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ION LABS

§P · PRIVACY

What we keep, and why.

Ion Labs collects the minimum personal data needed to sell, ship, and verify analytical reference standards. This page describes what is collected, what it is used for, who it is shared with, and the rights you have over it.

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What we collect.

CONTACT

Name, email address, and shipping address. Provided by you when you create an account or place an order.

ORDER

The products, quantities, batch identifiers, and prices associated with each order, along with the researcher attestation submitted at checkout.

PAYMENT

Payment is processed by an external payment processor. Ion Labs receives confirmation of payment, the amount, and the payment method category — never your wallet keys, exchange credentials, or card details.

ACCOUNT

Hashed password, password-reset tokens, and session identifiers used to authenticate you when you return to your account. Plaintext passwords are not stored or accessible to anyone at Ion Labs.

TECHNICAL

IP address, browser user-agent, and approximate location derived from IP for fraud and security monitoring. Server logs are retained for 30 days unless tied to a security investigation.

COMMUNICATIONS

Emails you send to research@ionhealthlabs.com or coa@ionhealthlabs.com and our replies, retained as customer-service records.

How we use it.

Order fulfillment

Processing payment, generating shipping labels, releasing certificates of analysis bound to your lot identifiers, and delivering customer-service responses.

Account access

Authenticating you when you sign in, allowing you to look up past orders, download archived COAs, and manage subscriptions.

Legal records

Retaining the researcher attestation tied to each order, the order record itself, and tax-relevant transaction data for periods required by law.

Security

Detecting fraudulent ordering, abuse of the catalog, and breach of the researcher attestation. We do not use technical data for advertising or behavioral profiling.

Who we share with.

Ion Labs does not sell personal data. We share the minimum information necessary with the following service providers, each of which is contractually bound to use that data only to perform its service for us.

Payment processor
ORDER PAYMENT

Order total, currency, and a transaction identifier. Wallet addresses and on-chain details are handled by the processor and not retained by us.

Fulfillment provider
SHIPPING AND LABEL GENERATION

Name, shipping address, product SKUs, and weight required to print a carrier label and select a service.

Transactional email provider
ORDER AND VERIFICATION EMAIL DELIVERY

Email address, message body, and delivery metadata for order confirmations, shipping updates, and COA notifications.

Independent analytical laboratories
THIRD-PARTY COA GENERATION

Sample material with anonymized lot identifier only. Purchaser-identifying information is not provided to analytical labs.

Hosting and database providers
APPLICATION HOSTING AND STORAGE

Encrypted database records and application logs as needed to operate the service. Processed under each provider's standard data-processing terms.

How long we keep data

Order records and the researcher attestation tied to them are retained for at least seven years to meet US tax and recordkeeping obligations. Account contact information is retained for the active life of the account plus seven years for the associated orders. Server logs roll off at 30 days. Email correspondence is kept for two years from last contact.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, port, or delete personal data we hold about you, and to object to certain processing. Order records and attestations cannot be deleted before their retention period ends because they are required to be kept by law, but other categories of data can be. Send requests to research@ionhealthlabs.com from the email address on the account.

COOKIES

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AGE

The site is intended for qualified researchers 21 years of age or older. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 21. Material believed to belong to a minor will be deleted on discovery.

CHANGES

This policy may be updated. The revision date is shown at the top of the page. Material changes will be summarized in the order confirmation email for the first order placed after the revision.

CONTACT

Privacy inquiries: research@ionhealthlabs.com. For broader compliance questions, see the Research Use Policy and Terms of Sale.