COOKIES
POLICY

 


 

Effective date: April 1, 2021

VaxTrials (“us” or “we”) understand that your privacy is important to you and are committed to being transparent about the technologies it uses. This Cookies Policy explains how and why cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit any website or app that posts a link to this Policy (collectively, “the Sites”). This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Terms of use. 

 

What are Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies A cookie is a small text file that can be stored on and accessed from your device when you visit our Site, to the extent you agree. The other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place small data files on your devices or monitor your website activity to enable us to collect information about how you use our Site. This allows our Site to recognize your device from those of other users of the Site. The information provided below about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies. You can find more information at www.allaboutcookies.org


 
How does our Site use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?

VaxTrials uses Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to identify you and your interests, to remember your preferences, and to track your use of our Site. We also use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to control access to certain content on our Site, protect the Site, and to process any requests that you make of us.

To administer our Site and for research purposes, VaxTrials also has contracted with third party service providers to track and analyze statistical usage and volume information from our Site users. These third party service providers use persistent Cookies to help us to improve the user experience, manage our Site content, and analyze how users navigate and utilize the Site.


 

First and Third Party Cookies

“First party Cookies” are cookies that belong to VaxTrials and that VaxTrials places on your device. “Third party Cookies” are cookies that another party places on your device through our Site. VaxTrials may contract with third party service providers to send e-mails to users who have provided us with their contact information. To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, and/or to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on, the third party service providers may place Cookies on the devices of these users.

For more information on how these companies collect and use information on our behalf, please refer to their privacy policies as indicated belowDepending on the Site, we use the following types of cookies:
*Persistent Cookies. We use persistent Cookies to improve your experience of using the Site. This includes recording your acceptance of our Cookies Policy to remove the cookies message which first appears when you use the Site.
*Session Cookies. Session Cookies are temporary and deleted from your machine when your web browser closes. We use session Cookies to help us track internet usage as described above.

You may refuse to accept browser Cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our system will issue Cookies when you direct your browser to our Site.

The data collected by the Site and/or through Cookies that may be placed on your computer will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes mentioned above. In any event, such information will not be kept for longer than one year.


 
How do I refuse or withdraw my consent to the use of Cookies?

If you do not want Cookies to be dropped on your device, you can adjust the setting of your Internet browser to reject the setting of all or some Cookies and to alert you when a Cookie is placed on your device. For further information about how to do so, please refer to your browser ‘help’ / ‘tool’ or ‘edit’ section or see www.allaboutcookies.org

Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all Cookies (including strictly necessary Cookies) you may not be able to access or use all or parts or functionalities of our Site.
If you want to remove previously-stored Cookies, you can manually delete the Cookies at any time. However, this will not prevent the Site from placing further Cookies on your device unless and until you adjust your Internet browser setting as described above.

For more information on the development of user-profiles and the use of targeting/advertising Cookies, please see www.youronlinechoices.eu if you are located in Europe or www.aboutads.info/choice if in the United States.


Contact us
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or if you would like to communicate with our team, please contact us at:  info@vaxtrials.com