Privacy notice

Who we are

Impact1 Pediatrics is a free catalog of organizations working on pediatric and maternal health innovation, published by Impact1 at Stanford Biodesign (the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign). For any question or request about your information, write to impact1team@stanford.edu and mention Impact1 Pediatrics.

The site is free and is not paid for with your information. We do not sell personal information, show advertising, build advertising profiles or track you across other websites.

What we collect

Account. To sign in we need your email address and, if you give it, your name. Sign-in is handled by our authentication provider, Clerk, which stores your password in protected form; we never see it.

Registration answers. Once, after you create an account, we ask for your main role, the type of organization you work in and your country, and optionally your organization, job title, areas you follow, how you heard about us, and whether we may contact you for a feedback interview or send occasional updates (both off unless you choose them). We record when you accepted the Terms of Use and which versions of the Terms of Use and of this notice were current then. We also record the most recent product update your account has seen (new accounts start at the current one), so a short note about new features appears only once. If we update the Terms of Use, we will ask you to review and accept the new version before you continue using the site.

Corrections and suggestions. When you suggest a correction or send feedback, we keep your message, the profile or page it refers to, any source you give, and your account, so we can review it and reply.

Usage counts and search terms. Hourly totals of which features, profiles and clinical needs are used, how many comparisons are opened, broad time ranges, and how many visits each step gets, from the home page to sign-up, registration and the catalog; these counts carry no name, email address, account, IP address or other identifier. We also keep the terms typed in the search bar, with how many results they found, with no link to your account; please do not type personal or patient information in the search bar. They are on by default; a notice on your first visit to the catalog lets you keep them or turn them off, and you can change each category at any time in Privacy preferences. They start off when your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track.

Technical information. Our hosting provider receives standard request information, such as your IP address, browser type and the pages requested, to deliver the site and protect it against abuse, for example by limiting excessive requests. For the same reason we count how many catalog requests each account makes per hour and per day. These counters are kept apart from the usage counts and search terms, under a code that changes every day and cannot be recomputed from your account without a key we keep outside the database; they record nothing about what was viewed or searched, and are deleted once they are two days old, the next time the catalog is used.

How we use it

We use this information to give you access, to review your corrections and suggestions, to keep the site secure, and to understand in aggregate who the catalog serves and how it is used, so we can improve it. If you opted in, we may contact you for a feedback interview or send occasional updates; you can turn these off from your account.

Who processes it for us

Three service providers process information on our behalf, in the United States:

• Clerk: sign-in and account management.
• Vercel: hosting and delivery of the site, including request logs, protection against excessive requests, and Vercel Web Analytics, which counts page views, referring sites and campaign links (such as a QR code at an event), countries and device types without cookies and without storing your IP address.
• Turso: the database that stores registration answers, corrections, suggestions, usage counts, search terms and the request counters described above.

Apart from Vercel Web Analytics, we do not use analytics, advertising or session-recording services from other companies. If we add a provider that receives personal information, we will update this notice first.

Cookies and browser storage

We use only the cookies needed to keep you signed in, set by Clerk. Your privacy preferences and display settings are saved in your browser's local storage and never leave your device. We use no advertising or analytics cookies; Vercel Web Analytics works without cookies.

How long we keep it

• Account and registration answers: while your account is open. To close your account, write to impact1team@stanford.edu; we delete your account and registration answers within 30 days of your request.
• Corrections and suggestions: as long as needed to keep a record of changes to the catalog; when your account is closed, they are kept without your account details.
• Usage counts and search terms: kept with no link to your account.
• Request counters used to limit excessive requests: two days, then deleted the next time the catalog is used.
• Hosting request logs: according to our hosting provider's retention, a short period.

Your choices and rights

You can edit your registration answers from your account and change your usage-count choices in Privacy preferences at any time. You can also ask us for a copy of your information, to correct it, or to delete it with your account, by writing to impact1team@stanford.edu. We answer within 30 days and may first need to confirm that the request comes from you.

People named in the catalog

Profiles describe organizations from public sources such as their websites, press releases, funding announcements and registries, and may mention people in their professional roles as those sources report them. We do not publish private contact details or home addresses. If you are mentioned and want information about you corrected or removed, use “Suggest a correction” on the profile or write to us.

Using the site from outside the United States

The site and its providers are based in the United States, so information you give us is processed there.

Changes

We will update this notice when the site changes and show its version and date at the top. If we make important changes to this notice, we will let you know on the site. Earlier versions are available on request.