Soqóno ("Soqóno," "we," "us" or "our") recognizes the importance of protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we handle information learned about you from your interactions with us, including your visits to our website at www.soqono.com (the "Site").
Soqóno collects personal information from you, which may include:
This information is collected when you contact us through the "Contact Us" form on the Site, sign up to become a research participant, or when you participate in our research projects/studies. We may also collect your information through service providers who assist us in carrying out research projects/studies.
Information about your computer hardware and software is automatically collected by Soqóno when you use the Site. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system type, device type, language preferences, access times and dates, geographic location, referring website addresses, and other technical information. We may also collect information about how you interact with the Site. This information is used for our business purposes, including operation and improvement of the Site, technical troubleshooting, quality maintenance, and general statistics.
A cookie is a small file sent to your computer when you visit a website. We may use "session cookies" (temporary, expire when you close your browser) and "persistent cookies" (remain on your device until you or your browser erase them).
The Site may use the following types of cookies:
We use cookies to improve the Site, analyze traffic, and detect fraud. We may use tools such as Google Analytics to evaluate visitor use of the Site. If you would like to opt out from Google Analytics, you may use Google Analytics' opt-out browser add-on. To learn more about managing and deleting cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
We may use pixels — HTML code snippets embedded in the Site or email messages — to collect information about user behaviors and interactions. These tools may be used to measure the success of marketing campaigns, compile Site usage statistics, and track user activities.
We may use the information we collect for any of the following purposes:
We share your personal information with service providers who perform functions on our behalf, such as hosting the Site, carrying out research projects/studies, providing data analytics, and sending informational materials.
We may share information collected through tracking technologies on the Site with website analytics and digital advertising service providers.
We share information collected from research projects/studies with the respective study sponsor. We attempt to remove certain personally identifying information; however, your information may still be linked to a "subject ID" that is unique to you.
We may share information as needed to enforce our rights, protect property, support auditing or compliance functions, respond to a subpoena, regulation, governmental request, or other legal process.
We reserve the right to transfer or assign information collected from users in connection with a corporate transaction such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
Soqóno does not share your personal information with third parties for those third parties' direct marketing purposes.
Our Site may contain links to third-party websites and online services. Any access to and use of such websites is not governed by this Privacy Policy but by the privacy policies of those third parties. We are not responsible for the information practices of such third-party websites or services.
Soqóno uses reasonable security measures designed to prevent unauthorized intrusion to the Site and the alteration, acquisition, or misuse of personal information. However, no data transmission over the Internet or data storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, or as required by applicable laws or regulations.
Our Site does not currently take any action when it receives a Do Not Track request. Do Not Track is a privacy preference you can set in your web browser. For details, including how to turn on Do Not Track, visit www.donottrack.us.
We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from any person under the age of 13. No parts of our Site are directed to or designed to attract anyone under the age of 13.
Under Nevada law, Soqóno does not sell your personal information. However, if you are a Nevada resident, you may submit a request that we not sell any personal information we have collected about you by contacting us at privacy@soqono.com.
With respect to "personal data" as defined by the GDPR, national laws adopted pursuant to the GDPR, the United Kingdom Data Protection Act of 2018, and the Switzerland Federal Act on Data Protection (collectively, "European Data Protection Laws"), we serve as the "controller."
Our legitimate bases for processing personal data include:
Given the international nature of our business, personal data may be processed by companies located inside and outside the European Union, using appropriate safeguards as required by European Data Protection Laws.
Under European Data Protection Laws, you have the following rights, exercisable by contacting us at privacy@soqono.com:
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Email: privacy@soqono.com
Mail: Soqóno, 455 Market St, Ste 1940, PMB 994759, San Francisco, California 94105
Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be posted to this page so users are always aware of the information we collect and how we use it. Please refer back to this Privacy Policy frequently as it may change.