Privacy Policy
Last updated: 4 November 2026
Who we are
Synbiobeta LLC (“SynBioBeta”, “we”) runs www.synbiobeta.com and the SynBioBeta conference. We decide how and why your personal information is used, which makes us the “controller” under EU and UK data protection law.
Synbiobeta LLC, c/o John Cumbers, 3559 Mt. Diablo Blvd. #2, Lafayette, CA 94549, United States. Email: info@synbiobeta.com
This policy covers www.synbiobeta.com: our news, insights, reports, podcasts and videos, our newsletters and event updates, and member accounts on the site. Buying a ticket and attending SynBioBeta events is covered by our event privacy policy. Sites we link to have their own privacy policies.
Information we collect
Information you give us
Newsletter and event-update sign-ups: name, email, company, job title and the topics you choose.
Member account: your name and email address when you create an account, and the articles you save. Your password is handled by our login provider, FramerAuth.
Advertising and partnership enquiries you send through our enquiry form, such as your name, company and what you’re interested in.
Messages you send us by email.
Information collected automatically
Device and usage data: IP address, browser and device type, pages viewed, links and buttons clicked, the site that referred you, and approximate location derived from your IP address.
Campaign data: the campaign tags (UTM parameters) on the link you arrived from, so we can tell which campaign led to a sign-up. If you then sign up through a form on the site, we store them with your submission.
Cookies, pixels and local storage set by us and by the services listed below. See Cookies and similar technologies.
Information from others
Advertising and analytics partners send us reports on how our ads and pages perform.
Business identification: for visitors in the United States, a service called RB2B may match a visit to a public professional profile (for example name, job title and company) and tell us about it. You can opt out with RB2B directly at app.retention.com/optout.
How we use your information
We use personal information only for the purposes below. If you are in the EU, UK or Switzerland, each item also shows the legal basis we rely on.
Send newsletters and event updates. Information used: name, email, interests. Legal basis: consent (unsubscribe link in every email).
Run member accounts and members-only content. Information used: account details and saved articles. Legal basis: contract (our terms of service).
Answer enquiries, including advertising and partnership requests. Information used: contact details and your message. Legal basis: legitimate interests (responding to you).
Follow up with professionals about attending, speaking or sponsoring our events. Information used: contact and professional details, past interactions. Legal basis: legitimate interests (growing a professional event).
Understand how the site is used and improve it. Information used: usage data, analytics cookies, session recordings. Legal basis: consent (Analytics cookies).
Show and measure our ads on Meta, Google, X and LinkedIn. Information used: pixel data and sign-up events; for matching, an email address that is scrambled (hashed) before use. Legal basis: consent (Marketing cookies).
Identify businesses that visit the site (US visitors). Information used: usage data matched by RB2B. Legal basis: consent (Marketing cookies).
Tell which campaign led to a sign-up. Information used: campaign tags and sign-up details. Legal basis: legitimate interests (knowing which campaigns work) for the campaign tags added to forms; consent (Analytics cookies) for everything our analytics tools measure.
Keep the site secure and prevent abuse. Information used: IP address and logs. Legal basis: legitimate interests.
Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time through Cookie Settings in the site footer or the unsubscribe link in our emails. Withdrawing does not affect anything done before.
Services we use
These companies process personal information for us or receive it through our site. Each processes it under its own terms and privacy policy.
Website hosting: Framer (Framer B.V.). Hosts the site, runs the cookie banner and basic site statistics. Where: Netherlands / EU.
Member accounts: FramerAuth. Sign-up, sign-in and member profiles. Where: as described in FramerAuth’s privacy policy.
Email and CRM: Salesforce Account Engagement (Pardot) and Salesforce (Salesforce, Inc.). Sign-up forms, emails, contact records, tracking of email and site engagement. Where: United States.
Forms: Typeform (TYPEFORM S.L.). Advertising and partnership enquiry form. Where: Spain / EU.
Tag management: Google Tag Manager (Google LLC). Loads the analytics and advertising tools below, according to your cookie choices. Where: United States.
Analytics: Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC). Visits, pages, clicks and conversions. Where: United States.
Analytics: Microsoft Clarity (Microsoft Corporation). Heatmaps and session recordings of how visitors use pages. Where: United States.
Analytics: Simple Analytics (Simple Analytics B.V.). Privacy-friendly visit statistics without cookies. Where: Netherlands / EU.
Advertising: Meta Pixel (Meta Platforms). Measures and targets our ads on Facebook and Instagram. Where: United States / Ireland.
Advertising: Google Ads (Google LLC). Measures conversions from our Google ads and may show our ads to past visitors. Where: United States.
Advertising: X Pixel (X Corp.). Measures and targets our ads on X. Where: United States.
Advertising: LinkedIn conversion tracking (LinkedIn Corporation). Measures sign-ups that come from our LinkedIn ads. Where: United States.
Business identification: RB2B (GetEmails, LLC). Matches US visits to public professional profiles. Where: United States.
Podcasts: Spotify (Spotify AB). Plays embedded podcast episodes. Where: Sweden / EU.
Video: YouTube (Google LLC), Vimeo (Vimeo.com, Inc.). Plays embedded videos. Where: United States.
Documents: Adobe PDF Embed API (Adobe Inc.). Shows our reports as PDFs on the page. Where: United States.
Social feed: RSS.app. Shows our latest social media posts on the home page. Where: as described in RSS.app’s privacy policy.
We may also use these services, some of them behind the scenes rather than on this site:
Advertising: LinkedIn Ads (LinkedIn Corporation). Targets our ads on LinkedIn, including contact lists we upload. Where: United States.
Automation: Zapier (Zapier, Inc.), Make (Celonis, Inc.). Move data between our tools. Where: United States.
Automation: n8n (run on our own servers). Moves data between our tools. Where: where our servers are hosted.
Automation: Google Sheets (Google LLC). Stores some sign-up lists. Where: United States.
Reporting: Google Looker Studio (Google LLC), Salesforce CRM Analytics (Salesforce, Inc.). Internal dashboards built on our analytics and CRM data. Where: United States.
Website delivery: Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc.). Speeds up and protects our websites. Where: United States.
Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies, pixels and browser storage let a site remember you and let the services above measure visits and ads. We group them into the categories shown in our cookie banner. Visitors in the EU, UK and Switzerland: only Necessary is on until you choose. Everywhere else: all categories are on by default, and you can switch any of them off.
You can change your choice at any time with Cookie Settings in the site footer, or delete cookies in your browser.
Necessary: makes the site work, keeps you signed in to your member account and remembers your cookie choice. Examples: your cookie choice; your login session.
Preferences: remembers settings you pick. Not currently used.
Analytics: counts visits and shows how pages are used, including session recordings. Examples: Google Analytics (
_ga,_ga_*); Microsoft Clarity (_clck,_clsk). Simple Analytics and Framer’s site statistics don’t use cookies.Marketing: measures ads, builds ad audiences and identifies visiting businesses (US). Examples: Meta (
_fbp,_fbc); Google Ads (_gcl_au); X (muc_ads,personalization_id); RB2B (_reb2buid,_reb2bref); Salesforce Pardot (visitor_id*).
One exception: when you arrive from a campaign link, our website platform Framer sets a cookie straight away (framerFormsUTMTags). It holds only the campaign tags, so the campaign is included if you send us a form, and it is deleted when you close your browser.
Embedded podcasts, videos, PDFs and the social feed from Spotify, YouTube, Vimeo, Adobe and RSS.app may set their own cookies when they load. Their policies apply to those cookies.
How long each cookie lasts is set by the service that places it, from the end of your visit to more than a year. You can see and delete cookies in your browser settings at any time.
How we share information
We do not sell your personal information for money. We share it only as follows:
Service providers listed above, who process it on our behalf.
Advertising platforms (Meta, Google, X, LinkedIn) and RB2B receive data through their pixels on our site when Marketing cookies are on. They may also use it for their own purposes under their own policies. You can turn this off with Marketing in Cookie Settings.
Legal reasons: when the law requires it, to protect our rights or others’ safety, or as part of a merger or sale of our business.
International transfers
SynBioBeta is based in the United States, and most of our service providers process data there. When we transfer personal information from the EU, UK or Switzerland, we rely on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (and its UK and Swiss extensions) where the provider is certified, and on the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses otherwise. You can ask us for a copy of the relevant safeguards.
How long we keep it
Email and newsletter contacts: until you unsubscribe; we then keep your email on a suppression list so we don’t email you again.
Member accounts: while your account is open. Email us and we’ll delete it.
Enquiries and professional contacts with no activity: deleted or anonymised after 3 years.
Google Analytics data: up to 14 months.
Microsoft Clarity session recordings: 30 days.
Cookies: see Cookies and similar technologies.
After these periods we delete or anonymise the information, unless the law requires us to keep it longer.
Your rights in the EU, UK and Switzerland
You have the right to:
access the personal information we hold about you and get a copy
correct information that is wrong or incomplete
delete your information, where we no longer need it or you withdraw consent
restrict how we use it while a question is resolved
receive information you gave us in a portable format
object to processing based on legitimate interests, and to direct marketing at any time
withdraw consent at any time, without affecting what was done before
complain to your data protection authority, for example the one where you live or work
Email info@synbiobeta.com to use any of these rights. We answer within one month and may ask you to confirm your identity. It costs nothing.
US privacy rights
Wherever you live in the US, you can ask us to:
tell you what personal information we hold about you and give you a copy
correct it
delete it
You can opt out of targeted advertising at any time by turning off Marketing in Cookie Settings in the site footer. We don’t sell your personal information for money, and we treat you the same whether or not you use these rights.
Email info@synbiobeta.com to make a request. We’ll confirm your identity by matching details we already hold.
Children
Our website, newsletters and member accounts are aimed at adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you think a child has given us information, email us and we will delete it.
Security
We use encrypted connections (HTTPS), limit access to staff who need it, and choose providers that protect data under contract. No method of transfer or storage is completely secure.
Changes to this policy
We update this policy when our practices or the law change, and show the date of the latest version at the top. For significant changes we will put a notice on the site or email you where appropriate.
Contact
Questions or requests: info@synbiobeta.com, or Synbiobeta LLC, c/o John Cumbers, 3559 Mt. Diablo Blvd. #2, Lafayette, CA 94549, United States.