CRN-Clinical Research Network Privacy Policy

This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how CRN – Clinical Research Network (“CRN – Clinical Research Network”, “we”, “us” or “our”) collects, protects and uses the personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) you (“User”, “you” or “your”) when you use CRN – Clinical Research Network’s websites clinicalresearchmentors.com, theclinicalresearchmentors.com and/or any of CRN – Clinical Research Network’s online or mobile products (including the CRN – Clinical Research Network mobile apps), CRN – Clinical Research Network software and any of its products or services (collectively, “Website” or “Services”), including when you access the Services through online platforms. By using the Services, you agree to CRN – Clinical Research Network ‘s Privacy Policy and that we, may process, transfer, and store your information in the EU and the United States.

It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your Personal Information and how you can access and update this information. This Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to individuals that we do not employ or manage.

Clinical Research Mentors is an e-learning program and belong to CRN-Clinical Research Network and use for marketing and training platform purposes the web pages clinicalresearchmentors.com and theclinicalresearchnetwork.com

Your subscription and accounts are under clinicalresearchmentors.com and theclinicalresearchnetwork.com webpages and application.

If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use the services. We will post any modifications or changes to the Privacy Policy on the CRN – Clinical Research Network’s websites. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so we encourage you toreview it frequently. If we make a material change to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you through a notice on the CRN – Clinical Research Network’s websites when the changes take effect. Your continued use of the Services signifies your acceptance of our Privacy Policy as modified. We regularly update our software applications (including our mobile and desktop applications) to make improvements, including improvements that better serve your privacy rights. To ensure that this Privacy Policy accurately reflects your use of the Services you will need to ensure that you are using the most recent release of the CRN – Clinical Research Network’s software applications

Automatic collection of information

When you visit the Websites our servers automatically record information that your browser sends. This data may include information such as your device’s IP address, browser type and version, operating system type and version, language preferences or the webpage you were visiting before you came to our Website, pages of our Website that you visit, the time spent on those pages, the information you search for on our Website, access times and dates, and other statistics.

Information collected automatically is used only to identify potential cases of abuse and establish statistical information regarding Website usage. This statistical information is not otherwise aggregated in such a way that it would identify any particular user of the system.

Websites

When you use our websites (including our app), we may collect and analyze information about your computer or mobile devices such as your IP address, browser types, browser language, operating system, the state or country from which you accessed the Services, referring and exit pages and URLs, platform type, the number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time you used the Services and upload or post content, error logs, and other similar information. We monitor customer traffic patterns and site usage to help us develop the design and layout of the site and to improve the content of our website to better match the interests of our website users

Collection of personal information

You can visit the Website without telling us whom you are or revealing any information by which someone could identify you as a specific, identifiable individual. If, however, you wish to use some of the Website’s features, you will be asked to provide certain Personal Information (for example, your name and e-mail address). We receive and store any information you knowingly provide to us when you create an account, publish content, make a purchase, or fill any online forms on the Website. When required, this information may include the following:

Personal details such as name, country of residence, etc.
Contact information such as email address, address, etc.
Account details such as username, unique user ID, password, etc.
Payment information such as credit card details, bank details, etc.

You can choose not to provide us with your Personal Information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of some of the Website’s features. Users who are uncertain about what information is mandatory are welcome to contact us.

Managing personal information

You can delete certain Personal Information we have about you. The Personal Information you can delete may change as the Websites or Services change. When you delete Personal Information, however, we may maintain a copy of the unrevised Personal Information in our records for the duration necessary to comply with our obligations to our affiliates and partners, and for the purposes described below. If you would like to delete your Personal Information or permanently delete your account, you can do so on the settings page of your account on the Websites.

Storing personal information

We will retain and use your Personal Information for the period necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. We may use any aggregated data derived from or incorporating your Personal Information after you update or delete it, but not in a manner that would identify you personally. Once the retention period expires, Personal Information shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification, and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after the expiration of the retention period.

Use and processing of collected information

To make our Websites and Services available to you, or to meet a legal obligation, we need to collect and use certain Personal Information. If you do not provide the information that we request, we may not be able to provide you with the requested products or services. Some of the information we collect is directly from you via our Website. However, we may also collect Personal Information about you from other sources such as social media, emails, etc. Any of the information we collect from you may be used for the following purposes:

Create and manage user accounts
Fulfil and manage orders
Deliver products or services
Improve products and services
Send administrative information
Send marketing and promotional communications
Respond to inquiries and offer support
Request user feedback
Improve the user experience
Post customer testimonials
Deliver targeted advertising
Administer prize draws and competitions
Enforce terms and conditions and policies
Protect from abuse and malicious users
Respond to legal requests and prevent harm
Run and operate our Websites and Services
Uploads or posts to the Services;
Contest registration and prize acceptance;
Processing your order for products or services offered by CRN-Clinical Research Network
Registration of your CRN-Clinical Research Network’s products;
Providing updates to you regarding your CRN-Clinical Research Network’s products;
Newsletter subscriptions;
Access to CRN-Clinical Research Network’s products or services on social networks or third-party services;
Services provided online, for example, by way of your mobile app or the CRN-Clinical Research Network’s software; and
Other uses of the Services where information is requested for use and/or participation.

Processing your Personal Information depends on how you interact with our Websites, where you are located in the world and if one of the following applies: (i) You have given your consent for one or more specific purposes. This, however, does not apply, whenever the processing of Personal Information is subject to California Consumer Privacy Act or European data protection law; (ii) Provision of information is necessary for the performance of an agreement with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof; (iii) Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which you are subject; (iv) Processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or the exercise of official authority vested in us; (v) Processing is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party.

Note that under some legislations we may be allowed to process information until you object to such processing (by opting out), without having to rely on consent or any other of the following legal bases below. In any case, we will be happy to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Information is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Information transfer and storage

Depending on your location, data transfers may involve transferring and storing your information in a country other than your own. You are entitled to learn about the legal basis of information transfers to a country outside the European Union or to any international organization governed by public international law or set up by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security measures taken by us to safeguard your information. If any such transfer takes place, you can find out more by checking the relevant sections of this document or inquire with us using the information provided in the contact section.

Information from Other Sources

CRN-Clinical Research Network may receive information about you from third parties, such as commerce partners, marketers, social network services, and other parties that we may use to supplement the information that we collect directly from you. If you connect to a third party network (such as a social network), platform, or service through the Services, you are authorizing us to collect, store, and use per this Privacy Policy any and all information (such as name, email address and location) that you agreed the network or other third-party platforms could provide to CRN-Clinical Research Network based on your settings on the third-party network or platform. Your agreement takes place when you connect with the third party network, platform, or service via our Services, and/or when you connect with one of our applications through one of these services.

Anonymous or De-Identified Data

We may collect data that is already in anonymized or de-identified form, or we may manually anonymize and/or de-identify information collected by the Services or via other means so that the information does not identify you. Our use and disclosure of aggregated and/or de-identified information are not subject to any restrictions under this Privacy Policy, and we may disclose it to others without limitation for any purpose.

The rights of users

You may exercise certain rights regarding your information processed by us. In particular, you have the right to do the following: (i) you have the right to withdraw consent where you have previously given your consent to the processing of your information; (ii) you have the right to object to the processing of your information if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent; (iii) you have the right to learn if information is being processed by us, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the information undergoing processing; (iv) you have the right to verify the accuracy of your information and ask for it to be updated or corrected; (v) you have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of your information, in which case, we will not process your information for any purpose other than storing it; (vi) you have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of your Personal Information from us; (vii) you have the right to receive your information in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance. This provision is applicable provided that your information is processed by automated means and that the processing is based on your consent, on a contract which you are part of or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.

EU rights to personal information

EU and Swiss individuals have the right, under certain circumstances, to:

Access their personal information;
Correct inaccurate personal information;
Request erasure of their personal information without undue delay;
To object to the processing of their personal information;

Such users may request access to their personal information and modify or remove most information associated with their Clinical Research Mentors account at any time by logging into their Clinical Research Mentors account and accessing features such as Edit Profile and Account Info. Users may also email to exercise any of the above rights by emailing us at office@clinicalresearch-network.com. EU and Swiss users also have the right to complain of the supervisory authority, in particular in the EU Member State of their habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if they consider that our processing of their personal information infringes the applicable data protection laws. Please contact us at office@clinicalresearch-network.com, and we will provide you with detailed information regarding the contact details of the respective competent supervisory authority.

The right to object to processing

Where Personal Information is processed for the public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in us or for the legitimate interests pursued by us, you may object to such processing by providing a ground related to your particular situation to justify the objection. You must know that, however, should your Personal Information be processed for direct marketing purposes, you can object to that processing at any time without providing any justification. To learn, whether we are processing Personal Information for direct marketing purposes, you may refer to the relevant sections of this document.

How to exercise these rights

Any requests to exercise User rights can be directed to the Owner through the contact details provided in this document. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by the Owner as early as possible.

California privacy rights

In addition to the rights as explained in this Privacy Policy, California residents who provide Personal Information (as defined in the statute) to obtain products or services for personal, family, or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us, once a calendar year, information about the Personal Information we shared, if any, with other businesses for marketing uses. If applicable, this information would include the categories of Personal Information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared such personal information for the immediately prior calendar year (e.g., requests made in the current year will receive information about the prior year). To obtain this information please contact us.

Billing and payments

We use third-party payment processors to assist us in processing your payment information securely. Such third-party processors’ use of your Personal Information is governed by their respective privacy policies which may or may not contain privacy protections as protective as this Privacy Policy. We suggest that you review their respective privacy policies.

Product and service providers

We may contract with other companies to provide certain products and services. These service providers are not authorized to use or disclose the information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements. We may share Personal Information for these purposes only with third parties whose privacy policies are consistent with ours or who agree to abide by our policies concerning Personal Information Our service providers are given the information they need to perform their designated functions, and we do not authorize them to use or disclose Personal Information for their marketing or other purposes.

Privacy of children

We do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from persons under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not submit any Personal Information through our Website or Service. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce this Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Information through our Website or Service without their permission.

If you have reason to believe that a person under the age of 18 has provided Personal Information to us through our Website or Service, please contact us. You must also be at least 16 years of age to consent to the processing of your Personal Information in your country (in some countries we may allow your parent or guardian to do so on your behalf).

International users

CRN-Clinical Research Network operates primarily in the EU and United States, and as a result, the information we collect is stored in the EU and the United States. By using the Services, you acknowledge and agree that your information may be transferred to, used, processed, or held by CRN-Clinical Research Network in the EU and used for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

Newsletters

We offer electronic newsletters to which you may voluntarily subscribe at any time. We are committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the information use and processing section or to utilize a third-party provider to send such emails. We will maintain the information sent via e-mail per applicable laws and regulations.

In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all e-mails sent from us will clearly state who the e-mail is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. You may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails or by contacting us. However, you will continue to receive essential transactional emails.

Cookies

The Website uses “cookies” to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

We may use cookies to collect, store, and track information for statistical purposes to operate our Website and Services. You can accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. To learn more about cookies and how to manage them, visit internetcookies.org

In addition to using cookies and related technologies as described above, we also may permit certain third-party companies to help us tailor advertising that we think may be of interest to users and to collect and use other data about user activities on the Website. These companies may deliver ads that might also place cookies and otherwise track user behavior.

Do Not Track signals

Some browsers incorporate a Do Not Track feature that signals to websites you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. Tracking is not the same as using or collecting information in connection with a website. For these purposes, tracking refers to collecting personally identifiable information from consumers who use or visit a website or online service as they move across different websites over time. Our Website does not track its visitors over time and across third-party websites. However, some third-party sites may keep track of your browsing activities when they serve you content, which enables them to tailor what they present to you.

Advertisement

We may display online advertisements and we may share aggregated and non-identifying information about our customers that we collect through the registration process or online surveys and promotions with certain advertisers. We do not share personally identifiable information about individual customers with advertisers. In some instances, we may use this aggregated and non-identifying information to deliver tailored advertisements to the intended audience.

Online Analytics

We may use third-party web analytics services on our Services, such as those of Google Analytics. These service providers use the sort of technology described in the Automatically-Collected Information section above to help us analyze how users use the Services, including by noting the third-party website from which you arrive. The information collected by the technology will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers, who use the information to evaluate your use of the Services. We also use Google Analytics for certain purposes related to online marketing, as described in the following section.

Online Advertising

We do not serve third-party advertisements to you while using our websites. However, we do work with website analytics and advertising partners, including Google, InfusionSoft, and Facebook, to deliver CRN-Clinical Research Network advertisements on third party publisher websites – these partners may set cookies on your computer’s web browser. These cookies allow our partners to recognize your computer so that the ad server can show you CRN-Clinical Research Network advertisements elsewhere on the Internet, and so that our analytics software can measure your engagement and interactions while using our websites. In this way, ad servers may compile anonymous, de-identified information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw our advertisements, whether or not you interacted with our advertisements, and actions performed on subsequent visits to our websites. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you, and it allows CRN-Clinical Research Network to optimize the performance of our advertising campaigns and the usability of our website. In other words, we use analytics data in concert with data about our online ads that have been shown using online advertising networks. By doing so, we can understand how anonymous users interacted with our website after seeing our ads.

Affiliates

We may disclose information about you to our affiliates to be able to offer you related or additional products and services. Any information relating to you that we provide to our affiliates will be treated by those affiliates following the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Links to other websites

Our Websites contain links to other websites that are not owned or controlled by us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites or third parties. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Website and to read the privacy statements of every website that may collect Personal Information.

Uses of information

CRN-Clinical Research Network may use the information it collects for various purposes, including but not limited to:

Service Improvement – As discussed throughout this Policy, we will use the information to understand how users interact with our Services, provide tailored content, improve the overall CRN-Clinical Research Network’s customer and product experience, and perform research and analytics.

Order-Related Communications – If you purchase a product, we will use your name and email address to send you an order confirmation email and customer satisfaction emails. If you do not wish to participate in customer satisfaction emails, you may opt-out of such emails upon receipt by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link contained in the email.

Customer Service – Based upon the information you provide us at the time of Clinical Research Mentors’ account registration or purchase, we will send you a confirmation email with your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your Clinical Research Mentors’ account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, following your preferences.

Newsletters, Social Media Campaigns, Special Offers, and Updates – We will occasionally send you information on products, services, special promotions, contests, customer satisfaction surveys, events, and opportunities to interact with Clinical Research Mentors and our Community. Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option NOT to receive these types of communications.

Service-Related Announcements – We will send you service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email, push notification, or an in-application or web-based communication. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your Clinical Research Mentors’ account.

Sharing and disclosure of information

CRN-Clinical Research Network does NOT share, sell, rent or trade information with third parties for their promotional purposes, and will only share information as outlined below or with your consent.

Co-Branded Websites – At times CRN-Clinical Research Network will partner with third-party websites in a co-branded relationship, where a co-branded web page(s) is used to promote CRN-Clinical Research Network products, services, photos, or videos. These web pages may be designed to look and feel just like thesixfigurementors.com, but are hosted on a different domain. When we enter into co-branded partnerships, we may at times share your name and email address for CRN-Clinical Research Network to communicate with you about CRN-Clinical Research Network related promotions, news, and updates via tools provided by our third-party co-branded partner website. Information collected on third party co-branded web pages may not be covered under our Privacy Policy. All information collected on third party co-branded websites is owned and controlled by that website’s privacy policy. Please be sure to read the privacy policy of any website that asks you to submit information.

Customer Testimonials – At times, we may post customer testimonials on our website. We will obtain your consent via email and/or opt-in methods before posting your name, city, or stated activity/interest along with any testimonial.

User-Generated Content – You may be able to disclose information about yourself in the course of contributing user-generated content on publicly-available areas of the Services, such as your Clinical Research Mentors user profile. Your Clinical Research Mentors user profile and any information you post there will be publicly available. This includes, but is not limited to: your uploaded photos or videos, full name, email address, phone number, address, interests, content that you have favorited, and Clinical Research Mentors users whose Clinical Research Mentors accounts you follow. Your content will also be shared with users of other social media services to which you have chosen to share, consistent with your privacy settings on those services. Such information is unencrypted, public information may be accessed or recorded by us, and there is no expectation of privacy or confidentiality in such information. Any information you submit in the course of such activities can be read, collected, or used by internet users. We cannot control how internet users might use your information. We especially cannot prevent you from receiving unwanted messages from other internet users.

Content Submitted to Clinical Research Mentors – If you submit your video or other content to Clinical Research Mentors, we may publish it on the Clinical Research Mentors website or applications along with certain information about you, e.g., your first and last name or your username, when we have your consent. For more information relating to the terms governing the content you submit to us, please see our Terms and Conditions.

Service Providers – We use third-party service providers to offer or facilitate services on our behalfs, such as a credit card processing company to bill you for products and services, and an email service provider to send out emails on our behalf. When you order products from Clinical Research Mentors, we will share your information as necessary for such third party services providers to provide the applicable service to us or on our behalf. These third parties are prohibited from using any identifying information about you for promotional purposes.

Business Transactions – Information that we collect is considered a business asset. As a result, if we go out of business, enter bankruptcy, or if we are acquired as a result of a transaction such as a merger, acquisition or sale of some or all of our assets, your information may be disclosed or transferred to a third party acquirer in connection with the transaction.

Legal Compliance – We reserve the right to access and disclose your information when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to: (a) enforce legal rights and comply with the law; (b) comply with an order from a government entity or other competent authority, (c) prevent or address potential or actual injury or interference with our rights, property, operations, users or others who may be harmed or may suffer loss or damage; (d) protect our rights, prevent fraud and/or comply with judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on Clinical Research Network.

Law Enforcement – We may be required to disclose your information to government or law enforcement officials in response to a lawful request by a public authority or if we have to do so to comply with a legal obligation, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We can also disclose your information to apply or enforce our terms and conditions or to respond to any claims, to protect our rights or the rights of a third party, to protect the safety of any person or to prevent any illegal activity (including for fraud protection and credit risk reduction).

Information security

We secure information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect against unauthorized access, use, modification, and disclosure of Personal Information in its control and custody. However, no data transmission over the Internet or wireless network can be guaranteed. Therefore, while we strive to protect your Personal Information, you acknowledge that (i) there are security and privacy limitations of the Internet which are beyond our control; (ii) the security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and our Website cannot be guaranteed; and (iii) any such information and data may be viewed or tampered with in transit by a third-party, despite best efforts.

Data breach

In the event we become aware that the security of the Website has been compromised or users Personal Information has been disclosed to unrelated third parties as a result of external activity, including, but not limited to, security attacks or fraud, we reserve the right to take reasonably appropriate measures, including, but not limited to, investigation and reporting, as well as notification to and cooperation with law enforcement authorities. In the event of a data breach, we will make reasonable efforts to notify affected individuals if we believe that there is a reasonable risk of harm to the user as a result of the breach or if notice is otherwise required by law. When we do, we will post a notice on the Website, send you an email.

Legal disclosure

We will disclose any information we collect, use or receive if required or permitted by law, such as to comply with a subpoena or similar legal process, and when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request. In the event, we go through a business transition, such as a merger or acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your user account, and Personal Information will likely be among the assets transferred.

Changes and amendments

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in our discretion and will notify you of any material changes to how we treat Personal Information. When changes are made, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We may also provide notice to you in other ways in our discretion, such as through contact information you have provided. Any updated version of this Privacy Policy will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Privacy Policy unless otherwise specified. Your continued use of the Website or Services after the effective date of the revised Privacy Policy (or such other act specified at that time) will constitute your consent to those changes. However, we will not, without your consent, use your Personal Data in a manner materially different than what was stated at the time your Personal Data was collected.

Acceptance of this policy

You acknowledge that you have read this Policy and agree to all its terms and conditions. By using the Website or its Services you agree to be bound by this Policy. If you do not agree to abide by the terms of this Policy, you are not authorized to use or access the Websites and its Services.

Contacting us

If you would like to contact us to understand more about this Policy or wish to contact us concerning any matter relating to individual rights and your Personal Information, you may do so via the contact form.

This document was last updated on April 26, 2020