Privacy Policy

While using Our Service, 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
• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
• Social Media Profile information (if You connect Your social media account to Our Service)
• Other information You voluntarily provide to Us
  

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

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 Service 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 Service 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's 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 Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

We may receive information about You from third-party sources, including:

• Social media platforms (if You choose to connect Your social media account)

• Analytics providers (such as Google Analytics)
• Advertising partners (such as Google Ads, Facebook, Twitter)
• Payment processors (when You make a purchase)

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies We use include beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service.

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 Service.

• Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service 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 the Company, 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.

Where required by law, we use non-essential cookies (such as analytics, advertising, and remarketing cookies) only with Your consent. You can withdraw or change Your consent at any time using Our cookie preferences tool (if available) or through Your browser/device settings. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.

• To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
• For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
• To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
• To provide You with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services and events which We offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or inquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
• To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
• For business transfers: We may use Your Personal Data to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
• 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 Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

If You are located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or United Kingdom, Our legal basis for collecting and using Your Personal Data depends on the Personal Data concerned and the specific context in which We collect it. We may process Your Personal Data because:

• You have given Us consent to do so for one or more specific purposes;

• The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with You;
• The processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject;
• The processing is necessary to protect Your vital interests or those of another natural person;
• The processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Company or a third party, except where such interests are overridden by Your fundamental rights and freedoms.

We may share Your Personal Data in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share Your Personal Data with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You, to advertise on third party websites to You after You visited our Service, for payment processing, or to provide other services on our behalf. These include:
  
  • Analytics providers: Google Analytics
  • Email marketing services: Unisender
  • Advertising and remarketing services: Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Twitter Ads
  • Payment processors: [Specify payment processors used]
• For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your Personal Data in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
• With Affiliates: We may share Your Personal Data with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
• With business partners: We may share Your Personal Data with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
• With other users: If Our Service offers public areas, when You share Personal Data or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
• With Your consent: We may disclose Your Personal Data for any other purpose with Your consent.

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

The Company 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.

Where possible, We apply shorter retention periods and/or reduce identifiability by deleting, aggregating, or anonymizing data. Unless otherwise stated, the retention periods below are maximum periods ("up to") and We may delete or anonymize data sooner when it is no longer needed for the relevant purpose. We apply different retention periods to different categories of Personal Data based on the purpose of processing and legal obligations:

Where possible, We apply shorter retention periods and/or reduce identifiability by deleting, aggregating, or anonymizing data. Unless otherwise stated, the retention periods below are maximum periods ("up to") and We may delete or anonymize data sooner when it is no longer needed for the relevant purpose. We apply different retention periods to different categories of Personal Data based on the purpose of processing and legal obligations:

Usage Data is retained in accordance with the retention periods described above, and may be retained longer only where necessary for security, fraud prevention, or legal compliance.

We may retain Personal Data beyond the periods stated above for different reasons:

• Legal obligation: We are required by law to retain specific data (e.g., financial records for tax authorities).

• Legal claims: Data is necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
• Your explicit request: You ask Us to retain specific information.
• Technical limitations: Data exists in backup systems that are scheduled for routine deletion.

You may request information about how long We will retain Your Personal Data by contacting Us.

When retention periods expire, We securely delete or anonymize Personal Data according to the following procedures:

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company'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 from those from Your jurisdiction.

If You are located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or United Kingdom, please note that We may transfer Your Personal Data to countries outside of the EEA/UK, including to the United States. Where required by applicable law, We will ensure that international transfers of Your Personal Data are subject to appropriate safeguards and supplementary measures where appropriate, such as:

• Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission or UK International Data Transfer Agreement/Addendum;

• Adequacy decisions by the European Commission or UK government;
• Other legally recognized transfer mechanisms.

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.

Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service.

You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any Personal Data that You have provided to Us.

If You are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA) or United Kingdom, You have certain data protection rights. The Company aims to take reasonable steps to allow You to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of Your Personal Data.

If You wish to be informed what Personal Data We hold about You and if You want it to be removed from Our systems, please contact Us.

In certain circumstances, You have the following data protection rights:

• 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 directly within Your account settings section. If You are unable to perform these actions Yourself, please contact Us to assist You.

• The right of rectification. You have the right to have Your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
• The right to object. You have the right to object to Our processing of Your Personal Data.
• The right of restriction. You have the right to request that We restrict the processing of Your personal information.
• The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information We have on You in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
• The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw Your consent at any time where the Company relied on Your consent to process Your personal information.

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) or United Kingdom, please contact Your local data protection authority.

If You are a California resident, You have specific rights regarding Your Personal Data under the CCPA and CPRA.

• The Right to Know: You have the right to request that We disclose certain information to You about Our collection and use of Your Personal Data over the past 12 months, including:
  
  • The categories and specific pieces of Personal Data We collected about You;
  • The categories of sources from which the Personal Data was collected;
  • The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling Your Personal Data;
  • The categories of third parties with whom We share Personal Data;
  • The categories of Personal Data We sold or disclosed for a business purpose.
• The Right to Delete: You have the right to request that We delete any of Your Personal Data that We collected from You and retained, subject to certain exceptions.
• The Right to Correct: You have the right to request correction of inaccurate Personal Data that We maintain about You.
• The Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing: You have the right to direct Us not to sell or share Your Personal Data. While We do not sell Your Personal Data in the traditional sense, certain activities under CCPA/CPRA (such as sharing data with advertising partners for targeted advertising) may be considered a "sale" or "sharing." You may opt out by clicking the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link [if applicable on website] or by contacting Us directly.
• The Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information: If We collect or process sensitive personal information, You have the right to limit its use and disclosure to certain purposes.
• The Right to Non-Discrimination: You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising Your CCPA/CPRA rights.

To exercise any of the rights described above, please contact Us at info@iar-science.org. We will verify Your identity before processing Your request. You may also designate an authorized agent to make a request on Your behalf, subject to verification of the agent's authority.

California residents may opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of their Personal Data as defined under CCPA/CPRA. To submit an opt-out request, please contact Us at info@iar-science.org with the subject line "CCPA Opt-Out Request."

We honor Do Not Track signals and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.

Our Service 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 You are a California resident under the age of 18 and a registered user of Our Service, You may request removal of content or information You have posted on the Service by contacting Us. Please note that processing Your request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information, as some content may remain in archived or backup systems.

We may send You emails regarding updates, promotional offers, newsletters, and other information about products and services offered by Us and Our partners. You can opt-in to receive these communications during registration or through Your account settings.

We use Unisender as our email marketing service provider. Unisender processes email addresses and related engagement data on Our behalf in accordance with Our instructions and applicable data protection laws. For more information about Unisender's privacy practices, please visit their privacy policy.

You may opt-out of receiving marketing emails from Us at any time by:

• Clicking the "unsubscribe" link in any marketing email;

• Contacting Us directly at info@iar-science.org.

The Company uses remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites to You after You visited Our Service. We and Our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on Your past visits to Our Service.

Google Ads remarketing service is provided by Google Inc. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads

Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Facebook remarketing service is provided by Meta Platforms, Inc. You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217

To opt-out of Facebook's collection and use of information for ad targeting, visit: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

Twitter remarketing service is provided by Twitter Inc. You can opt-out of Twitter's interest-based ads by following their instructions: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170405

We may also use other advertising networks and platforms. Each has its own privacy policy and opt-out mechanisms. We encourage You to review their policies and manage Your preferences directly through their platforms.

For more information on opting out of interest-based advertising in general, visit:

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google") to understand how visitors use Our Service. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information about Your use of the Service, including Your IP address, which is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Google uses this data to evaluate Your use of the Service, compile reports on website activity, and provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Most web browsers allow You to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, limiting cookies may impact Your experience of the Service and some features may not function properly.

Instructions for managing cookies in popular browsers:

• Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647

• Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
• Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
• Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09

Where required by law (including under GDPR and ePrivacy Directive), We obtain Your consent before placing non-essential cookies on Your device. You can manage Your cookie preferences at any time through:

• Our cookie consent banner or preferences center (if available on the Service);

• Your browser settings; 
  

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 reasonable means to protect Your Personal Data, including encryption, access controls, and regular security assessments, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Our Service 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 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 and updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

For material changes, We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service prior to the change becoming effective.

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.