This Privacy Policy covers our collection, use and disclosure of information we collect through our website, www.aurionbiotech.com. References to “Aurion”, “We”, “Our”, or “Us” refer to Aurion Biotechnologies.
User Data
Aurion respects the privacy of our site users and the privacy of their data. All user information contained within the electronic communications, attached documents, forms, newsletters, surveys and documents you may use or compose through the Aurion site are governed by the Aurion Terms and conditons. Although Aurion owns the data storage, databases and the Aurion site, you retain all rights to your data. All user data uploaded to the Aurion site is stored in a personalized and secure location. Other than in connection with merger, acquistion, sale of the business or the assets of the business, or change of control, we will not utilize, sell, or rent your data uploaded into our system.
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. You may choose to stop receiving our newsletter by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails.
Data Collection
We collect the e-mail addresses and certain personal information of those who communicate with us. We also collect certain information regarding which pages users access or visit, and information volunteered by the users (such as any surveys Aurion might conduct and/or site registrations). When you submit information, you are transferring such information into the United States and you here by consent to such transfer.
We may receive information about you from other sources, including publicly available databases or third parties from whom we have purchased data, and combine this data with information we already have about you. This helps us to update, expand and analyze our records, identify new customers, and provide products and services that may be of interest to you. If you provide us personal information about others, or if others give us your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us.
Aurion may also collect and analyze from visitors and users certain information regarding the use of the Aurion Site and services available therein. Information collected may include but is not limited to web site traffic volume, frequency of visits, type and time of transactions, type of browser and operating system, etc.
We may provide your personal information to companies that provide services to help us with our business activities such as live chat or payment processing. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
Use Of Information
We may use personal information to provide the services you’ve requested, including services that display customized e-mails, newsletters, forms, documents, and reports. We may also use personal information for auditing, research and analysis to operate and improve the Aurion site. We may use third parties to assist us in processing your personal information, and we require that such third parties comply with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. We may use certain other information collected from you to help diagnose technical problems, administer the Aurion site, and improve the quality and types of services delivered. We may provide non-identifying and aggregate usage and volume statistical information derived from the actions of our visitors to third parties in order to demonstrate the value we deliver to users.
The information we collect is not shared with or sold to other organizations for commercial purposes, except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
- as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, legal proceedings, or similar legal process
- when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request,
- in certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements,
- to investigate potential violations of the Aurion Terms of Service,
- to any other third party with your prior consent to do so.
if Aurion is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of the business or the assets of the business, or change of control.
Links To Other Web Sites
Our site includes links to other Web sites whose privacy practices may differ from those of Aurion. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any Web site you visit.
Cookies And Other Tracking Technologies
Aurion and our analytics provider, use technologies such as cookies, beacons, tags, and scripts, to analyze trends, administer the website, tracking users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual and aggregated basis.
Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our website, but your ability to use some features or areas of our website may be limited.
Local Storage Objects (HTML 5)
We use Local Storage Objects (LSOs) such as HTML5 to store [content information and preferences.]. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our site or to display advertising based upon your Web browsing activity use LSOs such as HTML 5. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs.
Analytics/ Log Files
As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do link some of this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information. This allows us to deliver a better experience by reducing the amount of data that needs to be entered when filling out forms, downloading gated content, completing surveys, etc.
Social Media (Features) And Widgets
Security
Compliance With Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
As a business service, Aurion does not target its offerings toward, and does not knowingly collect any personal information from users under 13 years of age.
California Privacy
If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of your personal information by Aurion or its subsidiaries to a third party for the third party’s direct marketing purposes.
Privacy Shield
Aurion complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss – U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. We are committed to subjecting all personal data received from European Union (EU) member countries, in reliance on the Privacy Shield Framework, to the Framework’s applicable Principles. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view our certification, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/.
We are responsible for the processing of personal data it receives, under the Privacy Shield Framework, and subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. We comply with the Privacy Shield Principles for all onward transfers of personal data from the EU, including the onward transfer liability provisions.
Please be aware that Aurion is subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In addition, Aurion is required to disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security and/or law enforcement requirements.
Accessing And Updating Personal Information
Upon request we will provide you with information about whether we hold, or process on behalf of a third party, any of your personal information. When you use the Aurion Site, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not for legitimate business purposes. You may update your Account information by logging into your Account. When requests come to Aurion with regard to personal information, we ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. We retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. We will respond to these requests within a reasonable timeframe.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Changes To This Policy
We may update this privacy policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we will notify you means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.