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Privacy protection policy

The Taiwan Zebrafish Core Facility – National Health Research Institutes Branch (Taiwan Zebrafish Core Facility at NHRI, TZCF) website (hereinafter referred to as "this website") is built and managed by the Taiwan Zebrafish Core Facility – National Health Research Institutes Branch (hereinafter referred to as "this Facility"). This Facility values your personal data and privacy rights, and has established this privacy policy in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act, related laws and regulations, and the information security and personal data protection regulations applicable to this Facility.

I. Scope of Application

This policy applies to the collection, processing, and use of your personal data when you use this website and when you use the functions provided by this website or managed by this facility, such as contact, entrustment consultation, event registration, technical services, and application for fish species and protoplast resources.

This policy applies only to this website and the functions and services managed by this facility. It does not apply to other branches of the Taiwan Zebrafish core facility, nor to other agencies, partners, or third-party service websites.

This website may contain links to other websites or third-party services. When you access a third-party website or use a third-party service, the processing of your personal data shall be governed by that third party's privacy policy, which you should review before use.

II. Purpose of Collection and Use of Personal Data

(a) Information you voluntarily provided

When you perform the following activities through this website, email, or related application forms provided by this facility, this facility may collect your personal data:

  1. Offer technical services, testing, research collaborations, or price quotes.
  2. Apply for fish species, plastids, or other research resources.
  3. Register for courses, training sessions, seminars, or other events.
  4. Handling related operations such as commissioned services, contracts, sample delivery, report delivery, receipt of documents, or issuance of vouchers.
  5. Choose to receive information about courses, activities, or services offered by this facility.
  6. Contact this facility proactively through other means.

Depending on the specific service requirements, the information collected may include your name, service unit or company name, department, job title, contact number, email address, address, receipt and voucher information, research or service needs, sample-related information, uploaded files, and other necessary information that you voluntarily provide.

The above information may be used for the following purposes:

  1. Respond to inquiries and follow up.
  2. Assess technical feasibility, design test plans, and provide quotations.
  3. Perform commissioned services, testing, research collaborations, and report delivery.
  4. Applications and submissions for processing fish fry, plastids and other research resources.
  5. Organize courses, training sessions, seminars and related activities.
  6. To conduct administrative management, service quality improvement, statistical analysis, and anonymized results reporting.
  7. Fulfill contracts, laws, subsidy programs or other relevant management regulations.
  8. With your consent, we will provide information on courses, activities and services related to this facility.

This website generally does not require you to provide medical records, medical information, genetic information or other sensitive personal data that can identify a specific individual, nor should you transmit information that can identify research participants through regular contact forms.

Unless explicitly required and otherwise stated, please do not transmit the above information or unprotected confidential documents through regular contact forms. If you require the provision of research, commissioned, or other confidential information, please contact this facility first to confirm the appropriate transmission method. If the information you provide involves a third party, please ensure you have the legal right to provide that information.

(ii) Data automatically recorded by the website

When you browse this website, the website system, the WordPress.com platform, or embedded third-party services may automatically record your IP address, browser and device type, operating system, browsing time, pages visited, source URL, cookie identification information, and other website usage records.

The above information is primarily used for website operation, information security maintenance, traffic statistics, usage analysis, and website content improvement, and will not, in principle, be used solely to directly identify specific individuals.

III. Period, Region, Target Audience, and Method of Personal Data Use

Period of Use: The data will be used for the duration of the collection purpose and will be preserved in accordance with relevant laws, contracts, subsidy programs, record preservation, and administrative regulations. Upon expiration of the retention period or the disappearance of the collection purpose, the data will be deleted, ceased processing or use, or disposed of in a manner that makes it impossible to identify specific individuals, unless otherwise necessary by law or business operations.

Area of Use: Primarily for use within the territory of the Republic of China (Taiwan). If the servers for website hosting, email, external forms, maps, or other information services used by this website are located outside of Taiwan, the relevant data may be stored or processed in the country or region where the service provider is located.

Users include: personnel who need to access data in the course of performing related business; vendors entrusted to provide website hosting, forms, email, information systems, event registration, data processing, or other services; and collaborating organizations that need to participate to complete the services you have requested. The aforementioned users may only use the data to the extent necessary for the performance of their entrusted, collaborative, or business operations.

Usage methods: to collect, record, store, organize, connect, transmit, analyze, report, and perform other necessary administrative processing in an automated or non-automated manner.

IV. Data Sharing and Disclosure

Except in the following circumstances, this facility will not sell, rent, or arbitrarily provide or share your personal data with any third party unrelated to the purpose of collection:

  1. Necessary to complete your requested services, applications, registrations, mailings, or collaborations.
  2. The website may be managed by a third party, which may provide website hosting, information systems, forms, emails or other necessary services, and the third party may only process the data within the scope of the entrusted services.
  3. Your consent or authorization has been obtained.
  4. It is necessary to provide it as required by law, or as required by judicial or competent authorities.
  5. To protect the rights and safety of this facility, website users, or third parties, or as necessary for investigating and preventing illegal activities.

If data on results are required for subsidy programs, service performance statistics, or research, they will, in principle, be provided in a compiled, anonymized, or de-identified manner.

If it is necessary to provide identifiable information in accordance with laws, grant agreements or relevant operating procedures, it will be processed only to the extent necessary, and appropriate security and confidentiality measures will be taken.

V. Security and Confidentiality of Personal Data

In accordance with relevant laws and applicable management regulations, this facility adopts reasonable and appropriate physical, technical and procedural security measures, including access control, data backup and necessary information security protection, to reduce the risk of unauthorized access, use, alteration, damage, loss or leakage of personal data.

Personnel authorized to access personal data shall do so only as necessary for the performance of their services or duties, and shall comply with relevant confidentiality and personal data protection regulations.

In the event of theft, alteration, damage, loss, or leakage of personal data, this facility will take necessary response, handling, and notification measures in accordance with relevant laws and applicable procedures, and will notify the affected parties to the extent required by law.

VI. Rights of the Parties and Their Choices Regarding the Provision of Information

You may request access to, access to, copies of, supplementation or correction of, cessation of collection, processing or use of, or deletion of personal data held by this facility in accordance with Article 3 of the Personal Data Protection Act. To exercise your rights, please contact this facility through the methods set out on the "Contact Us" page of this website.

You may choose whether or not to provide personal information; if you do not provide the necessary information required for a specific matter, the facility may not be able to process or complete the relevant matter.

If you have agreed to receive information about courses, activities or services from this facility, you may unsubscribe at any time using the methods described in the message, or contact this facility to request that delivery be stopped.

VII. Cookies and Third-Party Services

This website uses WordPress.com website services. This platform and its related functions may use cookies, website logging, or traffic statistics tools to maintain the normal operation of the website, improve information security, collect browsing data, and improve the user experience.

If this website embeds or links to Google Maps, external forms, videos, social media, or other third-party services, when you load or use the relevant content, the service provider may collect your IP address, device information, cookies, or interaction records, and process the relevant data in accordance with its privacy policy.

You may refer to the privacy policies of the following third-party services:

You can restrict, block, or delete cookies through your browser settings; however, disabling some necessary cookies may affect the normal operation of this website or third-party embedded functions.

VIII. Revision of Privacy Protection Policy

This policy may be revised as needed due to changes in laws, services, website functions, or personal data processing methods.

The revised content will be published on this website and will indicate the last update date; any significant changes will be announced or notified separately in an appropriate manner.

We recommend that you review this policy regularly to stay updated on the latest information regarding our website's personal data and privacy protection measures.

IX. Contact Information

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this policy, personal data processing, or the exercise of your rights, please contact the Taiwan Zebrafish Core Facility – National Health Research Institutes Branch via the telephone or email address provided on the "Contact Us" page of this website.

Last updated: August 20, 2026