March 16, 2023
Velakor Biotherapeutics Inc. (collectively, “Velakor,” “Company,” or “We” or words of like import) recognize the importance of protecting your privacy and we are committed to protecting it through our compliance this Privacy Policy (this “Policy”).
This Policy describes the types of data we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit www.velakorbio.com (our “Website”), as well as our practices for processing, collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that data. This Policy further describes your rights surrounding our processing, collection, use, maintenance, protection, and disclosure of this data.
This Policy applies to information we collect:
• on this Website;
• in email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website; or
• information you provide when you communicate with us, including by providing feedback.
It does not apply to information collected:
• offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
• by any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from the Website.
Please read this Policy carefully to understand our procedures and practices regarding your data and how it is processed.If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you should not use ourWebsite. To the extent permitted by law, by accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Policy and consent to the processing of your personal data in the manner described in the Policy.
This Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of thisWebsite after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.
For more information contact us at info@velakorbio.com.
Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under18. If you are under 18, do not use this website or provide any information about yourself. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that data.If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at info@velakorbio.com.
California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal data. Please see Your State Privacy Rights below for more information.
We collect several types of data from and about users of our Website, including information:
• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, email address, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal data”);
• That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as geolocation data, IP addresses, demographic data, such as race, gender identity, age, and the like;
• Internet activity data and other data about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, usage details, and information collected through Cookies (defined below).
We collect information in the following ways:
• Directly from you, such as when you provide it to us by filling in forms on our Website, you provide us information after you make an inquiry or when you report a problem with our Website, or you otherwise provide information to us voluntarily;
• Automatically through data collection technologies like Cookies when you navigate through the Website;
• If you contact us, we may retain records and copies of your correspondence (including email address); and
• From third parties, for example, our business partners with whom you engage.
Information We Collect Automatically Through Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
• Details of your visits to our Website, including search queries, traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). We do not place advertisements, including targeted advertisements, on our Website. Please be aware that in general, you can opt-out of targeted advertising through Cookie and browser settings, and you can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network AdvertisingInitiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection (collectively, “Cookies”) may include:
• Browser cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. 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 our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse browser cookies, our system will issue browser cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
• Flash cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects(or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
We do not collect personal data automatically, but we may tie this information to personal data about you that we collect from other sources or that you provide to us.
We use the following categories of Cookies on our website:
• Strictly necessary Cookies. These are Cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They allow for a user to navigate back and forth between pages without losing their previous actions from the same session.
• Performance Cookies. Performance cookies monitor website performance and collect anonymous data on how visitors use a website. These cookies provide information to help improve how a website works.
• Functionality Cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our website and to embed functionality from certain third-party services. This enables us to personalize content for you, remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language) and to integrate useful services provided by third party providers into our website. Examples of such Cookies can be the ability to use web chats or keep your preferences on a particular website. Certainly third-party tools may also remember your preferences to improve functionality and personalization of your experience.
• Analytics Cookies. We use the Google Analytics platform to collect certain analytical information to help us better understand activity on our website and improve our services and the quality of our website. This information includes the IP address, page requests, referring websites, ads, or social media platforms, operating system and browser, and time spent on our website. We receive this data in an aggregated form. We use this information to help us understand how visitors engage with our website, measure the effectiveness of our advertising on third-party websites, and to improve our visitors’ experience.
For more information about Google Analytics, please visit: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse Cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
More information about our Cookie Policy can be found here.
More information about our Cookie Manager can be found here: https://cookie-script.com/
Third Party Content or Applications
Some content or applications on theWebsite may be served by third-parties, including content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use Cookies alone or in conjunction with other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal data or they may collect information, including personal data, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
The information that We collect automatically may include personal identifiable information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal data we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
• estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
• store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests; and
• speed up your searches through search engine optimization.
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal data:
• To present our Website and its contents to you.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website that may be offered from time to time.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.
We will not sell, share, or otherwise distribute your personal data to third parties except as provided in thisPrivacy Policy.
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may also disclose personal data that we collect or that you provide as described in this privacy policy:
• to our subsidiaries and affiliates;
• to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal data confidential;
• to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or other proceeding, in which personal data held by Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred;
• to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
• for any other lawful purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; or
• with your consent.
We may also disclose your personal data:
• to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
• to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or
• if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Company, our customers, or others.
We process your data in connection with our legitimate business interests: including, without limitation, fraud prevention, maintaining the security of our network and services, personalizing your experience with us, expanding the reach of our scientific information and opportunities, and improving our Website, products, and services. This also includes use of your data to render, administer, and improve the Website, our services, and our business. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver abetter and more personalized service.
Whenever we rely on this lawful basis to process your data, we assess our business interests to make sure they are legitimate, that our use is reasonably necessary for the applicable purpose and does not materially impact your privacy rights. Additionally, in some cases and under certain laws, you have the right to object to this processing.
You may have certain rights as a data subject under applicable law such as:
• The right to access personal data.
• The right to rectify incorrect personal data.
• The right to object to the processing of personal data.
• The right to withdraw consent to the processing of personal data.
• The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (which varies depending on where the data collection occurs).
• The right to appeal a business’s decision with regard to a data subject’s request.
Additional, or different rights, maybe available depending on your location.
We also use your personal data for specific purposes when you give us consent to do so. When you give your consent for the processing of your personal data, you will be given details on the scope of use and how to change your mind at any time. Consent may be withdrawn or modified at any time by contacting info@velakorbio.com.
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal data you provide to us. We do not host advertisements on our Website. However, you should be aware that there are mechanisms you can use to improve control over your data:
• Tracking Technologies andAdvertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe's website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• We do not control third parties' collection or use of your data to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your data collected or used in this way. You can opt-out of targeted advertising through Cookie and browser settings, and you can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the NetworkAdvertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
Residents of certain states, such as California,Nevada, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah may have additional personal data rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights below for more information.
State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal data.
Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah each provide their state residents with rights to:
• Confirm whether we process their personal data.
• Access and delete certain personal data.
• Data portability.
• Opt-out of personal data processing for targeted advertising and sales.
Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia also provide their state residents with rights to:
• Correct inaccuracies in their personal data, considering the data's nature processing purpose.
• Opt-out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
To exercise any of these rights please email info@velakorbio.com.
Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal data sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request to info@velakorbio.com. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute's opt-out requirements.
California ResidentsThe California Consumer Privacy Act of2018 (CCPA) gives California residents the right to know what personally identifiable information we collect about them, including whether it is being sold or disclosed to third-parties, and the right to prevent us from selling that data. The CCPA also prevents companies from retaliating against consumers for exercising these rights – companies must continue to give consumers who exercise the right to refuse sale of their personally identifiable information access to equal products for equal prices.
The CCPA defines a “sale” as the disclosure of personal data for monetary or other valuable consideration. Company does not sell and has not, within at least the last 12 months, sold personal data, including sensitive personal data that is subject to the CCPA’s sale limitation. We do not share personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising within the scope of CCPA. We have no actual knowledge that we sell or share personal data of California residents 16 years of age and younger.
If you are a California resident, you have the right to request that we:
• Disclose to you the following information covering the12-month period prior to your request (“Request to Know”):
• The categories of personal data we collected about you and the categories of sources from which we collected the personal data;
• The business or commercial purpose for collecting personal data about you;
• The categories of third parties to whom we disclosed personal data about you, and the categories of personal data disclosed; and
• The specific pieces of personal data we collected about you;
• Delete Personal Data we collected from you (“Request toDelete”).
• Correct inaccurate personal data that we maintain about you(“Request to Correct”).
• In addition, you have the right to be free from discrimination by a business for exercising your CCPA privacy rights, including the right as an employee, applicant, or independent contractor not to be retaliated against for exercising your CCPA privacy rights.
You may send us an email at info@velakorbio.com or write to us at the address below to request access to, correct or delete any personal data that you have provided to us:
Velakor Biotherapeutics
228 Park Ave. S. Suite #66643
New York, NY 10003 USA
Attention:Privacy
We may not accommodate a request to change or delete data if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the data to be incorrect. Additionally, certain personal data may be exempt from, or outside the scope of, a request to know, delete, or correct.For example, data subject to certain federal privacy laws, such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability, or dispute proceedings, may be exempt from such requests. As a result, we may decline all, or part of your request related to exempt personal data.
We will attempt to provide any requested data and to make requested changes to the extent required by and permissible under applicable privacy laws and other laws and regulations, considering the type and sensitivity of the data subject to the request. In any event, we will endeavor to respond to you as soon as possible to advise you of the outcome of your request.
Please note that our website is primarily intended for users located within the United States. However, we understand that international visitors may from time to time visit our Website.
When we share personal data with a third party, such data transfers may include the transfer of personal data to other countries. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which the personal data initially originated.
EEA and UK Persons Only
With respect to information subject to this Policy, Company will act as a data controller and will process your personal data by determining the purposes and means of its processing, as per the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Please be aware that your personal data will reside on servers inside and outside of the United States. Before transferring your personal data outside the United States, we will take steps to ensure that such data will be afforded the same level of protection as under applicable data protection laws within the EEA and UK, including by entering into data protection addenda where required. For data transfers outside the EEA or UK, we use, where required, applicable safeguards, including standard contractual clauses. A copy of these measures can be obtained by contacting us at the email address listed below. Our Supplemental European Privacy Notice is available below.
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.
The safety and security of your data also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. The data you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of data via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
We will keep personal data no longer than necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy. Under our record retention policy, we are required to destroy personal data after we no longer need it according to specific retention periods. However, we may need to hold personal data beyond these retention periods due to regulatory requirements or in response to a regulatory audit, investigation, or other legal matter. These requirements also apply to our third-party service providers.
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal data, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: info@velakorbio.com.com, or write to:
Velakor Biotherapeutics
228 Park Ave. S. Suite #66643
New York, NY 10003 USA
Attention:Privacy
This policy was last updated as of the date first referenced above.
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