Introduction

Vault Bioventures (collectively, “Vault Bioventures”, “Vault Bio”, “Vault”, “us” or “we”) Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies and other tracking technologies (collectively “Tracking Technologies”) may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit any of “the Online Channels” (See our Privacy Policy).

By continuing to browse or use any of our Online Channels, you agree that we can store and access Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies as described in this Cookie Policy.

What are Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?

A cookie is a small text file that can be stored on and accessed from your device when you visit one of our Online Channels, to the extent you agree. The other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place small data files on your devices or monitor your website activity to enable us to collect information about how you use our Online Channels. This allows our Online Channels to recognize your device from those of other users of the Online Channels. The information provided below about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies. You can find more information at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.

How do our Online Channels use Tracking Technologies?

Vault Bioventures uses Tracking Technologies to identify you and your interests, to remember your preferences, and to track your use of our Online Channels. We also use Tracking Technologies to control access to certain content on our Online Channels, protect the Online Channels, and to process user requests.

To administer our Online Channels and for research purposes, Vault Bioventures also has contracted with third-party service providers to track and analyze statistical usage and volume information from our users. These third-party service providers use persistent Cookies to help us to improve the user experience, manage our content, and analyze how users navigate and utilize the Online Channels.

First and Third-party Cookies

“First party Cookies” are cookies that belong to Vault Bioventures and that Vault Bioventures places on your device. “Third-party Cookies” are cookies that another party places on your device through our Site. Vault Bioventures may contract with third-party service providers communicate by send e-mails to users who have provided us with their contact information. To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, and/or to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on, the third-party service providers may place Cookies on the devices of these users.

For more information on how these companies collect and use information on our behalf, please refer to their privacy policies.

We use the following types of cookies:

Persistent Cookies: We use persistent Cookies to improve your experience of using the Online Channels. This includes recording your acceptance of our Cookie Policy to remove the cookie message which first appears when you use the Online Channels.

Session Cookies: Session Cookies are temporary and deleted from your machine when your web browser closes. We use session Cookies to help us track internet usage as described above.

You may refuse to accept browser Cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Online Channels. 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 Online Channels.

The data collected by the Online Channels and/or through Cookies that may be placed on your computer will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfil the purposes mentioned above. In any event, such information will not be kept for longer than one year.

Cookies are used for the following purposes:

Cookie Type & Purpose

• Strictly Necessary/ Technical: These Cookies are necessary to allow us to operate our Online Channels so you may access them as you have requested. These Cookies, for example, let us recognize that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access Site content. They also include Cookies that enable us to remember your previous actions within the same browsing session and secure our Online Channels.
• Analytical/ Performance: These Cookies are used by us or third-party service providers to analyze how the Online Channels are used and how they are performing. For example, these Cookies track what pages are most frequently visited, and from what locations our visitors originate . If you subscribe to a newsletter or otherwise register with the Online Channels, these Cookies may be correlated to you. These Cookies include, for example, Google Analytics cookies.
• Functionality: These Cookies let us operate the Online Channels in accordance with the choices you make. These Cookies permit us to “remember” you in-between visits. For instance, we will recognize your user name and remember how you customized the Online Channels and services, for example by adjusting text size, fonts, languages and other parts of web pages that are alterable, and provide you with the same customizations during future visits.
• Third-Party Advertising: These Cookies collect information about your activities on these and other Online Channels to provide you targeted advertising. We may also allow our third-party service providers to use Cookies on the Online Channels for the same purposes identified above, including collecting information about your online activities over time and across different websites. The third-party service providers that generate these Cookies, such as Adobe, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook, have their own privacy policies, and may use their Cookies to target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to our Online Channels.

How do I refuse or withdraw my consent to the use of Cookies?

If you do not want Cookies to be dropped on your device, you can adjust the setting of your Internet browser to reject the setting of all or some Cookies and to alert you when a Cookie is placed on your device. For further information about how to do so, please refer to your browser ‘help’ / ‘tool’ or ‘edit’ section or see www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all Cookies (including strictly necessary Cookies) you may not be able to access or use all or parts or functionalities of our Online Channels.

If you want to remove previously-stored Cookies, you can manually delete the Cookies at any time. However, this will not prevent the Online Channels from placing further Cookies on your device unless and until you adjust your Internet browser setting as described above.

For more information on the development of user-profiles and the use of targeting/advertising Cookies, please see www.youronlinechoices.eu if you are located in Europe or www.aboutads.info/choices if in the United States.

Contact us

If you have any other questions about our Cookie Policy, please contact us at:

Vault Bioventures
12555 High Bluff Dr Suite 300,
San Diego, CA 92130
+1 855 483 4838
[email protected]