Privacy Policy

Who We Are

M2 Health Care Consulting is a health care policy consulting company located in Denver, Colorado, and Washington, DC. We provide strategy, research, communications, and training services to clients across the health care industry and work with a variety of health care issues within the United States. Our website is https://m2hcc.com.

Introduction

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. It summarizes the various ways we acquire and treat your data when you access, visit, and/or use the M2 Health Care Consulting website. This privacy policy does not cover information collected on sites, applications, destinations, or services linked to the website that we do not own or control.

By using our website, you consent to this privacy policy. If you do not agree with the terms and conditions of this privacy policy, you should not access, visit, and/or use the website.

To address any current and future privacy standards, this Privacy Policy may be modified. You can access this Privacy Policy page in the footer of the website.

Definitions

Data: Information such as email addresses, names, user activity, and general location data are some examples of the type of data that may be collected by the tools and services used on this website.

Marketing Operations: M2 Health Care Consulting collects names and email addresses of users who have provided this information through forms on the M2 website and opted-in to our marketing lists. This information may be used to provide newsletters and other marketing materials. Submitting information in these forms is required for users to access documents on our website.

Cookie: A string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Cookies often store your settings for a website, such as your preferred language or location.

Cookies can store a wide range of information, including personally identifiable information (such as your name, home address, email address, or telephone number). However, this information can only be stored if you provide it – websites cannot gain access to information you don’t provide to them, and they cannot access other files on your computer. To learn more about cookies, please refer to this Mozilla article.

For more information on our data collection and tracking methods, please refer to our sections on Cookies and Tracking and What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It.

What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

Contact forms

M2 Health Care Consulting uses Contact Form 7 to manage our contact forms. These forms require a name and email address so that, when an attempt is made to contact us, we can respond to any inquiries in an appropriate and timely manner. Contact Form 7 does not store any submitted messages on its own, but these messages are sent to our contact email address and may be stored there so that we can respond to them.

More information on Contact Form 7 can be found at https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/.

MailChimp forms

M2 uses MailChimp to manage newsletters and holiday mailing lists. We store relevant contact information through this service so that we can efficiently send out information to users who have either subscribed or requested to be added to those lists. This information will not be shared outside of M2 Health Care Consulting and will only be used within the scope our marketing operations. It will not be shared or sold to any third parties.

Comments

When users leave comments on our site, our website collects the data entered into the comment form, the visitor’s IP address, and their browser user agent string to help with spam detection. When a comment is approved and displayed, it will provide the submitted name, comment message, and date the comment was made. If you have an active Gravatar account, your profile picture may also be displayed when you comment on our website. For more information on Gravatar, refer to our Cookies and Tracking section.

Cookies and Tracking

Visitors to the M2 Health Care Consulting website who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before accessing the website. Please note that certain features of the M2 website may not function properly without cookies.

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to certain cookies to save your name, email address, and website. This is for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. Unless removed manually from your browser, these cookies are set to expire after one year.

If you have an active Gravatar account, an anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. This may be used to display the profile picture associated with your Gravatar account when you comment on the M2 website. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Embedded content from other websites

Parts of this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) and may link to other websites. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you were visiting those websites.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

We’ve provided a list of commonly used websites that we embed and link to on the M2 website. For any websites that aren’t listed, please refer to their individual privacy and data policies.

Analytics

The M2 Health Care Consulting website, https://m2hcc.com, makes use of Google Analytics through the Monster Insights plugin. With this product, we are able to record data on incoming traffic to the website. We collect statistical data such as, pages visited on our site, time spent navigating, and general geographic information about users, such as the country they were located in when they visited the site.

The data collected by Google Analytics can also include information on the user’s operating system, IP address, screen resolution, and other information unique to that user. For more information on Google Analytics, please refer to their privacy policy linked below this section.
The collected data is strictly for analytical purposes and is used to better understand how users experience our website. Data collected through these tools and services will not be shared outside the scope of our company’s marketing operations and is only intended for use in improving our service, content, and performance.

Google Analytics Privacy Policy

M2 Health Care Consulting will not share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our services, and protect our rights as a company.

M2 uses MailChimp to collect and store contact information provided by users through various forms on the M2 website. This information will only be used within the scope of M2’s marketing operations. It will not be shared or sold to any third parties.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For Mailchimp mailing lists, contact information is stored until a recipient unsubscribes. If you’re receiving emails from a list and want to unsubscribe, you can unsubscribe via the link provided in the email. You can also contact us and we can manually remove you from the mailing list.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have left comments or submitted personal data, you can request to receive an exported file of any personal data we have about you if it is still stored within our database or services. This includes any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where We Send Your Data

M2 Health Care Consulting uses Google Analytics and Monster Insights for website traffic analytics. Data from https://m2hcc.com is collected using these tools for analytical purposes and is intended for use in improving our services, content, and performance. This data will not be shared or sold to third parties.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your Contact Information

Contact information is stored in MailChimp and submitted by email through Contact Form 7. If you are receiving emails from M2 Health Care Consulting, you can unsubscribe via the link provided in the email or request to be removed from our contact list. You can also contact us and we can assist in removing you from our mailing lists. Your contact information will not be shared outside of M2 Health Care Consulting and will only be used within the scope of our marketing and communications operations.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, M2 Health Care Consulting may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. M2 Health Care Consulting encourages users to check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any changes in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes.

Additional Information

How we protect your data

We take commercially reasonable security measures to protect against unauthorized access to, or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of, any personal data that you share with us.

M2 Health Care Consulting will not rent, share, or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone within the boundaries of the law. Please refer to the section on Who We Share Your Data With for more information.

What data breach procedures we have in place

In the event of a data breach, we will notify all contacts whose personally identifiable information may have been exposed as a result of the aforementioned breach. This includes mailing list contact information and any data that is determined to be personally identifiable.

What third parties we receive data from

Google Analytics provides collected information on M2 Health Care Consulting’s web traffic.