PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: October 1, 2022

1.Introduction

This Privacy Notice describes how BioVeritas collects and uses Personal Data about you through the use of our Website, and through email, text, and other electronic communications between you and BioVeritas.

BioVeritas, LLC (“BioVeritas” or “we” or “us”) respects your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This Privacy Policy (our “Privacy Policy”) describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the websites www.bioveritas.com (each, a “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

on our Website; and
in email, text, and other electronic messages between you and our Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by BioVeritas or any third-party;
us or any of our affiliates or subsidiaries related to your or any other individual’s employment or potential employment with us; or
any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.

2.Children Under the Age of 18

Our Website are not intended for children under the age of 18 and children under the age of 18 are not permitted to use our Website. We will remove any information about a child under the age of 18 if we become aware of it.

Our Website are not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to the Website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information through any Website features or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information directly from a child under 18, please contact us at info@bioveritas.com.

3.Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect different types of information about you, including information that may directly identify you, information that is about you but individually does not personally identify you, and information that we combine with our other users. This includes information that we collect directly from you or through automated collection technologies.

Throughout this Privacy Policy, the term “Personal Data” means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or device. However, Personal Data does not include any deidentified or aggregated information.

Generally

We collect Personal Data from various sources, including:

directly from you when you provide it to us;
automatically as you navigate through the Website; and
from third parties, for example, our business partners.

Information You Provide to Us

We collect the following types of Personal Data directly from you when you access or use our Website: real name, postal address, email address, and telephone number. In addition, we also collect other types of information that you may provide when you fill out a form or through your correspondence with us.

The Personal Data we collect on or through our Website includes:

information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of requesting further services or information. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website; and
records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain Personal Data about your interaction with our Website, including information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns:

details of your visits to our Website. This includes: browsing history, search history, communication data and the resources that you access, use, or otherwise interact with on the Website;
Other information necessary to provide us with our products and services; and
Information about your computer and internet connection, i.e., your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include Personal Data or we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Data we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:

estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
store information about your preferences;
customize our Website according to your individual interests;
speed up your searches; and
recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. Our Website may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you do not consent to our use of cookies or select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website.
Session Cookies. Our use of cookies also includes “session cookies.” Each time you access the Website, a session cookie containing an encrypted, unique identifier is placed on your browser. These session cookies allow us to uniquely identify you when you use the Website and track which pages of the Website you access. Session cookies are required to use the Website.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, analytics providers, social media companies, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Data or they may collect information, including Personal Data, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

Information We Collect from Third Parties

We may collect Personal Data from third parties. When we associate this information with other Personal Data about you, we consider this information to be Personal Data.

4.How We Use Your Information

We use your Personal Data for various purposes described below, including to:

provide our Website to you;
provide you with information you request from us;
enforce our rights arising from contracts;
notify you about changes; and
provide you with notices about your account

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Data:

to provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us;
to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Website, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law);
in any other way we may describe when you provide the information;
to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it;
for any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you wish to withdraw your consent for us to use your information to contact you about good and services that may be of interest to you, you can unsubscribe or send us an email stating your request at info@bioveritas.com. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

5.Disclosure of Your Information

We do not share, sell, or otherwise disclose your Personal Data for purposes other than those outlined in this Privacy Notice. We disclose your Personal Data to a few third parties, including:

our subsidiaries and our affiliates;
our third-party service providers that we use to support our business;
to a company we merge, acquire, or that buys us, or in the event of change in structure of our company of any form;
to comply with our legal obligations;
to enforce our rights; and
with your consent.

We do not share, sell, or otherwise disclose your Personal Data for purposes other than those outlined in this Privacy Policy. However, we may disclose aggregated information about our users without restriction.

We may disclose Personal Data that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:

to our subsidiaries and affiliates;
to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business. These entities provide IT and infrastructure support services;
to a potential or actual buyer or other successor in the event of a planned or actual merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of BioVeritas’ assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by BioVeritas about our Website’s users is among the assets transferred;
to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; and
with your consent.

We may also disclose your Personal Data:

to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
to enforce or apply our Terms of Use[TTY1] and other agreement; and
if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of BioVeritas, our customers, or others.

6.Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We offer you choices on how you can opt out of our use of tracking technology, disclosure of your Personal Data for third-parties to advertise to you, our advertising to you, and other targeted advertising.

We do not control the collection and use of your information collected by third parties described above in Disclosure of Your Information. When possible, these organizations are under contractual obligations to use this data only for providing the services to us and to maintain this information strictly confidential. These third parties may, however, aggregate the information they collect with information from their other customers for their own purposes.

In addition, we strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Data you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with control over your Personal Data:

Promotional Offers from BioVeritas. We may use your contact information to provide you information about products and services that may be of interest to you. If you wish to withdraw your consent for us to use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you, you can send us an email stating your request at info@bioveritas.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may click the unsubscribe link in the body of that email to be omitted from future email distributions.

7.Accessing, Correcting, and Deleting Your Personal Data

You may request to access, correct, and delete your Personal Data by contacting us at the contact information below. However, we cannot accommodate a request to change your Personal Data if we believe that such change would either violate a legal obligation or cause the Personal Data to be incorrect.

You may send us an email at info@bioveritas.com to request access to, correct or delete any Personal Data that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

8.Do Not Track Signals

We may use automated data collection technologies to track you across websites. We currently do not honor do-not-track signals that may be sent by some browsers.

We also may use automated data collection technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Some web browsers permit you to broadcast a signal to websites and online services indicating a preference that they “do not track” your online activities. At this time, we do not honor such signals and we do not modify what information we collect or how we use that information based upon whether such a signal is broadcast or received by us.

9.Data Security

Information transmitted over the Internet is not completely secure, but we do our best to protect your Personal Data. You can help protect your Personal Data and other information by keeping your password to our Websites confidential.

We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of Personal Data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures deployed on the Website.

10.Consent to Processing of Personal Data in the United States

BioVeritas intends that its corporate Privacy Policy and standard practices and procedures will ensure timely compliance with all applicable international laws and regulations, including but not limited to, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR).

We may process your Personal Data outside of your home country, including to the United States. We only do this when we are legally permitted to do so and when we have appropriate safeguards in place to protect your Personal Data.

In order to provide our Website, products, and services to you, we may send and store your Personal Data outside of the country where you reside or are located, including to countries that may not or do not provide an equivalent level of protection for your Personal Data. Your Personal Data may be processed and stored in the United States and federal, state, and local governments, courts, or law enforcement or regulatory agencies in the United States may be able to obtain disclosure of your information through the laws of the United States. By using our Website, you represent that you have read and understood the above and hereby consent to the storage and processing of Personal Data outside the country where you reside or are located, including in the United States.

11.Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We will post any changes to our Privacy Notice on our Website.

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Data, we will notify you through a notice on the Website’ home page. The date this Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance to such changes.

12.Contact Information

You may ask questions about this Privacy Notice and our privacy practices by contacting us at the contact information below.

If you have any questions, concerns, complaints, or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy or the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Data described in this Privacy Policy, have any requests related to your Personal Data pursuant to applicable laws, or otherwise need to contact us, you may contact us at the contact information below.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us info@bioveritas.com