Effective Date: September 1, 2026
Last Updated: September 1, 2026
Applies to: marleydrug.com and any other website, mobile application, or online service operated by Marley Drug, Inc. that links to this Policy (the "Site").
Marley Drug is a licensed pharmacy. Because of that, different sets of privacy laws apply to different categories of information we handle, and we maintain separate documents for each. Reading the right one matters, so we have set them out here.
| Document | What it covers | Governing law |
|---|---|---|
| HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices | Protected health information ("PHI") we hold as your pharmacy — your prescriptions, patient profile, dispensing records, allergies, insurance and billing records, and pharmacist counseling. | HIPAA; North Carolina Board of Pharmacy rules; other state pharmacy law |
| This Privacy Policy | Information we collect through the Site that is not PHI — including account registration data, browsing activity, device and advertising identifiers, cookies and pixels, marketing preferences, and information from surveys and promotions. | FTC Act; state consumer privacy laws (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Virginia and others) |
| Consumer Health Data Privacy Notice | Health-related information about Washington and Nevada residents that is not PHI — for example, browsing our pages for a specific medication before you become a patient. | Washington My Health My Data Act; Nevada SB 370 |
| Cookie Preferences | Your controls over advertising and analytics technologies. | Offered to all United States residents. |
| Your Privacy Choices | Your opt-out from cross-context behavioral advertising and from any disclosure of personal information that qualifies as a "sale" or "share." | California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended; comparable state opt-out rights |
If there is any conflict between this Policy and our HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices with respect to PHI, the HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices controls.
Marley Drug, Inc. ("Marley Drug," "we," "us," or "our") operates a licensed retail and mail-order pharmacy located at 5008 Peters Creek Parkway, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27127. Marley Drug is a subsidiary of Medicure Inc.
This Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information through the Site, and the choices and rights you have. It applies to visitors to the Site, registered account holders, and individuals who contact us, subscribe to our communications, or participate in our surveys and promotions.
This Policy does not apply to PHI that we create or maintain in our capacity as your pharmacy. That information is governed by our HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices.
The Site is intended for individuals located in the United States and for use by adults 18 years of age or older.
We collect the categories of personal information described below. The categories used here are those defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended, because they are the most detailed statutory categories in use; the same disclosures serve our obligations under other state privacy laws.
| Statutory category | Examples of what we collect | Sources | Purposes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identifiers | Name; postal address; email address; telephone number; account username; IP address; cookie, pixel and mobile advertising identifiers; unique online identifiers. | Directly from you; automatically from your device; from advertising and analytics vendors. | Account creation and authentication; order processing and fulfillment; customer service; fraud prevention; marketing and advertising; site analytics. |
| Customer records and financial information | Billing and shipping address; payment card information (processed by our payment processor); transaction records. | Directly from you; from our payment processor. | Processing payments; order fulfillment; accounting; fraud prevention; legal compliance. |
| Commercial information | Products purchased or considered; order history; cart contents; participation in samples, surveys, and promotions. Responses to surveys about products supplied with a pharmacy order form part of the pharmacy record and are protected health information governed by our HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices, not by this Policy. | Directly from you; automatically from your interactions with the Site. | Order fulfillment; customer service; product and service improvement; marketing measurement. |
| Internet or other electronic network activity | Pages viewed; referring and exit pages; search terms used on the Site; clicks and scroll behavior; session duration; browser and device type; operating system; date and time of access; advertisement interactions. | Automatically from your device via cookies, pixels, tags and server logs. | Site operation and security; performance measurement; analytics; advertising measurement and, where you consent, targeted advertising. |
| Geolocation data | Approximate location inferred from IP address (generally city or region level). We do not collect precise geolocation from the Site. | Automatically from your device. | Fraud prevention; shipping eligibility; content localization; advertising measurement. |
| Audio, electronic, or visual information | Recordings of customer service telephone calls, where recording is disclosed to you at the time of the call. | Directly from you. | Quality assurance; training; dispute resolution; legal compliance. |
| Inferences | Preferences and interests derived from the information above, such as product interest segments used for advertising measurement. | Derived internally; derived by advertising and analytics vendors. | Marketing and advertising; service improvement. |
| Sensitive personal information | Account login credentials in combination with a password. Information about health that is collected and analyzed through the Site and is not PHI. We do not collect Social Security numbers. | Directly from you; automatically from your interactions with the Site. | Authentication and account security; identity verification; order fulfillment; legal compliance. See Section 4 below. |
We do not knowingly collect precise geolocation, biometric information, genetic data, neural data, or the contents of your private communications through the Site. We do not collect personal information from children as described in Section 11.
This section is the most important part of this Policy, and we have written it in plain terms rather than legal shorthand.
Your prescriptions, patient profile, dispensing history, allergies, insurance and billing records, and communications with our pharmacists are protected health information. We do not disclose PHI to advertising platforms, analytics providers, data brokers, or any other third party for advertising, marketing measurement, or audience-building purposes. We do not sell PHI. Uses and disclosures of PHI are described in our HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices and, where required, will be made only with your written authorization.
Separately from your pharmacy records, our public product and education pages describe specific medications and health conditions. If you visit a page about a particular medication, that visit can indicate something about your health interests even though you are not yet a patient and we hold no prescription for you.
We treat that browsing activity as sensitive. Our practices are as follows:
Advertising and analytics tags on our public pages do not run until you have consented through our cookie banner, other than tags that are strictly necessary for the Site to function and to keep it secure.
We do not transmit your name, email address, telephone number, prescription information, or dispensing records to advertising or analytics vendors.
We do not use your pharmacy records to build advertising audiences, to target advertising to you, or to inform which advertisements you see.
We configure our analytics and advertising tags so that they do not receive medication names or condition identifiers in association with information that identifies you.
We do not upload customer lists to advertising platforms, and we do not use customer-match or similar features to target advertising based on the medications dispensed to you. We may contact you directly with educational information about a medication you are currently taking, to help you use it as prescribed. Those communications come from us as your pharmacy and are governed by our HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices.
We use analytics on the pages where you are signed in, so we can see whether the Site is working and where people run into difficulty. What we record is that an action happened — that an item was added to a cart, or that a step in a checkout or a request was completed. We do not record what you added, which medications you take, or any part of your prescription or dispensing records, and we do not send any of that to advertising or analytics providers.
We use the personal information described in Section 3 for the following purposes:
Providing the Site and our services, including creating and maintaining your account, authenticating you, processing and fulfilling orders, arranging shipping, and enabling order tracking.
Communicating with you about your orders, your account, and administrative matters such as changes to our terms or policies.
Providing customer service and responding to your questions, requests, and complaints.
Sending marketing communications by email or text message where you have chosen to receive them, and measuring how those communications perform.
Advertising, including measuring the performance of our advertising and, where you consent, showing you advertisements for Marley Drug on other websites and applications.
Analytics and improvement, including understanding how the Site is used, diagnosing problems, and improving our content, pricing presentation, and user experience.
Security, fraud prevention, and integrity, including detecting and preventing fraudulent transactions, unauthorized access, and abuse of the Site.
Legal and regulatory compliance, including compliance with pharmacy law, recordkeeping obligations, tax obligations, and responses to lawful requests from government authorities.
Corporate transactions, including evaluating or completing a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets, in which case personal information may be among the assets transferred.
We will not use personal information we have collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without first providing notice to you and, where required, obtaining your consent.
Cookies are small data files placed on your device when you visit a website. We also use related technologies including pixels, web beacons, tags, software development kits, and server logs. We refer to all of these collectively as "cookies" in this section.
First-party cookies are set by Marley Drug. Third-party cookies are set by vendors we engage, and those vendors may be able to recognize your device across other websites you visit. Their handling of that information is governed by their own privacy policies as well as by our contracts with them.
| Category | What it does | Consent |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Enables core functionality: authenticating you, maintaining your session, keeping items in your cart, load balancing, blocking credential-stuffing and other malicious activity, and recording your cookie preferences. | Runs without consent. Cannot be disabled through our cookie banner. |
| Functional | Remembers preferences and settings so the Site behaves consistently for you, such as language or display choices. | Runs only with your consent. |
| Performance | Measures how the Site is used — which pages are visited, how visitors navigate, where errors occur — so we can improve performance and content. | Runs only with your consent. |
| Targeting | Measures the performance of our advertising, limits how often you see the same advertisement, and enables advertisements for Marley Drug to be shown to you on other websites and applications. | Runs only with your consent. This category may involve a "sale" or "sharing" of personal information; see Section 7. |
We group the third parties whose technologies operate on the Site into the categories below. A current list of the individual cookies in use is published at www.marleydrug.com/cookie-list .
| Category | What they do | Consent category |
|---|---|---|
| Consent management | Presents our cookie banner, records your choices, signals them to the technologies below, and maintains our Cookie List. | Strictly necessary |
| Advertising and marketing platforms | Measure how our advertising performs and, where you consent, deliver advertising for Marley Drug to you on their own and partner properties. This category includes major search, social, and professional network advertising platforms. | Targeting |
| Advertising measurement and attribution providers | Record which advertising channel and click preceded a visit or an order, so we can understand which advertising is effective. | Targeting |
| Analytics and website performance providers | Measure how the Site is used, which pages are visited, how visitors navigate, and where errors occur. This may include recording interactions with pages, such as clicks and scrolling, to diagnose usability problems. | Performance |
| Communications and survey providers | Deliver our emails and text messages, measure whether they are opened and acted on, and host forms and surveys you choose to complete. | Functional / Performance |
| Technology service providers | Website hosting, content delivery, and embedded video. | Strictly necessary / Functional |
When you first visit the Site, we present a consent banner. Cookies in the functional, analytics, and advertising categories do not operate until you accept them. You may accept all categories, reject all non-essential categories, or select categories individually, and rejecting is as easy as accepting. Closing the banner without making a selection is not treated as consent.
You can change your choices at any time through the Cookie Settings link in the footer of every page. Changing your choices applies to the browser and device you are using; if you use more than one browser or device, you will need to set your preferences on each.
We also transmit your consent choices to Google through Google Consent Mode, so that Google tags adjust their behavior according to what you have chosen.
We recognize and honor the Global Privacy Control signal. If your browser or extension transmits that signal, we treat it as a request to opt out of the sale and sharing of personal information and of targeted advertising, and we apply it to the browser transmitting it. Where we can associate the signal with a known account, we apply it to that account as well.
Some browsers transmit a "Do Not Track" signal. Where your browser sends that signal, we treat it as a request to opt out of the sale and sharing of personal information and of targeted advertising.
Most browsers and mobile operating systems let you block or delete cookies, receive a warning before a cookie is set, or reset your advertising identifier. These controls are found in your browser or device privacy settings and vary by product. Blocking cookies may prevent parts of the Site from working properly. You can still place orders by telephone if you prefer not to use the Site.
You can also opt out of interest-based advertising from participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance or through the AppChoices application. These industry tools are operated by third parties and are not a substitute for the controls we provide.
Our marketing emails contain pixels that tell us whether the message was opened and which links were clicked. We use this to understand which communications are useful and to stop sending messages that are not. Every marketing email contains an unsubscribe link. You may also unsubscribe by contacting us using the details in Section 15. If you unsubscribe from marketing messages, we will still send you transactional messages about your orders and your account, which you cannot opt out of while you have an active account or order.
The Site may let you register or sign in using a third-party authentication provider such as Google. If you use that option, the provider may set its own cookies and will share limited information with us, such as your name and email address, according to your settings with that provider.
The Site may also include social media features such as sharing buttons or embedded content. When you interact with those features, your browser connects directly to the social media platform, which may collect information about your device and your interaction and may associate it with your account on that platform if you are signed in. We do not control that collection. Please review the privacy policies of the relevant platforms.
We disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients:
Service providers and contractors who perform functions on our behalf, including payment processing, shipping and logistics, hosting and infrastructure, email delivery, customer service tooling, and analytics. These parties are bound by contract to use the information only to perform services for us.
Advertising and analytics partners, where you have consented to advertising or analytics cookies, as described in Section 6.
Professional advisors, including lawyers, auditors, and insurers.
Government authorities and other parties, where we believe disclosure is required by law, court order, subpoena, or other legal process, or is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of Marley Drug, our customers, or others.
Acquirers and their advisors, in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of assets.
Several state privacy laws define "sale" and "sharing" broadly. Under those definitions, making personal information available to advertising vendors in exchange for advertising services can be a "sale," and disclosing it for cross-context behavioral advertising is a "share," even though no money changes hands and even though we do not sell customer lists.
We want to be direct about this rather than rely on qualifiers. When advertising cookies operate on the Site with your consent, that activity may constitute a sale or sharing of the categories of personal information listed below.
Sold or shared in the preceding twelve months:
Identifiers, including IP address and cookie and advertising identifiers
Internet or other electronic network activity information
Commercial information, limited to products viewed or purchased on the Site
Inferences drawn from the above
Disclosed for a business purpose in the preceding twelve months:
Identifiers
Customer records and financial information
Commercial information
Internet or other electronic network activity information
Geolocation data (approximate)
Audio information (customer service call recordings)
Inferences
Sensitive personal information, limited to authentication credentials
We do not sell or share protected health information. We do not sell or share sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you. We do not sell or share the personal information of consumers we know to be under 16 years of age.
Residents of Washington and Nevada have rights in their consumer health data under the statutes described in Section 12.3. Residents of California and of a number of other states have rights under their state privacy laws. We extend the rights below to all residents of the United States, and we will honor a request from anyone who makes one.
| Right | What it means |
|---|---|
| Right to know or access | Request confirmation of whether we process personal information about you, the categories we collect, the sources, the purposes, the categories of third parties we disclose to, and a copy of the specific pieces of personal information we hold. |
| Right to delete | Request deletion of personal information we have collected from you, subject to the exceptions in Section 8.5. |
| Right to correct | Request correction of inaccurate personal information. |
| Right to portability | Receive a copy of your personal information in a portable, and where technically feasible, readily usable format. |
| Right to opt out of sale or sharing | Direct us to stop selling or sharing your personal information and to stop using it for targeted advertising. |
| Right to limit use of sensitive personal information | Direct us to limit our use and disclosure of sensitive personal information to purposes necessary to provide the services you requested. |
| Right to opt out of profiling | Opt out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. We do not currently engage in this profiling. |
| Right to appeal | Appeal our refusal to act on a request. See Section 8.6. |
| Right against discrimination | Exercise any of these rights without receiving different pricing, different service, or a denial of goods or services. |
Rights concerning your PHI — including the right to inspect and copy your pharmacy records, request amendments, request restrictions, request confidential communications, and receive an accounting of disclosures — are described in our HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices and are exercised through our Pharmacy Privacy Officer.
You may submit a request in any of the following ways:
Telephone: 800-286-6781
Email: compliance@marleydrug.com
Mail: Privacy Officer, Marley Drug, Inc., 5008 Peters Creek Parkway, Winston-Salem, NC 27127
To opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, you may also use the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link in the footer of every page, adjust your choices through Cookie Preferences, or transmit a Global Privacy Control signal. To limit our use of sensitive personal information, use the "Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information" link in the footer of every page. You do not need an account or to verify your identity to use either link.
For requests other than opt-out requests, we must verify your identity before we act. We will ask you for information such as your name, email address, postal address, and telephone number, and match it against information we already hold. For requests involving sensitive information, we may require additional verification. We will not use information you provide for verification for any other purpose.
You may designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf. We will require written permission signed by you, and we may require you to verify your own identity directly with us. An agent acting under a valid power of attorney does not need to provide separate written permission.
As a licensed pharmacy, we are legally required to retain certain records, and we cannot delete them at your request. In particular:
Prescription and dispensing records must be retained for the periods required by federal law and by the pharmacy laws of the state in which the prescription was dispensed.
Financial and tax records must be retained for the periods required by applicable law.
Records necessary to complete a transaction, detect security incidents, prosecute those responsible for fraudulent or illegal activity, comply with a legal obligation, or exercise or defend legal claims may be retained.
Where we cannot delete information for one of these reasons, we will tell you which exception applies. A deletion request that we cannot fulfill in whole will still be fulfilled in part where the remaining information is not subject to an exception — for example, we can delete marketing profiles and advertising identifiers even where we must retain dispensing records.
We will confirm receipt of your request within 10 business days and respond within 45 calendar days. If we need more time, we will tell you within the initial 45-day period and may extend by an additional 45 days.
If we decline to act on your request, we will explain why. You may appeal that decision within a reasonable period using our online request form, by calling 800-286-6781, or by emailing compliance@marleydrug.com. Please tell us that you are appealing a decision, so that we handle your request as an appeal. We will respond to your appeal in writing within 45 days. If we deny your appeal, we will provide you with a method to submit a complaint to your state attorney general.
We will not charge a fee for responding to your request unless it is manifestly unfounded, excessive, or repetitive, in which case we will tell you the reason and the amount before proceeding.
We keep personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy, and then for as long as we are required to keep it by law. Because retention periods differ substantially by category, we set out our criteria rather than a single period:
| Category | Retention |
|---|---|
| Prescription and dispensing records (PHI) | Retained for the longest period required by the pharmacy laws of the states in which we are licensed, and by federal law for controlled substances. Governed by our HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices. |
| Records of your privacy requests, authorizations, and complaints | Retained for six years, as required by federal law. |
| Account information | Retained while your account is active, and afterwards for as long as we need it to meet our legal, recordkeeping, and dispute-resolution obligations. |
| Order and transaction records | Retained for the period required by applicable tax, accounting, and audit obligations. |
| Customer service records and call recordings | Retained for the period needed for quality assurance and training, and to resolve any dispute arising from the interaction. |
| Marketing preferences and suppression lists | Retained indefinitely, because we need a record of your opt-out in order to honor it. |
| Cookies and advertising identifiers | Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device until they expire or you delete them, and the expiry period is set by the party that placed the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time through your browser settings, and you can change your choices at any time through Cookie Settings. We also ask you to confirm your cookie choices again at least every 12 months. |
| Consent records | Retained for as long as we rely on your consent, and afterwards for the period during which a related claim could be brought. |
We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, use, alteration, and destruction. These include encryption of data in transit, access controls limiting employee access to what is needed for their role, vendor due diligence and contractual security commitments, employee confidentiality agreements and training, network monitoring, and a documented incident response process.
No system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted to us. You are responsible for keeping your account credentials confidential and for activity that occurs under your account. If you believe your account has been compromised, contact us immediately at compliance@marleydrug.com or 800-286-6781.
If a security incident affects your personal information, we will notify you as required by applicable law.
The Site is intended for adults. You must be at least 18 years old to create an account or place an order on the Site. The Site is not directed to children.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has given us personal information, contact us using the details in Section 15 and we will delete it.
We do not sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16 years of age.
We may hold protected health information about a minor where a parent or legal guardian obtains prescriptions on their behalf. That information is governed by our HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices and by applicable state law, not by this Policy.
Most state consumer privacy laws exclude protected health information, and several exclude HIPAA covered entities altogether. Where a state law excludes information or entities of that kind, this Policy describes our practices as a matter of transparency rather than because the law requires it, and nothing in this Policy waives any exemption available to us.
California residents have the rights described in Section 8. In addition:
Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. We provide a link with this title in the footer of every page – Your Privacy Rights. You may use it to opt out of the sale and sharing of your personal information, and you do not need an account or to verify your identity to do so.
Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information. We provide a link with this title in the footer of every page. You may use it to direct us to limit our use and disclosure of sensitive personal information to the purposes necessary to provide the services you have requested.
Metrics reporting. We do not buy, receive, sell, or share the personal information of 10,000,000 or more California consumers in a calendar year, so we do not publish privacy request metrics.
Shine the Light. California Civil Code section 1798.83 permits California residents to request information about disclosures of personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. We do not make such disclosures.
Notice at collection. A description of the categories of personal information we collect and the purposes for which we use it is provided at or before the point of collection, including through the link to this Policy in our footer and at account registration.
Automated decision-making. We do not use automated decision-making technology to make decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.
Residents of Washington and Nevada should also read our Consumer Health Data Privacy Notice which describes our handling of consumer health data under the Washington My Health My Data Act and Nevada SB 370 and the rights those laws provide.
Oregon treats information about a consumer's physical or mental health condition or diagnosis, and information about reproductive or sexual health, as sensitive data under the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act. We process sensitive data only where you have given us your consent, and you may withdraw that consent at any time through Cookie Preferences or by contacting us. Oregon residents may also request access to, correction of, and deletion of personal information, and may opt out of targeted advertising and of the sale of personal information, using the methods in Section 8.
We do not sell sensitive personal data, including data revealing health information, without your consent.
Nevada residents may direct us not to make any sale of covered information as defined by Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A. Submit your request using any of the methods in Section 8.2 — our online request form, by calling 800-286-6781, by emailing compliance@marleydrug.com, or by mail.
Some of our promotions give you a discount or credit in return for providing personal information. These currently include our refer-a-friend credit, the credit we offer for completing a customer feedback survey, and promotions that ask you to share content on social media. You take part by using a referral link, completing a survey we send you, or entering a promotion when we announce one. The information involved is the record that a referral came from you, your survey responses, and the content and account name you submit to a social media promotion.
Participation in any of these is entirely optional. You choose whether to take part, you may withdraw at any time by contacting us at compliance@marleydrug.com, and withdrawing does not affect a benefit you have already received. We do not deny you goods or services, charge you a different price, or give you a different level of service because you decline to take part or because you exercise any privacy right described in this Policy.
When we offer a discount or credit in exchange for information, for example, $10 for a referral or $5 for completing a customer feedback survey, we estimate the value of that information as no more than the value of the discount itself. We use this method because the discount is what the information costs us. We do not sell this information or place any separate market value on it.
The Site may link to websites we do not operate. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites. We encourage you to read their privacy policies before providing them with personal information.
We may update this Policy. When we do, we will change the "Last Updated" date at the top and post the revised Policy on the Site. If the changes are material, we will provide additional notice, which may include emailing you at the address associated with your account or displaying a notice on the Site before the changes take effect. We review this Policy at least once every twelve months.
Your continued use of the Site after a change takes effect means you are aware of the updated Policy. It does not constitute consent where consent is required, and we will obtain consent separately where the law requires it.
If you have questions about this Policy or how we handle personal information, contact us:
Marley Drug, Inc.
Attn: Privacy Officer
5008 Peters Creek Parkway
Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27127
Telephone: 800-286-6781
Email: compliance@marleydrug.com
For questions about your pharmacy records or your rights under HIPAA, contact our Pharmacy Privacy Officer at the address above. You also have the right to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, without fear of retaliation.