Dicerra is a unique platform for health care and aviation professionals to share information that will improve outcomes and provide techniques for professionals across all regions in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Germany and New Zealand (and eventually worldwide). The platform is secure and confidential. Its purpose is to foster open dialogue and create a healthy culture of sharing so that problems encountered in one region may be solved with solutions discovered elsewhere without having to endure identical processes of trial and error.
Dicerra is derived from a combination of the Latin words discere errata and means "to learn from mistakes." The company was founded based on lessons learned from aviation reporting culture about how to share preventative measures to increase safety and effectiveness for people working in highly complex socio-technical domains. Our focus is on constant improvement, not on punitive measures, so anonymity is preserved by design, always. Moreover, we practice what we preach. Feedback is welcomed and may be submitted directly to Admin by emailing admin@dicerra.com or by using the Contact Us page.
This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) discloses the privacy practices for Dicerra (“Dicerra”, “Dicerra Safety Systems Inc”, “we”, “our” or “us”) with regard to your (“You”, “Your”, “you”, or “your”) use of our services through our website (www.dicerra.com) and our mobile applications (the “Site”, or collectively the “Sites”). The purpose of this document is to set out the principles governing our use of the personal information that we may obtain about you. We ask you to read this Privacy Policy carefully. We encourage members to come to us with any questions, comments or suggestions having read this Privacy Policy.
In the course of Your interactions with us, Dicerra collects information about You and about Your use of our Sites. Dicerra takes Your privacy and its obligations under data protection laws very seriously, and we strive to be transparent about our treatment of Your information. We use the term “personal information” to refer to any information that identifies, relates to, or describes an identified or identifiable natural person.
We collect and process personal information for our internal and Site-related purposes, and in order to provide, improve, and enhance the Dicerra experience. We only collect data that helps us achieve the purpose set out in this Privacy Policy. We will not collect any additional data beyond the data listed below without notifying you first.
Before You can register for Dicerra, You will need to provide Your name and an email address. We will use this information to set-up, validate and administer Your account. You must also agree to the privacy practices set out in this Privacy Policy, as well as agree to our Terms & Conditions.
In order to use the Dicerra site and as part of the registration process, You will be asked to provide certain information regarding your place of work including location and your designation, position and role within your place of work. Additionally, You’ll be asked to provide the department and/or specialty within which you work as well as years of experience. This and additional information may be collected by third party clients on our behalf. Such third parties are subject to their own privacy policies and Dicerra is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other parties. We will use this information to verify your identity, protect the integrity of Dicerra and prevent fraudulent use, ensuring all members in our platform are legitimate healthcare professionals. We may also use the details you provide on your place of work to contact them as part of the verification process. We may periodically ask You to revalidate your credentials, in which case you will be required to re-confirm Your registration information.
We may use Your information to send You information about our services and provide You with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that You have already used or enquired about to market to You. We may also use this information to provide You, or (based on Your consent, if and when required under applicable law) permit selected third parties to provide You, with information about goods or services we feel may interest You. If You are an existing customer, subject to your preferences, we will primarily contact You by electronic means (e.g., email), with information about goods and services similar to those which You have expressed interest in.
Your information may also be used to help prevent spam, fraud, or abuse. You may use Your settings for email and mobile notifications to control notifications You receive from our services. You may also unsubscribe from a notification by following the instructions provided with the notification or instructions available via the Site.
Once You are a registered member of Dicerra, You may voluntarily provide additional information in Your personal account profile which describes You, including but not limited to Your birth date and place of employment. Providing additional information in Your personal profile is not required and entirely optional. This information can be updated or removed by You at any time by visiting the “My Profile” page, and You may choose whether to make some of this information publicly visible to other social network participants.
A key part of Dicerra involves users to freely and anonymously discuss complex professional topics between medical professionals. This content provided by users is available to be viewed by other Dicerra users and third parties with whom we are conducting business. When You post content such as incidents, solutions, comments, and photos on Dicerra, we collect the information you post. We may also receive additional data (or metadata) related to the content, for example, the time, date, and place You took a photo.
We also automatically collect information when You use and navigate the Dicerra site, for example, when You post content, perform a search, or interact with posts. We may use this information to make inferences, such as about the content, subjects and ads You may be interested in.
We also collect information when You invite a colleague to use Dicerra, such as Your colleague’s name and email address. If You provide us with personal information regarding another individual, such as when You invite a colleague to use Dicerra, You represent that You have that person’s consent to give us his or her information and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Dicerra does not collect identifiable personal health information or other health or medical information about individuals. Dicerra does not collect or maintain information that would associate a submission with a specific patient. So please ensure that You do not disclose or post anything that would allow a patient to be identified, such as non-anonymized medical records. Note also that Dicerra does not possess a data-based key to re-identify patient data. If You post any identifiable personal health information about an individual, please inform us so that such information can be removed from the Sites or redacted to remove the identifying information by Dicerra.
We may obtain data from our affiliates or our advertising partners, customers and other third parties, which helps us (or them) deliver sponsored content onto Dicerra, understand online activity, and generally improve Your Dicerra experience. Such third parties may share information about You, including a browser cookie ID, website URL visited, mobile device ID, or cryptographic hash of a common account identifier (e.g. usernames or email address), which enables Dicerra to provide ads on the Site and monitor Your preferences and Your interest in them. However, You can choose to block certain ads by enabling an ad blocker to Your web browser so that Your information will not be matched to information shared by ad partners for this purpose.
We also receive and use Your information when You decide to contact us. If You email us, we may keep Your message, email address and contact information. We need this to categorise Your enquiry, respond to it and, if applicable, investigate any breach of our Terms & Conditions or this Privacy Policy. We may also use this information to customise and improve our services over time. We do not use this information for external advertising.
We and our third-party partners, such as advertising partners and analytics providers, collect information by automated means. We use cookies and similar technologies to collect your IP address, information about your device (such as your browser characteristics, device IDs and characteristics, and operating system version) and information concerning your usage of our Site (including the link you used to reach a given webpage). We use this information to improve Your experience on the Site, to determine how many users have visited particular webpages, viewed particular content, or opened messages or alerts, to improve our marketing activities, to maintain your preferences, and to and to enforce our Terms & Conditions and prevent malicious conduct. For example, by setting a cookie on Your browser, You may not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time. You may be able to change the settings of Your browser to block or delete cookies. You may be able to reset Your browser to refuse all cookies or allow Your browser to show You when a cookie is being set. If You reject the cookies on the Site, You may still be able to use the Site, but Your use may be limited in some areas or limited to certain functions of the Site. In some cases, our third-party partners may process information collected by cookies and similar technologies on the Sites.
The Dicerra Site uses session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how You interact with the Site, to monitor aggregate usage by and web traffic, to enable You to access surveys and to make improvements the Site.
Your browser or device may include “Do not Track” functionality; please note that we do not respond to such signals unless required by applicable law.
When You use our Site, Dicerra may use information, such as Your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring web page, pages previously visited, location (see below), mobile carrier, device and/or application identifiers, search terms, and cookie information to align our services with changes in Your device usage patterns, to administer the Site and to gather certain demographic information for aggregate use. We may also receive log information when You view or interact with links on the Dicerra site, including sites operated by third parties.
We may receive information concerning Your location if, for example, You choose to post content which reveals this information. We may also determine Your general location (e.g., city, state) using information from Your device, such as GPS data, information about wireless networks or cell towers near Your device, or IP address. We may use this to improve and customise our service to You, for example by making You aware of content, people, and ads more relevant to Your location. You can choose to turn off location services on Your device at any time if You prefer, however if You do so You will not benefit from such tailored content.
If you would like to know if we have collected your personal data, how we have used your personal data, if we have disclosed your personal data and to who we disclosed your personal data, or if you would like your data to be deleted or modified in any way, please contact our privacy officer. See the Contact Us section below.
We will process the information we collect about You in accordance with this Privacy Policy or where You have otherwise authorised us to do so by granting us Your consent. We may share any of the categories of personal information listed above for our commercial and other business purposes as described below.
We may disclose user data to any member of our organization who reasonably needs access to user data to achieve the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
Dicerra is free and we want to make sure it remains this way for a long time. Organizations seeking healthcare information, such as healthcare providers, hospital administrators, pharmaceutical companies, medical device firms, and biotech firms underwrite the research and engagement within our Site and help us fund the delivery of Dicerra to You. We may direct You to pages which contain commercial content or You may be presented with the opportunity to engage with sponsored content though our social feed. We may provide our partners and clients with engagement effectiveness metrics that may include the sharing of some of your personal information for performance assessment purposes, such as your place of work, interactions with our website, impressions, responses to posts, and user content you may publicly share via the Sites. To the extent required by law, we will obtain Your direction prior to providing such personal information.
To protect the anonymous nature of our medical professional conversations from other users, we will identify sponsored content with logos or with words such as “Dicerra Client”, “From Industry”, “Ad”, “sponsored post” or other identifiers instead of using Your information, prior to Your engagement with the sponsored content.
As a member, Dicerra (or its service providers or affiliates on Our behalf) may contact You multiple times via any and all contact information that You provide to Dicerra.
We may collect user content You provide to publicly post via the Site (e.g., incidents, solutions, comments). As such, please consider carefully what information You choose to make public on the Site.
Data collected from reported incidents is anonymized and disaggregated for analysis on preventative measures.
We engage service providers to perform certain functions on our behalf and help us provide our services. We may share Your information with such service providers, who are carefully selected by us, where we impose legal obligations on them which are consistent with this Privacy Policy, and on the condition that they act only on our instructions and keep Your information secure.
We may also share Your information with our affiliate entities within Dicerra in the normal course of our business operations. We do so for business purposes, such as to communicate with you and to promote and provide our services. We have implemented technical measures to help ensure that Your information is secure.
We may share Your information for the benefit of health and/or healthcare research.
We may elect to share Your information about You for certain situations such as preventing disease, helping with product recalls, reporting adverse reactions to medications, reporting suspected abuse, neglect, or domestic violence, or preventing or reducing a serious threat to anyone’s health or safety.
Information collected from You or received by us from others about You may be transferred to a third party to the extent permitted by law, as a result of a sale or acquisition, merger or bankruptcy involving Dicerra.
Dicerra takes Your right to privacy very seriously and has taken measures to safeguard Your personal information. Dicerra will disclose Your personal information as set out above or in the event we are required to do so by law, rule, regulation, law enforcement, governmental official, legal authority, or similar requirements.
By providing an email address on our Sites, you agree that we may contact you in the event of a material change in this Privacy Policy, to provide you with any service related notices, or to provide you with information about our events, invitations, or related educational information. We currently provide the following opt-out opportunities: (a) At any time, you can amend your email and mobile notification preferences by accessing https://www.dicerra.com/settings Notwithstanding anything else in this Privacy Policy, please note that we always reserve the right to contact you in the event of a change in this Privacy Policy, or to provide you with any service-related notices.
Dicerra’s data storage servers are located in North America, Europe and Australasia and are managed by service providers in the cloud. We endeavor to have technological and organizational measures to protect Your information, both during transmission and once we receive it.
In order to protect your security, we use the strongest available browser encryption and store all of our data on servers in secure facilities. All data is only accessible to our employees. Our employees are bound by strict confidentiality agreements and a breach of this agreement would result in the employee's termination.
Subject to implementing relevant safeguards under data protection laws, the personal information and other data we collect from You may be transferred to and stored at a destination outside your country of residency, as informed above. It may also be processed by staff operating outside of your country of residency who work for us or for one of our service providers. When we transfer user personal data we will protect that data as described in this Privacy Policy and comply with applicable legal requirements for transferring personal data internationally.
We retain the personal information you provide while your membership is in existence or as needed to provide you services as listed in this Privacy Policy. It may persist in copies made for back up and business continuity purposes for additional time, including information required for regulatory and legal compliance.
If you choose to end your relationship with us, we generally dispose of account information consistent with our Terms & Conditions, corporate data retention policy or other legitimate business need. We may retain some of your personal information even after you have closed your account, or after our contractual relationship ends, if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, or enforce our Terms & Conditions.
We are committed to protecting the security of Your information. We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures designed to help protect Your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Despite these measures, You should know that we cannot fully eliminate security risks associated with information and transmission of data over the internet, it can never be completely secure. In the event of a data security breach, we will take all essential actions as required under applicable laws.
We will let you know promptly if a breach has occurred that may have compromised the privacy or security of Your information. The primary method of contact will be via a Notice of Data Breach sent to the e-mail address provided during registration. The Notice of Data Breach will contain the approximate date and time that the breach occurred and include details on which of Your information has or may have been accessed by unauthorized entities. The Notice may also contain recommended actions to mitigate the effects of unauthorized access to Your information. A data breach may require users to reset or change their passwords to access the Site.
The Site may contain links to third party sites. The linked sites are not necessarily under the control of Dicerra. Please be aware that Dicerra is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. Dicerra encourages You to be aware when You leave this Site and to read the privacy policies of each and every web site that collects personal information. If You decide to access any of the third-party sites linked to this Site, You do this entirely at Your own risk. Any links to any partner of the Site is responsibility of that partner and Dicerra shall not be responsible for notification of any change in name, or location of any information on the Site.
Where we need to collect Your information as required by applicable law, for security reasons or under the terms of a contract with You and You do not to provide that data upon request, we may not be able to perform such contract (for example, to provide You with Dicerra services). In this case, we may have to cancel a service You have with us, but we will notify You if this is the case at the time.
Certain jurisdictions have specific legal requirements and grant privacy rights with respect to personal information, and we will comply with restrictions and any requests you submit as required by applicable law. For example, you may have the right to: (1) obtain a copy of personal information we maintain about you in a portable format; (2) correct inaccuracies or incompletion in your personal information; (3) object to the continued processing or use of your personal information; (4) complain to a supervisory authority; (5) or request that personal information be blocked, anonymized or deleted. You may also have the right to not be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights. If you seek to exercise your rights, not covered in this Privacy Policy, under the law of a jurisdiction, please contact us by emailing admin@dicerra.com.
To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to the information. When you make a request, we may require that you provide information and follow procedures so that we can verify your identity (and the applicable jurisdiction). The verification steps we take may differ depending on your jurisdiction and the request. Where possible, we will attempt to match the information that you provide in your request to information we already have on file to verify your identity. If we are able to verify your request, we will process it. If we cannot verify your request, we may ask you for additional information to help us do so.
We will respond to your request within the time period required by applicable law. However, we may not always be able or required to comply with your request, in whole or in part, and we will notify you in that event.
We may update this Privacy Policy at any time, with or without advance notice. In the event of any material change in the way we treat Your personal information, or in the Privacy Policy document itself, we will display a notice on our Sites or send You an email, so that You may review the changed terms. As always, if You object to any of the changes to our terms, and You no longer wish to use the Site, you can delete your account at https://www.dicerra.com/settings.
You may also contact Dicerra Support at admin@dicerra.com to deactivate Your account. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that Dicerra has about You and Your account.
As necessary, Dicerra may send You Site and service announcement updates. You are not able to unsubscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the Site, unless You delete Your account. Dicerra primarily communicates via e-mail with You to provide requested services and to resolve issues relating to Your accounts.
Our Sites contains contents that are specifically aimed at and designed for use by adults. Our Site is not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not intentionally gather personal information about visitors who are under the age of 16. If a child has provided us with personal information, a parent or guardian of that child may contact us to have the information deleted from our records. If you believe that we might have any information from a child under age 16 in the applicable jurisdiction, please contact us at admin@dicerra.com. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected the personal information of a child under 16, or equivalent minimum age depending on jurisdiction, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.
For questions about our privacy practices, contact us:
Dicerra
Attn: Privacy Officer
7 Bayview Station Rd
Ottawa, ON
K1Y 2C5
Canada
We will use all reasonable efforts to respond promptly to requests, questions or concerns You may have regarding our use of Your personal information. Except where required by law, Dicerra cannot ensure a response to questions or comments regarding topics unrelated to this Privacy Policy or Dicerra’s privacy practices.