Privacy Policy of INPLASY

INPLASY is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy addresses your data and how INPLASY processes and safeguards it. INPLASY operates inplasy.com, which provides an international platform for review registration. This page is used to inform researchers regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decides to use our Service. The Personal Information we collect is used to provide and improve the Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. If you choose to use our platform, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which are accessible at inplasy.com, unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Use

For a better experience, while using our platform, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and postal address, institution. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you only. If you complete our registration process, you authorize us to contact you with pertinent information about your registration. The personal information that you provide will be used only for INVOICE purposes. We do not share personal information you have provided to us without your consent or to commercial purposes. We may contact you by email. For example, we may send you promotional emails or communicate with you about your use of the websites. You can modify your email notification preferences by clicking the appropriate link in the footer of email notifications or informing us directly. We also use social buttons provided by services like Twitter, WeChat, and YouTube. Your use of these third-party services is entirely optional. We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.

Log Data

We want to inform you that when you visit our INPLASY forms, we collect information that your browser sends to us. This data may include information such as the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those forms, and other statistics related to your submission. The logs are used to support site maintenance, including examining user data and how researchers operate the site. The platform maintains logs of its servers’ activities. The server log files include the IP address of each computer which accesses the INPLASY’s website.

Cookies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data that are commonly used as a unique anonymous identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive. Our website uses these “cookies” to collect information and to improve our Service. A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. INPLASY uses cookies to help INPLASY identify and track visitors, their usage of INPLASY website, and their website access preferences. INPLASY visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using INPLASY’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of INPLASY’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that we do not operate these external sites. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites.

Children’s Privacy

Our website do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post the new version on the website to ensure our privacy policy’s transparency. These changes are effective immediately after they are posted on this page. INPLASY reserves the right to change or modify this Privacy Policy at any time. 

Registration fee

The payment is processed exclusively by PayPal platform and Stripe platform. INPLASY do not access or collect any payment information. You can visit PayPal and Stripe website to read more about how the payments are collected. See Stripe’s Worldwide Privacy Policy.

Information Accuracy 

The registration record has undergone a basic check. INPLASY has never provided peer review and does not endorse protocol content. Therefore, the content of an INPLASY protocol has always been the  responsibility of the research team registering the study. 

Your Data Protection Rights Under The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a citizen of a European country, you may have specific data protection rights under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) and the equivalent Swiss arrangements. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal information. If you wish to be informed what Personal Information we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us .

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

INPLASY, Inc. – International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocols – INPLASY – 600 N Broad St, 5 Middletown DE 19709  The United States. INPLASY, Inc. Phone +1 302 2083147

INPLASY LTDA – International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocols – INPLASY – Passa Quatro 320, Caminho Novo São Paulo  Brazil.

INPLASY – International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocols –  editorialmanager@inplasy.com