Thanks for visiting www.gotorex.com. This Privacy Policy provides the Company’s policies and procedures with respect to the collection and use of your personally identifiable information as a user of REX, as well as what choices you have about its use. The Company places a high priority on online privacy; however, online privacy must be balanced with the security of information and Users. If you have any questions concerning this Privacy Policy, please email us at support@gotorex.com.
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TRANSFER OF INFORMATION TO THE U.S.: You hereby confirm that you know that REX is a website operated by the Company in the U.S., and you consent to the transfer of your personal data to the U.S., where your personal data will be subject to U.S. law and, if you live outside of the U.S., where the level of data protection may be different compared to your country.
NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS: Under California Law, California residents have the right to request in writing from businesses with whom they have an established business relationship, (1) a list of the categories of information, such as name, address, e-mail address, and the type of services provided to the customer, that a business has disclosed to third parties (including affiliates that are separate legal entities) during the immediately preceding calendar year for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes, and (2) the names and addresses of all such third parties. To request the above information, please write to us with a reference to California Disclosure Information at:
The Research Exchange
5428 Moon Shadow Drive
Austin, TX 78735
MINORS: Minors, as defined by the laws of your jurisdiction, are prohibited from using this site. The Company does not knowingly collect information from any minor.
TYPES OF INFORMATION COLLECTED
(a) Profile Information: During registration you are required to give personally identifiable information which may include your first name, last name, email address, organization/company name, organization/company affiliation, state, postal code, education, occupation, technology areas, and other demographic information (“Profile Information”). You may have the option to provide additional Profile Information about yourself and/or your organization. We encourage you to submit additional relevant information so we can provide you a more personalized experience on REX and provide pertinent information to other Users. When you update your Profile Information, we usually keep a copy of any prior versions, but shall not be obligated to.
(b) Technology Listings: Registered Users may provide technology and/or disclosures for sale or licensing on REX (“Listed Technology”). Such listed technology may be protected by one or more issued patents, pending patent applications, trade secret, or other intellectual property rights.
(c) Calls for Research: Registered Users may provide requests for technology and/or disclosures (“Calls for Research”). Such Calls for Research may seek advancements in a certain technological area, solutions to one or more problems, or for other purposes.
(d) Payment Information: Certain services and/or products provided through REX may require payment. As such, we may require you to provide credit card, wiring information, bank account, debit, or other payment information in order to process your request for such services and/or products (“Payment Information”).
(e) Information from Other Sources: From time to time, we may receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information and/or your Profile Information. For example, we may receive confirmations or other feedback from an organization with which you are related. Additionally, we may purchase demographic information about you to allow us to provide you personalized offerings and/or to verify information provided by you.
(f) Website Traffic Information: We may also collect and analyze the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, login, email address, password, computer and connection information, browser type and version, operating system, domain name, server information, and other information transmitted from your computer to REX. We also may use software or other tools to measure and collect session information, including, but not limited to: page response times, download errors, clickstream data, length of visits to certain pages or Technology Listings, number of visits to certain pages or Technology Listings, the day and time of visits to certain pages or Technology Listings, page and Technology Listing interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page (“Session Information”). Additionally, we may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. This Session Information is typically collected through automated methods, but may be collected by alternate means.
(g) Cookies and Pixel Tags: We may use cookies, pixel tags, and the like to measure and collect Session Information. A cookie is a small piece of information that a website can send to your browser and may then be stored on your computer’s hard drive. It acts as a tag that identifies your computer. A pixel tag, also known as a clear GIF or web beacon, is an invisible tag placed on certain pages of REX and/or in emails from the Company. When you access these pages or emails, pixel tags generate a notice of that visit. These pixel tags are often used in conjunction with cookies, registering when a particular computer visits a particular page. You must allow cookies to use REX.
(h) Third Party Advertisers
1. The advertisements appearing on this Website may be delivered by our advertisers. We share REX usage information about Users for the purpose of targeting our advertisements on REX.
2. Our advertisers may use cookies and/or pixel tags. These cookies and pixel tags allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on.
3. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies and pixel tags by the Company and does not cover the use of cookies and pixel tags by any advertisers.
4. We may transfer personal information to certain of our advertisers from which you have explicitly requested to receive information. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.
USE, SHARING AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
(a) Viewing Profile and Other Information: Registered Users may view the Profile Information of others in order to facilitate user interaction on REX. REX also allows Registered Users to search Profile Information such as by name, technology area, email address, title, organization, type of organization, etc., to identify people and organizations with which they may be interested in meeting or engaging. Registered Users may also be able to view your presence online. We may, but shall not be obligated to, permit you to restrict access to some portion of this information.
(b) Viewing Listed Technology: Registered Users may view the portion of a Listed Technology that is public (e.g. a teaser which very generally explains the technology area and the problem solved by the Listed Technology). Registered Users may view the private portion of a listed technology after the Registered User has agreed to certain additional provisions and conditions relating to that Listed Technology (e.g. confidentiality or other provisions).
(c) Submitting a Response to a Call for Research: When submitting a response to a Call for Research, your Profile Information will be provided to the one or more Registered Users who are responsible for the Call for Research.
(d) Introduction Requests: If you request an introduction to any Registered User, your Profile Information will be provided to that Registered User.
(e) Tolling: Through the collection and analyzing of Session Information, we log and maintain detailed history information (including, but not limited to: date and time of access, which pages were accessed, how long each page was viewed, how many times each page was viewed, clickstream data, etc.) related to which Listed Technology and Calls for Research you access. This information, along with Profile Information, may be provided to one or more Registered Users who are responsible for the particular Listed Technology and/or Call for Research you accessed.
(f) Service Providers: We use trusted third parties to provide certain administrative and service-related services on our site. These trusted third parties may have access to all of your personal information including Profile Information, Listed Technologies, Calls for Research, Payment Information, and Session Information; however, we take reasonable steps to restrict such trusted third parties to only such information as is reasonably necessary for them to accomplish their administrative and/or service-related duties. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for other purposes and may be subject to discipline including termination and criminal prosecution if they fail to meet these obligations.
(g) Promotional Offers: Occasionally we send offers on behalf of other businesses. When we do this, we do not give that business your name and address. Participation in these surveys, contests, or promotions is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to participate and disclose information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and address), and demographic information (such as zip code). Unless we provide you notice of other terms, this Privacy Policy will control the disclosure and use of the information collected during the promotional offers.
(h) Providing Personalized Services to You
1. We store information that we collect through Profile Information, Listed Technologies, Calls for Research, Payment Information, and Session Information to create a “profile” of your preferences. We tie your personally identifiable information to information in the profile, in order to improve the content of the site for you and occasionally to provide you promotions and marketing offers. We use cookies and pixel tags to identify you as a return visitor and optimize and track your use of REX. Doing so helps us provide new and enhanced features, promotions, functionality, services, content, advertising, and helps to improve the quality of our searching technology.
2. We use pixel tags in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. We also use this information, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. If you would like to opt-out of marketing campaign emails, you can do so in the “Account Settings” area.
3. We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don’t have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
4. Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to, or control over, these cookies, and their use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the Company’s Privacy Policy.
(i) Business Transfers: To improve the offerings and selection of REX, we may occasionally acquire subsidiaries or particular business units may be bought by or merged with another entity, entities, or individuals. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing privacy notice(s) (unless, of course, the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the event that the Company or substantially all of the Company’s or REX’s assets are acquired, all customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets. The Company reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of the Company or substantially all of its or REX’s assets to that successor in interest.
(j) Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable): We may share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our business partners (including our advertisers), Users, and potential users. When sharing this information, we do not identify individual Users.
(k) Law Enforcement; Protection of the Company and Others: It is sometimes necessary to release account and other information when we believe it is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our Users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Under no circumstances, however, does this include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from clients for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this privacy policy. We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by the Company, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the Company’s TERMS OF USE or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service.
(l) With Your Consent: Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to elect whether or not to share the information.
COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE WEBSITE
(a) Communications Choice/Opt-out: Other than Service-Related Announcements and Customer Service communications (each described below), you may elect not to receive updates or notifications from the Company by unchecking the corresponding notification on your account’s “Account Settings” page. You also may elect to receive only specific types of notifications, by checking one or more of the options available in “Account Settings.”
(b) Special Offers and Updates: We will occasionally send you information on products, services, special deals, or promotions. You can sign up for these emails from us on our registration page. Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see your account’s “Account Settings” area.
(c) Newsletters: If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe.
(d) Service-related Announcements: We will send you service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is advisable to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature.
(e) Customer Service: Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify 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 account. We may communicate with you by email, telephone, facsimile, traditional mail, or in other ways. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not administrative in nature.
OTHER TERMS
(a) Links to Other Sites
1. REX contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by the Company. Please be aware that the Company is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
2. We encourage you to be aware when you leave REX and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.
3. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by REX.
(b) Co-Branded Sites: This Website may contain links to other sites that are co-branded together with a third party. In such cases, the Company may or may not be responsible for the privacy practices of such co-branded sites. If the Company is responsible for the privacy practices, then this Privacy Policy will apply. If the Company is not responsible for the privacy practices and if the third party is not Company’s agent or service provider covered under this Privacy Policy, then the Company is not responsible for the privacy practices of such site. Again, we encourage you to be aware when you leave REX and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.
(c) Chat Rooms, Journals and Blogs, Message Boards, Classifieds and Public Forums: Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post information to chat rooms, journals, blogs, message boards, classifieds or any other public forums (collectively, “Forums”), that information can be accessed by the public and can, in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications. Further, you may have the ability to start or join private Forums. It is important to understand that even within private Forums, information may be used by other attendees to send you unsolicited communications. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.
(d) Security: The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it including internal review of data collection, storage and processing practices, and security measures, including physical security to prevent unauthorized access to your information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use the best commercially available means to protect your information, because of the nature of electronic data and interconnected computer systems, WE CANNOT UNEQUIVOCALLY GUARANTEE YOUR PROFILE INFORMATION, LISTED TECHNOLOGY, CALLS FOR RESEARCH, PAYMENT INFORMATION, OR SESSION INFORMATION IS ABSOLUTELY SECURE. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of any and all information at any time.
USER CHOICES WITH REGARD TO ACCESS OF INFORMATION
(a) You may correct, update or delete much of your registration information by logging into your account and accessing the “My Account” option.
(b) General: You always have the right to refrain from providing any information (other than information required for registration). This may have an impact on use of REX and on the ability to interact with REX or take advantage of certain features of REX. By providing information about third parties, you represent that you have all necessary authority and/or obtained all necessary consents from such person to authorize us to collect, use and disclose the information of such third parties. All such information shall be governed by the terms of this Privacy Policy.
(c) Customer Communication: If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us (other than required service-related announcements described above), then please adjust your account setting regarding email contact preferences (please see your account’s “Account Settings” area). You cannot waive the applicability of the Terms of Use and other legal notices, such as this Privacy Notice, and if you elect not to receive those notices, they will still govern your use of REX, and it is your responsibility to review them for changes.
(d) Cookie Choices: All Web browsers have the ability to accept cookies, reject cookies, or to prompt the user before accepting them. The Help portion of the toolbar on 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, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, COOKIES ARE REQUIRED TO ACCESS REX.
(e) Changes in this Privacy Policy
1. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post the modified Privacy Policy on REX to make users aware of what the changes are so users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it.
2. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. You are bound by any minor changes to the policy when you use REX after those changes have been posted. If, however, we are going to use a Registered User’s personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify by posting a notice on REX. Additionally, you may be requested at any time to re-affirm your agreement and understanding of these or any future Terms and Conditions of Use (e.g. when an account is upgraded from standard to a higher level account). If at such time, you do not agree to the then current Terms and Conditions of Use, you may no longer access REX.