PRIVACY POLICY
Updated February 23, 2022
This site, located at www.humanigen.com is owned by Humanigen, Inc. (“Humanigen”, “we”, “our” or “us”). This privacy policy (“Policy”) applies to Personal Information (defined below) you provide on this website and any other website or application that we operate (collectively, the “Site”). Your use of this Site is subject not only to this Policy, but also to this Site’s Terms of Use. By accessing and using our Site, and by providing us with your Personal Information, you agree to be bound by this Policy. If you choose not to provide the Personal Information we request, you may still visit and use parts of our Site, but may be unable to access or use certain features, options, programs, and services.
1. Introduction.
Humanigen respects the privacy of visitors to our Site. As used in this Policy, "Personal Information" means any information that may be used, either alone or in combination with other information, to personally identify an individual.
2. Personal Information Collected.
2.1. Personal Information You Provide To Us On Our Site.
a) Types of Personal Information. We and our service providers collect the Personal Information set forth below in order to provide our Site to you, or because we are legally required to do so. If you do not provide the Personal Information we request, we may not be able to provide you with our Site. The Personal Information we and our service providers collect includes but is not limited to:
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Your name;
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Email address;
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Address;
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Phone;
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Communications you send to us.
b) When Personal Information is Collected. You may be required to provide us with certain information that may constitute Personal Information in the following ways:
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Contact Information
In various areas of our Site and in printed materials, we provide you the opportunity to submit a form with basic contact information, such as your name, email, or mailing address. With your permission, Humanigen uses such information provide you with information regarding its services, and upcoming events that may be of interest to you. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, the opt-out process is described in Section 6.2 of this Policy.
In addition, if you choose, you may participate in a Humanigen e-mail list server by subscribing within our Site or by contacting Humanigen staff directly. You may unsubscribe from these e-mail list servers by following the unsubscribe instructions found within the list email.
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Information Collected through Various Forms
We and our service providers may collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including: (i) through use of our Site, e.g., when you sign up for a newsletter; (ii) offline, such as when you attend one of our conventions or contact us; or (iii) from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, social media platforms (including from people with whom you are friends or otherwise connected) and from other third parties. In addition, if you elect to connect your social media account to our Site, certain Personal Information from your social media account will be shared with us, which may include Personal Information that is part of your profile or your friends’ profiles.
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Personal information You Disclose Relating to Others
If you disclose any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with our Site, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Policy.
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SOCIAL MEDIA
We have worked with certain third-party social media providers to offer you their social networking services through our Site. For example, you can use third-party social networking services, including but not limited to Facebook, Google+, and others to share information about your experience on our Site with your friends and followers on those social networking services. These social networking services may be able to collect information about you, including your activity on our Site. These third-party social networking services also may notify your friends, both on our Site and on the social networking services themselves, that you are a user of our Site or about your use of our Site, in accordance with applicable law and their own privacy policies. If you choose to access or make use of third-party social networking services, we may receive information about you that you have made available to those social networking services, including information about your contacts on those social networking services.
You also may be able to link an account from a social networking service (e.g., Facebook, Google+, Yahoo!) to an account through our Site. This may allow you to use your credentials from the other site or service to sign in to certain features on our Site. If you link your account from a third-party site or service, we may collect information from those third-party accounts, and any information that we collect will be governed by this Policy.
Our Site provides Social Media Features (“Features”), such as the Facebook Like button, and widgets such as the “Share” button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site (“Widgets”). These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our Site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features and Widgets are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
Click here to view our Twitter guidelines.
2.2. Personal Information You Provide To Third Parties On Our Site. Please note that we use certain third party service providers on our Site to enhance your experience or deliver certain services. These providers may collect Personal Information about you in performing their services and/or functions on our Site.
2.3. Information Collected Automatically. Certain information on our Site is collected automatically by means of various software tools. We have a legitimate interest in using such information to assist in log-in, systems administration purposes, information security and abuse prevention, to track user trends, and to analyze the effectiveness of our Site. Alone or in combination with other information, such automatically collected information may constitute Personal Information. Some of our service providers (described in Section 4, below) may use cookies or other methods to gather information regarding your use of our Site. Such third parties may use these cookies or other tracking methods for their own purposes by relating information about your use of our Site with any Personal Information about you that they may have. The use of such information by a third party depends on the privacy policy of that third party.
a) Log Files On Our Site. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (“IP”) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, clicked pages and any other information your browser may send to us.
b) Cookies. We use cookies to make interactions with our Site easy and meaningful. When you visit our Site, our servers may send a cookie to your computer. Standing alone, cookies do not personally identify you; they merely recognize your web browser. Unless you choose to identify yourself to us, either by responding to a promotional offer, opening an account, or filling out a web form, you remain anonymous to us.
We may use cookies that are session-based and persistent. Session cookies exist only during one session. They disappear from your computer when you close your browser software or turn off your computer. Persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser or turn off your computer. Please note that if you disable your web browser’s ability to accept cookies, you may not be able to successfully use all of the features of our Site.
The following sets out how we may use different categories of cookies and your options for managing cookie settings:
c) Other Tracking Technologies. When you visit our Site, we may collect your IP address for certain purposes such as, for example, to monitor the regions from which you navigate our Site. We may also use web beacons alone or in conjunction with cookies to compile information about your usage of our Site and interaction with emails from us. Web beacons are clear electronic images that can recognize certain types of information on your computer, such as cookies, when you viewed a particular site tied to the web beacon. For example, we may place web beacons in marketing emails that notify us when you click on a link in the email that directs you to our Site. We may use web beacons to operate and improve our Site and email communications.
d) Analytics Software Tools. We use Google Analytics on our Site to help us analyze the traffic on our Site. For more information on Google Analytics’ processing of Personal Data, please see http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. By using a browser plugin http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin/ provided by Google, you can opt out of Google Analytics.
3. The Purposes For Which We Use Personal Information.
If you submit or we collect Personal Information through our Site, then such Personal Information may be used in the following ways: (i) to provide, analyze, administer, and improve our Site and services, (ii) to contact you in connection with our Site and certain services, notifications, events, programs or offerings that you may have registered for, (iii) to send you updates and promotional materials that you have registered for, (iv) to identify and authenticate your access to the parts of our Site and services that you are authorized to access; (v) for recruiting and human resources administration purposes, and (vi) to protect our rights and/or our property and to ensure the technical functionality and security of our Site.
4. How We Disclose Personal Information.
We do not sell, lease, rent or otherwise disclose the Personal Information collected from our Site to third parties unless otherwise stated below or with your consent.
4.1. Our Third Party Providers. We transfer Personal Information to our third party service providers to perform tasks on our behalf and to assist us in providing our Site, as more fully described in Section 2.2. We use commercially reasonable efforts to only engage or interact with third party service providers and partners that post a privacy policy governing their processing of Personal Information.
4.2. In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Change of Control. We may transfer or assign this Policy and any Personal Information to a third party entity that acquires or is merged with us as part of a merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control.
4.3. Other Disclosures. We may disclose Personal Information about you if we have a good faith belief that disclosure of such information is helpful or reasonably necessary to: (i) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request; (ii) enforce our terms of use, including investigations of potential violations thereof; (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud or security issues; or (iv) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Humanigen, our users, or the public.
5. Retention of Personal Information.
We reserve the right to retain any Personal Information as long as the Personal Information is needed to: (i) fulfill the purposes that are described in Section 3 (The Purposes For Which We Use Personal Data), and (ii) comply with applicable law.
6. Your Rights.
6.1 Personal Information. If you have an account on our Site, to the extent we are legally required, we provide access to—and the ability to edit or delete—certain categories of Personal Information through the account.
If you would like to access, amend, erase, export (i.e., data portability), or object to or restrict the processing of Personal Information collected via our Site, you may submit a request to questions@humanigen.com or write to us at:
Humanigen, Inc. Headquarters
830 Morris Turnpike, 4th Floor
Short Hills, NJ 07078-2625
We will promptly review all such requests in accordance with applicable laws.
Depending on where you live, you may have a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority or other regulatory agency if you believe that we have violated any of the rights concerning Personal Information about you. We encourage you to first reach out to us at questions@Humanigen.com so we have an opportunity to address your concerns directly before you do so.
6.2. Opting-Out of Promotional Emails. You may choose not to receive future promotional or advertising emails from us by selecting an unsubscribe link at the bottom of each email that you receive from us, or by responding to the emails directly and requesting removal if such a link is not available. Additionally, you may send a request specifying your communications preferences to questions@Humanigen.com. Please note that even if you opt out of receiving the foregoing emails, we may still send you a response to any "Contact Us" request as well as administrative, maintenance and operational emails (for example, in connection with a password reset request).
7. Personal Information Transferred from the EU or Switzerland To The United States.
If you are accessing the Site from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States or in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers. The data protection laws of the United States might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. By using the Site, you consent to your information being transferred to countries outside your country of residence, including the United States, for the purposes described in this Policy.
8. Data Security.
The security of Personal Information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. You should not submit protected health information or other sensitive information to our Site.
9. Children's Privacy.
Our Site is not intended for children under the age of 13. Accordingly, we do not intend to collect Personal Information from anyone we know to be under 13 years of age.
10. How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals.
Humanigen does not currently respond or take any action with respect to web browser "do not track" signals or other mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of Personal Information about an individual consumer's online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services.
11. Links to Other Sites.
This website contains links to sites that we believe may offer useful information. The privacy policies and procedures described here do not apply to those websites. You should contact those websites directly for information on their data collection and use policies. Humanigen is not responsible for the content or other information included on such third-party websites.
12. Updates.
Humanigen may amend this Policy from time to time. You can see when this Policy was last updated by reviewing the “Last Updated” legend on the top of this page. We may provide you with notice of material changes to the Policy as appropriate under the circumstances. Any changes to this Policy will apply immediately upon posting to our Site. By accessing and using our Site after a change is made to the Policy, you agree to be bound by the Policy as revised.
13. Your California Privacy Rights.
If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of Personal Information about you by Humanigen to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to questions@Humanigen.com or write to us:
Humanigen Satellite Office
533 Airport Blvd, Suite 400
Burlingame, CA 94010
14. Contacting Us.
If you have questions, want more information or would like to report a problem regarding the handling of your Personal Information, please contact questions@Humanigen.com.
Appendix 1
Cookie Banner:
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Cookie Settings
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It is usually possible to stop your browser from accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular site. However, if your device does not have cookies enabled, your experience on our site may be limited, thereby impeding the navigation and use of our services.
All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, or you can use the Help option in your browser for more details.
Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS.
If you are primarily concerned about third party cookies generated by advertisers, you can turn these off by going to the Your Online Choices site or by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative’s Opt-out page, where you can control third-party online advertising. Please note that there are many more networks listed on this site than those that we use on our site.|
Useful links:
If you would like to find out more about cookies and their use on the Internet, you may find the following links useful:
Microsoft Cookies guide
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If you would like to contact us about cookies please email us at questions@Humanigen.com. Please review our Privacy Policy for more information on our use of cookies and other software tools.