Your privacy is important to us. It is Parse Biosciences’ policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you, including across our website, https://www.parsebiosciences.com/, and our cloud-based data analysis platform Trailmaker https://app.trailmaker.parsebiosciences.com (collectively, the “Service”), as well as through social media, our marketing activities, and other sites we own and operate that link to this Privacy Policy.

Personal information is any information about you which can be used to identify you. This includes information about you as a person (such as name, address, and date of birth), your devices, payment details, and even information about how you use a website or online service.

In the event our Service contains links to third-party sites and services, please be aware that those sites and services have their own privacy policies. After following a link to any third-party content, you should read their posted privacy policy information about how they collect and use personal information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of your activities after you leave our Service.

European users:  If you are located in the European Economic Area (the “EEA”) or the United Kingdom (the “UK”), please read the ‘Notice to European users’ section below in addition to this Privacy Policy for information about your personal information and your privacy rights.

This policy is effective as of 11 February 2022.

Last updated: September 18, 2024

Personal Information We Collect

Personal information we collect falls into one of two categories: “voluntarily provided” information and “automatically collected” personal information.

“Voluntarily provided” personal information refers to any personal information you knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in our Service and our promotions.

“Automatically Collected Information” refers to any information automatically collected from your devices in the course of accessing our Service. For further information, please see our Trailmaker Cookie Notice and Parse Website Cookie Notice.

Personal Information You Submit to Us

We may ask for personal information — for example, when you submit content to us or when you contact us (“Contact and Profile Information”) — which may include one or more of the following:

• First and Last name
• Email address and password
• Country
• State
• Social media profiles
• Phone/mobile number
• Home/mailing address
• Institution or Company

User-Generated Content

We consider “User-Generated Content Information” to be materials (text, image and/or video content) voluntarily supplied to us by our users for the purpose of publication on our website or re-publishing on our social media channels. All user-generated content is associated with the account or email address used to submit the materials.

Anonymous Research Information

Upon request, you may provide us with anonymized or deidentified DNA information that can be used for our research purposes (“Anonymous Research Information”). To the extent that Anonymous Research Information may be used to identify you, it may be considered personal information under applicable data protection laws. In that event, we will endeavor to protect such information in accordance with the applicable standard.

Please be aware that any content you submit for the purpose of publication will be public after posting (and subsequent review or vetting process). Once published, it may be accessible to third parties not covered under this Privacy Policy.

Collection of Personal Information

We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our Service:

• Register for an account
• Complete any third-party forms to register or check-in for events
• Complete any content download form
• Enter any of our competitions, contests, sweepstakes, and surveys
• Sign up to receive updates from us via email or social media channels
• Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content
• Contact us via email, social media, or on any similar technologies
• When you mention us on social media

Use of Personal Information

We may use personal information for the following purposes:

• to provide you with our Service’s core features and applications
• to enable you to customize or personalize your experience of our Service
• to deliver products and/or services to you
• to contact and communicate with you
• for analytics, market research, and business development, including to operate and improve our Service, associated applications, and associated social media platforms
• for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our products and services and information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you
• to consider your employment application
• to enable you to access and use our Service, associated applications, and associated social media platforms
• for internal record keeping and administrative purposes
• to run competitions, sweepstakes, and/or offer additional benefits to you
• to attribute any content (e.g., posts and comments) you submit that we publish on our Service
• for technical assessment and technical support, including to operate and improve our Service, associated applications, and associated social media platforms

We may combine personal information with general information or research data we receive from other trusted sources. For example, our marketing and market research activities may uncover data and insights, which we may combine with information about how visitors use our Service to improve our Service and your experience on it.

Security of Your Personal Information

We employ technical and organizational safeguards that are designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.

You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security strength, ensuring the security of your own information within the bounds of our services. For example, ensuring any passwords associated with accessing your personal information and accounts are secure and confidential.

Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as we need to. This time period may vary depending on what we are using your information for, in accordance with this Privacy Policy. For example, if you have provided us with personal information as part of creating an account with us, we may retain this information for the duration your account exists on our system.

If necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research purposes or statistical purposes.

Children’s Privacy

We do not aim any of our products or services directly at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information about children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian of a child from whom you believe we have collected personal information in a manner prohibited by law, please contact us as detailed below. If we learn that we have collected personal information through the Service from a child without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian as required by law, we will comply with applicable legal requirements to delete the information.

Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties

We may disclose personal information to:

• a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of our company
• third-party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, including (without limitation) IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, ad networks, analytics, error loggers, debt collectors, maintenance or problem-solving providers, marketing or advertising providers, professional advisors, and payment processors
• our employees, contractors, and/or related entities
• our existing or potential agents or business partners
• sponsors or promoters of any competition, sweepstakes, or promotion we run
• credit reporting agencies, courts, tribunals, and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have provided to you
• courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights
• business transferees in connection with an actual or prospective business transaction, such as a merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, sale or transfer of all or substantially all of our assets and business, or in the event of bankruptcy.

International Transfers of Personal Information

The personal information we collect is stored and/or processed in United States, Ireland, other European countries, or where we or our partners, affiliates, and third-party providers maintain facilities.

The countries to which we store, process, or transfer your personal information may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. If we transfer your personal information to third parties in other countries: (i) we will perform those transfers in accordance with the requirements of applicable law; and (ii) we will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information

Your choice: By providing personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use, and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You might have to provide personal information to us in order to use certain features of the Service, including the sites that we operate and products and/or services offered on or through them.

Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.

Marketing permission: If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us using the details below.

Access: You may request details of the personal information that we hold about you.

Correction: If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details provided in this Privacy Policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.

Non-discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. Unless your personal information is required to provide you with a particular feature of the Service (for example providing user support), we will not deny you goods or services and/or charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties, or provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services.

Complaints: If you believe that we have violated a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged violation. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your complaint.

Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe from our email database or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), please contact us using the details provided in this Privacy Policy, or opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.

Use of Cookies

We use “cookies” and similar tracking technologies to collect information about you and your activity across our site. A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on your computer, and accesses each time you visit, so we can understand how you use our site. This helps us serve you content based on preferences you have specified.

Please refer to our Cookie Policy for more information.

Other Sites and Services

Our Service may link to external sites and services that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites or services, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.

Changes to This Policy

At our discretion, we may change our Privacy Policy to reflect updates to our business processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative or regulatory changes. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing this Privacy Policy.

If the changes are material, we will contact you (based on your selected preferences for communications from us) and all our registered users with the new details and links to the updated or changed Privacy Policy where required by applicable law.

If required by law, we will get your permission or give you the opportunity to opt in to or opt out of, as applicable, any new uses of your personal information.

Additional Disclosures for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Compliance (EU)

Notice to European users

Where this Notice to European users applies. The information provided in this “Notice to European users” section applies where we are processing the personal information of individuals located in the EEA or the UK (EEA and UK jurisdictions are together referred to as “Europe”) as a controller.

Personal information. References to “personal information” in this Privacy Policy should be understood to include a reference to “personal data” (as defined in the GDPR) – i.e., information about individuals from which they are either directly identified or can be identified.

Controller. Parse Biosciences is the controller in respect of the processing of your personal information covered by this Privacy Policy for purposes of European data protection legislation (i.e., the EU GDPR and the so-called ‘UK GDPR’ (as and where applicable, the “GDPR”)). See the How to contact us section above for our contact details.

Our legal bases for processing. In respect of each of the purposes for which we use your personal information, the GDPR requires us to ensure that we have a “legal basis” for that use.  Our legal bases for processing your personal information described in this Privacy Policy are listed below.

• Where we need to process your personal information to deliver our Service to you (“Contractual Necessity”).
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests (“Legitimate Interests”). More detail about the specific legitimate interests pursued in respect of each purpose we use your personal information for is set out in the table below.
• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation (“Compliance with Law”).
• Where we have your specific consent to carry out the processing for the purpose in question (“Consent”).

We have set out below, in a table format, the legal bases we rely on in respect of the relevant purposes for which we use your personal information – for more information on these Purposes and the data types involved, see How we use your personal information above.

Retention. We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for compliance and protection purposes. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. When we no longer require the personal information, we have collected about you, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. If we anonymize your personal information (so that it can no longer be associated with you), we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

No obligation to provide personal information. You do not have to provide personal information to us. However. where we need to process your personal information either to comply with applicable law or to deliver our Services to you, and you fail to provide that personal information when requested, we may not be able to provide some or all aspects of our Service to you. We will notify you if this is the case at the time.

No unnecessary sensitive personal information. We ask that you not provide us with any unnecessary sensitive personal information (e.g., social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, criminal background or trade union membership) other than the sensitive data that is necessary for us to deliver the Service (e.g., Contact and Profile Information / Anonymous Research Information). When you provide any sensitive personal information to us when you use the Service, you must consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal information, you must not submit such sensitive personal information through our Service.

No automated decision-making and profiling. As part of the Service, we do not engage in automated decision-making and/or profiling, which produces legal or similarly significant effects. We will let you know if that changes by updating this Privacy Policy.

Security. We have put in place procedures designed to deal with breaches of personal information. In the event of any such breach, we have procedures in place to work with applicable regulators. In addition, in certain circumstances (including where we are legally required to do so), we may notify you of breaches affecting your personal information.

Your rights.

General. European data protection laws give you certain rights regarding your personal information. If you are located in Europe, you may ask us to take any of the following actions in relation to your personal information that we hold:

• Access. Provide you with information about our processing of your personal information and give you access to your personal information.
• Correct. Update or correct inaccuracies in your personal information.
• Delete. Delete your personal information where there is no lawful reason for us continuing to store or process it, where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal information to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons that will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
• Portability. Port a machine-readable copy of your personal information to you or a third party of your choice, in certain circumstances. Note that this right only applies to automated information for which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
• Restrict. Restrict the processing of your personal information, if: (i) you want us to establish the personal information’s accuracy; (ii) our use of the personal information is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (iii) you need us to hold the personal information even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (iv) you have objected to our use of your personal information but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use.
• Object. Object to our processing of your personal information where we are relying on legitimate interests as our legal basis, and there is something about your particular situation that makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedom – you also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
• Withdraw Consent. When we use your personal information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.

Exercising These Rights. You may submit these requests by contacting us. See the ‘Contact us’ section below for our contact details. We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and process your request. Whether or not we are required to fulfill any request you make will depend on a number of factors (e.g., why and how we are processing your personal information), if we reject any request you may make (whether in whole or in part) we will let you know our grounds for doing so at the time, subject to any legal restrictions.  Typically, you will not have to pay a fee to exercise your rights; however, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. We try to respond to all legitimate requests within a month. It may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or if you have made a number of requests; in this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Your Right to Lodge a Complaint with your Supervisory Authority. In addition to your rights outlined above, if you are not satisfied with our response to a request you make, or how we process your personal information, you can make a complaint to the data protection regulator in your habitual place of residence.

• For users in the European Economic Area – the contact information for the data protection regulator in your place of residence can be found here: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en.
• For users in the UK – the contact information for the UK data protection regulator can be found here: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/

Data Processing outside Europe. We are a US-based company and many of our service providers, advisers, partners or other recipients of data are also based in the US. This means that, if you use the Service, your personal information will necessarily be accessed and processed in the US. It may also be provided to recipients in other countries outside Europe.  Where we share your personal information with third parties who are based outside Europe, we try to ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it in accordance with applicable privacy laws by making sure one of the following mechanisms is implemented:

• Transfers to territories with an adequacy decision. We may transfer your personal information to countries or territories whose laws have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal information by the European Commission or UK Government (as and where applicable) (from time to time).
• Transfers to territories without an adequacy decision.
  • We may transfer your personal information to countries or territories whose laws have not been deemed to provide such an adequate level of protection.
  • However, in these cases:
    • we may use specific appropriate safeguards, which are designed to give personal information effectively the same protection it has in Europe – for example, standard-form contracts approved by relevant authorities for this purpose; or
    • in limited circumstances, we may rely on an exception, or ‘derogation’, which permits us to transfer your personal information to such country despite the absence of an ‘adequacy decision’ or ‘appropriate safeguards’ – for example, reliance on your explicit consent to that transfer.

You may contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal information out of Europe. See the ‘Contact us’ section below for our contact details.

Additional Disclosures for US Users

Do Not Track

Some browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. At this time, we do not respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals.

Shine the Light

If you are a California resident, you have the right to request information from us regarding the manner in which we share certain personal information as defined by California’s “Shine the Light” with third parties and affiliates for their own direct marketing purposes.

To receive this information, send us a request using the contact details provided in this Privacy Policy. Requests must include “California Privacy Rights Request” in the first line of the description and include your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code.

Contact Us

For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, you may contact us using the following details:

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