
Welcome to www.hyperion.com (“Site”), an online website owned and operated by Hyperion Therapeutics (“Hyperion”). Hyperion is committed to safeguarding your privacy, and this privacy policy explains our data collection, use, and disclosure practices. If you have specific questions about these practices, please contact us by email at [insert email where questions should be directed.]
We receive and store any information you voluntarily provide through the Site or give us in any other way. This includes information that can identify you ("personal information"), [ including your first and last name, telephone number, residential or business, postal and e-mail addresses] . [We also may ask you to provide additional information about yourself, including but not limited to a desired username and password, your age, date of birth, gender, medical diagnosis, and how you heard about Hyperion and our products]. You can choose not to provide this information to us, but this may limit the scope of the features you are able to access on the Site. For example, some information about you may be required in order for you to participate in the features offered through the Site.
We also automatically collect some technological information about your computer when you visit the Site. For example, we will collect your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address and web browser software (such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer). We also may collect information about your activity on this Site, such the Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) that you just came from and the URL that you go to next. We use the automatic collection of technological information to help improve your user experience.
In addition, when you visit the Site, we may assign your computer a "cookie" (a small, unique identifier text file) which is stored on your computer in order for our Site to remember who you are. Hyperion may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you deleted them). We also may collect other information from our cookie files; for example, if you arrived at our Site via a link from third party site, we may include the URL of the linking page.
We also may allow third-parties, including our authorized service providers and advertising companies, to use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about users who view or interact with our site. Our website does not provide any personal information to these third parties. The information they collect is used to track and gauge the effectiveness of marketing efforts.
The Site is not designed for children under 13 years old. Accordingly, Hyperion will not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through the Site.
We will use personal information about you for the following general purposes: to provide you with the products and services you request via regular mail or email; to respond to your questions and comments via regular mail or email; to measure interest in and improve the features, performance and functionality of our services and Site; to solicit information from you, including through surveys; to prevent potentially illegal activities; to enforce our Terms of Use; and otherwise as described to you at the point of collection. We may also use your personal information to provide you with electronic newsletters or promotional emails, should you request to receive such communications from us.
Please review “Your choices with respect to the Collection and Use of Personal Information” below.
We generally do not sell, trade, rent or share your personal information with third parties. However, we may disclose your personal information to the following entities:
We also may share your personally identifiable information:
We may create anonymous information records from personal information by excluding information that personally identifies you. We use this anonymous information to develop content and services that we hope you find of interest. We also may share this anonymous information with third party advertisers and investors to determine the number of visitors to the Site.
Although we currently do not have a parent company, any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies of common control (collectively, “Affiliates”), we may in the future. We may share some or all of your personal information with these Affiliates, in which case we will require our Affiliates to honor this privacy policy.
Other than as set out above, you will be notified when personal information about you will be shared with third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to have us share such information.
You may obtain a copy of any personal information about you that you provide through the Site or otherwise request that Hyperion update or make changes to such personal information by sending an email to [ insert email where access requests should be directed.]
No website can guarantee security and therefore, Hyperion cannot guarantee that no unauthorized individual will obtain access to your personal information stored on our servers and in our databases. However, Hyperion has implemented commercially reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical, and physical security procedures to help protect personal information. For example, only authorized employees are permitted to access personal information, and they only may do so for permitted business functions.
Please note that when you provide Hyperion with personal information through the Site, the information will be sent to servers located in the United States. By using this website, you understand and agree that your personal information may be used, stored, and processed in the United States in accordance with this policy.
Our provision of a link to any other website or location is for your convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such other website or location or its content. Web sites to which this Site links do not operate under this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you examine the privacy statements posted on those other web sites to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing personal information.
Hyperion may update this Privacy Policy in the future to reflect changes in our privacy practices, our website functionality, or applicable legislation, so please check back often. We will notify you about material changes to this Privacy Policy by sending a notice to the e-mail address you provided to us or by placing a prominent notice on the Site.
If you have questions about this privacy policy, please e-mail us at privacy@hyperiontx.com. You may request a copy or send a correction of the personal information we hold about you by contacting the Privacy Officer at privacy@hyperiontx.com or writing to:
[ Insert Address]
This Privacy Policy is effective as of [ insert effective date].