microbiology specialists inc.
Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our site Microbiologyspecialists.com

By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age.

Microbiology Specialists Inc. is the data controller and we are responsible for your personal data.

Contact Details:

Our full details are:

Microbiology Specialists Inc.

8275 El Rio Street, Suite 110

Houston Texas, 77054

 

It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date.  Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us at msi@microbiologyspecialists.com

 

2. What Data Do We Collect About You, For What Purpose and On What Ground We Process It

Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual.  It does not include anonymized data.

We may process the following categories of personal data about you:

  • Communication Data that includes any communication that you sent to us whether that be through the contact form on our website, through email, text, social media messaging, social media or any other communication that you send us. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping and for the establishment, pursuance of defense of legal claims.  Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us, to keep records and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.
  • Customer Data that includes data relating to any purchases of goods and/or services such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address email address, phone number, contact details, purchase details and your card details. We process this data to supply the goods, and/or services you have purchased and to keep records of such transactions.  Our lawful ground for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your request to enter into such a contract.
  • User data that includes data about how you use our website and any online services together with any data that you post for publication on our website or through other online services. We process this data to operate our website and ensure relevant content is provided to you, to ensure the security of our website, to maintain back-ups of our website and/or databases and to enable publication and administration of our website, other online services and business.  Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business.
  • Technical data that include data about your use of our website and online services such as your IP address, your login data, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on our website, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our website, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. The source of this data is from our analytics tracking system.  We process this data to analyze your use of our website and other online services, to administer and protect our business and website, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and to understand the effectiveness of our advertising.  Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business and to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.
  • Marketing data that includes data about your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences. We process this data to enable you to partake in our promotions such as competitions, prize draws, and free giveaways, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of this advertising.  Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.
  • We may use Customer Data, User Data, Technical Data and Marketing Data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you (including Facebook adverts or other display advertisements) and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve you. Our lawful ground of this processing is legitimate interests which is to grow our business.  We may also use such data to send other marketing communications to you.  Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).

Sensitive Data

We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you.  Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union memberships, information about your health and genetic and biometric data.  We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

 

3. Marketing Communications

Our lawful ground of processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).

We will not share your personal data with any third parties for their own marketing puposes.

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by emailing us at msi@microbiologyspecialists.com at any time.

If you opt out of receiving marketing communications this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of other transactions associated with services performed.

 

4. Disclosures Of Your Personal Data

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set below:

  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers
  • Government bodies that require us to report processing activities

We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.  We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

 

5. Data Security

We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorization.  We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data.  They will only process your personal data on our instruction and they must keep it confidential.

We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required to.

 

6. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements.

When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data for we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the processing purposes, if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.

 

7. Your Legal Rights

Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights).  However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive or refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights).  This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.  We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within on month.  Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests.  In this case, we will notify you.

To request access, complete the Data Subject Access Request Form and follow the step by step instruction to insure a smooth process.

 

8. Third-Party Links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications.  Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you.  We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.  When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

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