California Privacy Notice and Notice at Collection

Notice at Collection

Altasciences provides this Notice at or before the time of collection for California residents. Altasciences presents or links to this Notice wherever it collects Personal Information from California residents, including through website forms, account registration pages, event registrations, badge scans or lead capture at events that Altasciences manages or that an event provider operates for Altasciences, commercial inquiry forms, and support channels that collect Personal Information.

This Notice supplements the Online Privacy Notice. The Online Privacy Notice provides additional detail about cookies and similar technologies, analytics, security, cross-border transfers, and other topics.

Personal Information We Collect

Collection may include the categories below, depending on interaction type. The Sale or Sharing of Personal Information and Opt-Out Preference Signals section explains sale and sharing status and opt-out signals. The Retention of Personal Information section explains retention.

Categories not collected in these contexts. To provide transparency, the following statutory categories are not collected through the Online Services, in-person events, or commercial transactions covered by this Notice: biometric information; education information (non-public information as defined in FERPA); protected classification characteristics in these contexts; precise geolocation (Altasciences collects only approximate location derived from IP address under Internet activity information); non-public financial account numbers or payment card numbers via the website (except limited payee details in onboarding as noted above). If this changes, Altasciences will update this Notice at collection.

Purposes for Which Altasciences Uses Personal Information

Altasciences uses Personal Information for the purposes below. These purposes reflect “business purposes” and “commercial purposes” under the CCPA as amended by the CPRA. Altasciences does not use Personal Information for unrelated purposes without providing additional notice and, when required, obtaining consent.

• Operate and secure Online Services. Altasciences provides, maintains, and secures websites and public pages that Altasciences controls. Altasciences administers online accounts, troubleshoots issues, and ensures availability and performance.
• Respond to inquiries and provide requested information. Altasciences answers questions, fulfills requests for proposals, provides content or demonstrations, and follows up on event registrations and in-person interactions.
• Support commercial transactions. Altasciences conducts due diligence, onboards vendors, negotiates and administers contracts, processes payments where Personal Information is part of business contact or remittance details, and provides client support.
• Conduct analytics and improve content and usability. Altasciences measures usage, diagnoses performance, and improves features, content, and user experience.
• Conduct marketing and manage preferences. Altasciences sends informational or promotional communications where the law permits and where preferences allow. Altasciences manages subscriptions, suppression lists, and opt-outs. You may withdraw consent or change preferences at any time as described in the Online Privacy Notice and the How to Exercise Your Rights section of this Notice.
• Recruit prospective study participants based on online interest. Altasciences uses contact details and limited eligibility information that you provide online to assess interest, schedule next steps, and coordinate with study personnel. If you proceed to screening or participation, study documents and applicable laws govern further Processing. See the Online Privacy Notice’s Clinical Study Participants section for informational context.
• Prevent, detect, and investigate security incidents and abuse. Altasciences protects systems and information, detects and prevents fraud and misuse, and enforces terms.
• Comply with laws and regulations. Altasciences maintains records, honors lawful requests, and meets tax, audit, anti-spam, and data-protection obligations. Related disclosure scenarios appear in the Disclosures of Personal Information section.
• Research, quality, and safety. Altasciences evaluates and improves processes and services, performs internal research for technological development, and verifies or maintains the quality and safety of services.
• Other purposes disclosed at the time of collection or performed with consent. Altasciences uses Personal Information for purposes that Altasciences discloses at collection or for purposes that you authorize.
• Sensitive Personal Information. See the Sensitive Personal Information and the Right to Limit section.

Sources of Personal Information

Altasciences collects or receives Personal Information from the sources below. Each source may contribute to one or more categories listed in the Personal Information We Collect section.

• Direct collection. Altasciences collects information directly from you when you fill out forms on the Online Services, register an account, subscribe to communications, download content, register for or attend events, exchange emails or calls with Altasciences, or engage in a commercial transaction with Altasciences.
• Collection via social media. Altasciences may collect Personal Information about social media users who interact with Altasciences content or pages. Examples include basic profile identifiers such as username, user-generated content such as posts or comments, associated metadata such as time and location of a post, public contact details made available by the user, and other information the user publishes such as employer, profession, or location. The type and scope of Personal Information depend on platform APIs, permissions provided by the platform, and any permissions you grant.
• Indirect and technology-based collection. Altasciences collects device and usage information when you visit or use the Online Services through cookies, pixels, SDKs, log files, and similar technologies. Examples include IP address, device and browser type and settings, approximate location derived from IP address, session frequency and duration, pages viewed and related pageview activity such as clicks and scroll depth, referring sites or search terms, and interaction diagnostics. See the Cookies and Similar Technologies section for details and choices.
• Third-party collection through the Online Services. Altasciences may receive Personal Information when you interact with third-party tools that operate on or with the Online Services. Examples include event and lead-retrieval platforms, webinar providers, recruitment tools, consent and preference tools, security services, analytics providers, and customer-relationship systems. The categories typically include Identifiers, Professional information, Commercial information, and Internet activity, as described in the Personal Information We Collect section.
• Service providers and vendors acting on our behalf. Altasciences receives information generated or maintained by service providers who deliver hosting, security, communications, analytics, customer support, billing support, and similar services.
• Corporate affiliates. Altasciences receives business contact information and interaction history from affiliated entities for administrative and operational purposes consistent with this Notice.
• Customers and sponsors. Altasciences receives business contact information and transaction context when Altasciences responds to requests for proposals, performs due diligence, or administers contracts.
• Public and other lawful sources. Altasciences may obtain business contact details from public sources such as professional directories and publications, and from reputable third parties that support lawful business development activities.
• Data brokers. Altasciences does not buy Personal Information from data brokers. If this practice changes, Altasciences will update this Notice at collection.

Disclosures of Personal Information

Altasciences discloses Personal Information for business purposes as defined by the CCPA. Altasciences does not allow service providers or contractors to use Personal Information for their own purposes. Altasciences requires written terms, purpose limitation, and safeguards that match risk.

Categories Disclosed in the Last 12 Months

Altasciences has disclosed the categories below for business purposes to the third-party categories that follow: Identifiers; Personal information described in Cal. Civ. Code §1798.80(e); Commercial information; Internet or other electronic network activity information; Professional or employment-related information (business contact context); Sensory data; Inferences; and Sensitive Personal Information (limited to authentication, security, and payment contexts).

Categories of Third Parties That Receive Disclosures

Altasciences has disclosed the categories below for business purposes to the following third-party categories: Service providers and contractors; corporate affiliates; customers and sponsors where needed to perform or develop services; professional advisors; regulatory, administrative, or judicial authorities when legally required; successors or counterparties in corporate transactions; other parties at your direction or with your consent.

Public Content and Aggregated or De-Identified Information

Public content you submit. If you submit a review, comment, or testimonial for publication, you authorize Altasciences to publish that content on the Online Services.

Aggregated or de-identified information. Altasciences may disclose aggregated or de-identified information for lawful purposes. This information does not identify an individual.

Sale or Sharing of Personal Information and Opt-Out Preference Signals

Sale and Sharing Status by Category

Altasciences does not sell Personal Information. Altasciences does not share Personal Information for cross-context behavioral advertising. This statement applies to all categories listed in the Personal Information We Collect section. If Altasciences changes these practices, Altasciences will update this Notice and will provide all required links and controls at or before the point of collection.

Global Privacy Control and Other Opt-Out Preference Signals

Altasciences recognizes and honors a valid Global Privacy Control signal as an instruction to opt out of any sale or sharing where California law requires recognition. The opt-out applies to the browser or device that sends the signal. To apply an opt-out across devices, use the link below or contact us.

“Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” Link

Use the Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information link on the Online Services, or email privacyofficer@altasciences.com with the subject “Do Not Sell or Share request.”

Sensitive Personal Information and the Right to Limit

How Altasciences Uses Sensitive Personal Information

Altasciences uses Sensitive Personal Information only for purposes that California law permits without a right to limit. These purposes include authentication of an online account that uses a password, security and integrity of systems and data, and payment processing where Personal Information forms part of remittance or payee details.

Altasciences does not use Sensitive Personal Information to infer characteristics about a person. Based on current practices, the “Right to Limit” does not apply. If Altasciences’ practices change, Altasciences will update this Notice and provide any required right to limit.

Whether the Right to Limit Applies

Because Altasciences uses Sensitive Personal Information only for permitted purposes and does not use Sensitive Personal Information to infer characteristics, the Right to Limit does not apply to the current practices described in this Notice.

Retention of Personal Information

Retention Periods or Criteria by Category

Altasciences retains Personal Information for as long as necessary to meet the purposes described in the Purposes for Which Altasciences Uses Personal Information section and to satisfy legal, accounting, audit, and regulatory requirements. The table in the Personal Information We Collect section lists typical retention for each category.

If a different retention applies to a specific program or record type, Altasciences will disclose that period at collection or in a relevant notice.

Study-Related Records and Legal Anchors

Study-related records generally fall outside the CCPA because other laws govern those records, including clinical-trial rules and human-subject protections. When online interest leads to recruitment or screening, the retention of resulting study records follows those laws and study documents. The Online Privacy Notice explains online interest collection. Study documents control study records.

Backups and Legal Hold

Backups expire on their normal cycles. Altasciences does not restore backups solely to delete specific records unless the law requires this. When a legal hold applies, Altasciences preserves affected records and suspends ordinary deletion until the hold ends.

Your Rights Under the CCPA

You can ask Altasciences to take the actions below. This section explains what each right covers and how Altasciences handles the request.

General Rules for CCPA Requests

• Verification required: Access, correction, and deletion require a verifiable consumer request.
• No verification required: Opt out of sale or sharing and a request to limit use or disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information (SPI) do not require verification. Altasciences may deny a request it reasonably and in good faith believes is fraudulent.
• How Altasciences verifies: Altasciences matches information you provide to information it already holds. If Altasciences must collect extra information only to verify, it deletes that extra information after verification.

Right to Know and Access, Including Portability

You can request the categories of Personal Information Altasciences collects, the sources, the purposes, the recipients, and the specific pieces of Personal Information Altasciences holds about you. Altasciences provides specific pieces in a readily usable and portable format where feasible. Altasciences does not disclose raw values of highly sensitive elements such as full government IDs, full account numbers, passwords, or unique biometric templates. Altasciences describes the type instead. If information is only in non-searchable legal archives and not used commercially, Altasciences describes those record types rather than retrieving them.

Right to Correct

Altasciences uses commercially reasonable efforts to correct inaccurate Personal Information, considers documentation you provide, and instructs its Service Providers and Contractors to correct their copies. If Altasciences denies the request, it explains why and may offer deletion when appropriate.

Right to Delete

Altasciences deletes, de-identifies, or aggregates Personal Information on active systems and instructs Service Providers and Contractors to delete. Altasciences notifies relevant third parties if it previously sold or shared the information, unless doing so is impossible or requires disproportionate effort. Legal exceptions may apply, such as completing a transaction, security and fraud prevention, debugging, legal obligations, research with consent, or internal uses aligned with your relationship. If an exception applies, Altasciences restricts use to that purpose.

Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing

Altasciences does not sell Personal Information and does not share Personal Information for cross-context behavioral advertising. If practices change, Altasciences will provide a Do Not Sell or Share control and honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals.

Right to Limit Sensitive Personal Information

Altasciences uses Sensitive Personal Information only for purposes permitted by law and does not use it to infer characteristics. If practices change, Altasciences will enable a Limit control and complete limitation requests within 15 business days.

Non-Discrimination and Financial Incentives

Altasciences does not discriminate against you for exercising CCPA rights. For financial incentives, see the Financial Incentives section.

How to Exercise Your Rights

How to Submit a Request

Use any of these methods. Tell Altasciences which right you want to exercise and provide enough detail to help Altasciences locate your records.

• Email: privacyofficer@altasciences.com
• Toll-free number: 1-866-461-2526
• Web form: If available on the Online Services.

Altasciences also honors GPC signals for sale or sharing opt-outs.

Authorized Agents

Authorized agents must provide proof of authorization. Altasciences may ask you to verify your identity directly or to confirm the authorization.

Timing, Scope, and Fees

• Acknowledgement: 10 business days for access, correction, or deletion requests.
• Response: 45 calendar days, with one 45-day extension if needed and explained.
• Opt-out and limit: No later than 15 business days.
• Scope of disclosures: Altasciences generally covers the prior 12 months, unless a longer look-back would require disproportionate effort.
• Fees: No fee unless a request is manifestly unfounded, excessive, or repetitive. If a fee applies, Altasciences explains why and provides a cost estimate first.
• Downstream action: When Altasciences grants correction or deletion, it instructs Service Providers and Contractors to act and notifies relevant third parties for prior sale or sharing where required.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

See the Cookie Policy and the Online Privacy Notice for full details, including the technologies and vendors Altasciences uses, purposes, durations, and how choices work. Manage choices anytime in Cookie Preferences.

Children and Teens

Altasciences Online Services are not directed to children, and Altasciences does not knowingly collect Personal Information online from children. Altasciences does not sell Personal Information and does not share Personal Information for cross-context behavioral advertising. Altasciences Online Services do not host public user posts.

Financial Incentives

Altasciences does not offer price or service differences or financial incentives that are tied to the collection, retention, sale, or sharing of Personal Information. If Altasciences introduces a financial incentive or a price or service difference, it will provide a Notice of Financial Incentive.

Accessibility and Language

Altasciences provides this Notice in accessible formats on request. Email privacyofficer@altasciences.com or call the toll-free number to request an accessible version.

Altasciences publishes this Notice in English. If Altasciences provides a translation, the English version controls if there is a conflict.

Updates to This Notice

Altasciences reviews this Notice at least once every 12 months and updates it when practices change or the law requires changes. If Altasciences makes a material change, Altasciences will post a prominent notice and, where the law requires it, will obtain consent.

The effective date appears at the top of this Notice. Prior versions are available on request.

Contact Us

For privacy questions, rights requests, or accessibility needs relating to this Notice, please contact the Privacy Officer:

Email: privacyofficer@altasciences.com
Toll-free: 1-866-461-2526