TestMyBrain.org (the “Website”), is a website supported by the 501(c)(3) non-profit Many Brains Project (“Many Brains”) and the Laboratory for Brain and Cognitive Health Technology at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The Website is available for people who want to learn more about their mind and brain and contribute to science. All tests on this website are for research or educational purposes and are not designed to provide health information or clinical diagnoses. Many Brains is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy (“Policy”) is intended to describe the information collected from visitors to the Website (“Visitor” or “you”) and what is done with it.
The Website never asks for or collects personal health information from Visitors. The Website does not collect any other personal information, except what you choose to provide voluntarily in order to receive additional information. If you wish to receive our email newsletter or additional information about TestMyBrain, we may ask you to provide your name and email address, location, company name and job title, and telephone number(s). If you wish to receive information to enable you to participate in future scientific studies, we will ask that you provide your name, email address, age, and country of residence.
Anonymous responses to the digital cognitive tests offered on the Website are collected by the institutions conducting each study, not by Many Brains. Procedures for collecting, storing, and securing these data are reviewed by local Institutional Review Boards and are described in the Study Information forms that accompany each study.
In order to provide these web pages for you to interact with, we may collect certain information automatically, such as your Internet protocol (IP) address, device and advertising identifiers, browser type, operating system, Internet service provider, pages that you visit before and after using the site, the date and time of your visit, information about the links you click, the pages you view, the general manner in which you navigate the site, and other standard server log information. It may also collect certain location information, such as your computer’s IP address, your mobile device’s GPS signal, or information about nearby WiFi access points and cell towers. Many Brains and third parties that provide content or functionality on our site, may use cookies, pixel tags, Local Shared Objects, and similar technologies to automatically collect this information. We may also collect technical data to address and fix technical problems and improve the site, including the memory state of your device when a system or app crash occurs while using our site. By using the Website, you consent to the collection of this technical data.
Many Brains will use the personal information you provide only for the purposes for which it was provided (to send you the newsletter, more information about TestMyBrain, or information about future research studies, as described above). Many Brains will use the technical information collected to manage and improve functionality of the site. We use cookies, Local Shared Objects, and similar technologies for technical reasons to enable the efficient operation of the site, to enhance the ease of use of the site, and to gather statistics on how you use the site. By using the sites, you consent to our use of cookies and similar technologies. You may opt out of cookies and similar technologies, but doing so may cause certain functionalities on the site not to work.
Many Brains will never sell or distribute your personal information. We may share your information with third-party vendors and service-providers that help us with specialized services, including analytics, marketing, performance monitoring, hosting, and data processing, or as legally required, such as to respond to subpoenas, court orders, etc.
We will retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which we obtained it and any other permitted purposes, and in compliance with our data retention policies.
Many Brains uses reasonable measures to help protect information from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, though no data storage or transmission system is perfectly secure.
Many Brains does not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13 without parental consent. If we learn that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information, we will delete it in accordance with applicable law.
Many Brains may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we update the Policy, we will update the “Effective Date” above.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or overall platform or technical issues, please contact us at info@testmybrain.org
