Apogee Therapeutics, Inc. (“Apogee”, “We”, or “us”) is committed to maintaining your privacy and recognize the importance of providing protection for any personal data that you choose to share with us or that we maintain about you. We have established this Privacy Notice to inform you about how we process your personal data for “Apogee’s Services,” including when you use our websites and when you interact with us as a consumer, business contact (the “Business Services”) or as a healthcare professional.
Please note that in some instances we or our representatives may provide you with a separate privacy notice as legally required, in which case that privacy notice provided to you will control our processing of your personal data instead of this Privacy Notice. For example, if you participate in a clinical trial sponsored by Apogee, you will generally receive a separate privacy notice at the time you consent to enroll in the trial that will describe Apogee’s collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data as part of that trial.
Please read this Privacy Notice carefully. Should you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or our data practices, please see our contact information below.
Depending on how you interact with us, the personal data we process about you may include the following categories:
To monitor utilization of our websites and continuously improve their quality, we may compile statistical information using analytics services. Examples of this information include: the number of visitors; traffic patterns; length of time spent on any website or in sections or pages of the website; the other websites that refer visitors to the websites; and the pages of the websites that visitors frequently use as entry and exit points.
We collect your personal data in different ways, including:
Processing of Personal data: Website-related Services
We process personal data about you related to the operation of our websites, including to:
For European Economic Area (“EEA”) and United Kingdon (“UK”) data subjects, the legal basis for this processing of personal data is our legitimate interest to carry out scientific research, develop medicines, conduct clinical trials, and provide information and education (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Processing of Personal data: Operate and Provide Business Services to You
We may process personal data for our general business purposes, including those associated with the marketing, growth, maintenance, and management of our business. These may include our internal operations and administration and carrying out our business relationships. Specific examples include to:
For EEA/UK data subjects, the legal basis for this processing of personal data is our legitimate interest to carry out scientific research, develop medicines, conduct clinical trials, and provide information and education (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).
For EEA/UK data subjects, the legal basis for processing related to marketing is consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR).
Processing of Personal data: For Legal Purposes
Apogee may process personal data to detect, investigate, and prevent risk, fraudulent transactions, and other illegal activities, to manage legal claims, subpoenas, and requests in connection with investigations and dispute-resolution processes, as permitted or required by applicable law, and to protect the rights and property of Apogee and others.
For EEA/UK data subjects, the legal basis for this processing the personal data is to fulfill our legal, regulatory and risk management obligations, including regulatory filings and establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims (Article 6(1)(c) GDPR).
Processing of Personal data: To Create Pseudonymized and Anonymized Information
In some geographies, we may process your personal data to create pseudonymized and anonymized information, which cannot be used to directly identify you. We then use this pseudonymized and anonymized information for research and secondary research purposes, as well as educational purposes.
For EEA/UK data subjects, the legal basis for this processing of personal data is our legitimate interest to carry out scientific research, develop medicines, conduct clinical trials, and provide information and education (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Depending on how you interact with us, we may disclose personal data about you as follows or as otherwise described in this Privacy Notice:
We and our service providers use various data collection technologies, including cookies and web beacons, to collect personal data about you when you interact with our websites. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our online presence and your experience, see which areas and features of our websites are popular, and count the number of visits. We generally use the following categories of tracking technologies:
For more information about cookies, and how to exercise your choices, please see “Your Rights” below.
Some web browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) or similar feature that signals to websites that a user does not want to have his or her online activity and behavior tracked. Because DNT is not uniform across browsers, it is possible that website operators, like us, do not recognize or respond to browser initiated DNT signals. Websites linked to this Policy may not respond to these “do-not-track” signals.
Our websites include content populated by third parties, such as social media companies, which may contain its own cookies.
We may provide links to third party websites or services that are not under our control. Such links do not constitute an endorsement of those third parties, or the content displayed on their sites. We provide these links to you only as a convenience, and any information you provide to those third parties will be used as described by the third parties in their own privacy policies.
We are based in the United States and our service providers may also be located here or elsewhere in the world. By accessing or using our website or otherwise providing personal data to us, you understand that your personal data will be processed in the U.S. and the countries where our services providers are located, which may have different privacy protections than those where you are located. Where this is the case, we will take appropriate measures to protect personal data about you in accordance with laws that apply to us and consistent with this Privacy Notice.
All Apogee users have the following privacy rights:
The country or state where you are located or reside may grant you additional privacy rights with respect to the personal data we maintain about you. We included an explanation of these rights for some of these locations below.
We will take steps to verify your identity before processing certain requests. We will not fulfill your request unless you have provided sufficient information for us to reasonably verify you are the individual about whom we collected personal data. We will only use the personal data provided in the verification process to verify your identity or authority to make a request and to track and document request responses unless you initially provided the information for another purpose.
You may use an authorized agent to submit a request. When we verify your agent’s request, we may verify your identity and request a signed document from your agent that authorizes your agent to make the request on your behalf. To protect your personal data, we reserve the right to deny a request from an agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on their behalf.
You may contact us at privacy@apogeetherapeutics.com to exercise one of these rights. Please include your name and the email address to which you would like us to respond.
Apogee is the data controller of the personal data we process under this Privacy Notice. Data subjects protected by EEA/UK data protection laws have these rights:
These rights are not absolute and will be processed on a case-by-case basis by Apogee’s EEA/UK Data Protection Officer. Please contact us at privacy@apogeetherapeutics.com to exercise your rights. Please include your name, your home address, your telephone number, and the email address to which you would like us to respond.
We retain your personal data for only as long as we need it to provide our products and services, operate our business, and comply with our legal obligations. When we decide how long to keep your personal data, we keep in mind the nature and sensitivity of the information, the potential harm from unauthorized use, the reasons we collected the personal data, and our legal obligations.
We use reasonable operational, technical, and environmental measures designed to protect your personal data. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is not secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.
Our websites are intended for general audiences and is not directed to minors. If we learn that we have received personal data directly from an individual under the age of 16 without proper parent or guardian consent, we will use that personal data only to respond directly to that child.
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Notice from time to time. In certain cases, we will attempt to notify you of updates prior to them taking effect. You are encouraged to review this Privacy Notice regularly to stay informed about our personal data practices and the choices available to you.
For general questions about our privacy practices, please contact us at privacy@apogeetherapeutics.com
If you choose to contact us via mail at the address below, please provide your name, address, email address, and information about the communication that you do not want to receive.
Apogee Therapeutics, Inc.
Attn: Data Protection Officer
221 Crescent Street
Waltham, MA 02453