Privacy policy

BioBricks is operated by Ellul Solutions Ltd. The controller of the personal data on this site is Ellul Solutions Ltd, company 17364530, registered in England and Wales (Companies House), 14 Warfield Crescent, Waterlooville, England, PO7 7JP. This page explains what happens to information submitted on this site. It was last changed on 2026-10-06.

What we collect and why

The shortlist form collects what you type: what you are having made, your institution or company, your project notes, your name and email. It exists to build and send your vendor shortlist. Cookieless aggregate analytics record how pages are used, with no personal identifier.

Legal basis and sharing

If you send an enquiry, BioBricks passes your contact details to at most three gene synthesis and research supply firms, chosen by us. Before your contact details go to anyone, a short description of the job, without your name or contact details, may be shown to other firms in that field so they can say whether they can take it on. As your details go to each firm we email you its name, with a link that stops any more firms receiving them. When you stop, we list the firms that already have them, so you can ask them to delete them. We never sell data, run third-party advertising, or load third-party scripts on this site.

Notice version n-779e28418e479f4a. It is stored with every enquiry sent under it.

Retention

Enquiry records are kept for 24 months from when they are sent, then deleted, and any copy held to pass an enquiry to a firm has the name, email, phone and message removed at the same point. Aggregate statistics that identify nobody are kept indefinitely.

Analytics

This site uses cookieless, aggregate analytics. No advertising cookies, no cross-site tracking, no consent banner needed.

Your rights

You can ask what we hold about you, ask for a copy, or ask for deletion at any time: enquiries@biobricks.org. We respond within one month. You can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk) in the UK. Ellul Solutions Ltd's establishment in the EU is in Malta, so its lead supervisory authority in the EU is the Office of the Information and Data Protection Commissioner (idpc.org.mt); you can also complain to the authority in the EU country where you live or work.