Website Terms of Use

University of Minnesota Technology Commercialization office contracts with E-Lucid to provide a portfolio website with licensing and communication functionalities using the E-Lucid platform.

Personal Information

E-Lucid collects these required and voluntary personal information from visitors who wish to send inquiries, receive technology subscription emails, or license technologies. E-Lucid stores this information on its servers and may share this data with University of Minnesota Technology Commercialization office via their access to the E-Lucid software application or by some other form, such as written reports or by email. How University of Minnesota Technology Commercialization office uses this data is governed by their organization's own policies and Minnesota Government Data Practices Act. E-Lucid will only use this information on behalf of University of Minnesota Technology Commercialization office and not for E-Lucid's own or other purposes.

Payment Card Information

E-Lucid's licensing platform utilizes Authorize.Net payment gateway to facilitate necessary payment transactions to complete your order. Neither E-Lucid nor University of Minnesota stores payment card information collected during the checkout process.

University of Minnesota Privacy Policy

University of Minnesota Technology Commercialization is requesting your name, address, email address and phone number so that we may contact you to fulfill your order, respond to your inquiry, and/or for future communications via email. You are not required to provide this information. However, without it we will not be able to contact you regarding additional information that may be needed to complete license execution or respond to your request or inquiry. University of Minnesota may also use individual or summary data for data analysis, reporting, and other non-commercial purposes.

The policy of the University of Minnesota's administrative and collegiate web sites is to respect and protect the privacy of the students, staff, faculty, and other users to the extent permitted by law. The information you provide is used to fulfill your specific request. This information is only used to fulfill your specific request, unless you give us permission to use it in another manner; for example, to add you to one of our mailing lists.

Distribution of Information

We may share information with governmental agencies or other companies assisting us in fraud prevention or investigation. We may do so when: (1) permitted or required by law; or, (2) trying to protect against or prevent actual or potential fraud or unauthorized transactions; or, (3) investigating fraud which has already taken place. The information is not provided to companies for marketing purposes.

Other Websites

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that the University of Minnesota is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this web site.

Traffic Data

E-Lucid also collects traffic data from across the E-Lucid platform, including HTTP headers and browser cookies of visitors. E-Lucid reserves the right to share traffic data specific to University of Minnesota Technology Commercialization office with that organization. E-Lucid also reserves the right to share anonymous aggregates and compilations of traffic data for the purposes of marketing, software performance testing and reporting, and market analysis. If any personal information is associated with traffic data it will be treated as personal information.

Browser Cookies

Like many sites, E-Lucid uses browser cookies to maintain a persistent session for visitors across the E-Lucid platform and for traffic data collection purposes.

Please refer to https://privacy.umn.edu/ for University of Minnesota's detailed privacy policy.