Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Everyone has rights regarding the way in which their personal information is handled. During our activities we will collect, store and process personal information about our customers, suppliers and other third parties, and we recognise that the correct and lawful treatment of this data will maintain confidence in our organisation.

This Privacy Policy discloses our privacy practices and how we may use the information that we gather on our website (the “Site”) or that you provide to Nanolyse Technologies, Ltd. or its affiliates (“Nanolyse”) through other means.  By using the Site or voluntarily providing personal information to us, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy.  Nanolyse may update this Privacy Policy from time-to-time in our sole discretion and will post the current version on the Site. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully when using our website or services or transacting business with us. By using our website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please refer to the end of this Privacy Policy for information on how to contact us.

2. What is personal data?

Personal data is defined by the General Data Protection Regulations as:

“any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person”.

3. Categories of Data Collected

Information you provide to us. We may collect personal information from you in a variety of ways in connection with employment opportunities, activities, services, features or resources we make available on our Site. This information may include, without limitation, your name, address, email address, phone number, cell phone number, and demographic information.

If you opt to be added to our mailing list, we will only keep you up to date on our news and topical issues in marketing. Your data will never be sold or given to any third party.

Information we collect automatically. In certain circumstances, we may collect information from you automatically, such as your IP address or information about the ways you browse and interact with our Site.  For more information, see our Cookie Policy, below.

Please be assured that if you would prefer not to hear from us at any time in the future you can stop receiving our updates by emailing info@nanolyse.com

4. Purposes of Collection

Nanolyse may collect and use the categories of personal information described above for the following purposes:

  • To improve the Site;
  • To notify you about updates to the Site;
  • Internal business analysis or other business purposes consistent with our mission;
  • provide any information and services that you have requested or any applications or services that you have ordered;
  • compare information for accuracy and to verify it with third parties;
  • provide, maintain, protect and improve any applications, products, services and information that you have requested from us;
  • manage and administer your use of applications, products and services you have asked us to provide;
  • manage our relationship with you (for example, customer services and support activities);
  • undertake internal testing of our website, applications, systems and services to test and improve their security, provision and performance, in which case, we would pseudonymise any information used for such purposes, and ensure is it only displayed at aggregated levels which will not be linked back to you or any living individual;
  • provide you with any information that we are required to send you to comply with our regulatory or legal obligations;
  • comply with any other of our regulatory or legal obligations;
  • detect, prevent, investigate or remediate, crime, illegal or prohibited activities or to otherwise protect our legal rights (including liaison with regulators and law enforcement agencies for these purposes);
  • contact you to see if you would like to take part in our customer research (for example, feedback on your use of our applications, products and services);
  • to monitor, carry out statistical analysis and benchmarking, provided that in such circumstances it is on an aggregated basis which will not be linked back to you or any living individual except as permitted by law;
  • deliver targeted advertising, marketing (which may include in-product messaging) or information to you which may be useful to you, based on your use of our applications and services;
  • deliver joint content and services with third parties with whom you have a separate relationship (for example, social media providers); and
  • provide you with location-based services (for example, advertising and other personalised content), where we collect geo-location data.

5. Disclosure of your information

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, strategic partner(s) or distributors, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.

As part of our compliance obligations to General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018) , we are duty bound to check when personal data may be shared with third parties to ensure that they apply the same level of control in terms of data protection.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • if we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets; or
  • if we or substantially all our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets; or
  • if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data to comply with any legal obligation or in order to enforce or apply other agreements; or
  • to protect the rights, property or safety of Nanolyse, our customers or others.

6. Security and storage of information

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. However, no commercial method of information transfer over the internet or electronic data storage is known to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of that information during its transmission or its storage in our systems.

7. Cookie Policy

Nanolyse may use tracking technology (“Cookies”) to help make the Site more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. This Cookie Policy provides you with information on the use of Cookies on the Site, as applicable.

A cookie is a small file, which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Please note that we may also use the Google Analytics tool. To learn how Google Analytics collects and processes data, please visit: “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps” located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners.

8. Third Party Sites

This Privacy Policy does not cover, supersede or affect the terms of any policy or agreement between you and any third party (such as third party credit card processors, Facebook, LinkedIn, our partners, advertisers, vendors or other third parties who appear on the Site or who link to or from the Site and other parties with whom you share personal information) (“Third Party Sites”). If you choose to do business with or provide personal information to such Third Party Sites, you do so entirely at your own risk and we have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these Third Party Sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of the Site and welcome any feedback about these Third Party Sites (including if a specific link does not work).

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

Nanolyse has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time, and we will post the current version on the Site. Your continued relationship with us after the posting or notice of any amended Privacy Policy will constitute your agreement to be bound by any such changes. Any changes to this Privacy Policy take effect immediately after being posted or otherwise provided by us.

10. Children’s Privacy

Nanolyse is concerned about the privacy and safety of children when they use the Internet. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent. Our products and services are for adults only and our Site is not directed at children.

11. Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, and Nanolyse’s policies and practices with respect to personal information, please contact us by any of the means indicated on the Nanolyse Contact Us page.

12. Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways: whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at info@nanolyse.com

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties, which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen. You may request details of personal information, which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

This document was last updated on 1st April, 2023.