Effective Date: December 1, 2023
ALTIMMUNE IMPACT PRIVACY POLICY
Altimmune, Inc. (“Altimmune”) is committed to protecting the privacy of users of the IMPACT-NASH Trial website https://impact-nashtrial.com/ (the “Website”). This Privacy Policy describes how Altimmune gathers and uses information about visitors to our Website (“Visitors”). This Privacy Policy applies solely to the information that we collect through the Website. This Privacy Policy does not address personal information that you provide to us in other contexts (e.g., through a business relationship not handled through the Website, such as if you enroll in the IMPACT-NASH Trial).
Acceptance of Privacy Policy
By using the Website, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Website. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of changes to these terms will mean that you accept those changes.
How Do We Collect Your Personal Information?
Information You Provide. You may visit our Website without telling us anything about yourself. If you contact us and choose to provide personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”), such as your email address or mailing address when you submit a question or request. We collect Personal Information that you provide directly when using our Website. This may include, but is not limited to:
- Contact information (name, email address, phone number);
- Demographic information (age, gender);
- Health information, if voluntarily provided;
- Research study participation information;
- User account information (username, password); and
- Communication preferences.
Domain Information. From time to time, our Website may be configured to collect domain information. This data enables us to become more familiar with which users visit our site, how often they visit and what parts of the site they visit most often. Altimmune uses this information to improve our Website. The information that we collect automatically may include:
- Internet Protocol (IP) address;
- Browser type;
- Device type;
- Geographic location;
- Website usage data (e.g., pages visited, time spent on the Website); and
- Cookies and other tracking technologies (please see “Automatically Collected Information and Anonymous Information” section).
How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
If you choose to provide us with Personal Information by completing a form on the Website or emailing us, we may use that Personal Information to:
- Provide you with the services and information you request;
- Personalize your experience on our Website;
- Improve our Website and services;
- Communicate with you about research opportunities, updates, and promotions;
- Conduct research and analysis;
- Comply with legal and regulatory obligations; and
- Notify you of changes to this Privacy Policy.
Do We Disclose Any Personal Information to Outside Parties?
Unless you expressly give us permission in writing to do so, Altimmune will not sell, rent, license, or trade your Personal Information other than as specified in this Privacy Policy.
Research Partners. Altimmune may share your Personal Information with research partners and collaborators to match you with relevant research opportunities.
Disclosures to Third Parties Assisting In Our Operations. Altimmune may share your Personal Information under confidentiality agreements with other companies that work with, or on behalf of, Altimmune to provide products and services. These companies may use your Personal Information to assist Altimmune in its operations. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
Disclosures Under Special Circumstances. We may provide information about you to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process or governmental regulations, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required by law. In such circumstances, we will take appropriate measures to ensure that the requester understands the sensitive nature of the Personal Information that they may receive.
Business Transfers. We may share your Personal Information with other business entities in connection with the sale, assignment, merger or other transfer of all or a portion of Altimmune’s business to such business entity. We will require any such successor business entity to honor the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Automatically Collected Information and Anonymous Information
Each time a Visitor comes to the Website, Altimmune collects some information to improve the overall quality of the Visitor’s online experience.
Aggregated Data. Altimmune collects aggregate queries for internal reporting and also counts, tracks, and aggregates the Visitor’s activity into Altimmune’s analysis of general traffic-flow at the Website. To these ends, Altimmune may merge information about you into aggregated group data. In some cases, Altimmune may remove personal identifiers from Personal Information and maintain it in aggregate form that may later be combined with other information to generate anonymous, aggregated statistical information. Such anonymous, group data may be shared on an aggregated basis with Altimmune’s affiliates, business partners, service providers and/or vendors; if it does so, Altimmune will not disclose your individual identity.
Web Server Logs and IP Addresses. An Internet Protocol (“IP”) address is a number that automatically identifies the computer or device you have used to access the Internet. The IP address enables our server to send you the web pages that you want to visit, and it may disclose the server owned by your Internet Service Provider. Altimmune may use IP addresses to conduct Website analyses and performance reviews and to administer the Website.
Cookies and Web Beacons. Periodically, some pages on this Website may use “cookies,” which are small files that the site places on your hard drive for identification purposes. These files are used for site registration and customization the next time you visit us. You should note that cookies cannot read data off of your hard drive. Your web browser may allow you to be notified when you are receiving a cookie, giving you the choice to accept it or not. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser. By not accepting cookies, some pages may not fully function and you may not be able to access certain information on this Website. Information that we collect through cookies includes (i) the name and version of the operating system on the Visitor’s computer, (ii) the name and version of the Visitor’s browser, (iii) which page on the Site the Visitor is currently reading, as well as clicks and time spent on a particular page, (iv) if the Visitor was sent to the current page by some other page on the web, the universal resource locator (“URL”) of the referring web page, and (v) geolocation of the Visitor’s computer or device. Some of the Site’s web pages may use web beacons in conjunction with cookies to compile aggregate statistics about Site usage. A web beacon is an electronic image (also referred to as an “action tag,” “single-pixel,” or “clear GIF”) that is commonly used to track the traffic patterns of users from one web page to another in order to maximize web traffic flow and to otherwise analyze the effectiveness of the Website. Some web beacons may be unusable if you elect to reject their associated cookies.
Security
The security of your data is very important to Altimmune. We have implemented appropriate security measures preventing your Personal Information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. However, you should know that no website operator, including Altimmune, can fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information. While Altimmune has endeavored to create a secure and reliable website
for users, the confidentiality of any communication or material transmitted to/from the Website or via e-mail cannot be guaranteed.
Children's Privacy Protection
Under Age 13
Altimmune understands the importance of protecting children's privacy in the interactive online world. The Website is not designed for, or intentionally targeted at, children under 13 years of age. It is not our policy to intentionally collect or maintain information about anyone under the age of 13. No one under the age of 13 should submit any Personal Information to Altimmune or the Website.
Under Age 18
Minors under 18 years of age may have the Personal Information that they have provide to Altimmune through the Website deleted by sending an email to [email protected] requesting deletion. Please note that, while we make reasonable efforts to comply with such requests, deletion of your personal information does not ensure complete and comprehensive removal of that data from all systems.
Response to “Do Not Track” Signals
Some Internet browsers include the ability to transmit “Do Not Track” signals. Since uniform standards for “Do Not Track” signals have not yet been adopted, Altimmune does not process or respond to “Do Not Track” signals.
Updating Your Information
If you wish to stop receiving e-mails or other communications from us, or if you have submitted Personal Information through our Website and would like that information deleted from our records, please notify us at [email protected]
Links to Third Party Websites
As a convenience to our Visitors, this Website may contain links to other sites that we believe may offer useful information. The terms of usage and other conditions of use posted on those sites, and not the policies and procedures we described here, apply to those sites. Your linking to any other websites is at your own risk, and you are responsible for learning about and complying with the terms of usage and other conditions posted on those websites.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be revised from time to time as we add new features and services, as laws change, and as industry privacy and security best practices evolve. We display an effective date on the policy in the upper right corner of this Privacy Policy so that it will be easier for you.
to know when there has been a change. If we make any change to this Privacy Policy regarding use or disclosure of Personal Information, we will provide advance notice on the Website. Small changes or changes that do not significantly affect individual privacy interests may be made at any time and without prior notice.
For Additional Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Website, or your dealings with this Website, please contact [email protected]
