Privacy Policy

This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how (“Asothia”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, shares and protects information about you when you use our website, products and services (collectively, the “Services”).

Our Services

Asothia provides intelligent matching services. Asothia is available at and other associated domains.

Information Asothia Collects

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances: Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you. Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests. Where we need to comply with a legal obligation. Where we have your consent, when processing Special Categories of Data or when the law requires us to seek your consent before sending marketing emails to you. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us. When you visit our website, we may collect certain information automatically from your device. This information may include your IP address, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser-type, broad geographic location (e.g. country or city-level location), and other technical information. We may also collect information about how your device has interacted with our website, including the pages accessed and links clicked. Collecting this information enables us to better understand the visitors who come to our website, where they come from, and what content is of interest to them. We use this information for our internal analytics purposes and to improve the quality and relevance of our website to our visitors.

If you Sign up for Early Access on our website, we will collect certain information from you, including your name and email address. We use this information to provide you with access to your account and to provide you with customer support. This information will be necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and provide relevant information to our customers, for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud, to enforce our Terms and Conditions or other legal rights, and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise, to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy).

If you participate in our Grant Matching Questionnaire, we will collect the following categories of personal information:

Personal Identifying Information: Your name, email address, nationality, and age.
Professional Information: Details pertaining to your career stage and your research area, including your disciplinary area, clinical conditions studies, bios, abstracts, and specific clinical conditions.
Funding Preferences: Information related to the type of funding you are seeking.

The primary purpose of collecting this information is to enhance our matching service, enabling us to provide you with the most precise and relevant grant matches based on your specified criteria. Consequently, the collection and processing of this data are necessary for the performance of a contract between you and Asothia. By participating in the Grant Matching Questionnaire, you enter into an agreement with us, allowing us to use this information explicitly for the purpose of facilitating grant matches tailored to your requirements.

Information Asothia Does Not Collect

We do not knowingly collect any sensitive information from you, such as information about your race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion, or health.

Sharing of Information

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise share your personal information with third parties, except as described in this Policy. We may share your personal information with the following types of third parties:

Service providers: We may share your personal information with service providers that perform certain services on our behalf. For example, we may use service providers to help us operate our website, send email or other communications, process payments, or provide customer support.

Analytics service providers: We may share your personal information with analytics service providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our website. Asothia uses Google Analytics: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Third-party links

This website and the Asothia website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website or app, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

Security

We take reasonable measures to protect the personal information that we collect from you. Data is stored securely on Amazon Web Services. However, no security measure is perfect, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may change this Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will post the revised Policy on our website and update the “Last updated” date above. We encourage you to review the Policy whenever you access or use our Services or otherwise interact with us to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us at info@asothia.com.

Last updated: 9 January 2024