Privacy Policy

Welcome to the Seer, Inc. website Privacy Policy.

Last updated on June 13, 2024.

This Privacy Policy describes how Seer handles personal information obtained through its website at https://seer.bio (the “Website”).

Seer owns or licenses all right, title and interest in and to the Website. We have established the following policy (“Privacy Policy”) which governs the information, products, and services (the “Products”) described by us on the Website. All references to “you” refer to you and the entity on behalf of which you access or view the Website.

BY ACCESSING AND VIEWING THE WEBSITE, YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO THE PRACTICES THIS PRIVACY POLICY DESCRIBES. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE PRIVACY POLICY AND PRACTICES, THEN DO NOT ACCESS OR VIEW THE WEBSITE.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, in our sole discretion. All changes to the Privacy Policy will be posted on this page and are effective as of the date they are posted. Accordingly, you should periodically visit this page to review this Privacy Policy. Your access and viewing of the Website after a modification to this Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of the modification. We will obtain your consent to any material Privacy Policy changes if and where this is required by applicable data protection laws.

We are committed to protecting your privacy. We want you to understand how we collect and use information from the Website so you can interact with us with confidence. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information collected outside of the Website, including offline or through other means, unless otherwise stated below. If you have any questions about our use of your personal information, or wish to access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal information, please feel free to contact us using the contact details provided below.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We may collect several types of information from and about users of the Website, including, without limitation, if you provide the Website your name, address, email address, telephone number, and other similar information that can be used to identify you (“Personally Identifiable Information”). Specifically, when you use the Website, we may collect the following:

Information You Provide to Us When You:

• Fill in forms on the Website, including when you register to use the Website or request information;
• Provide information to us at a trade show;
• Register for a webinar;
• Contact us;
• Otherwise provide us your Personally Identifiable Information.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with the Website, we may use cookies, flash cookies, or web beacons to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing activities and patterns, or other online activities over time. The information we collect automatically may include Personally Identifiable Information or we may associate it with Personally Identifiable Information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept functional cookies by selecting “Manage Preferences” on the cookie banner pop-up screen and confirming your setting on the second screen. Alternatively, you may refuse to accept all browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser; however, you may be unable to access certain parts of the Website or lose some functionality of the Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system in the U.S. will issue at least strictly necessary cookies when you direct your browser to the Website, or functional and strictly necessary cookies if you select “Accept All Cookies” on the cookie banner pop-up screen or confirm acceptance of functional cookies on the Manage Preferences screen. We use the following functional and strictly necessary cookies:
• Functional Cookies
• Google Analytics
• _ga: This cookie calculates visitor, session, and campaign data, and tracks site usage to generate analytics reports by distinguishing unique users across browsing sessions.
• _ga_*: This cookie stores and counts page views to generate analytics reports and maintains session state by identifying unique users across browsing sessions.
• _gcl_au: This cookie is used to experiment with and measure advertisement efficiency and understand user interaction by generating analytical data.
• Google Marketing
• IDE: This cookie stores information on user interactions with the website and ads to present relevant advertisements and measure ad conversion rates.
• NID: This cookie is used for marketing purposes and to gather website analytics data.
• test_cookie: This cookie determines if the user’s browser supports cookies for marketing purposes.
• LinkedIn
• AnalyticsSyncHistory: Stores information about the time a sync with the analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries.
• ar_debug: For marketing and advertising purposes.
• bcookie: This cookie recognizes browser IDs and facilitates the sharing of website content via social media for marketing purposes.
• bscookie: This cookie tracks the use of embedded social networking services for marketing purposes.
• li_gc: This cookie stores visitor consent for the use of cookies for non-essential purposes.
• li_sugr: This cookie tracks user interactions with embedded services for analytics and targeted advertising, and makes probabilistic matches of user identity outside designated countries.
• lidc: This cookie facilitates data center selection and ensures proper website functioning for marketing purposes.
• UserMatchHistory: This cookie contains a unique identifier to track and match user interactions across browsing sessions for marketing purposes.
• Strictly Necessary Cookies
• WordPress
• announcement-dismiss: This cookie is required for site functionality and records whether the user has dismissed a pop-up announcement.
• loglevel: This cookie is required for site functionality, specifically related to the administrative backend operations.
• wpEmojiSettingsSupports: This cookie ensures that emojis are displayed properly by determining if the user’s browser supports emoji functionality.
• Pardot
• lpv918353: This cookie is required for site functionality and is used to access gated content such as webinars, guides, and catalogs.
• pardot: This cookie is required for site functionality, allowing access to gated content, and indicates an active session for logged-in users without tracking.
• visitor_id*: This cookie is required for site functionality, allowing access to gated content, and stores a unique user ID for tracking purposes.
• visitor_id*-hash: This cookie is required for site functionality, allowing access to gated content, and stores a hashed unique user ID.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of the Website may use local stored objects (or Flash Cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on the Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
• Web Beacons. Pages of the Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity).

For more information, please see the section titled “What Choices Do You Have About How We Use and Share Your Information?”.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personally Identifiable Information:

• To present the Website and its contents to you;
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us;
• To communicate with you about content and Product offerings, newsletters, webinars, seminars, and event invitations which are relevant to your interests and in line with your preferences;
• To remarket, target, and retarget content to you about our Products with third-party organizations. Please see the section titled “What Choices Do You Have About How We Use and Share Your Information below”;
• To meet a legitimate interest in order to improve our Products and our Website for individuals, and to improve the targeting of our advertising, such as by showing advertisements on third-party websites to users who have previously visited our Website;
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it;
• To administer and improve the Website and Products, including by monitoring and analyzing the Website traffic and usage patterns;
• To notify you about changes to the Products that may affect your use of the Products;
• To respond to legal requests and prevent harm;
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information; or
• For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your Personally Identifiable Information to contact you about our Product offerings that may be of interest to you or if you are in the media or investor relations professions. If you do not want us to use your Personally Identifiable Information in this way, you may opt out by contacting us at the contact information available at the end of this Privacy Policy.

How We Disclose Your Information

We may disclose your Personally Identifiable Information that we collect or you provide:

• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business;
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which Personally Identifiable Information held by us is among the assets transferred;
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information;
• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
• To enforce or apply our Terms of Use;
• To establish or exercise our right to defend against legal claims; and
• If we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Seer or others.

When you apply for a job on this Website, your personal data will be processed through a third party that processes job applications (the “Job Application Processor”), whose privacy policy can be found at https://greenhouse.io/privacy-policy. The Job Application Processor assists Seer in managing recruitment related activities, such as setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results, and as otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring process.

Feedback

You acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, ideas, feedback, or other information provided by you to Seer are not confidential and may be used by Seer as it deems appropriate, without attribution or remuneration and in its sole discretion, to enhance the user experience or for other legitimate commercial or non-commercial purposes.

How We Protect Your Information

We use physical, electronic, and/or managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect. These procedures may include, but are not limited to, firewalls, encryption, intrusion detection, and website monitoring. However, no data protection procedures are entirely infallible. We cannot guarantee that information, including your data, will be secure. Your transmission of your data to the Website is entirely at your election and your own risk.

Third Party Website and Social Media Features

The Website may contain hyperlinks to third party websites and social media platforms. Once you use these links and leave the Website, we do not have any control over the other websites or social media platforms. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection or privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites, and such sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy.

You should exercise caution and review the privacy statement applicable to the website or social media platform you are using. We are not responsible or liable for third-party websites or platforms, including, without limitation, any content included therein.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You may send us an e-mail at info@seer.bio to request access to, correct, or delete any Personally Identifiable Information that you have provided to us. We will endeavor to accommodate your request in accordance with applicable law.

What Choices Do You Have About How We Use and Share Your Information?

• Tracking Technologies and “Do Not Track”. Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You may be able to set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. For instructions, check your browser’s technical information. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly. Please note that cookie-based opt outs must be performed on each device and browser that you wish to have opted out.
• Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can also always opt-out by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an e-mail stating your request to info@seer.bio.
• Promotional Offers from Seer. Seer may use your account information (e.g., your email address and your transaction history) to promote our Products or those of our business or research partners. If you do not wish to have your account information used by Seer for this purpose, you can opt out of receiving marketing communications by visiting our Email Preferences Center. Note that you may not be able to opt out of receiving certain Service-related emails, such as communications about orders, billing, legally required product communications, account creation, registration, and policy updates. If we have sent you a promotional email or other informational email not related to your order or account, the email will have an “unsubscribe” feature that will allow you to opt out of receiving future email distribution.
• Targeted or Interest-Based Advertising. We work with advertising service providers that collect non-personally identifying information from you when you visit our Website and other sites, in order to show ads for our Products that we think may be of interest to you after you visit our Website. If you do not wish to receive our personalized ads, you can visit the opt-out pages of the Network Advertising Initiative or the Digital Advertising Alliance to learn about how to opt out of receiving personalized ads from their member companies.
• Google Analytics. We work with Google Analytics to better understand our audience and users, to improve our marketing campaigns, and to enhance our Products. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, you can visit here (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).

California Visitors

California law allows California residents to ask companies with whom they have an established business relationship to provide certain information about the companies’ sharing of personal information with third parties for direct marketing purposes. We do not sell or share any California consumer personal information with third parties for marketing purposes without consent. California residents who wish to request further information about our compliance with this law or have questions or concerns about our privacy practices may contact us using the contact information set forth below. This paragraph does not apply to personal information the Job Application Processor collects about job applicants.

International Visitors

By using the Website, your Personally Identifiable Information may be processed on servers located outside of the country where you live. If you are accessing the Website from outside of the United States, please be advised that data protection laws vary among countries, with some providing more protection than others. For example, United States law may not offer the same privacy protections as the laws of your jurisdiction. Regardless of where your information is processed, we will apply the protections described in this Privacy Policy.

European Union Privacy Rights

The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) provides a framework for organizations to ensure the protection of the personal information of European citizens and gives European citizens certain rights.

When Seer processes personal data subject to GDPR (“Personal Data”) during the performance of Seer Technology Access Center services to process human samples for proteomic and related analysis, Seer acts as a data processor (as defined in the GDPR) and follows the instructions of its customers in their capacity as data controllers (as defined in the GDPR) as set forth in the data processing agreement executed between them. If the results of the services are intended to contain special categories of Personal Data relating to individuals who have provided the samples, then Seer will only perform the services subject to its customer’s representation to Seer that the samples are fully anonymized or pseudonymized before Seer receives them. Fully anonymized samples do not allow any link to donors, and pseudonymized samples while potentially linkable to donors such as pursuant to a master key, cannot be linked by Seer because, for example, Seer is not given access to the key. Seer will process the samples only as described in the data processing agreement between Seer and its customer and for no further purpose. Seer implements organizational and technical measures designed to handle, document, and safeguard the samples and data as set forth in its policies, procedures, and work instructions.

Legal Basis for Processing

If you are an individual located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, our legal basis for processing your Personal Data will depend on the Personal Data concerned and the specific context in which it is collected. Typically, we rely on the following legal bases when collecting or otherwise processing Personal Data relating to you:

• We have your consent to do so;
• We have a legitimate interest in processing your Personal Data (e.g., for handling your job application); or
• The processing is necessary to perform a contract with you (e.g., to deliver services).

In some cases, we may process your Personal Data to comply with a legal obligation or to protect your vital interest or those of another person.

For individuals based in California, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, where we rely on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw or decline your consent at any time in writing or as otherwise permitted by law. Please note that this does not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on consent before its withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your Personal Data conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

Retention

We will retain your Personal Data for as long as is needed to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. On occasion we may anonymize or-de-identify your Personal Data (so it can no longer be associated with you) for research and statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you. To clarify, in accordance with applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or delete de-identified or anonymized information in response to a request received from you or any other consumer.

When you apply for a job on this site, your Personal Data will be retained by Seer for as long as Seer determines it is necessary to evaluate your application for employment.

Rights to Access and Control Your Personal Data

Individuals residing in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland have certain rights to access and control their Personal Data. These rights include:

• the right to be informed;
• the right of access;
• the right to rectification;
• the right to erasure;
• the right to restrict processing;
• the right to data portability;
• the right to object; and
• rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.

For a full list of rights, please visit https://gdpr.eu/tag/chapter-3/.

Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect Personally Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected the Personally Identifiable Information from a child under the age of 13, we will take steps to delete the information. If you are aware that a child under 13 has provided us with Personally Identifiable Information, please contact us immediately at info@seer.bio.

Contacting Us

If you have questions or concerns with respect to this Privacy Policy, the Job Application Processor, or the Website, please contact Seer using one of the following options:

By e-mail: info@seer.bio

By mail: Seer, Inc.
3800 Bridge Parkway, Suite 102
Redwood City, CA 94065