Privacy Policy
Introduction
Biome Professionals is an online directory for professionals in medical and healthcare communications. People use our Services to advertise their services and be found for business opportunities. Our Privacy Policy applies to any Member or Visitor to our Services. Our registered users (“Members”) share their professional identities and find business and career opportunities.
Services
This Privacy Policy applies to your use of biomeprofessionals.com.
Data Controllers and Contracting Parties
Biome Professionals will be the controller of your personal data provided to, or collected by or for, or processed in connection with our Services; you are entering into the User Agreement with Biome Professionals. As a Member of our Services, the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to this Privacy Policy and updates.
Change
Biome Professionals (“we” or “us”) can modify this Privacy Policy, and if we make material changes to it, we will provide notice through our Services, or by other means. If you object to any changes, you may close your account. You acknowledge that your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to this Privacy Policy means that the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to the updated Privacy Policy.
1. Data We Collect
1.1 Data You Provide To Us
Registration
To create an account you need to provide data including your name, email address and/or mobile number, and a password. If you wish to create a Premium Profile, you will need to provide payment (e.g., credit card) and billing information to complete the subscription.
Profile
You have choices about the information to include on your profile, such as your qualifications, work experience, skills, photo, and city and country. The more information you include in your profile will better advertise your services. Please do not add personal data to your profile that you would not want to be publicly available.
1.2 Service Use
We use log-ins, cookies, and internet protocol (“IP”) addresses to identify you and log your use.
2. How We Use Your Data
2.1 Services
Stay Connected
Our Services allow professionals in medical communications to stay in touch and up to date with other professionals and find business opportunities.
2.2 Premium Services
Our Premium services allow paying professionals to appear higher in searches. Costs of Premium services are provided on the website.
2.3 Communications
We will contact you through email, mobile phone, or notices posted on our website regarding information, new services, or the availability of our Services, security, or other service-related issues. We may also send messages about how to use the Services, network updates, reminders, and promotional messages from us. Please be aware that you cannot opt-out of receiving service messages from us, including security and legal notices.
2.4 Advertising
We may allow ads on our Services. You cannot opt-out of seeing other ads on the website.
Info to Ad Providers
If you view or click on an ad on our site, the ad provider will get a signal that someone visited the page that displayed the ad, and they may through the use of mechanisms such as cookies determine it is you. Advertising partners can associate personal data collected by the advertiser directly from you with our cookies and similar technologies. In such instances, we seek to require such advertising partners to obtain your explicit, opt-in consent before doing so.
2.5 Marketing
We use data and content about Members for communications promoting membership and network growth and our Services.
2.6 Customer Support
We use the data to investigate, respond to and resolve complaints and Service issues.
3. How We Share Information
3.1 Our Services
Profile
Your profile is fully visible to all Members and customers of our Services.
3.2 Service Providers
We use others to help us provide our Services (e.g., maintenance, analysis, subscription payments, marketing, and development). They will have access to your information as reasonably necessary to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes.
3.3 Legal Disclosures
We may need to share your data when we believe it’s required by law or to help protect the rights and safety of you, us or others.
3.4 Change in Control or Sale
We can also share your personal data as part of a sale, merger or change in control, or in preparation for any of these events. Any other entity which buys us or part of our business will have the right to continue to use your data, but only in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy unless you agree otherwise.
4. Your Choices & Obligations
4.1 Data Retention
We retain your personal data while your account is in existence or as needed to provide you Services. Even if you only use our Services every few years, we will retain your information and keep your profile open until you decide to close your account. For Premium subscribers, not renewing your subscription does not mean that your account will be closed. Your account will be inactive and remain invisible in searches until your subscription is renewed.
4.2 Rights to Access and Control Your Personal Data
For personal data that we have about you:
- Delete Data: You can ask us to erase or delete all or some of your personal data (e.g., if it is no longer necessary to provide Services to you).
- Change or Correct Data: You can edit some of your personal data through your account. You can also ask us to change, update or fix your data in certain cases, particularly if it’s inaccurate.
- Object to, or Limit or Restrict, Use of Data: You can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal data (e.g., if we have no legal right to keep using it) or to limit our use of it (e.g., if your personal data is inaccurate or unlawfully held).
- Right to Access and/or Take Your Data: You can ask us for a copy of your personal data and can ask for a copy of personal data you provided in machine readable form.
You may contact us using the contact information below, and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws.
4.3 Account Closure
If you choose to close your account, your personal data will generally stop being visible to others on our Services within 24 hours. We generally delete closed account information within 30 days of account closure, except as noted below. We retain your personal data even after you have closed your account if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our User Agreement, or fulfill your request to “unsubscribe” from further messages from us. We will retain de-personalized information after your account has been closed.
5. Other Important Information
5.1. Security
We implement security safeguards designed to protect your data, such as HTTPS. However, we cannot warrant the security of any information that you send us. There is no guarantee that data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
5.2. Contact Information
If you have questions or complaints regarding this Policy, please first us at contact@biomeprofessionals.com.
