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Privacy Policy

Updated: 21/04/25

This privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) describes the practices of Bare Science (“Bare Science,” “we,” “our,” and “us”) concerning the personal Information we collect from or about you when you use our websites or services (collectively, the “Services”).

By using our Site, users agree that they consent to:

  1. Conditions set out in this Privacy Policy.

What information do we collect?

Like many websites, Bare Science collects information on how site visitors use the site. This is to monitor and improve website operations. This may include seeing how many visitors are on our site per month, for how long they stay on the website, and if they engage with the website's content.

We collect your first and last name and email address when you sign up as a subscriber or member for our newsletters through Stripe. We will also collect your email address and any information that you provide if you choose to contact us, such as if you submit feedback.

Payment details and information are collected, processed, and handled by the third party 'Stripe.' These payment details are the ones you provide when you fill out your payment details when paying for a membership for Bare Science.

We receive transaction information when you make a purchase using the services. We collect information about the transaction, such as the purchase amount, the service purchased, and the date of purchase.

Stripe has its main headquarters in San Francisco, California, and Dublin, Ireland, as well as other locations around the world. We do not control where and how they use your personal information. It is suggested to read their privacy policy and terms and conditions.

All information collected on the website, as mentioned in this privacy policy, may also be collected and viewed by "Ghost," the website provider and builder for Bare Science. It is suggested to read the "Ghost" privacy policy and terms and conditions.

Personal information you automatically provide when you use the Services:

  • Bare Science may collect information that your browser or device automatically sends us when you interact with the Services, such as your IP address, your browser type and settings, and the date and time of your interaction with the Services. Certain of our vendors may collect this information on our behalf.
  • Bare Science may collect information about the way you use the Services, such as the frequency of your use, the types of content that you view or engage with, the actions you take, and ways in which you navigate the Services. Certain of our vendors may collect this information on our behalf.
  • The website may collect information about the device you use to interact with the Services, such as the name of the device, the device’s unique identifiers (e.g., IDFA or Android ID), and its operating system. Certain of our vendors may collect this information on our behalf.
  • The website may collect information about your general location that we infer from your IP address. Certain of our vendors may collect this information on our behalf.

Personal information we receive from third parties:

We may also collect Personal Information when it is provided to us by the vendors we use in connection with providing you the Services. We may combine the Personal Information you provide us, either directly or automatically, when you use or interact with the Services, with the Personal Information we obtain from such third parties.

How do we use information?

Bare Science may also use your personal information to:

  • To provide, maintain, improve, and enhance the Services;
  • To communicate with you, provide you with updates and other information related to the Services, provide information that you request, respond to comments and questions, and otherwise provide support;
  • To understand and analyse how you use the Services and to develop new products, services, and features;
  • To investigate and prevent fraud and respond to trust and safety issues that may arise;
  • To process transactions with you;
  • To protect the safety and integrity of our users, employees, other parties, members of the public, and the Services;
  • For marketing purposes;
  • To conduct analysis and develop insights that enable us to operate, protect, make informed decisions, and report on our business;
  • For compliance purposes, including enforcing our legal rights, or as may be required by applicable laws and regulations, or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency; and
  • For any other purpose for which we provide notice to you.

Aggregated or De-Identified Information: We may aggregate or de-identify Personal Information so that it can no longer be used to identify you. We may use aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose, including, without limitation, to improve and add features to the Services, to conduct research, and for other similar purposes. We may also share aggregated or de-identified information with third parties, including, without limitation, advertisers, promotional partners, sponsors, and event promoters. We may collect aggregated or de-identified information through the Services, through cookies, and other means described in this Privacy Policy. We will maintain and use aggregated or de-identified information in an anonymous or de-identified form, and we will not attempt to re-identify the information, unless required by law.

Bare Science may also use the information we collect to comply with the law and to maintain the security of the Site. Finally, we may use the information we collect with your consent or as otherwise disclosed at the time information is collected.

Stripe only uses your payment information to complete the purchases of membership and any other services that you have chosen to purchase from Bare Science.

We may share the information we collect with other parties, including the following:

  • With third-party service providers who process data on our behalf, such as email service providers and payment methods like "Stripe".
  • Under a subpoena, court order, governmental enquiry, or other legal process, or as otherwise required by law, or to protect our rights or the rights of third parties; and
  • With your consent or as otherwise disclosed at the time of data collection or sharing.
  • We may share information that has been de-identified or aggregated without limitation.
  • Share Information on how many overall visitors, subscribers, and memberships the website receives without identifying any individuals or groups.

The website may provide a link to a 'third-party' website or apps. We do not control the privacy practices of those websites or apps, and they are not covered by this Privacy Policy. You should review the privacy policies of other websites or apps that you use to learn about their data practices.

The Site also includes integrated email newsletter tools and integrated social media tools, or "plug-ins," that are offered by third parties. If you use these tools to share personal information or you otherwise interact with these features on the Site, those companies may collect information about you and may use and share such information under your account settings, including by sharing such information with the general public. Your interactions with third-party companies and your use of their features are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide those features. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policies of any accounts you create and use.

Online Analytics

The Services may use third-party web analytics services, such as those of Google Analytics. These vendors use the sort of technology described in the “Personal information you automatically provide when you use the Services” section above to help us analyse how you use the Services, including by noting the third-party website from which you arrive. The information collected by this technology will be disclosed to or collected directly by these vendors, who use the information to evaluate your use of the Services. The Services also use Google Analytics for certain purposes related to advertising, as described in the following section. To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytics, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on.

What are your rights concerning your Personal Information?

Depending on your location, and to the extent the applicable data privacy laws of that jurisdiction apply to our collection of Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy, you may have certain rights concerning the Personal Information we collect, including:

  • The right to access your Personal Information;
  • The right to receive information about how we process your Personal Information;
  • The right to correct inaccurate Personal Information;
  • The right to delete Personal Information;
  • The right to transfer your Personal Information to a third party;
  • The right to restrict how we process your Personal Information;
  • The right to object to how we process your Personal Information; and
  • The right to complain to your local data protection authority.

These rights depend on your location and whether we are subject to the applicable data privacy laws of such jurisdiction. To learn more about your rights or to exercise them, please contact us at info@baresciences.com. We may request that you provide us with information necessary to confirm your identity before responding to your request.

For European Users

For users in the European Union ("EU"), we adhere to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR"). For users in the United Kingdom, we adhere to the GDPR as enshrined in the Data Protection Act 2018.

Bare Science has not appointed a Data Protection Officer as we do not fall within the categories of controllers and processors required to appoint a Data Protection Officer under Article 37 of the GDPR.

Bare Science collects and processes personal data about users in the EU only when we have a legal basis for doing so under Article 6 of the GDPR.

Bare Science relies on the following legal basis to collect and process the personal data of users in the EU:

  1. Processing of user personal data is necessary for us to take, at the request of a user, steps before entering a contract or for the performance of a contract to which a user is a party. If a user does not provide the personal data necessary to perform a contract, the consequences are as follows: They do not receive the service.

Your Rights as a User

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:

  1. Right to be informed;
  2. Right to access;
  3. Right to rectification;
  4. Right to erasure;
  5. Right to restrict processing;
  6. Right to data portability; and
  7. Right to object.

How to Access, Modify, Delete, or Challenge the Data Collected

If you would like to know if we have collected your personal data, how we have used your personal data, if we have disclosed your personal data and to whom we disclosed your personal data, if you would like your data deleted or modified in any way, or if you would like to exercise any of your other rights under the GDPR, please contact us at info@baresciences.com.

California Privacy Notice

This section contains disclosures required by the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") and applies only to "personal information" that is subject to the CCPA.

Personal Information Bare Science collect. In the preceding 12 months, we collected the following categories of personal information about California consumers:

  • Internet or other electronic network activity information (such as interactions with a website, email, application, or advertisement); and
  • Personal and online identifiers (such as first and last name, email address, or unique online identifiers).
  • Payment information is processed and handled through the third-party 'Stripe'.
  • Bare Science will receive information about the payment, the purchased amount, and the date of purchase.

Categories of Personal Information We Sell. Under the CCPA's definition of a "sale," we treat certain disclosures of online identifiers and/or Internet or other electronic network activity information to third-party advertising, marketing, and analytics providers as "sales." We do not sell names or email addresses we collect to third parties for their purposes. Finally, we do not have actual knowledge that we sell information about minors under 16 years of age.

Categories of Personal Information We Disclose for a Business Purpose. We disclose each category of personal information we collect to our service providers and to government agencies (as described above).

Categories of Sources. We collect personal information from the following categories of sources:

  • Consumers like you;
  • Data analytics providers; and
  • Service providers, such as those providing web feed management services.
  • Payment Method, 'Stripe'

Why We Collect, Use, and Share California Information. We use and disclose the personal information we collect for our commercial and business purposes, as further described in this Privacy Policy. These commercial and business purposes include, without limitation:

  • Our commercial purposes, including marketing and advertising.
  • Our business purposes as identified in the CCPA, which can include:
    • Auditing related to our interactions with you;
    • Legal compliance;
    • Detecting and protecting against security incidents, fraud, and illegal activity;
    • Debugging;
    • Performing services (for us or our service provider) such as analytics;
    • Internal research for technological improvement;
    • Internal operations;
    • Activities to maintain and improve our services; and
    • Other one-time uses.

Your Rights Regarding Personal Information. California residents have certain rights concerning the personal information collected by businesses. If you are a California resident, you may exercise the following rights regarding your personal information, subject to certain exceptions and limitations:

  • The right to know the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell about you; the categories of sources from which we collected personal information about you; our purposes for collecting or selling personal information about you; the categories of personal information about you that we have either sold or disclosed for a business purpose; and the categories of third parties with which we have shared personal information.
  • The right to request that we delete the personal information we have collected from you.
  • The right to opt out of our sale(s) of your personal information. Please note that if you opt out of certain types of sales, we will be unable to provide you with the services that rely on such sales.
  • The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of the privacy rights conferred by the CCPA.

You can exercise the above rights as follows:

  • By emailing us at info@baresciences.com.

Children

Bare Science does not knowingly collect or use personal information from children under 16 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 16 years of age, the personal data will be deleted as soon as possible. If a child under 16 years of age has provided us with personal data, their parent or guardian may contact us at info@baresciences.com.

Retention of Information

We keep your Personal Information for the time necessary for the purposes for which it is processed. The length of time for which we retain Personal Information depends on the purposes for which we collected and use it and your choices, after which time we may delete and/or aggregate it. We may also retain and use Personal Information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Other Disclosures

We will not sell or share your data with other third parties, except in the following cases:

  1. The overall website visitors, subscribers, and membership numbers may be shared with other parties. However, no personal information or any identifying information will be included, purely overall numbers.
  2. If the law requires it.
  3. If it is required for any legal proceeding.
  4. To prove or protect our legal rights; and
  5. To buyers or potential buyers of this business, if the sole trader seeks to sell the business.

Your Choices

To opt out of receiving our newsletters or cancel your subscription and membership, you can use the link provided at the bottom of each email or go to your account details.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

If our information practices change materially, we will post an updated privacy policy on the Site. We encourage you to visit the Site periodically to learn of any updates.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@baresciences.com