an x-ray? The most influential companies on the planet will guide you to the providers that ensure your data seamlessly integrates into your personal homebase (zone I).
Merely possessing personal data isn’t the silver bullet to skyrocketing consumer engagement, just as wearables and apps alone have shown limited sustained interaction. However, our nuanced health data reflecting our well-being fluctuations converged with episodic medical events could be infused with continuous-correlation AI (termed zone II). This combination radically transforms the landscape of value. Together the elements vividly illuminate what’s effective and what falls short in real-time. New insights that can be both profound and hard to ignore. What’s more, each unique contribution to a valuable insight can be tokenized, allowing for traceability as these validated insights ascend into the commercial realm (Zone III)
While we sleep, tokenized data packets authorized to participate in follow-on value creation in the form of new products and services are continuously converted to economic assets. The commercial zone adds scientific rigor to correlations to expose likely causal relations. This lays the groundwork for new products and services that have surfaced by the free-living system and thus product-market-fit is essentially built in.
As personal digital assets transform into tangible economic assets, consumer engagement reaches unprecedented heights. Personal relevant health insights become searchable and citizens are able to both witness and benefit economically from their portfolio of contributions to global health intelligence. This torrent of authentic insights ushers in a renaissance of in-depth understanding catalyzing an era of profound economic affluence.
Low Transaction Volume
Today a handful of mega companies are transacting on consumer-generated data. Imagine if the masses began transacting on this data themselves. We’ve seen this before, phone communications soared after operators left, travel volumes exploded as soon as travel agents became obsolete. These examples are trite compared to Open AI which with 99.99% organic (read spontaneous) traffic has moved the transaction volume bar to the stratosphere. Apparently, ChatGTP acquired a million users just several days after launching in November 2022.
No longer will companies wait on industry incumbents to motivate their membership to adopt new behaviors. The adoption pipeline is already primed and is perhaps the forcing function driving us inevitably towards this tri-zone model. Those savvy about AI recognize that our human-AI relationship is early and the options for fatal mistakes are real.
AI is not a tool. Certainly not in the traditional sense of a tool. AI is very different in at least two important ways.
Yuval Noah Harari states this during a Lex Fridman podcast. AI can do two things that traditional tools have never been able to do. First, AI can have ideas. The printing press could print every idea mankind came up with but could not generate one idea on its own. The second important difference is: AI can make decisions. We can build an atomic bomb but the bomb cannot decide when to go off or in what direction. It remains out of operation until operated by a human.
A robust three zone model delivering a firehose of truth to train and course correct AI throughout the decades of our lives is needed now. For more information on the medical necessity of improved intelligence and the three zone model, please check out my recent book: Wealthcare: Demystifying Web3 and the Rise of Personal Data Economies.
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ConV2X 2023
When The Big Easy Met the Big Innovators in Web3 and AI-Driven Healthcare
The Summit keynote at ConV2X, discussing Blockchain, AI and Healthcare was my highlight for September 2023.
Held in New Orleans, this conference attracted experts in Web3/AI/Healthcare that showcased live examples of ground-breaking innovation.
Take the Medical Research discussion for example. No question, our traditional peer review system, that should be the gatekeeper of validity etc, has failed both industry and the community at large.
- The majority of medical literature is not reproducible and negative studies do not get published thus we’re missing at least half of the scientific truths.
- Researchers are pseudo-required to advance the work of previously-funded researchers if they hope to gain any funding.
- Breakout ideas have no established track in which to operate.
- Lifestyle or natural remedies are often devoid of intellectual property (IP) potential thus fully abandoned by traditional scientific approaches that require robust IP-based business models up front.
I could go on but instead let’s consider how the future of scientific research is being addressed by decentralized approaches.
Ray Dogum, Jelani Clarke PhD and others discussed a growing community of DeSci nodes. This movement allows a wider framework to validate the value. Strong examples include:
- Vita DAO, Longevity research community with $4.1 million in funding from Pfizer and others.
- Athena DAO, Advancing Women’s Health research.
- And even…HairDAO the community serious about solving hair loss.
No question, hair matters!!
Hair transplant market alone is expected to grow to $53BN in 2028, up from $17BN in 2022. HairDAO is a major step up from online tribes such as Discord or Reddit forums. They have built a functional organization on the belief that providing effective incentives can usher forward effective outcomes. To this end, HairDAO provides a token: $HAIR, to coordinate and incentive a self-organized group of over 1300 individuals around a common goal: research hair-loss remedies.
Matti and Rapolas in Hair is Money remind us…”IP is the most defensible moat in biotech. Community is the most defensible moat online. Formalizing online allegiances with a token is potentially a powerful phenomenon that could bootstrap the most defensible organizations in the world.”
These are early days. To be sure we have much to learn. More on Data-to-earn models can be found in the transformation of Healthcare outlined in my book: Wealthcare: Demystifying Web3 and the Rise of Personal Data Economies also available as an NFT.
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I am a physician, ex-healthcare executive, researcher, author and angel investor who has witnessed healthcare from every angle. More recently, while providing investor education in the Web3 ethos, I have appreciated the potential for pivotal health transformation now possible using new distributed ledger approaches. Thus rather than continue advising teams and corporations engaged in incremental innovations that simply digitize our analog healthcare, I decided to write Wealthcare: Demystifying Web3 and the Rise of Personal Data Economies. This book provides a wide audience of healthcare professionals, policy makers, developers and patients a common framework from which to both see and build our preferred health futures.
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This privacy notice for BlockHealth LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”), describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your information when you use our services (“Services”), such as when you:
Visit our website at https://www.blockhealth.us/, or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice
Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events
Questions or concerns? Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at brigblocks@gmail.com.
SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS
This summary provides key points from our privacy notice, but you can find out more details about any of these topics by clicking the link following each key point or by using our table of contents below to find the section you are looking for.
What personal information do we process? When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. Learn more about personal information you disclose to us.
Do we process any sensitive personal information? We do not process sensitive personal information.
Do we receive any information from third parties? We do not receive any information from third parties.
How do we process your information? We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so. Learn more about how we process your information.
In what situations and with which parties do we share personal information? We may share information in specific situations and with specific third parties. Learn more about when and with whom we share your personal information.
What are your rights? Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information. Learn more about your privacy rights.
How do you exercise your rights? The easiest way to exercise your rights is by submitting a data subject access request, or by contacting us. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Want to learn more about what we do with any information we collect? Review the privacy notice in full.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
6. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
7. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
8. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
9. DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
10. DO OTHER REGIONS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
12. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
13. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us.
Personal Information Provided by You. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:
names
email addresses
job titles
phone numbers
company
message
Sensitive Information. We do not process sensitive information.
All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.
2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.
We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:
To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may process your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the requested service.
To request feedback. We may process your information when necessary to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our Services.
To send you marketing and promotional communications. We may process the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt out of our marketing emails at any time. For more information, see “WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?” below.
To save or protect an individual’s vital interest. We may process your information when necessary to save or protect an individual’s vital interest, such as to prevent harm.
3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason (i.e., legal basis) to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services to enter into or fulfill our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfill our legitimate business interests.
If you are located in the EU or UK, this section applies to you.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:
Consent. We may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e., consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Learn more about withdrawing your consent.
Performance of a Contract. We may process your personal information when we believe it is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you, including providing our Services or at your request prior to entering into a contract with you.
Legitimate Interests. We may process your information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests and those interests do not outweigh your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms. For example, we may process your personal information for some of the purposes described in order to:
Send users information about special offers and discounts on our products and services
Understand how our users use our products and services so we can improve user experience
Legal Obligations. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
Vital Interests. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.
If you are located in Canada, this section applies to you.
We may process your information if you have given us specific permission (i.e., express consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose, or in situations where your permission can be inferred (i.e., implied consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time.
In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law to process your information without your consent, including, for example:
If collection is clearly in the interests of an individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way
For investigations and fraud detection and prevention
For business transactions provided certain conditions are met
If it is contained in a witness statement and the collection is necessary to assess, process, or settle an insurance claim
For identifying injured, ill, or deceased persons and communicating with next of kin
If we have reasonable grounds to believe an individual has been, is, or may be victim of financial abuse
If it is reasonable to expect collection and use with consent would compromise the availability or the accuracy of the information and the collection is reasonable for purposes related to investigating a breach of an agreement or a contravention of the laws of Canada or a province
If disclosure is required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or rules of the court relating to the production of records
If it was produced by an individual in the course of their employment, business, or profession and the collection is consistent with the purposes for which the information was produced
If the collection is solely for journalistic, artistic, or literary purposes
If the information is publicly available and is specified by the regulations
4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
In Short: We may share information in specific situations described in this section and/or with the following third parties.
We may need to share your personal information in the following situations:
Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements).
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
6. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.
We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at https://www.blockhealth.us/contact.
7. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: In some regions, such as the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom (UK), Switzerland, and Canada, you have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information. You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.
In some regions (like the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Canada), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information; (iv) if applicable, to data portability; and (v) not to be subject to automated decision-making. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. You can make such a request by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the section “HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?” below.
We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
If you are located in the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your Member State data protection authority or UK data protection authority.
If you are located in Switzerland, you may contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.
Withdrawing your consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the section “HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?” below.
However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
Opting out of marketing and promotional communications: You can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional communications at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send, or by contacting us using the details provided in the section “HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?” below. You will then be removed from the marketing lists. However, we may still communicate with you — for example, to send you service-related messages that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.
If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at brigblocks@gmail.com.
8. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.
9. DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah or Virginia, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information.
What categories of personal information do we collect?
We have collected the following categories of personal information in the past twelve (12) months:
Category Examples Collected
A. Identifiers
Contact details, such as real name, alias, postal address, telephone or mobile contact number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, and account name
YES
B. Personal information as defined in the California Customer Records statute
Name, contact information, education, employment, employment history, and financial information
YES
C. Protected classification characteristics under state or federal law
Gender and date of birth
NO
D. Commercial information
Transaction information, purchase history, financial details, and payment information
NO
E. Biometric information
Fingerprints and voiceprints
NO
F. Internet or other similar network activity
Browsing history, search history, online behavior, interest data, and interactions with our and other websites, applications, systems, and advertisements
NO
G. Geolocation data
Device location
NO
H. Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information
Images and audio, video or call recordings created in connection with our business activities
NO
I. Professional or employment-related information
Business contact details in order to provide you our Services at a business level or job title, work history, and professional qualifications if you apply for a job with us
YES
J. Education Information
Student records and directory information
NO
K. Inferences drawn from collected personal information
Inferences drawn from any of the collected personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics
NO
L. Sensitive personal Information
NO
We will use and retain the collected personal information as needed to provide the Services or for:
Category A – As long as the user has an account with us
Category B – As long as the user has an account with us
Category I – As long as the user has an account with us
We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories through instances where you interact with us in person, online, or by phone or mail in the context of:
Receiving help through our customer support channels;
Participation in customer surveys or contests; and
Facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries.
How do we use and share your personal information?
Learn about how we use your personal information in the section, “HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?”
Will your information be shared with anyone else?
We may disclose your personal information with our service providers pursuant to a written contract between us and each service provider. Learn more about how we disclose personal information to in the section, “WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?”
We may use your personal information for our own business purposes, such as for undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. This is not considered to be “selling” of your personal information.
We have not disclosed, sold, or shared any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months. We will not sell or share personal information in the future belonging to website visitors, users, and other consumers.
California Residents
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.
If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with the Services, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Services. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Services, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems (e.g., backups, etc.).
CCPA Privacy Notice
This section applies only to California residents. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), you have the rights listed below.
The California Code of Regulations defines a “residents” as:
(1) every individual who is in the State of California for other than a temporary or transitory purpose and
(2) every individual who is domiciled in the State of California who is outside the State of California for a temporary or transitory purpose
All other individuals are defined as “non-residents.”
If this definition of “resident” applies to you, we must adhere to certain rights and obligations regarding your personal information.
Your rights with respect to your personal data
Right to request deletion of the data — Request to delete
You can ask for the deletion of your personal information. If you ask us to delete your personal information, we will respect your request and delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions provided by law, such as (but not limited to) the exercise by another consumer of his or her right to free speech, our compliance requirements resulting from a legal obligation, or any processing that may be required to protect against illegal activities.
Right to be informed — Request to know
Depending on the circumstances, you have a right to know:
whether we collect and use your personal information;
the categories of personal information that we collect;
the purposes for which the collected personal information is used;
whether we sell or share personal information to third parties;
the categories of personal information that we sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose;
the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose;
the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information; and
the specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.
In accordance with applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or delete consumer information that is de-identified in response to a consumer request or to re-identify individual data to verify a consumer request.
Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy Rights
We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.
Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information
We do not process consumer’s sensitive personal information.
Verification process
Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. These verification efforts require us to ask you to provide information so that we can match it with information you have previously provided us. For instance, depending on the type of request you submit, we may ask you to provide certain information so that we can match the information you provide with the information we already have on file, or we may contact you through a communication method (e.g., phone or email) that you have previously provided to us. We may also use other verification methods as the circumstances dictate.
We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. To the extent possible, we will avoid requesting additional information from you for the purposes of verification. However, if we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity and for security or fraud-prevention purposes. We will delete such additionally provided information as soon as we finish verifying you.
Other privacy rights
You may object to the processing of your personal information.
You may request correction of your personal data if it is incorrect or no longer relevant, or ask to restrict the processing of the information.
You can designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with the CCPA.
You may request to opt out from future selling or sharing of your personal information to third parties. Upon receiving an opt-out request, we will act upon the request as soon as feasibly possible, but no later than fifteen (15) days from the date of the request submission.
To exercise these rights, you can contact us by submitting a data subject access request, by visiting https://www.blockhealth.us/contact, or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you.
Colorado Residents
This section applies only to Colorado residents. Under the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), you have the rights listed below. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.
Right to be informed whether or not we are processing your personal data
Right to access your personal data
Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
Right to request deletion of your personal data
Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us
Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (“profiling”)
To submit a request to exercise these rights described above, please email brigblocks@gmail.com or submit a data subject access request.
If we decline to take action regarding your request and you wish to appeal our decision, please email us at brigblocks@gmail.com. Within forty-five (45) days of receipt of an appeal, we will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions.
Connecticut Residents
This section applies only to Connecticut residents. Under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA), you have the rights listed below. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.
Right to be informed whether or not we are processing your personal data
Right to access your personal data
Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
Right to request deletion of your personal data
Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us
Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (“profiling”)
To submit a request to exercise these rights described above, please email brigblocks@gmail.com or submit a data subject access request.
If we decline to take action regarding your request and you wish to appeal our decision, please email us at brigblocks@gmail.com. Within sixty (60) days of receipt of an appeal, we will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions.
Utah Residents
This section applies only to Utah residents. Under the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA), you have the rights listed below. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.
Right to be informed whether or not we are processing your personal data
Right to access your personal data
Right to request deletion of your personal data
Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us
Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising or the sale of personal data
To submit a request to exercise these rights described above, please email brigblocks@gmail.com or submit a data subject access request.
Virginia Residents
Under the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA):
“Consumer” means a natural person who is a resident of the Commonwealth acting only in an individual or household context. It does not include a natural person acting in a commercial or employment context.
“Personal data” means any information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable natural person. “Personal data” does not include de-identified data or publicly available information.
“Sale of personal data” means the exchange of personal data for monetary consideration.
If this definition of “consumer” applies to you, we must adhere to certain rights and obligations regarding your personal data.
Your rights with respect to your personal data
Right to be informed whether or not we are processing your personal data
Right to access your personal data
Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
Right to request deletion of your personal data
Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us
Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (“profiling”)
Exercise your rights provided under the Virginia VCDPA
You may contact us by email at brigblocks@gmail.com or submit a data subject access request.
If you are using an authorized agent to exercise your rights, we may deny a request if the authorized agent does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf.
Verification process
We may request that you provide additional information reasonably necessary to verify you and your consumer’s request. If you submit the request through an authorized agent, we may need to collect additional information to verify your identity before processing your request.
Upon receiving your request, we will respond without undue delay, but in all cases, within forty-five (45) days of receipt. The response period may be extended once by forty-five (45) additional days when reasonably necessary. We will inform you of any such extension within the initial 45-day response period, together with the reason for the extension.
Right to appeal
If we decline to take action regarding your request, we will inform you of our decision and reasoning behind it. If you wish to appeal our decision, please email us at brigblocks@gmail.com. Within sixty (60) days of receipt of an appeal, we will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If your appeal is denied, you may contact the Attorney General to submit a complaint.
10. DO OTHER REGIONS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: You may have additional rights based on the country you reside in.
Australia and New Zealand
We collect and process your personal information under the obligations and conditions set by Australia’s Privacy Act 1988 and New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020 (Privacy Act).
This privacy notice satisfies the notice requirements defined in both Privacy Acts, in particular: what personal information we collect from you, from which sources, for which purposes, and other recipients of your personal information.
If you do not wish to provide the personal information necessary to fulfill their applicable purpose, it may affect our ability to provide our services, in particular:
offer you the products or services that you want
respond to or help with your requests
At any time, you have the right to request access to or correction of your personal information. You can make such a request by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the section “HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?”
If you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you have the right to submit a complaint about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and a breach of New Zealand’s Privacy Principles to the Office of New Zealand Privacy Commissioner.
Republic of South Africa
At any time, you have the right to request access to or correction of your personal information. You can make such a request by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the section “HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?”
If you are unsatisfied with the manner in which we address any complaint with regard to our processing of personal information, you can contact the office of the regulator, the details of which are:
The Information Regulator (South Africa)
General enquiries: enquiries@inforegulator.org.za
Complaints (complete POPIA/PAIA form 5): PAIAComplaints@inforegulator.org.za & POPIAComplaints@inforegulator.org.za
11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
12. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at https://www.blockhealth.us/contact or contact us by post at:
BlockHealth LLC
6544 N Boston Ave
Portland, OR 97217-5315
United States
13. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please fill out and submit a data subject access request.
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