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Additional Terms for Participants

Version 1.1  ·  Effective date: 15 April 2025  ·  Governing law: Victoria, Australia
These Additional Terms govern your use of the StudyRun mobile application as a research participant. They supplement any terms imposed by the App Store through which you downloaded the StudyRun app, and in the event of any inconsistency take precedence over them.
By downloading or using the StudyRun app, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Additional Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the app.

1. Who We Are

These Additional Terms are between you and Selby Labs Pty Ltd (ABN 50 697 107 083) ("Selby Labs", "we", "us"), a company incorporated in Victoria, Australia, with its registered office at Suite 329/98-100 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne VIC 3000. Selby Labs operates the StudyRun research platform.

2. What StudyRun Is

The StudyRun mobile application is a tool that allows you to participate in research studies conducted by researchers ("Researchers") who use the StudyRun platform. The Researcher who invited you to participate in their study is responsible for:

Important: Selby Labs provides the technical platform only. We do not design, direct, or control the research you participate in. Any questions about the study (its purpose, what data is collected, how it will be used, or your rights as a participant) should be directed to the Researcher who invited you, not to Selby Labs.

3. Licence to Use the App

Selby Labs grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to download and use the StudyRun app on a device that you own or control, solely for the purpose of participating in research studies to which you have been invited and for which you have provided informed consent.

This licence does not permit you to:

4. Your Data and Privacy

The StudyRun app collects data from your device as part of your participation in a research study. The specific data collected depends on the study you have joined. The Researcher decides which categories are enabled in their study, and the Researcher's own privacy notice and consent form tell you which categories apply to you.

The categories the app is capable of collecting, across all studies, include:

Your personal information is handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You are encouraged to read it carefully.

The Researcher who invited you is responsible for providing you with a privacy notice specific to their study that describes exactly what data is collected, why, and how it will be used. Selby Labs processes your data as a service provider acting on the Researcher's instructions.

When you join a study, the app shows you an informed-consent dialog listing the study name and description supplied by the Researcher. If you tap "I agree to be part of this study", the app records the exact moment of your agreement, together with the study and device identifiers, so that there is a verifiable record you agreed before any sensor data was collected. This in-app record supports, but does not replace, the Researcher's own informed-consent paperwork, which you should have reviewed and signed separately before joining the study.

To request deletion of your study data, contact the Researcher who runs your study. If you experience difficulties, you may also contact us at support@studyrun.org. Please be aware that once data is deleted, deletion is permanent and cannot be reversed.

4.1 Withdrawing from a study

You may withdraw from a study at any time, for any reason, without giving a reason and without penalty. Withdrawal takes effect immediately when you do any of the following:

Withdrawal stops future data collection by the app immediately. To request deletion of data already collected, contact the Researcher who invited you. Withdrawal does not, by itself, delete data previously collected. That is a separate request.

4.2 Your rights and how to complain

If you are concerned about how your personal information is being handled and cannot resolve the matter with the Researcher or with Selby Labs, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority of your country of residence:

In addition, if you are in the EU, EEA, or UK you have the following rights under GDPR/UK GDPR in respect of your personal data: the right of access (Article 15), rectification (Article 16), erasure (Article 17), restriction of processing (Article 18), data portability (Article 20), and objection (Article 21). These rights are exercised primarily through the Researcher, who acts as data controller for your study data. If the Researcher cannot be reached, Selby Labs will assist on a best-efforts basis at support@studyrun.org.

5. Intellectual Property

The StudyRun app and platform are owned by Selby Labs. You do not acquire any intellectual property rights in the app by using it. You retain all intellectual property rights in any content you submit through the app, unless you have agreed otherwise with the Researcher.

These terms do not grant you any rights to use the StudyRun name, brand, or trademarks except as incidental to using the app as permitted by these terms.

6. Suspension and Termination

Selby Labs may suspend or cancel your access to the StudyRun app at any time without prior notice, including where required by the Researcher or where we reasonably believe you have breached these Additional Terms.

7. Warranties and Disclaimer

The StudyRun app is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Selby Labs makes no representations or warranties about the app, including its accuracy, reliability, availability, or suitability for any particular purpose.

Nothing in these Additional Terms excludes any rights you may have under the Australian Consumer Law or other applicable consumer protection legislation. The consumer guarantees provided by law cannot be excluded, restricted, or modified by these terms.

8. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Selby Labs is not liable for any loss or damage suffered by you in connection with your use of the StudyRun app, including any disruption to the app or any decisions made in reliance on information obtained through it.

Where Selby Labs cannot exclude liability by law, Selby Labs limits its liability, at its option, to resupplying the app or paying the cost of having the app resupplied.

Selby Labs is not liable for the conduct of Researchers or the content of their studies. Any claims relating to a study should be directed to the Researcher who conducted it.

9. Indemnification

You indemnify Selby Labs and each of its directors, officers, employees, agents, and contractors against direct Losses arising from or relating to: (i) your deliberate misuse of the StudyRun app; (ii) your intentional or negligent breach of these Additional Terms; or (iii) any third-party claim that your unauthorised use of the app infringes the intellectual property or other rights of that third party.

In these Additional Terms, Losses means direct liabilities, losses, damages, costs, and expenses, but does not include indirect, consequential, or special loss, loss of profit, loss of opportunity, or punitive or exemplary damages. Your aggregate liability under this indemnity is limited to AUD 500. This indemnity is void and unenforceable in respect of Participants who are under the age of 18 at the time of the conduct giving rise to the claim, and in respect of any Participant resident in a jurisdiction whose consumer-protection law renders such an indemnity by a natural person unenforceable.

This indemnity does not apply to the extent that it would be inconsistent with: (a) the non-excludable consumer guarantees in the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)); (b) the unfair contract term regime in that Act; (c) the consumer-rights legislation of the EU, EEA, UK, or any other jurisdiction of your residence that would render an indemnity of this kind by a natural person unenforceable; or (d) any mandatory rule of law that cannot be contracted out of.

10. App Store Responsibility

Selby Labs (not the App Store from which you downloaded the StudyRun app) is responsible for addressing any claims relating to the app, including:

You and Selby Labs acknowledge that each App Store (Apple Inc. and Google LLC) is a third-party beneficiary of these Additional Terms. Upon your acceptance of these Additional Terms, each App Store has the right to enforce these Additional Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

11. Sanctions and Export Controls

You warrant that you are not an individual or entity located in, resident of, or controlled by any jurisdiction subject to comprehensive sanctions administered by the Australian Government (under the Autonomous Sanctions Act 2011 (Cth) and the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 (Cth)), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, the United Kingdom, or the United States, and that you are not listed on any applicable sanctions or denied-persons list maintained by those authorities.

12. External Links

Researchers may include links to external websites within their study surveys. These Additional Terms and the StudyRun Privacy Policy do not apply to those external websites. Selby Labs is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of any external websites linked within a study.

13. Changes to These Terms

Selby Labs may change these Additional Terms at any time. The current version is always available at studyrun.org/participant-terms. If you continue to use the app after changes take effect, you agree to be bound by the updated terms.

14. Severability

If any part of these Additional Terms is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that part will be severed from these terms and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

15. Governing Law

These Additional Terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia. You submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria in respect of any dispute arising under these terms.

Nothing in this clause deprives you, where you are a consumer resident in the EU, EEA, UK, or another jurisdiction whose law confers such a right, of the protection of the mandatory rules of the law of your country of residence, including your right under Article 79 GDPR (or the equivalent provision of UK GDPR or other applicable consumer-protection law) to bring proceedings against Selby Labs in the courts of your habitual residence.

Contact

Selby Labs Pty Ltd  ·  ABN 50 697 107 083

Suite 329/98-100 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

Email: support@studyrun.org

Website: studyrun.org