When you use our services, you’re trusting us with your information. We understand that this is a big responsibility and we work hard to protect your information.

At IQ Googol, we take data protection and individuals' rights relating to their personal data seriously. We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and security of personal data and using it responsibly.

If you are using Googol IQ test to take an IQ test, either full or demo version, or you are giving us feedback on our services, or just visiting our website, this Privacy Policy applies to you. This Policy contains information about the types of personal data we may collect, why we collect them and how we use it. Please study this Policy carefully prior to browsing our Website and before each transaction. By making any use (such as access, viewing, browsing, transmission, temporary or non-temporary storage, etc.) of our Website, the services or functions offered on it and making any transaction in our online store in any way, through any platform or device, you acknowledge and agree that you have read and understood this Policy.

We don’t sell your personal data to anyone. We never have and we never will.

All we know about you is what you share by visiting and exploring our website. We don’t collect any of your personal information from any third parties, so it’s completely up to you to decide what you want to share.

When you use our website, even if you don’t take the test, we receive some personal information from you like the type of device you’re using and your IP address. You can choose to share additional information with us after completing the full test. We use this information for improving our services and for keeping our website functional and secure. You are free to opt in and out of our newsletters, update your details, or delete them entirely at any time. You can also ask us to give you a copy of the information you’ve submitted. We use your answers to our surveys, tests, and other tools to determine what content is relevant to you and to improve our understanding of IQ and cognitive abilities. You’re completely free to decide which tests to take and which tools and features to explore. If you have any questions or comments regarding this policy, please don’t hesitate to get in touch at : support@IQgoogol.com.

Our Role

If you are using our website to: a) take an IQ test on test-iq.org as a customer, b) access information relevant to our products and services, c) find a link to our facebook page, d) find information on how to contact us or you are just visiting our website, we act as the ‘data controller’ of personal data. This means we determine how and why your data are processed. For such purposes the data controller is Global IQ Rubik Company, Ltd, Floor 03, Ha Thanh Plaza Building, 102 Thai Thinh, Trung Liet Ward, Dong Da District, Hanoi City, Vietnam, email: support@IQgoogol.com

If you provide us with personal information about other people, or if others give us your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us. By submitting the information, you confirm that you have the right to authorize us to process it on your behalf in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

By submitting Content to us in any form (e.g. through feedback), you grant us a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, unrestricted license to reproduce, perform, prepare derivative works, distribute copies or publicly display Content in any medium and for any purpose (including commercial purposes), and also to authorize others to do so.

You assign all rights to feedback and allow us to use it freely. You grant us the right to use your company name and logo for marketing purposes. Email support@IQgoogol.com if you don't want to be listed as a reference.

Types of Data We Collect

1. Contact details

Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• First Name
• Last Name
• Age Group
• Country
• Highest Education Level
• Most Relevant Educational Institution
• Most Relevant Field of Study
• Most Relevant Professional Experience
• Most Recent Employer
• Email
• IP Address
• Test Elapsed Time
• Test Completion Date And Time
• Payment Information
• Refer
• Cookie

Note : The Site is intended for Users over the age of sixteen (16). Therefore, Googol IQ Test does not intend and does not knowingly directly collect any Personal Information from children under the age of sixteen (16) and does not wish to do so. We reserve the right to request proof of age at any stage so that we can verify that minors under the age of sixteen (16) are not using the Site.

For every answered question:

Question ID

Correct/wrong

Refer

Test results

Your personal data held by IQgoogol has been supplied by you for the purpose of managing and supporting your Test results. We are the Data Controller of your personal data. It will be processed under our Legitimate Interests of providing you with the described service, authenticating you, and addressing you in communication about the service.

2. Financial information

When you are using a credit card in order to make a payment, we collect the four last digits of the card number, the cardholder’s name and the expiration date of the card. When you are making a payment via PayPal, we collect the first name, last name and email address connected with the PayPal account. When you are making a payment via Paypal and Onepay, we collect the first name, last name and 4 last digits of your credit card and its expiration date. Please note that Onepay might allow or require that you use other payment methods, such as Google Pay or Apple Pay, depending on your location and preferences. Furthermore, customers from certain locations outside the European Union (EU) might be able to pay using payment methods provided by local payment gateway.

3. Data we collect automatically.

We may automatically collect information about you when you use our website, some of which can potentially be understood as personal data. Most of this information is collected via the use of “cookies” and other similar technologies, such as web beacons. You can learn more about cookies and similar technologies and how they are used in our website at the “Cookie Policy” section of this Privacy Policy.

A. Data relevant to your identity online and your location. Your IP (Internet Protocol) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, browser type and version, browser plug-in types, time zone setting, operating system and version, timestamp signature, device type, geolocation information about where you might be and login information relevant to our website. You may choose not to share your location details with us by adjusting your location services settings.

B.> Data relevant to your use of our website.

Your URL clickstreams (the path you take through our site), products/services viewed, page response times, download errors, how long you stay on our pages, what you do on those pages, how often, and other actions.

4. Special categories of data and children’s data.

We don’t collect any data about you revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade-union membership, genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning sex life or sexual orientation, except when we have your explicit consent, or when we have to comply with the law.

When we offer you customer support, you might, out of your own initiative, provide us with details that are considered special categories of data relevant to your request. We do not target Googol IQ test at children, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data from any person under 16 years of age.

How Do We Collect Information?

First, we collect, store, and use information you share on our website. This includes your email address, messages you might send to us, survey responses, and any other information you choose to enter on the website.

Second, if you purchase something for yourself or for anyone else on our website, we collect payment and tax information (e.g. country of residence), contact and delivery information (e.g. name and email address), and details of what you purchased. We collect the four last digits of the credit or debit card number, the cardholder name, the cardholder’s email address, and the expiration date of the card.

Finally, we record certain technical information whenever you use our website. This includes information about your device and about your visits to and use of our website, such as your IP address, browser type and version, page views, how long you stay on our pages, etc.

We also use cookies (small encrypted data that is stored and sent by your browser whenever you visit our website) to store and retrieve your test results, and various website settings. Some of the cookies are user specific while others are not. For more information about cookies, please see the following section.

Why we collect your personal information

While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you and to provide a more personalized experience.

The primary reasons for collecting this data include:

Analyzing IQ test results: We collect your personal data to help us calculate average IQ ranges per country, education level, etc. This information allows us to better understand the distribution of IQ scores across different demographics and provides valuable insights for researchers and users alike.

Personalized experience: By gathering data about your background, such as your country, education level, and field of study, we can provide you with a more personalized experience. This enables you to compare your test results with your peers and understand how your performance relates to others with similar backgrounds.

Service improvement: Collecting your personal data allows us to identify areas for improvement in our service, optimize the user experience, and ensure that our IQ tests remain relevant and accurate.

Research purposes: We may use your personal data in an anonymized format for research purposes, which may include sharing anonymized data with university researchers or other legitimate research institutions to help improve and advance knowledge in the field.

Information Collected by Third Parties through Third-Party Links and Content.

Our website may include links to other websites and other content from third parties which are outside our control. We are not responsible for the security, privacy of the information collected by these third parties or the privacy practices of these third parties or the content on any third-party website. We thus encourage you to review the privacy policies of those third parties.

Our Legal Bases for Processing Your Personal Data

In order to collect and/or use your personal data we have at least one of the following legal bases:

Consent

You have given us clear and explicit consent to process your personal data for one or more specific purposes. If you have previously given consent to processing your data, you can withdraw such consent at any time. You can do this by emailing us at privacy@test-iq.org. If you do withdraw your consent, and if we do not have another legal basis for processing your information (for example to defend a legal claim, or because we are obliged to retain such information by law), then we will stop processing your personal data. If we do have another legal basis for processing your information, then we may continue to do so, subject to your legal rights.

Contract

Processing your data is necessary for a contract to be formulated and executed with us (for the provision of services / products or otherwise), or because such information is necessary before entering into that contract.

Legitimate interests

Processing your data is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, provided those interests are not outweighed by your rights and interests. These legitimate interests are:

• delivering, developing and improving our services and products
• determining whether marketing campaigns are effective
• improving data security
• gaining insights from your behaviour on our website in order to be able to offer you and third parties services and products which they find useful.
• getting in touch with an existing customer; if you have been our customer in the past, we may communicate with you via email, in order to inform you about services / products similar to the ones you showed interest in, which we think you may like (read more bellow, at the section Promotional emails)
• Defending or exercising a legal claim.

In each case, we found that these legitimate interests were not outweighed by your rights and interests.

Legal obligation

Processing of your data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, providing you invoices).

Why do we collect your personal data and how do we use them?

We use your personal data for the following reasons:

To Provide you the services you request

(legal bases: contract, consent, legitimate interest and legal obligation)

Such as:

• To manage your orders and requests, to process orders and payments (legal basis: contract),
• To manage login and authentication (legal bases: contract and consent),
• To remember your settings (legal basis: legitimate interest),
• To issue and send you invoices as may be required by law (legal basis: legal obligation and contract)

For Customer support

(legal bases: contract and legitimate interest)

Such as:

To notify you of any changes to our service / the fulfillment of your order legal basis: (contract)

To address requests / complains and solve issues via email or phone support, including any bug fixing (legal basis: legitimate interest)

For Marketing Purposes / Promotional Emails

(legal bases: consent and legitimate interest)

Such as:

- To send you promotional emails and messages about news, new features, products, services, offers/discounts, information about our website and content. We will only send you such informational and promotional emails if one of two conditions applies:

1. You are an existing customer or have shown active interest in our products and services and we believe you might be interested in receiving information about our products and offers (legal basis: legitimate interest).

2. You have given us your explicit consent (legal basis: consent).

– To send you emails to ask you if you want to continue a transaction that you started but did not conclude (legal basis: legitimate interest).

– To Personalize our services by understanding the interests of our customers and our website visitors (legal basis: consent of use of cookies).

– To assess the effectiveness of our marketing efforts (legal basis: consent of use of cookies).

We shall only collect the email you have provided us in order to facilitate our communications and no other personal data and for no other reason.

You can always unsubscribe by following the dedicated link at the end of each newsletter or promotional email and the procedure described therein or by emailing your request at support@IQgoogol.com.

For Analytics purposes /Improving our services

(legal bases: consent and legitimate interest)

Such as: to test features, interact with feedback platforms and questionnaires, manage landing pages, heat map our site, traffic optimization and data analysis and research.

How Do We Use The Information We Collect?

We use the information we collect to provide you with our services as well as content that is relevant and personal to you. Consequently, it’s necessary for us to use your information to:

• Send you your IQ test results, if you request them in the checkout page or when you are asked to provide your name and email address so we can send you your test results;
• Send you account-related messages, such as password recovery emails;
• Identify you and ensure the security of your account (e.g. by verifying that you own the email address linked to your account);
• Collect payments from you and send you emails with your order details, if you decide to purchase something from us;
• Provide you with content and services relevant to you (e.g. relevant information for people with certain test results);
• Respond to your questions or complaints, or to complaints made about your use of our website.

We have a legitimate interest in using your information in these ways. It is necessary for us to do that to make our services and content as relevant to you as possible, and that is in both of our interests.

Therefore, we use your information to:

• Conduct analytics on how you use our website in order to better understand your needs and to optimize our service and user experience. For instance, by measuring the time you spend on a certain page before and after a design change, we can understand whether there is anything we need to tweak. In order to do that, we use third party services, Google Analytics and Hotjar, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns (e.g. how much time you spend reading your test results). We may also use Google Ads, Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel to analyze the effectiveness of our Facebook ads. We have already mentioned these services in the Cookies section above;
• Improve our website and develop new functionality (e.g., if the majority of users in one of our surveys say they have issues with their partner when it comes to hobbies and interests, we will certainly take that into account and might provide more recommendations on this subject);
• Conduct internal analysis and statistical research to improve our services and understanding of IQ and cognitive abilities (e.g., users’ responses to our surveys could help us find out that users from different countries have different strengths/weaknesses, thus we might be able to provide more specific recommendations based on the country of a user). The raw research data you supply is anonymized or pseudonymized, and access to it is strictly limited. Even our own researchers only see data that cannot be connected back to any individually identifying information, and we only publish aggregate statistical data. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. For example, we don’t make any attempt to match such information with personal data we hold about you;
• To send you marketing and promotion related emails and messages about news, new features, products, services, offers/discounts, information about our website and content (if you are already a customer or with your explicit consent), to send you emails to ask if you want to continue a transaction that you started but did not conclude, to offer via email a discount code to users that have expressed interest in our products, to personalize our services by understanding the interests of our customers and our website visitors, and to analyze the effectiveness of our marketing efforts;
• Keep the website secure and prevent fraud (e.g. by logging authentication attempts or activities);
• Keep both you and other users safe, including working with law enforcement where necessary;
• Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of the website.

While our legitimate interests cover a lot of what we do, other legal grounds apply to how we process your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where we expressly require consent from you for the processing in question;
• Where we provide services to you that you purchase – in which case we have a contract with you and we process your data in accordance with our contract with you (see our Terms and Conditions). In particular, our contract allows us to retain and delete data in ways which override certain rights you may otherwise have had if we were relying on consent or our legitimate interests for the data processing in question;
• Where another legal ground applies (this is rare) – e.g. where we’re required to process the information by law.

Finally, in addition to what we discussed above, we only use your information with your consent:

• To send you email newsletters, if you have specifically agreed to receive them and confirmed that by opting in on our website or by clicking a link in a verification email. You can unsubscribe from our newsletters at any time by clicking a link at the bottom of any message.
• Where the test for which you are supplying us with personal data relates to “special category” personal data (e.g., your age, nationality or gender), and which we then process to provide assessment results and then subsequently for research purposes (where the data will be anonymized or pseudonymized). Here we rely rst on our legitimate interests, and second on your explicit consent to this

Please note that you may withdraw your consent at any time.

Where you supply us with special category personal data we may also further process this data for research purposes – this data will be anonymized so that it ceases to be personal data. In this case we also rely on Article 9.2(j) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to the extent the processing of personal data is involved.

We will not provide your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing by those parties.

Legal Basis for processing data

In order for the Company to process your Personal Information, as detailed herein, such processing must be justified by a “basis” for processing. Please note that the Personal Information processing activities detailed herein may be justified on the basis that:

• the processing is necessary for performance of a contract or in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract – other than as stated below, we process all of the Personal Information detailed under section above, solely in order to enable you to use the Site and the Tests. As such, Personal Information is processed on the basis of performance of the contract between you and the Company, namely our Term of Use;
• the processing is based on your consent – where you provide us with your consent to contact you for marketing purposes, process your Personal Information for targeted advertising, or when we use cookies to collect information about your use of the Site, you will be asked to consent to such activities before we can process such information. If you choose not to give us your consent for such processing activities, or if you decide later to remove your consent, this may affect our ability to provide you with some of the services available on our Site;
• the processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation – we may process your Personal Information for disclosure of information to authorities;
• the processing is in our legitimate commercial interests – subject to your interests and fundamental rights, under our legitimate interest in marketing our products and services via the Site and offering the public comfortable and safe access to our Site, we shall perform the Personal Information processing activities described herein, such as the processing of your Personal Information in order to personalize the Site, assisting us to prevent crime and fraud, manage our internal operations, maintaining records and email tracking. We may also use the information contained in certain cookies and other such files or tags based on such ground for our legitimate interests in a safe and user-friendly presentation of our Site. Where we rely on legitimate interests as a lawful basis, we will carry out a balancing test to ensure that your interests, rights and freedoms do not override our legitimate interests.

How We Protect Your Data

The website and online shop IQgoogol.com is operated according to applicable Vietnamese legislation and it stores your personal data with safety. We have physical and electronic procedures (technical and organizational measures) to secure and protect the information we collect and process. We only allow controlled and limited access to personal data that we may have collected and stored. When using a third party to process your personal data on our behalf or when a third party is a ‘joint data controller’ with regards to your personal data, we take steps to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this Privacy Policy. Furthermore, we do not have access to payment transactions, as they are fulfilled by trusted third parties, which are well equipped to safeguard your financial data.

However, please keep in mind that no data transmission is guaranteed to be 100% secure. You are responsible of your username and password so please keep them safe and secret. If you believe your privacy has been breached, please contact us without delay by sending us an email at support@IQgoogol.com.

We take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information. For instance, we store the information provided on secure Google Cloud and/or Amazon AWS cloud based servers (password and firewall-protected), encrypt traffic to and from the website, and anonymize personal information or use a pseudonym where possible. Still, we cannot guarantee complete security of data sent over the internet (e.g. someone may discover a vulnerability in the encryption protocol that we use or your internet service provider may record the data you send).

Do We Transfer Your Information Elsewhere?

As a worldwide digital service provider, we are required to work with a few different providers, some of which are located outside Vietnam, e.g. in the U.S., in order to be able to operate our website and to make our services available online, some of your personal data may be transferred outside Vietnam.

We ensure that any transfer of your personal information outside Vietnam where the GDPR applies to such transfer will be subject to the appropriate or suitable relevant safeguards, as permitted under the GDPR, with those measures designed to help safeguard your privacy rights and give you remedies in the unlikely event of a misuse of your personal information.

In general, we use contract clauses for such transfers (as per the Article 46.2 of the GDPR), unless the country in question is judged adequate under the Article 45 of the GDPR (including in the case of the U.S. with Privacy Shield). We also limit access to your personal information to those members of our staff who have a specific business reason for knowing such information. If you would like further information on this, please contact us.

We use all reasonable security and access control measures to secure any personal information on third party websites and the data stored therein. We always share as little data as we can, also encrypting it where possible. For instance, our email service provider would need to know your email address to deliver you an email. To provide you another example, Google or Amazon are not permitted to use any information for anything beyond what is necessary to provide their service to us.

MailChimp: To deliver our newsletters. We also gather statistics around e-mail opening and clicks to help us monitor and improve our newsletters. MailChimp’s privacy policy is here.

How And When Do We Share Your Information?

Our staff, agents, suppliers, and subcontractors may need to have access to your information where it is necessary. This applies to any member of our group of companies, e.g. our subsidiaries and our holding company and all its subsidiaries. If you ask us to delete your name and email address for instance, someone from our team will need to access the data in order to delete it. However, access to your personal data is strictly limited and monitored, with sensitive details securely encrypted.

There are certain other circumstances where we may disclose your personal information:

• Where we are required to do so by law or in connection with any ongoing, prospective, or reasonably likely (in our view) legal proceedings;
• Where we need to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (e.g. providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention);
• If we are engaged in a merger, reorganisation, or any similar proceeding requiring the transfer of your information – we would then share your information with a party involved in such a process (e.g. a potential purchaser).

We do not serve ads on our website and we do not share or sell your data in any way to online advertisers. As a general rule, except as discussed above, we do not share your personal information with any third parties.

How Can You Manage Your Information?

If you ask us to delete, we will anonymize your user record, removing your email address, name, etc. However, we will not delete your responses to our tests and surveys, and other similar data. We need to keep that data for a number of reasons, such as preserving the integrity of our research, or ensuring the security of our website. The retention of this data is necessary for us to provide our services to you and others, however it will not be linked to your name or any other information that would identify you as an individual. You can also ask us to correct any personal data you have provided to us.

We need to verify the authenticity of any data correction or removal request, thus please ensure that you remain having access to the email address that you provided us. We do not ask you for data such as your full name, address, or date of birth - your email address is the only real identifier. If you lose access to the email address linked to your survey and test, we have no way of verifying that it is your data.

How Long Do We Keep Your Information?

We keep your information only for as long as we need it to provide services to you and to full the purposes described in this policy or as otherwise described in our Terms and Conditions. This also applies to any other parties that we share your information with.

Here are some examples of categories of data along with their periods of retention:

• Payment and order data, including relevant access logs – 10 years;
• Activity logs, minus the above – 1 year;
• Transient activity records, such as email invites or email verification requests – 3 months;
• Content submitted to our website, such as through our surveys and tests – unlimited.

We will depersonalize your information or remove it entirely from our systems once we no longer need it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, or for other purposes described in this policy.

How Do We Handle Children’s Information?

You may only use our website if you’re over the age at which you can provide consent to data processing under the laws of your country. Regardless of local laws, children under 16 are not allowed to use our website and we do not knowingly collect any personal data from any person under 16 years of age. If you are a parent and you learn that your child is using our website, and you do not want them to, please contact us at : support@IQgoogol.com.

As a small company, we do not have the resources to verify and track parental consent. As such, if you are below the age at which you can provide consent in your country, you are not entitled to use our website.

Your Rights

As a user of IQgoogol, you have various rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that we fully support and uphold. These rights include:

1. You have the right to access the information we hold about you. You can contact us and we shall inform you about:

• the categories of data we’re processing
• the purposes of data processing
• the categories of third parties to whom the data may be disclosed
• how long the data will be stored (or the criteria used to determine that period)
• other rights you have regarding our use of your data

We can also send you a copy of this information, if you wish.

2. You have the right to ask us to correct personal data about you if they are inaccurate or incomplete.

3. You can object to us using your data for profiling you or making automated decisions about you. We can deny your request if such processing is necessary for us and you to enter into a contract or perform our obligations arising out of such contract, or when such processing is authorized in law or when you have provided explicit consent to such processing. Please note that exercising this right does not equal to an obligation on our behalf to not show advertisements at all. Currently, we do not have such functions installed at our website.

4. You have the right to ask us to directly transfer your data to another service, as long as it is technically feasible or to provide you a copy in a common machine-readable format.

Please note that if such data also contain personal data about another person, we may elect not to include such data in our deliverables.

5. As per the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), you have the right to ask us to delete your results and the data that you had entered to build them at any time by asking us to do so by sending an email to support@IQgoogol.com from the same email address that you used to build your results. You have the right to be ‘forgotten’ (i.e. to ask us to erase your personal data).

All you have to do is ask and we will delete your data unless we have another legal reason to hold your personal data (such as a legal claim or a regulatory requirement).

6. You can ask us not to use your data (by sending an email to support@IQgoogol.com) for direct marketing purposes or when we process your personal data for our legitimate interests or for statistical purposes. With the exception of direct marketing, we can however reject your request if we have strong reasons to continue processing your data which override your objection (ex. exercise a legal claim).

7. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data in the following circumstances:

• When you are contesting the accuracy of your personal data and while we are verifying the accuracy of the data;
• When you believe that your data has been unlawfully processed and you oppose their erasure;
• When we would no longer need the personal data but you need us to keep them so that you can exercise or defend a legal claim;
• When you have objected to the processing of your data and while we are considering whether your legitimate grounds override those of the individual.

8. You can file a complaint regarding our use of your data to the Data Protection Authority.

Please tell us first and we would be happy to address your concerns. If you insist on contacting the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection, you can find out how to reach it and exercise your rights.

You can exercise all the aforementioned rights (with the exception of number 8) by emailing us at support@IQgoogol.com. We shall address your request within 30 days of its receipt unless it is too complicated or we are dealing simultaneously with too many such requests. In the latter case, it may take us up to two additional months to address your request, but we will let you know if that is the case within 30 days of the receipt of your initial request.

Updating Your Data

If you wish to update or change the information we hold about you or how we use it, you can contact us by emailing support@IQgoogol.com. Please ensure that you notify us of any updates, amendments, or corrections to your information by contacting us through the means provided.

Your Account security

You are responsible for safeguarding your password and preventing unauthorized use of your account. Don't disclose your password to others. If you suspect unauthorized access, contact us at support@Brght.org. You are responsible for all activities under your account.

Restrictions

You cannot sell, transfer, or sublicense your access to the Service. You and others cannot use the Service unlawfully or for prohibited purposes, copy or modify the Service, use robots or other devices to access restricted parts of the site, reverse engineer the Service, or use the Service to compete with us. Don't interfere with the operation or enjoyment of the Service or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service.

Location of Processing and Storage of Data

The personal data we collect is processed at our offices and servers situated in Vietnam and in any data processing facilities operated by the third parties identified below.

You agree to the transfer, storing or processing of your data by us, by submitting your personal data to us. If your information is transferred or stored outside of Vietnam in this way, we will take steps to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this Privacy Policy.

As a general rule, we will only keep your personal data for as long as it is necessary in order to provide you with our services unless we are required by law to keep them for an extended time. Any personal data stored by us will be deleted within 5 years of its collection. Some of the data stored in cookies and similar technologies can be retained for even shorter periods of time. We may, however, keep your personal data for a longer period, in order to exercise or defend a legal claim or in case we are obliged by a legal provision to do so. Additionally, we will only store the email addresses of our customers for up to 5 years in order to send them our newsletter and marketing emails, a function from which they may unsubscribe at any time. With regard to the email addresses kept for promotional purposes we may keep them for longer periods but you can unsubscribe anytime, in which case we will continue to hold such information only for the purpose of not sending you undesired communications.

Please note that while the above retention policy applies to personal data collected or stored by us, it may not apply to third parties who may have access to your personal data. You can learn more about third parties bellow, in the section “Third Parties and Sharing Your Information”.

Third Parties and Sharing Your Information

As with most websites offering services and/or products, we often have to resort to third-party vendors in order to be able to keep https://iqgoogol.com/ up and running, to provide our website’s services and in order to be able to perform all its functions already explained above.

These third parties help us host our website, facilitate your payments, communicate with you, power our emails, help us provide you with better services, analyze the performance of our website etc.

To that extent, sometimes it is necessary for us to share your data with them in order to get these services to work well. Please note that we will never sell your personal data to anyone.

IQgoogol is committed to supporting and contributing to research in the field of intelligence and cognitive abilities. With your consent, we will use your personal data in an anonymized format for research purposes. This may involve sharing anonymized data with university researchers or other legitimate research institutions to help drive advancements in knowledge, methodologies, and understanding of human cognitive abilities.

By accepting this privacy policy, you give your explicit consent for us to use your personal data in an anonymized format for these research purposes. However, you can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at support@IQgoogol.com.

To ensure the privacy and confidentiality of your personal data, we will not share any directly identifiable information, such as your first name, last name, email address, IP address or any other information that could be traced back to you by third parties. Before sharing any data with researchers, we will apply rigorous anonymization techniques to remove any personally identifiable information, ensuring that the data cannot be linked to individual users.

The anonymized data shared with researchers may include, but is not limited to:

• Age Group
• Country
• Highest Education Level
• Most Relevant Field of Study
• Test results (excluding any personally identifiable information)

To further protect user privacy, we will only share anonymized data with researchers who have demonstrated a commitment to ethical research practices and who are affiliated with recognized academic or research institutions. Additionally, researchers will be required to adhere to strict data protection agreements and use the data solely for the intended research purposes.

Users have full control over their consent for the use of their anonymized data for research purposes. You can be confident that your data is being used responsibly and ethically while contributing to valuable research efforts.

Social Features

Our Site may include social media features, such as Facebook, X, Tiktok and YouTube links (“Social Features”). The Social Features are operated or allow for social integration with certain third party social networks or third party Sites (“Social Network“). These Social Networks are created and maintained by third parties who are not affiliated with and/or controlled by IQ Googol Test. If you enable this integration with such Social Networks, your use of the Social Features is subject to the applicable third party Social Network’s terms of use and privacy policies. You should ensure that you read their terms of use and privacy policies to understand how they treat your information and in order to understand the methods for changing the privacy or sharing settings on such services. If you do not agree to the practices described in such terms you should not allow the Site to interact with such Social Networks, however you may find that you are not able to enjoy all the features that may be made available via the Site. You understand that where you allow interaction with any third party Social Network, we may share data about you with your contacts (and vice versa) in order that you may enjoy social elements. This data may include, inter alia, your name and your social media profile picture. By using the Social Features, you hereby agree and understand that the applicable Social Networks may collect certain Personal Information, such as your IP address, Non-personal Information and may set cookies and/or other web tracking technologies to enable the functionality of the Social Features. The use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the third party that provides the Social Features. You hereby understand and agree that when you share content from Social Networks, your content may become public and others may re-post-it.

Data Anonymization

We use industry-standard techniques to ensure that the anonymized data we collect cannot be traced back to individual users. This includes data aggregation, de-identification, and other methods to protect your privacy while allowing your data to contribute to research endeavors.

Data Security

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures include encryption techniques, secure storage facilities, and access controls to ensure the safety and confidentiality of your information.

Payment Processors

In order to offer you a convenient way to pay for your purchases, we make use of the services of third-party payment processors, more specifically PayPal and Onepay company. By using them as a payment method you explicitly agree to their terms for using their services. Please note that Onepay might allow you to use other payment methods, such as Google Pay or Apple Pay, depending on your location and preferences. You can learn more about the manner in which they shall process personal data, and what data they collect or we share with them, here (to read agreements for a different country or region, change your location via the provided link on these pages):

PayPal's privacy policy.

Onepay's license and certificate information.

Except for the information specified under the section Financial information, all information collected by the above third-party providers for purposes of processing your payments is not available to us, unless you have otherwise provided this information to us in connection with your use of our website and/or our services.

Servers / Cloud Storage

In order to effectively provide you with the services of our website and shop on https://iqgoogol.com, we make use of hosting services providers, more specifically DigitalOcean (USA). By visiting our website, using our shop and the above discount programs you explicitly agree to our use of these services. You can learn more about the manner by which they shall process personal data, and what data they collect or we share with them, here:

DigitalOcean's privacy policy.

DigitalOcean's GDPR security information.

Newsletter / Promotional Emails

In order to be able to send our newsletter and promotional emails to you, we make use of the services of third-party email services, more specifically Mailchimp (USA) and Google G Suite . By visiting our website and using our services you explicitly agree to our use of these services. You can learn more about the manner by which they shall process personal data, and what data they collect, or we share with them, here:

Mailchimp's privacy policy.

Google G Suite's privacy policy.

Google G Suite's privacy policy.

Google (DoubleClick, Analytics)

In order to be able to offer you better services, we make use of the services of a third-party digital marketing service, more specifically Google DoubleClick (www.doubleclickbygoogle.com). Additionally, in order to be able to offer better services and to collect aggregated anonymized information about the use and performance of our website, we make use of the services of a third party service, more specifically Google Analytics (www.google.com/analytics) By visiting our website and using our shop and services you explicitly agree to our use of these services. You can learn more about the manner by which Google shall process personal data, and what data they collect, or we share with them, here:

policies.google.com/terms
www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html
policies.google.com/privacy

You can opt-out of Google Analytics by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on, https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Please note that you can always opt out of interest-based Google ads using Google’s Ads Settings (https://adssettings.google.com )

Facebook (Business)

In order to be able to offer better services, we make use of the services of a third party service, more specifically Facebook (Business) (www.facebook.com/business). By visiting our website and using our shop you explicitly agree to our use of this service. You can learn more about the manner by which Facebook (Business) shall process personal data, and what data they collect, or we share with them, here: www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

Microsoft Bing

In order to be able to offer better services, we can make use of the services of a third party service, more specifically Microsoft Bing (www.bing.com). By visiting our website and using our shop you explicitly agree to our use of this service. Microsoft Bing allows us to build lists of users who have searched for certain terms and clicked on results using their search engines so that we can target our advertising more effectively. You can learn more about the manner by which Microsoft Bing shall process personal data, and what data they collect, or we share with them, here: privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement

Cookie Policy

Will we update this Privacy Policy?

We may update this Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes in law, third party vendors, technologies we use etc.

Therefore, please re-visit this Policy regularly to stay informed

Contacting Us

For any queries, comments, or requests related to this privacy notice or the rights listed above, please contact Brght at support@IQgoogol.com

If you have a complaint about how we use your information, please contact us in the first instance at support@IQgoogol.com, and we will do our best to help.

We will occasionally update this privacy notice and our privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this notice to stay informed about how we use your information.

Where can you get further information?

We, Global IQ Rubik Company Ltd. (Registered in Vietnam: National Company Code 0110633686, DUNS 646428093, Floor 03, Ha Thanh Plaza Building, 102 Thai Thinh, Trung Liet Ward, Dong Da District, Hanoi City, Vietnam, email : support@IQgoogol.com, are the data controller responsible for the information collected on our website. This means we determine how and why your data are processed. If you provide us with personal information about yourself or your partner (we never ask for the name of your partner in any case), we will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us. By submitting the information through our survey, you confirm that you have the right to authorize us to process it on your behalf in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Last Update: 30 July 2024