Cookies
Last updated: November 19, 2020
1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy applies to all the products, services, websites and apps offered by Bionsight
Bionsight Inc. (“us”, “we”, “our”) operates Bionsight, a biomedical cause & effect discovery engine (“application”, “service”, “platform”). Our platform enables researchers to validate causal claims & generate hypotheses in biomedical systems.
We use cookies to measure, analyse and eventually improve www.Bionsight.com. This document explains how we do that.
2. What is a cookie
A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your browser by a website you visit. It helps the website to remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings. Most browsers support cookies, but users can set their browsers to decline them and may delete them whenever they like.
3. How we use cookies
3a. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a user analytics software service provided by Google, to collect usage information and analyze how visitors engage with www.Bionsight.com.
Google Analytics sets the following cookies:
_ga used to distinguish users
_gid used to distinguish users
_gat used to throttle request rate
3b. Hotjar
We use Hotjar, a behaviour-analytics software service provided by Hotjar Ltd, to better understand our users’ behaviour and optimize the user-experience of our website. Hotjar provides answers to questions such as “how much time users spend on which pages”, “which links they choose to click”, “what they do and don’t like”, thus enabling us to build and maintain our service with qualitative user feedback.
Hotjar uses cookies as described at https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011789248-Hotjar-Cookies.
Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf. For further details, please see the “about Hotjar” section of Hotjar’s support site.
3c. Cookie Consent Dialog
The first time you visit our website you will be presented with a dialog to accept the use of cookies according to the EU user consent policy. We store your answer on a cookie labeled cookie_consent to prevent the dialog from reappearing.
3d. Vimeo
We host our demo video on Vimeo, an external video hosting service. Vimeo sets various cookies as described at https://vimeo.com/cookie_list.
3e. Hubspot
We use Hubspot a customer relation management (CRM) software service provided by Hubspot Inc, to power our contact forms and capture user responses (e.g. webinar subscriptions).
Hubspot uses cookies as described at https://knowledge.hubspot.com/reports/what-cookies-does-hubspot-set-in-a-visitor-s-browser.
4. How to control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for further details please visit aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed.