Website Privacy Policy

Where necessary, including to comply with any legal or business operations obligations, we may also disclose the above categories of Personal Information to the following categories of third parties: (i) judicial courts, regulators, or other government agents purporting to have jurisdiction over the group or opposing counsel and parties to litigation; (ii) any relevant third party acquirer(s), in the event that we sell or transfer all or any relevant portion of our business or assets; (iii) other third parties as may otherwise be permitted by law; and (iv) with your direction or consent.

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Cookies and Other Online Tracking Technologies

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Like many websites, we use cookies and other online tracking technologies, such as pixels, Flash objects, web beacons, embedded scripts, clear GIFs, and location-identifying technologies to collect information about you, your device and your visit to Sites, including to identify you and/or your location, record your preferences, track your usage of the Sites, and improve the Sites. Other technologies, including web storage and identifiers associated with your device, may be used for similar purposes. Where required by law, we will not deploy the use of cookies and other online tracking technologies without your explicit consent.

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You can control cookies in the following ways:
 

• Our Cookie Management Tool: You can opt into the use of various types of cookies or change your cookie preferences through the icon (“Consent Preferences”) available on your screen.
   

• Internet Browser. You can delete cookies and other online tracking technologies from your device by clearing your browser history. This will delete all online tracking technologies from all websites and applications you have visited since you last cleared your browser history. You can also set your browser to prevent certain online tracking technologies from being placed on your device. If you delete cookies, change your browser settings, switch browsers or computers, or use another operating system, you may need to opt-out again. To learn more, please see the links below:
   

  • Firefox

  • Google Chrome

  • Internet Explorer

  • Safari / Safari Mobile
     

• Third Party Tools. Various third-party tools exist that can help you manage cookies. For additional information you can also visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ where you will find information on cookie management and blocking.
   

Please note, if you disable the use of online tracking technologies on our Site, this may affect your experience. For example, certain features of the Site may not work. If you use different devices to visit our Site, (for example, your computer, smartphone, tablet etc.), you must ensure that each browser on each device is adapted to your preferences.
 

Your Choices & Rights
 

Depending upon which province  you reside in, certain choices and rights with respect to your Personal Information may be available to you under applicable Canadian data protection laws. If you have questions about what rights may apply to you, please contact us.
 

• Right to Know and Access: You may have the right to know and access the Personal Information we have collected about you. We will provide to you your Personal Information in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit your Personal Information to another controller.
   

• Right to Delete: You may have the right to request that we delete the Personal Information we have collected about you, subject to certain legal exceptions.
   

• Right to Withdraw Consent: You may have the right to withdraw any consent to the collection and/or use of your Personal Information that you have given to us. Withdrawing consent may affect our ability to contact you or to consider you for participation in the trial.
   

• Right to Restrict Dissemination: You may have the right to stop dissemination of your Personal Information to third parties or to de-index hyperlinks associated with your Personal Information.
   

• Right to Correct: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate Personal Information we have collected about you.
   

• Right to Opt Out of Electronic Marketing:  With your consent or as otherwise permitted by law, we may use Personal Information to communicate with you regarding promotions, contests, offers, incentives, rewards, surveys, questionnaires and other pertinent matters such as products and services.  You may opt-out at any time by contacting us using the information provided in the “Contact Information” section below.  If you receive promotional email messages from us, you may also unsubscribe from such messages by using the unsubscribe mechanism found in all such messages.  Please note that if you opt out from the receipt of electronic marketing material you may still receive email messages from us with respect to other matters.
   

• Right to Lodge a Complaint with a Data Protection Authority. If you believe that applicable data protection laws have not been complied with, you may lodge a complaint with us.  If we are unable to resolve your complaint, you may wish to file a complaint  with the appropriate data protection authority for your province.  In either case, please see the contact information provided in the “Contact Information” section below.
   

You can exercise these rights by contacting us using the information provided in Contact Information below. Please include “Privacy Rights Request” in the subject line of your communication.
 

Cross-Border Transfers
 

We may transfer your Personal Information to a third party that is located in a jurisdiction other than the one from which it was collected, including to countries that  whose privacy laws may differ from those of your home province. If we do transfer your Personal Information to another jurisdiction, we will do so following due diligence and provided that the data recipient is subject to contractual agreements imposing obligations on it to ensure appropriate physical, technical and organizational measures are implemented and maintained at all times consistent with our obligations under applicable data protection laws.
 

Retention of Personal Information
 

We will only retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, accounting, or reporting requirements or as may be otherwise required or permitted by law.

 

Security of Personal Information
 

We and our third-party service providers maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect Personal Information that we receive against accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use. We may use encryption, password protection, secure socket layers, internal restrictions and other security measures to help prevent unauthorized access to the information we collect from and about you. However, any information you provide to us is at your own risk. We cannot guarantee that such information will not be lost, accessed without authorization, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.
 

Links to Other Websites
 

We may provide links to other websites or resources provided by third parties. These links are provided for your convenience only. We have no control over the content of those websites or resources and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. If you decide to access any of the third-party links on the Sites, you do so entirely at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of those websites.
 

Children
 

We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 14 through our Sites. If you are under 14, please do not give us any Personal Information. If you are a parent or legal guardian of a child who is interested or actively participating in a study, please use caution in the types of information that you are entering into the portal, answer the specific questions that are provided, and do not provide more information than necessary. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s internet usage and to help enforce our Policy by instructing their children never to provide us Personal Information. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 18 has provided Personal Information to us, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.
 

Changes to this Privacy Policy
 

This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date stated above. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. By accessing and using the Sites and Services after we notify you of such changes, you are deemed to have accepted such changes. Please refer back to this Privacy Policy on a regular basis.
 

Contact Information
 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at notices@aardvarktherapeutics.com. You may also reach out to the following individuals:
 

• Data Protection Officer
  aardvark.dpo@mydata-trust.info

 

You may also address any questions or complaints to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

 

• Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
  Website: https://www.priv.gc.ca
  Telephone (toll‑free in Canada): 1‑800‑282‑1376
   

You may also contact your provincial privacy commissioner.
 

• Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta
  Website: https://oipc.ab.ca/
  Telephone (toll-free in Canada): 1-888-878-4044

 

• Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
  Website: https://www.ipc.on.ca/en
  Telephone (toll-free in Canada): 1-800-387-0073

 

• Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec
  Website: https://www.cai.gouv.qc.ca/commission-acces-information/nous-joindre
  Telephone (toll free in Canada): 1-888-528-7741

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