Privacy Policy
for material.codes

Effective date: March 2, 2024

Welcome to material.codes, an innovative online service and mobile application dedicated to facilitating remote computations in the field of materials informatics using packages such as Abinit, Quantum Espresso, CP2K, Fleur, among others. This privacy policy outlines our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you use our service and informs you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. Collection of Personal Information

When you use material.codes, we collect personal information that you provide to us voluntarily. This may include, but is not limited to:

• Contact Information: Your email address and other contact details to create an account and communicate with you.
• Computational Data: The input files you upload, formal descriptions of computational tasks you provide, and the results of these computations.
• Payment Information: Your payment method details are necessary for processing purchases, including paid subscription plans, additional computational resources, extra storage space for user files, and any additional paid services offered by our platform. This ensures smooth transactions and full access to the capabilities of material.codes.

2. Use of Your Personal Information

We use your personal information to provide and improve our service. Specifically, we use it to:

• Operate our service, including the processing and completion of computational tasks.
• Manage your account and provide you with customer support.
• Process your transactions and send you related information, including confirmations and invoices.
• Communicate with you about updates, security alerts, and account activity.
• Conduct research and development to enhance our service.

3. Sharing of Your Personal Information

We do not share your personal information with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of material.codes except in the following cases:

• With Your Consent: We will share personal information outside of material.codes when we have your consent.
• For Legal Reasons: We will share personal information with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of material.codes if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request.

4. Security of Your Personal Information

The security of your personal information is important to us. We implement a variety of security measures designed to maintain the safety of your personal information. However, remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

5. Managing Your Personal Data

Users can delete their personal data at any time using the designated method in their account settings. However, material.codes reserves the right to suspend the deletion of personal data in cases of outstanding payments, disputes, etc.

6. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.