NeuroSig Privacy Policy

NeuroSig.com’s “NeuroSig.com will be hereinafter referred to as neurosig.COM” PRIVACY POLICY applies to you (the ”User,” “Your,” and ”You”) as You use [NEUROSIG].COM (“neurosig.COM,” “We,” Us,” and ”Our”).    This Privacy Policy applies to the domain neurosig.com and all of the subdomains, pages, posts, plugins, applets, cookies, etc. contained within the neurosig.com domain.

We respect privacy and work hard to bring You an informative, user-friendly, and privacy protecting Web NEUROSIG.  This Privacy Policy is in place to explain how we collect information and use to provide you with the best service and experience possible.

By navigating to and using neurosig.com’s Web NEUROSIG services (the “Services”), You agree to this Privacy Policy. We ask You do not use our Services if You do not agree to this Privacy Policy.

How We Collect Information On Our Websites

NeuroSig obtains personal data from you including your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, and may include payment card information. We collect this information when you:

  • Register for an NeuroSig account, application programming interface (API) content access, or any NeuroSig email newsletter (if NeuroSig provides a newsletter).
  • NeuroSig may pass a beret token and authorization header.
  • Contact us for information or ask a question.
  • Otherwise volunteer information to us or respond to a request for information through any of our Services.

What Information is Collected By Our Websites

  1. GENERAL. neurosig.com collects two basic types of information through Our Services. We gather personally identifiable information, which will identify an individual (“Personal Information”) and non-personally identifiable information, which includes aggregated information, demographic information, IP addresses and any other information that does not reveal a person’s specific identity (“Non-Personal Information”).
    1. Personal Information. It is not necessary to provide Personal Information to use the site. Although, You will need to provide certain Personal Information to use various Services on Our Web site. For example, when you sign up with neurosig.com, You create a personal account, tied directly to Your personal email address and Your name, used for uploading, storing, and identifying Your account. You may wish to input your billing information. In order to do so, We will need verification and payment information, such as Your billing address, your billing name, a credit card number with its expiration date, paypal account information, or other identifying information. Email invitations and/or correspondence may be made from Our Web site as well. As such, individuals You invite and/or correspond with may be added to Your account for easy access at a later date.
    2. Non-Personal Information. Upon visiting and interacting with neurosig.com and Our Services, We may collect and record Non-Personal Information, including:
      1. Internet Protocol (“IP”) address – IP addresses may be collected so We may better serve You by understanding from where our visitors are originating. This is a numeric code and address which enables identification of a given computer connected to the Internet. This code can often identify the country, state and city from which Your computer is connecting to the Internet. Your IP address transmits whenever You communicate online or surf the Web so that the content at which You are looking and the people You are communicating with can find Your computer on the network.
      2. Browser type, version, and operating system – Knowing the browsers (e.g Firefox 3.5.3 or Internet Explorer 7) and operating systems (e.g. Mac OS X, Opera, Safari, Windows Vista) used by Our visitors helps Us optimize the display and delivery of Our site for visitors accessing it from differing software platforms.
      3. Screen Size – Knowledge of this allows Us to optimize the display and delivery of Our site for visitors.
      4. Technologies supported by Your browser for software such as Java, Adobe Flash, Adobe Director, and Adobe PDF, and the audio formats supported by Your browser for RealPlayer, QuickTime, and Windows Media Player – Knowing the formats supported by visitors’ browsers helps Us optimize the content on Our site for visitors accessing it with different browser configurations.
      5. URL of the page that directed you to Our site – If you arrive at Our Web site through a link on another Web site – a blog, newspaper article, or search engine, for example – our Web server will record the address of the Web page that referred You to our site. If You arrive at our Web site by clicking on a search result returned by a search engine, Our server will record the search terms that You used.
      6. Whether You have bookmarked our Web site on Your Web browser.
      7. The Web pages within Our site that you visit, the Web page You visit first on Our site (the entry page), and the Web page You visit last on Our site (the exit page).
      8. Bandwidth used – The total number of bytes downloaded when You browse our site.
      9. Amount of time You spend during a visit to our site.
      10. Time and date of Your site visit.

neurosig.com may use first-party cookies, as well as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs and similar technologies in order to deliver a better service and user-friendly experience. Cookies are small files that Web servers place on a user’s hard drive. They can serve several functions such as allowing the Web site to identify You as a previous visitor each time you access a site; tracking what information You view at a site; and they can be used to help a Web site tailor screens for each customer’s preference. If You are concerned about the potential use of the information gathered from Your computer by cookies, You can set your browser to prompt You before it accepts a cookie. Most Internet browsers have settings that let You identify and/or reject cookies, some allow for plug-ins that assist with Your concerns.

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website Google Analytics uses to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html. See also http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html. We also may use additional third-party Web site analytics tools as We determine a need to better serve You.

Categories of Data Obtained Directly from You

  • Register for an NeuroSig account, application programming interface (API) content access, or any NPR email newsletter.
  • Email, text or otherwise share a story from any of the Services.
  • Contact us for information or ask a question.
  • Post, upload, or otherwise submit a comment, story idea, essay, photo, or other content (“User Materials”) to NPR.
  • Register for an NPR tour or event or any contest we sponsor.
  • Otherwise volunteer information to us or respond to a request for information through any of our Services.
  • If you choose to participate in a survey, we may ask you to provide your date of birth, gender, education level, information about your employment, income level and other information.

Information Obtained Automatically Through Technology

  • Internet Protocol Address (IP address)
  • The domain name of your Internet Service Provider
  • The website, application, platform or service you visited before and after visiting our Services.
  • Information about your computer or mobile device, and their browser, operating system, settings and software.
  • Unique device identifiers on your mobile device, including as applicable the Apple or Google advertising identifiers.
  • Your approximate geographic location (derived from requested header information, such as your IP address) and/or more precise location information if you have given NeuroSig consent to receive this information for an NeuroSig application on your mobile device.
  • The dates, times, duration and frequency of your interactions with our Services, search terms, the media files you download, interact with or share, favorites you select, and your navigation path through our Services.
  • Information about your interactions with our email messages.
  • Any errors you encountered during your use of the Services.

How Do We Use The Information We Collect

  • Manage, administer, promote, analyze and improve the Services and our communications, including measuring and analyzing user traffic and usage patterns.
  • Respond to your questions or messages and fulfill your requests for services.
  • Recognize you as a returning user as you access our Services using different computers, devices and browsers and to save and “remember” your registration information, settings and preferences for later visits.
  • Send you email newsletters and marketing, fundraising, membership and other communications.
  • To understand whether and when you read our email messages and click on links in those messages.
  • To prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, comply with applicable laws, and enforce our Terms of Use and other legal rights.
  • We also may use the information collected from you in other ways, and for other purposes, that are described to you at the point of collection or for which we otherwise have obtained your consent.

Disclosure of Personal Information

  1. THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS. We share Personal Information, as necessary, with carefully screened third-party service providers to provide You the services requested. For example, credit card authorization companies. Advertisers on Our Web site use their own software on Our site. The advertiser’s software may use cookies or other tracking procedures to offer the most relevant product to You – if applicable.
  2. THIRD PARTY COMMUNICATIONS. neurosig.com also may share Personal Information with third parties for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes. Such third parties to whom we transfer Personal Information for direct marketing purposes will handle, store, retain, use, share and access Personal Information in accordance with their own privacy policies. It is your responsibility to carefully review such terms and conditions and privacy policies, and neurosig.com disclaims any and all liability relating thereto. If You would prefer that we do not share your Personal Information with such third parties for their direct marketing purposes, you may submit an opt-out request as described in the Opt-Out section below.
  3. LAW AND HARM. We may disclose your information if We believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or legal request, as well as to protect other’s safety. We may also disclose Your information to address fraud, security or technical issues, as well as to protect neurosig.com’s rights or property.
  4. BUSINESS TRANSFER. In the event that neurosig.com is involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. The promises in this privacy policy will apply to your information as transferred to the new entity.
  5. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. You may provide Us with additional information to make public, such as biographies, or your geographic location. From time-to-time You may also provide other personal information, as Our new Services may offer.

RETENTION
Your personal data is retained no longer than is reasonably necessary to perform the processing described in this Notice and in case of any legal claims or complaints, or as required by law.

YOUR RIGHTS
Subject to exemptions under applicable law (which may include, depending on the circumstances, U.S. law protecting the rights to free speech and free press or EU law protecting the rights to freedom of expression or information, including processing for journalistic purposes), you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

  • To request a copy of your personal data which NeuroSig holds;
  • To request that NeuroSig provide you access to and/or rectify personal data that is inaccurate or out of date;
  • To request erasure of your personal data where it is no longer necessary for NeuroSig to retain it;
  • If you have consented to processing, the right to withdraw consent at any time;
  • To request that the data controller provide you with your personal data and where possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller, where applicable. This right of portability only applies where the processing is based on consent or is necessary for the performance of a contract and if NeuroSig processes the data by automated means;
  • To request a restriction on further processing where applicable;
  • The right to object to processing if the processing is based on legitimate interest, is for direct marketing, or is for scientific/historical research and statistics;
  • To lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

You may exercise these rights by contacting NeuroSig at admin@neurosig.com, providing the email address you used to register with NeuroSig, and stating your specific request in writing. NeuroSig reserves the right to verify your identity and confirm your right to the information. The following options are also available:

  • To withdraw consent for collection of precise device location, you may access the privacy settings of your mobile device and/or the settings of any NeuroSig application.
  • To withdraw consent to marketing emails or email newsletters, click the “unsubscribe” link on the email. You may also change your newsletter preferences by signing into your account or by contacting us. However, even if you opt out of receiving such communications, we retain the right to send you non-marketing communications (such as information about changes to our Terms of Use or this Notice).
  • To cancel your NeuroSig account, or correct or update your registration information, you may sign in to your account or contact us using the information below.
  • To prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, click here for the Google Universal Analytics opt-out browser add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. To learn more about how Google uses data, visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

Updating Your Personal Information

Please update Your account information from time to time. In order to help ensure privacy and prevent negative consequences, You may want to change your password. If You lose or forget your password, either Contact Us or use the online forms for retrieval.

Managing Personal Information

If you do not consent to the collection, use or sharing of information as described in the Privacy Policy, please do not use the NeuroSig or use the contact us button. By using the NeuroSig Services or providing us with information through the NeuroSig Services, you are “opting in” to the collection, use and sharing of that information as described in the Privacy Policy.

If you provide registration information to us, you can sign in to your NeuroSig account or contact us to update or correct that information at any time.

  • If you do not want us to share your name, contact or other information, you can contact us.
  • You can stop the delivery of marketing emails or email newsletters from NeuroSig by following the unsubscribe instructions in any such email you receive. You also can sign in to your NeuroSig account to manage your NeuroSig email newsletter subscriptions or contact us.
  • You have choices about the collection and use of your information by third parties for the display of certain personalized or “interest-based” online sponsorship credits, as described in our section on interest-based messages in the “Your Choices” section of the Privacy Policy.
  • If you grant your consent to our collection of your precise mobile device location information, you can revoke your consent at any time by using the privacy settings of your device and/or the settings of the applicable NeuroSig mobile application.
  • You have the following choices to update, correct and limit the collection and use of information gathered through our Services.

Security

No data transmission over the Internet or data storage system can be 100% protected and secure. We strive to have reasonable security measures in place to help protect against misuse, alteration, loss or other negative consequence of information under our control. We in no way warrant the security of any information You transmit to Us through or in connection with Our Services or stored by Us. You understand, acknowledge and agree that any information You transmit through Our Services or upload for storage in connection with Our Services, is done so at Your own risk. Please immediately contact us if You believe any transmission with Us is compromised. We do use a SSL certificate in order to protect personal information. Also, data and IP addresses are tracked to identify any unpermitted or unauthorized access into this Website. Otherwise, NeuroSig employs physical, technical and organizational safeguards to ensure an appropriate level of security for personal data, taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and security for the rights and freedoms of natural persons.

Protecting The Privacy of Children

Our Services are not directed to people under 13. If you become aware that Your child has provided us with personal information without Your consent, please contact us at info@NeuroSig.com. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s contact information. If You are under 13, do not register with neurosig.com. If you are between the ages of 13 and 18, you must obtain permission from your parent or guardian before registering for the NeuroSig Services or otherwise sending any contact or other information to NeuroSig.

Third Party Sites

The Services may contain links to third party websites that are not under Our control. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the contents of any linked site, or any link contained in any linked site. We provide other site’s links only as a convenience. The inclusion of a link on Our site does not imply endorsement of the linked site by Us. If You provide any Personal Information through any such third party website, Your transaction will occur on such third party’s website and not neurosig.com and the Personal Information You provide will be collected by and controlled by the privacy policy of that third party. You should familiarize Yourself with the privacy policies and practices of any such third parties. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY DOES NOT ADDRESS THE PRIVACY OR INFORMATION PRACTICES OF ANY THIRD PARTIES.

EMAIL FROM WEB SITE: You may email articles from our site to friends and family. Emailing these articles to Your friends will not result in cookies being placed on your computer.

Our Services also make use of third-party analytics, cookie data collection and linking services (collectively “Analytics Services”), including Google Universal Analytics, Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting and DoubleClick for Publishers. These Analytics Services may use cookies, pixel tags, and other tracking and storage technologies to collect or receive information (not including your name or the email address you register with NEUROSIG) from our Services and elsewhere on the Internet and use that information to analyze and measure our audience and target and evaluate the effectiveness of sponsorship credits. For example, NeuroSig and Analytics Services may use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve sponsorship credits based on your past interactions with our Services and other websites or services. In addition, we may use analytics data, including but not limited to, geographic, demographic, and interest reporting information to recognize and understand user preferences, make improvements, and for other operational purposes. Each Analytics Service’s ability to use and share analytics information is restricted by such Analytics Service’s terms of use and privacy policy. To learn more about how Google uses data, visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. For a full list of Analytics Services, please contact us.

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Changes/Notification

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern Our use of Your information and will always be at https://neurosig.com/privacy. If we make a substantial changes to this Privacy Policy, We will post a large notification on Our homepage and include a notice to a mailing list about Our Privacy Policy.

Jurisdictional Issues

Those who choose to access the Services do so on their own initiative and at their own risk, and are responsible for complying with all local laws, rules and regulations. We may limit the Services’ availability, in whole or in part, to any person, geographic area or jurisdiction We choose, at any time and in Our sole discretion.

Our Services are controlled and operated within the United States. Any information we collect may be transferred to, and processed, stored, and accessed by, us and our service providers in the United States and in other jurisdictions where we or our service providers operate. These jurisdictions may have data privacy laws that may not be as protective as those of your home jurisdiction, and courts and other authorities may, in certain circumstances, be entitled to access information about you subject to such data privacy laws. By using the NeuroSig Services, you agree to this transfer, processing, storage, and access of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. Because NeuroSig operates the Services from the US, your personal data may be transferred to the US and/or to countries or territories outside the EEA or Switzerland not recognized by the European Commission as ensuring an adequate level of protection pursuant to the GDPR. Where required, data transfers will be made subject to the terms of the applicable EU Standard Contractual Clauses or with your consent. NeuroSig will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that personal data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Notice in respect of such transfer.

Sharing

NeuroSig does not intend to nor does NeuroSig currently share any of Your data with any third party for purposes other than the usual function of the Website (use of plugins, separate data servers, WordPress, hosting, domain registration, etc.). NeuroSig relies on legitimate interest to process data for the following purposes:

  • Data analytics
  • Managing user accounts
  • Operating, modifying and improving the Services
  • Identifying usage trends
  • Customizing content and user experience
  • Web hosting
  • Direct marketing
  • Fraud prevention
  • Network and information systems security
  • To determine the effectiveness of promotional campaigns and sponsorship messaging
  • To serve promotional and sponsorship messages based on user behavior and preferences.
  • Responding to user questions and requests for information
  • Comply with laws and regulations and enforce NEUROSIG’s Terms of Use and other legal rights.

For California Residents – Your California Privacy Rights

California residents can request and obtain from us once a year and free of charge a list of all third parties to which NeuroSig has disclosed certain information during the preceding calendar year for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. While this is usually not a business practice of NeuroSig, NeuroSig will respond with accurate information if requested. If you are a California resident and want such a list, please contact us. For all requests, you must put the statement “Your California Privacy Rights” in the message field of your request, as well as your name, street address, city, state, and zip code. Please note that we will not accept these requests by telephone, mail or fax, and we are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or that do not have complete information.

NOTICE TO EU RESIDENTS

Our handling of information about EU residents is governed by the NEUROSIG Privacy Notice for EU Residents, effective May 25, 2018.

Further Processing    

If NeuroSig plans to use personal data for a new purpose, it will update this Notice and communicate the changes to individuals before starting any new processing.

Contacting neurosig.com

If You have concerns, comments or want to know what personal information we have about You, please contact Us via Our [feedbacks] for a disclose of the information We have. You have the right to correct or delete information We may have concerning you. Contact the Feedback Page above. Our email address is [admin@neurosig.com] if that better suits You.