Privacy and Terms Of Service
Privacy
This statement explains how the Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance (“CGPS”) and the commercial arm Digital Epidemiology Services LTD (“DES”) use the personal information we collect from you when you visit Microreact website. By visiting Microreact website you are consenting to our use of your information in this way.
We may make changes to this statement so please check from time to time for any updates.
Information about you we may collect and use
Microreact accesses your name and email when signing in with Google, Twitter, or Facebook. Other information (such as your profile photo, tweets, or Facebook friends) is not accessed, collected or stored by Microreact.
When you visit Microreact, we collect certain technical information from your device including Page URL, HTTP Referer, Browser, Operating system, Device type, and your location (Country, region, city).
We do not track anything more granular than the city level and the IP address of the visitor is discarded. We never store IP addresses in our database or logs.
How we use your information
We display the information you give us (your name and email) in your account page.
If you sent an invitation to one of your private projects, only your name will be included in the invitation email sent to the invited user. Your email will not be included in the invitation email.
Cookies
When you visit Microreact we use cookies to automatically collect information about how you use our sites. Please see our Cookies information (below).
Sharing your information
We do not share your personal information with any organisation. Your name and email are not displayed to other Microreact users.
We use an open-source web analytics tool to capture privacy friendly analytics which we store on our servers. Your data is not sent to, shared with, or sold to any third-parties.
Personal Data and Your Responsibilities
CGPS and DES are based in the UK and operate under the The Data Protection Act 2018, the UK’s implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You may be in a different legal jurisdiction so must ensure that you follow UK GDPR as well as your own local laws. For more information on UK GDPR please see Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
When you use Microreact, CGPS is the Data Processor and you are the Data Controller, as you have control over the data you collect and CGPS only acts on your instructions.
Publication of Data
If you make a project public, ALL project data you have collected will be visible to anyone on the internet. Please ensure that you are not breaking any Data Protections laws that may apply. CGPS cannot be held responsible for data published by users.
Reasonable Use and Data Retention
The service is provided at no cost to you, however we incur costs for managing and processing the data. We reserve the right to delete excessively large or dormant data sets after a period of time, however we will attempt to contact you by email before doing so.
Protecting Your Data
Microreact is part of the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford (https://www.bdi.ox.ac.uk) and hosted on DigitalOcean (a world-class cloud provider). DigitalOcean services comply with GDPR (https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/gdpr), you can find more about DigitalOcean data security on: https://www.digitalocean.com/legal
Microreact embraces industry-standard best practices to protect against unauthorised access of your data. Data is sent over HTTPS protocol and its TLS certificate uses SHA-256 with RSA encryption as a signature algorithm.
Sharing your information
CGPS and DES do not share your personal information with any external organisation. Your name and email are not displayed to other Microreact users. We use an open-source web analytics tool to capture privacy friendly analytics which we store on our servers. Your data is not sent to, shared with, or sold to any third-parties.
Data Deletion
Please contact dataprotection@cgps.group if you would like to delete your account.
Cookies
Microreact uses cookies only when you sign in to your Microreact account. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we save to your computer or device if you agree. By signing in, you agree to that we save the following cookies to your computer or device.
Details of cookie usage on Microreact webiste
| Type | Name | Purpose | Duration | Used By |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Your visit |
| Authentication cookie. | Session cookie | GCPS |
Your visit |
| Authentication cookie. | Session cookie | GCPS |
Your visit |
| Authentication cookie. | 14 days | GCPS |
Third-party cookies
Microreact does not use third party cookies.
Contact us
If you have any additional questions or you would like to a submit a data subject access request, please contact us.
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