HSKG Website and Services
Privacy Statement 

HSKG Services and the HSKG website are provided by HSK GeneTech Limited (“HSKG”), a company incorporated with limited liability in Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China, with a registered correspondence address at Unit 617, 6/F, Biotech Centre 2 (11W), Hong Kong Science Park, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong.

 These Terms of Service are for www.HSKGENE.com, other websites operated by HSKG as well as mobile applications provided by HSKG. The protection of your privacy in the processing of your personal data is an important concern to which we pay special attention during our service. At the same time, you share responsibility for maintaining privacy and security, such as, by keeping your password secure.

 We Collect "Personal Information" is information that can be used to identify you, either alone or in combination with other information. HSKG collects and stores the following types of Personal Information:

• "Registration Information" is the information you provide about yourself

when registering for and/or purchasing our Services (e.g. name, email,

address, user ID and password, and phone number).

• "Phenotypic Information" is information regarding the Phenotype (e.g. the

As, Ts, Cs, and Gs at particular locations) in the microbiome sample, generated through processing of your samples by HSKG or by its contractors, successors, and assignees; or otherwise processed by and/or contributed to HSKG.

• "Self-Reported Information" is all information about yourself, including your disease conditions, other health-related information, personal traits, ethnicity, family history, and other information that you enter into surveys, forms, or features while signed in to your HSKG account. Self-Reported Information is included in HSKG Research only if you have given consent as described in the applicable Consent Document.
• "User Content" is all information, data, text, software, music, audio, photographs, graphics, video, messages, or other materials -other than

Phenotypic Information or Self-Reported Information -generated by users of HSKG Services and transmitted, whether publicly or privately, to or through HSKG.

• "Web Behavior Information" is information on how you use the HSKG website (e.g. browser type, domains, pageviews) collected through log files, cookies, and web beacon technology.

 

How We Use Your Information

• HSKG collects Personal Information from you for all purposes necessary to ensure the regular operation of your account and/or availability of our Services. These include, among other things, providing you with our Services; improving our Services and/or offering new products or services to you; informing you about events; inviting you to participate in specific research projects, contacting you to obtain testimonials or for other promotional purposes; performing quality control activities; conducting other R&D; and, upon your authorization, conducting HSKG Research.
• We use Registration Information to enable your purchase, inform you when your Phenotypic Information is available to you, provide you with customer service, manage our Services, and authenticate your website visits and usage.
• We may disclose to third parties, and/or use in our Services, "Aggregated Phenotypic and Self-Reported Information", which is Phenotypic and Self-Reported Information that has been stripped of Registration Information and combined with data from a number of other users sufficient to minimize the possibility of exposing individual-level information while still providing scientific evidence of greater scientific import.
• If you have given consent for your Phenotypic and Self-Reported Information to be used in HSKG Research as described in the applicable Consent Document, we may include such information in Aggregated Phenotypic and Self-Reported Information intended to be published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. If you have given consent to participate in HSKG Research, we may also allow research contractors to access your individual-level Phenotypic and/or Self-Reported Information on site at HSKG’s offices for the purpose of conducting scientific research, provided that all such research contractors will be supervised by HSKG and subject to HSKG’s access rules and guidelines.
• If you do not give consent for your Phenotypic and Self-Reported Information to be used in HSKG Research, we may still use your Phenotypic and/or Self-Reported Information for other purposes, which may include disclosure of Aggregated Phenotypic and Self-Reported Information to third-party non-profit and/or commercial research partners who will not publish that information in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
• Except as otherwise set forth herein, we will never release your individual-level Phenotypic and/or Self-Reported Information to a third party without asking for and receiving your explicit consent to do so, unless required by law.
• We use Web Behavior Information to track and monitor aggregate usage of our website, for R&D, for quality control, to improve our Services, and/or to target advertising for our products and services, and if you have given consent to participate in HSKG Research as described in the applicable Consent Document, your Web Behavior Information may be used and disclosed to third parties in aggregate form for HSKG Research intended to be published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
• If you do not give consent to participate in HSKG Research, we may still use your Web Behavior Information for R&D purposes as described above, which may include disclosure of aggregated Web Behavior Information to third-party non-profit and/or commercial research partners who will not publish that information in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
• We give you the ability to share your Phenotypic Information with other HSKG customers through sharing features.

 

Information Disclosure.

We will not disclose your individual-level Personal Information to any third party, except under the following circumstances:

• Partners or service providers (e.g. our contracted service courier) use and/or store the information in order to provide you with HSKG 's Services.
• If you have consented for research, research contractors may access your individual-level Phenotypic and Self-Reported Information on-site at HSKG 's offices for the purpose of scientific research, provided that all such research contractors will be supervised by HSKG and subject to HSKG 's access rules and guidelines.
• We are required by law to do so.
• You have provided explicit consent for us to do so.

 

Your Choices

• Contribution of Personal Information other than Registration Information is voluntary and permission-based.
• Whether to give consent for HSKG to use your Phenotypic and Self-Reported Information for HSKG Research is voluntary.
• Providing Self-Reported Information through surveys, forms, or features is voluntary.
• At your written request we will close your account. As a result, all Phenotypic Information will be removed from the account and will no longer be accessible. HSKG will not use your Phenotypic Information in new research that starts thirty (30) days or more after account closure.

We cannot remove Phenotypic Information that has previously been used for published research or shared with external collaborators before account closure.

How to Contact Us

If you have further question, please contact us at info@hskgene.com