Privacy Statement
Information Collection and Use
At biothink, we respect our Users right to privacy
and we understand that visitors to biothink need to be in control of their
personal information. We also want to present information and tools on
biothink that are tailored to the needs of our Users. For this reason,
biothink asks its Users to register or to provide personal information
when visiting our site, particularly when customizing information search
agents, downloading free software, entering a contest, or subscribing to a
newsletter. If a User chooses not to register with biothink, that User
will not have access to various services
or web site areas that require personal identification.
Personal information that you share with
biothink can be used to:
- Help tailor
the content, services, and advertising that we provide on biothink to your
current and future needs.
- Alert you via
email to new web site features, special offers, updated information, and
new services.
biosciences Corporation as the operator of the
biothink website is the sole owner of the information collected on this
site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways
different from what is disclosed in this statement. Biosciences
Corporation collects information from our users at several different
points on our website.
Registration
In order to use the function on our website, a user must first complete the
registration form. During registration, a user is required to give their
contact information (such as name and email address). This information is
used to contact the user about the services on our site for which they
have expressed interest or to enable other parties within the scope of the
services offered on this website, to contact the registrant.
Protection of your personal information
biothink will protect the personal information
that Users share with us as described below:
- We will not share Users
personal information with third parties without prior approval, as
explained in the "opt-out" section below.
- Personal information will be
password-protected. Users should take appropriate measures to protect the
secrecy of their password. If User shares a computer with others, please
remember to sign out and close your browser window when User finishes a
session with biothink in order to prevent others from accessing User
personal information.
- biothink may disclose User information if required
to do so by law, or if biothink has a good faith belief that disclosure is
necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process served on
biothink; (2) protect and defend the rights or property of biothink; or
(3) act in an emergency to protect someone’s safety.
- If biothink gathers demographic information
from Users (for example, age or education level), this information will
not be shared in a manner that identifies Users as individuals
associated with any other entity, unless biothink informs Users at the
time of collection. When we share demographic information with third
parties, we will give them aggregate information only (i.e., no
information on specific individuals or groups of associated
individuals). biothink may carefully select third parties to send Users
information regarding their products or services unless User has
"opted-out" as described below.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard
drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no
way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site.
Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For
instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log
in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a
user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site.
Some of our business partners use cookies on
our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or
control over these cookies.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Sharing
We will share aggregate demographic information with our partners and
advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can
identify any individual person.
We partner with another party to provide specific services. When the
user signs up for these services, we will share names, or other contact
information that is necessary for the third party to provide these
services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable
information except for the purpose of providing these services.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please
be aware that we [biosciences Corporation] are not responsible for the
privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware
when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and
every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This
privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web
site.
Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact
information such as name and email address.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from
users via surveys. Participation in these surveys or contests is
completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to
disclose this information. Information requested may include contact
information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic
information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be
used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be
used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of
this site.
Tell-A-Friend
If
a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our
site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. [BIOSCIENCES
CORPORATION] will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting
them to visit the site. [biosciences Corporation] does NOT store this
information.
Security
biothink has security measures in place to protect
the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
Although we will exercise reasonable care in providing secure transmission
of information between your computer and our servers, we cannot ensure or
warrant the security of any information transmitted to us over the
Internet. We will protect the transmission of credit card information
through industry standard encryption.
If you have any questions about the security at
our website, you can send an email to webmaster@biothink.com.
Special Offers
We
send all new members a welcoming email to verify password and username.
Established members will occasionally receive information on products,
services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy
of our users, we present the option to not receive these types of
communications. Please see our choice and opt-out below.
Choice/Opt-out
Our
users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having their information
used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we
ask for the information. For example, our registration form has an
'opt-out' mechanism.
Users who no longer wish to receive materials
from us or our partners may opt-out of receiving these communications by
replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email or email us at webmaster@biothink.com
Users of our site are always notified when
their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this so
our users can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed
with services that require an outside party, or not.
Privacy policy for children
biothink does not collect data for individuals that identify themselves
as children under the age of 13. The Site is not intended for use by
children under the age of 13, and accordingly, should not be used by such
individuals.
If information from a child under the age of 13 is knowingly received
by biothink, we will respond to the inquiry, if appropriate, and will
delete all personally identifiable information (including email address)
concerning that child from our records. That information will not be used
for any other purposes, nor will it be disclosed to any third party.
If a parent believes that his or her child has submitted personal
information to biothink, they may contact us by email or by postal mail at
the address listed below, whereupon biothink will promptly delete the
information upon learning that it relates to a child: Biosciences
Corporation, Suite 1N, 101 Orchard Ridge Dr., Gaithersburg, MD 20878
How to update your registration information
Please help biothink maintain the accuracy of your profile by notifying
us when you change your address, title, phone number, or Email address. If
at any time you wish to update your information or stop receiving
communications from biothink, our partners, or selected third parties, you
may contact biothink via email at webmaster@biothink.com or by
updating your profile electronically on our website. You may also contact
biothink by postal mail at the address listed below:
Biosciences
Corporation, Suite 1N, 101 Orchard Ridge Dr., Gaithersburg, MD 20878
Please include your old and new contact information so that we can make
the appropriate corrections to your account.
Notification of Changes
If
we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy policy so that users are always aware
of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point
we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was
collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their
information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which
the information was collected.
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