Washington State Health Data Policy

Use & Processing · Company practice

Providing and developing its products and Services

MyFitnessPal says it may collect and use consumer health data to provide, administer, personalize, manage, develop, improve, repair and maintain its products and Services.

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Purposes for Collecting Your Consumer Health Data

We may collect and use consumer health data for one or more of the following purposes:

Provide, administer, personalize, manage, develop, improve, repair, and maintain our products and Services;

Qualifications & exceptions

• Purposes are introduced as ones for which MyFitnessPal “may” collect and use consumer health data, “one or more of the following”; the policy does not say every purpose applies to every user or every item of data

Not stated here

• The policy does not say how consumer health data is used for product development or improvement.

Use & Processing · Company practice

Communicating with you

MyFitnessPal says it may use consumer health data to communicate with you: to respond to your questions and requests, to ask for feedback, and to send administrative information about your account, such as information about the products and Services you use and changes to its terms, conditions and policies.

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Purposes for Collecting Your Consumer Health Data

We may collect and use consumer health data for one or more of the following purposes:

Communicate with you, including to respond to your questions and requests, to request feedback from you, and to send you administrative information about your account such as information regarding the products and Services you use and the changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Purposes are introduced as ones for which MyFitnessPal “may” collect and use consumer health data, “one or more of the following”; the policy does not say every purpose applies to every user or every item of data
• “Including” introduces examples; the purpose is not limited to those listed

Use & Processing · Company practice

Surveys, research and analytics

MyFitnessPal says it may use consumer health data to ask you to complete surveys and questionnaires, to understand how MyFitnessPal users access and use the Services, and for other research and analytics purposes.

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Purposes for Collecting Your Consumer Health Data

We may collect and use consumer health data for one or more of the following purposes:

Ask you to complete surveys and questionnaires and help us better understand how MyFitnessPal users access and use the Services and for other research and analytics purposes;

Qualifications & exceptions

• Purposes are introduced as ones for which MyFitnessPal “may” collect and use consumer health data, “one or more of the following”; the policy does not say every purpose applies to every user or every item of data
• “Other research and analytics purposes” is open-ended

Not stated here

• The policy does not say which other research or analytics purposes this covers.

Use & Processing · Company practice

Uses when it has your consent

One of the listed purposes is use of consumer health data when MyFitnessPal has your consent, such as through your participation in a study, research or another program.

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Purposes for Collecting Your Consumer Health Data

We may collect and use consumer health data for one or more of the following purposes:

When we have your consent, such as pursuant to your participation in a study, research, or other program;

Qualifications & exceptions

• Purposes are introduced as ones for which MyFitnessPal “may” collect and use consumer health data, “one or more of the following”; the policy does not say every purpose applies to every user or every item of data
• Applies when MyFitnessPal has your consent, for example through participation in a study, research or other program

Not stated here

• The policy does not say what uses this consent covers, or whether other listed purposes also depend on consent.

Use & Processing · Company practice

De-identifying, aggregating and creating datasets

MyFitnessPal says it may de-identify, tokenize or aggregate your information, or otherwise make it so you are not reasonably identifiable, and may create or derive datasets. It says this is as part of the Services and for other purposes consistent with the purposes for which the information was collected and with MyFitnessPal's mission.

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Purposes for Collecting Your Consumer Health Data

We may collect and use consumer health data for one or more of the following purposes:

De-identify, tokenize, or aggregate your information (or otherwise render the information so you are not reasonably identifiable), or to create or derive datasets, as part of the Services and for other purposes consistent with the purposes for which the information was collected and MyFitnessPal’s mission;

Qualifications & exceptions

• Purposes are introduced as ones for which MyFitnessPal “may” collect and use consumer health data, “one or more of the following”; the policy does not say every purpose applies to every user or every item of data
• Other purposes must be consistent with the purposes for which the information was collected and with MyFitnessPal's mission

Not stated here

• The policy does not say what is done with de-identified, tokenized or aggregated data or the datasets it creates, or who may receive them.
• “MyFitnessPal's mission” is not defined in this document.

Use & Processing · Company practice

Personalizing, advertising and marketing

MyFitnessPal says it may use consumer health data to personalize, advertise and market its products and services to you, including the Services.

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Purposes for Collecting Your Consumer Health Data

We may collect and use consumer health data for one or more of the following purposes:

Personalize, advertise, and market our products and services to you, including the Services;

Qualifications & exceptions

• Purposes are introduced as ones for which MyFitnessPal “may” collect and use consumer health data, “one or more of the following”; the policy does not say every purpose applies to every user or every item of data
• As written, the advertising and marketing is of MyFitnessPal's own products and services, directed to you

Not stated here

• The policy does not describe which consumer health data is used for personalization or advertising.

Cross-references

• refers to (model-proposed): Who consumer health data may be shared with — The advertising and marketing purpose is read alongside the statement that consumer health data may be shared with business partners providing advertising and technology services.