HGMD, Cardiff Biobase

Privacy policy

HGMD® is based in Cardiff (UK) and takes reasonable care to comply with the requirements of the UK Data Protection Act 1998 relating to the personal information you supply on This Site. Please note that as no data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.

Save as provided below, we will not sell, distribute or disclose information about you as an individual or your personal usage of This Site unless required or permitted to do so by law. The information we gather includes name, background, address, telephone number and email address. In addition to the information which you supply to us, information and data may be automatically collected to allow us to observe behaviour and compile aggregate data in order to improve This Site for you.

The information you supply to us will be used to provide you with an HGMD® username & password for access to the mutation data displayed on This Site. In addition, your details may be utilised for marketing purposes. Such marketing would only involve subscription to specific HGMD® products or services.

We would like you to keep the information we collect about you up-to-date. You may change any of the basic information we keep about you at any time by sending a request via our comment form. You are required to keep the HGMD® username & password for your own private use of This Site. If asked to disclose your username and password by a third party, please direct them to register with HGMD®. The HGMD® login uses session cookies to verify user access. Please make sure you have session cookies enabled in your browser settings. Session cookies are deleted once the session is closed.

Please note that we do provide links to other sites, which may not be governed by this Privacy Policy and you should view the particular privacy policies of those sites for further information.


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