Privacy Policy

BIOHAX INSTITUTE, LLC and its affiliates and subsidiaries (“BIOHAX INSTITUTE, LLC,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respect your privacy. This Privacy Notice describes the processing of Personal Information (defined below) that is provided, collected, or disclosed in the course of providing our products or services to you (“Services”) and on the websites, applications, social media pages, other platforms that link to this Privacy Notice, including when you apply for a job with us. It also describes rights you may have under applicable laws.  If you become a client of Biohax, please see these additional privacy notices regarding your health information at Biohax:  Health Information Privacy Policy and Consumer Health Data Privacy Notice.

This Privacy Notice is available to consumers with disabilities. To access this Privacy Notice in an alternative downloadable format, please download the PDF version.

Personal Information We Collect

We may collect a range of Personal Information. “Personal Information” means information that uniquely identifies, relates to, describes, or is reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to you.

The types of Personal Information we collect may include:

• Contact Information – If you submit an inquiry, register for an account, or provide information on or through our Services, we may collect your contact information. This may include your name, address, email address, demographic information, and phone number.
• Commercial Information – If you submit an inquiry, or provide information on our websites, we may collect commercial information including information about purchases, subscriptions, and Services you have shown interest in.
• Payment Information – When you purchase our Services, we may collect information, including your name, email address, phone number, billing address, and payment card details.
• Usage Information – When you use our website, we may automatically record information, including your Internet Protocol address (IP Address), geolocation of your device, browser type, referring URLs (e.g., the website you visited before coming to our website), domain names associated with your internet service provider, and any other information regarding your interaction with our website.
• Employment Information – If you apply for employment with us, we will collect Personal Information related to your potential employment, including your education and employment history, address and contact information, demographic information, and any other information included in your resume or application.
• Communication Information – We may collect Personal Information contained within your communications with us, including audio, electronic, or visual information, screen sharing views, and any files provided to us via email, social media, telephone, or otherwise. Where permitted by applicable law, we may collect and maintain records of calls and chats with our agents, representatives, or employees via message, chat, post, or similar functionality.
• Health Information – When you become a client, we may collect your health information.  Please see these additional privacy notices regarding your health information:  Health Information Privacy Policy and Consumer Health Data Privacy Notice.

2. How We Collect Personal Information

• Directly From You – We collect Personal Information that you provide to us, for example, if you choose to contact us, request or purchase Services or information from us, or sign up to receive updates.
• From Third Parties – We may collect Personal Information from third parties including, business partners, subcontractors, advertising networks, analytics providers, and search information providers, who may provide us with Personal Information about you.
• Through Online Tracking Technologies – We use cookies and similar technologies to collect Personal Information related to activity on our website.  For additional information regarding our use of these technologies, see the Cookies and Tracking Technologies section below.

3. How We Use Personal Information

To the extent permitted by applicable law, we use Personal Information:

• To provide and personalize our Services, such as processing or fulfilling transactions, providing our Services, processing payments, providing customer service, maintaining or servicing accounts, providing financing, verifying customer information, creating and maintaining business records, verifying eligibility, and undertaking or providing similar services.
• For internal research and development, such as testing and verifying the quality of our Services, improving the quality of our Services, and creating new Services.
• For marketing, such as sending information about our Services, including using your information to send you messages, notices, newsletters, surveys, promotions, or news about events.
• For communicating with you, such as responding to your questions and comments.
• For legal, security, or safety reasons, such as protecting our and our users’ safety, property, or rights; complying with legal requirements; enforcing our terms, conditions, and policies; detecting, preventing, and responding to security incidents; and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.
• As part of a corporate transaction, such as in connection with the sale of part or all of our assets or business, the acquisition of part or all of another business or another business’ assets, or another corporate transaction, including bankruptcy.

If you are applying for employment with us, we also use Personal Information to process your job application, to verify the information you have provided in your application, conduct interviews, perform background and reference checks, to communicate with you and answer your questions, to confirm your eligibility for employment, and improve our recruiting processes.  We may also save your Personal Information for future employment opportunities with us.

4. How We Disclose Personal Information

To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may disclose your Personal Information in the following circumstances:

• Service Providers – We disclose your Personal Information with third party service providers as necessary to enable them to support our Services or other aspects of our business.
• Affiliates and Subsidiaries – We may disclose your information to the Biohax family of companies for their and our business purposes and for marketing purposes, including to provide you information about the products or services we think may interest you.
• Business Partners – We may disclose Personal Information with trusted business partners or corporate affiliates.  For example, we may disclose your Personal Information with a company whose products or services we think may be of interest to you or who we co-sponsor a promotion or service with.
• Ad Tech Companies and Other Providers – We may share or make available limited Personal Information (such as a mobile device identifiers) with ad tech companies and other online service providers. When we share your Personal Information in this context, we follow applicable legal requirements, which may require that we provide opt-out rights or other individual rights.
• Legal Obligation or Safety Reasons – We may disclose Personal Information to a third party when we have a good faith belief that such disclosure of Personal Information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy or comply with any requirement of law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce or investigate a potential violation of any agreement you have with us, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise respond to fraud, security or technical concerns, (d) support auditing and compliance functions, or (e) protect the rights, property, or safety of Biohax, its employees and clients, or the public against harm.
• Merger or Change of Control – We may disclose Personal Information to third parties as necessary if we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or any other transaction involving a change of control in our business, including but not limited to, a bankruptcy or similar proceeding. Where legally required, we will give you prior notice prior to such disclosure.

We and our service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to collect usage and browser information about how you use our website. The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include cookies and web beacons that permit us to verify system and server integrity and generate statistics around the popularity of certain content. We process the information collected through such technologies, which may include or be combined with Personal Information, to help operate certain features of our website, to enhance your experience through personalization, and to help us better understand the features of our website that you and other users are most interested in.

Website Delivery and Appearance – We may use third party providers to enable certain customer interaction opportunities, content delivery (like audio or video), or other service capabilities.

Website Analytics – We use analytics services, that use cookies and other technologies that collect your Personal Information, to assist us with analyzing our website traffic and website usage to optimize, maintain, and secure our website and inform subsequent business decisions (including, e.g., advertising). These include, but are not limited to, the following third-party services:

• Google Analytics: To learn more about how Google uses data, visit Google’s Privacy Policy and Google’s page on “How Google uses data from sites or apps that use our services.” You may download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for each web browser you use, but this does not prevent the use of other analytics tools. To learn more about Google Analytics cookies, visit Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites.

Interest-Based Advertising – We may also allow or enable third parties to collect Personal Information to provide their interest-based advertising on behalf of our products and services, or their own. Interest-based advertising occurs when advertisements are shown to you based on information collected from your online interactions over time and across multiple websites, devices, or online services that you visit or use. Some companies may engage in cross-context behavioral advertising to predict your preferences and show you advertisements that are most likely to be of interest or relevant to you. We do not control these third parties’ collection or use of your information for these purposes, or the opt-out options they may individually offer you via their terms, conditions, and privacy policies. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

Selling or Sharing Personal Information – While we do not sell Personal Information in exchange for monetary consideration, we do share Personal Information for other benefits that could be deemed a “sale” or “sharing” under various data protection laws, because they are sometimes broadly defined to include activities such as the delivery of interest-based advertising on websites or allowing third parties to receive certain information, such as cookies, IP address, and/or browsing behavior. We similarly may engage in interest-based advertising when we use data about your activities on our Site to serve you ads on websites owned or controlled by third parties. It is in this context that we have provided advertising networks, data analytics providers, social networks, and video sharing platforms with Personal Information such as your IP address, device information, Internet and other electronic network activity information, and geolocation information in the last twelve months.

Cookie Choices – To manage your preferences with respect to these technologies, you can:

• Visit our preferences page, or customize your browser settings to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable certain cookies, please note that some parts of our website may not function properly. These settings may be lost and require reconfiguration if you delete your cookies.
• Block the collection and use of your information by online platforms and ad tech companies for the purpose of serving interest-based advertising by visiting the opt out pages of the self-regulatory programs of which those companies are members: National Advertising Initiative and Digital Advertising Alliance (or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance, if you are located in the European Economic Area). Please note that even if you opt out of interest-based advertising, you may still see “contextual” ads which are based on the context of what you are looking at on the websites and pages you visit.
• Review and execute any provider-specific instructions to customize your preferences or opt-out of certain processing, including interest-based advertising, by third party service providers. For example, to opt-out of this type of advertising by Google, customize your ad preferences, or limit Google’s collection or use of your data, visit Google’s Safety Center and Google’s Ad Settings and follow Google’s personalized ad opt-out instructions.

5. How Long We Keep Your Personal Information

We will retain each category of your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Notice, unless otherwise required by applicable laws. Criteria we will use to determine how long we will retain your Personal Information include whether we need your Personal Information to provide you with our Services you have requested; we continue to have a relationship with you; you have requested information or Services from us; we have a legal right or obligation to continue to retain your Personal Information; we have an obligation to a third party that involves your Personal Information; our retention or recordkeeping policies and obligations dictate that we retain your Personal Information; we have an interest in providing you with Personal Information about our Services; or we have another business purpose for retaining your Personal Information.

6. How We Protect Personal Information

We use commercially reasonable efforts to protect the confidentiality and security of Personal Information. However, despite these efforts to store Personal Information in a secure environment, we cannot guarantee the security of Personal Information during its transmission or its storage on our systems.

7. International Use of our Services

Our website is hosted in the United States. If you are visiting our website from outside of the United States, please note that by providing your Personal Information, it is being transferred to, stored, collected, or processed in the United States, where our servers are located and operated.

8. Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect or solicit any Personal Information from children under the age of 16 without verified written parental consent. In the event that we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 16, we will promptly take steps to delete that information. If you are a parent or legal guardian and think your child has given us their Personal Information, you can email us at [email].

9. Links to Third-Party Websites

We are not responsible for the practices employed by any websites or services linked to or from our Services, including the information or content contained within them. We encourage you to investigate and ask questions before disclosing Personal Information to third parties, since any Personal Information disclosed will handled in accordance with the applicable third party’s privacy notice.

In some cases, we offer links to social media platforms (like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, X, and YouTube) that enable you to easily connect with us or share information on social media. Any content you post via these social media pages is subject to the terms of use and privacy notices for those platforms.

10. California Residents

This section provides additional information regarding Biohax’s practices pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and its implementing regulations, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA”), where “Personal Information” has the definition set forth in the CCPA.

Please see the below chart for detailed information about the categories of Personal Information we have collected from California residents during the twelve months preceding the date on which this Notice was last updated and the categories of third parties to whom we sell or share Personal Information. For each category of Personal Information set forth in the chart below, the categories of third parties to whom we disclose it for a business or commercial purpose are set forth in the How We Disclose Personal Information section above.

Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, individual customers who reside in California and who have an existing business relationship with us may request information about our disclosure of certain categories of Personal Information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes, if any. To make such a request, please contact us using the information in the Contact Us section below. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by these California privacy rights requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year.

11. Your Privacy Rights and How to Exercise Them

Depending on where you live, you may have the following rights with respect to your Personal Information under applicable data protection laws:

• Access – You may have the right to know what Personal Information we have collected about you and to access such data.
• Data portability – You may have the right to receive a copy of your information in a portable and readily usable format.
• Deletion – You may have the right to delete your Personal Information that we have obtained, subject to certain exceptions.
• Correction – You may have the right to correct inaccuracies in your Personal Information.
• Opt out of certain processing – You may have the right to: (a) opt out of the processing of your Personal Information for purposes of targeted advertising, (b) opt out of the sale or sharing of your Personal Information; (c) limit the use of your sensitive Personal Information (if applicable), and (c) opt out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. We do not collect or process sensitive Personal Information outside of purposes permitted by law (such as section 7027(m) under the California Consumer Privacy Act Regulations), so we do not offer the option to limit its use. We also do not profile you or other individuals in a manner that would result in legal or similarly significant effects, so we do not offer an opt out.

To opt out of marketing emails, please email us at [email] or by following the instructions included in the email or text correspondence. Please note that, even if you unsubscribe from certain correspondence, we may still need to contact you with important transactional or administrative information, as permitted by law.  Additionally, if you withdraw your consent or object to processing of your Personal Information, or if you choose not to provide certain Personal Information, we may be unable to provide some or all of our Services to you.

To exercise any of the privacy rights afforded to you under applicable data protection laws, please submit a request to us by one of the following methods:

• Calling us toll free at [Toll Free Number]
• E-mailing us at [email]
• Submitting a request through our webform.

You may also initiate any opt outs by broadcasting an Opt-Out Preference Signal, such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC). We honor Opt-Out Preference Signals, including GPC. If you choose to use an Opt-Out Preference Signal, you will need to turn it on for each supported browser or browser extension you use.

You will not be discriminated against in any way by virtue of your exercise of the rights listed in this Notice. However, should you withdraw your consent or object to processing of your Personal Information, or if you choose not to provide certain Personal Information, we may be unable to provide some, or all, of our Services to you.

Only you, or an authorized agent that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a request related to your Personal Information. We must verify your identity before fulfilling your requests, and if we cannot verify your identity, we may request additional information from you. If you are an authorized agent making a request on behalf of another person, we will also need to verify your identity, which may require proof of your written authorization or evidence of a power of attorney. We endeavor to respond to requests within the time period required by applicable law. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your requests unless they are excessive or repetitive. If we determine that a request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request. We may deny certain requests, or only fulfill some in part, as permitted or required by law. If you are not satisfied with the resolution of your request and you are afforded a right to appeal such decision, you will be notified of our appeal process in our response to your request.

12. Changes to this Privacy Notice 

Please note that we may modify or update this Privacy Notice from time to time, so please review it periodically. We will provide you notice if material changes are made. Unless otherwise indicated, any changes to this Privacy Notice will apply immediately upon posting to our websites.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our practices or this Privacy Notice, please contact us at [email]. You may also write to us at [mailing address].