Privacy Policy
Last updated: 4 August, 2021
This Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") explains how information is collected and used by Behavidence, Inc. ("Behavidence" or "we", "us", "our"). This Privacy Policy applies to the Behavidence website at behavidence.com (the "Website"). We are committed to protecting and respecting data privacy. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.
Personal Data Processed
Contact Information
We collect and process your contact information when you send us an inquiry or when you subscribe to our mailing list. You may contact us through the contact form, on our contact mail at health@behavidence.com, or on the Website or in any of our social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn). If you send us an inquiry, we will collect your contact details such as full name, email address, and the content of your inquiry, which may include additional personal information about you. We refer to this as "Contact Information".
Mailing List
You may also subscribe to our mailing list, via the "subscribe now" button at the bottom of our website page. If you subscribe, we will only collect your email address. You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe button in the mail.
Research Registration
We collect and process your personal information when you join a research. Whenever we conduct a public-wide research, you may join the research through the designated form. If you register to a research, we collect your contact information, age, existence of diagnosis of mental health condition (in a yes/no question), your mobile device type, and whether you live in the United States. We refer to this as "Research Registration Information". You do not have a legal obligation to provide us with your Contact Information or your Research Registration Information. However, we may not be able to respond to your inquiry, to subscribe you to our mailing list, or to include you in our research, if you choose to not share this information with us.
Website Analytics
When you visit the Website, we record and collect certain information about your interaction with the Website, including the IP address from which you access the Website, time and date of access, type of browser used, language used, links clicked, and actions taken while using the Website. We refer to this data as "Website Analytics Information".
Data Controller
Behavidence is the data controller
Behavidence is the data controller of the information described in this Privacy Policy. We determine the purposes and means of processing that data as part of our Website. Our contact information is: Behavidence, Inc. 99 Wall Street #4004 New York, NY 10005 Email: health@behavidence.com
How We Process Personal Data
To respond to and handle your inquiry
We process your Contact Information to contact you about your inquiry and handle your inquiry, subscribe you to our mailing list and manage our engagement with you.
To include you in our research
We process your Research Registration Information to include you in our research.
To maintain the Website
We process the Website Analytics Information to provide, maintain and improve your user experience when accessing our Website. We also will use the Analytics Information for quality assurance and for development and enhancement of the Website. We will use the Website Analytics Information to prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our terms of use for the Website and take other actions otherwise permitted by law.
Who Processes Your Data
Service providers
We will process your Website Analytics Information with the assistance of our service providers who assist us with the internal operations of the Website. These companies are authorized to use your statistical information, which does not contain any identifying details about you, in this context only as necessary to provide these services to us and not for their own promotional purposes.
Competent authorities
If you have abused your rights to use the Website, or violated any applicable law, we will share information with competent authorities and with third parties (such as legal counsels and advisors), for the purpose of handling of the violation or breach.
Legal requirements
We will share your information if we are required to do so by a judicial, governmental or regulatory authority.
Change in structure
If the operation of our business is organized within a different framework, or through another legal structure or entity (such as due to a merger or acquisition), we will share information only as required to enable the structural change in the operation of the business.
Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are text files, comprised of small amount of data, that are saved on your computer or other device (e.g. smartphone, tablet, etc.) when you use the internet and visit various websites. The information that the cookies maintain is read by the website you visit, during the session of your visit to the website (these are called 'session' cookies), and when you return to visit it again (these are called 'persistent' cookies).
We use cookies necessary to operate the Website and for website statistics
We use cookies for a number of purposes: • Necessary — Cookies that are strictly necessary for the functioning of the Website. The Website cannot operate properly without these cookies. • Statistics — Analytics cookies that help us understand how you and other users interact with our Website by collecting data that does not directly identify you. • Marketing — Cookies that are used to enable better tailoring of online ads and marketing campaigns to you based on the websites you visited and content you viewed.
You can always delete or disable cookies
You can always delete the cookies saved on your device through the settings of your computer browser or device. You can also disable cookies for future use through the settings of your computer browser or device.
Security
We implement measures to secure your information
We implement measures to reduce the risks of damage, loss of information and unauthorized access or use of information. However, these measures do not provide absolute information security. Therefore, although efforts are made to secure personal information, it is not guaranteed, and you cannot expect that the Website will be immune from information security risks.
International Data Transfers
We will internationally transfer information in accordance with applicable data protection laws
If we transfer your personal data for processing at locations outside your jurisdiction, we will abide by data transfer rules applicable to these situations.
Withdrawal of Participation in a Research
You may withdraw your participation in the research at any time
You may withdraw your participation in the research at any time by contacting us at health@behavidence.com. If you ask to withdraw your participation, we will delete all your personal information relating to the research.
Information for Those Residing in the European Economic Area
Legal basis under EU/EEA law
The legal basis under EU/EEA law for processing your Contact Information for the purpose of responding to and handling your inquiry, is our legitimate interests in responding to your inquiry. The legal basis under EU/EEA law for processing your Research Registration Information for the purpose of including you in our research, is your consent to participate in our research. The legal basis under EU/EEA law for processing Website Analytics Information is our legitimate interest in maintaining, developing and enhancing the Website. The legal basis under EU/EEA law for processing your Website Analytics Information and Contact Information for the purpose of handling instances of abusive use of the Website is our legitimate interests in defending and enforcing against violations and breaches that are harmful to our business. The legal basis under EU/EEA law for processing your information with authorities or where we are legally required to share it, is our legitimate interests in complying with mandatory legal requirements imposed on us. The legal basis under EU/EEA law for processing your information in the event of a change in our corporate structure is our legitimate interests in our business continuity.
Your rights under GDPR
If you are in the EU/EEA you have the following rights under the GDPR: • Right to Access your personal data that we process and receive a copy of it. • Right to Rectify inaccurate personal data we have concerning you and to have incomplete personal data completed. • Right to Data Portability — to receive the personal data that you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. • Right to Object, based on your particular situation, to using your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest. • Right to Restrict the processing of your personal data if you contest the accuracy of your personal data or believe the processing is unlawful. • Right to be Forgotten — under certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to erase your personal data. If you wish to exercise any of your EU/EEA rights, please contact us at: health@behavidence.com. We reserve the right to ask for reasonable evidence to verify your identity before we provide you with information.
Right to submit a complaint
Subject to applicable law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. If you are in the EU, then according to Article 77 of the GDPR, you can lodge a complaint to the supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, place of work or place of alleged infringement of the GDPR.
Changes to This Privacy Notice
We will notify you of changes
From time to time, we may change this Privacy Policy. If we do so, we will make efforts to proactively notify you of such changes. In any event, the latest version of the Privacy Policy will always be accessible at https://www.behavidence.com/privacy-policy.
For questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at: support@behavidence.com
If at any point you wish your anonymized data to be removed from our servers please send a request to: support@behavidence.com and we will remove it immediately.