This Privacy Policy is adapted from ProPublica’s.

Privacy Policy and Other Terms

Privacy is important to us at SciQuel. We hold ourselves to a high standard as an independent, nonprofit dedicated to sharing science to the public. Please note that this policy may be updated from time to time.

We have developed our site, applications, and related services so that you can visit without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information to us. We do not track visitors to our site as they access other sites.

If you do choose to provide us with your personally identifying information, SciQuel is the only organization that has access to the information we collect.

SciQuel does not share, trade, sell, or otherwise release personal information to any third parties. This includes all information that is obtained both online and offline. We do not disclose donor information without explicit consent.

When you submit the contact form on our site, we store your IP address and the information you provide. When you submit the newsletter subscription form on our site, we store your email and, should you provide it, your name.

We use reasonable measures to help protect the information we possess. You should understand that that no data storage system or data transmitted over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You provide us with this data at your own risk. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, SciQuel does not accept liability for unintentional disclosure.

Our site and services are designed for and targeted to United States audiences and are governed in accordance with United States law. If you are located outside of the U.S., by sending us your data you consent to its transfer to and storage within the United States. Protecting the privacy of young children is important to us. Our site and services are not directed to children under 13 (or other age as required by local law), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you learn that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, you may contact us. If we learn that we have collected any personal information in violation of applicable law, we will promptly take steps to delete such information.

By using the site and services or providing personal information to us, you agree that we may communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues related to such use. If we learn of a security system’s breach, we may attempt to notify you electronically by posting a notice, by mail or by sending an email to you. We may share your information in connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as an acquisition, a merger, consolidation, asset sale, or in the unlikely event of the bankruptcy.

If we believe it is reasonably necessary, we may read, preserve, and disclose your information to comply with the law, including to respond to law enforcement; to protect and defend ourselves or others; and to stop any activity that we consider illegal, unethical, or legally actionable. If we receive a subpoena, warrant, discovery order, or other request or order from a law enforcement agency, court, other governmental entity, or litigant that seeks your data, we will make reasonable attempts to direct the requesting party to seek the data directly from you. Nothing in this policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you have to a third party’s (including a government’s) request to disclose your information.

By accessing SciQuel’s site, applications, or other services, you agree to be legally bound by and comply with this policy. If you do not agree to comply with this policy, you are not authorized to use this site.

Copyright

We respect the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied — by us or by any third party on our site — in a manner that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our copyright agent the written information specified below. Please note that this procedure is exclusively for notifying us that your copyrighted material has been infringed.

An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed upon;
A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on our site, including the URL of the page on which it appears;
Your address, telephone number and e-mail address;
A statement by you that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and
A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.

Reader-Submitted Content

By giving SciQuel permission to use your Content, you agree to the following:

You confirm that you are the creator or owner of the Content, or that you have the right to grant permission to share it with SciQuel. In addition, you confirm that you have all the necessary rights and permissions to grant us this license for its use.
Aside from the license granted herein, you retain the copyright to the Content.
You hereby grant SciQuel the following perpetual and irrevocable non-exclusive rights in the Content: the right to reproduce, display, distribute, perform and transmit the Content, as modified by SciQuel, throughout the world, in any media now known or later developed, in connection with the business or promotion of the business of SciQuel, including such use by SciQuel’s partners and affiliates, and including the right to incorporate the Content into a larger work created by SciQuel.
The Content may appear, in whole or in part, and without limitation, on SciQuel’s website, apps, social media accounts, other SciQuel-branded platforms, third-party archives, or in videos or films in perpetuity.
You understand that you will receive no payment or royalty for any use under this agreement; that SciQuel is under no obligation to use, edit or distribute the Content; and that you have no right to inspect or approve any use of the Content.

Trademarks

SciQuel trademarks, service marks, and logos used in connection with the site and services are trademarks of SciQuel in the United States and other countries. SciQuel reserves all rights to these marks. You may not use any SciQuel marks or logos without SciQuel’s prior written consent. All other trademarks and service marks appearing on the digital platforms are the property of their respective owners and should be used only with prior written consent from the appropriate owner.

Links and Frames

You may link to the home page of our site as long as the link does not cast us in a false or misleading light. You may not frame the content of our site.

Links to Other Web Sites

Our site may contain links to other websites that we think may be of interest to you. We have no control over these other sites or their content. You should be aware of when you leave our site for another, and you should remember that other sites are governed by their own user agreements and privacy policies, which you should be sure to read.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

ALTHOUGH WE TAKE REASONABLE STEPS TO PREVENT THE INTRODUCTION OF VIRUSES, WORMS, “TROJAN HORSES” OR OTHER DESTRUCTIVE MATERIALS TO OUR SITE, WE DO NOT GUARANTEE OR WARRANT THAT OUR SITE OR MATERIALS THAT MAY BE DOWNLOADED FROM OUR SITE ARE FREE FROM SUCH DESTRUCTIVE FEATURES. WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR HARM ATTRIBUTABLE TO SUCH FEATURES. WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, LOSS OR INJURY BASED ON ERRORS, OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS, OR OTHER INACCURACIES IN OUR SITE, NOR FOR ANY CLAIM, LOSS, OR INJURY THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR USE OF THIS SITE OR YOUR BREACH OF ANY PROVISION OF THIS POLICY.

Termination

We reserve the right to terminate the site and this policy at any time without notice for any reason, including, in the case of the policy, for your violation of any of its provisions. The Limitation of Liability and Governing Law Sections of this policy and your agreement to it shall survive any such termination.

Governing Law

This policy and your agreement to it will be governed by the laws of the State of New York applicable to contracts made and performed there without regard to its conflicts of law principles. You agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the State and County of New York and waive any jurisdictional, venue, or inconvenient forum objections to such courts.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our practices, or if you wish to reach our Copyright Agent, you may contact us:

SciQuel
Attention: General Counsel
Email: [email protected]