Privacy Policy

Effective date: February 06, 2020
Last updated: October 04, 2021

VICO Therapeutics. (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://vicotx.com/ website (the “Service”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you contact us, use our Service, other services and activities and the choices you have associated with that data.

Information Collection And Use visiting the website

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

The entity responsible for the processing of personal data: Vico Therapeutics B.V. established at BioScience Park BioPartner Building 1, J.H. Oortweg 21, 2333 CH Leiden, Chamber of Commerce number 75852748.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may collect certain personally identifiable information that can be used to identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

IP Address (we mask and anonymize every IP Address before storing)
Cookies and Usage Data

Sometimes we may collect personal data for the purpose of communicating with you. This data may include, but is not limited to:

Email address
First name and last name
Phone number
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

Usage Data

We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

How we use your personal data

Vico Therapeutics uses the collected data for various purposes:

To provide and maintain the Service
To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service
To monitor the usage of the Service
To detect, prevent and address technical issues

Sometimes we may collect personal data for the purpose of communicating with you.

If you contact us and choose to provide personally identifiable information such as your name, address, telephone number or email address, we will utilize it for the purpose for which you submitted it to us, such as to respond to your inquiry or to provide you with the information you have requested. By voluntarily providing us with your personal data, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

What is the legal basis for our use of your personal data?

Vico Therapeutics uses the collected data for various purposes:

When you are an online visitor, we use your consent to use your online behaviour.
When you contact us, we use your consent to use contact details.

Your rights

You have certain rights regarding your personal data we hold about you, subject to European data protection laws. These are:

Right to access information about how we Process your Personal Data.
Right to rectification of inaccurate Personal Data concerning you.
Right to erasure (to be forgotten) of Personal Data relating to you.
Right to restriction of processing (i.e. data is blocked for normal Processing, but not deleted).
Right to withdraw your Consent at any time, when the Processing is based on your Consent.
Right to a notification regarding rectification or erasure of personal data, or restriction of Processing.
Right to data
Right to object to the processing of Personal Data based on our legitimate interests.
Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (i.e. right to a “human intervention”).

If you wish to exercise any of your rights listed above, please contact us using the information in the “Contact” section at the end of this Privacy Policy. We will respond to your request within 30 days of receipt of such a request. If we are unable to honour your request we will inform you of the reasons why.

If you believe that our processing of your Personal Data violates data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority. In the Netherlands, this is the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.

Retention

We will retain your personal data for as long as needed to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by applicable law. When the personal data is no longer necessary for the original processing purpose and there are no further legal requirements, we will delete your personal data.

International Transfer Of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside Netherlands and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the Netherlands and process it there.

Vico Therapeutics will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country outside the European Economic Area unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Security Of Data

VICO takes appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure that the personal data we process is protected against unauthorized access, use, destruction, modification or disclosure in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

How we may share your personal data

VICO Therapeutics may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

To comply with a legal obligation
To protect and defend the rights or property of VICO Therapeutics
To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
To protect against legal liability

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics
Google Tag Manager (does not gather data on its own, used for implementing Google Analytics tracking)

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

We store data regarding website traffic using Google Analytics. However Google Analytics will not share your data with other third parties using the platform. Only Vico Therapeutics has access to this data for purposes of tracking and reporting website traffic.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

We will never sell your information to another entity unless VICO or parts of it are sold.

Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.