Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

Biostat & BioDiscovery LLC is a research-credentialed consultancy at the intersection of biostatistics, antimicrobial science, and molecular discovery. Our website at biostatbiodiscovery.com provides information about our services, a drug-like microbial metabolites database, and MicroSignal-Weekly, a free weekly biomedical briefing.

We are the data controller for information collected through this website. If you have questions about how your data is handled, please contact us using the details at the end of this policy.

2. Information We Collect

We collect the following types of information:

• Contact form submissions — your name, email address, and message content when you submit an enquiry through our contact form.
• Newsletter subscriptions — your name and email address if you subscribe to MicroSignal-Weekly.
• Usage data — anonymized information about how you interact with our site, including pages visited and time spent, collected through Google Analytics if enabled.
• Technical data — your IP address, browser type, and device information collected automatically by our hosting provider (Vercel) for security and performance purposes.

We do not collect sensitive personal data such as health records, financial details, or government identification numbers.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To respond to enquiries submitted through our contact form.
• To send you MicroSignal-Weekly if you have subscribed, and to manage your subscription.
• To improve the content and functionality of our website.
• To detect and prevent fraudulent or abusive use of our site.
• To comply with legal obligations.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to any third party for marketing purposes.

4. Cookies and Tracking

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small text files stored on your device that help the site function correctly and allow us to understand how visitors use the site.

We use the following types of cookies:

• Essential cookies — required for the website to function. These cannot be disabled.
• Preference cookies — used to remember settings you have chosen, such as your MicroSignal-Weekly configuration stored locally in your browser.
• Analytics cookies — used to collect anonymized data about site usage to help us improve our content.
• Advertising cookies — used by Google AdSense to serve relevant advertisements (see Section 5 below).

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of some parts of the site.

5. Advertising (Google AdSense)

This website uses Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google AdSense uses cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to this site and other sites on the internet. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.

For more information on how Google uses data when you use our site, please visit How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps.

We do not control the content of advertisements served through Google AdSense, nor do we receive information about individual users from Google for advertising purposes.

6. Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party services to operate this website:

• Vercel — our website hosting provider. Vercel may collect technical data such as IP addresses and request logs for security and performance purposes.
• Supabase — our database provider, used to store MicroSignal-Weekly articles and subscriber information securely.
• Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) — our email delivery provider, used to send MicroSignal-Weekly to subscribers.
• Google AdSense — used to display advertisements on our site.
• Formspree — used to process contact form submissions.

Each of these providers has their own privacy policy governing how they handle data. We encourage you to review their policies if you have concerns about how your data is processed.

7. Data Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy:

• Contact form submissions — retained for up to 12 months, then deleted.
• Newsletter subscriber data — retained until you unsubscribe. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any MicroSignal-Weekly email.
• Technical/server logs — retained for up to 30 days by our hosting provider for security purposes.

8. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right to access — you can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to correction — you can ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Right to deletion — you can ask us to delete your personal data where we have no legitimate reason to continue holding it.
• Right to object — you can object to our processing of your data in certain circumstances.
• Right to withdraw consent — where processing is based on consent, you can withdraw it at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details in Section 11. We will respond within 30 days.

9. Children's Privacy

This website is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal reasons. When we make changes, we will update the date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

Continued use of this website after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your data, please contact us: