Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 7/4/2025

1. Our Commitment to Your Privacy

Welcome to Primelabtests.com (hereinafter “we,” “us,” “our,” or “Primelabtests.com”). We are dedicated to educating the public about the importance of lab testing and guiding individuals towards accessible, high-quality testing solutions. Your privacy is critically important to us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, protect, and handle your personal information when you visit and interact with our website (https://www.primelabtests.com). We encourage you to read this policy carefully to understand our practices.

2. Who We Are

Our website address is: https://www.primelabtests.com. This website serves as an informational resource. While we provide information about lab testing and may feature or link to third-party testing services, Primelabtests.com does not directly provide medical advice, conduct lab tests, or process your health information related to such tests. This policy pertains only to the data collected and processed by Primelabtests.com.

3. Information We Collect

We collect information to provide better services to our users and to understand how our website is used. The types of personal information we may collect include:

a. Information You Provide Directly:
- Comments: When you leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form (such as your name, email address, and website if you choose to provide them), your IP address, and browser user agent string. This helps us with spam detection and to facilitate discussion.
  - An anonymized string created from your email address (a “hash”) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. You can find the Gravatar service privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Upon approval of your comment, your Gravatar profile picture (if you have one) may be publicly visible alongside your comment.
- Contact Forms or Direct Communication: If you contact us directly (e.g., via an email link or contact form, if available), we will collect the information you provide, such as your name, email address, and the content of your message, to respond to your inquiries.
b. Information We Collect Automatically:
- Cookies and Similar Technologies:
  - Functional Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you don’t have to re-enter your details for future comments. These cookies typically last for one year.
  - If you visit our login page (if applicable), a temporary cookie is set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
  - Upon logging in (if applicable), several cookies are set to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. Selecting “Remember Me” will persist your login for two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.
  - If you edit or publish an article (for contributors/editors), an additional cookie indicating the post ID of that article will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and expires after 1 day.
  - Managing Cookies: Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may worsen your overall user experience, since it will no longer be personalized to you.
- Analytics Data: We may use third-party analytics services (like Google Analytics) to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behavior patterns. This includes information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and dates/times of visits. We do this to understand how our website is being used, to improve our content and user experience, and for statistical reporting. This data is typically anonymized or aggregated and does not directly identify you. You can learn more about how Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
- Server Logs: Like most websites, our servers automatically record page requests made when users visit our sites. These server logs may include information such as your web request, IP address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
c. Media:
- If you upload images to the website (e.g., in comments or user profiles, if applicable), you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Other visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the site.
d. Embedded Content from Other Websites:
- Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos from YouTube, images, articles from other sources). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you had visited the other website directly.
- These external websites may collect data about you, use their own cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that external website. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third-party websites.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for purposes including:

To operate and maintain our website.
To improve your experience on our website and to personalize content.
To respond to your comments and inquiries.
To monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve our website.
To detect and prevent spam and protect the security of our website.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

5. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We are committed to not selling or renting your personal data to third parties. We may share your information only in the following limited circumstances:

Service Providers: We may share information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, spam detection (e.g., visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service), and analytics. These providers are obligated to protect your information and use it only for the services they provide to us.
Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency), or to protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of our users or the public.
Password Resets: If you request a password reset (if user accounts are enabled), your IP address will be included in the reset email for security purposes.
Business Transfers: If Primelabtests.com is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your personal information may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically.
User Accounts: For users that register on our website (if this feature is enabled), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (username changes may be restricted). Website administrators can also access and edit this information.
Analytics Data: Aggregated or anonymized analytics data may be retained for longer periods for statistical analysis.

7. Your Data Rights

Depending on your location and applicable laws (such as GDPR or CCPA), you may have certain rights regarding your personal data, including:

Right to Access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to Rectification: You can request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You can request that we erase your personal data, subject to certain legal obligations.
Right to Restrict Processing: You can request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
Right to Data Portability: You can request to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
Right to Object: You can object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
Right to Withdraw Consent: If we are processing your personal data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the details provided below. Please note that we may need to verify your identity before responding to your request. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

8. Data Security

We take reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures to protect your personal information from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no internet transmission or electronic storage is 100% secure, so we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

9. Children’s Privacy

Primelabtests.com is not intended for use by children under the age of 13 (or a higher age threshold as required by applicable law). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child without parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us.

10. Third-Party Links and Services

Our website provides educational content about lab testing and may guide users towards accessible, high-quality testing solutions offered by third-party laboratories or service providers. This means our site may contain links to other websites or services that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. When you access these third-party services, your information is governed by their privacy policies.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, Gtechnology, legal requirements, or other factors. We will post any changes on this page with an updated “Effective Date.” We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information. Your continued use of the website after any changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy shall indicate your agreement with the terms of such revised Privacy Policy.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, or if you wish to exercise your data rights, please Contact Us