The Metagenomics Testing Company (TMTC) is committed to protecting your privacy and complying with UK Data Protection laws, specifically the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) effective 25th May 2018.

This Privacy Notice explains the types of personal data we may collect about you when you interact with us. We want you to be fully informed about your rights, and how TMTC uses your data and keeps it safe.

We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the data privacy manager using the details set out below.

TMTC is the Data Controller responsible for your personal data. For clarity, throughout this notice, "we" and "us" and "our"; refers to TMTC.

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues https://www.ico.org.uk

We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

This Privacy Policy applies only for your use of our website.

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third- party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.

When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

As a data subject, you have the following rights under the GDPR, which this Policy and our use of personal data have been designed to uphold:

• The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data;

• The right of access to the personal data we hold about you;

• The right to rectification if any personal data we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete (please contact us using the details above);

• The right to be forgotten so that you can ask us to delete any personal data we hold about you;

• The right to restrict the way we process your personal data;

• The right to data portability so you can take a copy of your personal data to another service or organisation;

• The right to object to us using your personal data for particular purposes.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us using the details above.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data or to exercise any of the other rights.

Some of these rights are qualified, and may not apply to your circumstances.

We may ask for personal information about you and relevant details about your health to process your donated sample.

Any information you provide may help to build up a full picture of your condition over time.','The information we may ask for includes:

• Name

• Gender

• Contact postal address

• Contact email address

• Telephone number

• IP address

• Web browser type and version

• Operating system

• A list of URLs starting with a referring site

• Your activity on our site

• The site you exit to

• Information about any relevant treatment

• Information on relevant health symptoms

• Your consent form

• Any other information that you may voluntarily provide us.

All personal data is processed and stored securely, for no longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. We will comply with our obligations and safeguard your rights under the GDPR at all times.

Our use of your personal data will always have a lawful basis, either because it is necessary for our performance of a contract with you, because you have consented to our use of your personal data, or because it is in our legitimate interests. Specifically, we may use your data for the following purposes:

• Providing and managing your access to our site

• Personalising and tailoring your experience on our site

• Personalising and tailoring our products and services for you

• Replying to emails from you

• Supplying you with emails that you have opted into (you may unsubscribe or opt-out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the email footer)

• Market research

• Analysing your use of our site and gathering feedback to enable us to continually improve our site and your user experience

With your permission or where permitted by law, we may also use your data for marketing purposes which may include contacting you by email, telephone or post with information, news and offers on our products and services.

We will not, however, send you any unsolicited marketing or spam and will take all reasonable steps to ensure that we fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations under the GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.

We only keep your personal data for as long as we need to in order to use it as described above, and/or for as long as we have your permission to keep it.

Data security is very important to us, and to protect your data we have taken suitable measures to safeguard and secure data collected through our sites.

We may compile statistics about your use of our site including data on traffic, usage patterns, user numbers, sales, and other information.

All such data will be anonymised and will not include any personally identifying data, or any anonymised data that can be combined with other data and used to identify you.

We may from time to time share such data with third parties such as prospective investors, affiliates, partners, and advertisers. Data will only be shared and used within the bounds of the law.

In certain circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain data held by us, which may include your personal data, for example, where we are involved in legal proceedings, where we are complying with legal requirements, a court order, or a governmental authority.

We may expand or reduce our business and this may involve the sale and/or the transfer of control of all or part of our business.

Any personal data that you have provided will, where it is relevant to any part of our business that is being transferred, be transferred along with that part.

The new owner or newly controlling party will, under the terms of this Privacy Policy, be permitted to use that data only for the same purposes for which it was originally collected by us.

In the event that any of your data is to be transferred in such a manner, you will not be contacted in advance and informed of the changes.

You have the right to ask for a copy of any of your personal data held by us.

Under the GDPR, no fee is payable and we will provide any and all information in response to your request free of charge.

Please contact us for more details using the contact details at the beginning of this Policy

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First party Cookies are those placed directly by us and are used only by us. We use Cookies to facilitate and improve your experience of our site and to provide and improve our services.

We have carefully chosen these Cookies and have taken steps to ensure that your privacy and personal data is protected and respected at all times. All Cookies used by and on our site are used in accordance with current Cookie Law.

Our site uses analytics services provided by Google Analytics. Website analytics refers to a set of tools used to collect and analyse anonymous usage information, enabling us to better understand how our site is used.

This, in turn, enables us to improve our site and the services offered through it.

You do not have to allow us to use these Cookies, however whilst our use of them does not pose any risk to your privacy or your safe use of our site, it does enable us to continually improve our site, making it a better and more useful experience for you.

The analytics service(s) used by our site use(s) analytics Cookies to gather the required information.

You can choose to enable or disable Cookies in your internet browser. Most internet browsers also enable you to choose whether you wish to disable all Cookies or only third party Cookies.

By default, most internet browsers accept Cookies but this can be changed. For further details, please consult the help menu in your internet browser or the documentation that came with your device.

We may alter this Cookie Policy at any time. If we do so, details of the changes will be highlighted at the top of this page. Any such changes will become binding on you on your first use of our site after the changes have been made.

You are therefore advised to check this page from time to time. In the event of any conflict between the current version of this Cookie Policy and any previous version(s), the provisions current and in effect shall prevail unless it is expressly stated otherwise.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time (for example, if the law changes).

Any changes will be immediately posted on our site and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of our site following the alterations.

We recommend that you check this page to keep up-to-date.

Visitors to our website are required to accept the following terms and conditions in return for the information given to them on this website.

We use reasonable efforts to include accurate and up to date information on all pages of our website.

Information is for guidance only, is not intended to form any part of a contract and can be subject to change without notice.

We shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or cumulative losses or damages arising out of the use or inability to use these pages, any errors, misrepresentations or omissions on the material contained on them.

The information on the pages of this website has been prepared with reasonable care and is believed by us to be legal, honest, decent and truthful as of the date of its preparation.

You agree that the material downloaded or otherwise accessed through the use of the web pages on our website is obtained entirely at your own risk.

You will therefore be entirely responsible for any resulting damage to software or computer systems and/or any resulting loss of data even if we have been advised of the possibility of any such damage.

We do not accept any liability in connection with any third party websites which may be linked or accessible through our own website and we do not endorse or approve the contents of any such site.

In relation to a dispute arising out of this website you the user and TMTC agree to submit exclusively to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Except where expressly stated to the contrary the text and graphics in the information contained in this website is the copyright of TMTC.

You may download or print out individual selections of the web pages on our website only if explicitly used for your own personal information and not to be publicly reproduced.

Permanent copying or storage of whole or part of this website or the information contained in it or reproduction or incorporation of any part of it in any other work or publication whether on paper or electronic media or any other form is expressly prohibited.

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14th March 2023