Curatio IMFINZI & Me Mobile App

Privacy Notice

October 24, 2022

Welcome to the IMFINZI & Me mobile app!  We refer to this mobile app throughout this Privacy Notice as “IMFINZI & Me App", the “mobile app” or the “app”.  This mobile app was developed and designed by Curatio Networks Inc. with input and advice from the app sponsor AstraZeneca Canada Inc. (“AstraZeneca”).  AstraZeneca is the owner and manufacturer of the IMFINZI product.  AstraZeneca promotes and markets IMFINZI in Canada.  We refer to AstraZeneca as the “Sponsor”.  An important feature of this app is the way in which your privacy is maintained.  This notice explains what happens to your personal information when you use IMFINZI & Me.  If you have any questions, please contact Curatio’s Privacy Officer at privacy@curatio.me.

Who makes this app

Curatio Networks Inc., a Canadian company (curatio.me), makes the app and supports its app members. The Sponsor is a global pharmaceutical leader.

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Personal information collected by the IMFINZI & Me App

Account information, basic demographic information, personal information including health information, other optional information, and information from third parties

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What the IMFINZI & Me App does with your personal information

With your consent, Curatio uses your personal information to:

  • Create your account and set you up on the IMFINZI & Me App
  • Create anonymous data about members and what they do in the IMFINZI & Me App to understand the needs of the IMFINZI & Me App community.
  • Other IMFINZI & Me App members, including Curatio’s Community Managers, when you decide to show them your personal information.
  • Curatio staff who support the app
  • Curatio service providers who support the app.
  • The Sponsor does not have access to your personal information in the app. Curatio does not provide the Sponsor with any personal information without your consent, except as required by law (See #5 below for more information on Adverse Events).
  • Others may see your personal information if Curatio is required to disclose it by law or to protect you, other members, the public, or ourselves.

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Who can see your personal information

  • Other IMFINZI & Me App members, including Curatio’s Community Managers, when you decide to show them your personal information.
  • Curatio staff who support the app
  • Curatio service providers who support the app.
  • The Sponsor does not have access to your personal information in the app. Curatio does not provide the Sponsor with any personal information without your consent, except as required by law (See #5 below for more information on Adverse Events). Others may see your personal information if Curatio is required to disclose it by law or to protect you, other members, the public, or ourselves.

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Adverse Events

  • The law requires that pharmaceutical companies report unexpected or unwanted reactions to drug products, known as “Adverse Events”, or side effects, that happen to someone using their medicine or treatments.
  • Curatio uses a set of rules to identify potential Adverse Events from key words used in posts and messages in the app.
  • If a Community Manager confirms an Adverse Event related to the Sponsor, they will report the Adverse Event to AstraZeneca and the report will include your username and Adverse Events details. AstraZeneca’s Patient Safety Team may contact you through the Community Manager to obtain consent to collect additional information.
  • The app or a Community Manager will notify you in the app if an Adverse Event has been identified based on your post or message.

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How long your personal information is kept

For as long as you use the IMFINZI & Me App unless you tell Curatio to delete your personal information, or if you don’t use the app for one (1) year. If you ask Curatio to remove all of your personal information, you may no longer be able to use the app.

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How your personal information is protected

The IMFINZI & Me App is subject to Canadian privacy laws and regulations. Curatio only allows certain employees to see your personal information when supporting you in the app. We securely transfer and store your personal information and make companies that help deliver the IMFINZI & Me App promise to protect personal information.

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Your rights to your personal information

You have the right to access your personal information. You can ask Curatio to correct your personal information and withdraw your consent for Curatio to continue to use your personal information. Withdrawing your consent for Curatio to continue to use your personal information may result in you not being able to use the app.

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How computers are used to make decisions based on your personal information

Curatio uses sets of rules to look at personal information and uses the information to put members in groups, suggest friends, and identify Adverse Events (see #5).

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The IMFINZI & Me App and children

By design, the IMFINZI & Me App does not collect personal information from individuals who are under eighteen (18) years old.

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Where your personal information is kept

Your personal information will be stored in Canada.

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Where you can go to complain about the IMFINZI & Me App and your personal information

privacy@curatio.me, your provincial privacy regulator, or the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

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1. Who makes the IMFINZI & Me App? 

Curatio Networks Inc. makes the IMFINZI & Me App and decides what personal information to collect, how the app will work, and how to support members. AstraZeneca is the Sponsor of the app and provides input and advice to Curatio on the IMFINZI & Me design. We refer to AstraZeneca as the “Sponsor”. Curatio does not share personal information from the IMFINZI & Me App with third parties, including the Sponsor, without the explicit consent of members or unless required by law, for example, in the case of an adverse event.

Curatio Networks Inc. 

1200 – 555 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, B.C.
V6B 1M1

Toll free 1-855-888-2031
International +1 778 985 7907

info@curatio.me 

Curatio Privacy Officer

privacy@curatio.me

2. What kind of personal information does the IMFINZI & Me App collect?

Required:

  • Account information - user name, email address

  • Basic information - gender, month and year of birth, location (country, state/region)

  • Personal health information – Drug Identification Number (“DIN”) and when you started the medication 

Optional:

  • Location (city)

  • User story

  • Interests

  • Height, weight

  • Medications

  • User activity - posts, comments, likes, survey participation, behavioural activity from use of the app

  • Symptoms (including date of onset)

  • Non-pharmacological (non-medical) interventions for symptom management

  • Personal notes about side effects and medications

3. What do we do with your personal information?

Curatio uses your personal information when you give your consent (say it’s okay) and sign up for the IMFINZI & Me App. 

Curatio uses your personal information to:

  • create your the IMFINZI & Me App account;

  • group you with other members at a similar stage in the health journey or in similar roles;

  • match you with other members; 

  • let you communicate with other members;

  • deliver curated content to you in the app;

  • create anonymous data about members and what members do in the IMFINZI & Me App;

  • contact you with updates and information about the IMFINZI & Me App; 

  • understand how you use the IMFINZI & Me App so we can improve it; 

  • help you when you need it; and

  • reply when you have questions or want to tell us something you like or don’t like about the IMFINZI & Me App.  

  • If you choose to use certain features, we will use your personal information to help you:

    • keep track of and review your health events; and

    • enable you to keep track of your medications.

Curatio knows who you are from the personal information you enter. If you are participating in a Sponsor’s patient community and have been referred to the IMFINZI & Me App, the Sponsor will not have access to or receive any personal information from your IMFINZI & Me App profile or activities in the app.

Curatio uses information about you and what you do in the IMFINZI & Me App to create data that does not identify you or link you to your personal information. This anonymous data is used to understand the needs of the IMFINZI & Me App community and Curatio shares it with the Sponsor. 

Curatio does not sell, rent, or share your personal information. 

Curatio may make your personal information known to third parties if:

  • The law says Curatio has to reveal it;     

  • An Adverse Event is being reported (see #5 below);

  • Curatio believes it is necessary to protect your safety, the safety of other members, or the public; or

  • Curatio has to reveal your personal information to protect and defend our rights or property.

4. Who can see your personal information? 

Only certain Curatio employees will be able to see your personal information. They will see it only if they need to support you or if their work on the IMFINZI & Me App requires them to see it. 

Curatio uses other third parties to help deliver the IMFINZI & Me App to you. These third parties can see your personal information. They are only allowed to use your personal information to deliver the IMFINZI & Me App.

You decide which personal information other members can see. You can go to the “settings” tab on the app and choose to show your basic information, basic health information, story and interests to other members.  

When you post something to the IMFINZI & Me App, you can choose to share it with the whole community, your circle, just one or two friends, or you can keep it private. 

Other members cannot see your Health Journey or your medication trackers.

Curatio adds a Curatio Community Manager to your circle when you set up your account. Your Community Manager is there to support you. They can send private messages to the entire circle and can remove posts that are not allowed in the IMFINZI & Me App.

5. Adverse Events

The law requires that pharmaceutical companies report unexpected or unwanted reactions to drug products, known as “Adverse Events”, or side effects, that happen to someone using their medicine or treatments. 

Curatio’s app uses a set of rules to identify potential Adverse Events from key words used in posts and messages in the IMFINZI & Me App. The app notifies Community Managers of potential Adverse Events so they can review the post or message. 

The Sponsor is legally required to report adverse drug events to Health Canada and to monitor Product complaints. If a Community Manager confirms an Adverse Event, it will be reported to AstraZeneca’s Patient Safety Team. The report will only include your username and adverse event details. AstraZeneca’s Patient Safety Team may contact you through the Community Manager to obtain your consent for the collection of additional information as required to fulfill these obligations.

For more information on Adverse Events, please visit AstraZeneca Canada Inc.’s Adverse Event reporting webpage here https://aereporting.astrazeneca.com/home.html?Canada.

6. How long do we keep your personal information? 

Curatio will keep your personal information while you are using the IMFINZI & Me App. If you don’t use the IMFINZI & Me App for one (1) year, Curatio will remove your account and personal information from the IMFINZI & Me App.

You can also go into settings to cancel your account and ask Curatio to remove your personal information from the IMFINZI & Me App. Curatio removes your personal information by erasing it from the active database. It will take 60 days for Curatio to do this. 

Curatio regularly makes copies of the IMFINZI & Me App for safe keeping. Curatio keeps these copies in a safe place for five (5) years. It will take five (5) years from the time your personal information is removed from the IMFINZI & Me App for Curatio to remove personal information from the copies.

7. How do we protect your personal information?

Curatio follows Canadian privacy laws, and other privacy and data protection laws where required. 

We use technical and organizational ways to protect your personal information.

Curatio:

  • Puts your personal information into code (“encrypts it”) when moving and storing it. 

  • Removes your personal information if there is no need to have your personal information. 

  • Makes sure that only employees who need to see your personal information to do their jobs can see your personal information. 

  • Makes companies helping to deliver the IMFINZI & Me App promise to protect your personal information. They may use personal information only under Curatio’s instructions to deliver the IMFINZI & Me App.

8. What rights do you have to your personal information? 

You have the right to access your personal information in the IMFINZI & Me App. You can see and edit your personal information by opening the settings tab in the app. 

You can withdraw your consent for Curatio to keep using your information. You do this by canceling your account on the settings tab in the app.

You can ask Curatio to correct your personal information.

If you have questions about your rights and how to use them, please contact Curatio’s Privacy Officer at privacy@curatio.me

9. Are computers used to make decisions based on your personal information? 

Yes, Curatio’s computers use a set of rules to automatically assign you to a group in the IMFINZI & Me App based on your answers to questions about how familiar you are with your disease and therapy or your role. The group you are assigned to will include members at similar points in their health journeys or in similar roles so that you can support one another.

Curatio also uses a set of rules to look at your personal information and match you to other members of the IMFINZI & Me App that aren’t in your group. The IMFINZI & Me App then suggests these friends to you in the app. You decide if you want to invite a suggested friend into your circle. 

The IMFINZI & Me App will also suggest you as a friend to other members. The other members might send you an invite. You decide if you want to accept an invite into another member’s circle.

Personal information from your Health Journey and Medication Tracker is not used for matchmaking in the app.

You decide how much personal information to give to the IMFINZI & Me App. When you provide more information, your friend suggestions will be better matches for you and more likely to accept you into their circles. Remember, you can always update your profile with more information when you are ready.

Curatio uses a set of rules in the IMFINZI & Me App to identify Adverse Events (see 5 above).

Curatio also uses a set of rules to identify profanity and inappropriate language in community posts and messages.

10. Is the IMFINZI & Me App for children? 

By design, the IMFINZI & Me App does not collect personal information from individuals who are under eighteen (18) years old.

11. Where is your personal information kept? 

Your personal information may be accessible by service providers (e.g., processors routing information) that may be located outside of Canada, including in the United States. However, your personal information will be stored on servers in Canada.

Your Community Manager will be in Canada.  

Curatio employees who can see your personal information are in Canada.

12. Where can you go to complain about how the IMFINZI & Me App deals with your personal information? 

You can tell Curatio’s Privacy Officer at privacy@curatio.me if you are worried about the IMFINZI & Me App and your personal information. 

If telling Curatio’s Privacy Officer doesn’t help, you can tell the Privacy Commissioner or regulator in your province or the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.     

Privacy Commissioner of Canada