Privacy Policy

Last updated: 31/11/2023

By accessing and using the services provided by the Beta version of PubCompare.ai you acknowledge that the platform is under continuous improvement and may update it’s privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes in our services, user feedback, or legal requirements.

PubCompare.ai takes privacy and data security seriously. We are committed to transparency in the collection and use of your personal information.

The Privacy Notice applies to the personal information practices on pubcompare.ai and how we use your personal information to provide our services and the circumstances under which we may share this information.

This Privacy Notice applies to the personal information practices on Pubcompare.ai.

We collect and use personal information for the purposes identified below.

Account Signup: We collect information, including your name, organization, email address, phone number, and password in order to create your account. Account signup also allows you to access the service.

Marketing Communications: We may collect certain personal information, including name, address, email address, and telephone number to send marketing communications regarding our services, including news, updates, and reminders. You can opt out of receiving communications from us using the opt-out or “unsubscribe” instructions provided in our marketing communications.

Contact Form and Chat: When you contact us with a comment, question, or complaint via a form or chat widget, you may be asked for information that identifies you, such as your name, email address, telephone number, and current organization (e.g., your educational institution or laboratory) along with additional information we may need to help us promptly answer your question or respond to your request. We use this personal information to establish and manage our relationship with you. We may retain this information to assist you in the future and to improve our customer service and service offerings.

User-Generated Content: In the course of using our services, you may provide us with various forms of user-generated content, such as annotations, votes, comments, and other contributions (collectively referred to as “Submissions”).

Collection and Use: We collect and store these Submissions to facilitate the core functionalities of the PubCompare platform, such as improving search results, enhancing content accuracy, and fostering community interactions. These Submissions may be reviewed by our team to ensure compliance with our guidelines, improve the quality of our services, and respond to any issues.

Anonymity and Privacy: Where applicable, we anonymize Submissions to protect your privacy. For example, votes are kept anonymous unless you choose to disclose your identity through comments. We process this data in accordance with this Privacy Policy and take steps to ensure that your personal information is protected.

Data Sharing: While we do not share your personal information with third parties without your explicit consent, anonymized or aggregated data derived from your Submissions may be shared with partners or used for research and analysis purposes. This data does not include any information that can personally identify you.

Compliance with Terms and Conditions: The collection, use, and processing of Submissions are governed by our Terms and Conditions, which outline the specific rights and licenses you grant to us and other users when you contribute content to the platform. We encourage you to review these terms to fully understand how your Submissions are used.

Aggregate Data: We collect information you provide, and combine it with the information of other users of our website, to create aggregate data that may be disclosed to third parties. Aggregate data is anonymized and provided to third parties in statistical form.

Cookies: We may also collect, process, store and analyze information about you obtained from your browser or through the use of “cookies” or other tools that track, measure, and analyze the behaviors and usage patterns of visitors to our website and users of our services. You can choose to accept or decline cookies or modify your browser settings to decline them. If you do, features of the PubCompare platform may no longer work as intended.

Unless you explicitly provide your consent for a related purpose, we do not sell or share your identifying personal information with third parties.

Service Providers

Your personal information may be transferred to (or otherwise made available to) our affiliates and other third parties who provide services on our behalf, including hosting and maintaining our website and helping manage our marketing communications. Our service providers include: user authentication, optimizing our platform through product adoption and user experience analysis, marketing insights, hosting data, marketing, sales, customer support and service automation. At all times they are given the information they need to perform their designated functions, and are not authorized to use or disclose personal information for their own marketing or other purposes.

Your personal information may be maintained and processed by us, our affiliates, and other third-party service providers in Switzerland, in Europe or other jurisdictions. In this event it will be subject to the laws of that jurisdiction and may be disclosed to or accessed by the courts, law enforcement, and governmental authorities in accordance with those laws.

Legal and Compliance Matters

We and our service providers may provide your personal information in response to a search warrant or other legally valid inquiry or order, or to another organization for the purposes of investigating a breach of an agreement, a contravention of law, detecting, suppressing, or preventing fraud, or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable Swiss law or other foreign law or legal process. Your personal information may also be disclosed when necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims and to investigate or prevent actual or suspected loss or harm to persons or property.

Sale of Business

Personal information may be provided to third parties in connection with a merger or sale (including transfers made as part of insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings) involving all or part of PubCompare, or as part of a corporate reorganization or other change in corporate control, including for the purpose of determining whether to proceed with or continue such a transaction or business relationship.

If such a transaction occurs, data will continue to be protected according to the privacy policy in force at the time of collection.

Reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures have been implemented to safeguard the personal information in our custody and control against theft, loss and unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure. Access to your personal information is restricted to a need-to-know basis to employees and authorized service providers who require access to fulfill their job requirements.

Reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures have been implemented to safeguard the personal information in our custody and control against theft, loss and unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure. Access to your personal information is restricted to a need-to-know basis to employees and authorized service providers who require access to fulfill their job requirements.

Third-Party Websites

The site may contain links to other websites that are not owned or controlled by us. We have no control over, do not review, and are not responsible for the privacy policies of or content displayed on such other websites. When you click on such a link, you will leave our service and go to another site. During this process, another entity may collect personal information from you.

Updates to the Privacy Notice

We may update this Privacy Notice to reflect changes to our privacy practices. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you of significant changes, but we encourage you to review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

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