Science Currents (“Science Currents”) operates sciencecurrents.com and may operate other websites. It is Science Currents’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Science Currents collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Science Currents’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Science Currents’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Science Currents may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Science Currents also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on sciencecurrents.com blogs/sites. Science Currents only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Science Currents’s websites choose to interact with Science Currents in ways that require Science Currents to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Science Currents gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at sciencecurrents.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Science Currents are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Science Currents collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Science Currents. Science Currents does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Science Currents may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Science Currents may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Science Currents does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Science Currents discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Science Currents’s behalf or to provide services available at Science Currents’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Science Currents’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Science Currents will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Science Currents discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Science Currents believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Science Currents, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Science Currents website and have supplied your email address, Science Currents may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Science Currents and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Science Currents takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Science Currents uses cookies to help Science Currents identify and track visitors, their usage of Science Currents website, and their website access preferences. Science Currents visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Science Currents’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Science Currents’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Science Currents, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Science Currents goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Science Currents may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Science Currents and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Science Currents may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Science Currents’s sole discretion. Science Currents encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a sciencecurrents.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.