This Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") discloses the privacy practices for IAMscientist, Inc. (collectively "IAMscientist") with regard to your ("You" or "Your") use of the website (www.iAMscientist.com) (the "Site" or "Sites"). iAMscientist is committed to Your privacy. iAMscientist hereby notifies You of the following:
We will not sell, share, transfer or rent any personal information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement and the Terms of Service. iAMscientist collects information from You on the Profile and Registration pages ("Profile pages") on our Site. iAMscientist reserves the right to collect, disseminate, sell or otherwise disclose non-personal information provided by You.
We will never ask you to repeat your password or reregister with the site. We do not keep password information and cannot retrieve that information for You or any third party. You are solely responsible for keeping your password information private and secure.
Once a registered participant, You may provide additional information in Your personal profile describing your research interests, published works and the like. Your personal profile shall be available for viewing by everyone and will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. Providing additional information in Your personal profile beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional and can be altered or removed by You at any time.
Every computer connected to the Internet is given a domain name and a set of numbers that serve as that computer's Internet Protocol or "IP" address. When You request a page from any page within the Site, our Web servers automatically recognize Your domain name and IP address. The domain name and IP address reveal nothing personal about You other than the IP address from which You have accessed the Site.
For the purposes of inviting and introducing third parties to iAMscientist, You will be given the option to import or otherwise provide email addresses of third parties to iAMscientist. In so doing, iAMscientist will not store or disseminate your username or affiliated password nor solicit or spam any third party email addresses so provided.For the purposes of inviting and introducing third parties to iAMscientist, You will be given the option to import or otherwise provide email addresses of third parties on the iAMscientist site. On so doing, IAMscientist will not store your username or affiliated password.
Upon initial communication from iAMscientist, You may opt-out of receiving further communications from iAMscientist. To be completely removed from the iAMscientist mailing list, You may contact admin@iAMscientist.com. If You are using an e-mail forwarding service or other similar service please make sure to include the correct e-mail address or addresses.
iAMscientist does not collect personal information about individuals.
Information collected from You may be transferred to a third party as a result of a sale or acquisition, merger or bankruptcy involving IAMscientist.
A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to Your browser from a Web server and stored on Your computer's hard drive. A cookie cannot read data off Your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Use of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on the Site. Once You close Your browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on the Site, You would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on the Site. You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings of Your browser. You can reset your Browser to refuse all cookies or allow Your browser to show You when a cookie is being sent. If You reject the cookies on the Site, You may still be able to use the Site, but it shall be limited to certain minimal functionality. The only drawback to this is that the user may be limited in some areas of our Site or limited to certain functions of the Site. Some of our business partners may use cookies on our Site. However, we have no access to or control over these cookies. iAMscientist and our business partners may use cookies to better personalize the content, banners, and promotions that You see on the Site.
iAMscientist may use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the Site, track Your movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
iAMscientist may share aggregated demographic information with partners. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person. iAMscientist shall not be liable for the transfer of any personal identification information resulting from loss or distribution of data, the delineation or corruption of storage media, power failures, natural phenomena, riots, acts of vandalism, sabotage, terrorism or any other event beyond iAMscientist's control.
iAMscientist may partner with another party to provide specific services. When You sign up for these services, iAMscientist will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. Per iAMscientist’s contractual arrangements with parties, these parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the explicit purpose of providing these services.
iAMscientist maintains a strict "No-Spam" policy, which means that iAMscientist does not intend to sell, rent or otherwise give your e-mail address to a third party without Your consent.
iAMscientist cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties, to enforce laws and third party rights, such as intellectual property rights and laws relating to fraud. %p Therefore, in response to a verified request by law enforcement or other government officials relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity, or other activity that may expose us or you to legal liability, iAMscientist can (and You authorize iAMscientist to) disclose Your personal data and other information about You as iAMscientist, in its sole discretion, believes necessary or appropriate.
When you participate in a www.iAMscientist.com Forum including, but not limited to, surveys, discussions, challenges and other entities on the site, Your name and IP address may be recorded for purposes of maintaining Your own account, and preventing abuses. This information is not used to personally identify You outside the iAMscientist community. It is important to remember that whenever You voluntarily disclose personal information in a forum, through e-mail or elsewhere, that information can be collected and used by others. If Your personal information is accessible to the public, You may receive unsolicited messages form other parties in return. Ultimately, You are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of Your personal information. You may participate in any public discussions or forums offered through IAMscientist, but You agree not to post any material the content of which (i) is defamatory, libelous, obscene, indecent, abusive, threatening to others, or in violation of any law; or (ii) infringes the copyright, trademark right, or other intellectual property right of any third party. You will be solely responsible for all content that you post on iAMscientist. You agree to indemnify iAMscientist and its officers and employees from and against all liabilities, judgments, damages, and costs (including attorney's fees) incurred by any of them which arise out of or are related to the content that you post. Forums are intended only for the personal use of iAMscientist subscribers, and may not be used for commercial purposes or for organized political activity.
iAMscientist takes all necessary precautions to protect Your personal information both online and off-line. When iAMscientist requests that You enter sensitive information, that information is encrypted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software or other security protocol, which encrypts the information you input. No administrator at iAMscientist will have knowledge of Your password. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to log off from iAMscientist when finished using a shared computer. iAMscientist also protects Your personal information off-line. Access to Your personal information is limited to employees who iAMscientist reasonably believes will need that information to provide services to You. However, iAMscientist is not responsible for the confidentiality, security or distribution of your own personal information by our partners and third parties outside the scope of our agreement with such partners and third parties.
The Site, www.iAMscientist.com, may contain links to other sites. The linked sites are not necessarily under the control of iAMscientist. Please be aware that iAMscientist is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. iAMscientist encourages You to be aware when You leave this Site and to read the privacy policies of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. If You decide to access any of the third-party sites linked to this Site, You do this entirely at Your own risk. Any links to any partner of the Site should be the responsibility of the linking party, and iAMscientist shall not be responsible for notification of any change in name or location of any information on the Site.
If Your personally identifiable information changes (such as address or payment information), or if You no longer desire to use this Site, You can update Your profile on the Profile pages of the Site. iAMscientist will endeavor to correct, update or remove Your personal data provided to iAMscientist.
If iAMscientist decides to change the Privacy Policy for this Site, iAMscientist will post those changes on www.iAMscientist.com so You are always aware of what information iAMscientist collects, how iAMscientist uses it, and under what circumstances, if any, iAMscientist discloses it. If at any point iAMscientist decides to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, iAMscientist will notify users by way of an e-mail. If You have provided personally identifiable information before the changes in iAMscientist’s Privacy Policy, You will have a choice as to whether or not iAMscientist uses Your information in this different manner. If You choose that iAMscientist not use Your personally identifiable information in accordance with the new privacy policy, iAMscientist will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was originally collected.
As necessary, iAMscientist may send You Site and service announcement updates. You are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the Site. iAMscientist communicates via e-mail with You to provide requested services and to resolve issues relating to Your accounts.
The Terms of Service is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
Should You have questions about this policy or iAMscientist’s information collection, use and disclosure practices, You may contact us at the address www.iAMscientist.com/contact or iAMscientist, Inc., 110 Great Road, Bedford, Massachusetts 01730. We will use reasonable efforts to respond promptly to requests, questions or concerns You may have regarding our use of personal information about You. Except where required by law, iAMscientist cannot ensure a response to questions or comments regarding topics unrelated to this policy or iAMscientist privacy practices.