Welcome to the web site (the “Site”) of Ascentage Pharma Group International (“Ascentage”, “we”, “us” and/or “our”). This Site is operated by Ascentage and has been created to provide information about us and to provide information about our services and products (the “Ascentage Services”) to our Site visitors (“you”, “your”). This Privacy Policy sets forth Ascentage’s policy with respect to information including personally identifiable data (“Personal Data”) and other information that is collected from Site visitors. By accessing and/or using the Site, you are indicating your consent to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect:
When you interact with us through the Site, we may collect Personal Data and other information from you, as further described below:
Personal Data That You Provide Through the Site: We collect Personal Data from you when you voluntarily provide such information, such as when you contact us with inquiries.
By voluntarily providing us with Personal Data, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data to this Site, you acknowledge and agree that such Personal Data may be transferred from your current location to the offices and servers of Ascentage and the authorized third parties referred to herein located in the United States and other third countries.
Other Information:
Non-Identifiable Data: When you interact with Ascentage through the Site, we receive and store certain personally non-identifiable information. Such information, which is collected passively using various technologies, cannot presently be used to specifically identify you. Ascentage may store such information itself or such information may be included in databases owned and maintained by Ascentage’s affiliates, agents or service providers. This Site may use such information and pool it with other information to track, for example, the total number of visitors to our Site, the number of visitors to each page of our Site, and the domain names of our visitors’ Internet service providers. It is important to note that no Personal Data is available or used in this process.
We use cookies in connection with the Site. Our cookies help provide additional functionality to the Site and help us analyze Site usage more accurately. You have a choice not to accept the cookies, but if you do, certain functionality may not be available. 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.
[In addition, this Site enables the use of the Adobe Flash Player. Adobe’s Flash Player is used by the vast majority of websites that offer video and other interactive content. By default, your use of the Adobe Flash Player generates “flash cookies” (also known as “persistent identification elements” or “local shared objects”). The Adobe Flash Player (and similar applications) use flash cookies to remember user settings, preferences and usage similar to the browser cookies referenced above. You can disable, delete and control the degree to which you accept flash cookies by accessing your Adobe Flash Player management tools directly through the settings manager for Adobe Flash, located here. If you do not allow flash cookies to take any disc space on your computer, you may not be able to take advantage of or participate in certain features on this Site.
Aggregated Personal Data: In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the Ascentage Services, Ascentage often conducts research on its customer demographics, interests and behavior based on the Personal Data and other information provided to us. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and Ascentage may share this aggregate data with its business partners. This aggregate information does not identify you personally. Ascentage may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
Do Not Track: We may (and we may allow third party service providers to) use cookies or similar technologies to collect information about your browsing activities over time and across different websites following your use of our Site and Products. Our Site and Products currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” (DNT) signals and operate as described in this Privacy Policy whether or not a DNT signal is received. If we do so in the future, we will describe how we do so in this Privacy Policy.
Our Use of Your Personal Data and Other Information:
Ascentage uses the Personal Data you provide in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data for a certain reason, we may use the Personal Data in connection with the reason for which it was provided. For instance, if you contact us by e-mail, we will use the Personal Data you provide to answer your question or resolve your problem. We may also use your Personal Data and other personally non-identifiable information collected through the Site to help us improve the content and functionality of the Site, to better understand our users and to improve the Ascentage Services. We may also use your Personal Data to contact you in the future to tell you about services we believe will be of interest to you. If we do so, each communication we send you will contain instructions permitting you to “opt-out” of receiving future communications. In addition, if at any time you wish not to receive any future communications or you wish to have your name deleted from our mailing lists, please contact us as indicated below.
Our Disclosure of Your Personal Data and Other Information:
There are certain circumstances in which we may share your Personal Data with certain third parties without further notice to you, as set forth below:
Business Transfers: As we develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event, Personal Data may be part of the transferred assets.
Agents, Consultants and Related Third Parties: Ascentage, like many businesses, sometimes hires other companies to perform certain business-related functions. Examples of such functions include mailing information and maintaining databases. When we employ another company to perform a function of this nature, we only provide them with the information that they need to perform their specific function.
Legal Requirements: Ascentage may disclose your Personal Data 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 Ascentage, (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public, (iv) protect against legal liability, or (v) identify, contact, or bring a legal action against someone who may be violating our Terms of Use.
Your Choices:
You can use the Site without providing any Personal Data.
Children:
Ascentage does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not submit any Personal Data through the Site. 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 Data on this Site without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 18 has provided Personal Data to Ascentage through this Site, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.
Links to Other Web Sites:
This Privacy Policy applies only to the Site. This Site may contain links to other web sites not operated or controlled by Ascentage (the “Third Party Sites”). Third Party Sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data or solicit personal information. The policies and procedures we described here do not apply to the Third Party Sites. The links from this Site do not imply that Ascentage endorses or has reviewed the Third Party Sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy policies.
This Privacy Policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond our Site’s control, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation.
Security:
Ascentage takes reasonable steps to protect the Personal Data provided via the Site from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Except as mentioned in paragraph headed “Our Disclosure of Your Personal Data and Other Information” above, your personal data, however stored, will be accessed only by our employees or contractors who are authorized to do and under a duty of confidentiality to us. Such authorized personnel or contractors designated to handle personal data will be instructed to do so only in accordance with this Privacy Policy. However, no Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from this Site may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Data to Ascentage via the Internet.
Other Terms and Conditions:
Your access to and use of this Site is subject to the Terms of Use.
Changes to Ascentage’s Privacy Policy:
The Site and our business may change from time to time. As a result, at times it may be necessary for Ascentage to make changes to this Privacy Policy. Ascentage reserves the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time without prior notice. Please review this policy periodically, and especially before you provide any Personal Data. This Privacy Policy was last updated on the date indicated above. Your continued use of the Site after any changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy shall indicate your agreement with the terms of such revised Privacy Policy.
Retention of Data:
We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which the data was collected unless the personal data is also retained to satisfy any applicable statutory or contractual obligations. Personal data which no longer required will be destroyed.
Outsourcing arrangement:
Ascentage’s internal IT systems are developed and maintained by in-house staff and a local third-party service provider. The third-party service provider does not have access to personal data stored in the IT system except when it is carrying out trouble-shooting on it at Ascentage under the supervision of Ascentage’s staff.
The site is developed and maintained by local third-party service providers. All Ascentage’s service providers are bound by contractual duty to keep confidential any data they come into contact with against unauthorised access, use and retention.
Access to Information; Contacting Ascentage:
To keep your Personal Data accurate, current, and complete, please contact us as specified below. We will take reasonable steps to update or correct Personal Data in our possession that you have previously submitted via this Site. Please also feel free to contact us if you have any questions about Ascentage’s Privacy Policy or the information practices of this Site. You may contact us as follows: IR@ascentagepharma.com
