PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: March 8, 2024
This Privacy Policy describes how OVAX, Inc. (“we,” “our,” or “us”) handles personal information and other data that we collect through our websites and services that link to this policy (the “Services”).
Personal information we collect.
Personal Information You Provide to Us. We may collect personal information that you provide to us, as further described below:
Contact details, such as your name, email and mailing addresses, and phone number.
Communications that we exchange with you, including when you contact us with questions, feedback, or otherwise.
Marketing data, such as your preferences for receiving our marketing communications, and details about your engagement with them.
Personal Information Collected Automatically. We and our service providers may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your interaction over time with our website and our communications, such as:
Device Data, such as your Internet protocol (IP) address, user settings, MAC address, cookie identifiers, mobile carrier, browser or device information, location information (including approximate location derived from IP address), and Internet service provider.
Online Activity Data, such as pages that you visit before, during and after using our website, information about the links you click, the types of content you interact with, the frequency and duration of your activities, and other information about how you use our website.
We use the following tools for automatic data collection:
Cookies, which are small text files placed in device browsers that store preferences and facilitate and enhance your experience. For example, Google Analytics collects information about how users use our website, which we then use to compile reports that disclose trends without identifying individual visitors, and help us improve our website. For more information on Google Analytics, click here.
Pixel Tags/Web Beacons, which are used torecord, for example, that a user has visited a particular web page, accessed or opened an email or clicked on a particular content.
Information We Obtain From Other Sources:
Third-party accounts. When you log into the Services through a third party account, such as Google, or otherwise connect the Services to a third-party service, we may collect certain information from your account (e.g., name, email address, user name), depending on the privacy permissions you have configured within that account.
Other sources. We may obtain personal information from other third parties, such as marketing partners, publicly-available sources, and data providers.
How we use your personal information
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
To operate our Services. We use personal information to provide, operate, maintain, secure and improve our Services. This includes using your personal information to:
Prove website functionality and to otherwise operate, maintain, and provide you with our Services.
Communicate with you about our Services, including by sending you announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
Respond to your requests, questions, and feedback.
To develop and improve the Services. We use personal information to monitor use of our Services, analyze the functioning of our Services, improve the Services, and develop new products and services, including by studying use of our Services. We may also create aggregated, de-identified or other anonymous data from personal information we collect. We may use this anonymous data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Services, and promote our business.
For marketing and advertising. We may collect and use personal information for the following marketing and advertising purposes:
Direct marketing.
We may send you direct marketing communications as permitted by law, including by email. You may opt-out of our marketing communications as described in the “Unsubscribe from Marketing” section below.
Interest-based advertising.
We may engage advertising partners, including third party advertising companies and social media companies, to display ads about the Services on other websites, platforms and online services. For these purposes, we and our third-party advertising partners may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your interaction over time across the Services, our communications, and other online services, and use that information to serve online ads to you and others that may be interested in our Services.
Compliance and protection, including to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities; to protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety, or property (including by making and defending legal claims), including by monitoring the safety and integrity of content on the Services; to audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements and internal policies; and prevent, identify, investigate and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks, identity theft, and illicit uses of the Services.
How we discloses your personal information
We disclose your personal information to third parties for a variety of business purposes, as further set forth below:
Service Providers. We may disclose your personal information to our third-party service providers.
Authorities and Others. We may disclose personal information to law enforcement, government authorities and private parties, as we believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests and legal process, and to defend us against legal claims or disputes.
Disclosure in the Event of Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, purchase or sale of assets, or transition of service to another provider, your information may be sold or transferred as part of such a transaction, as permitted by law and/or contract.
Your choices
Unsubscribe from marketing. You can opt out of receiving marketing emails at any time by contacting us as provided in the “How to contact us” section below or by following the instructions within the marketing communication you receive.
Limit online tracking. Here are some of the ways you can limit online tracking:
Block cookies. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies, including cookies used for interest-based advertising. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. Use the following links to learn more about how to control cookies and online tracking through your browser:
Firefox; Chrome; Microsoft Edge; Safari
Limit the use of advertising ID.
You may be able to limit use of your mobile device’s advertising ID for interest-based advertising purposes through your device’s settings.
Use privacy plug-ins or browsers.
You can block our Services from setting cookies used for interest-based ads by using a browser with privacy features, like
Brave, or installing browser plugins like Privacy Badger, DuckDuckGo, Ghostery or uBlock Origin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers. You can also install a browser add-on to opt out of Google Analytics.
Advertising industry opt-outs.
You can also use these opt-out options to limit use of your information for interest-based advertising by participating companies:
Digital Advertising Alliance
Network Advertising Initiative
Platform opt-outs.
The following advertising platforms offer opt-out features that let you opt out of use of your information for interest-based advertising:
Google. opt-out
LinkedIn. opt-out
Microsoft. opt-out
Note that the above opt-out mechanisms are specific to the device or browser on which they are exercised. You will need to opt out on every browser and device that you use.
Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to "Do Not Track" or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
Other sites, mobile applications and services
Our Services may contain links to other websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties. These links are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. In addition, our content may be included on web pages or in mobile applications or online services that are not associated with us. We do not control third party websites, mobile applications or online services, and we are not responsible for their actions. Other websites and services follow different rules regarding the collection, use and sharing of your personal information. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites and mobile applications and online services you use.
Children
Our Services are not intended for children. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian as required by law, we will delete it.
Data Security
We employ a number of technical, organizational and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, no security measures are failsafe and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you provide to us.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on the Services or as otherwise required by applicable laws.
How to contact us
Please direct any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy to contact@ovax.com.