Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (CaeNDR) Website
Effective Date: November 1, 2025
This Privacy Statement applies to the website that is linked to this Privacy Statement (the “Services”) provided by the Caenorhabditis Natural Diversity Resource (collectively, “CaeNDR,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).
I. Collection of Information
Information You Provide to Us
We, and our third-party service providers, may collect information you provide directly to us, such as when you contact us, submit information via an online form, register for an account, submit an analysis job, or otherwise communicate with us. The categories of information we may collect include:
Contact information, such as your name, email address, and other similar identifiers;
Usernames and passwords;
Payment information, such as your credit card information;
User-uploaded content stored or entered into the forms found in our Services; and
Any other information you provide to us while using our Services.
Information Collected Automatically
We, and our third-party service providers, may collect certain information automatically when you use our Services through the use of cookies, pixels, and similar technologies. The categories of information we may automatically collect include:
Identifiers, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, device, cookie IDs, and other electronic identifiers;
Details regarding the device you use to interact with some of our Services, such as its location, operating system, browser type, and your internet service provider;
Geolocation data of the device you are using to access Services;
Details about your use of our Services, such as the links you click and pages you view within the Services, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data.
When you visit any website, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. We use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies to better understand how our Services are used and to help us serve you better. The information we collect automatically through these technologies may be linked to other information we collect about you.
You may be able to opt out of or block the automatic collection of certain types of information by adjusting the cookie settings on your web browser or engaging directly with the third parties who conduct tracking. However, if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Services.
Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. Please note that our Services do not support “Do Not Track” requests at this time.
II. How and Why We Use Information Collected
We may use your information we collect for the following purposes:
To improve and operate our Services, including to provide you with our products or services, to process and fulfill your requests, and for other customer service and business administration purposes. To evaluate how users use our Services, including by generating and analyzing statistics, including understanding the effectiveness of our marketing and publications. To comply with legal requirements, to detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal. We may aggregate or de-identify any information collected about you, and we may use that aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose.
III. Information Shared by Us with Third Parties
We do not share the information described above as set forth in this Privacy Statement or as otherwise described at the time such information is collected from you. We will not sell, rent, or swap this information, nor will we authorize any of our third-party service providers to use this information for profiling for automated decision-making that produce legal or similarly significant effects, targeted advertising, or for their own commercial purposes.
We take precautions to protect your information by establishing, implementing, and maintaining reasonable administrative, technical and physical data security safeguards to protect the information appropriate to the volume and nature of the information we collect.
Nevertheless, you should keep in mind that no website or Internet transmission is ever completely secure or error-free, so we cannot guarantee the security of your information collected through our Services.
The Services may offer opportunities to communicate through email. Because normal email is not encrypted, the possibility exists that unauthorized individuals may intercept email messages. CaeNDR is not responsible for the privacy and security of email messages except those stored in our system.
IV. COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act)
We do not knowingly collect or use information from children under the age of 13 on our Services. If we become aware that we have obtained information from an individual under the age of 13, we will delete such information in accordance with applicable law.
V. Information for Individuals Located Outside the United States
CaeNDR is located in the United States. If you are using our Services, or any part thereof, from outside of the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, or processed in the United States and maintained on computers or servers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, or the UK, you may have additional rights, including the right to access, correct, erase, restrict processing of, and object to processing and profiling of your information, and to complain to a supervisory authority within your jurisdiction. By using any portion of our Services, you understand and consent to the transfer of your information to the United States and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Privacy Statement.
VI. California Privacy Rights
Under California law, California residents have the right to request in writing from businesses with whom they have an established business relationship: (a) a list of the categories of personally identifiable information—such as name, email, and mailing address, and the type of services provided to the customer—that a business has disclosed to third parties (including affiliates that are separate legal entities) during the immediately preceding calendar year for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes; and (b) the name and address of all such third parties. To request the above information, please email us at: info@mail.caendr.org with a reference to California Disclosure Information. Please note that we are only required to respond to each customer once per calendar year.
VII. Updates to this Privacy Statement
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Statement at any time. We will indicate changes to the Privacy Statement by updating the “Effective Date” at the beginning of the Privacy Statement. Your continued use of the Services after any update to this Privacy Statement will constitute your acceptance of the changes.
VIII. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, or would like to submit a request to exercise your rights under applicable law, please contact us at info@mail.caendr.org or:
Erik Andersen
Biology Department
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles St.
383 UTL
Baltimore, MD 21218
We may have a reason under the law why we do not have to comply with your request or may comply with it in a more limited way than you anticipated. If we do, we will explain that to you in our response.