Cogstate Website Privacy Policy

COGSTATE LTD. and all of its affiliates, including without qualification its US-based subsidiaries, (collectively, “Cogstate”) respect your right to privacy and are committed to protecting your Personal Data.

We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully. It describes the practices and procedures that we have established to safeguard and appropriately handle your Personal Data. Amongst other things, it tells you what information we collect, how we collect it and how we use it and it outlines your rights regarding that information, rights for example to correct, change or to otherwise control your information.

Just as important, in our view, this Privacy Policy and the practices and procedures it describes, affirms our commitment to abide by applicable data privacy and security laws and to good and ethical business practice.

WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT IT

Personal Data”, as used in this Privacy Policy, is any information relating to an identified or identifiable person. An identifiable person is someone who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as a name, an email address, an identification number, location data, online identifier or to one of more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that person.

1. Information you give us

Some visitors to Cogstate’s website may choose to interact with it in ways that require them to provide us with Personal Data. The amount and type of information that you provide will depend on the nature of the interaction. If you wish to receive our email newsletter or additional information about Cogstate as a company or about its products or services; or register for a webinar or event; or access our presentations, publications, or blog postings; or access our on-demand webinars and podcasts; or use our Cogstate Research web application, we may ask you to provide information tailored to facilitate these requests including: your name and email address, location, company name and job title, telephone number(s), and fax number.  Some of these forms also provide you with optional fields to provide comments, which are not posted publicly and are seen only by Cogstate employees.  You may refuse to provide such Personal Data, but that may prevent us from being able to provide you with additional information.

Before we first collect such Personal Data, you will be asked to review this Privacy Policy and affirmatively agree that we may collect and use your Personal Data in accordance with its terms. To agree, you will have to Opt-In.  You may at any time withdraw your consent to our collection, use or disclosure of your Personal Data, on reasonable notice, subject to legal or contractual restrictions. We will do our best to inform you of the implications of so withdrawing your consent to such collection, use, and disclosure.

2. Information we receive from passive use of our website

Cogstate also collects information about your use of our website through technology such as cookies and web beacons.  A “cookie” is a unique numeric code we transfer to your computer so we can keep track of your preferences and recognize you as a return visitor to our Site. A “web beacon” is a piece of code on our website enabling us to monitor things like user activity and site traffic. Cookies allow Cogstate to collect “clickstream” data, which reflects your activities on the website.

Cookies do not collect or keep your name or Personal Data other than the numeric identifier described above. We use the information we collect through the use of cookie technology for business purposes, including operation of the website, such as monitoring traffic, as well as research and product analyses. Before collecting cookie information from your computer, our website will prompt you to either accept or decline the use of cookies. Please note, however, that if you do not accept the use of cookies, certain elements of the website may not work properly.

For more information on what cookie technology we use and what are your options for managing cookies, please review our current Cookie Policy.

HOW AND WHY WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use your Personal Data only for the following purposes, unless you authorizes other purposes:

  • To communicate with you about our company, products or services.
  • To improve our products or services, including our website.
  • To maintain and administer our website.
  • To evaluate the quality of our products and services.
  • To comply with our legal, regulatory, compliance or auditing obligations.

We will collect and use only Personal Data that you choose to give us, that is necessary for our legitimate business purposes, that is required by law or regulation or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.

We will process Personal Data only in ways that are compatible with the purpose for which we collect it, or for purposes that you later authorize. Before we use your Personal Data for a purpose that is materially different than the purpose for which we collected it or that you later authorized, we will provide you with the opportunity to opt in where that is required by applicable privacy laws.  We maintain reasonable procedures to help ensure that Personal Data is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete, and current.

We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes for which it was collected.

HOW AND WHY WE MIGHT SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

Cogstate will not disclose your Personal Data without your consent to do so, except:

  • To third-party agents or service providers to carry out the purposes for which you have provided it to us;
  • In the context of a sale, amalgamation, re-organization, transfer or financing of parts or some or all of Cogstate’s business;
  • For purposes of research and development where your Personal Data combined with all or some of the Personal Data of other users and such aggregated data is de-identified or otherwise anonymized and no longer contains Personal Data; or
  • Under certain circumstances, in response to valid requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

In any such cases where we share Personal Data, Cogstate requires recipients to comply with the terms of this Privacy Policy and all applicable privacy laws.

In the unlikely event that we discover that a recipient is using Personal Data in a way that conflicts with this Privacy Policy or applicable privacy laws, we will take all reasonable steps to stop them.

Under certain circumstances, we may remain liable for the acts of our third-party agents or service providers who perform services on our behalf for their handling of Personal Data that we transfer to them.

We do not permit third-party advertisers to display their advertisements on our website.

ONWARD TRANSFER / TRANSFERRING INFORMATION

Under some circumstances, we may need to transfer Personal Data from one jurisdiction to another, including to jurisdictions where the laws provide different protection than the jurisdiction from which the information was derived. In any such case, we will take appropriate measures to ensure that Personal Data is transferred, processed and protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy and all applicable privacy laws.

TECHNICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ADMINISTRATIVE SECURITY

We have implemented commercially reasonable security safeguards to protect your Personal Data against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. Methods of protection include: physical measures (e.g., locked filing cabinets and restricted access to offices); organizational measures (e.g., security clearances and limiting access on a “need-to-know” basis); and technological measures (e.g., the use of complex passwords and encryption of data at rest and in transit).

CHILDREN

Cogstate’s website is intended for users eighteen (18) or older. It is not in any way designed to

attract children. If we discover that a person under the age of eighteen (18) has submitted Personal Data to our website, or that someone has inappropriately done so on their behalf, we will delete such information from our databases as soon as practicable and in accordance with applicable law.

YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

1. Access and Correction

You may at any time challenge the accuracy and completeness of your Personal Data and have it amended or corrected as appropriate. In any such case, Cogstate will request that you provide identifying information sufficient to verify your identity and ownership of the information. Any such identifying information shall be used only for this purpose.

2. Receipt or transfer

You may at any time request to receive one copy of your Personal Data and to have your Personal Data transferred to a third-party. In any such case, we will, where technically feasible, provide it in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.

Please note that this right of portability applies only in limited circumstances, such as:  where we are processing personal data on the basis of your consent or pursuant to our contractual agreements with you, and the processing is carried out by automated means.

3. Deletion

You have the right to request that Cogstate permanently delete your Personal Data when:

  • we no longer need your data for the purposes for which it was collected;
  • we have been processing the particular data based only on your consent, you withdraw your consent, and there is no other legal ground for us to continue processing;
  • you successfully object to the processing of certain data (see “Objection” below);
  • the data has been unlawfully processed; or
  • erasure is required by law.

This right will not apply where continued processing of your Personal Data is necessary for:

  • the exercise of the right of freedom of expression and information;
  • compliance with applicable law;
  • performance of a task carried out in the public interest or the exercise of official authority vested in Cogstate;
  • for reasons of public health;
  • certain types of archiving that is in the public interest, scientific or historical research or statistical purposes; or
  • the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

Although Cogstate may remove most Personal Data, such as contact information (address, phone number, etc.), we cannot remove certain records which we are bound to keep by law or by codes of conduct or other authority.

4. Objection and Restriction

You may at any time request that Cogstate cease or restrict certain processing of your Personal Data.  If you are in any way unhappy with our collection or use of your Personal Data or even the terms of this Privacy Policy, we hope that you will contact us as described below so that we can address your concerns. If you wish to lodge a complaint, you have the right to do so by following the instructions below.

HOW DO I EXERCISE THESE RIGHTS AND OPTIONS?

If you have questions or complaints, or you wish to take any of the actions described above, please contact us as described below.  We will attend to your request promptly and will respond within a reasonable time.

We will investigate and endeavor to reply to any complaints or disputes regarding the use or disclosure of your Personal Data within 30 days of receipt; if additional time is needed, up to 60 days, we will advise you accordingly with the reason for the needed time extension.

CONTACT US

Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or our collection or use of your Personal Data, please contact Cogstate’s Chief Privacy Officer via email at privacy@cogstate.com; via telephone at +1.203.773.5010; or via mail at:

Cogstate, Inc.
Attention: Chief Privacy Officer
195 Church Street, 4th Floor
New Haven, CT 06510
USA

CHANGING OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We will use personally identifying information only in the manner described in the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was collected from you.

We reserve the right, however, to change the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time by posting revisions to the website. In any such case, we will take reasonable measures to obtain your consent where required by applicable privacy and data protection laws.

Effective: January 13, 2021

Last modified: January 11, 2021