Terms of service

We would like to use and analyse your anonymised data.

Analysts will NOT have any access to any identifiable data. This is done in a number of ways. Data that is analysed by algorithms will be separated from identifiable data name, DOB and any personal details. 

For patients who are part of the OMED Health Promotion Group

OMED Health referred patients: humanpeople and OMED Health each act as an independent data controller in relation to your personal data. Both parties are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (SI 2003 No. 2426) as amended.
For further information on how data is shared securely between OMED and Humanpeople, please refer to:
the Humanpeople Promotion - OMED Privacy Statement, OMED promotion or otherwise contact privacy@owlstone.co.uk.

If you are unable to access any of the privacy notices, please let us know and we will provide the information to you in another format.

If you want to have your data deleted even after this agreement, just contact us and any non-medical data will be deleted.

By law in the UK we have to keep a copy of your data for seven years.

Personal information is information that can be used to identify the user either alone or in combination with other information. humanpeople collects the following types of personal information:

• Registration information is the information you provide when registering and/ or purchasing our services and products.
• Genetic information is information related to your genes generated through the analysis by Human People or by its contractors, successors, assignees or otherwise processed by and/or contributed to Human People. Human People provides two types of genetic information: your genotype, which is the actual DNA sequence resulting from our analysis, and phenotype, which is the observable trait information resulting from the DNA sequence, such as the sensitivity to caffeine.
• Blood markers is information related to your blood results generated through the analysis of you blood by Human People or by its contractors, successors and assignees or otherwise processed by and/or contributed to Human People. Human People provides blood results through a UK certified laboratory registered with CPA and the Care Quality Commission.
• Microbiome is information related to your microbes generated through the analysis of your stool sample by Human People or by its contractors, successors and assignees or otherwise processed by and/or contributed to Human People. Human People provides a report by our contractor in The UK, Atlas Biomed.
• User content is all the other information provided by Human People users that does not include genetic information, blood or microbiome. This information is distributed publicly or privately, to or through Human People.
• Web behaviour is information on how users make use of the Human People website, which collected through log files, cookies, and web beacon technology.
• Referral information is information that you give when referring Human People to your friends and contacts as part of the Human People referral programme.

humanpeople collects the general personal information you provide to operate your account and to use our services. These include; the provision of our services, improvement of our services including offering new products and services, informing about events, invitations to research projects, obtaining testimonials for promotional purposes, performing quality control checks, conducting other R&D and conducting Human People Research. Your genetic information is used to provide you with the genetic sequencing and the resulting traits relevant to your overall health and well-being to improve your health, energy and future wellness.

We use your registration information to facilitate your purchases, inform you about the analysis of your genetic information, provide you with customer service, manage the services, and verify your use and visits to our website.

While genetic information is, in and of itself, interesting, its use and value to the scientific community increase when you are able to compare it to the genetics and other information of other people. The only way that scientists have been able to understand the effects of certain genetic traits is by comparing a sample to another population.

The precision of looking at all of these areas together is new and the accuracy is therefore still improving, this can only be done with your help.

humanpeople is building on knowledge derived in this way and we intend to participate in building even more knowledge. Users take advantage of this and also participate in this.

We may disclose to third parties “Aggregated Genetic and Self-Reported Information”, which is information that has been obtained from your registration, genetic, and self-reported information. This is aggregated with the data of other users to minimise the exposure of individual information while still providing enough scientific evidence. We also de-identify this data by removing any information that is directly related to you, such as name, address, and email.

We will take reasonable measures to make this information non-identifiable. This means that it would not be reasonably foreseeable that the information could be utilised, either alone or with other information readily available, to identify an individual or to connect an individual to any particular data. We will also make efforts to only provide the minimum amount of aggregate information and self-reported data that is necessary to answer research questions. Finally, we will also use contractual means to protect the privacy and security of your aggregated data and self-reported information when we work with research partners.

The goal of these research partnerships is to accelerate discovery which may lead to scientific publications, intellectual property creation, and/or commercial applications, which users will not be credited for nor receive any financial benefit from.

Except for de-identified and/or anonymised information as described in this section, we will never release your genetic and/or self-reported information to a third party without asking and getting explicit consent from you to do so, unless we are required to by law. If we are legally required to disclose such information, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you unless we are legally prohibited from doing so.

We use web behaviour information to understand how users make use of our website. This concerns R&D purposes, for quality control in order to improve our services, and to advertise products and services. This information will not be shared with any third parties without consent, except following de-identification by anonymisation and aggregation.

Information Disclosure:

We will not disclose your personal information to any third party except with your informed and express consent or as required by law, upon verified lawful authority as explained above.

Where we transfer your personal information for processing, it will be exclusively with contractual and other means to ensure a comparable level of protection and to carefully screened partners or ether service providers,  such as the contracted laboratory that collects and analyses your information in order for you to use Human People services.

Where we provide information to research and research contractors in the form of de-identified, aggregate information, for scientific research purposes  we screen these research contractors and we subject them to the rules established by Human People.

Aggregate, de-identified data may lead to commercial use.

Under some circumstances, personal information other than genetic information, can be shared pursuant to judicial or other government orders, or in coordination with regulatory authorities. You understand and accept that Human People is free to keep and disclose personal information to law enforcement agencies, as required by law, or in the good faith that such disclosure is necessary to: (a) comply with legal or regulatory processes or obligations that Human People might owe to ethical or professional rules, laws, and regulations; (b) enforce the Human People TOS; (c) respond to claims that any content is violating the rights of third parties; or (d) protect the rights, property or Human People’s safety and the public. If we are required by law to make a disclosure, we will notify you through the contact information that you have provided us, unless doing so can violates the law or a court order. in the UK medical data is required to be kept for 7 years.

Where we transfer your personal information for processing, it will be exclusively with contractual and other means to ensure a comparable level of protection and to carefully screened partners or ether service providers,  such as the contracted laboratory that collects and analyses your information in order for you to use Human People services.

Where we provide information to research and research contractors in the form of de-identified, aggregate information, for scientific research purposes  we screen these research contractors and we subject them to the rules established by Human People.

Aggregate, de-identified data may lead to commercial use.

Providing your Personal Information other than Registration Information is voluntary and based only on the permission you give.

Sharing Self-Reported Information through surveys, wearable integrations, or other website features, is voluntary.

If you provide a written request, we will close your account. All health information that we are legally allowed to remove will accordingly be deleted from your account and no one will be able to access it. Human People will not use your information in new scientific research that starts thirty (30) days or more after your account is closed. We cannot delete information that has already been used for scientific research or that has been shared with external collaborators before the account is closed.

Sharing Self-Reported Information through surveys, wearable integrations, or other website features, is voluntary.

If you provide a written request, we will close your account. All health information that we are legally allowed to remove will accordingly be deleted from your account and no one will be able to access it. Human People will not use your information in new scientific research that starts thirty (30) days or more after your account is closed. We cannot delete information that has already been used for scientific research or that has been shared with external collaborators before the account is closed.

humanpeople is committed to keepinging the trust you place in us. To prevent prohibited access or disclosure, to maintain information accuracy, and to ensure the use of the information appropriately. Human People use various physical, technical, and administrative measures to keep your personal information to current standards. Particularly, all connections to our website and our mobile applications are encrypted using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. All our production machines (including databases) are behind VPC and can only be accessed via a secure VPN network.

Our database are stored within a secure Google Cloud data centre, the storage centre is based in the UK and subject to both UK and GDPR laws.

Please understand that protecting your personal information is also your responsibility. We ask for you to be responsible for keeping your password secure, as well as other authentication information. You should not share your authentication information to any third parties and you should inform Human People immediately of any prohibited use of your password. Human People cannot keep the personal information that you release or that you request us to release safe.