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Privacy Policy for Mount Hydra Biotech

Effective Date: January 2024

Welcome to Mount Hydra Biotech! This Privacy Policy outlines our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you visit our website. Mount Hydra Biotech (“Mount Hydra Biotech”, the “Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”) values the privacy of its service users and website visitors and is committed to protecting their personal information. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) outlines how your personal information is collected, utilized, and shared when you visit and/or purchase from MountHydraBiotech.com (the “Site”), or directly from Mount Hydra Biotech without using the Site, as well as when you contact us and provide information either through the Site or by other means. The Site is not intended for children and individuals under the age of eighteen, and we do not knowingly collect data pertaining to children. Users of the Site and those submitting information to us confirm that they are eighteen years old or above.

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

When you visit the Site or provide information, we automatically collect data about your device, including your browser, IP address, time zone, and some cookies on your device. Additionally, as you browse, we gather details on the web pages or products you view, the websites or search terms that referred you, and how you interact with the Site.

Personal Information

We collect personal information such as your name, email address, phone number, and company details when you engage in activities like registering on our site, subscribing to our newsletter, filling out a form, or other interactions.

Non-Personal Information

We collect non-personal information in aggregate form to track data such as the total number of visits to our website, the number of visitors to each page, and the domain names of our visitors’ internet service providers. This aggregated, non-personally identifiable information helps us understand how visitors use our website so that we can improve our site and services.

Categories of Data

• Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
• Contact Data: Includes billing address, email address, and telephone numbers.
• Financial Data: Includes payment card details.
• Transaction Data: Includes purchase details—name, addresses, payment info, email, and phone number.
• Profile Data: Includes email, password, purchases, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
• Technical Data: Includes IP address, login data, browser type and version, time zone setting, location, browser plug-ins, operating system, platform, and other device technology.
• Usage Data: Includes information on how you use our site, products, and services.
• Marketing and Communications Data: Includes your marketing preferences and communication preferences.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Methods of Collection

We collect your Personal Data through various methods, including:

• Direct Collection: Information you provide directly on our Site.
• Indirect Collection: Information we receive from other sources and combine with the information from our Site.
• Automatic Collection: Information logged automatically when you visit our Site, such as operating system type, browser
  type, pages viewed, and access times.
• Cookies: Information logged using cookies, which are small data files stored on your hard drive by a website. Cookies help provide a more personalized and interactive experience on our Site.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

• To personalize your experience and respond to your individual needs
• To improve our website and services based on your feedback
• To process transactions and provide customer support
• To send periodic emails with updates, promotions, or other relevant information

Password reset information

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties, except in the following circumstances:

• Trusted Third Parties: We may share your information with trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving you, as long as these parties agree to keep your information confidential.
• Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.
• With your consent: You may allow us to share personal data with others for their marketing uses, which will be subject to their privacy policies.
• In the event of a sale or transfer of all or part of our business or assets, including mergers, financing, acquisitions, or bankruptcy transactions or proceedings, we would require involved parties to treat personal data according to this Privacy Policy.
• For legal, protection, and safety purposes, including emergencies, protecting the safety of employees, agents, and customers, complying with laws, responding to lawful requests and legal processes, and protecting the rights and property of Mount Hydra Biotech, agents, customers, and others (e.g., enforcing agreements, policies, and terms of use).

Use & Sharing of Personal Data

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

• To operate, maintain, and improve our websites, products, and services; to optimize our site (e.g., by generating analytics on how customers browse and interact with the site and evaluating the success of marketing and advertising campaigns).
• To respond to comments and questions and provide customer service.
• To send information such as confirmations, invoices, technical notices, notifications, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
• To offer targeted advertisements or marketing communications that may be of interest to you and to communicate about promotions, upcoming events, and other news related to our products and services and those of our selected partners.
• To link or combine user information with other personal data.
• To protect against, investigate, and deter fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity.
• To deliver products and services, fulfill orders placed through the site (including processing payment information, arranging
  shipping, and providing invoices and order confirmations).

Service Providers

We may share personal data with third parties who assist us in our work. For example, we may use:

• HubSpot: As a CRM tool for defining, filtering, and storing customer data, and email marketing.
• Google: Tools including Analytics, Email, Plus, Blogger, Groups, YouTube, for communication and learning from customer interactions.
• Facebook: For sharing company developments.
• Instagram: To share company updates.
• LinkedIn: For professional interactions and sharing company milestones or job postings.
• Twitter: For live updates and company developments.

Data Security

We use a variety of security measures to protect your personal information, including encrypted communications, secure servers, and regular security audits. We follow industry standards to protect Personal Data during transmission and once received. We have implemented security measures to prevent unauthorized access, loss, or alteration of your data. Access is limited to employees, agents, contractors, and third parties with a business need to know. We may share your data with Mount Hydra Biotech affiliates who adhere to this Privacy Policy. Although we take reasonable steps to secure your data, no system is 100% secure. Safeguard your passwords and IDs as it is your responsibility.

Data Retention

We retain Personal Data only as long as necessary for our purposes, legal obligations, or reporting requirements. Retention period considerations include data amount, nature, sensitivity, risk of harm, and legal requirements. You can request data deletion in some cases. We may anonymize data for indefinite research or statistical use without notice.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

For EU Residents – GDPR

EU residents are subject to GDPR terms. The Company is responsible for your Personal Data. We process your data for contract performance, legitimate interests, legal obligations, consented processing, vital interests, or public tasks. Personal Data categories have specific purposes and lawful bases as outlined. Contact us for data access, correction, or deletion, or to withdraw consent. We ensure data protection by verifying identity and responding within one month, unless an extension is needed.

Social Media Widgets

Our site includes Social Media Features like Twitter and Facebook. These may collect your IP address and set cookies. Interactions are governed by the privacy policy of the respective provider.

Links to Other Websites

This Privacy Policy applies only to this Site. Linked sites have their privacy policies, not reviewed or endorsed by Mount Hydra Biotech. Contact linked sites directly for their privacy practices.

Information Choices/Opting Out

You can withdraw consent to marketing communications anytime by contacting us. Opt-out instructions are in our marketing emails. Non-marketing emails about accounts and business dealings will still be sent. Opt-out requests must comply with legal or contractual requirements. Restricted communications may limit product or service access. Contact third parties directly to opt-out of their communications.

Updating/Accessing/Correcting Personal Data

For changes to your Personal Data or to deactivate services, contact us at the provided information.

Children’s Privacy

Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information.

Consent

By submitting your personal information (as defined below) or any other information to us and/or by using our Site, including data provided during registration, online ordering, or via other communication methods, you acknowledge and agree that we may collect, use, process, share, and transfer such personal and other information in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. By accessing our Site and providing personal information, you consent to this Privacy Policy and our practices regarding the collection, use, processing, sharing, and transferring of personal information as described herein.

If you access the Site from outside the United States, please note that your communications will involve the transfer of information across international boundaries. By visiting our Site, you consent to these transfers and recognize that your information may be transferred from your current location to the Site, Mount Hydra Biotech’s offices, our affiliates and agents, and our service providers as specified herein.

If you do not consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy or disagree with the collection, use, processing, sharing, or transfer of your information as described, we recommend refraining from using our Site and providing personal information, as we cannot offer our services without such
consent.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and the effective date will be updated accordingly. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Contact Us

For privacy practice inquiries, questions, rights exercise, or complaints, contact us via email at info@localhost.