Privacy Notice

Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center

Applicability

At Indiana University (IU), we are committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of personal information entrusted to us. By accessing and using IU's services, you acknowledge and consent to the practices described in IU's global privacy statement here: https://privacy.iu.edu/privacy/global.html.

For additional information outlining how Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center collects, uses, and safeguards personal information obtained specifically through our website (https://bdsc.indiana.edu), please also review the information below.

Continued use of our website indicates consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of this information as described in this notice.

Visitors to other IU websites should review the privacy notices for the sites they visit, as other units at the university may collect and use visitor information in different ways. Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center is not responsible for the content of other websites or for the privacy practices of websites outside the scope of this notice.

Changes

Because Internet technologies continue to evolve rapidly, Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center may make appropriate changes to this notice in the future. Any such changes will be consistent with our commitment to respecting visitor privacy and will be clearly posted in a revised privacy notice.

Collection and Use

Passive/Automatic Collection

This website is hosted on the Indiana University Windows Hosting Environment (WHE). When you view webpages on our site, the WHE server may automatically collect technical information from your computer including:

  • your IP address
  • the domain name from which you visit our site
  • user-specific information on which pages are visited
  • aggregate information on pages visited
  • the referring website
  • the date and time of visit
  • the duration of visit
  • your browser type
  • your screen resolution

Continued use of our website indicates consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of this information as described in this notice.

Active/Manual/Voluntary Collection

Other than automatically collected technical information about your visit (described above, or cookies, described below), we may ask you to provide information voluntarily, such as through forms or other manual input—to create and maintain user accounts and to process orders for stocks. Your providing this information is wholly voluntary. However, not providing the requested information (or subsequently asking that the data be removed) will affect our ability to process orders and to provide accurate non-personalized data in aggregate to funding agencies. Providing the requested information indicates your consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of this information as described in this notice. Information we may actively collect could include:

  • email address
  • name
  • address
  • telephone number
  • information volunteered by the visitor, such as shipping preferences

We retain this information indefinitely to comply with governmental regulations and to help us evaluate stock use patterns in planning for the future.

This information is used:

  • for processing, billing, and shipping orders placed by you
  • to ensure compliance with export control policies
  • anonymized and in aggregate to report usage of the collection to funding agencies and the fly research community

Information Sharing

Access to user information is generally restricted to the management staff of the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center.

We may share user information with appropriate university personnel to ensure the quality, functionality, and security of our operation and website, for instance during routine audits.

We will provide contact information for recipients of specific stocks with patented components to patent holders for the purpose of investigating infringement.

We will provide personally identifiable information to other entities only as outlined in the IU global privacy policy (https://privacy.iu.edu/privacy/global.html), and only in consultation with appropriate university legal advisors.

We share anonymized, aggregated use statistics to funding agencies, our Scientific Advisory Board, and other relevant parties (usually for resource-development purposes).

Except as described above, we will not share any information with any party for any reason.

Information Used for Contact

If you provide your email address, you may receive periodic mailings from us with information, news, and announcements. We typically send no more than one or two mailings per year. You may opt out by sending an email to the address below. We may occasionally contact you regarding genetic issues with stocks you have ordered or other stock-related inquiries.

Cookies

A cookie is a small data file that is written to your hard drive that contains information about your visit to a web page. If you prefer not to receive cookies, you may configure your browser not to accept them, or to require your preapproval.

Our site uses cookies to record session information, specifically:

  • items that you add to your shopping cart
  • authentication information so that you stay logged into your account through a session

Use of Third-Party Services

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies (described above) to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including possibly your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google, Inc.

For more information, please visit Google's Privacy Policy.

Information reported by Google is used by us in aggregate to report usage of our site to funding agencies.

Children

This site is not directed to children under 13 years of age, does not sell products or services intended for purchase by children, and does not knowingly collect or store any personal information, even in aggregate, about children under the age of 13.

Security

Due to the rapidly evolving nature of information technologies, no transmission of data over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. While we are committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to university websites, and you do so at your own risk. However, once we receive your information, we will use reasonable safeguards consistent with prevailing industry standards and commensurate with the sensitivity of the data being stored to maintain the security of that information on our systems.

In addition, we will comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws regarding the privacy and security of visitor information.

Links to Non-University Sites

Indiana University is not responsible for the availability, content, or privacy practices of non-university sites. Non-university sites are not bound by this site privacy notice policy and may or may not have their own privacy policies.

Privacy Notice Changes

From time to time, we may use visitor information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice.

Contact Information

If you have questions or concerns about this policy, please contact us at:

flystock@iu.edu

If you feel that this site is not following its stated policy and communicating with us does not resolve the matter, or if you have general questions or concerns about privacy or information technology policy at Indiana University, please contact the Indiana University Information Policy Office, 812-855-UIPO, privacy@iu.edu.