Privacy Statement

This privacy statement describes how Headwaters Biotech Advisors LLC (herein referred to as Headwaters) is committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personally identifiable information (PII). Personally identifiable information is described as any information that can identify you as an individual person. This privacy statement applies to information collected from voluntary use of this website from individuals including but not limited to clients, employees, vendors, and job applicants. This Privacy Statement is based on the privacy and data protection principles applicable to the countries in which Headwaters operates as set forth by the United States Department of Commerce. It is intended to summarize Headwaters’ general data protection practices and provide you with choices of how you can access and update this information.

How and What Type of Information Is Gathered
When accessing Headwaters’ website, Headwaters will collect and store certain information such as: the domain name and Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer, your browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), the pages accessed on our site, and the IP address of the site from which you directly linked to Headwaters’ site. In filling out forms or data requests from Headwaters’ website, or otherwise voluntarily requesting or supplying information to Headwaters, such as your resume, you are agreeing to voluntarily provide such information, including but not limited to your name, address, telephone number, fax number, bank account information, and email. In addition, if you email us, we will automatically retain your email address. We will not collect your financial information, social security number, or other government issued identifier without your express consent.

Your Consent
By visiting this website, you are agreeing to share the information embedded in your web browser such as the IP address of your computer, browser type, and ISP. As this information is not defined as personally identifiable information, this information is gathered without further necessity of consent nor ability to update, modify, or delete. In addition to the above however, your voluntary completion of any form requesting data from Headwaters or supplying Headwaters with your resume or other documents containing personally identifiable information is an implicit consent to share this information with Headwaters. Headwaters will protect that data as described in this policy.

Use of the Information:
The information Headwaters collects from use of this website, is used to:

• Improve the content of this website
• Send you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you
• Notify you of changes to our services
• Deal with inquiries made by or about you relating to the website

Who Has Access to Your Information:
Headwaters does not sell or license personal information to third parties. We may however, disclose any information collected from use of the website with third-party companies to assist us in maintaining our website, analyzing our website traffic, and in general improving the overall use of our website. In addition, Headwaters reserves the right to disclose personal information where required by law or to comply with legal or regulatory processes. The information you submit to Headwaters through this website, such as your email address, is used only for the explicit purpose for which it was submitted. As stated, Headwaters does not sell or license personal information to third parties.

Correction/Update of Information:
If the need arises to update any of the personally identifiable information that Headwaters has for you, you may send an email to inquire@headwatersbiotech.com. Headwaters will update, change, or delete any data within 30 days of receipt of email.

Changes to This Policy:
We review our policies on a regular basis and may update this Privacy Notice by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to make sure you are aware of any changes. If there are significant material changes to the policy, a notice will be posted on our home page.

Security:
Headwaters will take reasonable precautions (physical, electronic, and administrative) to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, or unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized Headwaters staff and approved third-party vendors are provided access to personally identifiable information. Our advisors and third-party vendors are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, Headwaters, however, cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personally identifiable information.

Children’s Policy:
Headwaters policy prohibits knowingly collecting, maintaining, or processing any information from any child under the age of 18 without explicit permission from their parent or legal guardian.

Use of “Cookies”:
Like many other websites, our website uses cookies – small pieces of information that enable us to recognize you when you visit. They collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and do not identify you as an individual. Cookies help us to improve our website and deliver a better service. We use both “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies on our websites. We will use the session cookies to keep track of how you move around our website and to monitor user behavior for statistical and marketing purposes. We will use the persistent cookies so that we recognize you when you visit our website. Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach a specified expiry date. We use Google Analytics to analyze how our website is used. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website.

[Google will store this information. View Google’s privacy notice. We use WordPress for our website. WordPress also stores personal information in their user profile. You can see their privacy notice here.] 

You can switch off cookies by changing your browser preferences. Be aware that this might affect functionality when using our website.

Other Websites:
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. Contact Us: Questions or comments regarding this Policy should be submitted to the Data Privacy Group at Headwaters by mail to: Data Privacy Group, Headwaters Biotech Advisors, LLC, 464 Common Street, Suite 319, Belmont, MA 02478 USA Or by email to: inquire@headwatersbiotech.com. Headwaters. Definitions References on this website and in this Privacy Policy Statement to “Headwaters”, “we”, “us”, and “our” are references to Headwaters Biotech Advisors LLC. The terms “you”, “your” and “yours” when used in this Privacy Statement mean any user of this website. The term “PII” shall mean Personally Identifiable Information.