Privacy Policy

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At Element Biosciences, we take your privacy seriously. Please read this Privacy Policy to learn how we treat your personal data. By using or accessing our website in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined below, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use and share your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Remember that your use of Element Biosciences' website is at all times subject to our Terms of Use, which incorporates this Privacy Policy. Any terms we use in this Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms of Use.

If you have a disability, you may access this Privacy Policy in an alternative format by contacting info@elembio.com.

What this Privacy Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy covers how we treat Personal Data that we gather when you access or use our website. “Personal Data” means any information that identifies or relates to a particular individual and also includes information referred to as “personally identifiable information” or “personal information” under applicable data privacy laws, rules or regulations. This Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of companies we don’t own or control or people we don’t manage.

Personal Data

Categories of Personal Data We Collect

  • Profile or Contact Data
    • Examples of Personal Data We Collect
      • First and last name
      • Email
      • Phone number
      • Address
      • Employer
    • Categories of Third Parties With Whom We Share this Personal Data:
      • Service Providers
      • Advertising Partners
  • Device/IP Data
    • Examples of Personal Data We Collect
      • Device ID
      • Type of device/operating system/browser used to access our website
    • Categories of Third Parties With Whom We Share this Personal Data:
      • Analytics Partners
  • Web Analytics
    • Examples of Personal Data We Collect
      • Browsing or search history
      • Web page interactions
      • Referring webpage/source through which you accessed our website
      • Non-identifiable request IDs
      • Statistics associated with the interaction between device or browser and our website
    • Categories of Third Parties With Whom We Share this Personal Data:
      • Analytics Partners
  • Professional or Employment-Related Data
    • Examples of Personal Data We Collect
      • Resume
      • Job title
      • Job history
      • Performance evaluations
    • Categories of Third Parties With Whom We Share this Personal Data:
      • Service Providers
      • Parties You Authorize, Access or Authenticate
  • Geolocation Data
    • Examples of Personal Data We Collect
      • Generalized location information based on IP address
    • Categories of Third Parties With Whom We Share this Personal Data:
      • Analytics Partners
  • Other Identifying Information that You Voluntarily Choose to Provide
    • Examples of Personal Data We Collect
      • Identifying information in free-form text boxes, emails or letters you send us
    • Categories of Third Parties With Whom We Share this Personal Data:
      • Service Providers

Categories of Sources of Personal Data

We collect Personal Data about you from the following categories of sources:

You

  • When you provide such information directly to us.
    • When you use our interactive tools and website.
    • When you voluntarily provide information in free-form text boxes through our website or through responses to surveys or questionnaires.
    • When you send us an email or otherwise contact us
  • When you use our website and such information is collected automatically.
    • Through Cookies (defined in the “Tracking Tools and Opt-Out” section below).
    • If you use a location-enabled browser, we may receive information about your location.

Third Parties

  • Vendors
    • We may use analytics providers to analyze how you interact and engage with our website, or third parties may help us provide you with customer support.
    • We may use vendors to obtain information to generate leads and create user profiles.

Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data

  • Providing, Customizing, and Improving our Website
    • Providing you with the products, services or information you request.
    • Meeting or fulfilling the reason you provided the information to us.
    • Providing support and assistance for our website.
    • Improving our website, including testing, research, internal analytics, and product development.
    • Personalizing website content and communications based on your preferences.
    • Doing fraud protection, security, and debugging.
    • Carrying out other business purposes stated when collecting your Personal Data or as otherwise set forth in applicable data privacy laws.
  • Marketing our Products and Services
    • Marketing and selling our products and services.
  • Corresponding with You
    • Responding to correspondence that we receive from you, contacting you when necessary or requested, and sending you information about Element Biosciences.
    • Sending emails and other communications according to your preferences or that display content that we think will interest you.
  • Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms
    • Fulfilling our legal obligations under applicable law, regulation, court order, or other legal process, such as preventing, detecting and investigating security incidents and potentially illegal or prohibited activities.
    • Protecting the rights, property, or safety of you, Element Biosciences, or another party.
    • Enforcing any agreements with you.
    • Responding to claims that any posting or other content violates third-party rights.
    • Resolving disputes.

We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

How We Share Your Personal Data

We disclose your Personal Data to the categories of service providers and other parties listed in this section.

  • Service Providers. These parties help us provide our website or perform business functions on our behalf. They include:
    • Hosting, technology, and communication providers.
    • Support and customer service vendors.
  • Advertising Partners. These parties help us market our services and provide you with other offers that may be of interest to you. They include:
    • Marketing providers.
  • Analytics Partners. These parties provide analytics on web traffic or usage of our website. They include:
    • Companies that track how users found or were referred to our website.
    • Companies that track how users interact with our website.

Legal Obligations

We may share any Personal Data that we collect with third parties in conjunction with any of the activities set forth under “Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms” in the “Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data” section above.

Business Transfers

All of your Personal Data that we collect may be transferred to a third party if we undergo a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other transaction in which that third party assumes control of our business (in whole or in part). Should one of these events occur, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you before your information becomes subject to different privacy and security policies and practices.

Data that is Not Personal Data

We may create aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized data from the Personal Data we collect, including by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to a particular user. We may use such aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze, build, and improve our website and promote our business, provided that we will not share such data in a manner that could identify you.

Tracking Tools and Opt-Out

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs, and JavaScript (collectively, “Cookies”) to enable our servers to recognize your web browser, tell us how and when you visit and use our website, analyze trends, learn about our user base, and operate and improve our website. Cookies are small pieces of data – usually text files – placed on your computer, tablet, phone, or similar device when you use that device to access our website. We may also supplement the information we collect from you with information received from third parties, including third parties that have placed their own Cookies on your device(s). Please note that because of our use of Cookies, our website does not support “Do Not Track” requests sent from a browser at this time.

We use the following types of Cookies:

  • Essential Cookies. Essential Cookies are required for providing you with features or services that you have requested. For example, certain Cookies enable you to log into secure areas of our website. Disabling these Cookies may make certain features and services unavailable.
  • Functional Cookies. Functional Cookies are used to record your choices and settings regarding our website, maintain your preferences over time and recognize you when you return to our website. These Cookies help us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Performance/Analytical Cookies. Performance/Analytical Cookies allow us to understand how visitors use our website. They do this by collecting information about the number of visitors to our website, what pages visitors view on our website and how long visitors are viewing pages on our website. Performance/Analytical Cookies also help us measure the performance of our advertising campaigns in order to help us improve our campaigns and the website’s content for those who engage with our advertising. For example, Google LLC (“Google”) uses cookies in connection with its Google Analytics services. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our website is subject to the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You have the option to opt-out of Google’s use of Cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads or the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

You can decide whether or not to accept Cookies through your internet browser’s settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the Cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new Cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new Cookie in a variety of ways. You can also delete all Cookies that are already on your device. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our website and some of our website and functionalities may not work.

To explore what Cookie settings are available to you, look in the “preferences” or “options” section of your browser’s menu. To find out more information about Cookies, including information about how to manage and delete Cookies, please visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/ or https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/online/cookies/ if you are located in the European Union.

Data Security and Retention

We seek to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use and disclosure using appropriate physical, technical, organizational and administrative security measures based on the type of Personal Data and how we are processing that data. Although we work to protect the security of your data that we hold in our records, please be aware that no method of transmitting data over the internet or storing data is completely secure.

We retain Personal Data about you for as long as necessary to provide you with our website. In some cases, we retain Personal Data for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or collect fees owed, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule, or regulation. We may further retain information in an anonymous or aggregated form where that information would not identify you personally.

Personal Data of Children

As noted in the Terms of Use, we do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data about children under 16 years of age; if you are a child under the age of 16, please do not attempt to register for or otherwise use our website or send us any Personal Data. If we learn we have collected Personal Data from a child under 16 years of age, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 16 years of age may have provided Personal Data to us, please contact us at info@elembio.com.

State Law Privacy Rights

California Resident Rights

Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to contact us to prevent disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes. To submit such a request, please contact us at info@elembio.com.

Nevada Resident Rights

If you are a resident of Nevada, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of certain Personal Data to third parties who intend to license or sell that Personal Data. You can exercise this right by contacting us at info@elembio.com with the subject line “Nevada Do Not Sell Request” and providing us with your name.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We’re constantly trying to improve our website, so we may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time, but we will alert you to any such changes by placing a notice on the Element Biosciences website, by sending you an email and/or by some other means. Please note that if you’ve opted not to receive legal notice emails from us (or you haven’t provided us with your email address), those legal notices will still govern your use of our website, and you are still responsible for reading and understanding them. If you use our website after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means you agree to all of the changes. Use of information we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected.

Contact Information / Opt-Out

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Data or your choices and rights regarding such collection and use, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

If we send you a communication, we will provide within it an opportunity to opt-out of such communications. You are likewise welcome to opt-out or request deletion of Personal Data by contacting us above.

Effective date: June 24, 2021