Privacy Policy

Effective: 01.21.2025

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes the treatment of information collected by Biomic Sciences. LLC DBA ION* Intelligence of Nature, manufacturer of the ION* line of gut health products (“Products”), and referred to as “ION*”, “we”, or “us”, on our website, IntelligenceofNature.com, (“Website”), owned and operated by ION*. This privacy policy applies to “Consumers” as defined under defined under various state laws in the United States that may apply and all laws and regulations implementing, supplementing, or amending the foregoing (collectively, “U.S. Privacy Laws”).

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Policy periodically for updates.

Terms capitalized in this policy have the meanings set forth on the Website’s Terms of Service, found at https://intelligenceofnature.com/pages/legal. The meaning of “personal information” may be defined based on your state of residence: in this policy, it means any information that can reasonably be used to identify, relate, describe, or be linked, directly or indirectly, to an individual.

For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see our Cookie Policy available here: https://intelligenceofnature.com/pages/cookie-policy.

Information We Collect About You

We collect several types of information from and about users and visitors (“Users”) of the Website.

We collect information directly from you when you access or use the Website (see, Information You Provide to Us), inquire about our offerings, sign up for or request information and otherwise as you interact and communicate with us or on the Website. We also collect information automatically as you navigate the Website or through a variety of technologies, such as cookies, pixels or other first or third-party tracking technologies, as outlined in our Cookie Policy.

How We Collect Your Information

Information You Provide to Us.

The information we collect on or through our Website may include information that you provide by filling in forms, sending us emails or other communications, interacting with customer service, subscribing for Products, or signing up to receive newsletters or other correspondence from us. We also collect information when you post or share content (see User Contributions below), or request information from us. If you contact us for any purpose, we also collect information such as copies of your correspondence. We will also collect information if you make a purchase or a transaction on the Website.

User Contributions.

Certain Users may also have the ability to share and post information that may be published or displayed on public or other areas of the Website (“User Contributions”). User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other Users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Information We Collect Through Cookies and Similar Technologies.

Cookies are small text or data files stored on your device (computer, smartphone, or other internet-enabled devices) when you visit a website. Cookies are essential for the effective operation of the Website and help us enhance your browsing experience by remembering your preferences and providing personalized content. They also allow us to analyze our website traffic and understand how Users and other visitors use the Website.

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use cookies and similar technologies to collect certain information considered personal or sensitive about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including details of your visits to our Website, such as traffic data, location data and other communication data, information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type. This information helps us improve our Website and deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to analyze usage patterns, store information about preferences, recognize you when you log in or otherwise customize your experience.

Categories of Personal Information We Collect

Several U.S. states have enacted privacy laws that require businesses to disclose the categories of personal data they collect. Note that some categories of personal information collected here may overlap with other categories or definitions of personal or other kinds of information as set forth in specific state laws. The categories of personal information we collect include:

“Personal information” does not include “non-personal information” which is defined here as publicly available information from government records, information that a business has a reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made available to the public by the consumer, independent contractor, an applicant, or from widely distributed media; information made available by a person to whom the consumer, independent contractor, or applicant has not restricted the information to a specific audience; and de-identified or aggregated data, or anonymized data.

How We Use Your Information

We may use, sell, or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information.
• To provide, support, personalize, and develop our Website, Products of offerings.
• To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
• To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries.
• To personalize your Website experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Website, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law).
• To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets.
• We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

We may share your personal information by disclosing it to a third party for a business purpose. We only make these business purpose disclosures under written contracts that describe the purposes, require the recipient to keep the personal information confidential, and prohibit using the disclosed information for any purpose except performing the contract.

Parties with Whom We Share Your Information

We may disclose aggregated or anonymized information about Users and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect or that you provide to us for a business purpose and as described in this Policy to:

• Our subsidiaries and affiliates, including the Seraphic Group, Inc., our parent company.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Users is among the assets transferred.
• To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to or not opted out of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them (see, U.S Consumer Privacy Rights) for more information.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use invite a friend or “email a friend”, we will use the email for that purpose.
• For any other purpose for which you provide your information and for which you have provided your consent.
• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request, to enforce or apply our Terms or this Policy, or other agreements we have made with you including for billing and collection purposes.
• To protect the rights, property, or safety of us or others, if we believe that disclosure of your information is necessary or appropriate.

Use or Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information

We do not collect any sensitive personal information from consumers.

In accordance with CCPA regulations Section 7011(e)(1)(k), we do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes other than those specified in Section 7027, Subsection (m) and as set forth below. If we were to use or disclose sensitive personal information for additional purposes, we would provide notice to consumers and offer them the right to limit such use or disclosure as required by law. We do and will not use or disclose your sensitive personal information for purposes other than the following:

• To perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average consumer who requests those goods or services.
• To detect security incidents that compromise the availability, authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality of stored or transmitted personal information.
• To resist malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal actions directed at the business and to prosecute those responsible for those actions.
• To ensure the physical safety of natural persons.
• For short-term, transient use.
• To perform services on behalf of the Company.
• To verify or maintain the quality or safety of a product, service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the Company, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured by, manufactured for, or controlled by the Company.
• For purposes that do not involve inferring characteristics about consumers.

Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

We do NOT and will not sell or share your personal information in exchange for monetary consideration. However, we may sell or share some of your information to third parties for other valuable consideration, as noted in the table above.

We may sell or share your personal information personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information.
• To provide, support, personalize, and develop our Website, offerings and or Programs. and offerings.
• To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
• To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries.
• To personalize your Website experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Website, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law).
• To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, Products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets.
• We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Further, we may share your personal information by disclosing it to a third party for a business purpose listed above. We only make these business purpose disclosures under written contracts that describe the purposes, require the recipient to keep the personal information confidential, and prohibit using the disclosed information for any purpose except performing the contract.

Other than these exceptions, we do not and will not disclose your personal information to any third party in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration or share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Notice of Right to Opt-Out of the Selling and Sharing of Your Information

Residents of certain U.S. states have the right to opt-out of specific uses or disclosures of their personal information under applicable U.S. privacy laws, as outlined below. You may exercise these opt-outs rights without fear of discrimination for doing so.

While we do not sell or share your personal information in exchange for money, we may sell or share your personal information for other valuable consideration. You have the right to tell us NOT to sell or share your personal information. You have the full and free right to opt-out of our disclosure of your personal information to any third parties where the disclosure constitutes “selling” or “sharing” as defined applicable U.S. data privacy laws. You may exercise your right to opt-out without fear of discrimination for doing so. To opt-out of our selling or sharing of your information, meaning, we will not disclose your information to third parties for any monetary or other valuable consideration, you can do any of the following:

• Click HERE to be taken to an online opt-out submission form.
• Visit our website at: https://intelligenceofnature.com Click on “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” to be taken to an online submission form.
• Our Website is configured to detect Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) signals from your browser and when the signal is detected, we will treat it as a valid request to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information. Upon receiving the GPC signal, we will automatically process your opt-out request without requiring any further action from you. This ensures that your privacy preferences are honored seamlessly. You can manage your privacy preferences through your browser settings. For more information on how to enable the GPC signal, please refer to your browser’s help documentation.
• If you are unable to submit an opt-out through any of the above methods, please call our toll-free privacy line at (844)686-8656 and press 1 for assistance and a representative will assist in meeting your needs.

You can have an authorized agent submit a request on your behalf. To submit an opt-out through use of an authorized agent, you must provide that agent with written permission signed by you to submit an opt-out on your behalf, except when using an opt-out preference signal. The authorized agent may call our toll-free privacy line at (844)686-8656 and press 1 to make the opt-out request and for directions for submitting the proof of authorization and the authorized agent’s proof of identification to the Company. We maintain the right to deny any request from an authorized agent that does not submit sufficient proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf.

A request to opt-out need not be a verifiable consumer request. However, we may deny a request to opt-out if we have a good faith, reasonable, and documented belief that a request to opt-out is fraudulent. If we deny your request to opt-out, we shall inform you of our decision not to comply and provide an explanation as to why we believe the request is fraudulent.

U. S. Consumer Privacy Rights

Under applicable U.S. privacy laws, depending on state of residence, Consumers may have the following rights, which can be exercised directly or, in certain cases, through an authorized agent:

Right to Know

You have the right to request, (1) the categories of personal information we have collected about you, (2) the categories of sources from which the personal information was collected, (3) the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing this information, (4) the categories of third parties with whom we share or have shared your personal information, (5) as applicable, the categories of personal information that we have sold or shared about you and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or shared, by category or categories of personal information for each category of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or shared, and (6) the categories of personal information that we have disclosed about you for a business purpose and the categories of persons to whom it was disclosed for a business purpose.

Right to Access

You may, depending on your state of residency, have the right to request that we disclose to you, free of charge, the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

Right to Portability

You may, depending on your state of residency, have the right, in certain circumstances, to receive a copy of the personal information you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format that supports re-use, or to request the transfer of your personal information to another person.

Right to Confirm

You may, depending on your state of residency, have the right to confirm if we are processing your Personal Information and to access your Personal Information, as just stated above.

Right to Delete

You may, depending on your state of residency, have the right to request that we delete personal information that we collected from you, subject to certain exceptions

Right to Correct

You may, depending on your state of residency, have the right to request we correct inaccurate personal information (to the extent such an inaccuracy exists) that we maintain about you.

Right to Opt-Out

You may, depending on your state of residency, have the right to opt-out of certain uses of your personal information. To learn more about this right and how to exercise it, please refer to the detailed discussion in the section below.

Right to Limit

You may, depending on your state of residency, have the right to direct businesses to limit their use and disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information if we use or disclose it beyond certain internal business purposes. Where applicable, we will treat such a request as a revocation of any consent that you may have provided to your processing of Sensitive Personal Information.

Right to Appeal

You may, depending on your state of residency, have the right to appeal a decision regarding a privacy request, including appealing our refusal to take action on a request.

Right to Non-Discrimination

You have the right to not be discriminated or retaliated against for exercising any of the above rights.

Exercising Your Rights

You can exercise any of your above rights by submitting a consumer request through either of the two (2) options below:

1. Submit an online request by email at: donotsell@intelligenceofnature.com
2. Call our privacy toll-free line at (844)686-8656. Press 1 for ION.

Please note that you may only make a data access or data portability disclosure request twice within a 12-month period. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. Further, if you delete User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms.

Designated Authorized Agent

You may, depending on your state of residency, have the right to designate an authorized agent to submit one of the above requests on your behalf. To do so, you must either (a) execute a valid, verifiable, and notarized power of attorney or (b) provide other written, signed authorization that we can then verify.

Denying Your Request

Generally, we may limit our response to a consumer rights request to the extent that complying with the request would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of other consumers; reveal trade secrets or proprietary information; interfere with law enforcement investigations or other legal proceedings; or require disproportionate effort or be manifestly unfounded or excessive.

We may deny your requests to exercise your Consumer Rights in certain circumstances, as outlined below.

• We may deny a consumer's request to delete personal information if retaining the information is necessary to complete a transaction or provide a good or service requested by the consumer; to detect security incidents or protect against fraudulent or illegal activity; to debug or repair errors in our systems; to exercise or ensure the right of another to exercise free speech or another right provided for by law; to comply with applicable laws; to engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest; to enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations; to comply with a legal obligation; or otherwise use the information internally in a lawful manner compatible with the context in which you provided it.
• We may deny a consumer’s access requests if we cannot verify the identity of the requestor with reasonable efforts; or if disclosure creates a substantial, articulable, and unreasonable risk to the security of the personal information, consumer's account, or security of our systems or networks.
• We may deny your request to correct inaccurate personal information if we determine that the contested information is more likely than not to be accurate based on the totality of the circumstances.
• We may deny your request to provide personal information via data portability if doing so is technically infeasible or involves disproportionate effort.

If we deny your request, you may appeal our decision by contacting us by phone at (844)432-5488 or by email at info@intelligenceofnature.com. We will process your request for information within 45-60 days of receipt of your appeal, in accordance with the applicable state law. Further, if under state law, we will include any additional required information in our response.

Third-Party Providers and Links

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your personal information to the extent necessary to enable them to perform the services they are contracted to provide to us. Remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located a different jurisdiction than either you or us. If you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located. Please read the privacy policies and terms of service or use for any third-party provider to whom you are directed. Once you leave the Website, this Policy does not apply to your personal information or your use of the third-party provider. We may also provide links to third-party websites. Any access to and use of such linked third-party websites is not governed by this Policy but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those third-party websites.

Once you leave our Website, our Terms and Privacy Policy no longer apply to your use of those websites or collection of your personal or other information.

Security

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed. No method of online transmission or storage is 100% secure so we cannot guaranty the absolute security of your personal information.

Children Under the Age of 16

We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We revise this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes to our business, services, or applicable laws. Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

Phone: (844)432-5488

Website: https://intelligenceofnature.com/

Email: info@intelligenceofnature.com

Postal Address: PO Box 4574, Charlottesville, VA 22905