Privacy & Cookies Statement

This Privacy & Cookies Statement describes how SUBSPACE collects, uses, shares, and otherwise processes Personal Data (defined below) about:

  • Visitors to our websites (the "Site")

  • Contact persons for our information and/or prospective members to SUBSPACE

  • Any other individuals about whom SUBSPACE obtains Personal Data

In this Privacy & Cookies Statement, "Personal Data" means information that (either in isolation or in combination with other information held by SUBSPACE) enables you to be identified as an individual or recognized directly or indirectly. 

The SUBtyping in SePsis And Critical illnEss (“SUBSPACE”) Consortium is organized and funded by Inflammatix, Inc. Further information about Inflammatix can be found at www.inflammatix.com.


Overview

Unless we specifically state otherwise, SUBSPACE is the data controller of the Personal Data we process and is therefore responsible for ensuring that the systems and processes we use are compliant with data protection laws, to the extent applicable to us.

SUBSPACE personnel are required to comply with this Privacy & Cookies Statement, associated SUBSPACE policies when dealing with Personal Data, and must also complete data protection training where appropriate to their role.


Summary of Key Points

Collection

We collect Personal Data from a number of sources in connection with the day-to-day management of our business and our commercial relationships. Click here to learn more. 

Use

We use Personal Data to respond to inquiries, to manage accounts and maintain business operations, to provide relevant marketing, and to fulfill other business and compliance purposes. Click here to learn more.

Sharing

We share Personal Data as necessary to respond to requests, and to fulfill other business and compliance purposes. Click here to learn more.

Cookies

We use cookies on our Sites, and provide choices on use of cookies. Click here to learn more.

Data Subject Rights

You have certain rights to request access, rectification, deletion, objection, or other actions regarding your Personal Data where required by applicable law. Click here to learn more. 

Data Security

We maintain technical and organizational measures to protect Personal Data from loss, misuse, alteration, or unintentional destruction of Personal Data. Click here to learn more.

Cross-Border Data Transfers

We provide appropriate protections for cross-border transfers where specified by law. Click here to learn more.

Other Issues

We provide other information in this Privacy & Cookies Statement about: (i) the possible consequences for not providing Personal Data, (ii) how we do not engage in automated decision-making that has substantial effects on individuals, (iii) how we handle do-not-track (DNT) signals, (iv) data retention, (v) links to third party websites, (vi) employee and contractor issues; and (vii) changes to this Privacy & Cookies Statement. Click here to learn more.

Contact Us

Please contact us as detailed below with any questions. Click here to learn more.

Collection of Personal Data

We collect the following categories of Personal Data about Site visitors, prospective members of SUBSPACE, and other third parties:

  • Basic data: Name, title, organization, job responsibilities, phone number, mailing address, email address, and contact details.

  • Registration data:  Newsletter requests, event/seminar registrations, subscriptions, and downloads.

  • Device data: Computer Internet Protocol (IP) address, unique device identifier (UDID), cookies and other data linked to a device, and data about usage of our Sites (usage data). 

We collect Personal Data from several sources, either directly from the data subjects, or from customers, colleagues, and publicly available sources. Where SUBSPACE receives data from its members or other individuals, the member is responsible for ensuring that any such data is transferred to us in compliance with applicable data protection laws.

Use of Personal Data

The purposes for which we use Personal Data, and the legal bases for such processing, are as follows:

  • To manage our operations and administer our member relationships we use basic data.  This processing is necessary in order to perform our obligations under our contracts with our members (e.g., reimbursing costs and coordinating communications).

  • To make our Sites more intuitive and easier to use we use device data.  It is necessary for our legitimate interests to monitor how our Sites are used to help us improve the layout and information available on our Sites and provide a better service to our Site users.

  • To protect the security and effective functioning of our Sites and information technology systems we use basic data, registration data, transaction data, and device data.  It is necessary for our legitimate interests to monitor how our Sites are used to detect and prevent fraud, other crimes, and the misuse of our Sites. This helps us to ensure that you can safely use our Sites.

  • To address compliance and legal obligations, such as complying with SUBSPACE's tax reporting obligations, checking the identity of new customers and vendors and to prevent money laundering and/or fraud we use compliance data, basic data, registration data, transaction data, and device data. This processing is necessary for the purposes of complying with legal requirements to which we are subject.

Sharing of Personal Data

We may share Personal Data with the following categories of recipients:

  • Affiliates: SUBSPACE is a consortium of researchers and institutions. It is organized and funded by Inflammatix, Inc., a Delaware corporation with headquarters located in California, with a subsidiary in Portugal, and a distributor network for the sale and distribution of SUBSPACE manufactured products. SUBSPACE may share Personal Data with Inflammatix to administer our relationship with you or otherwise as necessary for the purposes described above. 

  • Mandatory disclosures and legal claims: We share Personal Data to comply with SUBSPACE's tax reporting obligations, comply with any subpoena, court order or other legal process, to comply with a request from our regulators, governmental request or any other legally enforceable demand.  We also share Personal Data to establish or protect our legal rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of others, or to defend against legal claims.

If you have questions about the parties with which we share Personal Data, please contact us as specified below. 

Cookies

We use and engage certain providers to use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies (collectively, "cookies") on our Sites. 

What are cookies?
Cookies are small amounts of data that are stored on your browser, device, or the page you are viewing. Some cookies are deleted once you close your browser, while other cookies are retained even after you close your browser so that you can be recognized when you return to a website. More information about cookies and how they work is available at All About Cookies.

How do we use cookies?
We use cookies and allow certain third parties to place cookies on our Sites, in order to provide the Sites and services, gather information about your usage patterns when you navigate the Sites in order to enhance your personalized experience, and to understand usage patterns to improve our Sites, products, and services.  

Cookies on our Sites are generally divided into the following categories:

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the Site to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you such as setting your privacy preferences. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the Site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

  • Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our Site. They help us know which pages are most and least popular and see how visitors move around the Site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site and will not be able to monitor its performance. We use Google Analytics, and you can see below for how to control the use of cookies by Google Analytics. 

  • Targeting Cookies: These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

  • Cookie Pop Up – We use a cookie to determine if you have read our cookies consent pop up and to ensure we do not show it to you again when you dismiss it.

What are your options if you do not want cookies on your computer?
You can review your Internet browser settings, typically under the sections "Help" or "Internet Options," to exercise choices you have for certain cookies. If you disable or delete certain cookies in your Internet browser settings, you might not be able to access or use important functions or features of this Sites, and you may be required to re-enter your log-in details. 

To learn more about the use of cookies for Google analytics and to exercise choice regarding such cookies, please visit the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Data Subject Rights

If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA) you have the following rights:

  • Access. Subject to certain exceptions, you have the right to request a copy of the Personal Data we are processing about you, which we will provide to you in electronic form. At our discretion we may require you to prove your identity before providing the requested information.  If you require multiple copies of your Personal Data, we may charge a reasonable administration fee.

  • Rectification. You have the right to require that any incomplete or inaccurate Personal Data that we process about you is amended.

  • Deletion. You have the right to request that we delete Personal Data that we process about you, unless we are required to retain such data to comply with a legal obligation or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

  • Restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict our processing of your Personal Data where:

    • you believe such data to be inaccurate;

    • our processing is unlawful; or

    • we no longer need to process such data for a particular purpose, but where we are not able to delete the data due to a legal or other obligation or because you do not want us to delete it.

  • Portability. You have the right to request that we transmit the Personal Data we hold in respect of you to another data controller, where this is:

    • personal information which you have provided to us; and

    • we are processing that data based on your consent or in order to perform our obligations under contract to you (such as to provide legal services).

  • Objection. Where the legal justification for our processing of your Personal Data is our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to such processing on grounds relating to your situation.  We will abide by your request unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests and rights, or if we need to continue to process the data for the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal claim.

  • Withdrawing Consent.  If you have consented to our processing of your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, free of charge. This includes cases where you wish to opt out from marketing messages that you receive from us. 

If you are in the EEA you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the local data protection authority if you believe that we have not complied with applicable data protection laws. Access a list of local data protection authorities in EEA countries.

Data Security

We have implemented technical and organizational measures in an effort to safeguard the Personal Data in our custody and control. Such measures include:

  • restricting access to Personal Data to staff, affiliates, and service providers on a need-to-know basis; and

  • implemented policies and procedures for deploying, managing, and securing SUBSPACE's information technology infrastructure. 

While we endeavor to always protect our systems, sites, operations, and information against unauthorized access, use, modification, and disclosure, due to the inherent nature of the Internet as an open global communications vehicle and other risk factors, we cannot guarantee that any information, during transmission or while stored on our systems, will be safe from intrusion by others.

You also have an important role in protecting Personal Data. You should not share any username, password, or other authentication data provided to you with anyone, and we recommend that you do not re-use passwords across more than one website or application.  If you have any reason to believe that your username or password has been compromised, please contact us as detailed below.

Cross-Border Data Transfers

We transfer Personal Data to jurisdictions as necessary for the purposes described above, including to jurisdictions that may not provide the same level of data protection as your home country.  In particular, our Sites are hosted on servers in the United States. If you are located in a non-US jurisdiction, the transfer of Personal Data is necessary to provide you with the requested information or to perform any requested transaction. When you submit personal information to us you are transferring your data across borders.

With respect to transfers originating from the European Economic Area ("EEA") to the United States and other non-EEA jurisdictions, we implement standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission, and other appropriate solutions to address cross-border transfers as required or permitted by Articles 46 and 49 of the General Data Protection Regulation.  Where required by such laws, you may request a copy of the suitable mechanisms we have in place by contacting us as detailed below.


Your California Privacy Rights

In addition to other rights that may be provided to California residents, California law permits users of our websites who are California residents to request certain information about how their information is shared with third parties for direct marketing purposes. If you would like to make such a request, please email us at privacy@inflammatix.com.  

Other Issues

  1. What are the consequences of not providing Personal Data?
    You are not required to provide all Personal Data identified in this Privacy & Cookies Statement to use our Sites or to interact with us offline, but certain functionality will not be available if you do not provide Personal Data. If you do not provide Personal Data, we may not be able to respond to your request, provide legal services to you, or provide you with marketing that we believe you would find valuable.

  2. Do we engage in automated decision-making without human intervention?
    We do not use automated decision-making without human intervention, including profiling, in a way that produces legal effects concerning you or otherwise significantly affects you.

  3. Do the Sites honor do not track ("DNT") signals sent via browsers?
    Given the divergent practices of organizations that offer browsers and the lack of a standard in the marketplace, we generally do not respond to DNT signals at this time.

  4. How long do we retain Personal Data?
    We typically retain Personal Data related to marketing activities for as long as you accept marketing communications from us, and we will securely delete such data in accordance with applicable law upon request.  For Personal Data that we collect and process for other purposes, we will typically retain such Personal Data for as long as it is necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy & Cookies Statement and as otherwise specified in applicable record retention policies and procedures.

  5. Are third party websites governed by this Privacy & Cookies Statement?
    The Sites may contain links and references to other websites administered by unaffiliated third parties.  This Privacy & Cookies Statement does not apply to such third party sites.  When you click a link to visit a third party website, you will be subject to that website's privacy practices.  We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy and security practices of any linked third party websites before providing any Personal Data on that website.

  6. How does SUBSPACE handle employee and contractor privacy issues?
    Personal Data about our employees and contractors are addressed through internal SUBSPACE policies and procedures and are outside the scope of this Privacy & Cookies Statement.

  7. How will we handle any changes to this Privacy & Cookies Statement?
    We may update this Privacy & Cookies Statement from time to time as our services and privacy practices change, or as required by law.  The effective date of our Privacy & Cookies Statement is posted below, and we encourage you to visit our Sites periodically to stay informed about our privacy practices.  We will post the updated version of the Privacy & Cookies Statement on our Sites and ask for your consent to the changes if legally required.

Contact Us

If you have questions or comments regarding this Privacy & Cookies Statement or our privacy practices, please contact us here:

Legal Department - Data Privacy 
Inflammatix, Inc.
privacy@inflammatix.com

Effective date: April 2022