Cognos Therapeutics, Inc. | Privacy Policy

Introduction

This notice covers how Cognos Therapeutics Inc. (Cognos) will treat your personal information.

Cognos is committed to safeguarding the privacy of the Cognos Website visitors.

By using the Cognos Website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to the Cognos use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

Collecting personal information

Cognos may collect, store, and use the following kinds of personal information:

information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this Website including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referrals, length of visit, page views, and Website navigation paths;
information that you provide Cognos when registering with the Cognos Website including your email address;
information that you provide when completing or submitting any form or post on the Cognos Website including your name, profile picture, interests, and any other private or business-related information you provide;
information that you provide Cognos for the purpose of subscribing to Cognos email notifications and/or newsletters including your name and email address;
information that you provide Cognos when using the services on the Cognos Website or that is generated in the use of those services including the timing, frequency, and pattern of service use;
information relating to any purchases you make of Cognos goods and/or services or any other transactions that you enter into through the Cognos Website including your name, address, telephone number, email address, and payment details;
information that you post to the Cognos Website for publication on the internet including your user name, your profile pictures, and the content of your posts;
information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to Cognos or send through the Cognos Website including the communication content and metadata associated with the communication; and
any other personal information that you choose to send to Cognos.

Before you disclose to Cognos the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

Using personal information

Personal information submitted to Cognos through the Cognos Website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the Website.

Cognos may use the Cognos personal information to:

administer the Cognos Website and business;
personalize the Cognos Website content for you;
enable the use of the services available on the Cognos Website;
send you goods purchased through the Cognos Website;
supply to you services purchased through the Cognos Website;
send statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you;
send you non-marketing commercial communications;
send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
send you the Cognos email newsletter, if you have requested it you can inform Cognos at any time if you no longer require the newsletter;
send you marketing communications relating to the Cognos business or the businesses of carefully selected third parties which Cognos believes may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications;
provide third parties with statistical information about Cognos users but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information;
deal with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the Cognos Website;
keep the Cognos Website secure prevent fraud; and
verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of the Cognos Website including monitoring private messages sent through the Cognos Website private messaging service

If you submit personal information for publication on the Cognos Website, Cognos may publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to Cognos.

Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on the Cognos Website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the Website.

Cognos will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party’s direct marketing.

All the Cognos Website financial transactions are handled through the Cognos payment services provider. Cognos will share information with the Cognos payment services provider only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing payments you make via the Cognos Website, refunding such payments, and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds.

Disclosing personal information

Cognos may disclose your personal information to any of Cognos’ employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

Cognos may disclose your personal information to any member of the Cognos group of companies. This means any Cognos subsidiaries, Cognos holding company, and all its subsidiaries insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

Cognos may disclose your personal information:

to the extent that Cognos is required to do so by law;
in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
in order to establish, exercise, or defend Cognos’ legal rights including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk;
to the purchaser or prospective purchaser of any business or asset that Cognos is or is contemplating selling; and
to any person who Cognos reasonably believes may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in the Cognos’ reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this policy, Cognos will not provide your personal information to third parties.

International data transfers

Information that Cognos collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which Cognos operates in order to enable Cognos to use the information in accordance with this policy.

Information that Cognos collects may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.

Personal information that you publish on the Cognos website or submit for publication on the Cognos website may be available, via the internet, around the world. Cognos cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 5.

Retaining personal information

Section 6 sets out Cognos’ data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that Cognos complies with its legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.

Personal information that Cognos processes for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Without prejudice to Section 6.2, Cognos will usually delete personal data falling within the categories set out below at the date/time set out below:
Seven days after procurement

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, Cognos will retain documents including electronic documents containing personal data:

to the extent that Cognos is required to do so by law;
if Cognos believes that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
in order to establish, exercise or defend Cognos’ legal rights including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk.

Security of personal information

Cognos will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.

Cognos will store all the personal information you provide on the secure password- and firewall-protected servers of Cognos’ website hosting provider.

All electronic financial transactions entered into through Cognos’ website will be protected by encryption technology.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and Cognos cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing Cognos’ website confidential; Cognos will not ask you for your password except when you log in to the Cognos website.

Amendments

Cognos may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on the Cognos website.

You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

Cognos may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on the Cognos Website.

Your rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information Cognos holds about you; provision of such information will be subject to:

the payment of a fee currently fixed at $5.00; and

the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity for this purpose, Cognos will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address.

Cognos may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to Cognos’ use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or Cognos will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

Third-party Websites

Cognos’ website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites.

Cognos has no control over, and is not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

Updating information

Please let us know if the personal information that Cognos holds about you needs to be corrected or updated.

Cookies

Cognos’ Website uses cookies.

A cookie is a file containing an identifier a string of letters and numbers that is sent by a server to a browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the user’s browser is closed.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that Cognos stores about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

Cognos’ website may use both session and persistent cookies.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example:

in Internet Explorer version 11 you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;
in Firefox version 47 you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
in Chrome version 52, you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on the Cognos website.

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example:

in Internet Explorer version 11, you must manually delete cookie files you can find instructions for doing so at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11;
in Firefox version 47, you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, clicking “Show Cookies”, and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and
in Chrome version 52, you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data”, and then selecting “Cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.

Cognos Information

This Website is owned and operated by Cognos Therapeutics Inc..

Cognos is a legal operating company in the United States with offices at :
6053 W Century Blvd.
Suite 1000
Los Angeles, CA 90045-6400

You can contact Cognos at :
Telephone: 310-641-2700
Email: info@CognosTHX.com