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Effective Date: May 10, 2019
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This Privacy Policy explains Premier’s online information practices and the choices you can make about the collection and use of personal information you submit or we collect:
This Privacy Policy applies to Premier Inc. and its wholly and majority-owned entities. “Premier”, “we”, “us” and “our” are references to the entity responsible for the processing of your personal information, which generally is the entity that obtains your personal information.
This Privacy Policy describes the types of personal information we obtain through the Services, how we may use that personal information, which whom we may share it, and how you may exercise your rights regarding our processing of such personal information. The Privacy Policy also describes the measures we take to safeguard the personal information we obtain and how you can contact us about our privacy practices.
THIS PRIVACY POLICY DOES NOT APPLY TO YOUR PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION. “Protected Health Information” is information that is protected by the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”). We may receive your Protected Health Information when we, for example, perform services on behalf of your health care providers. Protected Health Information is not handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Rather, Protected Health Information is treated in accordance with our Notices of Privacy Practices. If you have any questions about the uses and disclosures of your Protected Health Information, please review the Notice of Privacy Practices or contact us at PremierPrivacy@PremierInc.com.
The categories and types of personal information we may obtain through the Services include:
In addition, we may obtain identifiers such as government-issued ID numbers and Tax ID numbers, such as U.S. Social Security numbers.
Please note that providing personal information to us is voluntary on your part. If you choose not to provide us certain information, we may not be able to offer you certain products and Services, and you may not be able to access certain features of the Services.
We may use the personal information we obtain to:
We may combine personal information we obtain through Services with other information for the purposes described above. We may aggregate or anonymize personal information and use it for the purposes described above and for other purposes to the extent permitted by laws applicable to us.
The categories and types of personal information listed above under the Section titled ‘PERSONAL INFORMATION WE OBTAIN’ collected through the Services may be shared with the following third parties for the following purposes:
We do not sell your personal information to third parties for monetary value or other consideration.
We maintain reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of the personal information we collect through the Services. However, you should keep in mind that no Internet transmission is ever completely secure or error-free. While we endeavor to safeguard your personal information please take steps to prevent unauthorized access to your account and personal information. You can do this by, for example, selecting and protecting your password appropriately, limiting access to your device and browser, and signing out of your account at the end of your session.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, we retain the personal information we collect about and from you for as long as necessary to fulfill a business purpose or comply with a legal request. We may also choose to anonymize the personal information you provide to us if we would like to retain it for longer periods of time.
We offer the ability for you to update your personal information preferences, limit the communications you receive from us or submit a request by contacting the Privacy Team at PremierPrivacy@PremierInc.com or call 877.777.1552 available Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. EST.
If you ever decide to terminate your use of the Services and wish to delete your account, you may do so by contacting the Privacy Team at the email address above.
We may send various marketing promotions, offers, invitations and other communications to you about our Services, special offers and promotions or invitations to our events. If at any time you no longer wish to receive such special offers or promotions, you can unsubscribe at the following link: https://www.premierinc.com/email-preference-center.
We may use vendors to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet. You may exercise choice over how information about your interests is used by ad networks to deliver you relevant advertising for products and services available from us. To learn how to opt out of ad network interest-based advertising in the United States, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) at http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/.
In certain circumstances, you may:
We will take reasonable steps, where appropriate under the laws applicable to us, to honor your requests and apply your preferences on a go-forward basis. We will not discriminate against you in connection with your exercise of the foregoing rights by denying you any goods or services, charging you different rates for goods or services, or providing you with a different level or quality of goods or services.
Premier uses cookies (and other data collection technologies, such as web beacons and pixel tags) to provide all of the features and functions of the Services to you. By using the Services, you consent to the use of cookies. Our Cookies Policy, as outlined below, explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the service or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the service more useful to you.
How Premier Uses Cookies
When you use and access the Services, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the Services, to provide analytics, to store your preferences, and to enable advertisement delivery, including behavioral advertising. We use both session and persistent cookies on the Services and we use different types of cookies to run the Services. We may also use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.
Third-Party Cookies and Third-Party Advertising
In addition to our own cookies, we may engage third party vendors to use their cookies to report to us usage statistics of the Services, deliver Premier advertisements on and through the Services, and for other similar purposes. For example, we partner with Google Analytics, who uses cookies to track your interactions with our Services. Google collects information and reports it to us, without identifying individual users. This information helps us improve our Services so that we can better serve users like you. For more information on Google Analytics, visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
Note that we do not control and are not responsible for the advertising practices of third parties that are not our vendors. If you allow third party websites, such as Facebook, to track your activity across the Internet, those third parties may collect information about your visit to and use of our Services. This is because that third party has, for example, placed a cookie on your browser that remembers the pages you visited, including pages that may contain sensitive health information. To learn about how third parties use cookies to show you advertisements, review that third party’s privacy notice.
Social Media Plug-Ins
On certain webpages of our Services, we may include social media plugins, such as the Facebook “like” button or Twitter “share” button. When you visit a page that displays one or more these plug-ins, your browser will establish a direct connection to the social media server to load the plug-in. If you are logged into your social media account when you access these pages, the social media site may collect certain activity data, such as your IP address. If you wish to prevent this, please log out of your social media accounts before visiting our Services. Clicking a button may also lead to a collection of certain activity data, such as your IP address. If you wish to obtain more information about social plug-ins, please visit the social media sites’ privacy policies.
Do Not Track Signals
Some web browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” feature (“DNT”) that signals to the websites that you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. Many websites and applications, including our Services, do not currently respond to web browser DNT signals because such signals are not yet uniform. For more information about DNT signals, please visit http://allaboutdnt.com.
What are your choices regarding cookies?
If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser. Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.
The Services are designed for a general audience and are not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information of children under the age of 13 via the Services. If we become aware that a child has provided Premier with personal information without prior parental consent, we will remove all information provided by such underage user from our database.
California residents have a right to request an information-sharing disclosure from a business to which they have provided personal information and which has disclosed the information to any third party for third party direct marketing uses in the prior calendar year. If you are a California resident, you may send such request by emailing us at PremierPrivacy@PremierInc.com with the subject line “California Privacy Rights”. Please note that under this law we are not required to respond to your request more than once in a calendar year, nor are we required to respond to any requests that are not sent to the above-designated email address.
Our Services are intended for individuals located in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States and access the Services or submit your personal information to us, you do so at your own risk and choice. U.S. law may not offer the same privacy protections as the law of your jurisdiction. If you visit our Services or contact us from outside of the United States, please be advised that (i) any information you provide to us or that we automatically collect will be transferred to the United States; and (ii) that by using our Services or submitting information, you explicitly authorize its transfer to and subsequent processing in the United States in accordance with this Privacy Policy and U.S. law.
The Services may provide links to other third-party websites and features, or contain third-party cookies, operated by organizations not affiliated, owned or controlled by Premier. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that third-party websites may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third party websites are not covered by our Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third party websites, which are subject to their respective privacy policies. When linking to another website, you should read the privacy notice stated on that website and please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices. This Privacy Policy only governs personal information collected by us via the Services.
Changes in this policy will be posted on this page so that you may always be aware of what information is being collected, how it is being used, and under what circumstances it is being disclosed. If we make material changes that would impact your use of the Services or your privacy, we will endeavor to notify you of the changes prior to the changes taking effect, such as by posting a notice directly on the Services, by sending an email notification (if you have provided your email address to us), or by any other reasonable method.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 10, 2019.
For further questions regarding the Privacy Policy, your rights related to your personal data, Notice of Privacy Practices, or other HIPAA concerns, please e-mail our Privacy Team at PremierPrivacy@PremierInc.com or call 877.777.1552 available Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. EST.