Effective Date: January 14, 2021
Vera Therapeutics, Inc. (“Vera Therapeutics”, “us”, “we” or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. We have prepared this Privacy Policy to describe to you our practices regarding the personal information we collect from users of our website, located at www.veratx.com (the “Website”) and online services (collectively with our Website, the “Services”).
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A Note to Users Outside of the United States
Cookies and Similar Technologies
How We Disclose Your Information
Changes to This Privacy Policy
By submitting personal information through our Website or Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and you expressly consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We do not intentionally gather personal information from visitors who are under the age of 16. If a child under 16 submits personal information to Vera Therapeutics and we learn that the personal information is the information of a child under 16, we will attempt to delete the information as soon as possible. If you believe that we might have any personal information from a child under 16, please contact us at info@veratx.com.
If you are a non-U.S. user of the Website, by visiting the Website and providing us with data, you acknowledge and agree that your personal information may be processed for the purposes identified in the Privacy Policy. In addition, your personal information may be processed in the country in which it was collected and in other countries, including the United States, where laws regarding processing of personal information may be less stringent than the laws in your country. By providing your data, you consent to such transfer.
We may collect personal information about you that allows someone to identify or contact you, including, for example, your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, as well as any other non-public information about you that is associated with or linked to any of the foregoing data. We may also collect anonymous means data that is not associated with or linked to your personal information.
We may collect information as described below:
Information You Provide to Us
Personal information that you may provide through the Website or Services or otherwise communicate with us includes:
Information Collected Automatically
We may automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our Website. For example, we may log your operating system name and version, manufacturer and model, device identifier, browser type, screen resolution, the website you visited before browsing to our Website, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times, general location information such as city, state or geographic area, and information about your use of and actions on our Website. We collect this information about you using cookies. Please refer to the Cookies and Similar Technologies section for more details.
To make our Website and Services more useful to you, our servers (which may be hosted by a third party service provider) collect information from you, including your browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address (a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet, which may vary from session to session), domain name, and/or a date/time stamp for your visit.
What are cookies?
We may use cookies to collect information and enhance your user experience. Cookies are small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s or mobile device’s hard drive while you are viewing the website. We may use two types of cookies:
Session (Transient) cookies: These cookies are erased when you close your browser, and do not collect information from your computer. They typically store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify the user.
Persistent (Permanent or Stored) cookies: These cookies are stored on your hard drive until they expire (i.e. they are based on a set expiration date) or until you delete them. These cookies are used to collect identifying information about the user, such as Web surfing behavior or user preferences for a specific site.
Cookies We Use
Our Website uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:
| Type of cookie | Purpose |
| Essential Cookies | These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Website and to enable you to use some of its features. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services. |
| Functionality Cookies | These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make when you use our Website. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-select your preferences every time you visit our Website. |
| Analytics and Performance Cookies | These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our Website and how users use our Website. The information gathered may include the number of visitors to our Website, the websites that referred them to our Website, the pages they visited on our Website, what time of day they visited our Website, whether they have visited our Website before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Website more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information, monitor the level of activity on our Website, and improve the Website.
We use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies here and about how Google protects your data here. You can prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our Website by downloading and installing the browser plugin available here. |
| Social Media Cookies | These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our Website or Services or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this. |
Disabling Cookies
You can typically remove or reject cookies via your browser settings. In order to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the “settings,” “help” “tools” or “edit” facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings.
Further information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your computer or mobile device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of our Website. For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer or mobile device and you may need to log in every time you visit our Website.
Do Not Track Signals
Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not currently respond to do not track signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
General Use
In general, we use your personal information to provide our Services, respond to requests that you make or to aid us in serving you better. We may use your personal information to:
Creation of Anonymous Information
We may create anonymous data records from personal information by excluding information (such as your name) that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We use this information to analyze request and usage patterns so that we may enhance the content of our Services and improve Website navigation. We reserve the right to use anonymous, aggregated and other de-identified information for any purpose and to disclose such data to third parties in our sole discretion.
We disclose your personal information as described below and as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.
Third Party Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to administer and provide the Services on our behalf (such as customer support, hosting, email delivery and database management services). These third parties may use your information only as directed by Vera Therapeutics and in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy, and may not use or disclose your information for any other purpose.
Corporate Restructuring
We may share some or all of your personal information in connection with or during negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition or dissolution, transaction or proceeding involving sale, transfer, divestiture, or disclosure of all or a portion of our business or assets. In the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, personal information may also be transferred as a business asset. If another company acquires our company, business, or assets, that company will possess the personal information collected by us and will assume the rights and obligations regarding your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Other Disclosures
Regardless of any choices you make regarding your personal information (as described below), Vera Therapeutics may disclose personal information if it believes in good faith that such disclosure is necessary or appropriate. We may disclose personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate: (a) in connection with any legal investigation; (b) to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities; (c) to protect or defend our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; (d) to protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity; and/or (e) to investigate or assist in preventing any violation or potential violation of the law, this Privacy Policy, or our Terms of Use. We may also disclose your personal information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
Our Website may contain links to third party websites. When you click on a link to any other website or location, you will leave our Website and go to another site and another entity may collect personal and/or other information from you. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for, these outside websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do not apply to these outside websites or content, or to any collection of your personal information after you click on links to such outside websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of every website you visit. The links to third party websites or locations are for your convenience and do not signify our endorsement of such third parties or their products, content or websites.
In addition to your choices in connection with cookies (see Cookies and Similar Technologies), you have several choices regarding use of information with respect to our Website and Services:
Changing or Deleting Your Personal Information
You may request deletion of your personal information by us, and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to honor your request, but please note that we may be required to keep such information and not delete it (or to keep this information for a certain time, in which case we will comply with your deletion request only after we have fulfilled certain requirements). When we delete any information, it will be deleted from the active database, but may remain in our archives. We may also retain your information for fraud or similar purposes.
Opting out of marketing communications
If you have consented to receive marketing emails, you may opt out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email, or by contacting us at info@veratx.com. You may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails.
Choosing Not To Share Your Personal Information
Where we are required by law to collect your personal information, or where we need your personal information in order to provide the Services to you, if you do not provide this information when requested (or you later ask to delete it), we may not be able to provide you with the Services. We will tell you what information you must provide to receive the Services by designating it as required in the Services or through other appropriate means.
The security of your personal information is important to us. We take a number of organizational, technical and physical measures designed to protect the personal information we collect, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no security safeguards are 100% secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your information.
Vera Therapeutics is headquartered in the U.S. and operates a U.S. Website subject to U.S. laws, including those governing the privacy and security of your information. When we obtain personal information about you, we may process the information outside of the country in which you are located, including in the European Union and the United States. The countries in which we process the information may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you are located. We will protect your information as described in this Privacy Notice.
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time for any reason and without prior notice. We will notify you of any changes to our Privacy Policy by posting the new Privacy Policy on www.veratx.com and changing the “Effective Date” above. You should consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes.
If you have any questions or concerns or complaints about our Privacy Policy or our data collection or processing practices, or if you want to report any security violations to us, please contact us at info@vertax.com. You may also write to us at:
Vera Therapeutics, Inc.
Attention: Legal
170 Harbor Way, 3rd Floor
South San Francisco, CA 94080