Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how we collects and processes your personal information through the SCIENCE PROTOCOL websites and applications that reference this Privacy Notice. SCIENCE PROTOCOL refers to an ecosystem comprising SCIENCE PROTOCOL websites (whose domain names include but are not limited to scienceprotocol.com), mobile applications, clients, applets and other applications that may be developed to offer SCIENCE PTOTOCOL Services, and includes applications operating on SCIENCE PROTOCOL, (jointly referred to as the “Websites”). By interacting with or using SCIENCE PROTOCOL Websites, you are aware of the collection, storage, processing and transfer of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Please note that the Websites is only an interface for the community of users and developers (the “Community”). Decisions are not made by a single entity, but by the participants of the Community.Please note that we do not control websites, applications, or services operated by third parties, and we are not responsible for their actions. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of the other websites, decentralised applications, and services you use to access or interact with our Services.

Last updated : 02 October 2023

Kind of Information we Collect

When you visit our Websites or use one or more of our Services, we may collect following personal information:

Information you provided

We receive and store any information you provide in relation to SCIENCE PROTOCOL. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to use some SCIENCE PROTOCOL Services. Examples of information that you give us include:

Name/Email address/Social media handles/Country of where you live/Your public Wallet Address/Publicly available blockchain data

The wallet that you connect to use our Services may be used across the SCIENCE PROTOCOL ecosystem.

Automatically Collected information

App, Browser and Device Information/ Information about the device, operating system, and browser you’re using / Other device characteristics or identifiers (e.g. plugins, the network you connect to)/ IP address/derived location information

Events Organized by SCIENCE PROTOCOL

Data that you need to provide to register and attend any event that the SCIENCE PROTOCOL organizes, through our websites or the websites of our third-party providers, in addition to the above, we may need the following registration data:

Country where you reside|University / College Affiliation|Company / Association |Resume / CV |Image

We may use this data and other data that you willingly share to fulfill our agreement or to confirm your eligibility, to enable your participation, and to give you a better experience in the event.

Information from analytics providers: We receive information about your website usage and interactions from third party analytics providers. This includes browser fingerprint, device information,and ip address.

Error tracking data: We utilize information from third party service providers to provide automated error monitoring, reporting, alerting and diagnostic capture for service and site errors to allow user or developers to build more effectively on our platform.

We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your user experience, provide our services, and understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements.

Why we collect your personal Information?

We may use your personal information for the following purposes or as otherwise described at the time of collection. If you reside outside the United Kingdom or European Economic Area (“EEA”), the legal bases on which we rely in your country may differ from those listed below.

Provide, troubleshoot, and improve SCIENCE PROTOCOL Services. We use your personal information to provide functionality, analyse performance, fix errors, and improve the usability and effectiveness of SCIENCE PROTOCOL Services.

To promote the safety, security and integrity of our Services

Recommendations and personalisation. We use your personal information to recommend features and services that might be of interest to you, identify your preferences, and personalise your experience with SCIENCE PROTOCOL Services.

Comply with legal obligations. In certain cases, we collect and use your personal information to comply with laws and regulations.

Purposes for which we seek your consent. We may also ask for your consent to process your personal information for a specific purpose that we communicate to you. When you consent to our processing your personal information for a specified purpose, you may withdraw your consent at any time and we will stop processing your data for that purpose.

We process personal information to prevent and detect fraud and abuse in order to protect the security of our users, SCIENCE PROTOCOL Services and others.

We process personal data in order to enable your registration for any event organized by us, as well as record your reservation.

To allow Users or Developers to build more effectively on the our platform.

To market our product, services and development.

Do we share your personal information?

We are not in business’ of selling your personal information to third parties. However, we shares users’ personal information only as described below and with the subsidiaries or affiliates of SCIENCE PROTOCOL that are either subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.

Third party service providers: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing payments and transmitting content. These third-party service providers have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. Further, they must process the personal information in accordance with this Privacy Notice and as only permitted by applicable data protection laws.

Business transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy other businesses or services. In such transactions, user information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the user consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that SCIENCE PROTOCOL or substantially all of its assets are acquired, user information will be one of the transferred assets.

Protection of SCIENCE PROTOCOL and others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law or with our regulatory obligations; enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property or safety of SCIENCE PROTOCOL, our users or others. Where applicable, this includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

We can share your personal information with our advisors, regulators, tax authorities, law enforcement, government agencies, and industry partners when needed to:

respond pursuant to applicable law or regulations, court orders, legal process or government requests;
detect, investigate, prevent, or address fraud and other illegal activity or security and technical issues; and
protect the rights, property, and safety of our Users, Developers, Affiliates, or others, including to prevent death or imminent bodily harm.

When we share information with third-party service providers to help us provide our Services, we require them to use your information on our behalf in accordance with our instructions and terms and only process as necessary for the purpose of the contract.

Basic User Information that we process and collect may be transferred between Affiliates, Services, and employees affiliated with us as a normal part of conducting business and offering our Services to you.

International transfers of personal data

To facilitate our global operations, we and our third-party partners and service providers may transfer and store throughout the world, including in the United States.

If you reside in the EEA, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom, we rely upon a variety of legal mechanisms to facilitate these transfers of your personal information (collectively, “European Personal Data”).

We rely primarily on the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses to facilitate the international and onward transfer of European Personal Data to third countries.
We also rely on adequacy decisions from the European Commission where available and exemptions provided for under data protection law (e.g. Article 49 GDPR).

How Long we store your personal Information?

We retain your information as needed to provide our Services, comply with legal obligations or protect our or others’ interests. While retention requirements vary by country, we maintain internal retention policies on the basis of how information needs to be used. This includes considerations such as when the information was collected or created, whether it is necessary in order to continue offering you our Services or to protect the safety, security and integrity of our Services, and whether we are required to hold the information to comply with our legal obligations.

Under 18 years of Age Personal Information

The Services are not directed to persons under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly request or collect any information about persons under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not provide any personal information through the Site or Services. If a User submitting personal information is suspected of being younger than 18 years of age, we will take steps to delete the individual’s information as soon as possible.

How Secure is My Information?

We design our systems with your security and privacy in mind. We work to protect the security of your personal information during transmission by using encryption protocols and software. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of your personal information. Our security procedures mean that we may ask you to verify your identity before we disclose personal information to you.

Updates about Privacy Policy?

Any Questions about Privacy Policy?

Please contact “privacy@scienceprotocol.com” for any question, concern about this privacy policy.