accession therapeutics limited
- general privacy policy and cookie policy
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the general privacy notice for Accession Therapeutics Limited (“Accession”).
Accession respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) or deal with us in any way. This policy tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
Please also use the Glossary at the end of this document to understand the meaning of some of the terms used in this privacy notice.
1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE
PURPOSE OF THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Accession collects and processes your personal data through your use of our website at www.accessiontherapeutics.com (“Site”) or in our current, past or potential business or other relationships with clients, suppliers, advisors, partners or other organisations during the course of Accession’s business.
It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
CONTROLLER
Accession is the controller and responsible for your personal data (referred to as, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).
If you have any questions about this privacy notice or your rights hereunder, please contact us using the details set out below.
CONTACT DETAILS
Our full details are:
Full name of legal entity: Accession Therapeutics Limited
Email address: info at accessiontherapeutics.com
Postal address: Accession Therapeutics Limited, Building 7600, The Quorum, Alec Issigonis Way, ARC Oxford North, OX4 2JZ
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
YOUR DUTY TO INFORM US OF CHANGES
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
THIRD-PARTY LINKS
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
2. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:
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Identity Data includes first name and last name.
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Contact Data includes addresses, email address and telephone numbers.
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Business and Professional Data includes business name, profession, job title, technical interests and areas of expertise, lines of reporting etc.
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Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
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Profile Data includes your use of our website or services, username and password, feedback and survey responses.
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Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
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Usage Data includes details of how you use our Site, products or services.
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website or product/service feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
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Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact or Business and Professional data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you
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enquire about our products or services;
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subscribe to our publications;
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request marketing material to be sent to you;
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enter a survey; or
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give us some feedback.
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Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Site, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookie Policy on our Site for further details.
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Third parties or publicly available sources. We may collect or receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
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Technical Data from the following parties:
(a) analytics providers such as Google based outside of the UK or EEA;
(b) advertising or social media networks; and
(c) search information providers Google.
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Identity, Contact or Business and Professional Data from publicly availably sources such as open-access websites, Companies House, profession registers and the UK Intellectual Property Office.
4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
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Where we need to perform a contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
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Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
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Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE WILL USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
Purpose/Activity
To register you as a new customer/client or supplier
To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
(b) Asking you to take a survey
To administer and protect our business and Site (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)
To identify potential partners for collaborations and other business opportunities with Accession
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you
Type of data
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Business and Professional
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Marketing and Communications
(e) Business and Professional
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Business and Professional
(a) Technical
(b) Usage
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(d) Usage
(e) Profile
(f) Business and Professional
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
Performance of a contract with you
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how third parties use our products/services)
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to analyse the market in which we operate and to identify potential business partners for collaborations, studies or other business opportunities
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)
MARKETING
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We have established the following personal data control mechanisms:
MARKETING FROM US
We may use your Identity, Contact or Business and Professional Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
THIRD-PARTY MARKETING
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any other data controller.
OPTING OUT
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting us.
COOKIES
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see the Cookie Policy on our Site.
CHANGE OF PURPOSE
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
5. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above.
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Internal Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
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External Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
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Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
Many of our External Third Parties are based outside of the UK or European Economic Area (EEA) so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the UK and EEA.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK or EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
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We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the Information Commissioner.
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Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the Information Commissioner which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK.
Please contact us at info at accessiontherapeutics.com if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the UK or EEA.
7. DATA SECURITY
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
8. DATA RETENTION
HOW LONG WILL YOU USE MY PERSONAL DATA FOR?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for 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 process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available in our retention policy which you can request from us by contacting us.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see below for further information.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
9. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us. For more information, please see the Glossary section of this policy.
NO FEE USUALLY REQUIRED
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
WHAT WE MAY NEED FROM YOU
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
TIME LIMIT TO RESPOND
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
10. GLOSSARY
LAWFUL BASIS
Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).
Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.
THIRD PARTIES
Internal Third Parties
Our internal contractor-consultants and Board members or scientific advisory board members.
External Third Parties
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Service providers acting as processors based in the USA who provide IT or system administration services.
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Professional advisers including lawyers, accountant, HR consultants, bankers, auditors and insurers based in the UK who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
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HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities based in the United Kingdom who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
You have the right to:
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data 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 data 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 which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
11. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may change this privacy notice from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection.
Any changes will be immediately posted on our Site and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the privacy notice on your first use of our Site following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up-to-date. This privacy notice was last updated on 10 September 2021.
accession therapeutics limited - cookie policy
This policy forms part of the terms and conditions for the provision of our public website at www.accessiontherapeutics.com (the “Site”) and sets out the basis on which we use cookies which are required for your use of the Site. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it.
1. Use of Cookies
1.1 Our Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a better experience when you use our Site and also allows us to improve our services.
1.2 A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
1.3 You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Cookie Name
__utma
__utmb
__utmc
__utmz
XSRF-TOKEN
hs
svSession
SSR-caching
_wixCIDX
_wix_browser_sess
consent-policy
smSession
TS*
bSession
fedops.logger.sessionId
wixLanguage
XSRF-TOKEN
Expiry
2 years
1 day
Session
1 day
Session
Session
2 years
1 minute
3 months
Session
12 months
Session
Session
30 minutes
12 months
12 months
Session
Purpose and explanation
Google Analytics is used to monitor traffic levels, search queries and visits to the Site.
Google Analytics stores IP address anonymously on its servers in the US, and neither Accession Therapeutics or Google associate IP addresses with any personally identifiable information.
These cookies enable Google to determine whether you are a return visitor to the Site, and to track the pages that you visit during your session.
Used for security reasons
Used for security reasons
Used in connection with user login
Used to indicate the system from which the site was rendered
Used for system monitoring/debugging
Used for system monitoring/debugging
Used for cookie banner parameters
Used to identify logged in site members
Used for security and anti-fraud reasons
Used for system effectiveness measurement
Used for stability/effectiveness measurement
Used on multilingual websites to save user language preference
Used for security reasons
Essential to use of Site?
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to use our Site properly.