Privacy Policy

Welcome to darwinian.com

We are committed to gaining and maintaining your trust by following a core set of privacy principles:

  • Transparency
  • Choice
  • Access
  • Security
  • Accountability

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected about you by the Darwinian.com Services. Please review this Privacy Policy carefully. By using any of the Darwinian.com Services, you acknowledge the data collection practices and purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Types of information we collect

When you use Darwinian.com Services, we collect a few different types, or “categories,” of information. This information generally falls within two broad categories:

  • The information you provide to us, and
  • The information we collect automatically when you use our services.

We describe this information, and the primary purpose for which it is used, below. The full description of how we use the personal information we collect is also provided below.

Information you provide to us

Darwinian.com Services collects information you provide to us, including:

  • Registration information. When you register for certain services, complete any application form, or enter contests or competitions, we sometimes ask you for your name, email address, postal address, demographic information, and any preferences that you may have (e.g., which newsletters you would like to receive). We use this to provide access to certain Darwinian.com Services, personalize them, and remember your preferences.
  • Correspondence you send us. When you contact us directly by calling our offices or providing feedback, comments or suggestions on programs and other activities, we may collect the information you provide as part of your correspondence to us. We use this to provide services to you and to learn about your interests and concerns.
  • Information you provide about others. Sometimes, you may provide information about others — for example, to refer a friend to certain Darwinian.com Services. We use this to make the Darwinian.com Services available to the people you refer.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain our website
  • Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
  • Send you emails
  • Improve, personalize, and expand our website
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
  • Find and prevent fraud.

Log Files

Darwinian Ventures follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Darwinian Ventures uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

For more detailed information on how Darwinian Ventures uses cookies, refer to our Cookie Policy.

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Darwinian Ventures.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Darwinian Ventures, which are sent directly to users’ browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that Darwinian Ventures has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

Darwinian Ventures’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

CCPA Privacy Rights (“Do Not Sell My Personal Information”)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

  • Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
  • Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
  • Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at smehra (at) darwinian.com.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

  • The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
  • The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
  • The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at smehra (at) darwinian.com.

Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Darwinian Ventures does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

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