Privacy Policy

Chimerix, Inc. (“Chimerix”) is committed to respecting your privacy and we understand how important it is to protect an individual’s personal information and apply the highest ethical and regulatory standards. An individual’s health, health interests and healthcare are private and sensitive and we know that you may have concerns about sharing information with us.

We urge you to read this Privacy Policy to learn more about the policies and practices that Chimerix has developed to safeguard personal information, to manage our relationships with the third parties who may have access to personal information and to comply with all applicable data-protection laws. You will also find information about how to contact us to update personal information or express your preferences about how we process your personal information.

We record the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer when you visit the Site. The IP address does not identify you personally, but it allows us to maintain communications with you as you move about the Site.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

As part of our day-to-day business operations, and from our interactions with you, Chimerix may collect personal information about you. The personal information we collect is limited to information related to and needed for the conduct of our legitimate business purposes and/or fulfill commitments to you and fulfill our legal obligations. Chimerix may be able to provide individuals with the option of not identifying themselves, or using a pseudonym when entering transactions when it is lawful and practicable to do so. However, we will not always be able to do this and in such cases, if you do not provide personal information, Chimerix may not be able to provide services or information to you, or enter commercial engagements with you. We may have access to the following categories of personal information about you and only some of this information is personally identifiable information that could identify you directly, but each category may offer some information about your interests and activities that could be used to make inferences about you.

INFORMATION THAT YOU VOLUNTARILY PROVIDE OR THAT IS LEGALLY REQUIRED

As part of our interaction with you, we may be required to collect personal information about you in order to provide you with services or information you request, or in order to facilitate commercial engagements with you. This personal information may be collected directly from you through your interactions with our company, through services and content, including online, that we make available to you, or as a result of services or other input you provide to Chimerix. Such information may include name, age, contact details, employment history and education history, including qualifications, occupation or business details including areas of specialization.

Chimerix avoids collecting sensitive personal information. However, in rare instances, such as facilitating access to patient support offerings, Chimerix may need to collect sensitive personal information, including medical health, lifestyle and medical treatment requirements, including current medications. In the event it is necessary to collect any sensitive personal information about you, we will gather your consent to do so.

INFORMATION THAT IS COLLECTED BY VISITING OUR SITE

When you visit this Site, we have access to the following types of information about you:

Chimerix has constructed this Site so that you may visit us and review information about the services and products we offer without revealing your identity or volunteering any personally identifying information. If you choose to register to use Chimerix features and services, either as a consumer or a healthcare professional, we will collect “personally identifying information” from you, such as that indicated above, and this information may be combined, to provide you with services or information you request or to ensure that we maintain complete, current and accurate personal information.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or other Web-accessing devices by our websites. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website, and to enhance our website and your experience when you browse our website. We also collect information about your use of the Site through cookies and similar technology. Cookies allow us to recognize you and maintain your preferences when you return to our Site. Cookie technology collects “clickstream” data, which do not include personally identifying information, but which reflect your activities on the Site and help us to customize our Site experience and anticipate what may be of interest to our users, by monitoring traffic in popular areas and modifying the services and information to meet customer demand.

We use the following types of cookies:

First-party cookies – cookies set by the Site displayed in the browser window – identified by the domain name in the address bar of the browser window.

Session cookies – cookies that expire at the end of a browser session, starting with the time when a user opens the browser window, and finishing when the user exits the browser.

Persistent cookies – cookies that ‘persist’ in the device after the end of a browser session and therefore can allow the preferences or actions of the user to be remembered when he/she returns to the Site.

We use cookies on this website to:

Direct users to the relevant sections on the Site.

Make sure the Site delivers a consistent look across different browsers and devices.

Enable complex areas of the Site to function.

Track aggregated statistics about visits to the Site to help us improve Site performance.

We only use first-party cookies and we do not allow other sites or third parties to use our cookies for their own purposes or to place their own cookies on your computer when you access our Site.

Most Web browsers allow control of cookies through the browser settings. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, which will enable you to decide if you want to accept it or not. However, if you do not accept a particular cookie, certain elements of the Site may not function correctly or completely.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see which cookies have been set and how to the delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Occasionally, we may use Internet tags (also known as Web beacons, action tags, single-pixel GIFs, clear GIFs, invisible GIFs and 1-by-1 GIFs) and cookies on this Site. We may deploy these tags and cookies through a Web analytical service partner, which may be located and store the respective information, including your IP address, in a foreign country that may provide different protection of personal information privacy than the country where such information is collected. These tags and cookies are placed on different pages of this Site and we use this technology to measure the registered user’s responses to our Sites, including how many times a page is opened and which information is consulted, as well as to evaluate use of this Site.

If you would like more information about Web tags and cookies associated with online advertising, or to opt-out of third-party collection of this information, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative website.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

INFORMATION LIMITATION, PURPOSE, AND DISCLOSURES

Chimerix will only collect personal information about you that is necessary for one or more of our legitimate business purposes, or is required by law. In addition, Chimerix will only collect personal information by lawful and fair means and not in an unreasonably intrusive manner.

When Chimerix collects your personal information, we will take reasonable steps to advise you of what personal information we are collecting, the purposes for which we are collecting the information, and will use such information only for stated primary or related secondary purposes. Such purposes may include, from time to time, sending you promotional material or newsletters that we think may be of interest to you, monitoring our regulatory compliance, compiling profiles and personal information about you in order to identify suitable education/awareness programs or suitable opportunities to collaborate with you or obtain services from you.

Chimerix will advise you of the organizations (or types of organizations) to which we may normally disclose that personal information, and we will provide you with contact information in the event you would like access to the personal information we hold about you or need to update your personal information or preferences.

In certain circumstances, we may be called upon to release your personal information or sensitive/health-related personal information in response to a court order, subpoena, search warrant, law, or regulation. We plan to cooperate in responding to such requests, taking appropriate measures to ensure that the requester understands the sensitive nature of the personal information and/or health-related personal information that they may receive. We also reserve the right to cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating and prosecuting users who violate our rules or engage in behavior that is illegal or harmful to individuals or the personal information we are responsible for.

If you contact us regarding your experience in using one of our products, we may use the information you provide as necessary in submitting complaint or adverse event reports to local and international health or pharmaceutical regulators, and as otherwise required of us by law. We also may use the information to contact the prescribing physician to follow up regarding an unexpected event involving use of our product.

PERSONAL INFORMATION TRANSFERS

Permitted transfers of personal data to third parties or within Chimerix include the transfer of data from one jurisdiction to another and may include transfers to a jurisdiction where the laws provide different protection than the jurisdiction in which the data originated. In such cases, we will take appropriate measures to protect personal data in accordance with this privacy statement and all applicable data-protection law.

OUR CHILDREN’S POLICY

The Site content and services are intended for users over the age of 18. The Site is not designed to attract child users. If we learn that an under 18 user has volunteered personally identifying and/or health-related personal information on the Site, or that a provider has volunteered information about a patient who is identified as younger than 18, we will delete such information from our active databases in accordance with our deletion policy, which is described in the section on privacy choices.

YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES

When you access any interactive tool or service on the Site, you will be asked to affirmatively choose (“opt-in”) to provide the requested information. You may always choose not to provide the requested information.

You may elect to receive email updates about developments regarding Chimerix. If you decide, at any later time, that you no longer wish to receive these emails, you may unsubscribe to any such contact list by using the “Unsubscribe” links within the electronic communication channel, or by sending an email entitled “Unsubscribe” to [email protected].

Your browser software can be set to reject all cookies, but if you reject our cookies certain of the functions and conveniences of the Site may not work properly.

Some Web browsers may transmit “do-not-track” signals to websites like ours. At this time, there is no industry or regulatory standard established on how to respond to such signals. Therefore, Chimerix is committed to respecting your privacy and we understand how important it is to use and protect any individual’s personal information according to the highest ethical and regulatory standards. A person’s health, health interests and healthcare are particularly private and sensitive and we know that you may have concerns about sharing information with us.

If an individual becomes aware that personal information we maintain about them is inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, irrelevant or out of date, or if an individual would like to access, update or review his or her information, the individual may contact us using the contact information below. Chimerix will attempt to provide the requested information or make requested changes to the extent allowable by applicable privacy laws. In any event, we will respond to you as soon as reasonably possible to advise you of the outcome of your request.

You may request the removal of previously provided personal information at any time using the contact information below. Please be aware that we may not comply with a consumer’s request to amend or remove information that was provided to Chimerix by a healthcare professional or a consumer regarding an adverse drug event.

We use encryption practices to help ensure the integrity and privacy of some of the personal information you provide to us. Personal information that is collected or displayed through any Chimerix-controlled website is protected in transit by encryption processes that meet or exceed applicable regulatory standards.

CONTACT US

If you have any concerns or complaints about the manner in which your personal information has been collected or handled by Chimerix, or any queries in regard to this privacy statement or would like to advise us in respect to your choices as outlined above, please contact us using the following options:

You can email us at:
[email protected]

You can also write to the following address:
Corporate Compliance
Chimerix, Inc.
2505 Meridian Parkway, Suite 100
Durham, NC 27713
Or call us: 1-919-806-1074

CHANGES IN OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We will only use personally identifying information in the manner described in the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was collected from you. However, we reserve the right to change the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time by posting revisions to the Site and will take adequate and reasonable action to obtain your consent, if required, to process your personal information.