1. General Information. 

CoreRx, Inc., and Societal CDMO, Inc., and its affiliates (“Bend Bioscience,” “we,” “us” or “our”) recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of our online visitors. It is our intent to balance our legitimate business interests in collecting and using information received from and about you with your reasonable expectations of privacy. The following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) is the way we handle information learned about you from your visits to our website available at https://bendbioscience.com/, all of our subdomains and other websites we operate, (collectively, the “Site“).

When you submit information to or through the Site, you consent to the collection and processing of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. By using the Site, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Legal Disclaimer, confirm that you are not located outside the United States, and consent to our collection, use, disclosure and retention of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES, OR IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY PART OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO USE THE SITE.

 

2. Personal Information.

We are committed to your privacy. We strive to collect all data through lawful and transparent means.

Bend Bioscience collects personally identifiable information from you, which may include your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, title, company, date of birth, gender, Social Security Number, education information, professional or employment-related information, and information about your employer, business or industry. This information is collected and stored electronically when you submit it through the Site.

Bend Bioscience may also collect personal information about you from third parties such as our referral sources when they refer a candidate for employment or leads for potential customers, as well as webinar hosts and conference/trade show organizers when they provide lists of attendees and business partners.

 

3. Information Collected Automatically.

In addition, information about your computer hardware and software is automatically collected by Bend Bioscience when you use the Site. This information may include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, geographic location, referring website addresses and other technical information such as protocol status and substatus, bytes sent and received, and server information. We may also collect information about how you interact with the Site. This information is used by Bend Bioscience for its business purposes, including for the operation and improvement of the Site, for technical troubleshooting, to maintain quality of the Site and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Site.

We may combine the information we collect from you with information that we receive about you from other sources, such as public databases, providers of demographic information, joint marketing partners, social media platforms, and other third parties.

 

4. Cookies and Other Information Collection Tools.

What are cookies? A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website or use an online service. When you visit the website or use the service again, the cookie allows that website or online service to recognize your browser or device. Cookies may store unique identifiers, user preferences and other information.

Duration of Cookies. We may use “session cookies” or “persistent cookies.” Session cookies are temporary and expire once you close your browser or once your session ends. Persistent cookies remain on your device for much longer or until you or your browser erase them. Persistent cookies have varying durations that are dependent on their expiration date.

What types of cookies do we use?  Bend Bioscience uses:

• Necessary Cookies. These cookies are necessary for you to browse the Site and use its features. Without these cookies, certain aspects of the Site may not be available to you.
• Preferences Cookies. These cookies collect information about how you have used the Site in the past and allow the Site to remember the choices you have made. These cookies allow us to improve how the Site works for you and tailor the Site to your preferences.
• Statistics Cookies. These cookies collect information about how you use the Site, such as which pages you most often visit on the Site, the time you spend on the Site, which links you click on, and any issues encountered. These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the Site. All information collected is aggregated and do not identify you.
• Marketing Cookies. These cookies track your online activity to help deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests and measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They also limit how many times you see a certain advertisement.

 

Why do we use them? Cookies help improve the Site by providing information about which parts of the Site are most popular, enabling Bend Bioscience to analyze technical and navigational information about the Site, and helping to detect and prevent fraud. Bend Bioscience also uses cookies and other data collection tools (such as embedded scripts) to help improve your experience with the Site. For example, we use Google Analytics and Microsoft Advertising to help analyze how users use the Site. These tools use cookies to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Site (including IP address) is transmitted to data collection tool service providers. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of the Site and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Bend Bioscience. If you would like to opt-out from the use of your information by Google analytics, you may use Google’s analytics opt-out browser add-on designed for this purpose. For information on Microsoft Advertising’s privacy practices, visit its privacy policy here.

How do I control cookies? Web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to manage and delete cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Some web browsers provide settings that allow a user to reject cookies or to alert a user when a cookie is placed on the user’s computer, tablet or mobile device. Most mobile devices also offer settings to reject mobile device identifiers. Although users are not required to accept cookies or mobile device identifiers, blocking or rejecting them may prevent access to some features available through the Site.

 

5. How Information is Used.

Bend Bioscience may use the information we collect for any of the following purposes:

• to provide the Site to you and to improve the Site;
• to operate, improve, and customize the products and services we offer, and to give each user a more consistent and personalized experience when interacting with us;
• to provide you with information about products and services we provide that we think may be of interest to you;
• to evaluate candidates that submit applications for employment;
• for research and analysis purposes;
• for security, to detect fraud or illegal activities, and for archival and backup purposes in connection with the provision of the Site;
• to fulfill your requests; and
• to respond to your inquiries and otherwise communicate with you.

 

6. Sharing of Information.

• With Third Party Service Providers Performing Services on Our Behalf. We share your personal information with our service providers to perform the functions for which we engage them. For example, we use third parties to host information, host our virtual booth, assist us in providing functionality on the Site, provide data analysis on the Site, assist us in tracking job applicants and provide background checks on employee candidates, and send out e-mail updates about the Site and our products and services.
• With Our Business Partners. We may share your personal information with our business partners to complete certain business transactions and satisfy legal requirements, including year-end reporting.
• For Legal Purposes. We also may share information that we collect from users as needed to enforce our rights, protect our property or protect the rights, property or safety of others, or as needed to support external auditing, compliance and corporate governance functions. We will disclose personal information as we deem necessary to respond to a subpoena, regulation, binding order of a data protection agency, governmental request or other legal or regulatory process. We may also share personal information as required to pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain.
• Changes of Control. We may transfer information, including your personal information, in connection with a change of ownership or control by or of us or any affiliated entity (in each case whether in whole or in part). 

Bend Bioscience does not share your personal information with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes.

 

7. Security Used & Retention of Personal Information.

Bend Bioscience uses reasonable security measures designed to prevent unauthorized intrusion to the Site and the alteration, acquisition or misuse of personal information, however, we will not be responsible for loss, corruption or unauthorized acquisition or misuse of personal information that you provide through the Site that is stored by us, or for any damages resulting from such loss, corruption or unauthorized acquisition or misuse. Bend Bioscience will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, or as required by applicable laws or regulation.

 

8. Links to External Websites and Social Media Platforms.

Our Site may contain links to third party websites and social media platforms. Any access to and use of such third party websites and social media platforms are not governed by this Privacy Policy, but instead are governed by the privacy policies of those third party websites and social media platforms, and we are not responsible for the information practices of such third party websites and social media platforms.

 

9. Do Not Track.

Our Site does not currently take any action when it receives a Do Not Track request. Do Not Track is a privacy preference that you can set in your web browser to indicate that you do not want certain information about your webpage visits collected across websites when you have not interacted with that service on the page. For details, including how to turn on Do Not Track, visit https://www.eff.org/issues/do-not-track.

 

10. Children.

We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from any person under the age of thirteen. No parts of our Site are directed to or designed to attract anyone under the age of thirteen.

 

11. Questions.

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact Bend Bioscience at: privacyofficer@corerxpharma.com .We will make reasonable efforts to respond promptly to your requests in accordance with applicable laws. We may, after receiving your request, require additional information from you to honor the request and verify your identity. Please be aware that we may be unable to afford these rights to you under certain circumstances, such as if we are legally prevented from doing so.