A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your device by a web server, which we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. Our Website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website. This helps us to provide you with a better experience when you browse our Website and allows us to improve the Website. Cookies also help us to improve our Service and to deliver many of the functions that make your browser experience more user-friendly.
We use the following types of cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services
Analytical or performance cookies
These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily and to see how effective and relevant advertising on our Website is.
Functionality cookies
These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or location) and remember if we have already asked you for feedback or to complete a survey.
Targeting cookies
These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
You can find a list of first party cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below.
Cookie
Domain
Description
Duration
Type
_lfa
.avectas.com
This cookie is set by the provider Leadfeeder to identify the IP address of devices visiting the website, in order to retarget multiple users routing from the same IP address.
1 year
Necessary
_GRECAPTCHA
www.google.com
Google Recaptcha service sets this cookie to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks.
5 months 27 days
Necessary
Please note that a number of third parties may also use cookies. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies help us to improve our Service and to deliver many of the functions that make your browser experience more user-friendly.
You can find a list of third party cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below.
Cookie
Domain
Description
Duration
Type
_gid
.avectas.com
Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.
1 day
Analytics
_gat_UA-*
.avectas.com
Google Analytics sets this cookie for user behaviour tracking.
1 minute
Analytics
_ga_*
.avectas.com
Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.
1 year 1 month 4 days
Analytics
_ga
.avectas.com
Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors.
1 year 1 month 4 days
Analytics
The ‘Help’ menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. You can also disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as flash cookies, by changing the add-ons settings or visiting the website of its manufacturer.
Further information about browser privacy settings, and cookies and how to disable them can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org or www.ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/online/cookies. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of our Service, Website or other related websites which you visit/use.
We may contact you (i) for administration reasons related to the Service (e.g. to provide you with password reminders or to notify you that a particular service, activity or online content has been suspended for maintenance, or in response to a question that you ask us); (ii) to provide you with information about our Service, activities or online content, including sending e-newsletters or similar correspondence and updates or responding to any contact you have made with us, e.g. on our Website, by email or via the ‘How To Contact Us’ below; and (iii) for direct marketing purposes.
As a data subject, you have the following rights under Data Protection Laws and we, as controller in respect of Your Personal Data, will comply with such rights in respect of Your Personal Data. These rights are explained in more detail below, but if you have any comments, concerns or complaints about our use of Your Personal Data, please contact us (see ‘How to Contact Us’ below). We will respond to any rights that you exercise within one month of receiving your request, unless the request is particularly complex, in which case we will respond within three months (we will inform you within the first month if it will take longer than one month for us to respond).
Right
Further Information
Right of Access (Article 15 GDPR)
You have the right to request a copy of Your Personal Data. Requests for Your Personal Data must be made to us (see ‘How to Contact Us’ below) specifying what Personal Data you need access to, and a copy of such request may be kept by us for our legitimate purposes in managing the Service. To help us find the information easily, please give us as much information as possible about the type of information you would like to see. If, to comply with your request, we would have to disclose information relating to or identifying another person, we may need to obtain the consent of that person, if possible. If we cannot obtain consent, we may need to withhold that information or edit the data to remove the identity of that person, if possible.
We are also entitled to refuse a data access request from you where (i) such request is manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of its repetitive character (in this case, if we decide to provide you with the Personal Data requested, we may charge you a reasonable fee to account for administrative costs of doing so); or (ii) we are entitled to do so pursuant to Data Protection Laws.
For security reasons, we will take reasonable steps to confirm your identity before providing you with any Personal Data we may hold about you.
Right of Rectification (Article 16 GDPR)
You have the right to request that we amend any inaccurate or incomplete Personal Data that we have about you. If you would like to do this, please (i) email or write to us (see ‘How to Contact Us’ below); (ii) let us have enough information to identify you (e.g. name, registration details); and (iii) let us know the information that is incorrect and what it should be replaced with.
If we are required to update Your Personal Data, we will inform recipients to whom that Personal Data have been disclosed (if any), unless this proves impossible or has a disproportionate effort.
It is your responsibility that all of the Personal Data provided to us is accurate and complete. If any information you have given us changes, please let us know as soon as possible (see ‘How to Contact Us’ below).
Right to Object (Article 21 GDPR)
You have the right to ask us to stop using your Personal Data, and we will comply unless there is a legal basis for us to continue using it, which we will explain to you.
Right to Erasure (Article 17 GDPR)
You can ask us to erase Your Personal Data (i) where we do not need Your Personal Data in order to process it for the purposes set out in this Policy; (ii) if you had given us consent to process Your Personal Data, you withdraw that consent and we cannot otherwise legally process Your Personal Data; (iii) you object to our processing and we do not have any legal basis for continuing to process Your Personal Data; (iv) Your Personal Data has been processed unlawfully or have not been erased when it should have been; or (v) the Personal Data have to be erased to comply with law.
We may continue to process Your Personal Data in certain circumstances in accordance with Data Protection Laws. Where you have requested the erasure of Your Personal Data, we will inform recipients to whom that Personal Data has been disclosed, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. We will also inform you about those recipients if you request it.
Right to Restriction of Processing (Article 18 GDPR)
You may request that we stop processing Your Personal Data temporarily if (i) you do not think that Your Personal Data is accurate (but we may start processing again once we have checked and confirmed that it is accurate); (ii) the processing is unlawful but you do not want us to erase Your Personal Data; (iii) we no longer need the Personal Data for our processing; or (iv) you have objected to processing because you believe that your interests should override the basis upon which we process Your Personal Data.
If you exercise your right to restrict us from processing Your Personal Data, we will continue to process the Personal Data if: (i) you consent to such processing; (ii) the processing is necessary for the exercise or defence of legal claims; (iii) the processing is necessary for the protection of the rights of other individuals or legal persons; or (iv) the processing is necessary for public interest reasons.
Right to Data Portability (Article 20 GDPR)
You may ask for an electronic copy of Your Personal Data that you have provided to us and which we hold electronically, or for us to provide this directly to another party. This right only applies to Personal Data that you have provided to us – it does not extend to data generated by us. In addition, the right to data portability also only applies where (i) the processing is based on your consent or for the performance of a contract; and (ii) the processing is carried out by automated means.
If you exercise your right to restrict us from processing Your Personal Data, we will continue to process the Personal Data if: (i) you consent to such processing; (ii) the processing is necessary for the exercise or defence of legal claims; (iii) the processing is necessary for the protection of the rights of other individuals or legal persons; or (iv) the processing is necessary for public interest reasons.
Right to be informed
You have the right to clear, transparent and easily understandable information about your rights and about how we use Your Personal Data. We use this Policy to inform you of your rights.
Right to Withdraw Consent
Where processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time with future effect by contacting us. However, if you do withdraw your consent we may not be able to continue to provide the service we offer to you.
Right to ask us to stop contacting you with direct marketing
We have a legitimate interest to send you electronic communications in connection with the Service and related matters (which may include but shall not be limited to newsletters, announcement of new features etc. and which may also appear on social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or Instagram). We may also ask you for your consent to send you direct marketing from time to time. We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
ou can ask us to stop contacting you for direct marketing purposes. If you would like to do this, please (i) click on ‘unsubscribe’ on an email; (ii) respond ‘stop’ on an SMS to a number notified to you; or(iii) send an email via ‘How to Contact Us’ below.
We will provide you with information on action taken on a request to stop direct marketing – this may be in the form of a response email confirming that you have ‘unsubscribed’.
Rights in relation to automated decision making
We do not attempt to collect further data without user consent that enables personally identifiable profiling of our users.
Right to Complain to the DPC
If you do not think that we have processed Your Personal Data in accordance with this Policy, please contact us in the first instance (see ‘How to Contact Us’ below). If you are not satisfied, you can complain to the DPC or exercise any of your other rights pursuant to Data Protection Laws. Information about how to do this is available on the DPC website at https://www.dataprotection.ie.
We will not share Your Personal Data without your consent or unless required by law (except as set out in this Policy). If our Business is acquired or merged with another company, Your Personal Data may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products and Services to you. If we become involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some of all of its assets, Your Personal Data will not be transferred to any third party unless there are adequate safeguards in place with the recipient in respect of the security of Your Personal Data.
We restrict access to Your Personal Data to employees, contractors, and agents who need such access in order to operate, develop, or improve our Service. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination, civil litigation and/or criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations. We may also share Your Personal Data with our third party suppliers who assist us in the provision of the Service (subject to having appropriate contracts in place with such third parties).
We often advertise webinars that might be of interest to you on our Website and they are usually hosted by third parties in partnership with Avectas. In order to attend the webinar, you will be requested to provide some basic information such as your name and email address that will be shared with the relevant webinar host. Following the webinar, with your consent, we may send you or the webinar host may send you information that is related to the webinar event that you attended. You will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from these communications by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link within the communication.
We use a third-party service provider, Hubspot to deliver our newsletter to subscribers. Where you sign-up to our mailing list on our Website, Hubspot will have access to your email address for the purposes of sending you our newsletter.
In order to download resources or material from our Website, you will be requested to provide certain Personal Data and, with your consent, we may share this Personal Data with our marketing partners who may contact you about events in the life sciences industry that may be of interest to you. You will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from any of these third-party marketing communications by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link within the communication.
Your Personal Data may be disclosed to a third party if we are required to do so because of an applicable law, court order or governmental regulation, or if such disclosure is otherwise necessary in support of any criminal or other legal investigation or proceeding in Ireland or abroad.
Your Personal Data may be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us, another corporate entity within our group, or any of our suppliers. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your Personal Data is treated securely and to an acceptable EU standard. The safeguards in place with regard to the transfer of Your Personal Data to third countries shall include (but shall not be limited to) reliance by us on a decision of the European Commission confirming an adequate level of data protection in the respective third country, the entry by us into appropriate contracts with third parties incorporating standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission where required or reliance other appropriate safeguards and the carrying out of risk assessments and adoption of supplementary and/or mitigating measures to ensure compliance with Data Protection Laws.
This Policy applies to Websites and Services that are owned and operated by us. We do not exercise control over the sites/applications that may be linked from the Service. You may see ‘social buttons’ during your use of the Website, including but not limited to Twitter and LinkedIn which enable you to share or bookmark certain web pages. These websites and social platforms have their own cookies and privacy practices, which are controlled by them. These other sites/applications may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you. You acknowledge that the Service may enable or assist you to access the website content of, correspond with, and purchase goods and services from, third parties via third-party websites and that you do so solely at your own risk.
We make no representation or commitment and shall have no liability or obligation whatsoever in relation to the content or use of, or correspondence with, any such third-party website, or any transactions completed, and any contract entered into by you, with any such third party and the use by any such third-party of Your Personal Data. We do not endorse or approve any third-party website nor the content of any of the third-party website made available via the Service. We encourage you to carefully familiarize yourself with the terms of use and privacy policies applicable to any websites and/or services operated by third parties. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third parties.
We do our utmost to protect user privacy through the appropriate use of security technology. We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risks that are presented by the processing of Your Personal Data. In particular, we consider the risks presented by accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to Your Personal Data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed.
We restrict access to Your Personal Data to employees, contractors and agents who need to know Your Personal Data in order to operate, develop or improve the Services. We ensure that we have appropriate physical and technological security measures to protect your information and we ensure that when we outsource any processes that the service provider has appropriate security measures in place. However, our Website may contain hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect Your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of any data transmitted to us and any such transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. To the extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for any delays, delivery failures, or any other loss or damage resulting from (i) the transfer of data over communications networks and facilities, including the internet, or (ii) any delay or delivery failure on the part of any other service provider not contracted by us, and you acknowledge that our Service may be subject to limitations, delays and other problems inherent in the use of such communications facilities. You will appreciate that we cannot guarantee the absolute prevention of cyber-attacks such as hacking, spyware and viruses. Accordingly, you will not hold us liable for any unauthorized disclosure, loss or destruction of Your Personal Data arising from such risks.
All information you provide to us is stored on our (or contracted third party) secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access any part of our Service, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with any person not authorised to use the Service.
Your Personal Data will be kept and stored for such period of time as we deem necessary taking into account the purpose for which it was collected in the first instance. This may include retaining Your Personal Data as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, support business operations, and continue to develop and improve our Service.
Where we retain information for our Service improvement and development, we take steps to eliminate information that directly identifies you, and we only use the information to uncover collective insights about the use of our Service, not to specifically analyse personal characteristics about you.
We may change or update our Policy from time to time and at our sole discretion. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on the top of this Policy. If you do not agree to these changes, please do not continue to use the Service or Website. If material changes are made to the Policy, we will notify you by placing a prominent notice on our Website or by sending you a notification in relation to this.
If you need to contact us with regard to any of your rights as set out in this Policy, all such requests should be made in writing by email to dpo@avectas.com