Updated: April 5, 2023

We Value Your Privacy
The Conjugate Group (“Conjugate Group” or “Company” or “we”) is committed to bringing you the highest of quality drug development services.  We are also committed to maintaining the following Privacy Policy to protect the personal information and other potentially sensitive or confidential information (collectively “Personal Information”) you provide to us through our conjugate.com website (“Website”).  Please carefully review this Policy before using our website.  By using this Website, you signify you are in agreement with our Privacy Policy, subject to our “Changes to our Privacy Policy” section below.

Conjugate Group recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of our clients and visitors to our website while permitting us to conduct legitimate business by providing services and information of interest to our clients and visitors.  Our Privacy Policy is stated below.

Collection and Storage of Information
We permit clients and visitors to submit name, email address, comments and other information to Conjugate Group via the Website.  We may use “cookies” or similar tracking technologies to recognize you and your access privileges on our site, as well as to trace site usage.  A cookie is a piece of information that is sent to your Web browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive.  Each time you return to the Website, we are able to identify you as a previous visitor.  Cookies also enable us to measure our site traffic, including the number of repeat versus new visitors, the time users spend online, and their navigation behavior.  Collecting this cookie information allows us to make changes that improve the Website.  On most web browsers, you will find a “help” section on the toolbar.  Please refer to this section for information on how to receive notification when you are receiving a new cookie and how to turn cookies off.  We recommend that you leave cookies turned on because they allow you to take advantage of some of the Website’s features.

Use of Information
The information that we receive from you by the Website or that we collect from you using cookies, including Personal Information, is used to provide services to clients as requested, to provide you with information about our services, including distribution of newsletters and other mailings, to improve our website, for development of new informational products and services, and for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes.

We will not share your email address or other individually-submitted information with parties outside of Conjugate Group or our vendors used to maintain and enhance the Website.  Information concerning individuals’ usage of our sites will not be disclosed to third parties (other than vendors used in maintaining, enhancing and troubleshooting the Website) except in aggregate form.

Third-Party Links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or reference third-party providers or services on the Website.  These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies.  We have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites.  If you have questions about how these third parties use and collect data, please carefully read their privacy policies.  Nevertheless, we seek to protect the integrity of Conjugate Group and welcome any feedback regarding these third-party sites.

Exclusions
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any Personal Information collected by the Company other than collected through the Website.  This Privacy Policy shall not apply to any unsolicited information you provide to the Conjugate Group through any means other than the Website.

Security
Conjugate Group uses reasonable steps to protect the personal information provided via the Website from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free.  In particular, e‑mail sent to or from this Website may not be secure.  Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail or over the Internet.  Please keep this in mind when disclosing any personal information to the Company.

Changes to our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right, for any reason, to update our Privacy Policy as necessary.  In the event it is updated, we will indicate the effective date of the changes below.  We encourage you to return to this page often to ensure your knowledge of the current Privacy Policy is up to date.

This policy was last modified on 04/05/2023.

Opt Out Procedures
If you have submitted information to Conjugate Group and would like to have the information deleted and/or removed from active use by Conjugate Group, you may request removal by emailing Andrew J. Young, [email protected] at any time.  Please allow up to seven (7) business days for the requested deletion/removal to take effect.

Children
Conjugate Group does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.  If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any personal information to or through the Website.  We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide personal information on this Website or other websites without their permission.  If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided personal information to the Company through this Website, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.

Compliance with Non-U.S. Privacy Requirements
Conjugate Group is aware of the 2016 General Data Protection Rules enacted by the European Union (“EU”) and separately implemented in United Kingdom (“UK”) countries that seek to impose regulatory obligations on all holders and processors of identifying “personal data” of residents of EU/UK member states (collectively referred to here as (“GDPR”)), including, but not limited to, obtaining and maintaining individualized informed consent for all uses of an individual’s personal data (defined broadly to include any information that could be used to identify the individual) and, upon request, erasing or electronically transporting to a third party such personal data.  The Company will take reasonable measures to comply with applicable GDPR provisions, including issuing and maintaining notices seeking consent from all EU/UK residents listed on data bases maintained by the Company, as well as with similar data security and privacy provisions that are enacted in the future by other non-U.S. countries.

Legal Requirements
Conjugate Group may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation, (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of Conjugate Group, (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Website or the public, or (iv) protect against legal liability.

Privacy Contact
Questions regarding this privacy policy should be directed to the Company by emailing Andrew J. Young, [email protected].