Privacy Policy:
This privacy statement demonstrates NCQA’s commitment to your right to privacy and explains how the National Committee for Quality Assurance (the “NCQA”) may use information collected from your use of the 2024 NCQA Health Information Summit Website hosted by Swoogo and the Swapcard platform for online event resources.
About NCQA and Swoogo: NCQA is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of health care. Swoogo provides event marketing software and related services as described in this Privacy Policy.
Your Registration: Your registration to attend NCQA’s Health Information Summit (“HIS”) constitutes acceptance of our terms of use posted on the NCQA.org website. You also agree to the terms as described in this Privacy Policy. If you are making a credit card payment for your attendance, your information will be routed to NCQA’s authorize.net payment gateway, a PCI Compliant third-party vendor. NCQA does not retain or store any of your credit card information.
Your Use of the Swoogo hosted Registration System: Use of the Swoogo system is intended to support your attendance at NCQA’s HIS event and to provide content from our event sponsors. When you register, you are required to provide personal data as more fully described below. Your personal data may be used by NCQA and its employees and representatives to provide and/or perform the services you requested from NCQA. NCQA and our event sponsors may also use your information to offer you additional information, products or services that match your areas of interest.
Your Use of the Swapcard Platform: Swapcard is an online platform that enables event attendees to share content, meet and interact with other attendees and exhibitors. You can access the Swapcard platform through a link provided by NCQA without registering an account. In addition to your personal data collected during registration, Swapcard may obtain personal data from your private and public chat conversations in the platform and behavioral data captured from your journey within the platform. By accessing the Swapcard platform, you are agreeing to the terms described in this Privacy Policy as well as Swapcard’s Privacy Policy available at https://www.swapcard.com/legal. NCQA has no control over, and is not responsible for the privacy policies or use of your data by Swapcard.
Information Collection, Disclosure and Use of Personal Data: When you access the Swoogo hosted registration system, you may be asked to provide information about yourself and/or your organization to register and pay for services, including but not limited to your name, job title, job level, organization, organization type, brief biography, mailing address, email address, telephone number, website and social media accounts, profile pictures or IP address. The application does not store or retain any credit card, account, or other financial information. NCQA uses the information you provide to provide and/or perform the services, to communicate with you on matters relating to our other services and future events, to resolve disputes, and to provide you with information about related services and/or products from NCQA. Event sponsors may use this information to provide you with additional information regarding their products and services. Swoogo may also aggregate, deidentify and/or anonymize your information to use for its own internal analytics purposes and for the improvement of Swoogo’s own products and services.
Your Consent to Privacy Practices: Your use of the application is voluntary. By registering with your personal information, you are accepting the practices and consenting to the use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. Except as expressly described in this policy, NCQA does not sell, rent, lease, license, sublicense or distribute personal information that we receive. We use and disclose personal information only as described in this policy or as otherwise required by law, regulation or court order. If NCQA is requested by law enforcement officials or to provide personal information, NCQA may, without your consent, provide such information. If you do not agree with our terms and practices, do not proceed with your use of the application.