Privacy Policy & Terms of Use

Last Revised: July 31, 2024

Your privacy is important, and the Institutes for Behavior Resources Inc. and its affiliates (collectively “IBR”, “us”, “our,” or “we”) encourage you to read this Privacy Notice (the “Privacy Notice”) carefully to understand its terms and conditions. This Privacy Notice constitutes an agreement between you and IBR while accessing and using IBR’s products and services (including, but not limited to, desktop, web, or mobile applications) as well as your interactions with IBR through other means (collectively, “IBR Products & Services”). This Privacy Notice describes how IBR collects, protects, shares, uses, and discloses information and data collected and created in the course of your access to and use of the IBR Products & Services.

Consent

By registering or creating a user profile with IBR, submitting information directly to IBR or indirectly to IBR through IBR Products & Services and/or using, visiting or otherwise accessing the IBR Products & Services, you agree and otherwise consent to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Notice. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Notice, please do not use IBR Products & Services.

Scope

This Privacy Notice applies when IBR is a Data Controller and when IBR is a data processor (to the extent applicable) of your information. Subject to the terms and conditions of a Customer Agreement, if any, the terms and conditions of this Privacy Notice applies to information that we obtain about you whether online or offline.

Definitions

For purposes of this Privacy Notice, these terms shall have the following meaning:

“Business Associate” means a person or entity that performs certain functions or activities that involve the use or disclosure of PHI on behalf of, or provides services to, a Covered Entity.

‍“Content” means any expression fixed in a tangible medium and includes, without limitation, ideas, text, comments, video, audio, graphics, designs, drawings, animations, logos, trademarks, copyrights, information, software, scripts, executable files, recipes, workouts, likes, activities, maps, routes, nutritional information and data, and any intellectual property therein, any of which may be created, submitted, or otherwise made accessible on or through IBR Products & Services.

‍“Covered Entity” means (1) health plans, (2) health care clearinghouses, and (3) health care providers who electronically share and/or transmit any health information in which HIPAA applies.

“Customer Agreement” means any agreement between IBR and a third party in which IBR is providing products and services to the third party including, but not limited to, Business Associates, licensing and/or services agreements.

“Data Controller” shall mean the data controller of your Personal Information which may include IBR if you have engaged IBR directly or a third party if a third party has purchased IBR Products & Services pursuant to a Customer Agreement and the Customer Agreement expressly provides that IBR is the data controller.

“HIPAA” means the United States Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

“Lawful Basis” means in compliance with applicable laws, regulations and rules of governing jurisdictions.

“Non-Personal Information” means all information other than Personal Information and PHI including, but not limited to, information that does not identify you and cannot be used to contact you personally and may include: (a) certain publicly available information; (b) aggregate information, meaning data about a group or category of services or users from which individual identities and Personal Information has been removed; (c) de-identified information that cannot be easily linked back to an individual; or (d) in full compliance with HIPAA and Privacy laws, and on an aggregated and anonymous basis, your diary entries, health data, recipes, targets and profile.

“Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or device, such as:

Identifiers (e.g., name, address, telephone number, email address, username);
Sensitive Personal Information (e.g. state identification number, financial information);
PHI;
Protected classification information (e.g. age, citizenship, sex, veteran or military status);
Biometric information (e.g. sleep history, behavioral or biological characteristics);
Internet or other similar activity (e.g. browsing history);
Employment-related information (e.g. current or past employment, work schedule data);
Sleep, activity, and physiological data;
Workplace data, such as names, addresses and identification numbers;
Non-public educational information, including information protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99);
Other data that could directly or indirectly identify you;
Sensitive Information (as defined below); and
Commercial information (e.g. products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies).

“PHI” means personal identifiable health information, held or maintained by a Covered Entity or its Business Associates acting for the Covered Entity that is transmitted or maintained in any form or medium (including the PHI of non-U.S. citizens).

What Information Do We Collect

IBR collects Personal Information when you interact with IBR Products & Services online or offline. The Personal Information we collect is either (a) provided by you, (b) collected by us when you use IBR Products & Services, or (c) given to us by third parties. We also collect anonymous information about you which is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an identifiable individual, including, but not limited to, browser and device information, IBR Products & Services usage data; demographic information, sleep, activity and physiological data, anonymous data that does not reveal your specific identity; and information that has been aggregated in a manner that it no longer reveals your specific identity.

In general, you can access many features of IBR Products & Services without telling us who you are or revealing any Personal Information about yourself. You also may choose not to provide us with any Personal Information. In such event, you can still access and use many features of IBR Products & Services, however, you will not be able to access and use those portions of IBR Products & Services that require your Personal Information including, but not limited to, SleepTank™.

IBR does not collect or maintain any payment information. If you choose to purchase, subscribe to or license IBR Products & Services, our current payment processor will collect your financial information to facilitate the transaction. Your payment and related information will be stored only with our payment processor, not with IBR. We will make every effort to cause our payment provider to give you information regarding its services, including access to its privacy policy and terms, when you initiate a payment transaction.

Unless we specifically request or invite it, we ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any “Sensitive Information” (e.g., information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, and/or criminal background) on or through IBR Products & Services or otherwise to us. In those cases where we may request or invite you to provide Sensitive Information, we will do so with your express consent. Any uses or disclosures of your Sensitive Information will be made subject to your express authorization, or as permitted or required by applicable law.

If information constitutes PHI, we will only use or share PHI in compliance with the privacy and data security requirements of the applicable health information privacy laws, such as HIPAA, and in conformity with the terms and conditions of any applicable Business Associate agreement, all of which is subject to any separately executed privacy policy that IBR may ask for you to sign. If we possess your PHI, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to manage your PHI in accordance with applicable health information privacy legislation, such as HIPAA. When IBR is a Business Associate of a healthcare provider, healthcare providers may be using our IBR Products & Services to collect, use and disclose Personal Information about you, their patient. As applicable, those healthcare providers are the Data Controllers, Covered Entity, and custodians of that PHI. If you would like to know more about how your healthcare provider handles your personal information, you should ask them about their policies and practices.

How We Collect Your Personal Information

Some of IBR Products & Services may ask you to submit your Personal Information in order for you to benefit from the specified features. We collect Personal Information from you when you voluntarily submit it to us, such as when you:

Create a customer account with us;
Complete a service request or registration, survey, application or other form;
Sign-up to receive email newsletters, or other correspondence;
Submit materials through IBR Products & Services;
Participate in a promotion, or marketing activity;
Request materials from us.
Request e-mail, mail or telephone support or services.
Leave a comment.
Communicate with us online or by other means.

IBR will use best efforts to inform you on what information is required and what information is optional.

As you use IBR Products & Services, we may passively collect (that is, gather without you actively providing the information) Personal Information and Non-Personal Information in the following manner:

Log files, Browser and/or Device Information. Certain information is collected from most browsers, such as your IP address, your media access control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system version, internet browser type and version, the programs, services, and version of software you use, and the address of any linking site, when you request a web page, tile or other graphical presentation. We also may collect information about any mobile device used to access IBR Products & Services, such as a unique device identifier and type if you access IBR Products & Services through a mobile device. Your IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer or device by your Internet Service Provider. An IP address is identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user accesses IBR Products & Services, along with the time and date of the visit and/or use and the page(s) and/or features that you visited and/or used. Collecting IP addresses is standard practice on the Internet and is done automatically by many websites, products and/or services.

Location Data. Coarse location (i.e., information derived from device information associated with your IP address, city or country code or address), or precise location for limited services and/or region-specific offerings (“Location Data”). We may use and store Location Data if you give us permission to do so. We may use this data to provide features of IBR Products & Services and to improve and customize IBR Products & Services. You can enable or disable Location Data services when you use IBR Products & Services at any time through the settings on your device.

Usage Data. When you access IBR Products & Services, we and our service providers may track and collect IBR Products & Services usage data, such as date and time that your devices accesses our servers, mouse clicks, mouse movements, keystrokes, page scrolling and what information and files have been downloaded and/or uploaded to IBR Products & Services on your device number.

IBR Uses Cookies (including, Flash Cookies). A cookie is a small, removable data file that is stored by your web browser, service or application on your computer and/or device to help IBR Products & Services remember you and collect information about your use of IBR Products & Services. Cookies allow us to collect various information including, but not limited to, browser type, time spent on IBR Products & Services, features and pages visited, and language preferences. We and our service providers use this information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, display information more effectively, serve you with more tailored information, facilitate your ongoing access to and use of IBR Products & Services and to personalize your experience while using IBR Products & Services. We also use cookies to recognize your computer and/or device, which makes your use of IBR Products & Services easier, such as to help you log into IBR Products & Services. Please see the below Section on Cookies to learn more about IBR’s use of cookies.

Pixel Tags, Web Beacons, Clear GIFs and other Similar Technologies. We and our service providers use pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs and other similar technologies in connection with some of IBR Products & Services (including email messages) to, among other things, analyze our users’ behavior and information about them, track the actions of the users of IBR Products & Services and/or recipients of our emails, measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about IBR Products & Services usage and response rates.

Analytics. We use Google Analytics and other analytics providers, which use cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about the use of IBR Products & Services and report on activities and trends. These services may also collect information regarding the use of other services, websites, applications, and online services. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and opt out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Third Parties. We collect Personal Information from third party sources. In some cases, you provide consent to the third party to share your Personal information with us and control the permissions for IBR’s use of such Personal Information, and in some cases, the Data Controller will transfer your Personal Information to us, and we will ask for your permission to apply the terms of this Privacy Notice to such information. The following are a few examples of the receipt of your Personal Information from third parties:

Health Connect – If you give IBR permission to access data from your Health Connect application, we will use your Personal Information in compliance with the limited use requirements set forth in the Health Connect Permissions policy and to the extent permitted and subject to the foregoing, in accordance with this Privacy Notice, to provide you with worldclass IBR Products & Services.
Apple Health – If you give IBR permission to access data from your Apple Health application, we will use your Personal Information in compliance with the Apple HealthKit guidelines and to the extent permitted and subject to the foregoing, in accordance with this Privacy Notice, to provide you with worldclass IBR Products & Services.
Terra and Other Wearable Providers – Some IBR Products & Services integrate with companies in the wearables industry sector such as Terra (https://tryterra.co) to connect your Personal Information to certain IBR Products & Services (such as SleepTank™). We or the third party will use best efforts to notify you of such integration before or during your registration process.

Friends and Other People. We may receive Personal Information from people you know, such as a friend.

Companies You Direct to Disclose Information. In addition to the description of third parties above, we receive the Personal Information you ask other companies to provide to us, such as your mobile carrier, your fitness wearable provider, your device carrier, or your cable for authentication and personalization, to receive access to our Content.

Linked Sites and Tools. We may receive Personal Information from products, services, websites and tools offered by companies that are not affiliated with us, but that are linked to or integrated in our IBR Products & Services (such as the ones described above) or provide links to IBR Products & Services, such as fitness wearable devices, services, plug-ins, and applications. Your interactions with products, services, websites and tools offered by companies that are not affiliated with us are covered by the privacy policies of those companies, not this Privacy Notice unless IBR is the Data Controller, Covered Entity, contractually deemed the Data Controller under a Customer Agreement or IBR has asked you separately to confirm the application of the terms of this Privacy Notice to the transferred Personal Information. You should carefully read the privacy policies of websites and tools you use.

Publicly Available Sources. In limited cases, we may obtain your Personal Information from publicly available sources.

IBR Technology and Service Providers. We may receive Personal Information from our service providers and other technology partners we work with, such as companies that assist us with SleepTank, account validation, analytics, fraud prevention, or otherwise help us operate IBR Products & Services.

IBR Advertising and Marketing Partners. We work with advertising and marketing partners, such as advertisers, app developers, publishers, and data providers that enable us to purchase or deliver ads as well as personalize, target, and measure the performance of those ads or campaigns. These partners may provide Personal Information about your preferences or interests or may provide Personal Information that is inferred or derived based on your Personal Information, activity, or interactions from different businesses not associated with IBR.

Joint Venture, Promotional, or Strategic Partners. When we partner with other companies, we may receive your Personal Information from them.

In addition, we are constantly innovating to improve IBR Products & Services, which means we may create new ways to collect information from the IBR Products & Services. Our IBR Products & Services are a dynamic, innovative environment, which means we are always seeking to improve the IBR Products & Services we offer you. We often introduce new features, some of which may result in the collection of new information. If we start collecting substantially new types of Personal Information and materially change how we handle your data, we will modify this Privacy Notice and make commercially reasonable efforts to notify you.

How We Use Your Personal Information

In addition to the specific uses described herein, we may use your Personal Information that we collect from you for any Lawful Purpose including, but not limited to, the following:

Provide our IBR Products & Services to you.
Provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us or that we deem relevant to you.
Allow you to participate in interactive features in IBR Products & Services or to notify you about changes to our IBR Products & Services we offer.
Customize and/or personalize your communications, surfing, viewing, and/or experience with our IBR Products & Services.
Better respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send documents, updates (as described herein) or email alerts.
Communicate with you about your account information, or customer service needs and other important information regarding our relationship with you or regarding IBR Products & Services, changes to our Terms and Conditions of Use, Privacy Notice, and other policies and/or administrative information.
Provide you with other information about a business or organization with which we are associated.
Communicate with you about our products, services and events, and for other promotional purposes.
Improve our business, protect our operations, and/or allow us to pursue available remedies or limit damages that we may sustain.
Calculate usage levels, help diagnose server problems, and administer our IBR Products & Services.
Provide technical support to you and for other business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, developing new products, enhancing our IBR Products & Services, improving our IBR Products & Services, identifying IBR Products & Services trends, and determining the effectiveness of any promotional campaigns.
Advertising and marketing by modeling, segmenting, targeting IBR and third party advertisers and marketers.
Enhance safety and security and/or to verify your identity and prevent fraud and halt other unauthorized activity.
Operate our business functions including, financing, accounting and audit.
Improve IBR Products & Services by analyzing your Personal Information to develop, maintain, optimize IBR Products & Services.
Comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process or court order, such as paying our taxes or to enforce or defend our rights including violations of our Terms and Conditions of Use.
For the purposes for which you provide us consent.
Identify, contact or bring legal action against persons or entities who may be causing injury to you, IBR, to IBR Products & Services, or to others.
Create aggregated data that we use in connection with any of the other uses of Personal Information set forth herein.
Fulfill our purposes set forth herein unless a longer period is required by law or our retention policies.
Perform any other lawful acts except for those acts expressly prohibited by the terms and conditions set forth herein.
Protect your privacy and enforce this Privacy Notice.
Direct marketing efforts, such as sending you news, newsletters, email marketing material, targeted advertising, and, if you have provided us with prior express written consent to receive marketing messages via telephone, text messages or calls.
Sending you surveys and other quality assurance communications.
Analyze preferences, trends, and statistics.
Inform you about research opportunities.

In addition, we may use de-identified or anonymous information that we collect from you for any legal purpose whatsoever, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law (for example, if we are required to treat such information as your personal information). If we combine your information that is not in a personally identifiable form with information that is (such as combining your name with your geographical location), we will treat the combined information as your personal information as long as it is combined.

Sharing of Your Personal Information

As permitted by applicable law, we may share your Personal Information for any Lawful Purpose including, but not limited to:

Consent. If you have consented to such disclosures.

To Our Service Providers. If a third-party vendor is our service provider who provides services to us in connection with IBR Products & Services (collectively, “Service Providers”), such Service Provider may have access to your Personal Information while they are performing their contractual obligations. Examples of Service Providers we use include payment processors, data analytics companies, email delivery, web hosting services, customer service, and marketing services.

Business Partners and Third Parties. We may disclose your Personal Information to business partners and third parties (e.g., other companies, retailers, distributors, social media networks, research organizations, publishers, and non-profit organizations) for their own purposes, including marketing products or services to you, showing you relevant advertising, or providing an enhanced experience that integrates with IBR Products & Services.

Sponsors, Co-promotions, and Branded Programs. IBR may offer Content or programs (e.g., competitions, sweepstakes, promotions, games, applications, branded community or panel programs or social media integrations) that are sponsored by or co-branded with third parties that may collect or obtain personal information from participants. When you participate in branded events your name and contact information may also be disclosed to other participants or made public.

Advertising and Marketing Companies. IBR may disclose your Personal Information with advertisers, ad agencies, ad networks and platforms and other companies to provide advertising to you based on your interests.

For Legal and Other Compliance. We may disclose your Personal Information when we believe it is appropriate to: (a) comply with federal, state, or local law, a judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal process, or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to comply with a civil, criminal, or regulatory inquiry, investigation, subpoena, or summons by federal, state, or local authorities; (b) enforce or apply this Privacy Notice or our other policies or agreements or to exercise or defend our legal rights and/or claims; (c) protect our or our users’ rights, property or safety, (d) if we believe it is appropriate to protect our users from fraudulent, abusive or unlawful use of IBR Products & Services, (e) if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records without delay, or (f) if we believe it is appropriate in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person,

Business Transfers. We may disclose Personal Information in the event of an actual or potential business transaction, such as if one or more of our business units or assets are sold by way of asset or stock sale, acquired, merged, or if IBR seeks or obtains debt or equity financing or engages in other business transactions including, but not limited to, a bankruptcy or business reorganization and the related due diligence performed in connection with such transfers.

Affiliates. If the party is our affiliate, in which case, we are the party responsible (or Data Controller) for the management of the jointly-used Personal Information.

We reserve the right to share or sell aggregated, anonymous or de-identified information about any individuals with others for any Legal Purpose, without restriction. We do not limit the third parties’ use of the aggregated information.

How We Secure Your Personal Information

IBR uses commercially reasonable efforts to maintain and implement administrative, technical, physical, electronic and procedural safeguards and security measures to protect your Personal Information while stored on our computer systems and/or transmitted to or from our computer systems including, but not limited to, two-factor authentication, penetration testing, the implementation of privacy-by-design and thorough vetting of our hosting services providers. We also use commercially reasonable efforts to update and test our technology to improve the protection and safekeeping of your Personal Information. In addition, we use commercially reasonable efforts to educate our employees about the importance of confidentiality and customer privacy through standard operating procedures and special training programs.

Please note, however, that no storage and/or transmission of data (including, but not limited to, your Personal Information) on or over the internet is 100% secure and we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will not defeat those measures and use or access your Personal Information including use for improper purposes. Therefore, we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained in IBR Product & Services or for actions of third parties. If you have reason to believe that your interaction, stored data and/or transmissions to and with us are no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account that you have with us has been comprised), please immediately notify us in writing of the problem by contacting us in the manner described below.

Some features of IBR Products & Services require you to set up a user ID and password. The safety and security of your information also depends on you, and you are responsible for keeping your password confidential. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. We will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited telephone call or email. Also, always remember to log off your account and close your browser window when you are finished. This is to ensure that others cannot access your account, especially if you are sharing a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place.

In addition, please do not provide your personal or financial information in response to an email request or after clicking on a link from an email. We do not ask for this type of information through email or any other communication. If you suspect you have received a fraudulent communication from us or any of our affiliates, please contact us immediately in the manner described below.

To help protect your computer and Personal Information, please make sure you have current anti-virus and firewall software installed on your computer or device and update such software on a regular basis. Also, please review your credit card statements carefully and verify that all transactions are authorized and report any discrepancies immediately to your credit card company. Please refer to the Federal Trade Commission’s website at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menus/consumer/data.shtm for information about how to help protect yourself against identity theft.

Third Party Sites

We may direct you or provide links to third party products and services. When you click on links that take you to external websites, products and/or services, you will be subject to their privacy policies and practices and not ours. We encourage you to review and understand the privacy policies of such websites, products and/or services before providing them with any information. Even though we may have a contract with these entities, we have no control over them or how they collect, distribute or otherwise use your Personal Information or how they safeguard and secure your Personal Information. We are not responsible or liable for their conduct, policies or actions including, but not limited to, the Content displayed on their websites, products and/or services. These websites, products and/or services are linked to IBR Products & Services only for your convenience and you access them at your own risk.

Do Not Track Signals

Do Not Track is a privacy preference that users can set in their browsers. When a user turns on the Do Not Track signal, the device sends a message to websites, services and/or products requesting them not to track the user. For information about Do Not Track, visit www.allaboutdnt.org. At this time, IBR Products & Services do not respond to Do Not Track settings or signals. In addition, IBR Products & Services may use other technology that is standard to the internet to track visitors. Those tools may be used by us and by third parties to collect information about you and your internet activity, even if you have turned on the Do Not Track signal.

Unauthorized Submissions

If you become aware of any unauthorized submission of information to IBR, including children’s information, you may contact us directly by using one of the methods described in the “Contact Us” section below so that we may delete it.

Opting Out of Communications Including Email

We adhere to industry standards in our email practices. We will only communicate with you if you want to hear from us, or if necessitated by IBR or IBR Products & Services, operations, payment or account related messages. The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and provides penalties for violations. IBR collects email addresses to: (i) register you for some of the IBR Products & Services, (ii) send information and respond to inquiries and/or other requests or questions, (iii) process orders and send information and updates pertaining to orders, and/or (iv) send additional information relates to your products and services. To comply with CAN-SPAM, IBR agrees to: (a) NOT use false, or misleading subject or emails addresses, (b) identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way, (c) include the physical address of our business or headquarters, (d) monitor third party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used, (e) honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests promptly, and (f) allow users to unsubscribe by using the link in the bottom of each email.

In addition to using the unsubscribe button, if available, you may also contact us directly by using one of the methods described in the “Contact Us” section below. Please include your full name and email address. Once we receive your request to opt out of such marketing communications, we will implement your request to remove you from our marketing database promptly thereafter. Please note that opting-out of receiving marketing communications from us does not opt you out of receiving communications from us as described herein or from parties we have already shared your Personal Information with.

Updates and Push Notifications

We may occasionally send you updates, patches and related push notifications to your IBR Products & Services. You hereby consent to such notifications and/or updates to IBR Products & Services. If you do not wish to receive updates, patches and other such notifications you should discontinue your use of IBR Product & Services or disconnect your computer or device from the Internet. If you do not wish to receive push notifications, do not select the “Send me newsletters and promotional emails” box under your account Information in your profile. If you choose to enable push notifications, we may use your information such as a device ID or email address in order to send push notifications to your device.

Cross-Border Transfer

The IBR Products & Services are controlled and operated by us from the United States and are not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than that of the United States. Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we, our affiliates or our service providers have facilities and these countries and jurisdictions may not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction, and by using the IBR Products & Services or by providing consent to us (where required by law), you agree to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may provide for different data protection rules than in your country. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your Personal Information. Please see our list of countries where your information may be transferred. Whenever we transfer your information outside of a country or region, such as the European Economic Area, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place in compliance with applicable law. Usually, this includes using contractual mechanisms (such as standard contractual clauses), but sometimes we may use other legal mechanisms. For further information about the mechanisms we use to protect your Personal Information when it is transferred outside of your country or region, please contact us by using one of the methods described in the “Contact Us” section below.

Controlling Your Personal Information

IBR wants to communicate with you only if you want to hear from us. IBR Products & Services provide you with the ability to exercise certain controls and choices regarding our collection, use and sharing of your Personal Information. Depending on where you reside and subject to the regulations described in more detail herein, your options to control your Personal Information may include some or all of the following:

Changing the IBR Products & Services for which you are signed up.
Changing your preferences for how and about what we communicate with you.
Correcting, updating, and deleting the Personal Information in your account. Please note that certain legal obligations may limit or prevent our ability to fulfill these requests, and that copies of information that you have updated, modified or deleted may remain viewable in cached and archived websites such as web.archive.org.
Requesting access to the Personal Information that we hold about you and/or that we amend or delete it.
Choosing whether to receive marketing communications from us, including promotions, surveys, and information about products and services that may be of interest to you.
Control how the cookies we use interact with your browser.
Unsubscribe from receiving certain emails from us at any time by using the link included at the bottom of email communications.
If you would prefer that we not share your Personal Information on a going-forward basis with our affiliates and/or third-party partners for marketing purposes, you may opt out of this sharing by contacting us directly by using one of the methods described in the “Contact Us” section below and please include your name and e-mail address.
To modify or delete any or all of your Personal Information you have provided to us, you may contact us directly by using one of the methods described in the “Contact Us” section below or when appropriate, login and update your account.

At any time, you may exercise any of these controls and choices, express concerns, lodge a complaint, or obtain additional information about the use of your Personal Information you may contact us directly by using one of the methods described in the “Contact Us” section below. If you ask us to delete your Personal Information, we retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes set forth herein, unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law, or our document retention policies, or if it is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigation). Therefore, you should not expect that all of your Personal Information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests. The same may be true with respect to modifications to your Personal Information requested or made by you. We will seek to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt-out as described herein, we will not be able to remove your Personal Information from the databases of our affiliates and third parties with which we have already shared your personal information (i.e., as of the date that we implement your opt-out request). We reserve the right to send you certain communications related to IBR and/or IBR Products & Services that are considered part of your account, such as technical, transactional and/or administrative.

Cookies

IBR uses cookies to track use of IBR Products & Services. Service Providers also use cookies to track use of IBR Products & Services. You can make personalized choices regarding the cookies employed within IBR Products & Services in the settings section of your device. However, certain features of IBR Products & Services may not work if you delete or disable cookies. For more information on cookies and how to disable them on your computer please visit: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0042-online-tracking.

Generally-speaking, we use 1st and 3rd-party session and persistent cookies. The cookies set by us are called “1st-party cookies” and the cookies set by our Service Providers are called “3rd-party cookies.” We also use session and persistent cookies. Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain on your device until you close your browser. Many session cookies are essential to make IBR Products & Services work correctly, as they typically enable you to navigate within IBR Products & Services. Persistent cookies remain on your device after you close your browser or until you manually delete it (for the former, the amount of time the cookie remains on your device will depend on the duration or “lifetime” of the specific cookie and your browser settings). Persistent cookies help us recognize you as an existing user of IBR Products & Services, so it is easier and convenient for you to return to use IBR Products & Services without signing in again. In addition, persistent cookies also help us recognize you when you view a resource belonging to IBR Products & Services from another website, product or service (such as an advertisement) and help us record information about your browsing during the lifetime of the persistent cookie. Examples of persistent and sessions cookies that we use include the following:

Strictly Necessary Cookies: these cookies are strictly necessary for IBR Products & Services to function properly and ensure our IBR Products & Services are accessible to you (e.g., log-in functionality, load balancing, navigation, filling in forms). IBR Products & Services cannot function properly without these cookies.
Preference Cookies: enable IBR Products & Services to provide enhanced features or settings based on your previous visits and selections, such as language preferences, remembering log-in details, remember searches and filter settings, and other conveniences.
Statistic Cookies: Statistic cookies enable us to understand how visitors interact with our IBR Products & Services by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Social Media Cookies: These cookies are used to allow you to share or like our pages and content through third-party social media websites.
Marketing Cookies: Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across IBR Products & Services. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user.

Regulated State Supplement

This Section provides additional information for residents of California, Connecticut, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Rhode Island, Virginia and other states that may subsequently adopt similar statutes (“Regulated State”). If you are a resident of one of these states, you have certain rights as specified under state law, which you can exercise as set forth herein about information that we have about you.

By choosing to exercise your rights as described below, you are declaring and/or otherwise representing that you are a resident of a Regulated State.

Your Rights and Choices. The Regulated States’ statutes provide their consumers with specific rights regarding their Personal Information. The following paragraphs describe these rights and explain how to exercise them. Each of these rights is subject to our receipt of a verifiable consumer request (see below).

Right to Know & Access. You have the right to request that we provide you with access to specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you over the past 12 months. If you submit a right to access request, we will provide you with copies of the requested pieces of Personal Information in a portable and readily usable format. Please note that IBR is prohibited by law from disclosing copies of certain pieces of Personal Information (e.g., government identification numbers, financial account information, and passwords or security questions and answers) because the disclosure would create a substantial, articulable, and unreasonable risk to the security of the information, our business systems, or your account. IBR is only required by law to respond to two access requests within a 12-month period.

Right to Deletion. You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, with certain exceptions. IBR may permanently delete, de-identify, or aggregate the Personal Information in response to a request for deletion, and you will permanently lose access to your Personal Information and/or your customer account with us. If you submit a right to deletion request, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to confirm the Personal Information to be deleted prior to its deletion, and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you when your request is complete. We may deny your deletion request in full or in part when permitted by applicable law or for business purposes including, without limitation, when Personal Information is needed to comply with our legal obligations, meet regulatory requirements, support our business operations, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our Terms and Conditions of Use, fulfill your request to “unsubscribe” from further messages from us, or confirm that we have deleted your Personal Information. We retain anonymized information after your account has been closed. We cannot disclose or delete specific pieces of personal information if the disclosure would create a substantial, articulable, and unreasonable risk to the security of Personal Information, your account with us or the security of our systems.

Right to Correct Inaccurate Personal Information and Otherwise Update/Modify. You have the right to correct inaccurate Personal Information or otherwise update or modify certain of your Personal Information. If you have a customer account, you may update or modify your Personal Information by accessing and making changes in your account settings.

Right to Opt-Out of the Sale of Your Personal Information. You have the right to ask that we not sell your Personal Information according to applicable law. Subject to the foregoing, we do share and otherwise transfer your Personal Information except as we describe in this Privacy Notice.

Nondiscrimination. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under the laws of the Regulated States. IBR does not use or disclose Personal Information for profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects on you without either your explicit consent or where otherwise permitted by law.

Right to Limit Use of Your Personal Information for Targeted Advertising. You can ask us not to use or disclose your Personal Information for targeted advertising. Even if you opt out of targeted advertising, we will continue to collect and use data for other purposes.

Submit a Consumer Privacy Request or Otherwise Exercising Your Rights. To exercise any of the above rights, if you cannot perform such function in your account or prefer not to make such adjustment in your account, please submit a verifiable consumer privacy request to IBR by using one of the methods described in the “Contact Us” section below. Please include your name and email address with your request. Before we can process any such request, we will need to verify your identity through the email address or telephone number associated with your use of IBR Products & Services or your account with us and confirm your request prior to fulfilling any such request and we reserve the right to deny a request where we are unable to satisfactorily complete this process.

Verification Through an Authorized Agent. If you wish to have a third party (“Authorized Agent”) make a verifiable consumer request on your behalf, they will need to provide us with sufficient written proof that you have designated them as your Authorized Agent, and we will still require you to provide sufficient information to allow us to reasonably verify that you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information. If we are unable to verify that the individual making the request is authorized to act on your behalf or that the person doing the authorizing is the proper person, then we may deny such requests.

IBR Response. We endeavor to use best efforts to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of receipt. If we require more time, we will notify you in writing of the reason and extension period. We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Unless required longer by applicable law, any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding receipt of your verifiable consumer request. If we cannot comply with part or all of your requests, we will explain the reasons in our response. We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer privacy request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Non-residents. If you are not a resident of a Regulated State, you may still have similar rights to the above. If you would like to exercise one of these rights, please contact us directly by using one of the methods described in the “Contact Us” section below. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to comply with any request to the extent required under applicable law.

California Privacy Rights

The following are additional California-specific disclosures provided in accordance with California law including, but not limited to, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and the Shine the Light Act and applies solely to residents of the State of California (“California Consumers”):

Personal Information Collected. IBR Products & Services has, in addition to the categories described herein, collected the following categories of Personal Information from California Consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

Identifiers (e.g. real name, alias, online identifier, IP address, email address, or other similar identifiers).
Personal Information Categories Listed in the California Customer Records Statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). Some Personal Information included in this category may overlap with other categories.
Internet or Similar Network Activity (e.g. browsing history within the site, product or service; search history within the site, product or service; interactions with the site, product or service, or our advertisement).
Geolocation Data (e.g. physical location or movements).
Commercial and transaction information, such as records of products or services you purchased, obtained or considered and other information about your purchasing and/or consuming histories and/or tendencies.
Demographic information/characteristics of protected classifications, such as your gender or age.
Record-keeping information related to accounts you may have with us.
Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information, such as photos, videos, and call recordings.
Inferences drawn from the above information about your predicted characteristics and preferences.
Sensitive Information, such as your account credentials and race or ethnicity.
Other information about you that is linked to the Personal Information, such as your date of birth.

Sources for the Personal Information We Collect. In addition to the sources described herein, we collect Personal Information from the following sources:

Directly from you when you communicate with us, fill out a form, or submit an inquiry, use IBR Products & Services, interact with us through IBR Products & Services, or apply for employment at IBR.
Indirectly from you as information we collect automatically from your use of IBR Products and Services.
Third parties, such as linked sites, products and/or services, affiliate sites, products and/or services as more fully described herein.
Our joint-ventures and promotional and strategic partners.
Information suppliers.
Distributors and other vendors.
Other users submitting information about you, such as to invite you to participate in an offering, make recommendations, or share content.
Publicly available sources.

Use of Personal Information. We may use or disclose the Personal Information we collect about you for one or more of the business purposes described above.

Disclosing Personal Information. IBR may, in additional to what is described herein, disclose Personal Information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:

Law enforcement, regulatory and other governmental agencies.
Business partners, service providers, social media platforms, advertising partners, analytics partners, and/or promotional partners.
Parent entities, affiliates and subsidiaries.
Cookie information recipients, subject to their respective privacy notices.

Sale or Sharing of Your Personal Information. California law defines the term “sale” very broadly. It includes the disclosure of personal information in exchange for anything of value. The term “sharing” is defined as disclosure of personal information for personalized advertising which is based on a consumer’s information obtained from the consumer’s activity across non-affiliated websites. Applying these definitions, we may have sold or shared the following categories of Personal Information in the preceding twelve (12) months for a business purpose:

Identifiers.
California Customer Records Personal Information categories.
Internet or other similar network activity.
Geolocation data.
Demographic information.
Commercial and transactions information.
Inferences, such as audience segmentation.

No Sale of Personal Information. IBR has not sold any Personal Information in the preceding twelve (12) months except for the categories listed above to:

Parent entities, affiliates and subsidiaries.
Business partners, service providers, social media platforms, advertising partners, analytics partners, and/or promotional partners.
Cookie information recipients, subject to their respective privacy notices.
Law enforcement, regulatory and other governmental agencies.

Children under 16. We do not “share” or “sell” (as defined under California law) personal information of children we know are under 16 years of age

Right to Opt Out of the Sale or Sharing of Your Information. If you are a California resident, you can tell us not to “sell” or “share” (as defined under California law) your Personal Information by making such adjustments in your account or you may also contact us directly by using one of the methods described in the “Contact Us” section below.

Right to Know Categories of Information. If you are a California resident, you can ask to receive the categories of your Personal Information that we have collected, used, disclosed, sold, and shared; the categories of sources from which we have collected your Personal Information; our purposes for collecting, selling, or sharing your Personal Information; the categories of Personal Information we have disclosed or sold; and the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed or sold your Personal Information.

Sensitive Personal Information. We do not use or disclose “sensitive personal information” (as defined under California law) in any way that would require us to provide an opt-out opportunity under California law.

Retention of Information. We retain Personal Information we collect only for so long as reasonably needed to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it. We use reasonable business criteria to establish retention periods for personal information. For example, if you register or purchase one of our IBR Products & Services, we will store your Personal Information for as long as needed to maintain your account, fulfill your requests, enforce any applicable terms that govern your use of the IBR Products & Services, maintain appropriate records of the above in accordance with our then current records retention policies, or as otherwise required by law.

Right to Delete for Users Under 18. If you are a registered user of IBR Products & Services, and you are under 18 years of age, you may have the right to request removal of content or Personal Information submitted or posted in or on IBR Products & Services. To request this removal, you may contact us by using one of the methods described in the “Contact Us” section below. Please note that we cannot completely prevent further use or disclosure of that content or information by others once you have shared it in a publicly available forum.

California Opt-in. Subject to applicable California law, by using IBR Products & Services, you have opted into or otherwise consented to sharing your Personal Information with third parties for direct marketing purposes until you opt-out.

EEA GDPR Privacy Rights

This section is applicable to persons located in the European Union (“EU”), an European Economic Area member state (“EEA”), United Kingdom (“UK”), or Switzerland as well as to persons whose Personal Information is processed in or transferred from the EU, EEA, UK, or Switzerland. You are entitled under the EU General Data Protection Regulation and UK General Data Protection Regulation (collectively, the “GDPR”) to the information in this section of our Privacy Notice.

Your Rights. You are entitled by law to access, correct, amend, or delete Personal Information about you that we hold. A summary listing these rights appears below. Please note that these rights are not absolute and certain exemptions may apply to specific requests that you may submit to us. To exercise these rights, please contact us by using one of the methods described in the “Contact Us” section below. For your protection, we may need to verify your identity before responding to your request in the manner described above.

(i) Asking Us to Access Your Personal Information. You have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not we are processing Personal Information about you, and if so, the right to be provided with the information contained in this Policy Notice. You also have the right to ask us for copies of your Personal Information. When making a request, please provide an accurate description of the Personal Information to which you want access. Where requests are repetitive or manifestly unfounded or excessive, we may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative cost.

(ii) Asking Us to Rectify Your Personal Information. You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

(iii) Asking Us to Delete or Erase Your Personal Information (a.k.a. the “right to be forgotten”). You have the right to ask us to erase your Personal Information if:

We no longer need it for the purposes for which we collected it;
We have been using it with no valid legal basis;
We are obligated to erase it to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject;
We need your consent to use the information and you withdraw consent; or
You object to us processing your Personal Information.

However, this right is not absolute. Even if you make a request for deletion, we may need to retain certain information for legal or administrative purposes, such as record keeping, maintenance of opt-out requirements, defending or making legal claims, or detecting fraudulent activities, all as more fully described herein.

(iv) Asking Us to Restrict Our Use of Your Personal Information. You have the right to ask us to place a restriction on our use of your Personal Information if one of the following applies to you:

You contest the accuracy of the information that we hold about you, while we verify its accuracy;
We have used your information unlawfully, but you request us to restrict its use instead of erasing it;
We no longer need the information for the purpose for which we collected it, but you need it to deal with a legal claim; or
You have objected to us using your information, while we check whether our legitimate grounds override your right to object.

(v) The Right to Transfer Your Personal Information to Another Service Provider. You have the right to ask that we transfer the Personal Information you gave us directly or indirectly to another entity or to you in a format that allows the recipient to read the data (i.e., data portability). This applies to Personal Information.

(vi) The Right to Withdraw Consent. If we obtain your written consent to collect and process your Personal Information, you can subsequently withdraw such consent as to any further processing of such information.

(vii) The Right to Lodge a Complaint with a Supervisory Authority. If you believe your rights under the GDPR have been violated, the GDPR gives you the right to file a complaint with your supervisory authority. A list of supervisory authorities is available here: EEA and EU Data Protection Authorities (DPAs); Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC); and UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

(viii) Rights Related to Automated Decision-Making. We are required to keep records of automated processing that we carry out, if any, and, in certain circumstances, provide you with information about the way that the decisions are made, and respond to your objections to being subject to decisions made. To the extent that we engage in this decision-making based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or which significantly affects you, you will have the right not to be subject to such decision-making and to object to a decision we make wholly by a computer or algorithm without human input and to receive information about this type of processing.

(ix) Right to Object to Processing. You have the right to object to the processing of your Personal Information that is based on legitimate interests or your consent (excluding obligations we have related to you pursuant to a Customer Agreement). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the Personal Information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or we can demonstrate the processing is for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims. You can object to the processing of your personal information by contacting us by using one of the methods described in the “Contact Us” section below.

Legal Basis for Processing Your Personal Information. We collect your Personal Information to provide IBR Products & Services to you; otherwise, we may not be able to process the transactions you request. We will only process your Personal Information when we have a Lawful Basis for doing so. If you are in a country in the EU, EEA, UK, or Switzerland, you are entitled to an explanation of the legal basis we rely on to process your Personal Information. The legal basis for collecting and using the Personal Information described above will depend on the Personal Information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it, which is discussed below.

Consent. We may process your Personal Information based on your consent such as when you purchase a product or service or ask us to send you certain kinds of communications (including marketing ones). You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Our Legitimate Interests. We may process your Personal Information if doing so is necessary for our legitimate interests relating to our business purposes arising from your relationship with us, and your rights as an individual do not override those legitimate interests. For example, our legitimate interests include but are not limited to, when we process your Personal Information to carry out fraud prevention activities and activities to increase network and information security, identify usage trends, determine the effectiveness of promotional campaigns, expand our business activities and improve our services and the Content and functionality of IBR Products & Services. Our legitimate interests also include providing you with the products and services you request, view, engage with, or purchase and communicating with you regarding your account or transactions with us.

To Perform a Contract. We may process your personal information to administer and fulfill contractual obligations to you or your employer or other similar party pursuant to Customer Agreements, vendor agreements and/or other similar agreements.

To Enable Us to Comply With a Legal Obligation. We may process your Personal Information to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject. This may include any requirement to produce audited accounts, any legal obligation to share information with law enforcement agencies, public or governmental authorities, comply with legal process, document retention and statute of limitations.

Necessary for the Exercise or Defense of Legal Claims. If you bring a claim against us, a third party brings a claim against us or we bring a claim against you or a third party, we may process your Personal Information in relation to that claim.

Depending on the situation, we may be the Data Controller or the processor for Personal information collected from residents of the EU, EEA, UK or Switzerland. If you have any questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your Personal Information for any specific processing activity, please contact us by using one of the methods described in the “Contact Us” section below.

Cross-Border Transfers of Personal Information. As described above, IBR Products & Services are operated in the United States. The laws in the United States may not be as protective as the GDPR or the laws of other jurisdictions where you may be located. Because we are a nonprofit organization, we cannot certify under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (the “Framework”). However, in the event we are provided information from EU consumers and that data must be transferred outside of the EEA, we will adhere to the Framework’s principles and other legal requirements necessary for the transfer. When using or disclosing Personal Information transferred from the European Union, we generally use standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission and adopt other means under European Union law for ensuring adequate safeguards or obtain your consent.

Children’s Online Privacy

We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13. The IBR Product & Services are not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under the age of 13, and we have made commercially reasonable efforts to design the IBR Products & Services to prevent our knowing acceptance of any such information. It is possible that by fraud, deception or error, we may receive information pertaining to children under the age of 13. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will immediately obtain parental consent or otherwise delete the information from our servers. If you want to notify us of our receipt of personal information belonging to a child under the age of 13, please contact us by using one of the methods described in the “Contact Us” section below.

Changes to this Privacy Notice

Subject to applicable laws, we may occasionally make changes or modifications to this Privacy Notice. If we make changes, the revised Privacy Notice will be posted online and the date of the newest version will be listed. Please check back frequently to determine the current scope of this Privacy Notice. Any such change shall be effective immediately upon posting of the revised Privacy Notice. We reserve the right to make the revised or changed Privacy Notice effective for information we already have about you, as well as any information we receive in the future.

Contact Information

If you wish to exercise any of your rights over your Personal Information or if you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, please contact us via email or in writing using the following address:

Within the United States
Institutes for Behavior Resources, Inc. (IBR)
2104 Maryland Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland, 21218
privacy@ibrinc.org

For European Union
Bizlegal t/a EUREP2104
Eurep.ie via their dedicated form
sleeptank@ibrinc.org

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE OF THIS WEBSITE

PRIVACY

The use of the IBR’s website is governed by our Privacy Policy.

SECURITY

IBR’s web sites have reasonable security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of information under our control. These precautions include data encryption, firewall protection, and restricted server access. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.

CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY

IBR reserves the right to change its privacy policies at any time. Any changes to the policy will be posted on this page. For members of IBR, this privacy policy is a supplement to, not a replacement for, any other agreements or terms provided by IBR to you.

COPYRIGHT

All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of IBR or its content suppliers and is protected by United States and international copyright laws. The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of IBR and is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws.

You are not permitted to use this website other than for private, non-commercial purposes. Use of the website for any other purpose than the aforementioned private, non-commercial purposes is prohibited. Reuse of any data obtained from this website for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited this includes any automated tools to retrieve data from or enter data into this web site is also strictly prohibited.

TRADEMARKS

IBR and other marks indicated on this site are registered trademarks of IBR in the United States and other countries. IBR’s trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not IBR’s, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits IBR. All other trademarks not owned by IBR that appear on this site are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with or connected to IBR.

LICENSE AND SITE ACCESS

IBR grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this site and not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of IBR. This license does not permit any resale or commercial use of this site or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of this site or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. No part of this site may be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of IBR. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of IBR without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing IBR name or trademarks without the express written consent of IBR. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by IBR and may subject you to liability. You may not use any IBR logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of a hyperlink without express written permission.

COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS

IBR respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied or used in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please contact IBR using the contact information at the bottom of this page.

SECURITY

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

THIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY IBR ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. IBR MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THIS SITE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, OR PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON THIS SITE. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, IBR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IBR DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS SITE, ITS SERVERS, OR E-MAIL SENT FROM IBR ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. IBR WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. CERTAIN STATE LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.

APPLICABLE LAW

By using any materials on IBR’s website, you agree that the laws of the State of Maryland, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Terms and Conditions of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and IBR.

CONTACTING IBR

Institutes for Behavior Resources, Inc. (IBR)
2104 Maryland Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland, 21218
USA
info@ibrinc.org
Last Edited on May 16, 2024