Your privacy is important to us and we promise to respect it. At SIMUL8 Corporation, we never sell, barter, or trade any information about your visit to our website.
As you navigate through the site we will collect various information related to your time on the website, including some personal information if you have voluntarily supplied it. We use the information we collect only in compliance with this Privacy Policy.
Details of the type of information and how it is used and protected by SIMUL8 Corporation can be found in full in the Privacy Policy below.
If for some reason you believe our site has not adhered to these principles, please notify us by email at webteam@SIMUL8.com, and we'll fix the problem promptly.
Last Modified: May 25, 2018
We at SIMUL8 Corporation are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to all our websites (www.SIMUL8.com, www.SIMUL8healthcare.com, blog.SIMUL8.com, blog.SIMUL8healthcare.com, support.SIMUL8.com, learn.SIMUL8.com, learnhealth.SIMUL8.com, cafe.SIMUL8.com, www.SIMUL8.fr, www.SIMUL8.es, www.SIMUL8.in, www.SIMUL8.br, www.SIMUL8.cn) and our online sharing platform SIMUL8 Studio (studio.SIMUL8.com). This Privacy Policy governs our data collection, processing and usage practices. It also describes your choices regarding use, access and correction of your personal information. If you do not agree with the data practices described in this Privacy Policy, you should not use the websites or SIMUL8 Studio.
We periodically update this Privacy Policy. We will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice by sending you an email notification, or if you have a SIMUL8 Studio account, through the notifications when you log in to your account.
While we will notify you of any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically. We will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our treatment of the information you provide us, please write to us by email at marketing@SIMUL8.com or by mail to SIMUL8 Corporation, 225 Franklin Street, 26th Floor, Boston, MA, 02110, USA.
When you visit our websites
You are free to explore the websites without providing any personal information about yourself. When you visit the websites or register for SIMUL8 Studio, we request that you provide personal information about yourself, and we collect navigational information.
Personal information
This refers to any information that you voluntarily submit to us and that identifies you personally, including contact information, such as your name, email address, company name, address, phone number, and other information about yourself or your business. Personal information can also include information about any transactions, both free and paid, that you enter into on the websites, and information about you that is available on the internet, such as from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google, or publicly available information that we acquire from service providers.
Personal information also includes navigational information or payment information where such information can directly or indirectly identify an individual. Navigational information refers to information about your computer and your visits to this website such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and pages viewed. Please see the "Navigation information" section below. Payment information includes how we collect and process payment information from you when you subscribe to the SIMUL8 Studio, including credit cards numbers and billing information, using third party PCI-compliant service providers. Except for this, we do not collect sensitive information from you.
Log files
When you use our websites and services, we automatically collect information about your computer hardware and software. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, internet service provider (ISP), the files viewed on our site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, clickstream data, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by SIMUL8 Corporation for the operation of SIMUL8 Studio, to maintain quality of SIMUL8 Studio, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the SIMUL8 Corporation website. For these purposes, we do link this automatically-collected data to Personal Information such as name, email address, address, and phone number.
Information we collect from third parties
We may receive personal information about you from publically available third party sources such as social media websites.
Information about children
The websites are not intended for or targeted at children under 16, and we do not knowingly or intentionally collect information about children under 16. If you believe that we have collected information about a child under 16, please contact us at marketing@SIMUL8.com, so that we may delete the information.
Compliance with our Privacy Policy
We use the information we collect only in compliance with this Privacy Policy.
We never sell personal information
We will never sell your personal information to any third party.
Use of personal information
In addition to the uses identified elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we may use your personal information to:
We use the information collected through SIMUL8 Studio by our customers for the following purposes:
Legal basis for processing personal information (EEA visitors only)
If you are a visitor/customer located in the European Economic Area ("EEA"), SIMUL8 Corporation Ltd. is the data controller of your personal information. SIMUL8 Corporation's Data Protection Officer can be contacted at marketing@SIMUL8.com.
Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. However, we will normally collect personal information from you only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you.
If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your personal information). Similarly, if we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), we will make clear to you at the relevant time what those legitimate interests are.
Use of navigational information
We use navigational information to operate and improve the websites and SIMUL8 Studio. We may also use navigational information alone or in combination with personal information to provide you with personalized information about SIMUL8 Corporation.
Customer testimonials and comments
We post customer testimonials and comments on our websites, which may contain personal information. We obtain each customer's consent via email prior to posting the customer's name and testimonial.
Use of credit card information
If you give us credit card information, we use it solely to check your financial qualifications and collect payment from you. We use a third party service provider to manage credit card processing. This service provider is not permitted to store, retain, or use information you provide except for the sole purpose of credit card processing on our behalf.
Security of your personal information
We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. We secure the personal information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. All personal information is protected using appropriate physical, technical and organizational measures.
Social media features
Our websites include social media features, such as the Facebook Like button and widgets, such as sharing buttons or interactive mini-programs that run on our sites. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our sites, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these features. Your interactions with these features are governed by the Privacy Policy and other policies of the companies providing them.
External websites
Our websites provide links to other websites. We do not control, and are not responsible for, the content or practices of these other websites. Our provision of such links does not constitute our endorsement of these other websites, their content, their owners, or their practices. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these other websites, which are subject to any privacy and other policies they may have.
Public forums
We offer publicly accessible blogs and message boards. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose any information through our public message boards, blogs, or forums, this information may be collected and used by others. We will correct or delete any information you have posted on the websites if you so request, as described in "Opting out and unsubscribing" below.
Retention of personal information
How long we keep information we collect about you depends on the type of information, and this is described in further detail below. After such time, we will either delete or anonymize your information or, if this is not possible, then we will securely store your information and isolate it from any further use until deletion is possible.
We retain personal information that you provide to us where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, as long as is required in order to contact you about SIMUL8 products, services or SIMUL8 Studio, or as needed to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements).
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we securely delete the information or anonymize it or, if this is not possible, then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. We will delete this information from the servers at an earlier date if you so request, as described in "To unsubscribe from our communications" below.
If you share simulations while using SIMUL8 Studio, you as a user, decide how long to have the simulation live on your account and who to share this with. If a user terminates their use of SIMUL8 Studio, then we will provide the user with access to all information stored for the user by SIMUL8 Studio, for export by the customer according to our agreement with our customer. After termination, we may, unless legally prohibited, delete all customer information, from SIMUL8 Studio.
If you have elected to receive marketing communications from us, we retain information about your marketing preferences for a reasonable period of time from the date you last expressed interest in our content, products, or services, such as when you last opened an email from us or ceased using your SIMUL8 products or services. We retain information derived from cookies and other tracking technologies for a reasonable period of time from the date such information was created.
Service providers
We employ other companies and people to provide services to visitors to our websites, our customers, and users of SIMUL8 Studio and may need to share your information with them to provide information, products or services to you. Examples may include analyzing data or performing statistical analysis, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, customer journey tracking and providing customer service or support. In all cases where we share your information with such agents, we explicitly require the agent to acknowledge and adhere to our privacy and customer data handling policies.
SIMUL8 Corporation partners
In addition, we may share data with trusted partners to contact you based on your request to receive such communications, help us perform statistical analysis, or provide customer support. Such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except for these purposes, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Corporate events
If we (or our assets) are acquired by another company, whether by merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or otherwise, that company would receive all information gathered by SIMUL8 Corporation on the websites and SIMUL8 Studio. In this event, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website, of any change in ownership, uses of your personal information, and choices you may have regarding your personal information.
Compelled disclosure
We reserve the right to use or disclose your personal information if required by law or if we reasonably believe that use or disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or comply with a law, court order, or legal process.
International transfers within SIMUL8 Corporation’s entities
To facilitate our global operations, we transfer information to either the United Kingdom or the United States and allow access to that information from countries in which the SIMUL8 Corporation affiliated entities have operations for the purposes described in this policy.
This Privacy Policy shall apply even if we transfer personal information to other countries. We have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain protected. When we share information about you within and among SIMUL8 Corporation’s affiliated entities, we make use of standard contractual data protection clauses, which have been approved by the European Commission.
Cookies
SIMUL8 Corporation and its partners use cookies or similar technologies (such as web beacons) to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Find out more about how we use cookies on our websites and how to manage your cookie preferences below.
Third party tracking technologies
The use of cookies and web beacons by any tracking utility company is not covered by our Privacy Policy or Cookie Policy.
This Cookie Policy explains how SIMUL8 Corporation and our affiliates use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our websites. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. When you visit the site again, the cookie allows that site to recognize your browser. Cookies may store user preferences and other information.
Cookies provide a convenience feature to save you time, or tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. When you return to the same website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the customized features.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, SIMUL8 Corporation) are called "first party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third party cookies". Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Why do we use cookies?
We use first party and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our websites to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Websites and SIMUL8 Studio. This data is used to deliver customized content and promotions within the SIMUL8 Websites and SIMUL8 Studio to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. Third parties serve cookies through our websites for advertising, analytics and other purposes.
What types of cookies do we use and how do we use them?
The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our websites and the purposes they perform.
Essential website cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Websites and SIMUL8 Studio.
Performance and functionality cookies: These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our websites and SIMUL8 Studio but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.
Analytics and customization cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our websites are being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our websites for you.
Advertising cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
Social networking cookies: These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our websites or SIMUL8 Studio through third party social networking and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes too.
We routinely use the following cookies:
Google Analytics: Google Analytics collects information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages visited. See the Google Analytics Privacy Policy.
Pardot: redundancy. Using first-party and third-party cookies together is standard in the marketing industry. Pardot cookies do not store personally identifying information, they store only a unique identifier. Read more about how Pardot uses cookies here.
We may also from time to time use other services which use cookies that fall into the above categories.
How can I control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links.
You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
Essential website cookies: Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the websites to you, you cannot refuse them. You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings however, as described above this may affect your ability to access the full functionality of the websites or SIMUL8 Studio.
What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. web beacons/web bugs), that help us better manage the websites by informing us what content is effective. We use clear gifs or pixels in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. We tie the information gathered by clear gifs in emails to our customers' Personal Information.
How do I disable cookies?
Here you can find information about disabling cookie storage on the most popular browsers:
Reviewing, correcting and removing your personal information
You have the following data protection rights:
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at marketing@SIMUL8.com or by mail to SIMUL8 Corporation, Inc., 225 Franklin Street, 26th Floor, Boston, MA 02110, USA. We will respond to your request to change, correct, or delete your information within a reasonable timeframe and notify you of the action we have taken.
To unsubscribe from our communications
You may unsubscribe from our marketing communications by clicking on the "unsubscribe" or “subscription preferences” link located on the bottom of our emails, updating your communication preferences, or by emailing us at marketing@SIMUL8.com or postal mail to SIMUL8 Corporation, 225 Franklin Street, 26th Floor, Boston, MA 02110 USA. Customers cannot opt out of receiving transactional emails related to their account with us.
Our online simulation sharing platform SIMUL8 Studio allows any company that uses it (our users and SIMUL8 Corporation itself) to upload and share simulations and relevant supporting information. The information added to SIMUL8 Studio, either by users uploading their simulations, or providing the contact information of those they want to share their simulations with, is stored and managed on our service providers' servers. This information is then used to understand and improve the user experience of the platform and collect usage statistics.
Use by SIMUL8 Corporation
We use our own SIMUL8 Studio account to share simulations that people can visit to learn more about SIMUL8 Corporation. Information that we collect and manage using SIMUL8 Studio for our own marketing belongs to us and is used, disclosed and protected according to this Privacy Policy.
Use by our users
Our customers use the SIMUL8 Studio to share simulations that people can visit to learn more about their business. SIMUL8 Corporation does not control the content of these simulations or the types of information that our users may choose to share using SIMUL8 Studio. SIMUL8 Corporation processes our users information as they direct and in accordance with our agreements with our users, and we store it on our service providers' servers. Our agreements with our users prohibit us from using that information, except as necessary to provide and improve SIMUL8 Studio, as permitted by this Privacy Policy, and as required by law.
If you have any questions please contact us by emailing marketing@SIMUL8.com and we’ll be happy to help.