Privacy Policy
Last updated January 1st, 2023
FIAlab is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust concerning your privacy. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and share your personal information.
About our privacy policy
This privacy policy applies to our websites, apps, and other services, including programs and events, that refer or link to this privacy policy (each, a “Service”). This policy may be supplemented by additional privacy statements, terms, or notices provided to you or by the Service. The FIAlab company that owns or administers the Service, as identified therein, is the primary controller of your personal information provided to, or collected by, or for, the Service.
How we use your information
We are committed to delivering a relevant and useful experience to you. Depending on how you interact with us and the Service, we use your personal information to:
Provide, activate, and manage your access to and use of the Service;
Process and fulfill a request, order, download, subscription, or other transaction;
Offer you customized content and other personalization to make the Service more efficient for you and more relevant to your interests and geography;
Enhance and improve the Service, such as adding new content and features;
Notify you about changes, updates, and other announcements related to the Service;
Deliver targeted advertisements, promotional messages, and other information related to the Service and your interests;
Provide technical, product, and other support and help to keep the Service working, safe and secure; and/or
Identify usage trends and develop data analysis, including for research, audits, reporting, and other business operations, such as to determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, evaluate our business performance, or in other ways according to our customer agreement.
We may also use your personal information to:
Respond to your requests, inquiries, comments, or concerns;
Conduct and administer user testing and surveys as well as sweepstakes, competitions, and similar promotions;
Provide you with relevant promotional messages and other information about our products, events, and services of ours, our group companies, and third parties such as societies and sponsors;
Enhance and improve our products, events, and services and develop new ones; and/or
Comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Sharing of your information
Sharing of your information
We share your personal information in the following ways and contexts.
To process the information as necessary to provide the Service, complete a transaction, or fulfill your request or otherwise on our behalf based on our instructions and in compliance with this privacy policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We may also share your personal information with our group companies and with sponsors, joint venture partners, and other third parties, including entities for which we are acting as an agent, licensee, application host or publisher, such as societies, that wish to send you invitations, surveys, programs or information about their products and services that may be of interest to you as determined by your choices in managing your communications preferences and other settings.
The Service may let you post and share personal information, comments, messages, materials and other content. Any such information that you disclose publicly or in discussion fora in the Service may be collected and used by others, may be indexed by search engines, and might not be able to be removed. Please be careful when disclosing personal information in these public areas.
We also will disclose your personal information if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to:
meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or other legal obligation;
detect, investigate and help prevent security, fraud, or technical issues; and/or
protect the rights, property, or safety of FIAlab, our users, employees, or others;
and as part of a corporate transaction, such as a transfer of a journal or other assets to or an acquisition by or a merger with another company.
Your communications preferences
You can customize and manage your communications preferences and other settings when you register with the Service, by updating your account features and preferences, by using the “opt-in/out” or subscribe/unsubscribe mechanisms or other means provided within the communications that you receive from us or by contacting us. We reserve the right to notify you of changes or updates to the Service whenever necessary.
Data retention
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the Service and fulfill the transactions you have requested, or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, maintaining business and financial records, resolving disputes, maintaining security, detecting and preventing fraud and abuse, and enforcing our agreements.
Data security
We take precautions to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction through the use of appropriate technical and organizational measures.
Grounds for processing
When we process any personal information within the scope of certain privacy and data protection laws, we do so:
where necessary to provide the Service, fulfill a transaction or otherwise perform a contract with you or at your request prior to entering into a contract;
where necessary for our compliance with applicable law or other legal obligation;
where necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest;
where applicable, with your consent; and/or
as necessary to operate our business, protect the security of our systems, customers and users, detect or prevent fraud, or fulfill our other legitimate interests as described in the sections above, except where our interests are overridden by your privacy rights.
Where we rely on your consent to process personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, and where we rely on legitimate interests, you may have the right to object to our processing.
Changes
We will update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. If we make any material changes, we will provide notice through the Service or by other means.
Contact
If you have any questions, comments, complaints, or requests regarding this privacy policy or our processing of your information, please contact the FIAlab Data Protection Officer via mail:
Attn: Privacy Policy
FIAlab
2151 N Northlake Way Ste 100,
Seattle, WA 98103