We collect personal information that you provide voluntarily when engaging with our platform, purchasing trend reports, subscribing to briefings, or applying to our global hunter network. This includes:

• Identification & Contact Details: Your full name, email address, telephone number, job title, institutional or academic affiliation, and billing address.
• Transactional Information: Order history, purchased research reports, payment confirmations, and customer communication records.
• Automated Device & Usage Information: IP address, device type, browser specifications, operating system, pages viewed, time spent on pages, and referral sources collected via secure web logs.

We process your personal information strictly based on legitimate business purposes, contractual necessity, and statutory obligations under European and Dutch data protection law:

• Service Delivery: Providing access to purchased publications, intelligence reports, spotter directories, and consulting packages.
• Account & Relationship Management: Administering user credentials, communicating regarding billing, invoices, and service updates.
• Platform Optimization: Analyzing platform performance, improving content delivery, and maintaining robust system security.
• Direct Communications: Sending relevant foresight briefings, event invitations, or trend analysis that align with your professional interests (with a one-click opt-out option on every email).

Science of the Time upholds a strict privacy policy: we do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data to third-party data brokers or advertisers.

Information is only shared under strictly controlled circumstances:

• Authorized Service Providers: Trusted third-party vendors operating under formal Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) for secure hosting, email delivery, analytics, and payment processing (e.g., Mollie / Paytium).
• Statutory & Legal Compliance: When disclosure is required by law, subpoena, or to protect the vital legal rights, safety, and property of Science of the Time.

We implement robust technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration. These measures include TLS/SSL encryption across all connections, hardened server environments, regular security audits, and strict role-based access controls.

We use cookies and similar lightweight technologies to ensure essential site functionality, preserve your preferences (such as your Day/Night reading mode), and gather aggregated, non-personally identifiable usage statistics.

You can adjust your browser settings at any time to reject or remove cookies. Please note that disabling essential cookies may impact certain interactive features of our platform.

Our website and intelligence signals may contain links to external sites, scientific publications, news sources, or partner organizations not operated by Science of the Time. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the privacy practices, content, or policies of third-party sites. We advise you to review their respective privacy notices.

Our website and services are intended exclusively for business, academic, and professional audiences. We do not knowingly collect personal data from individuals under 13 years of age (or under 16 within the European Union without verified parental consent). If we discover that a child has provided us with personal information, we will immediately delete such data from our records.

Under the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable data protection legislation worldwide, you are entitled to exercise the following fundamental rights:

• Right of Access (Art. 15): Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to Rectification (Art. 16): Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal records.
• Right to Erasure (Art. 17): Request deletion of your personal data when no longer required for legal or contractual purposes.
• Right to Restriction & Objection (Art. 18, 21): Limit the scope of data processing or object to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Right to Data Portability (Art. 20): Receive your data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.

To exercise any of these rights, please email our Data Protection Desk at privacy@scienceofthetime.com. We respond to all verified requests within 30 days.

We may periodically update this Consumer Data Privacy Policy to reflect evolving regulatory frameworks or platform enhancements. All revisions will be posted directly on this page with an updated effective date. We encourage regular review of this policy to stay informed about our data safeguarding practices.