Hyperion Website Privacy Policy
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.]
1. Information Collected
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.
2. Use of Personal Information
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.
3. Disclosure of Personal Information
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:
- Third-party vendors who provide services or functions on our behalf, including customer service, business analytics, marketing, and services to us in connection with operating the Site. These companies will only have access to personal information needed to perform their functions and are not permitted to share or use the information for any other purpose.
- Business entities with whom we partner to jointly offer you products and services. If we share your personal information in such instances, the third-party recipients of your information will agree to appropriate confidentiality and security measures. In addition, in accordance with applicable law, you will have the opportunity to choose not to receive commercial e-mail messages from these third parties in any such e-mail they send.
We also may share your personally identifiable information:
- When advisable or necessary to conform to legal and regulatory requirements.
- As necessary, in Hyperion’s sole discretion, to protect the perceived rights, safety and property of Hyperion, users of the Site, and the public.
- In connection with a change of control or operations, including without limitation in any merger, acquisition, reorganization, restructuring or any other transfer of Hyperion's assets, or a transfer of the Site operations (each a “Corporate Transaction”). You acknowledge that in the event of a Corporate Transaction, a transfer of your personal information may occur and that any acquirer of Hyperion or its assets may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. You hereby consent to Hyperion sharing your personal information under the above circumstances.
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.
4 . Access To Personal 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.]
5. Your Choices With Respect To The Collection and Use of Personal Information
- As noted above, you can choose not to provide Hyperion with personal information, although it may be needed to participate in certain features offered through the Site.
- You can access or update you personal information by sending an email to [insert email.]
- You may stop the delivery of commercial email communications by following the instructions to unsubscribe to such communication that accompanies [ each] communication you receive from us. Please note that we may send you other types of transactional and relationship e-mail communications, such as service announcements, administrative notices, and surveys, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
- The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.
7. Security
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.
8. Processing in US
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.
9. Third Party Websites
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.
10. Changes To This Privacy Policy
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.
11. How You Can Contact Us
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].