Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

Terms of Service

When we say ”company”, “we”, “our”, “us”, ”service” or ”services” in this document, we are referring to the Exscientia Lux Newsletter.

We may update these Terms of Service in the future.

When you use our service, now or in the future, you are agreeing to the latest Terms of Service. That’s true for any of our existing and future products and all features that we add to our service over time. There may be times where we do not exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Service; in doing so, we are not waiving that right or provision. These terms do contain a limitation of our liability.

If you do not agree to these Terms of Service, do not use this service. Violation of any of the terms below may result in the termination of your account. That’s a broad statement and it means you need to place a lot of trust in us. We do our best to deserve that trust by being open about who we are, how we work, and keeping an open door to your feedback.

Account terms

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and password. Ex Scientia Lux cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage from your failure to comply with this security obligation.

You are responsible for any activity that occurs under your account (even by others who have their own logins under your account).

You may not use our service for any illegal purpose or to violate any laws in your jurisdiction.

You must be a human. Accounts registered by bots or other automated methods are not permitted.

Account deletion

You can choose to delete your account at any time. All your information will be permenantly deleted.

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the service for any reason at any time.

Verbal, physical, written or other abuse (including threats of abuse or retribution) of any service customer, company employee or officer may result in immediate account termination.

Content ownership, copyright and trademark

You are solely responsible for any content and other material that you submit, publish, transmit, email, or display on, through, or with the service.

We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the service. All site data remains yours.

You may provide us with feedback, suggestions, and ideas about the service. You agree that we own all rights to use and incorporate the feedback you provide in any way, including in future enhancements and modifications to the service, without payment or attribution to you.

You must not modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with Ex Scientia Lux. The look and feel of the service is copyright © to Ex Scientia Lux. All rights reserved. You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the service, use of the service, or access to the service without the express written permission by the company.

Privacy and security of your data

We take many measures to protect and secure your data through backups, redundancies, and encryption. When you use our service to track events, you agree that Ex Scientia Lux may process your data as described in our data policy and for no other purpose.

Each party agrees to handle the other party’s data in accordance with (i) all applicable laws; and (ii) privacy and security measures reasonably adequate to preserve the other party data’s confidentiality and security.

You agree not to use the service to send sensitive information to the company where unauthorized disclosure could cause material, severe, or catastrophic harm or impact to the company, any data subjects or third-parties. Sensitive information includes, but is not limited to credit card information, passport numbers, government issued identification numbers, financial account information, real time geolocation and personally identifiable information (PII). PII is information that could be used on its own to directly identify, contact, or precisely locate an individual.

General conditions

Your use of Ex Scientia Lux is at your sole risk. The service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We do take uptime of our application seriously.

We use a self-hosted version of Ghost to run Ex Scientia Lux. We make sure to be on the latest version at all times to make sure security holes and bugs are always fixed.

Technical support is provided by email. Email responses are provided on the reasonable effort basis without guaranteed response time.

We as humans can access your data to help you with support requests you make and to maintain and safeguard Ex Scientia Lux to ensure the security of your data and the service as a whole.

We use third party vendors to provide the necessary hardware, storage, payment processing and related technology required to run the Services. You can see a list of all subprocessors below.

Liability

We mention liability throughout these Terms but to put it all in one section:

You expressly understand and agree that Ex Scientia Lux shall not be liable, in law or in equity, to you or to any third party for any direct, indirect, incidental, lost profits, special, consequential, punitive or exemplary damages, including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses (even if the company has been advised of the possibility of such damages), resulting from: (i) the use or the inability to use the services; (ii) the cost of procurement of substitute goods and services resulting from any goods, data, information or services purchased or obtained or messages received or transactions entered into through or from the services; (iii) unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data; (iv) statements or conduct of any third party on the service; (v) or any other matter relating to this Terms of Service or the services, whether as a breach of contract, tort (including negligence whether active or passive), or any other theory of liability.

In other words: choosing to use our services does mean you are making a bet on us. If the bet does not work out, that’s on you, not us. We do our darnedest to be as safe a bet as possible through careful management of the business; investments in security, infrastructure, and talent; and in general giving a damn. If you choose to use our services, thank you for betting on us.

This agreement shall be governed by the laws of Switzerland, and the courts of Switzerland shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine all issues that may arise under or in relation to this agreement.

Contact us

If you have a question about any of the Terms of Service, please contact us: sedat@exscientialux.org

Last updated: March 13, 2025.

Privacy Policy

TL;DR: For Ex Scientia Lux visitors, we do not use cookies and we do not collect any personal data. If you decide to create an account, we ask for the bare minimum and only share it with services that are absolutely necessary for the newsletter to function.

At Ex Scientia Lux, we are committed to complying with GDPR, CCPA, PECR and other privacy regulations on our website and on our store finder product, too. The privacy of your data — and it is your data, not ours! — is a big deal to us.

In this policy, we lay out what data we collect and why, how your data is handled and your rights to your data. We promise we never sell your data: never have, never will.

As a visitor to the exscientialux.org website

The privacy of our website visitors is important to us so we do not track any individual people. As a visitor to the exscientialux.org website:

No personal information is collected
No information such as cookies is stored in the browser
No information is shared with, sent to or sold to third-parties
No information is shared with advertising companies
No information is mined and harvested for personal and behavioral trends
No information is monetized

We use the excellent and privacy-friendly Plausible Analytics to collect some anonymous usage data for statistical purposes. The goal is to track overall trends in our website traffic, it is not to track individual visitors. All the data is in aggregate only. No personal data is collected.

Data collected includes referral sources, top pages, visit duration, information from the devices (device type, operating system, country and browser) used during the visit and more.

As subscriber of Ex Scientia Lux

Our guiding principle is to collect only what we need and that we will solely process this information to provide you with the service you signed up for.

We use a select number of trusted external service providers for certain service offerings. These service providers are carefully selected and meet high data protection, data privacy and security standards.

We only share information with them that is required for the services offered and we contractually bind them to keep any information we share with them as confidential and to process personal data only according to our instructions.

Here’s what that means in practice:

What we collect and what we use it for

Like most online services, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, including the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information.
We collect some usage information, such as the dates and times you signed up, signed in to the website, or changed your subscription preferences.
An email address is required to create an account. You need to provide us with your email address if you want to create a Ex Scientia Lux account. That’s just so you can log in and personalize your new account, and we can send you our newsletter.
A persistent first-party cookie is stored to remember you’re logged in. If you log in to your Ex Scientia Lux account, you give us permission to use cookies so you don’t have to log in on each returning session. This makes it easier for you to use our product. A cookie is a piece of text stored by your browser. You can adjust cookie retention settings in your own browser. Cookies that are already stored may be deleted at any time.
Alll of the data that we collect is kept fully secured and hosted on renewable energy powered server in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. This ensures that all of the site data is being covered by the European Union’s strict laws on data privacy. Your site data never leaves the EU. The server is hosted by DigitalOcean and the data center is owned by Interxion. See DigitalOcean GDPR policy for full details.
All emails are sent using a third-party email provider, Mailgun. We have disabled open and link tracking. See the Mailgun Privacy Policy for full details.
When you write to us with a question or to ask for help. We keep that correspondence, which includes the email address, so that we have a history of past correspondences to reference if you reach out in the future. We use this data solely in connection with answering the queries we receive.

Retention of data

We will retain your information as long as your account is active, as necessary to provide you with the services or as otherwise set forth in this policy.

We will also retain and use this information as necessary for the purposes set out in this policy and to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements and protect Ex Scientia Lux’s legal rights.

You can choose to delete your Ex Scientia Lux account at any time. All your data will be permanently deleted immediately when you delete your account.

If you are located in a country that falls under the scope of the GDPR, data protection laws give you certain rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

Request access to your personal data;
Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
Object to my use and processing of your personal data;
Request that I limit my use and processing of your personal data; and
Request portability of your personal data.

You also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

Changes and questions

We may update this policy as needed to comply with relevant regulations and reflect any new practices. Whenever we make a significant change to our policies, we will also announce them on our company blog or social media profiles.

Contact us if you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this privacy policy, your data, or your rights with respect to your information: sedat@exscientialux.org