Privacy Policy and Code of Conduct

Privacy Notice

LucidQuest Ventures LTD (“LucidQuest”) takes privacy very seriously. We (LucidQuest) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and any information that is capable of identifying you as an individual (“personal data”). We are committed to maintaining compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Data Protection Act of 1988 (DPA) and any other associated data protection regulations that come into force as and when required.

This Privacy Notice describes how we handle and protect your personal data in connection with our website (www.lqventures.com) and our business activities, including our NexusBrain app and service. We recognize that information privacy is an ongoing responsibility, so we will update this Privacy Notice as we implement new personal data practices or adopt new privacy policies. Please read the following privacy policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

LucidQuest here means:

LucidQuest Ventures LTD: W1T 5DB 20-22 Wenlock Road, London, England N1 7GU

LucidQuest collects information about you when you provide it to us directly, from your visits to our website (https://www.lqventures.com/) (please see our Cookies Policy further down this document for more information), the use of our NexusBrain service, and potentially from third-party sources (please see our third-party sources below for more information).

What information do we collect?

All the information that LucidQuest and NexusBrain collect about you may be combined with other information to improve our communications with you and develop our services.

The personal data collected vary and may include:

  • Name
  • Contact details
  • Company name
  • Location
  • Job title
  • Qualifications and work experience
  • Right to work in a specific country (for job applications)
  • IP address
  • Bank details (to process relevant payments)
  • Health information (for research and human resources purposes)

 

How do we use this information?

LucidQuest uses the information we collect for business purposes such as:

  • To provide the services you request
  • To tell you about new services
  • To manage our website and services
  • To process job applications
  • To conduct research commissioned by our clients
  • To carry out business development
  • To invoice our clients
  • To pay our vendors
  • To facilitate market research
  • To comply with legal obligations

 

We do not sell your personal information to outside marketing companies.

LucidQuest and NexusBrain may use suppliers in several countries to ensure the best services are available to our clients. We have signed vendor agreements with each of them to ensure they treat any personal data with the same privacy principles that we at LucidQuest uphold. If they are not located in the EEA or Switzerland, then we have standard contractual clauses or another legal structure (such as the EU-US Privacy Shield) in place to ensure the adequacy of cross-border transfers from our UK office.

LucidQuest and NexusBrain may also share personal data with our clients in the context of certain market research engagements. You will be informed if your personal data will be shared with any of LucidQuest’s clients.

We may share your information:

  • With third-party service providers that perform business operations on our behalf
  • With clients in relation to the research work performed
  • To protect and defend LucidQuest (including enforcing our Terms and Conditions)
  • When required by law and/or government authorities

 

If you do not wish to provide your personal information to us, we may not be able to provide the services you request or tell you about other services offered by LucidQuest or NexusBrain.

LucidQuest and NexusBrain collect and transfer personal data only:

  • With your consent
  • To perform a contract with you
  • To fulfil a compelling legitimate interest of LucidQuest or NexusBrain in a manner that does not outweigh your rights and freedoms or to comply with a legal obligation
    • The legitimate interests that LucidQuest and NexusBrain rely upon are to: run our website effectively, collect information about website visitors, conduct direct marketing, recruit talent, send out and reply to requests for market research work, sign legal documents, invoice work, process purchase orders, conduct research commissioned by our clients, develop business, pay vendors, perform internal audits, set an annual budget, track company assets, assess employees’ working capacity, allocate resources, book travel and provide team building activities for employees
    • LucidQuest and NexusBrain may process sensitive information (health information) under the lawful basis of explicit consent in relation to the research work the company performs and for human resources purposes, such as personality assessments, occupational accommodations and benefits administration.

We do not intend to collect personal information online from children under the age of 13 or as defined by local legal requirements. The only exception to this is when we conduct research under the legal basis of explicit consent.

LucidQuest and NexusBrain retain personal data, as necessary, for the duration of the relevant business relationship or activity.

We may also retain personal data for longer than the duration of the business relationship or activity to: protect ourselves against legal claims, use the data for analysis or historical record-keeping, or comply with our information management policies and schedules.

What are your choices?

By using the site (https://www.lqventures.com/) or the NexusBrain app, you consent to the collection, use and storage of your personal data by LucidQuest.

You can stop receiving promotional email communications from LucidQuest and NexusBrain by following the instructions in those messages. Click here to unsubscribe.

Contact through social media and social networks

You can contact LucidQuest via LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and any other social media platform where we are present in by direct message if you wish to enquire about our services or wish to comment on our services. Such communications are managed by our Marketing department and will only ever be shared internally at LucidQuest for the purpose of providing you with the information you have requested.

If you would like to find out about the privacy policies of some major social networks, please use the links below:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/business/gdpr

Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388

YouTube and G+: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Twitter: https://twitter.com/en/privacy

As a data subject, you have the rights to request:

  • Access to your personal data
  • The rectification or erasure of your personal data
  • The restriction of how your personal data are processed
  • When consent is used as a basis for processing, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time

To contact LucidQuest about exercising any of these rights, please email us at info@lqventures.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the corresponding supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data.

Cookies and Other Technologies Policy

What are cookies and other technologies?

A cookie is a small file placed on your device when you visit a website that can be understood by the website that issued the cookie. We use the information collected by cookies to remember who you are, to provide you advertisements, offers or other content tailored to your interests, and to assess how our website is being used. You can accept or decline cookies through your web browser settings. To learn more, please review the cookie settings in your specific web browser(s).

How does our website and NexusBrain app use cookies and other technologies?

We may use cookies and other technologies for a variety of purposes, including to:

  • Help us and third parties obtain information about your visits to our website
  • Analyze your visiting patterns to improve our website
  • Deliver advertising, communications and content from us and third parties, on our website and those of third parties, specific to your interests
  • Remember your language and other preferences
  • Help you obtain information
  • Measure how many people use our website and how they use it
  • Keep our website running efficiently

 

Some cookies will stay on your device between browsing sessions – they do not expire when you close your web browser. These cookies are called “persistent” cookies. The length of time a persistent cookie stays on your device depends on the cookie. We and others use persistent cookies for a variety of purposes, such as to store your preferences so that they are available for your next visit, and to keep a more accurate account of how often you visit our website, how your use of the website varies over time and the effectiveness of advertising efforts.

Other cookies operate from the time you visit our website to the end of that particular web browsing session. These cookies expire and are automatically deleted when you close your web browser. These cookies are called “session” cookies.

What are your choices?

You can decide whether or not to accept cookies through your web browser’s settings. Deciding not to accept cookies should not prohibit you from using the majority of our website and services offered through it.

Terms and Conditions

LucidQuest and NexusBrain provide their content subject to the following terms and conditions, which may periodically change, so please check back from time to time. By accessing and using our website and the NexusBrain app, you agree to these terms and conditions.

Code of Conduct

By accessing or using our website or NexusBrain app, you agree to abide by the following code of conduct.

You agree that you will not, and will not authorize or facilitate any attempt by another person or entity to use the website to:

  • Violate any of these terms
  • Reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell or exploit for any commercial purposes any portion of the website
  • Engage in disruptive activity such as sending multiple messages in an effort to monopolize the forum or posting content unrelated to a forum’s designated topic or theme
  • Introduce viruses, worms, Trojan horses, harmful code or any software or other materials that contain a component harmful to the website
  • Gain unauthorized access to any computer system or nonpublic portion of the site or interfere with or disrupt the website or servers or networks connected to the website
  • Invade the privacy of any person, including posting personally identifying or otherwise private or sensitive information about a person on the website without his or her consent or harvesting personal data about the website’s users
  • Engage in, encourage, advocate, provide instructions for or discuss with the intent to commit conduct that would constitute a criminal or civil offense or otherwise violate any federal, state, local or international law or regulation

 

LucidQuest cannot and does not ensure that other users are or will be compliant with the above code of conduct or any other provisions of these terms. You hereby assume all risk of harm or injury resulting from any lack of compliance.

Third-Party Sources

LucidQuest engages in regular business development activities. As part of our business model, LucidQuest may also be contracted to provide research to its clients. The sources we use to obtain data subjects’ personal data are publicly available and include study, university and hospital websites, conference programs, academic articles, social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram etc.), search engines (Google, Bing etc.) and other online sources of information.

Contact

If you have any questions or concerns about LucidQuest’s personal data policies or practices, please contact LucidQuest and NexusBrain at info@lqventures.com