Last Updated: 13^th December 2023

BGI Genomics Co., Ltd. and its affiliated companies (hereinafter referred to as “BGI” or “we”) is committed  to ensure that your visit to our website is smooth, reliable and as useful to you as possible. To help us do this, we use cookies to make our website relevant to your interests and needs.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are automatically placed on your computer, tablet, mobile phone or other device (“device”) when you visit our website. These could be traditional HTML-cookies, pixel tags, beacons or scripts and are stored by your internet browser. These cookies may contain basic information about your device or internet use. Your browser sends these cookies back to our website every time you revisit it, so we can recognize your computer or mobile device and personalize and improve your browsing experience.

Use of cookies and similar technologies

We use cookies to collect information about the way our website is used, such as the Internet browser and operating system used, domain name of the website from which you accessed our site, number of visits, average time spent on the site and pages viewed.

We use Plausible Analytics, to analyze site usage, it is an open-source web analytics software with its source code available on GitHub. All the monitoring on the website traffic is carried out anonymously. Cookies are not used and no personal data is collected. There are no persistent identifiers or cross-site and cross-device tracking. The site data is not used for any other purposes. If you need more information about how Plausible Analytics processes data, please consult their privacy statement at https://plausible.io/privacy-focused-web-analytics.

Withdrawing your consent

You can change your cookie settings for this website here. There is also a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline cookies or gives you the choice of declining or accepting the transfer to your computer of a particular cookie(s). Please click the following links for popular browser software: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari for iOS.

Managing your cookie settings and deleting cookies

As explained above, we only place cookies if you have given us your consent for doing this. If you have given us your consent but would like the cookies that we have placed to be removed, you can do this by deleting them via your browser. Search for "cookies" under your web browser's “Help menu” or visit www.allaboutcookies.org for more information on how to do this.

You can also enable or disable (types of) cookies via your browsing settings. For example, you can have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, delete individual cookies or delete all cookies. Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of advertising cookies. See the Digital Advertising Alliance Consumer Choice and Your Online Choices pages for useful information on how to do this.

Further information about our use of data

You can find more information about the way we handle personal data in our Privacy Policy.

Questions, comments or in need of help?

If you have any questions or if we can help you with something, we would be happy to assist if you contact BGI_INTL_GDPR@bgi.com.