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HemoQR Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy & Terms of Use

Last updated: December 2024

These terms of use, together with the documents referred to in it, set out the terms and conditions on which a guest or a registered user may make use of websites provided by SmartQR Technologies Private Limited ("SmartQR", "we", "us", or "our"). Use of our site includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use our site.

HemoQR is a copyright product of SmartQR Private Limited. HemoQR is a mobile application and paper test strip based screening tool for Haemoglobin detection.

The PrepapQR is intended for in vitro diagnostic use in clinical setting / population-based screening as Point-of-care usage for the quantitative detection of haemoglobin levels in human blood specimens. This test functions to identify and monitor haemoglobin concentration, aiding in the diagnosis and management of conditions such as anaemia, polycythaemia, and other hematologic disorders. The test requires a small blood sample, typically obtained via a finger prick or venous draw, and is designed to provide accurate and reliable quantitative measurements of haemoglobin levels.

To conduct screening of Haemoglobin, follow the below mentioned steps:

  1. Add the blood drop to a paper-based test strip using the lancet provided in the kit.
  2. Click the image of the test strip in the mobile phone application to get the Haemoglobin reading.

In application features:

  • Ability to scan test strips and get the haemoglobin reading for screening.
  • Past haemoglobin readings can be seen in the "Screening Reports" section.
  • The app can be used by users for self-testing and also by hospitals, clinics & NGOs via professional login to conduct haemoglobin screening camps.

Certifications & Standards followed for HemoQR

  • ISO 13485:2016 for medical devices
  • CDSCO for medical devices
  • IEC 62304:2006 for medical device software process standards
  • ISO 27001 for information security management standards

Disclaimer

Since HemoQR is a screening tool, we recommend seeking a doctor’s advice in addition to using the app and before making any medical decisions. The application aims to screen for haemoglobin levels, to identify at-risk populations and enable regular monitoring.

Acceptance of the Terms of Use

Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use our site, as by using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and agree to comply with them. We recommend that you print a copy of this page for future reference. If you do not agree to these terms of use, you must not use our site.

Other Applicable Terms

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

  • Our Privacy Policy sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, as well as the information about the cookies on our site. By using our site, you consent to such processing, and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

Information about us

https://smartqr.co.in is operated by SmartQR Technologies Pvt. Ltd., registered in Pune, India.

Changes to Terms of Use

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. If we do, we will publish the changes on our site.

Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are binding on you. The date at the top of this webpage indicates when these terms of use were last updated. If you do not agree with the amended terms of use, you must not continue to use our site after the date on which the amendments take effect.

Changes to Our Site

We may update our site from time to time, and may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions.

Accessing Our Site

Our site is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our site without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all people who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

Termination

You agree that we, in our sole discretion, may terminate your use of this site, and remove and discard any material you have posted on the site, for any reason, including, without limitation, if we believe that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of these terms of use. You agree that any termination of your access to the site under any provision of these terms of use may be affected without prior notice and acknowledge and agree that we may immediately restrict any further access to the site. Furthermore, you agree that we shall not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your access to the site.

Account and Password Security

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use. If you know or suspect that anyone other than you know your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us, info@smartqr.co.in

Intellectual Property Rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights within our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organization to content posted on our site (if applicable).

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status, and that of any identified contributors, as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a license to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Any other reproduction, retransmission or other use is strictly prohibited. Please mail us at info@smartqr.co.in to request for permission to reproduce any information contained on this site.

Trademarks

Save where explicitly stated otherwise, all mentioned trademarks are owned by or licensed to a member of the SmartQR team.

By way of example and not of limitation, trademarks of SmartQR include: GlucoQR, HemoQR, UroQR, Pre-PapQR, RenalQR, LipidQR and BiliQR

No Reliance on Information

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether expressed or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete, or up to date.

Limitation of Our Liability

Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or implied.

We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

  • access, use of, or inability to use, our site; or
  • use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

If you are a business user, please note that in particular, we will not be liable for:

  • loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
  • business interruption;
  • loss of anticipated savings;
  • loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
  • any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user, please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.

We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any goods by use to you.

We welcome any information regarding inaccuracies or faults discovered on the site; please mail at info@smartqr.co.in with such information.

Your Liability

You must ensure that any personal information that you supply to us is correct and complete. You must inform us immediately of any changes to the information that you have supplied to us; this can be done by info@smartqr.co.in

Uploading Content to Our Site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use terms which can be found below.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to, and indemnify us, our subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents and employees and hold them harmless for any breach of that warranty. If you are a consumer user, this means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us a limited license to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you license to us are described in the next paragraph (Rights you license).

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our site.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use terms which can be found below.

The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

Rights You License

When you upload or post content to our site, you grant us, our affiliates and third parties working on our behalf the following licenses:

  • a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user generated content:
  • to incorporate such material into other works in any format or medium known or later developed;
  • in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media; and
  • to promote the site and our services.

Such licenses remain in place until they are deleted by the user from the site at such point they shall expire.

Handling of material on the site

We reserve the right to remove any material on the site at any time.

You acknowledge and agree that we may preserve and disclose material posted by you on this site if required (a) by law or legal process, (b) to enforce these terms of use, (c) to respond to claims that such material violates the rights of third parties or (d) to protect our rights and/or property, or rights and/or the property of other users of this site and the general public.

Viruses

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform in order to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities, and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

Linking to our site

You may link to our home page and/or any other of our sites’ pages, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

Our site may be framed on another site provided that you seek our prior written approval of the framing by mail at support@smartqr.co.in

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice and are not liable to you for any loss that you suffer as a result of such links.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use terms which can be found below.

If you wish to make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please mail at support@smartqr.co.in

Third party links and resources in our site

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information and convenience only and do not signify that we endorse such third- party websites. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources and you acknowledge and agree that: (i) we are not responsible for such websites, including the terms on which such websites are made available and the privacy policies of such websites, and we do not control their content or availability; (ii) we make no representation, warranty or condition, either express or implied, in relation to any goods or services or information received from such websites; and (iii) if you access any such websites, you do so entirely at its own risk.

No offer and no solicitation

The information provided on this website does not constitute an offer of or solicitation for the purchase or disposal of, trading or any transaction in any SmartQR Companies. Investors must not rely on this information for investment decisions.

Forward-looking information

This page may contain forward-looking information. Such information is subject to a variety of significant uncertainties, including scientific, business, economic and financial factors, and therefore actual results may differ significantly from those presented.

Applicable law

This Agreement and the Parties’ rights and obligations under it shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with [Indian laws]. Any dispute under this Agreement, which cannot be resolved amicably, shall be decided by the competent courts of India.

Severability

If any of these terms of use should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable, to the extent that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable it shall be severed and deleted. The remaining terms shall survive and remain in full force and effect.This Agreement and the Parties’ rights and obligations under it shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with [Indian laws]. Any dispute under this Agreement, which cannot be resolved amicably, shall be decided by the competent courts of India.

No Waiver

No failure or delay by a party to exercise any right or remedy provided under these terms of use or by law shall constitute a waiver of that or any other right or remedy, nor shall it prevent or restrict the further exercise of that or any other right or remedy. No single or partial exercise of such right or remedy shall prevent or restrict the further exercise of that or any other right or remedy.

Intended Country Audience

This website contains information on products which are targeted to a wide range of audiences and could contain product details or information otherwise not accessible or valid in your country. Please be aware that we do not take any responsibility for accessing such information which may not comply with any valid legal process, regulation, registration or usage in the country of your origin.

Acceptable Use

These terms set out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our site. When using our site, you must comply with these terms.

Prohibited uses

You may use our sites only for lawful purposes. You may not use our sites:

  • In any way that breaches (whether intentionally or unintentionally) any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
  • In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
  • For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
  • To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards (below).
  • To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
  • To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software, hardware or other telecommunications equipment.
  • To process personal data about others.

You also agree:

  • Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our sites in contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use set out above.
  • Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
  • any part of our site.
  • any equipment or network on which our site is stored.
  • any software used in the provision of our site; or
  • any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Interactive services

We may from time to time provide interactive services on our sites, including, without limitation:

  • Promotional offers,
  • subscriptions,
  • interactive tools to determine suitability of blood glucose meters,
  • member accounts.

(together referred to as "interactive services").

Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical).

We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users (and in particular, for children) from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our sites, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our sites, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.

While our sites are directed at adults, the use of any of our interactive services by a minor under 16 years of age is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive service that it is important that they communicate with their children about their safety online, as moderation is not foolproof. Minors who are using any interactive service should be made aware of the potential risks to them.

Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.

Content standards

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our sites and to any interactive services associated with it.

You must comply with the spirit and the letter of the following standards. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

Contributions must:

  • Be accurate (where they state facts).
  • Be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
  • Comply with applicable law in India and in any country from which they are posted.
  • member accounts.

Contributions must not:

  • Contain any material which is defamatory of any person.
  • Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
  • Promote sexually explicit material.
  • Promote violence.
  • Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
  • Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
  • Be likely to deceive any person.
  • Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
  • Promote any illegal activity.
  • Be threatening, abusive or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
  • Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
  • Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
  • Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.
  • Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
  • Contain unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "spam", "junk mail", "chain letters" or any other forms of solicitation.

Suspension and termination

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of these terms through your use of our sites. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

Failure to comply with these terms constitutes a material breach of the terms of website use set out above upon which you are permitted to use our sites, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

  • Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our sites.
  • Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our sites.
  • Issue of a warning to you.
  • Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
  • Further legal action against you.
  • Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.

We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of these terms. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.