Privacy Policy

    Your Privacy
    Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

    Advertising

    This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://www.raptive.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy

    Google Adsense and the DoubleClick DART Cookie
    As a third-party advertisement vendor, Google uses cookies to serve ads on this site. The use of DART cookies by Google enables them to serve adverts to visitors based on their visits to this website and other sites on the internet.

    To opt out of the DART cookies, you may visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html Tracking of users through the DART cookie mechanisms are subject to Google’s own privacy policies.

    Other Third Party ad servers or ad networks may also use cookies to track user’s activities on this website to measure advertisement effectiveness and other reasons that will be provided in their own privacy policies, BioExplorer.net has no access or control over these cookies that may be used by third-party advertisers.

    Our Commitment To Children’s Privacy
    Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. Therefore, BioExplorer.net will never collect or maintain information on our website from those we know are under 18, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 18. Under our Terms of Service, children under 18 cannot access our service.

    Collection of Personal Information
    When visiting BioExplorer.net, the IP address used to access the site will be logged along with the dates and times of access. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for internal use. Most importantly, recorded IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

    Links to third party Websites
    We have included links on this site for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that these sites’ privacy policies may differ from ours.

    Amazon affiliate disclosure: BioExplorer.net participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Please visit Amazon.com Privacy Notice for details.

    What personal data we collect and why we collect it

    Comments

    When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

    An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

    Media

    If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

    Contact forms

    Cookies

    If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

    If you have an account and log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

    When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last two days, and screen options cookies last a year. If you select " Remember Me" your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

    If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and indicates the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after 1 day.

    Embedded content from other websites

    Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

    These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

    How long we retain your data

    If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

    For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

    What rights you have over your data

    If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

    Where we send your data

    Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

    Your contact information

    If you wish to disable cookies, you may use your browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found on the browsers’ respective websites.

    This Site is affiliated with BlogHer to place advertising on the Site. BlogHer uses standard and widely-available tools for placing and serving ads, including those provided by Google, Inc. and its affiliates. We publish interest-based advertisements on the Site; that is, ads that are tailored to reflect your interests. To help understand your interests, BlogHer, Google, and our other advertising partners will track your behavior on our website and on other websites across the Internet using cookies.

    By using this Site, you consent to using such cookies and sharing data captured by such cookies with BlogHer, Google, and our other third-party partners. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser, your opt-out will not be maintained.

    For European Economic Area Residents

    If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us, you can contact us via the contact us page to have them removed. If you wish to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which partners track your behavior using cookies, click the ad preferences icon. (Available in the EU.)

    EMAIL ADDRESSES
    We may collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it. This may occur, for example, if you sign up to receive an email newsletter or enter a promotion. We will use your email address for the purposes for which you provided it to us and occasionally send you emails regarding the Site or other products or services that we believe may interest you. You may opt out of such email communications anytime by clicking the “unsubscribe” button in the email newsletter.

    If you are a country resident in the European Economic Area (EEA), please refer to the section below entitled “Additional Rights of EEA Residents”.

    Changes to this Privacy Statement
    The contents of this statement may be altered at any time, at our discretion.

    Privacy Policy was updated on Feb-08-2024.