BioProbe Diagnostics Privacy Policy
The below document explains how BioProbe Diagnostics collects and maintains your data when you use our website. We take your privacy seriously, please take a few minutes to review our privacy policy,before using our website. By continuing to use our website it is taken that you agree with all areas of our privacy policy.
Introduction
BioProbe Diagnostics is committed to protecting and respecting the personal data that we collect. This privacy statement describes why and how we collect and use personal data and provides information about your individual rights. It applies to personal data provided to us, both by individuals themselves or by others. We may use personal data provided to us for the purposes described in this privacy statement or as made clear before collecting personal data.
BioProbe Diagnostics takes the security of all the data it holds seriously and has processes and policies in place to ensure that data we hold is secured, adequate, relevant and not excessive.
We endeavour to continuously review our private policy to ensure we are compliant and update if necessary. Each time you access, view and/or use this website you will be bound by our most current privacy notice. For this reason, you should review the privacy notice each time you access, view and/or use this website.
We at BioProbe Diagnostics respect your right to privacy and comply with our obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation. The purpose of this Privacy Statement is to set out how we deal with personal data provided to BioProbe Diagnostics while visiting our website Bioprobe Diagnostics (bioprobedx.com)
BioProbeDX bears no responsibility for the accuracy, legality or content of any links to external websites.
Data collection and Management
Obtaining Data
Data protection law ensures that there is a legitimate and legal basis for the processing of your personal data.
Relevant data to sustain our business relationship will be obtained directly from you. Data will also be generated through the normal course of doing business over time.
Types of data collected by BioProbe Diagnostics:
Personal Data
This is data that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact you and may include your name, address, e-mail address, company name, job position, user IP addresses in circumstances where they have not been deleted, clipped or anonymised and telephone number. Such information is only collected from you if you voluntarily submit it to us and we use it to deliver BioProbe Diagnostic products/services, and information to you. BioProbe Diagnostics collects personal data in the following circumstances.
During business activities named contacts within organisations are recorded so BioProbe Diagnostics may communicate with named contacts in order to provide our products & services. These contact details are collected on a business to business basis and the legal basis for such data collection is to facilitate the necessary performance of the services provided.
In addition, companies may provide employee details to BioProbe Diagnostics when seeking product information & services from BioProbe Diagnostics.
Other personal data processed by BioProbe Diagnostics is data generated through the process of attending BioProbe Diagnostic events both in person and online.
Non-Personal Data
Like most websites, we gather statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our website. This Non-Personal Data comprises information that cannot be used to identify or contact you, such as demographic information regarding, for example, user IP addresses where they have been clipped or anonymised, browser types, country of origin and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of our website.
How we manage your data
Non-Personal Data: We use the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our website to help us understand our visitor demographics, user behaviour/interaction on various pages on our site, to see which posts and pages are performing well. This helps us maintain & design a website to benefit our users.
Personal Data: We process any Personal Data you voluntarily provide to us for the following reasons
- To respond to you if you contact us directly asking us to do so e.g., you have a general query relating to one of our products and ask for a team member to get back to you
- To confirm your identity
- To process any orders, we receive from you in relation to our products, services & event bookings
- While updating or reviewing our customer contact details
- To be used in statistical reporting regarding our website activities
BioProbe Diagnostics uses customer contact and other relevant personal information to supply our products, information and product resources to companies and institutions on a B2B basis.
Employees and Job Candidates
If you apply for a job with BioProbe Diagnostics we will use the personal data, you give us during the recruitment process and will retain it for one year after the recruitment process ends unless otherwise obliged by law to retain it. We will only share it to check references with third –parties nominated by you.
Events
When you register to attend a BioProbe diagnostics event online or in person, we will record your name, email address, job title if submitted, and company name. This information is necessary and used by us in organising and administering the event. We delete event attendance data within a maximum of 12 months, if the event is an annual event, we will hold your contact details to let you know when it is next being held. If you are a speaker at a BioProbe Diagnostics event, we will publicly promote your involvement via Twitter, LinkedIn, media interviews, emails, and webinars. This data may continue to be processed by those platform providers after the event has ended.
In the case of our live webinar events, we record the event via teams to distribute at a later stage to attendees and to use on our website and social media platforms, for promotional and educational purposes. As an attendee your camera and microphone will be muted unless you request permission on the day to be visible and unmuted for the purpose of question-and-answer sessions. Your account username will be visible to other attendees, during the webinar, BioProbe Diagnostics cannot control this visibility. By registering for any of our events including our webinars, it is taken that you agree with these terms.
Disclosure of information to third parties
We will never disclose your personal data to third parties unless you have consented to our doing so. We will, however, disclose your personal data if we believe in good faith that we are required to disclose it in order to comply with any applicable law, a summons, a search warrant, a court, workplace relations forum, regulatory order, or other statutory requirement.
We endeavour to ensure that we have adequate security measures in place to minimise risk to your personal data. We will obtain privacy statements from all third-party processors to certify that they are in line with BioProbe Diagnostic policies.
No data will be sold, shared or distributed to any third party unless we are required by law or issued with a court order to do so.
Security
Your personal data is held on secure servers hosted by our security provider within the jurisdiction of EU area only, in accordance with our data retention schedule. The nature of the internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us via the internet. No data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Any transmission of data is therefore at your own risk. Once we receive your data, we use appropriate technical and physical security measures, including firewalls and anti-virus protection to protect your personal data, from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to. Our suppliers are also required to use appropriate data protection compliance measures. We will continue to revise policies and implement additional security features as new technologies become available.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also helps us to improve our site.
There are a number of different types of cookies. The cookie categories in use on our website are:
- Necessary – Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
- Analytics – We use Analytical cookies to understand how visitors interact with our website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic sources and how users interact with web pages. We use Google Analytics and Issuu Analytics to help us improve user’s experience on our website.
- Advertising – Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.
Your rights as an individual
As an individual you have the right to ensure your personal data is accurate, secure and only used or stored for explicit and lawful purposes. You reserve the right to:
- be informed about processing of your data – which this Privacy Statement does
- access your personal data
- object to personal data processing
- object to any direct marketing we may use– either use the ‘unsubscribe’ button on our emails or contact us directly by email at info@bioprobedx.com
- personal data portability – if and when it arises
- have your data rectified if its inaccurate
- removal/erasure (in some circumstances)
- have your data restricted or blocked from processing where appropriate
To exercise any of these rights, please email us at info@bioprobedx.com
If you are not happy with the way we have handled your data and are unable to resolve the issue with us personally, you can complain to the Data Protection Commissioner.
How long do we hold your data for?
BioProbe Diagnostics retains personal data controlled by us for as long as is considered necessary for the purpose or purposes for which it was collected except for cases where it is a legal requirement to be retained for longer periods.
There are cases where personal data will be securely archived with limited access. Archived data will be periodically reviewed ensuring that it is still relevant and not excessive.
Changes to the privacy statement
Any changes to this Privacy Statement will be posted on our website so you are always aware of how we handle your data. If at any time we need to use your Personal Data in a manner significantly different from that stated in this Website Privacy Statement, at the time of collection, we will always contact you by e-mail, and you will have a choice as to whether we use your information in a new way.
Questions
If you have any questions regarding the above statement please contact us at info@bioprobedx.com
Policy last updated: 20/06/22
