We care about your privacy

StudyMicrobio appreciates the importance of your privacy and your concerns. We want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose personal information. This “Privacy Policy” governs your use of StudyMicrobio, and any of its affiliates owned or operated websites (including mobile sites), mobile applications, widgets, and/or any interactive features or other online services that post a link to StudyMicrobio regardless of how you access or use the service, whether through a personal computer, mobile device, tablet or otherwise.

In addition to reviewing this privacy policy, please review our Terms and Conditions of service and user agreement which governs the use of the service. If you do not agree to the Terms and Conditions of service, you are prohibited from using the StudyMicrobio service. If you agree to the Terms and Conditions of service, and user agreement and subsequently violate the terms of the Agreement, your use of our service will be terminated. By using our service, you consent to our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions of service, user agreement, and our collection, use, and sharing of your information and data, and other activities, as described below.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We have the authority to alter the Privacy Policy at any time without notice to you. However, the service will not change this Privacy Policy in a manner that materially alters the use of the user’s personal information as promised at the time it was collected unless required to do so by law.

We collect information

Registering with our service requires you to provide (1) certain personally identifiable which is information that identifies you personally, including but not limited to your first and last name, and email address (“Personal Information”); and (2) demographic information, such as information about your age, gender, location and spending habits (“Demographic Information”). We may collect this information in various places and in multiple ways on our service, including if you complete any form on the service, register for an account, or when you otherwise interact with the service in any way. All information gathered from you will be treated both independently and in combination with other data as Personal Information under this Privacy Policy. All personal information collected by StudyMicrobio and its merchant partner or affiliates is proprietary information and is the property of StudyMicrobio and the merchant partner you chose to register with. The information we gather, including your Personal Information, Demographic Information, or Usage Information may be used for various purposes, including:

• To send you promotional or marketing materials on behalf of StudyMicrobio, merchant partner, or third parties to inform you of new products, services, online contests, promotional initiatives, and/or upcoming events;

• To improve our service including marketing initiatives and service features and offerings including identifying your preferences to inform you of additional products, services, or marketing initiatives;

• To customize your experience on the service or to display specific content or ads that may be relevant to you;

• To contact you with regard to your use of the service;

• To communicate, at our sole discretion changes to the service and/or service’s policies; and

For purposes disclosed at the time you provide your information or as otherwise set forth in this privacy policy:

• We use various Tracking Technologies for multiple initiatives which allow you to use and access our service to enhance security. Tracking Technologies include without limitation, the following in addition to any technology and methods later developed: cookies, embedded scripts, and/or tags.

• We use Tracking Technologies to prevent fraudulent activity and assess performance both inside the service and outside which help us improve the service and content we create and display by monitoring when you visit our service and tracking your preferences to deliver content, including ads, relevant to your interests on our service and third-party sites based on how you respond to content and ads. Tracking Technologies helps understand the relevance of content to you and ads delivered to you to enhance your experience.

• Tracking Technologies in addition to the above may be used by us in connection with the service both now and in the future. Our privacy policy does not apply to third parties who may use Tracking Technologies in connection with our service, which may include collecting information about your browsing activities across third-party websites. We may not control those Tracking Technologies and we are not responsible for them. By agreeing to our privacy policy you consent to potentially encountering third-party Tracking Technologies in connection with the use of our service and accept that our statements under this privacy policy do not apply to the Tracking Technologies or practices of such third parties. There may exist other mechanisms to track and interpret your online activities, choices, and preferences by collecting information. We do not currently monitor or take any action with regard to any third-party technologies or monitoring including technologies that collect information over time from various sources to interpret and predict consumer behavior and choices.

Security

Your Personal Information and privacy are important to us. We use reasonable best practices and safeguards to ensure data privacy but the information you provide is at your own risk. In addition, any transmission over the Internet, mobile networks, wireless transmission, or electronic storage of information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

We may include functionality that allows certain kinds of interactions between the service and your account on a third-party website or application; for example, interaction with the merchant website. The use of this functionality may involve the third-party operator providing certain information, including personal information, to us. For example, we may provide third-party sites’ interfaces or links on the service to facilitate your sending a communication from the service. StudyMicrobio may at its sole discretion collect and use this information as Personal Information.

We do not share the personal information that we collect with third parties for those third parties' direct marketing purposes. We may share non-personal information, such as general usage behaviors and insights with third parties. We may share the information we have collected about you, including personal information, as disclosed at the time you provide your information and as described below or otherwise in this privacy policy. The service may disclose your information as follows:

• The service may present you with options to receive certain information and/or offers directly from third parties. If you choose to do so, your personal information and other information may be disclosed to such third parties and all information you disclose will be subject to the third-party privacy policies and practices of such third parties. We do not monitor and cannot be responsible for the privacy policies of third parties and, therefore, you should ensure to review such third party privacy policies and practices prior to requesting information from or otherwise engaging with them. Third-party providers may set and access their own technologies on your device and they may otherwise collect or have access to information about you. We are not responsible for those third-party technologies, including compliance with any third parties' opt-out options.

• If subpoenaed by law enforcement, we may disclose personal and usage information.

• We may use third-party vendors and allow access to your information to carry out the service they are performing for you or for us, such as (i) hosting the service; (ii) assisting us with operations; (iii) managing a database of customer information; (iv) tracking activities and analytics within the service; (v) other service designed to improve the service.

• We may share your personal information, including your device identifiers, and demographic and usage information with our subsidiaries and affiliates. We also reserve the right to disclose and transfer all information: (i) to a subsequent owner, co-owner, or operator of the service or applicable database; or (ii) in connection with a merger, consolidation, restructuring, or the sale of substantially all of our interests and/or assets or other corporate change, including, during the course of any due diligence process.

Information User Discloses

The service may contain a community forum and message board where users are able to create user profiles, reviews, comments, photographs, ideas, data, or other content, including personal information (collectively, “Content”). All content once posted immediately becomes the property of StudyMicrobio and its merchant partner. The service may display, publish, reproduce, distribute or otherwise use content online or offline in any media or format without attributing it directly to you. Other users may have access to this content and may have the ability to share it. Please consider this prior to posting any personal information in a public forum. We are not responsible for the accuracy, use or misuse of any user content that you disclose or receive from third parties through the service and our privacy policy does not apply to any information that you disclose publicly through our service.

User Information and Communications

You are responsible for maintaining the truthfulness and accuracy of the information you submit to us, such as the contact information provided as part of registration. The service will disable a user’s account if the information provided is determined to be false or no longer current.