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href="#section1"><strong>1. WHO WE ARE</strong></a><br /> <a href="#section2"><strong>2. HOW TO CONTACT US</strong></a><br /> <a href="#section3"><strong>3. PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY GENERALLY</strong></a><br /> <a href="#section4"><strong>4. WHY WE COLLECT AND PROCESS PERSONAL DATA</strong></a><br /> <a href="#section5"><strong>5. TYPES OF PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT</strong></a><br /> <a href="#section6"><strong>6. DO NOT TRACK</strong></a><br /> <a href="#section7"><strong>7. INFORMATION WE SHARE WITH THIRD PARTIES</strong></a><br /> <a href="#section8"><strong>8. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES</strong></a><br /> <a href="#section9"><strong>9. DATA RETENTION</strong></a><br /> <a href="#section10"><strong>10. ACCESSIBILITY</strong></a><br /> <a href="#section11"><strong>11. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS</strong></a><br /> <a href="#section12"><strong>12. HOW TO ACCESS & CONTROL YOUR PERSONAL DATA</strong></a><br /> <a href="#section13"><strong>13. NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA</strong></a><br /> <a href="#section14"><strong>14. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY</strong></a></p> <p id="section1"><strong>1. WHO WE ARE</strong></p> <p>Salk Institute for Biological Studies (“<strong>Salk</strong>,” “<strong>Company</strong>,” “<strong>we</strong>,” “<strong>our</strong>,” or “<strong>us</strong>”) is a non-profit scientific research institute. Salk conducts a vast range of research, hold events, provides educational outreach (our “<strong>Services</strong>”) and provides a public-facing website, <a href="https://www.salk.edu">https://www.salk.edu</a>, and subdomains such as <a href="https://streaming.salk.edu">streaming.salk.edu</a>, <a href="https://music.salk.edu">music.salk.edu</a>, <a href="http://symphony.salk.edu">symphony.salk.edu</a> and others where it offers information, news and other content (our “<strong>Site</strong>”).</p> <p>Some of the data we collect is considered “personally identifiable information,” “personal information” or “personal data” under applicable law (collectively referred to in this Privacy Policy as “<strong>Personal Data</strong>”). Generally, Personal Data is information that can be reasonably connected to an identified or identifiable individual. It does not include deidentified or anonymized data.</p> <p>The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to disclose to you how we collect, use and share Personal Data and how we attempt to safeguard the Personal Data we collect and process. We are committed to securing the Personal Data that we collect concerning you (“<strong>you</strong>”) and complying with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post an amended version of the Privacy Policy on our Site. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically.</p> <p id="section2"><strong>2. HOW TO CONTACT US</strong></p> <p>If you have any questions regarding data protection or your rights, please contact us:</p> <blockquote><p>Salk Institute of Biological Studies<br /> 10010 N. Torrey Pines Road<br /> La Jolla, CA 92037<br /> <a href="mailto:privacy@salk.edu">privacy@salk.edu </a></p></blockquote> <p id="section3"><strong>3. PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY GENERALLY.</strong></p> <p>We have implemented industry standard technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of the Personal Data we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your Personal Data, transmission of Personal Data to and from our Site and through our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Site within a secure environment.</p> <p>If you register for an account with us, it is your responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of your username and password. If you become aware that your account or credentials have been compromised, please notify us immediately.</p> <p id="section4"><strong>4. WHY WE COLLECT AND PROCESS PERSONAL DATA</strong></p> <p>We collect, process and use your Personal Data to provide our Site and Services to you. For example, we collect, process and use Personal Data to:</p> <div style="padding-left: 30px;"> <ul> <li>Communicate with you;</li> <li>Provide you with education, information and news;</li> <li>Provide you with promotional communications;</li> <li>Conduct our scientific research;</li> <li>Provide our services;</li> <li>Permit you to register for an account;</li> <li>Provide you with support;</li> <li>Conduct our campaigns;</li> <li>Process donations;</li> <li>Provide the mechanism for you to apply for a job;</li> <li>Personalize your experience on our Site;</li> <li>Improve our Site and Services;</li> <li>Deliver targeted advertising to you;</li> <li>Measure the performance of our Site;</li> <li>Engage in audit activity related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with applicable laws and regulations;</li> <li>Helping to ensure security and integrity of our Site;</li> <li>Maintain, improve and customize our Site and Services;</li> <li>Investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud or violations of our terms of use;</li> <li>Efficiently maintain our organization;</li> <li>Comply with applicable law; and</li> <li>Defend our legal rights and the rights of others.</li> </ul> </div> <p>We obtain Personal Data directly from you, through cookies and other technologies, through your devices, and from third parties as described in this Policy and any other privacy notices we may provide to you when you interact with us.</p> <p id="section5"><strong>5. TYPES OF PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT. </strong></p> <div style="padding-left: 30px;"> <ol type="a"> <li><strong>Personal Data You Provide Directly To Us.</strong> We may collect the following categories of Personal Data if you provide it to us: <ul> <li>Contact information and identifiers (such as name, local and permanent address, telephone number, electronic mail address);</li> <li>Information regarding events you register for and attend;</li> <li>Information regarding educational initiatives of ours that you participate in;</li> <li>Donation information;</li> <li>Job application information;</li> <li>Information you provide to us when inquiring about our Services;</li> <li>Your social media account names / handles and any direct message information you have with us; and</li> <li>Any other information you provide to us.</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Information We Collect Via Tracking Technology.</strong><br /> We use cookies and other tracking technologies (such as pixels and web beacons) (collectively, “cookies”) to collect information as you navigate our Site. Cookies are small files of information that are stored by your web browser software on your computer hard drive, mobile or other devices (e.g., smartphones or tablets). The information collected includes:</p> <ul> <li>Unique personal identifiers (device identifiers, cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers and other forms or persistent or probabilistic identifiers that can be used to identify a particular consumer or device); and</li> <li>Internet or other electronic network activity information (browsing history; search history; and information regarding your interaction with website, application or advertisement).</li> </ul> <p>You can control the use of cookies at the browser level by setting your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site. In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. You can find out more about cookies and how to manage them by visiting <a href="http://www.AboutCookies.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.AboutCookies.org</a>. You can also learn about which third parties have currently enabled cookies for your browser or mobile device and how to opt-out of some of those cookies by accessing the <a href="https://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Network Advertising Initiative’s website</a> or the <a href="https://optout.aboutads.info/#!/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Advertising Alliance’s website</a>. For more information on mobile specific opt-out choices, visit the <a href="http://www.networkadvertising.org/mobile-choices" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Network Advertising Initiative’s Mobile Choices website</a>.</li> <li><strong>Google Analytics.</strong> We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4), a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies or other tracking technologies to help us analyze how users interact with the Site, compile reports on their activity, and provide other services related to their activity and usage. The technologies used by Google may collect information such as your IP address, time of visit, whether you are a returning visitor, and any referring website. The information generated by Google Analytics will be transmitted to and stored by Google and will be subject to <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google’s privacy policies</a>. To learn more about Google’s partner services and to learn how to opt out of tracking of analytics by Google, click <a href="https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</li> </ol> </div> <p> </p> <p id="section6"><strong>6. 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INFORMATION WE SHARE WITH THIRD PARTIES.</strong></p> <p>We may provide access to Personal Data to others in the following limited ways:</p> <div style="padding-left: 30px;"> <ol type="a"> <li><strong>With service providers.</strong> We may share information with service providers who: <ul> <li>perform data services on our behalf, such as hosting and managed services;</li> <li>prepare, deploy and analyze advertising content on our behalf;</li> <li>provide other services on our behalf, such as accounting services, client relationship management services and other various business services; and</li> <li>process payment information on our behalf.</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>To Meet Our Legal Requirements or Exercise Our Rights.</strong> We may share information with third parties in the following instances: <ul> <li>When we are required to do so by law.</li> <li>In connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings.</li> <li>To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights, including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention.</li> <li>When we reasonably believe it is appropriate to apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that Personal Data where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that Personal data.</li> <li>We may share information with other persons or entities as part of our own business transactions, such as during financing or any asset sale.</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>At Your Request.</strong> We will share your Personal Data when you request or otherwise consent to the disclosures.</li> </ol> </div> <p> </p> <p id="section8"><strong>8. 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This right will only apply where (for example): we no longer need to use the personal data to achieve the purpose we collected it for; or where you withdraw your consent if we are using your personal data based on your consent; or where you object to the way we process your data (in line with Right 6 below).</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Right 4</strong></td> <td>A right to restrict our processing of personal data held by us about you. 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