1. Introduction
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy outlines the privacy practices of Beginner’s Mind Lab Limited and its affiliates concerning your use of our websites, mobile and web applications, and other resources. These resources include personalized information and services tailored to meet the needs and interests of users of our products, such as reference content, sponsored programs, advertising, medical news, and email communications.
About Beginner’s Mind Lab Limited:
Beginner’s Mind Lab Limited is a digital health start-up dedicated to developing and providing low-cost digital health innovations aimed at addressing critical health challenges, particularly in the developing world. Our flagship product, the Blood Alarm System, is an affordable and robust digital platform designed to eliminate delays in blood transfusions for patients. By providing real-time data on hospital inventory, the system alerts stakeholders about impending blood stock-outs and ensures appropriate and efficient blood utilization in Sub-Saharan African health facilities.
2. Information We Collect
We collect the following:
- Users of the mobile and web app: Name, sex, professional credentials, contact information (email and phone number), location.
- Patient Information: Relevant patient details necessary for blood prescription (e.g., diagnosis, blood group, age, sex, IP No, phone number, and laboratory and clinical findings).
- Prescription Data: Details of prescribed blood components (e.g., type and group of blood product, time and date of a transfusion, personnel who request and issue out blood products).
- Blood inventory data of health facilities, i.e., the blood products available including their details such as barcode number.
- Market research. You may be invited to participate in market research surveys. These surveys can be conducted by us for our internal business purposes or by third-party sponsors who commissioned the survey. In some cases, you might be asked to provide personal information for re-contact (such as email or phone) or for payment fulfillment purposes.
3. Purpose of Data Collection
We collect data to facilitate the national blood transfusion services’ efforts to:
- Improve on the traceability and accountability of blood products issued to health facilities.
- Avert the rampant blood stockout in health facilities through collecting real-time data about blood usage in health facilities.
- Ensure timely and safe blood transfusions.
4. Data Security Measures
We take the following steps to safeguard data:
- Encryption: All data transmissions are encrypted.
- Access Control: Limited access to authorized personnel only.
- Regular Audits: Periodic security assessments to identify vulnerabilities.
5. Sharing and Third Parties
- We do not share patient-specific data with third parties without explicit consent.
- We may share aggregated, de-identified data for research or statistical purposes to the national blood transfusion service and ministries of health.
6. Rights of Users
The users have the right to:
- Access: Request access to their data.
- Correction: Update inaccurate information.
- Withdraw Consent: Opt-out of data collection.
7. Transfusion guidelines provided on the mobile app.
While the guidelines on the mobile app are believed to be true and accurate, neither the originator, the developers of the Blood Alarm System nor Beginner’s Mind Lab Limited accept any legal responsibility for the content.
8. Policy Updates
We may modify the Privacy Policy and terms at any time. Changes will be effective upon posting of the updated Privacy Policy, unless we advise otherwise. We will notify you through a notice on our websites or app before the changes take effect. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy for the latest information on our privacy practices. By continuing to use the Services after changes are made, you agree to the updated terms.
9. Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about our privacy practices, please contact our privacy officer at info@beginnersmindlab.com.
