This is the Supplemental Privacy Policy for the Similac Baby Journal mobile application, referred to here as the "Application," which is provided by Abbott Laboratories.
In addition to this Supplemental Privacy Policy, our collection of information about you through the Application is subject to Abbott's general Privacy Policy, which you can review by clicking "Privacy Policy" at the bottom of any page on the Abbott.com website. This Supplemental Privacy Policy provides information about our data practices that are specific to this Application, and statements in this Supplemental Privacy Policy supersede statements in the general Privacy Policy with respect to information collected through the Application.
1. What information do we collect about you?
When you download the Application or request to receive it through Apple's App Store, we may receive and store limited personal information that identifies you, such as your name and email address, and we may associate that information with the fact that you downloaded the Application. We also may receive other information about the device on which you use the Application, such as the type of device you use, its IP address, telephone number, and physical location.
Through the Application, you can keep records of your baby's feeding, sleeping, diaper changing, and growth, which you can then send to your healthcare provider or other people designated by you via e-mail. As described below, we do not intend to have access to this journal information.
2. How do we protect the information that we store?
When you provide information through the Application, it is stored on your mobile device, and we do not intentionally transfer it to our systems, nor do we have access to it remotely. If you wish to delete entries from your mobile device, you can do so by clicking the entry and then clicking the delete entry button. You may also delete the Application from your mobile device by touching and holding the icon and then touching the X to remove the icon.
You have the ability through the Application to send information via email to your healthcare provider or to do other things with this information, such as backing it up to your computer using iTunes. If you email or back up this information, it will not be encrypted, and we will not have any ability to manage the security of this information. Therefore, you should take the steps that you determine are appropriate to protect the security of that information.
No method of transmitting or storing electronic data is ever completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that such information will never be accessed, used, or released in a manner that is inconsistent with this policy.
3. How do we use data?
We may use and consolidate the personal information that we collect about you through the Application in the manner described in our general Privacy Policy, which is available on our website.
We may send communications to you, including by e-mail or via the Application to your smart phone, regarding our products and services.
4. How do we share personal information that we collect about you?
Although we may share personal information that we collect about you through the Application within Abbott, we generally do not share this information with third parties, or in other circumstances described in our general Privacy Policy.
We also may share this information with outside vendors, such as vendors that help us update and maintain the Application, but we will instruct those vendors not to use any information that we share with them in a manner that is inconsistent with this Supplemental Privacy Policy and our general Privacy Policy.
You should be aware that, because you obtain the Application through Apple's App Store, Apple may collect certain information about you directly. We do not control Apple's privacy practices, so you should review Apple's Privacy Policy before downloading the Application or otherwise providing information to Apple.
We will not share information that we collect through the Application with any third parties for those third parties' direct marketing purposes.
5. How can you express preferences concerning your personal information?
If you want to opt out of receiving marketing emails from us about the Application, you can use the "opt-out" procedure listed at the bottom of any such marketing message that we send to you.
You also can email us at webmaster@abbott.com with the words "Deletion Request" in the subject line. Your email should indicate the email address associated with the Apple account that you used to download the Application, the email address to which your request relates (if different), and a statement that you wish to opt out of marketing communications relating to the Similac Baby Journal Application. (Please note that, even if you opt out, we still may send you certain administrative communications, such as legal and account notices.) If you want to provide us with updated or corrected information, you can do so by email to the same address.
Apple automatically sends us certain identifying information about yourself when you obtain the Application, so you should not download the Application if you do not want to transmit that information. However, you can choose not to enter information into the Application, or you can choose not to send the information that you do submit to others. We do not intend to have access to information stored on your device.
6. Will these privacy practices change?
We occasionally may change these privacy practices, so you should review this Supplemental Privacy Policy, and our general Privacy Policy, periodically. If we make material changes to our privacy practices that are specific to the Application, we will notify you of our new practices through the Application. For generally applicable material changes, we will notify you of our new practices by posting an update on the "Privacy Policy" page of our website, Abbott.com. In each case, we will indicate the date on which the policy was most recently changed so that you can easily determine if there are any updates.
7. Who should you contact with questions?
If you have questions about this Supplemental Privacy Policy or our privacy practices more generally, please email us at webmaster@abbott.com with the words "Privacy Policy" in the subject line.