QED SCIENCE PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated October 15th, 2024

In order to ensure transparency and give you more control over your personal information, this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) governs how we, QEDScience.com (“QEDScience.com”, “we”, “our” or “us”) use, collect and store personal information that we collect or receive from or about you (“you”) in connection with https://www.QEDScience.com/ (the “Website”) and the services provided therein (the “Services”).

We greatly respect your privacy, which is why we make every effort to provide a platform that would live up to the highest user privacy standards. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully, so you can fully understand our practices in relation to personal data. Important note: Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit in any way your statutory rights, including your rights to a remedy or other means of enforcement.

QED Science’s mission is to transform the way science is created, evaluated, and disseminated.

This Privacy Policy can be updated from time to time and, therefore, we ask you to check back periodically for the latest version. If we implement material changes in the way we use your information, in a manner that is different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you by posting a notice on our Website or by other means and take any additional steps as required by applicable law.

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT, WHY WE COLLECT IT, AND HOW IT IS USED

We Process the Following Personal Information:

  • Information provided through the Services: We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide, such as your full name, email address, organization with which you are working, as well as any other information that you decide to provide us.
  • Information provided through the Website: When you use the Website, we collect and process your full name, email address, and organization when you interact with the Website, for example, when you click on the "Get Early Access" link.
  • Information automatically collected: We may automatically collect certain information through your use of our Services and Website, such as cookies, pixels, tracking technologies, and similar identifiers (“Technologies”), your Internet protocol (IP) address, and other device identifiers that are automatically assigned to your device, browser type, language, geo-location information, hardware type, operating system, internet service provider, and other information about actions taken through the use of the Services and Website.
  • Information from Other Sources: QEDScience.com may also obtain information about you from other sources, including publicly or commercially available information, and through third-party data platforms, partners, and service providers.
  • Information you provide to us in person: For example, when you visit one of our exhibition booths or attend one of our events and provide us with your contact details, we will use this information to answer your inquiries or provide additional information to you.
  • Information we collect from online interactions: For example, if you attend a webinar, contact us via social media, or otherwise interact with our business, including as a representative of a current/prospective customer, supplier, or partner, we track and make a record of those interactions, which may contain your contact details.

We Process Information for the Following Purposes:

  • To provide you with the Services: We will use the information to provide you the Services and to process your requests; communicate with you about your use of the Services and for support purposes; fulfill any requests made by you in the context of the Services; send you push notifications or emails regarding your account; personalize your experience with our Services; and generally administer and improve the Services.
  • To allow you to make use of our Website: We will use your information to allow you to use our Website, analyze your use of the Website, and customize your experience.
  • For Administrative Purposes: QEDScience.com may use your information to respond to your questions, establish a business relationship, and provide internal quality control.
  • To Market our Website and Services: QEDScience.com may use information to market services, develop new products, and measure interest in our services.
  • Security purposes: Some of the aforementioned information will be used for detecting and preventing fraud, conducting audits, and for legal purposes.
  • De-identified and Aggregated Information Use: We may anonymize your information for internal and external purposes, such as improving our services and conducting research.
  • Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies and similar technologies to automatically collect information. You may opt out by blocking, deleting, or disabling them in your browser settings.

The lawful bases we rely on for processing personal information are (if and when applicable):

  • The data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data;
  • Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract;
  • processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject; and/or
  • Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interest.

HOW WE PROTECT AND RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

SecurityWe have implemented reasonable security measures designed to protect your information. However, we cannot guarantee that the information will not be compromised due to unauthorized penetration. Please ensure that you take appropriate security measures to protect your user IDs and passwords.

Retention of your information. Your information will be stored until we proactively delete it or you request deletion. In some circumstances, we may store your information longer to comply with legal, regulatory, tax, or accounting requirements.

HOW WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share your information as follows:

  • The information QEDScience.com gathers is shared with our partners and other third parties.
  • We may also share information with our affiliated companies about you.
  • We may use third party service providers to process your information for the purposes outlined above, including, without limitation:
    • With cloud service providers for hosting purposes;
    • With websites and web content creation platforms in order to help us manage our Website;
    • With email providers, marketing, CRM, other similar tool providers; and
    • With analytic companies, in order to help us understand and analyze information we collect in accordance with this policy.
  • To the extent necessary, with regulators, courts, banks or competent authorities, to comply with applicable laws, regulations and rules (including, without limitation, federal, state or local laws), and requests of law enforcement, regulatory and other governmental agencies or if required to do so by court order, as well as for internal compliance procedures and to protect the safety, security, and integrity of QEDScience.com, our Services, customers, employees, property, and the public.
  • If, in the future, we sell or transfer, or we consider selling or transferring, some or all of our business, shares or assets to a third party, we will disclose your information to such third party (whether actual or potential) in connection with the foregoing events (including, without limitation, our current or potential investors). In the event that we are acquired by, or merged with, a third party entity, or in the event of bankruptcy or a comparable event, we reserve the right to transfer, disclose or assign your information in connection with the foregoing events.
  • Where you have otherwise provided your consent to us for sharing or transferring your information.

YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

  • The following rights (which may be subject to certain exemptions or derogations) shall apply to certain individuals (some of which only apply to individuals protected by specific laws):
    • You have the right to withdraw consent to the processing, where consent is the basis of processing.
    • You have the right to access the personal information that we hold and request further details about how we process it, under certain conditions.
    • You have the right to demand rectification of inaccurate personal information about you. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
    • You have the right to object to unlawful data processing under certain conditions.
    • You have the right to the erasure of past data about you (your “right to be forgotten”) under certain conditions.
    • You have the right to demand that we restrict the processing of your personal information, under certain conditions, if you believe we have exceeded the legitimate basis for processing, the processing is no longer necessary, or if you believe your personal information is inaccurate.
    • You have the right to data portability of personal information concerning you that you provided us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, subject to certain conditions.
    • The personal information we collect is not used for automated decision-making and profiling, except for automated processes in the context of marketing. As stated above, you can opt out of direct marketing by QEDScience.com by contacting QEDScience.com directly or by following the instructions through the unsubscribe options in our email messages.
  • You can exercise your rights by contacting us at info@QEDScience.com. You may use an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf if you provide the authorized agent written permission signed by you. To protect your privacy, we may take steps to verify your identity before fulfilling your request. Subject to legal and other permissible considerations, we will make every reasonable effort to honor your request promptly in accordance with applicable law or inform you if we require further information in order to fulfil your request. When processing your request, we may ask you for additional information to confirm or verify your identity and for security purposes, before processing and/or honoring your request. We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law, for instance if your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive. In the event that your request would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others (for example, would impact the duty of confidentiality we owe to others) or if we are legally entitled to deal with your request in a different way than initial requested, we will address your request to the maximum extent possible, all in accordance with applicable law.
  • Deleting your account: Should you ever decide to delete your account, you may do so by emailing info@QEDScience.com. If you terminate your account, any association between your account and personal data we store will no longer be accessible through your account. However, given the nature of sharing on certain services, any public activity on your account prior to deletion will remain stored on our servers and will remain accessible to the public.
  • Marketing emails – opt-out: You may choose not to receive marketing email of this type by sending a single email with the subject "BLOCK" to info@QEDScience.com. Please note that the email must come from the email account you wish to block OR if you receive an unwanted email from us, you can use the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of the email to opt out of receiving future emails, and we will process your request within a reasonable time after receipt.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

  • We store the Personal Data with the following storing companies: Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  • In order to run our business and provide our Website and Services to you, we transfer Personal Data to certain countries around the world, including to our affiliates and service providers, many of whom are located outside of your jurisdiction. Therefore, your Personal Data may be processed in countries with privacy laws that are different from privacy laws in your country. Whenever we make such transfers, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to implement an appropriate level of protection to your Personal Data by implementing at least one of the following safeguards:
    • making sure the destination country has been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for Personal Data; and/or
    • by executing implement data onward transfer instruments such as data processing and protection agreements.

USE BY CHILDREN

. We do not offer our products or services for use by children and, therefore, we do not knowingly collect information from, and/or about children under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, do not provide any information to us without the involvement of a parent or a guardian. In the event that we become aware that you provide information in violation of applicable privacy laws, we reserve the right to delete it. If you believe that we might have any such information, please contact us at info@QEDScience.com.

INTERACTION WITH THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS

We may enable you to interact with third party websites, mobile software applications and products or services that are not owned, or controlled, by us (each, a “Third Party Service”). We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Third Party Services. Please be aware that Third Party Services can collect information from you. Accordingly, we encourage you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of each Third Party Service.

ANALYTIC TOOLS/COOKIES

  • Google Analytics. The Website uses a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about use of the Website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this Website, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other websites they used prior to coming to this Website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to maintain and improve the Website and our products. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with information we collect. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this Website is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Service, available at https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/, and the Google Privacy Policy, available at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. You may learn more about how Google collects and processes data specifically in connection with Google Analytics at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You may prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
  • Through our Services we may allow third party advertising partners to set technologies and other tracking tools to collect information regarding your activities and your device (e.g., your IP address, mobile identifiers, page(s) visited, location, time of day). We may also combine and share such information and other information (such as demographic information and past purchase history) with third party advertising partners. These advertising partners may use this information (and similar information collected from other websites) for purposes of delivering targeted advertisements to you when you visit third party websites within their networks. This practice is commonly referred to as “interest-based advertising” or “online behavioral advertising”. We may allow access to other data collected by the services to share information that may be useful, relevant, valuable or otherwise of interest to you. We reserve the right to remove or add new analytic tools, cookies, pixels and other tracking technologies.

SPECIFIC PROVISIONS APPLICABLE UNDER CALIFORNIA PRIVACY LAW

  • California Privacy Rights: California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our customers who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to privacy@QEDScience.com. Please note that we are only required to respond to one request per customer each year.
  • Our California Do Not Track Notice: We Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. Please note that we do not respond to or honor DNT signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers, but, we may allow third parties, such as companies that provide us with analytics tools, to collect personally identifiable information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across different web sites when a user uses the Services.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints regarding our compliance with this notice and the data protection laws, or if you wish to exercise your rights, we encourage you to first contact us at info@QEDScience.com