Privacy policy

Who is responsible

The controller of your data is Vostok One Limited (registration No. MC 15030), registered in the Masdar City Free Zone, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. You can write to contact@vostok.one for any question about your data.

What we do not collect

This website has no analytics, no advertising trackers and no cookies. It does not load fonts or scripts from other sites. We do not build profiles of visitors.

Contact form

If you write to us through the Contact form, we receive the name, email, organisation, purpose, ray and message you type. We use them only to reply to you and to decide whether to invite you to a closed room.

The message is sent by email to a small number of VOSTOK ONE staff. We keep correspondence for as long as the conversation lasts and for three years afterwards.

DNA application

If you apply to DNA, we receive what you fill in: name, email, country, city, university or organisation, level, field of science, interests, readiness to travel, a description of your work, links to profiles such as ORCID, Google Scholar, GitHub and LinkedIn, and up to three files (up to 20 MB each).

We use this to assess your application and to contact you. Attached files are stored in encrypted cloud storage and are deleted automatically after 90 days. The email we receive contains links to them that stop working after the same period.

We keep the rest of the application for three years after the decision, and delete it earlier on request.

Basis for processing

We process your data because you ask us to by sending a form (to take steps at your request) and because we have a legitimate interest in answering enquiries and finding scientific talent. We do not ask for sensitive data; please do not include any.

Who sees your data

Only VOSTOK ONE staff who handle enquiries and applications. Our website, email delivery and file storage run on Cloudflare, which processes data on our behalf and may do so outside your country. We do not sell data and do not share it with advertisers.

To limit abuse, the hosting service briefly uses your network address to count how often a form is sent. We do not store it.

Your rights

You can ask us to show you your data, correct it, delete it, restrict its use or give you a copy. You can object to our use of it. Write to contact@vostok.one; we reply within 30 days. You may also complain to your data protection authority.

Changes

We may update this policy. The date at the top shows the latest version.