Exclusion of Liability - Disclaimer and HIPAA Statement
Updated on Nov 3rd, 2020
The content of pages was created with great care. This Disclaimer describes how Heroic Faith International Ltd. and its affiliates (collectively, “HFI” or “We”) collect, process, and secure information obtained through the SEERes. A person who accesses and uses the SEERes is the “User.” We are committed to protecting the privacy and accuracy of confidential information. Other than as authorized by the Users or required by legal instruments, information is exclusively collected to maintain our business functions and will not be sold, bartered, or disseminated to third parties.
If you have questions regarding the Disclaimer, please contact us at contact@heroic-faith.com . Alternatively, you can mail to the following address:
Heroic Faith International Ltd.
18F., No.460, Sec.4, Xinyi Rd., Xinyi Dist
Taipei City 110, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
It is prohibited to send unsolicited promotional materials (e.g. spam emails) to the contact information, and Heroic Faith reserves the right to take legal action against unauthorized advertisements.
Disclaimer Revisions
This Disclaimer is subject to changes, and the last revision date is November 3rd, 2020. We recommend that you review this information every time you access the SEERes. If significant changes are made to the Disclaimer, we will inform you about the updates.
By clicking ACCEPT and submitting information to SEERes, you are acknowledging that you have read and agreed to the Disclaimer. If you do not agree, please do not proceed or provide any information to us.
You may encounter hyperlinks to external sites as you use the SEERes. While this Disclaimer applies to all websites directly affiliated with Heroic Faith International Ltd., we do not manage the information practices of third-party organizations. We are not responsible for your experiences with external sites, and we recommend that you review their disclaimers or privacy policies prior to use.
Information We collect
Analytic Data
For technical reasons, the following data sent by your internet browser to us or to our server provider will be collected, especially to ensure a secure and stable website: These server log files record the type and version of your browser, operating system, the website from which you came (referrer URL), the webpages on our site visited, the date and time of your visit, as well as the IP address from which you visited our site. The data thus collected will be temporarily stored, but not in association with any other of your data. The basis for this storage is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the improvement, stability, functionality, and security of our website. The data will be deleted within no more than seven days, unless continued storage is required for evidentiary purposes. In which case, all or part of the data will be excluded from deletion until the investigation of the relevant incident is finally resolved
Personal Information
Collection of Personal Information, if done in accordance with applicable privacy laws, will not entitle you to any cause of action. Personal information that will be transferred to and stored by HFI includes the account information that you submit when registering to use the SEERes. Audio files uploaded by you and the analysis results about your medical conditions output by the SEERes will not be accessible to HFI without your express consent. Should you submit the audio files and analysis results to your health care providers, HFI is not responsible for your proactive use and sharing of the information.
Customer Support Inquiries
If you contact us directly, either through electronic or paper-based means, we will collect the messages, attachments, or additional information you choose to submit. We may further analyze and process the information to improve our services or to provide the support that you request.
User rights
With regard to the data processing to be described in more detail below, users and data subjects have the right
In addition, the controller is obliged to inform all recipients to whom it discloses data of any such corrections, deletions, or restrictions placed on processing the same per Art. 16, 17 Para. 1, 18 GDPR. However, this obligation does not apply if such notification is impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. Nevertheless, users have a right to information about these recipients.
Likewise, under Art. 21 GDPR, users and data subjects have the right to object to the controller’s future processing of their data pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. In particular, an objection to data processing for the purpose of direct advertising is permissible.
We would like the Users to be aware of their rights to personal data collected by the HFI. As per the requirements set out in GDPR, the Users can submit the requests to contact@heroic-faith.com and we will respond to you within a month.
How We store information
We store information in a secure cloud database offered by third party. We assign a data controller to manage information, review the security practices of the cloud database, and ensure that the information is stored safely. We keep the User’s information for two years unless otherwise specified, or for as long as it takes to achieve the purpose for which the data is collected.
HIPAA Compliance Statement
Heroic Faith is HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliant.
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SEERes Terms of Use
Acceptance of the Terms of Use
Heroic-Faith Medical Science. (hereinafter collectively referred to as “we” or “us” or “our”) operates the SEERes network platform. By clicking “I have read the full texts and agree to comply with the rules above”, you acknowledge, understand and agree to accept and abide by this Terms of Use (hereinafter as “Terms”) and the SEERes Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to or your country or religion excludes all or part of the contents of the Terms, you must stop using our Service.
We may revise, amend, add, or delete our Terms from time to time at our sole discretion, and we will not inform each user individually; therefore, we recommend that you check our website announcement periodically because any amendment made thereto shall take effect immediately on the date of the announcement. By continuing to use our Service subsequent to our amendment to the Terms, you and your statutory agents hereby acknowledge and consent to such amendment.
In case there is a separate term for the Service, you shall comply with those terms respectively as well as the Terms.
Links to the Third-Party Website or Service
Our Service may contain a third-party website or service (hereinafter as the “Third-Party Program”) when we provide the Service or the content of the website. The Third-Party Program may be bound by its respective terms of use or privacy policy. You understand and consent that we are not responsible for the behavior, function, content, or any transaction between you and the Third-Party Program.
You may be directed to websites that you find repulsive or unwanted. When this happens, we recommend that you stop browsing or promptly leave those websites. You also consent that we will not be responsible for damages caused by you being directed to the websites which do not belong to SEERes.
Suggestion, Information or Advertisement
We do not guarantee the authenticity, reliability, or correctness of the result, information or suggestion that you obtain from the Third-Party Program by using or linking to our Service.
The Protection of Intellectual Property Right
The rights, titles and interests (including but not limited to Trademark, Patent, Copyright, Trade Secret) of the software or the program that we use and the website’s entire contents (including but not limited to copyrights, trademarks, images, files, information, data, website structure, website displays, website designs, and membership) are owned and retained by Heroic-Faith Medical Science. and its licensees. No one can use, modify, reproduce, broadcast publicly, transmit publicly, present publicly, adapt, distribute, publish, release in public, reverse engineer, de-compile or disassemble said software or program without our permission. Using or citing the aforementioned software, program or website contents requires the prior written consent of Heroic-Faith Medical Science. or its licensees. You will be held responsible for any damages caused if you violate any of the above.
The Protection of Children and Adolescents
Children and adolescents may be emotionally and physically hurt as a result of inappropriate information on the internet, such as pornography, violence and so on. To ensure the safety of children and adolescents using the Internet, parents (or legal guardian) shall examine first whether there is privacy policy to protect personal information on each website, and then decide whether to agree to provide the relevant personal information. Children under 12 years old shall be accompanied by their parents (or legal guardian) when they log on the Internet. For adolescents who are over 12 years old but under 18 years old, parents (or legal guardian) shall consider whether to consent or not before they log on the Internet.
The Code of Conduct
1.We authorize you to use our Service on a personal, limited, non-exclusive, and revocable basis only. Other than this, you have no other rights or interests to our Service. Without our prior written consent, you shall not transfer any of the rights and obligations of the Terms to others.
2. All notifications of the Terms shall be sent in writing, including e-mail. You consent that we may sent notification to the e-mail address you provided, and the notification is served at the time when we sent the e-mail.
3. In the course of your using our Service, we may stop providing the Service to you and/or transfer your case to the Prosecutions’ Office for investigation if you violate the Terms, infringe our/the third-party’s rights, or engage in other illegal acts.
4. In no event shall we be responsible or liable to your User Content, speeches or any other activities on the Internet. You are fully and soely responsible for any legal liability by yourself when others make a claim to us against your User Content or speeches, and guarantee that we will not be liable for any relevant losses and damages (including attorney’s fee and litigation costs).
5. We have the right to request that you stop using our Service and to take responsibility of compensating for our damages that are directly or indirectly caused by your inappropriate use.
User Content
User Content includes the questionnaire (including texts, images, videos, messages or other information) you create in our Service will be your User Content, and your non-confidential feedbacks, comments or suggestions (collectively “Feedback”) about our Service or contents. You consent that we can use this Feedback and User Content without limit in order to improve our products or for the purpose of research and analysis within the scope of the law.
System Interruption or Malfunction.
You understand that sometimes our Service may be offlined, disconnected or malfunctioned, which may cause inconveniences to your use, loss of data, errors, tampering or other economic losses, and the like, and you agree to take protective measures on your own when using our Service.
We will not be responsible for the damages arising out of your using (or failure to use) the Service for system due to interruption or malfunction caused by force majeure. However, if the malfunction of the system is attributable to us, we will refund the unused portion of the fee that we charged for our Service.
Principle for Handling Suspicion of Infringement of Copyright or Intellectual Property Rights.
We respect the intellectual property right of others, and require our user to respect the same. With respect to our Service or website or webstie contents which are suspected of infringing intellectual property rightserty.
Termination of Service
We have the right to cease the provision of all or a part of the Service at any time, and we shall not be liable to compensate your damages other than to refund to you the unused portion of the fees paid to us.
We have the right to suspend or terminate the provision of the Service at any time and shall not be liable to you for any compensation if you violate the Terms or the conditions of use of this provision.
The Terms will continue to be in effect until either you or we terminate it. However, your confirmation and consent to grant us permanent authorization (including Feedback) regarding the User Content shall not be affected by the expiry or termination of the Terms.
Interpretation of these Terms
If any part of this provision is invalidated by a change in the laws, it shall not affect the validity of the other part.
Last Modification of SEERes Terms of Service: February 08, 2021