Privacy policy
Welcome to the Allen Cell Explorer website, a data portal for the Allen Institute for Cell Science, at allencell.org (the "Site").
We provide the Content on our Site as free open resources as a public courtesy. By using the Site, you consent to the collection, storage and disclosure of information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to this collection, storage and disclosure, do not use the Site. We may change the Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice, and your continued use of the Site following any changes is an agreement by you to the change in the Privacy Policy. Any term that is capitalized but is not defined in this Privacy Policy is defined in the Terms of Use. This Site also uses third-party cloud-based applications, which have their own privacy policies. See more information about these third-party cloud-based applications, below.
We provide the Content on our Site as free open resources as a public courtesy. By using the Site, you consent to the collection, storage and disclosure of information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to this collection, storage and disclosure, do not use the Site. We may change the Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice, and your continued use of the Site following any changes is an agreement by you to the change in the Privacy Policy. Any term that is capitalized but is not defined in this Privacy Policy is defined in the Terms of Use. This Site also uses third-party cloud-based applications, which have their own privacy policies. See more information about these third-party cloud-based applications, below.
Cookies
We may place small data files called "cookies" or other similar technologies in the browser file of your computer's hard drive. These cookies automatically identify your browser to our server when you interact with the Site. We use and store the cookies to carry information about usage from page to page through the Site. We do not use cookies to retrieve personal information about you from your computer. By using our Site, you consent to the storing and accessing of cookies on your computer or device. Information Collection There are two types of information that we collect: information automatically recorded by our computer server and information you provide to us.
Information collection
There are two types of information that we collect: information automatically recorded by our computer server and information you provide to us.
Information automatically recorded
For all visitors to the Site, our servers log your Internet Protocol ("IP") address as well as traffic and website use statistics. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer every time you browse the Internet. We also use the data collected according to our agreement with Google to use a web analysis service, called Google Analytics, to provide us with data for how our Site is used. When you visit this Site, your web browser automatically sends certain information to Google, for example, the web address of the page that you're visiting and your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. Google may also set cookies on your browser or read cookies that are already there. For more information about how Google uses your data when visiting our Site please go to Google’s privacy policy located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. By using this Site, you consent to this collection of data from your computer or device. You may choose to opt out of the Google Analytics service by downloading and installing the add-on for your web browser located at this website: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout .
Information you provide
We collect any additional information that you provide to us about yourself through an email, form, survey, or other written means that includes questions, information, feedback and/or other comments.
Information use
We may use the information we collect to administer and improve our websites, as aggregate statistics in our public communications or as otherwise disclosed below. Please be assured we will not sell or rent information collected during your visits to the Site to any third party. However, we may use such information or provide such information to a third party under limited circumstances, as disclosed below.
Information automatically recorded
We use general aggregate traffic and website usage statistics derived from automatically collected mechanisms, including cookies, for statistical reporting. For example, we may publicly report usage trends and names of organizations that use the Site (based on IP addresses), though we will not connect specific activity on the Site with specific users or user's organizations. We may share such reports with organizations with which we have a business relationship and in our public communications. We use the aggregate traffic and website usage information to help us understand usage and allow us to make improvements to the Site. In all cases, our use of the information is not personally identifying; however, we may identify the user or the user's organization via the domain name associated with the IP address, but we will not reveal how a specific user or user's organization is using the Site. We use stored IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our servers and otherwise to administer the Site and to collect aggregate traffic and website usage information. In addition, Google uses the information automatically recorded by Google Analytics to provide us with information about how the Site are used.
Information you provide
If you choose to provide us with additional information through an email message, form, survey, or other written means, we will never provide your personally identifying information to a third party without your knowledge and consent. We may use this submitted information to contact you for more information, to request your consent to use your name in order to improve our services and Site, to provide testimonials about our work, or to ask if you will allow future communication from us. If you provide questions, information, feedback and/or other comments to us in an email or in other electronic form, we may disclose non-identifying information that you provide in the form of a testimonial, for technical troubleshooting, or other internal and external purposes to improve our services and report on usage of the Site without your consent, but in all such cases, it would be anonymous and would not include any personally identifying information about you unless you have provided consent to use your name.
Use of third-party cloud-based applications
This Site also incorporates the use of several third-party cloud-based applications (“External Applications”), including: BisQue, threejs, DeepZoom, Bokeh®, 20-20, jQuery®, Sass, Weebly®, bootstrap, pages.js, and handlebars.js. The specific External Applications used by our Site may change. Each of these External Applications may have additional policies that affect your privacy, including that the External Applications may gather statistics based on your image viewing or uploads, your computer’s IP address and name, the type and version of your web browser, operating system, clickstream data, date and time stamp, referrer address, page views, general statistical and tracking information, and other information. In specific, this Site is built on Weebly. This information gathered about you may be used by Weebly for providing product and service, identification and authentication, service operation, analytics and improvements, support, contact, research and anonymous reporting.
For some of these External Applications, you may be directed to the External Application website, which will have its own privacy policy. Your use of this Site may include access to the website or technology of one or more of the External Applications and your continued use of the Site is an agreement by you to the gathering of information and use of your information by those External Applications.
In addition to the External Applications, we use a third-party service (“Site Vendor”) to host our servers for this Site. Data generated by your use of this Site is considered our content under our agreement with the Site Vendor and falls under this Privacy Policy, and will only be used by the Site Vendor if it is legally required for maintaining the hosting service.
For some of these External Applications, you may be directed to the External Application website, which will have its own privacy policy. Your use of this Site may include access to the website or technology of one or more of the External Applications and your continued use of the Site is an agreement by you to the gathering of information and use of your information by those External Applications.
In addition to the External Applications, we use a third-party service (“Site Vendor”) to host our servers for this Site. Data generated by your use of this Site is considered our content under our agreement with the Site Vendor and falls under this Privacy Policy, and will only be used by the Site Vendor if it is legally required for maintaining the hosting service.