Curebase Online Privacy Policy
Last Updated: February 19, 2026
Introduction
This Privacy Policy explains how Curebase, Inc. ("Curebase," "we," "our," "us,") collects, uses, and discloses personal information that we collect through our website www.curebase.com (the "Website"), the Curebase decentralized trials platform (the "Curebase Platform"), and any other online services that we operate and that include a link to this Privacy Policy (collectively with the Website and Curebase platform, the "Services").
As used in this Privacy Policy, "Personal Information" means information that identifies or that could be used to identify you. By using our Services, you consent and agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the policies and practices set forth in this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Services.
If you are a California resident, please also review the section below on Additional Information for California Residents for more information about the types of personal information we collect and disclose, as well as how to exercise your rights under California law.
If you are a resident of the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK, please also review the section below on Additional Information for Individuals Located in the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK for more information about the types of information we collect and disclose as well as how to exercise your rights under GDPR.
Curebase Platform
The Curebase Platform allows our customers who subscribe to the platform to enter information collected in connection with clinical trials ("Platform Subscribers," which include, for example, trial sponsors and clinical research organizations, each of whom may provide access to the platform to their users). Curebase acts as a "data processor" for Personal Information that we collect or process on behalf of Platform Subscribers.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that Platform Subscribers collect, create, or provide to the Curebase platform, which we refer to as "Customer Data." Customer Data, which may include Personal Information contained in text, images, photos, chat logs, or audio or video recordings that are created or shared in connection with a clinical trial, is owned and controlled by the Platform Subscriber. Our use and disclosure of Customer Data is governed by our agreements with Platform Subscribers. If you have questions about the information practices of the Platform Subscriber that uses the Curebase platform for clinical trial management and services, please review the Platform Subscriber's privacy policy or contact them directly.
The Personal Information We Collect and How We Use It
The Personal Information we collect and how we use it depends on the context of your interactions with us. As explained below, we collect some of this Personal Information when you provide it directly to us, and in some cases we receive Personal Information from third parties. We also collect certain information automatically when you interact with the Services.
Information You Provide Directly
You may provide certain Personal Information to us when you use the Services, sign up for a Curebase account, consult with our customer service team, send us an email, or communicate with us in any other way. This information may include the categories described below.
- Personal and Business contact information, such as your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, job title, and employer name;
- Account log-in credentials such as your email address and password when you sign up for an account with us;
- Troubleshooting and support data, which is data you provide, or we otherwise collect in connection with support queries we receive from you. This may include contact or authentication data, the content of your chats and other communications with us, and the product or service you are using related to your help inquiry;
- Feedback and correspondence, such as information you provide in your responses to surveys, report a problem with the Services, receive customer support or otherwise correspond with us;
- Payment information and other financial information that we/our payment processors need in order to provide the Services;
- Marketing information, such as your preferences for receiving marketing communications and details about how you engage with them.
- Professional and employment-related information and education information you submit when you apply for a job with us, such as your resume, links to social media profiles, responses to application questions, and any other information you provide in your employment inquiries or applications.
- Any other information you submit when you contact us through the Website, including any information you provide in a submission through our contact form.
Information We Collect Automatically from Your Use of the Services.
We also may collect certain other information automatically when you use or access the Services, such as the following:
Browser and Device Information. Certain information may be automatically collected by most browsers or devices, such as information about user devices (such as IP addresses and MAC addresses), operating systems, and browsers.
Information Stored in Cookies and Web Beacons. The Services may also use available web-based technologies to collect personal information, such as cookies or web beacons. Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on users' computers or devices. Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the online services, pages visited, referring URL, and other traffic and usage data. We may also use cookies for purposes such as determining what features interest our users, revising our site features or operations, and as further described below. For more information, see the "Your Rights and Choices" section below. Please note that some cookies and web beacons may be set by third parties, who may use the Services to collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different Services, applications, and other online products or services.
Pixel Tags and Log Files. The Services may also use other tracking systems such as log files and pixel tags. For example, pixel tags, sometimes called web beacons, are similar in function to a cookie and can tell us certain information like what content has been viewed.
Information Collected in Connection with Analytics Technology. We may use various technologies to learn more about how visitors use the Services, such as Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how visitors use the Website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the Website includes your IP address. If you so choose, you may be able to opt out by turning off cookies in the preferences settings in your browser. For more information on Google Analytics, including how Google Analytics collects, uses, and discloses information, refer to the following page: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. We may also use other technologies to monitor your activities on our Website.
Location Information. When you use the Services, we may collect information about your location, including general location information that may be associated with your device's IP address, and, if you allow your device to share information about your location with the Services, the geolocation of the device you use to access the Services, which may indicate your precise geolocation.
Information We Obtain from Third Parties.
In some cases, we receive Personal Information from third parties. For instance, if you have been invited to use the Curebase platform by a trial sponsor or other entity involved in managing a clinical trial in which you are participating, we may receive your name, address, phone number, and email address from such entities, to facilitate your registration and to enable us to maintain accounts and provide the Services. We may also receive Personal Information from other third-party sources, including:
- Our service providers, such as online analytics providers; and
- Data brokers from which we purchase demographic data to supplement that data we collect.
How We Use Personal Information.
We may use the Personal Information that we collect or receive through the Services:
- To provide the Services' functionality to you, such as arranging access to an account, responding to your inquiries, and to allow you to use our various Services features.
- To respond to your inquiries and communicate with you about the Services.
- To operate and provide support for your use of the Services, including to facilitate your registration for and participation in clinical trial activities hosted on the Curebase platform.
- To manage and communicate with you regarding your Curebase account, if you have one, including by sending you service announcements, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
- To store information about your preferences and customize your experience on the Services.
- To analyze usage trends and patterns and measure the effectiveness of the Services.
- To perform our contracts with clinical trial sponsors and others involved in clinical trial management.
- To promote our products and services including by sending you newsletters, special offers, and other information we think may be of interest to you, including information about other clinical trials which may be of interest.
- To administer, evaluate, and improve our business and the Services (including developing new products and services; managing our communications; and performing accounting, auditing, billing, reconciliation and collection activities).
- To comply with legal and regulatory requirements, judicial process, and our company policies (including due diligence and contracting activities).
- To secure the Services, including by protecting against and responding to fraud, illegal activity (such as incidents of hacking or misuse of the Services), and claims and other liabilities, including by enforcing our agreements.
- To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, including as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding.
- To create aggregate or de-identified information.
- To enforce our policies, terms of use, contracts, or other legal rights.
- Such other purposes as you may authorize.
How We Disclose Personal Information
We may disclose Personal Information we collect about you to other parties that may include the following:
- To trial sponsors or others involved in the clinical trial process.
- To our affiliates and business partners, such as partners involved in joint business transactions.
- To our contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our organization, which may include support of any of the data uses described above.
- To comply with applicable law, other legal requirements, and industry standards.
- To enforce our policies, terms of use, contracts, or other legal rights.
- To investigate or prevent unlawful activities or misuse of the Services.
- To protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and participating in any prosecution or enforcement of laws or agreements meant to prevent or punish such activity.
- To operate, evaluate, debug, identify and repair errors, effectuate similar functional enhancements, and improve our Services and offerings.
- To protect the legal rights, property, safety, and security of us, our users, our employees, and others.
- To an actual or potential buyer, successor, or other organization in the event of an actual or potential merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, including as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceedings.
- To such other parties as you may authorize.
We may also share aggregate and de-identified information created from our users' data with selected third parties for statistical purposes.
Sales of Personal Information
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not sold any categories of Personal Information.
Your Rights and Choices
We provide you with choices with regard to your Personal Information. For example, you can choose not to give us the Personal Information we request, as described in the "Information You Provide Directly" section of this Privacy Policy. However, in some cases, if you decide not to provide the information we request, we will not be able to provide the service or information you requested.
Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights related to your Personal Information, including:
- Access and Data Portability. You may confirm whether we process your Personal Information and access a copy of the Personal Information we process. To the extent feasible and required by law, Personal Information will be provided in a portable format. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to receive additional information and it will be included in the response to your access request.
- Correction. You may request that we correct inaccuracies in your Personal Information that we maintain, taking into account the information's nature and processing purpose.
- Deletion. You may request that we delete Personal Information about you that we maintain, subject to certain exception under applicable law.
- Opt Out of Using Personal Information for Targeted Advertising, Profiling, and Sales. If applicable, you may request that we do not use your personal data for these purposes.
Important: The exact scope of these rights vary depending on where you live and applicable law. There are also several exceptions, including research-specific exceptions, where we may not have an obligation to fulfill your request. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.
To exercise any of these rights, or if you have questions about these rights, please contact us under the How to Contact Us section, or complete the online request form at: https://privacy.curebase.com/consent. We will respond to your request within a reasonable time and in accordance with any deadline imposed by law and assist anyone who needs assistance preparing a request for access. As required under applicable law, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to information or acting on your request to exercise your rights.
Other examples of your choices include:
- You can browse our website without registering or directly submitting any information to us (although we may still collect some information automatically, as described above).
- You may opt out of receiving our messages at any time by using the opt-out mechanism provided in the message.
- A cookie banner will appear on your screen the first time when you visit our website, or access the website with a new device, informing you of our use of cookies. The cookie banner includes a link to our cookie settings preference center.
- You may change your browser settings or to block, manage, or delete cookies. The means by which you can refuse cookies through your web-browser may vary from browser to browser and you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
- Our Services do not currently respond to browser "do not track" signals, so you will need to use your browser settings to effectively manage cookies. In some cases, blocking or disabling cookies may cause the Services not to work as intended and some features may not be available.
For information about interest-based advertising, and to opt out of this type of advertising by third parties that participate in self-regulatory programs, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) opt out tool (http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/) and/or the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising (https://youradchoices.com/), or, for users in Europe, the EDAA's opt-out page (http://youronlinechoices.eu/). Please note that any opt-out choice you exercise through these programs will apply to interest-based advertising by the third parties you select, but will still allow the collection of data for other purposes, including research, analytics, and internal operations.
Children
Our Services are not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 16, or such other applicable age of consent for privacy purposes in relevant individual jurisdictions, unless (a) we have obtained consent from a parent or guardian, (b) such collection is subject to a separate agreement with us, or (c) the visit by a child is unsolicited or incidental. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information without your consent, please contact us under the How to Contact Us section below and we will take steps to delete their Personal Information from our systems.
Our Security
We maintain commercially reasonable safeguards that are designed to protect the information collected through the Services. Please note, however, that we cannot and do not guarantee the security of your information, as no method of data storage or transmission is completely secure. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk.
How Long We Keep Information
We will keep your Personal Information for the time period necessary to achieve the purposes for which it was collected, including provision of the Services and to comply with law, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements, as applicable. For example, if you register on our Services, we will store your information for as long as needed to maintain your account, provide you the Services or other functionality as you request it, enforce any applicable terms that govern your use of the Services, and maintain appropriate records to reflect our delivery of Services to you.
Other Sites and Services
Our Services may contain links to other websites and services. These links are not an endorsement, authorization or representation that we are affiliated with that third party. We do not exercise control over third party websites or services, and are not responsible for their actions. Other websites and services follow different rules regarding the use or disclosure of the personal information you submit to them. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites you visit and services you use.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our privacy practices at any time and without notice to you. When we do so, we will update the Effective Date of the Privacy Policy, above. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, or if you would like to ask for access to or amendment of deletion of your Personal Information, please contact us at:
- Email: privacy@curebase.com
- Telephone: 1-833-977-3116
- Postal Mail: 548 Market Street PMB 86319, San Francisco, CA 94104-5401
