You are required to agree to the Terms and Conditions, legal disclaimer, privacy policy, cookie policy, and copyright policy prior to use of the website. We may modify Terms and Conditions at any time by posting the revised “Terms & Conditions” at: findmyresearch.com. All changes will be effective immediately after we post them. You are required to agree to the changes to the Terms and Conditions prior to further use of the website. For purposes of these terms and conditions, Findmyresearch LLC and Findmyreasearch.com are the same entity.

1. PLATFORM

Findmyresearch.com operates as a platform connecting users searching for clinical research to assist with (i.e. students/trainees), and users who are searching for assistance in completing their research projects (i.e. project owners/posters).

2. MEMBERSHIP ELIGIBILITY

2.1 If you are a minor i.e. under the age of 18 years, you will not be able to register as a user and/or member of Findmyresearch.com and cannot transact on or use the website. If you are above the age of 18, you can use the site or services only in conjunction with, and under the supervision of, your parent or guardian who has agreed to the Terms. If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child under the age of 18, you may use the site or services on behalf of such minor child.

2.2 By using the site or services on behalf of a minor child, you represent and warrant that you are the parent or legal guardian of such child. If you do not qualify under these terms, do not use the site or services. Membership in the services is void where prohibited by applicable law, and the right to access the site is revoked in such jurisdictions.

2.3 By using the site and/or the services, you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority, and capacity to enter into these Terms and to abide by all of the Terms set forth herein. You agree: (a) to provide accurate, current, and complete information about you as may be prompted by a registration form on the website ("Registration Data"); (b) to maintain the security of your password and identification; (c) to maintain and promptly update the Registration Data and any information you provide to Findmyresearch.com, to keep it accurate, current and complete; and (e) to accept all risks of unauthorized access to information and Registration Data.

3. PROVIDE ACCURATE INFORMATION

Information you provide is defined by any information you provide to us or other users in the registration, offering or posting process, in any public message area or through any email feature. You are solely responsible for your information, and we act as a passive conduit for your information. Information you provide or any requests and services you post on the site should not: (1) be false, inaccurate or misleading; (2) be fraudulent; (3) infringe any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy; (4) violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, discrimination or false advertising); (5) be defamatory, trade libelous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing; (6) be obscene (7) contain any viruses or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information; (8) create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services; (9) link directly or indirectly to or include descriptions of goods or services that: are prohibited under this Agreement; You may not post any request on the site (or consummate any transaction that was initiated using our service) that could cause us to violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation.

4. BREACH

Findmyresearch.com may limit your activity, immediately remove your request postings, issue a warning to our users of your actions, suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if: (1) you breach this Agreement or the documents it incorporates by reference; (2) we are unable to verify or authenticate any information to us; (3) we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us.

5. SERVICE RESTRICTIONS

5.1You shall not access, store, distribute or transmit any viruses, or any material during the course of your use of the site that: (a) is unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, infringing, harassing or racially or ethnically offensive; (b) facilitates illegal activity; (c) depicts sexually explicit images; (d) promotes unlawful violence; (e) is discriminatory based on race, gender, color, religious belief, sexual orientation, disability; (f) is otherwise illegal or causes damage or injury to any person or property; or (g) seek to elicit, solicit, collect, detect, use or disclose any information that alone or in combination with other data could identify or locate an individual and that Findmyresearch.com reserves the right, without liability or prejudice to its other rights to you, to disable your access to any material that breaches the provisions of this clause.

5.2You shall not: (a) except as may be allowed by any applicable law which is incapable of exclusion by agreement between the parties and except to the extent expressly permitted under this agreement: (i) attempt to copy, modify, duplicate, create derivative works from, frame, mirror, republish, download, display, transmit, or distribute all or any portion of services in any form or media or by any means; (ii) attempt to de-compile, reverse compile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise reduce to human-perceivable form all or any part of the services; (b) access all or any part of the services in order to build a product or service which competes with the services; (c) use the services to provide services to third parties; (d) license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, display, disclose, or otherwise commercially exploit, or otherwise make the services available to any third party except the Authorised Users.

5.3You are forbidden from Using the database for any purpose other than to personally find a research project to work on or to post a research that you need help with. You are explicitly forbidden to:

Send commercial or unsolicited email or initiate telephone or other forms of communication.

Communications requesting the employers or subscribers to post information on competing services is expressly prohibited.

5.4You are forbidden from attempting to transmit unsolicited or commercial emails, faxes, or phone calls, for any purpose other than:

Communicating with a project owner to find out more about a research project and participate in said project.

Project owners can then communicate with applicants after they have been reached out to.

6. DISCLAIMER

6.1You agree that when posting your project (as a project owner/poster) you shall be solely responsible and/or liable for all information and/or content you post about a project. This include issues pertaining to credibility and legitimacy. Further to that, as the project owner/poster you are also responsible and/or liable for ensuring that all paperwork, training, and/or authorization that is necessary for both clinical research approval as well as accessing protect health information (PHI) in your project (i.e. IRBs, CITI training, HIPAA training, etc) has been performed by not only yourself but also anyone assisting you with the project, including students/trainees that contact you and choose to help with your project via this platform. The findmyresearch.com team is NOT responsible or liable for ensuring that the appropriate paperwork, training, and/or authorization that is necessary for accessing PHI is performed for any project - this responsibility falls directly on both the project poster and the student/trainee assisting with the project. Finally, you also agree that by posting your project, you have obtained appropriate permission for your institution to do so, and you verify understanding that findmyreseach.com has no intention of accessing or obtaining any intellectual property of yours or your institution.

6.2If you are posting a project that is not your own, or on someone else’s behalf, you verify understanding that the entirety of article 6.1 applies to the person whose contact info will be given for trainees/students to contact. You verify that you have obtained permission to post the project from the person who will be the point of the contact for the project (and whose contact info will be written on the website).

6.3If you are a student/trainee who is accepting to help a project owner/poster with their project, you are yourself responsible and/or liable for ensuring that all paperwork, training, and/or authorization that is necessary for accessing PHI in the project you are assisting with (i.e. IRBs, CITI training, HIPAA training, etc) are performed. Again, the findmyresearch.com team is NOT responsible or liable for ensuring that the appropriate paperwork, training, and/or authorization that is necessary for accessing PHI is performed for any project - this responsibility falls directly on both the project poster and the student/trainee assisting with the project.

6.4You are also liable for ensuring there are no HIPAA violations that happen in the course of your communication and no PHI is disclosed on our site. Be advised that Findmyresearch.com does not permit any PHI on its site, nor is PHI permitted outside the platform on any other medium of communication. By posting and/or accepting a project, you hereby assume all responsibility for guaranteeing there is no HIPAA violations and/or PHI disclosures both on and off the site.

6.5You hereby acknowledge that Findmyresearch.com is not liable for ensuring the point of contact of the project consented to be contacted for purposes of the specific project. This responsibility shall be placed on the poster (if the poster and the point of contact are not the same person).

6.6You acknowledge that any communications that occur between a trainee/student, and a project owner or point of contact are at the parties own risk. Findmyresearch.com is not responsible for the contents or subjects of any communication between parties on or off the platform.

7. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

7.1Findmyresearch.com acknowledges that ownership of your content and ownership of all intellectual property rights in any content and/or materials shall remain vested in you. You hereby grant Findmyresearch.com a non-exclusive license during the term of your use of this service.

7.2You acknowledge that all intellectual property rights in the Findmyresearch.com intellectual property rights shall be owned and remain the property of and vested in Findmyresearch.com.

7.3This is merely a platform connecting users searching for clinical research projects to assist on (i.e. students/trainees), and users who are searching for assistance in completing their research projects (i.e. project owners/posters). Findmyresearch.com has no intention to gain intellectual property rights of any research project / project owner, nor infringe on any academic institution’s intellectual property.

7.4Members and website visitors are forbidden from redistributing any information supplied by Findmyresearch.com (other than your own project). This restriction includes information published on Findmyresearch.com web site, or sent in the form emails or SMS phone messages. This includes, but is not limited to, information about: research projects, information about users. The member is charged with the responsibility of protecting the content from being copied or redistributed. This includes, but is not limited to, clearing browser's cache after each use, taking all necessary steps to protect against unauthorized access to the subscriber's computer, ensuring the security of the login password, etc.

8. INDEMNITY

You shall, at your sole expense, indemnify, defend and hold Findmyresearch.com harmless from and against any loss, cost, damages, liability or expense arising out of or relating to or arising directly or indirectly out of or in connection with: (i) your use of the services, including your reliance on any information or materials obtained through the use of the service; (ii) your breach of this Agreement; or (iii) testing or using third party services.

9. PRIVACY

Findmyresearch.com does not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent and we only use your information as described in the Privacy Policy. If you object to your information being transferred or used in this way, please do not use our services.

10. LIABILITY LIMIT

10.1In no event will Findmyresearch.com, be liable for lost profits or any special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of or in connection with our site, our services or this agreement (however arising, including negligence).

10.2You understand that Findmyresearch.com through its team vets all projects as best as we can. However, we shall not be held liable for the accuracy, credibility and legitimacy of the research projects presented on Findmyresearch.com. You are obligated to carry out personal due diligence on all projects you post and all projects that you engage in. In addition to that, despite the fact that we vet all users i.e. students and/or trainees, we are not liable for the credibility of the said users. You are required to carry out personal due diligence on all users you engage on our platform.

1. NO WARRANTY

1.1Please note that this is Findmyresearch.com disclaimer of legal liability for the quality or reliability of the services.

1.2Findmyresearch.com makes no representation or warranty about the services, including any representation that the services will be uninterrupted or error-free and provide the services (including content and information) on “as is” and “as available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, we disclaim any implied or statutory warranty, including any implied or statutory warranty, including any implied warranty of title, accuracy of data, non-infringement, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

2. EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY

2.1Please note that these are the limits of legal liability Findmyresearch.com may have to you.

2.2To the fullest extent permitted by law, Findmyresearch.com will not be liable in connection with this agreement for any loss or damage or any indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages.

2.3Findmyresearch.com will not be liable to you in connection with this agreement.

3. DISCLAIMER AND LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES

3.1The site may contain information provided to Findmyresearch.com by third parties. This information is provided on the site for your convenience only and Findmyresearch.com makes no warranties or representations as to the accuracy, reliability or completeness of such information.

3.2The site also may contain links to other third-party sites, which may offer other services. These links are provided for your convenience only. Findmyresearch.com has no responsibility for these third party websites or content contained therein.

4. BASIS OF THE BARGAIN; EXCLUSIONS

The Limitations of Liability contained herein are part of the basis of the bargain between you and us and shall apply to all claims of liability (e.g., tort, contract, negligence and warranty) even if we have been told of the possibility of any such damage and even if these remedies fail their essential purpose.

5. SEVERABILITY

In the event any provision or part of this Disclaimer is found to be invalid or unenforceable, only that particular provision or part so found, and not the entire Disclaimer, will be inoperative.

1. OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY

Our Privacy Policy tells you what personally identifiable information Matrix Codes AG may collect from you, how Matrix Codes AG may process your personally identifiable information, how you can limit Matrix Codes AG use of your personally identifiable information, and your rights to obtain, modify and/or delete any personally identifiable information we have collected from you.

2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

2.1 Information you provide Matrix Codes AG

Matrix Codes AG collects personal information when you request information about our services or otherwise voluntarily provide such information through our site.

2.2 Information Collected Automatically

When you use our site, we automatically collect certain information by the interaction of your mobile device or web browser with our platform.

2.3 Cookies

Matrix Codes AG may use cookies, web beacons, behavioral advertising or similar technology to track your use of its website.

The website places cookies, which are small data files, on your computer or handheld device. Cookies are essential for helping us deliver a high quality website and online experience for our users, and some collect information about browsing behavior.

3. HOW INFORMATION IS USED

When Matrix Codes AG uses or processes personal data about you, it does so only as necessary to provide the services you use or otherwise with your consent, to comply with applicable law, or to fulfill other legitimate interests of you or us as described in this Policy. Through our site, you will be provided with the choice of which types of communications you will receive with us, and the ability to change those choices whenever you want.

3.1 Information Matrix Codes AG processes with your consent

Through certain actions when otherwise there is no contractual relationship between us, such as when you browse our site or ask us to provide you more information about our business, you provide your consent to us to process information that may be personally identifiable information.
Wherever possible, we aim to obtain your explicit consent to process this information, for example, by asking you to agree to our use of Cookies or to receive communications from us.

3.2 Legally Required Releases of Information

Matrix Codes AG may be legally required to disclose your personally identifiable information, if such disclosure is (a) required by law, or other legal process; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to investigate violations of or otherwise enforce our Legal Terms; (d) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties including you; and/or (e) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal/real property, or personal safety of our company, clients, third party partners, employees, and affiliates.

4. WHO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH

In order to provide our services, we may need to provide your information to our trusted third-party partners, for example:

4.1 Matrix Codes AG will cooperate with all third parties to enforce their intellectual property or other rights. We will also cooperate with law enforcement requests from within or outside your country of residence.

4.2 Matrix Codes AG shall not sell, share, hire or otherwise deal in any of your personal information with third parties unless you give us specific permission to do so when you register or through a subsequent affirmative confirmation on the Services.

5. CONTROLLING YOUR INFORMATION

5.1 You may exercise any of the rights described in this section by sending an email to us. Please note that we will ask you to verify your identity before taking further action on your request. Matrix Codes AG tries to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

5.2 Rectification of Inaccurate or Incomplete Information. You have the right to ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal information concerning you.

5.3 Data Access and Portability. You have the right to request copies of your personal information held by us. You may also be entitled to request copies of personal information that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and/or request us to transmit this information to another service provider (where technically feasible).

5.4 Data Retention and Erasure. We generally retain your personal information for a period of six years after your last active use of our website (in line with our legal obligation to keep order information for this duration for tax, legal reporting and auditing obligations). If you no longer want us to keep your information, you can request that we erase your personal information.

6. OBTAINING, CHANGING OR DELETING YOUR INFORMATION

6.1 Access to your personal information

To obtain a copy of all information we maintain about you, you may send us a request using the contact information at the end of this Policy or, if available, through a tool on our site. After receiving the request, we will tell you when we expect to provide you with the information, and whether we require any fee for providing it to you.

6.2 Remove or Change your Information

If you wish us to remove or change personally identifiable information that you have provided us, you may contact us at the contact information at the end of this Policy or if available through a tool on our site.

6.3 Verification of your Information

When Matrix Codes AG receives any request to access, edit or delete personally identifiable information, we will first take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or otherwise taking any action. This is important to safeguard your information.

7. RETENTION PERIOD FOR PERSONAL DATA

Except as otherwise mentioned in this Policy, we keep your personally identifiable information only for as long as required:

to provide you with the services you have requested, or otherwise to perform or enforce a contract between us;

to continue to provide the best possible user experience to visitors who return to our site to collect information;

to comply with other law, including for any period demanded by tax authorities; or

to support a claim or defense in any court or in any legal, regulatory or administrative proceeding.

8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

You assume the sole risk of transmitting your information as it relates to the use of this site, and for any data corruptions, intentional interceptions, intrusions or unauthorized access to information, or of any delays, interruptions to or failures preventing the use this site. In no event shall we (the Findmyresearch.com team) be liable for any direct, indirect, special, consequential or monetary damages, including fees, and penalties in connection with your use of materials posted on this site or connectivity to or from this site to any other site.

9. PROTECTING YOUR CHILD’S PRIVACY

Even though our site is not designed for use by anyone under the age of 18, we realize that a child may attempt to access the site. Matrix Codes AG does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from a child. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child is using our site, please contact us. Matrix Codes AG may ask for proof of identification before we remove any information to prevent malicious removal of information. If we discover on our own that a child is accessing our site, we will delete the information as soon as we discover it, we will not use the information for any purpose, and we will not disclose the information to third parties.

10. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Matrix Codes AG reserves the right to change this privacy policy at any time. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on the site so our users are always aware of what information we collect, use, and disclose.

Please read the following carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your personal information and how Findmyresearch.com will treat it. By using or accessing our site and services, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time and your continued use of our site and services is deemed to be acceptance of such changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

1. ABOUT COOKIES

A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that is placed on the hard disk of your computer by a web page server, enabling the web server to identify your web browser and passively track its activities on that website. A cookie does not reveal any personally identifiable information that you have not otherwise disclosed. Cookies do not contain any executable code and cannot be used for infecting your computer with a virus. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies but usually provide the option of configuring your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is sent. You can change your settings in the preferences or options menu of your browser. If you choose to decline cookies, certain features of our site may not be available to you.

2. HOW DOES FINDMYRESEARCH.COM USE COOKIES?

2.1In line with standard industry practice, we use cookies to track site usage. We use cookies that are strictly necessary to enable/allow you to move around our site. Findmyresearch.com also uses cookies to improve your experience by remembering your details so that you do not need to keep re-entering them when navigating our website.

2.2One of the reasons this site uses cookies is to make sure that people are not counted double. This analytics cookie does not store any personal details like your name or email address. It’s just there to help us find out what’s popular among site visitors.

3. COOKIES THAT FINDMYRESEARCH.COM USES

3.1Findmyresearch.com uses a few services to help us understand how people use our site and the problems they might encounter as they use it.

3.1.1Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics (which uses cookies) to help us understand what actions people take when they are using the site, and information about the device the user is using to access the site. All of the data we track in Google Analytics is anonymous and there is no personal identifying information contained therein. To opt out of our usage of Google Analytics, you can use this opt-out tool from Google. Google has more information about the cookies they use and how you can be aware of what's being tracked.

3.2Findmyresearch.com uses cookies for the following purposes:
(a) Authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our site and as you navigate our site;
(b) Status – we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our site;
(c) Personalization – we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalize the site for you;
(d) Security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect users.

4. HOW TO DELETE COOKIES

You can control your cookies, delete them and reject them in the settings of your browser.

5. ACCEPTANCE

Your access to and use of Findmyresearch.com is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Cookie Policy. These Terms apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use the website.

1. ACCEPTING THESE TERMS

This document, our rules, policies and the other documents referenced make up our copyrights. The copyright terms are a legally binding contract between you and us. Please read them carefully.

2. CHANGES

Findmyresearch.com may amend the copyright terms at any time by posting a revised version. The revised version will be effective at the time we post it.

3. COPY RIGHT

You acknowledge that the site contains information, data, photographs, graphics and other material (collectively “Content”) that are protected by copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, rights in databases and/or other proprietary rights, and that these rights are valid and protected in all forms, media and technologies existing now or hereinafter developed.

All Content is copyrighted as a collective work under copyright laws, and we own a copyright and/or database right in the selection, coordination, arrangement, presentment and enhancement of such Content. You may not modify, remove, delete, augment, add to, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works from or adaptations of, or in any way exploit any of the Content, in whole or in part. If no specific restrictions are displayed, you may make copies of select portions of the Content, provided that the copies are made only for your personal use and that you maintain any notices contained in the Content, such as all copyright notices, trademark legends, or other proprietary rights notices.

Nothing contained on the Site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use the Site or any information displayed on the Site, through the use of framing, deep linking or otherwise, except: (a) as expressly permitted by these Terms; or (b) with our prior written permission or the prior written permission from such third party that may own the trademark or copyright of information displayed on the site.

4. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

Findmyresearch.com is committed to complying with copyright and related laws and require all visitors and users to comply with these laws. Accordingly, you may not use the website to store any material or content, or disseminate any material or content, in any manner that constitutes an infringement of third party intellectual property rights.

5. ASSIGNMENT

You may not assign or transfer these Copyrights Terms or your rights under these Copyrights Terms, in whole or in part, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. We may assign these Copyrights Terms, or any of our rights and obligations under the Copyrights Terms, at any time without consent.

6. LIMITATIONS

In no event will Findmyresearch.com be liable to you for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages (including damages for loss of profits, goodwill, or any other intangible loss) arising out of or relating to your access to or use of, or your inability to access or use, the website or products, whether based on warranty, contract, tort (including negligence), statute, or any other legal theory, and whether or not we have been informed of the possibility of damage.

7. ENTIRE AGREEMENT

This Agreement contains the entire agreement and understanding among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements, understandings, inducements and conditions, express or implied, oral or written, of any nature whatsoever with respect to the subject matter hereof.