Privacy Policy
Kynos Therapeutics Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 29 August 2024
1. Introduction
Kynos Therapeutics Limited (“Kynos”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) respects your privacy. The protection of your privacy and personal data is of utmost importance to us. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how Kynos will process your personal data in the context of your use of our website www.kynostx.com (“Website”). It also tells you about your rights and choices with respect to your personal data, and how you can contact us if you have any questions or concerns.
Kynos Therapeutics Limited will be the controller of your personal data in accordance with data protection laws of the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom. This Policy does not apply to (prospective) clinical trial participants. If you are a (prospective) clinical trial participant, we will provide you with a separate notice.
2. Personal data we collect
We collect personal data from you in the following ways:
Personal data you provide to us
Contact Information and Communications. We may collect your full name, contact information (such as email address, phone number(s), and address) if you contact us via email or by other means. When you contact us, you also provide us with the content of your communications. We may also collect your job position and company you are associated with.
Automatic data collection
We and our service providers may automatically log information about you, your computer, or mobile device, and our communications with you, including:
Device Information: The manufacturer and model, operating system, IP address, and unique identifiers of the device, as well as the browser you use to access the Service. The information we collect may vary based on your device type and settings.
We collect this information using cookies and other similar technologies. See further details under the ”Cookies” section below.
Personal data we obtain from third parties
Social media platforms. We maintain pages on LinkedIn. You or the platform providers may provide us with information through the social media platform, and we will treat such information in accordance with this Policy.
3. How we use your personal data
We will use your personal data for one or more of the purposes set out below.
To operate and deliver our Website. We will use your personal data to perform our contractual obligations and when it is in our legitimate business interests, including to:
Provide, operate, maintain, and secure our services;
To send you updates about administrative matters such as changes to our terms or policies; and
Respond to your requests, questions and feedback.
To improve, monitor, personalise, and protect our Website. It is in our legitimate business interests to improve and keep our Website safe, which includes:
Analysing and understanding how you visit our Website, how you interact with us and to enrich your user experience and customise your relationship with us;
Protecting the security of our Website; and
Preventing and detecting security threats, fraud or other criminal or malicious activities.
To comply with legal obligations and to defend Kynos against legal claims or disputes. We may use your personal data to comply with our legal obligations or when it is in our legitimate business interests, which includes to:
Comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities;
Protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims);
Audit our compliance with legal and contractual requirements and internal policies; and
Protect the security of and manage access to our premises and prevent, identify, investigate and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorised, unethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.
To facilitate corporate acquisitions, mergers or transactions. We may use your personal data, when it is in our legitimate business interests, when we do a business deal, or negotiate a business deal, involving the sale or transfer of all or a part of our business or assets. These deals can include any merger, financing, acquisition, or bankruptcy transaction or proceeding.
4. Cookies
Our use of cookies
This Website uses cookies to gather general information about the browsing activities of visitors to this Website. This allows us to constantly improve the Website design by arranging the content in the most user-friendly manner and to continually meet the users’ needs.
A cookie is a small data file that is placed on your computer by your web browser when you visit the Website. It is a tool that stores information about website visits, recognises you and your preferences each time you visit our Website, and ensures Website functionality and generally improving your experience of the Website.
Kynos uses the following categories of cookies on this Website:
Strictly necessary cookies: these cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Website and use its features.
Performance cookies: these are analytics cookies that allow us to collect information about how visitors use a Website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. This helps us to improve the way the Website works and allows us to test different ideas on the Website.
Strictly necessary cookies are necessary to provide the Website to you.
We may change our use of cookies over time, but our use of cookies will generally fall into the above categories. Please visit this page regularly so that you are aware of any changes.
Types of cookies
We use the following cookies:
(i) Necessary and required cookies:
_dd_cookie_test
purpose: tests if cookies are supported
duration: expires instantly
_dd_s
purpose: tracks browser errors
duration: 4 hours
_dd_site_test
purpose: tests if cookies are supported
duration: expires instantly
Crumb
purpose: prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
duration: session
RecentRedirect
purpose: prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO
duration: 30 minutes
ss_cookieAllowed
purpose: remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies
duration: 30 days
Test
purpose: investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors
duration: session
(ii) Analytics and performance cookies:
ss_cid
purpose: identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on site
duration: two years
ss_cpvisit
purpose: identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on site
duration: two years
ss_cvisit
purpose: identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on site
duration: 30 minutes
ss_cvr
purpose: identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on site
duration: two years
ss_cvt
purpose: identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on site
duration: 30 minutes
Opting out of cookies
You may configure the settings of your browser to activate, disable or delete cookies. Detailed instructions are provided by your browser. If you disable or delete cookies, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit the website and some functionalities may not work.
For more information on cookies and how they can be managed and deleted please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ or http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.
5. How we share your personal data
In certain circumstances we may share personal data without further notice to you, unless required by the law, with the following categories of third parties:
Service Providers: To assist us in meeting business operational needs and to perform certain services and functions, we may share personal data with our vendors and service providers, including providers of hosting services, cloud services, and other information technology services providers, email communication software and web analytics services. Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process, or store personal data in the course of performing their duties for us.
Professional Advisors: We may share personal data with our professional advisors such as lawyers and accountants where doing so is necessary to facilitate the services they render to us.
Legal Requirements: We do not volunteer your personal data to government authorities or regulators, but we may disclose your personal data where required to do so to comply with laws and regulations applicable to us as described above.
Business Transaction: If Kynos is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, financing due diligence, reorganisation, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider, your personal data may be sold, transferred, or otherwise shared including as part of any due diligence process.
Affiliates: We may share your personal data with our affiliated companies.
6. Your rights and choices
Depending on where you are based, and as provided under applicable law and subject to any limitations in such law, you may have the right to:
access the personal data we hold about you;
request we correct any inaccurate personal data we hold about you;
request we delete any personal data we hold about you;
restrict the processing of personal data we hold about you;
object to the processing of personal data we hold about you;
receive any personal data we hold about you in a structured and commonly used machine readable format or have such personal data transmitted to another company; and
withdraw any consent you previously provided to us regarding the processing of your personal data at any time. We will apply your preferences going forward. This will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before you withdrew your consent.
Please note that, prior to any response to the exercise of such rights, we may require you to verify your identity. In addition, we may have valid legal reasons to refuse your request, and will inform you if that is the case. For more information on your rights, please contact us using the details in the “Contact us” section below.
7. International data transfers
We will transfer your personal data internationally, to countries such as the United States. These countries may not provide the same protections as the data protection laws where you are based. We will ensure that relevant safeguards are in place to afford adequate protection for your personal data, and we will comply with applicable data protection laws, in particular if you reside in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), Switzerland, or the UK by relying on an EU Commission or UK government adequacy decision, on contractual protections for the transfer of your personal data, or a derogation if available. For more information about how we transfer personal data internationally, please contact us as set out in the “Contact us” section below.
8. Children’s privacy
Our Website is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us as set out in the “Contact us” section below.
9. Retention of personal data
We retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected and processed, in accordance with our retention procedures, and in accordance with applicable laws.
To determine the appropriate retention period for your personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we use your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
10. Security of personal data
We use reasonable organisational, technical and administrative measures designed to protect against unauthorised access, misuse, loss, disclosure, alteration, and destruction of personal data we process. Unfortunately, data transmission over the Internet cannot be guaranteed as completely secure. Therefore, while we strive to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its security.
11. Links to other sites
Our Website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party sites or services.
12. Changes and updates to this Policy
We will update this Policy from time to time. Please review this Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
If we make material changes, we will let you know.
13. Complaints
If you wish to lodge a complaint about how we process your personal data, please contact us at admin@kynostx.com. We will endeavor to respond to your complaint as soon as possible. If you are based in certain jurisdictions, you may also lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, including in your country of residence, place of work, or where you believe an incident took place.
14. Contact us
Kynos Therapeutics Limited, Enterprise Hub 2.14, Murchison House, King's Buildings, 10 Max Born Crescent, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, United Kingdom, is the entity responsible for the processing of your personal data, and is the controller in respect of such processing as provided under applicable law. If you have any questions or comments about this Policy, our privacy practices, or if you would like to exercise your rights with respect to your personal data, please contact us by email at admin@kynostx.com.