Website Terms of Use

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Purdue Research Foundation (“PRF”) contracts with E-lucid Solutions Ltd. (“E-lucid”) to use the E-Lucid platform to make technologies from PRF and Purdue University (“Purdue”) available for licensing. Your access to and use of this website is subject to the following terms and conditions, including the Privacy Notice.

 

Personal Information

E-Lucid collects both required and voluntary personal information from visitors to their platform who wish to send inquiries, receive technology subscription emails or license technologies from PRF. E-Lucid stores this information on its servers and may share this data with PRF via access to the E-Lucid software application or by some other form, such as written reports or by email. How PRF uses this information is governed by its own policies, including the PRF Privacy Policy set forth below. E-Lucid will only use this information on behalf of PRF and not for E-Lucid's own or other purposes.

 

Payment Card Information

E-Lucid’s licensing platform uses Authorize.Net payment gateway to facilitate necessary payment transactions to complete your order. Please refer to https://www.authorize.net/about-us/dpa.html for Authorize.Net’s data processing agreement. Neither E-Lucid nor PRF stores payment card information collected during the checkout process. 

 

PRF Privacy Policy

When licensing or ordering licensable technologies, PRF requests your name, address, email address and phone number so that we may contact you to fulfill your order or complete your transaction, respond to your inquiry, and/or for future communications via email. You are not required to provide this information; however, without it PRF will not be able to contact you with additional information needed to complete your license transaction or respond to your request or inquiry. PRF may also use individual or summary data for data analysis, reporting, and other non-commercial purposes.

 

The policy of PRF’s websites is to respect and protect the privacy of Purdue students, staff, faculty, and other users to the extent permitted by law. The information you provide is used to fulfill your specific request, unless you give us permission to use it in another manner; for example, to add you to a mailing list. PRF may also share this information with Purdue to assist with fulfillment of your request. Information shared with Purdue will remain subject to PRF’s Privacy Policy as well as that of Purdue, which may be found here: https://www.purdue.edu/home/privacy-notice/.

 

Distribution of Information

We may share information with governmental agencies or other companies assisting us in fraud prevention or investigation. We may do so when: (1) permitted or required by law; or, (2) trying to protect against or prevent actual or potential fraud or unauthorized transactions; or, (3) investigating fraud which has already taken place. The information is not provided to companies for marketing purposes.

 

Traffic Data

E-Lucid also collects traffic data from across the E-Lucid platform, including HTTP headers and browser cookies of visitors. E-Lucid reserves the right to share traffic data specific to PRF with PRF. E-Lucid also reserves the right to share anonymous aggregations and compilations of traffic data for the purposes of marketing, software performance testing and reporting, and market analysis. If any personal information is associated with traffic data, it will be treated as personal information.

 

Browser Cookies

Like many websites, PRF uses browser cookies to maintain a persistent session for visitors across the E-Lucid platform and for traffic data collection purposes.

 

Please refer to https://www.prf.org/privacy-policy/index.html for PRF’s detailed privacy policy. 

 

Please refer to https://www.purdue.edu/home/privacy-notice/ for Purdue’s detailed privacy policy.