Privacy Notice and Policy for California Users (Business Contacts)
The California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, and its implementing regulations (collectively, the “CPRA”), gives California residents certain rights and requires businesses to make certain disclosures regarding the Processing of Personal Information. This California Privacy Notice and Policy for California Users (Business Contacts) provides supplemental disclosures to those provided in the Website Privacy Notice and applies only to California-resident individuals with whom DLS interacts in a business-related capacity. This Privacy Notice and Policy does not apply to individuals who are residents of other U.S. states or other countries and/or who do not interact with DLS in a business-related capacity.
In connection with your use of the Sources, we may collect the categories of personal information listed below about you and other users. In the preceding twelve (12) months, DLS has disclosed personal information about the users of its Sources to the general categories of third parties identified in the chart below.
DLS does not sell your personal information/sensitive personal information and also will not share it with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising.
| Category of Personal Information | Relevant Examples | Does DLS Collect? | Has DLS Collected in the Preceding 12 Months? | Has DLS Disclosed for a Business Purpose in the Preceding 12 Months? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Identifiers | Name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers. | YES | YES | YES (affiliates, website and technology service providers, other service providers, government authorities) |
| B. California Customer Records personal information | Name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories. | YES | YES | YES (affiliates, website and technology service providers, other service providers, government authorities) |
| C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law | Such as citizenship (based on your physical location) and gender/gender identity | YES | YES | YES (affiliates, website and technology service providers, other service providers, customers/vendors (if your employer), government authorities) |
| D. Commercial information | Records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. | YES | YES | YES (affiliates, website and technology service providers, other service providers, customers/vendors (if your employer), government authorities) |
| E. Biometric information | Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. | NO | NO | NO |
| F. Internet or other similar network activity | Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. | YES | YES | YES (affiliates, website and technology service providers) |
| G. Geolocation data | Physical location or movements, such as device location and use of facility access badges. | YES | YES | YES (affiliates, website and technology service providers) |
| H. Sensory data | Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information, such as call and video recordings. | YES | YES | YES (affiliates, website and technology service providers) |
| I. Professional or employment-related information | Current or past job history, such as your employer(s). | YES | YES | YES (affiliates, website and technology service providers, other service providers, customers/vendors (if your employer), government authorities) |
| J. Non-public education information | Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. | NO | NO | NO |
| K. Inferences drawn from other personal information | Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. | NO | NO | NO |
| L. Sensitive Personal Information | 1. Social Security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number; | NO | NO | NO |
| 2. account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password or credentials allowing access to an account; | NO | NO | NO | |
| 3. precise geolocation; | YES | YES | YES (affiliates, website and technology service providers) | |
| 4. racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership; | NO | NO | NO | |
| 5. contents of mail, email, and text messages of which DLS is not the intended recipient of the communication; | NO | NO | NO | |
| 6. genetic data; | NO | NO | NO | |
| 7. biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying you; | NO | NO | NO | |
| 8. health information; | NO (and we ask that you do not provide such information to DLS while accessing the Sources) | NO | NO | |
| 9. sex life or sexual orientation. | NO | NO | NO |
You are the primary source of the personal information that is collected by DLS when you are accessing the Sources. We may also collect your business contact personal information from joint marketing partners, public databases, providers of demographic data, publications, professional organizations, social media platforms, and Service Providers and Third Parties when they disclose information to DLS.
¹Personal information does not include:
DLS and our service providers, collect, process, and disclose your personal information (excluding sensitive personal information) to:
DLS and our Service Providers, will only use sensitive personal information for the purposes described below that are also authorized by the CPRA and its implementing regulations:
Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, including to provide products/services to you. Under some circumstances we may anonymize your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you. We reserve the right to use such anonymous data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice to you or your consent. Once you are no longer an employee of DLS we will retain and securely destroy your personal information in accordance with our data retention processes and applicable laws and regulations.
You have the following rights under the CPRA:
Should you want to exercise any of these rights, please send an email to Privacy@dls.com or call DLS’s Privacy Office at (800) 461-9330. You may authorize an agent to make a data subject rights request on your behalf, and your authorized agent may also do so via these submission methods. We may ask you to provide information that will enable us to verify your identity in order to comply with your data subject request. In particular, if you authorize an agent to make a request on your behalf, we may require the agent to provide proof of signed permission from you to submit the request, or we may require you to verify your own identity to us or confirm with us that you provided the agent with permission to submit the request. In some instances, we may decline to honor your request if an exception applies under the CPRA. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.
DLS does not provide financial incentives to California business contacts who allow us to retain, Sell, or Share their personal information. We will separately describe such programs if and when we offer them to you.
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Notice and Policy at any time. Any updated Privacy Notice and Policy will be made available, at a minimum, on the Sources.
DLS has appointed a Privacy Officer to oversee compliance with this Privacy Notice and Policy. If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Notice and Policy or DLS’s collection and use of your personal information, you can contact our Privacy Officer at Privacy@dls.com
or
ATTN: Discovery Life Sciences Privacy Officer
800 Hudson Way, Suite 1700
Huntsville, Alabama 35806
USA
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