This Privacy Policy explains what information Next Level Research LLC collects when you use next-levelresearch.com, how we use it, and the choices you have. By using this site you agree to the practices described here.
When you place an order or contact us, you may provide:
Like most websites, our hosting and content-delivery provider (Cloudflare) automatically logs technical data such as your IP address, browser type, and pages requested, for security and performance. Your shopping cart is stored locally in your own browser and is not transmitted to us until you submit an order.
We run our own first-party analytics so we can see which pages and products people find useful and where checkout is going wrong. When you browse the site we record events — page views, product views, items added to or removed from the cart, and checkout steps — into our own database. Each event is tagged with a randomly generated session identifier so that a single visit hangs together as one sequence.
This is deliberately minimal. Our own analytics use no cookies, and we do not build profiles or track you across other websites. The one exception is the Meta Pixel described below, which loads on a single page. The session identifier is a random value stored in your browser’s session storage; it is not tied to your name, email, or order unless you go on to place one, and it is discarded when you close the tab. Each event records only the page or product involved, the type of action, and the time it happened.
We also use Cloudflare Web Analytics, provided by our hosting company. It measures how quickly pages load and counts visits in aggregate. It does not set cookies and, according to Cloudflare, does not track individual visitors across websites.
On one page, our guide “How to read a certificate of analysis” (next-levelresearch.com/learn/read-a-certificate-of-analysis), we use the Meta Pixel, provided by Meta Platforms, Inc., to measure visits that come from our ads on Facebook and Instagram. When that page loads, the Pixel may set cookies in your browser and send Meta your IP address, browser and device information, the address of the page you viewed, and a page-view event. Meta may use that information under its own privacy policy, including to measure and personalize ads.
We do not load the Meta Pixel on the catalog, cart, checkout, account, or order-confirmation pages, and we do not send Meta your name, email address, shipping address, or order details. Disclosing information to Meta in this way may count as “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising under some state privacy laws, including California’s. You can stop this by blocking third-party cookies and scripts in your browser, by adjusting your ad settings with Meta, or by emailing [email protected] and telling us not to share your information; we will honor reasonable requests as far as we are able to identify you.
Before browsing the catalog, visitors confirm four site-entry acknowledgments (age, research use only, institutional purpose, and our Site Entry Terms). When you select Enter, we set two cookies that last 30 days: one records, in signed form, that you gave those acknowledgments, the age threshold and the version of the Site Entry Terms you agreed to, and when; the other simply tells the page you are past the entry screen. Both are strictly necessary to operate the entry gate. They contain no name, email, or other personal details and are not used for analytics or advertising.
We also keep a record of each entry as evidence of assent: the time, the terms version and age threshold, and a one-way hash of your IP address combined with a secret value. We do not store the IP address itself, and the hash cannot be reversed to recover it.
We do not store full payment card numbers, bank account numbers, or wallet credentials on our servers. Payment details are processed by our third-party payment processors under their own security standards and privacy policies:
We do not sell your personal information. We share it only as needed with:
If you enter your email address into a signup form on this site, we add it to our mailing list and may send you restock notices, product updates, and occasional offers. We also may email customers who left items in a cart or have not ordered in a while. We do not sell, rent, or share this list.
Every marketing email includes an unsubscribe link, and you can opt out at any time at next-levelresearch.com/unsubscribe or by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribing from marketing does not stop transactional messages about an order you have actually placed — order confirmations, payment reminders, and shipping notifications.
We keep order and contact records for as long as needed to fulfill orders, provide support, and meet legal and tax requirements, after which they are deleted or anonymized.
You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of the personal information we hold about you by emailing [email protected]. You can unsubscribe from marketing email at any time using the link in any such message or at next-levelresearch.com/unsubscribe. You can clear locally stored cart data, and the analytics session identifier, at any time by clearing your browser storage.
This site is intended for researchers and is not directed to anyone under 21. We do not knowingly collect information from minors.
We may update this Policy from time to time; the "Last updated" date reflects the current version. Questions can be directed to [email protected].