Privacy policy

Our privacy policy was last updated on 18th of April 2022.

This privacy policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use our website, accessible from https://bioinform-org.github.io, and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

We use your personal data to provide and improve the website. By using the website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Collecting and using your personal data

Types of data collected

Personal data

While using our website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address
  • Usage data

Usage data

Usage data is collected automatically when using the website.

Usage data may include information such as your device's internet protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When you access the website by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website or when you access the website by or through a mobile device.

Tracking technologies and cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our website. The technologies we use may include:

  • Cookies or browser cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our website may use cookies.
  • Web beacons. Certain sections of our website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit Bioinform, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

We use persistent cookies for the purposes set out below:

  • Necessary / essential cookies
    Name: algoliasearch-client-js
    Type: Persistent
    Administered by: Us
    Purpose: These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.
  • Cookies policy / notice acceptance cookies
    Name: cookieconsent_status
    Type: Persistent (1 year)
    Administered by: Us
    Purpose: These cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the website.
  • Tracking and performance cookies
    Name: _ga and _ga_EL71EF52RP
    Type: Persistent (2 years)
    Administered by: Third-parties
    Purpose: These cookies are used to track information about traffic to the website and how users use the website. The information gathered via these cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the website. We may also use these cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the website to see how our users react to them.

Use of your personal data

Bioinform may use personal data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our website, including to monitor the usage of our website.
  • To provide you with news and general information about other events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
  • For other purposes: We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our website, marketing and your experience.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

  • With service providers: We may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our website and to contact you.
  • With your consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

Retention of your personal data

Bioinform will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Bioinform will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our website, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of your personal data

Your information, including personal data, is processed at Bioinform's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this privacy policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Bioinform will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Security of your personal data

The security of your personal data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Detailed information on the processing of your personal data

The service providers we use may have access to your personal data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about your activity on our website in accordance with their privacy policies.

Analytics

We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our website.

  • Google Analytics
    Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
    You can opt-out of having made your activity on the website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
    For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google privacy & terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Email marketing

We may use your personal data to contact you with newsletters or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of receiving these communications by contacting us.

  • Gmail
    Gmail is a free email service provided by Google. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google privacy & terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

GDPR privacy

Legal basis for processing personal data under GDPR

We may process personal data under the following conditions:

  • Consent: You have given your consent for processing personal data for one or more specific purposes.
  • Performance of a contract: Provision of personal data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
  • Legal obligations: Processing personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which Bioinform is subject.
  • Vital interests: Processing personal data is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or of another natural person.
  • Public interests: Processing personal data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in Bioinform.
  • Legitimate interests: Processing personal data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by Bioinform.

In any case, Bioinform will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing and in particular whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Your Rights under the GDPR

Bioinform undertakes to respect the confidentiality of your personal data and to guarantee you can exercise your rights.

You have the right under this privacy policy and by law if you are within the EU, to:

  • Request access to your personal data. The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your personal data by contacting us. This also enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
  • Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
  • Object to processing of your personal data. This right exists where we are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for our processing and there is something about your particular situation, which makes you want to object to our processing of your personal data on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
  • Request erasure of your personal data. You have the right to ask us to delete or remove personal data when there is no good reason for us to continue processing it.
  • Request the transfer of your personal data. We will provide to you or to a third-party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use.
  • Withdraw your consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent on using your personal data. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with access to certain specific functionalities of the website.

Exercising of your GDPR data protection rights

You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting us. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. If you make a request, we will try our best to respond to you as soon as possible.

You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal data. For more information, if you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact your local data protection authority in the EEA.

Children's privacy

Our website does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent's consent before we collect and use that information.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or websites.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page.

You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, you can contact us by emailing bioinform.org@gmail.com.