Privacy Policy

jscTEK (“we” or “us”) is a commercialization partner for life sciences and healthcare companies, based in Reston, Virginia. This policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect personal information through www.jsctek.com (the “site”) and when you contact us by email or phone.

It applies to visitors to the site and to people who get in touch with us. Information we handle for our clients under contract is described in section 06.

The site links to other websites, including our clients’ sites and our pages on LinkedIn, X, and Instagram. Those sites operate under their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to read when you visit them.

Information you give us. Our contact form requires your full name, company, email address, and the milestone you are working toward, which we need in order to reply. Your phone number and how you heard about us are optional. Messages sent through the form are delivered to our team by email and stored in the site’s database. When you email or call us, we receive the details you choose to share, such as your contact information and the outline of a project.

Information collected automatically. Each visit sends standard technical information to the servers that run the site: your IP address, browser and device type, the pages you request, the page that referred you, and the date and time of each request. Our hosting and security providers record this information in server logs, our cookie notice provider counts page views, and our analytics services measure how the site is used. Google Analytics runs only if you accept analytics cookies, as section 04 describes.

Information from other sources. Before a conversation, we may review publicly available information about you or your company, such as your company’s website or a professional profile.

Health and patient information. Please leave patient information, protected health information, and other sensitive personal details out of any message you send us. We need none of it to respond to an inquiry, and we delete any that reaches us as soon as we notice it.

We use the information you send us to reply to your inquiry, to arrange a discovery meeting, to prepare a proposal, and to manage any engagement that follows.

We use technical information to operate the site, keep it secure, filter spam and abuse, fix problems, and understand which pages visitors find useful so we can improve them.

We also use information where needed to comply with the law, to enforce our agreements, and to protect the rights and safety of jscTEK, our clients, and others.

We add you to a mailing list only with your permission, and every marketing email we send includes a way to unsubscribe. We never sell personal information or use it for targeted advertising.

Cookies are small files a website stores in your browser. The site sets strictly necessary cookies on every visit, and analytics cookies only if you agree to them.

Strictly necessary cookies. Our security and content delivery provider, Cloudflare, may set cookies that help it distinguish people from automated traffic and protect the site from attacks. Our cookie notice, provided by CookieYes, sets one cookie, cookieyes-consent, which holds a random ID and the choice you make in the notice so that it does not ask again. It lasts one year. Site administrators also receive cookies that keep them signed in. These cookies exist to make the site work and keep it safe.

Your cookie choice. CookieYes keeps a record of each choice made in the notice: its random ID, the date and time, the country it came from, and a pseudonymized IP address. The record lets us show which choice was made and when.

Analytics without cookies. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to measure how the site performs, such as which pages are viewed and how quickly they load. It reports in aggregate and works without cookies.

Google Analytics, with your consent. If you accept analytics cookies, the site also loads Google Analytics, which shows us how visitors use the site: the pages viewed, how long visits last, how visitors arrived, and their general location, device, and browser. It sets two cookies: _ga, which tells one browser apart from another, and _ga_25MLM5RWSG, which keeps track of a visit. Each lasts up to two years. Google Analytics does not log or store IP addresses. Google keeps the detailed visit data for two months, and our reports keep the totals. We have turned off Google signals and the settings that let Google use our Analytics data for its own products, and Google Analytics is linked to no advertising service. If you decline, Google Analytics does not load and sets no cookies.

Advertising and tracking. The site carries no advertising, retargeting, or social media tracking cookies or pixels, and we do not allow third parties to use it to track you across other websites over time.

Your controls. You can change your choice at any time with the cookie settings button at the bottom left of the site. If you withdraw consent, Google Analytics stops loading from the next page you open. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings, or install the Google Analytics opt-out add-on, which stops Google Analytics on every site. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect how the site works.

Browser signals. Because we do not track visitors across websites or sell or share personal information, the site already gives every visitor what a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal asks for.

Service providers. We work with companies that host the site, deliver and secure it, measure its performance, and run our email and business systems. Cloudflare provides security, content delivery, and analytics. CookieYes provides our cookie notice and keeps the record of cookie choices. Google provides Google Analytics for visitors who accept analytics cookies. These providers process information to provide their services to us, under terms that limit how they may use it.

Legal requirements and safety. We may disclose information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, such as in response to a subpoena or court order, or when disclosure is needed to protect the rights, property, or safety of jscTEK, our clients, or others.

Business changes. If jscTEK is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, personal information may transfer as part of that transaction. We will require the recipient to protect it in line with this policy.

With your consent. We share information with others when you ask us to or agree that we may.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

jscTEK designs, builds, hosts, and operates websites and digital platforms for companies in life sciences and healthcare. When we do, we process personal information on the client’s behalf and under the client’s instructions, as a service provider or processor.

That information is governed by our contract with the client and by the client’s own privacy notice. If you have a question about information collected through a site we run for a client, please contact that client directly, and we will support them in responding to you.

We keep personal information for as long as we need it for the purposes this policy describes. An inquiry is kept for as long as it is useful for following up on that conversation. If you become a client, we keep project records for the life of the engagement and afterward for as long as legal, tax, and accounting obligations require.

Server logs and security records are kept for limited periods set by our providers. Google Analytics deletes detailed visit data after two months. When information is no longer needed, we delete it or make it anonymous.

We use administrative and technical safeguards designed to protect personal information. The site is served over encrypted connections, traffic passes through Cloudflare’s security network, and access to form submissions and email is limited to the jscTEK team members who need it.

Every system carries some risk, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. If an incident affects your personal information, we will notify you as the law requires.

You can ask us to tell you what personal information we hold about you, to give you a copy, to correct it, or to delete it. You can ask us to stop using it for a particular purpose, and you can unsubscribe from any marketing email using the link it contains.

These rights are open to everyone, wherever you live. Some state privacy laws also give residents the right to opt out of the sale of personal information, targeted advertising, and certain profiling. We do none of these, so there is nothing to opt out of, and we will confirm that for you on request.

Making a request. Email [email protected] or call (571) 308-6250. We may ask for information to verify your identity. We will respond within one month. A complex request may take up to two more months, and if it will, we will tell you within the first month. You may use an authorized agent, and we may ask the agent for proof of authority. We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.

Appeals. If we decline a request, you may appeal by replying to our decision. We will respond in writing within 60 days and explain the outcome. If we deny your appeal, we will tell you how to contact your state attorney general.

jscTEK is based in the United States and works with clients across the United States and Europe. If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, this section also applies to you. jscTEK is the controller of the personal information collected through the site and from people who contact us.

Legal bases. We process personal information because we have a legitimate interest in responding to inquiries, running and securing the site, and developing our business. We also process it to take steps you request before a contract and to perform that contract, to comply with legal obligations, and with your consent where we ask for it, as we do before Google Analytics runs. You can withdraw consent, and object to processing based on our legitimate interests, at any time.

Your rights. You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information, restrict or object to its processing, and receive a portable copy of it. We do not make decisions that have legal or similarly significant effects on you based solely on automated processing. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority where you live or work.

International transfers. Your information comes to us in the United States. Where our providers process it in other countries, we rely on safeguards the law recognizes, such as Standard Contractual Clauses. You can ask us for details of these safeguards.

The site is built for business audiences and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

We may update this policy as the site, our services, or the law changes. We will post each new version on this page with a new effective date. If we make a material change, we will post a notice on the site before the change takes effect.

Send questions about this policy, or a request about your information, straight to our team.