Health Data Policy
Effective January 1, 2025
This Health Data Policy describes the health data (defined below) that we collect about you on the Health Answers by Pfizer (“Site”) and mobile application (“App”) (collectively, “Services”); how we use that information; and the choices you may make with respect to it.
This Health Data Policy only applies to residents of Connecticut, Nevada, and Washington. For additional information relating to our general privacy practices in connection with the Services and additional rights that you may have, please visit our Privacy Policy. In the event of a conflict between our Privacy Policy and this Health Data Policy, this Health Data Policy will control.
Our Services may contain links to third-party websites/content/services that are not owned or controlled by Pfizer. Pfizer is not responsible for how these properties operate or treat your personal data, so we recommend that you read the privacy policies and terms associated with these third-party properties carefully.
Depending on the specific service or product offering that you use or receive and your interaction with us, we may collect certain personal information about you that identifies your past, present, or future physical or mental health status (“health data”). Examples of health data we might collect include:
- Information about your health conditions, symptoms, status, diseases, diagnoses, testing, or treatments (including surgeries, procedures, use or purchase of medications, or other social, psychological, behavioral, and medical interventions);
- Measurements of bodily functions, vital signs, symptoms, or other health characteristics;
- Information regarding gender-affirming care or reproductive or sexual health;
- Data that could identify you as an individual seeking health care services; and
- Any inferences of the above categories of health data that we may infer or derive from non-health related information.
We may collect these categories of health data directly from you, automatically when you use the Services, or from other sources, such as public databases and other third parties. If you choose to connect your Health Answers account to your account on another service, we may receive health data from the other service. For example, if you connect your Health Answers account on the App and grant us access to your Apple Health account, we may, at your direction, import your Apple Health data. You can stop sharing the health data from the other service with us by removing our access to that other service.
As described further in the How We Use Personal Data and Additional State Disclosures Sections of our Privacy Policy, we use health data to serve you; to connect you with third parties, including our third-party business partners whose products and services are linked to on our Services (“Third-Party Action Providers”) and, subject to your permission, our affiliates or other third parties regarding products or services outside of our Services that may be of interest to you; to provide and improve products and services; to protect consumers; to operate, manage, and maintain our business; to respond to your questions and inquiries; to fulfill your requests; to send administrative information to you; to send you certain marketing communications; and to personalize your experience on the Services. We may also use your personal data for our business purposes and objectives, including, data analysis; audits; developing new products; improving existing products; identifying usage trends; determining the effectiveness of promotional campaigns; preventing fraud; and expanding our business activities. Additionally, we may use this personal data to comply with applicable law, legal process, respond to requests from public and government authorities, and to protect our rights, operations, and enforce our terms of service.
We primarily use your health data for these purposes in connection with providing a product or service you have requested. In some circumstances (e.g., where the purpose is not to provide a product or service you requested), we may collect and use health data with your consent.
Additionally, we may deidentify or anonymize health data so that it cannot reasonably be reidentified by us or by another person, and we may use this deidentified data for any reason permitted by applicable law, including for product and service development and improvement activities and other commercial purposes. If we deidentify information that was originally based on health data, we maintain and use that information in deidentified form and will not attempt to reidentify the data, except as otherwise permitted under applicable law.