Privacy Policy
Last Updated: March 31, 2025
At BioStacks, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website and use our services.
1. Information We Collect
Personal Information: When you create an account, we collect information such as your name, email address, and profile information.
User Content: We collect information you provide when creating supplement stacks, comments, and reviews.
Anonymous Usage Data: We automatically collect anonymous information about how you interact with our website, including the pages you visit and basic interaction patterns. This data is not linked to your personal identity and is only stored for the duration of your browser session.
Authentication Data: When you sign in with Google, we receive basic profile information from your Google account.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Provide, maintain, and improve our services
- Process your account registration and authenticate your identity
- Personalize your experience on BioStacks
- Respond to your comments, questions, and requests
- Send you notifications and updates about our services
- Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our services (using anonymous data only)
- Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities
3. Information Sharing and Disclosure
We may share your information in the following circumstances:
- With service providers who perform services on our behalf
- To comply with legal obligations
- To protect and defend our rights and property
- With your consent or at your direction
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes.
4. Data Storage and Security
We use Supabase, a secure database platform, to store your information. We implement appropriate security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.
5. Your Data Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:
- The right to access personal information we hold about you
- The right to request correction of inaccurate information
- The right to request deletion of your information
- The right to object to processing of your information
- The right to data portability
To exercise these rights, please contact us at hello@biostacks.co.
6. Analytics and Tracking
We use Vercel Analytics, a privacy-focused analytics platform, to collect anonymous usage data about how visitors interact with our website. Our analytics implementation is designed with privacy in mind:
- No Personal Information: Our analytics does not collect any personal information like names, email addresses, or user IDs.
- Privacy-First Approach: Vercel Analytics is designed to be privacy-compliant and minimally invasive.
- Aggregated Data Only: We only see aggregated, anonymous metrics about website usage.
- Minimal Data Collection: We only collect basic page views and interaction data.
This anonymous data helps us understand which features of our website are most useful and how we can improve the user experience without compromising your privacy.
7. Cookies and Local Storage
We use cookies and browser storage for essential functionality and to improve your experience:
- Authentication: To remember your login state
- Preferences: To store your website preferences
- Analytics: To store anonymous usage data during your current session only
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.
8. Children's Privacy
Our services are not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If we learn we have collected personal information from a child under 18, we will delete that information.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at hello@biostacks.co.