Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Introduction

This is the Privacy Statement and Policy (“Policy”) for Locust Walk Partners, LLC and its affiliates (collectively, “Locust Walk”).

Locust Walk understands that your privacy is important. Locust Walk is committed to protecting your privacy and personal information you provide or as you access and use materials on Locust Walk.com (the “Site”). In addition, information that you submit to Locust Walk in response to an email request for information or other outreach from Locust Walk, or through Locust Walk’s employment application processes, will be treated in accordance with this Policy.

Locust Walk may, in its discretion, amend this Policy from time to time. To ensure you are able to remain informed about the information we collect and how we use it, material changes to our statement will be reflected here. This Site may contain links to external sites which are not governed by this Policy. Locust Walk does not take responsibility for the privacy practices of any third-party sites to which we link. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any such sites before you submit information there.

Your acceptance of these terms

By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this Policy (“User”).  If you do not agree to this Policy, please do not use our Site.  Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this Policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

What Information do we collect?

If Users wish to subscribe to our e-mail newsletters, webinars, market condition reports or request a quotation for our products, we ask for contact information (such as name, company, title, area and geography of interest and e-mail address).  We use this information to communicate with users and provide requested services.

This Site uses cookies to enhance the user experience – cookies are small text files written to a User’s hard drive to, in general, retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymized tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics.  As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better.  However, Users may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser.

Sharing your personal information

We do not share this information with outside parties without your permission except to the extent that it is necessary to administer the services we offer our Clients and Users or to comply in responding to any legal or regulatory request.

Marketing

If, at any time, you prefer not to receive further communications from us in any or all forms you will have the ability to unsubscribe from such communications by means of a link provided in every e-mail that is sent to you by us. When subscribing to Locust Walk e-mail newsletters, you are given the opportunity to select which promotions, news, and information you would like to receive at the time of sign up, and you will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from such communications.

How we protect your data

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our Site.

Changes/Updates to this Policy

In order to keep up with changing legislation and best practice, we may revise this Policy at any time.  When we do, we will post a notification on the main page of our Site.  We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect.  You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this Policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

Access Rights

In accordance with applicable data protection laws, including but not limited to the GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), you have a right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and details of how we use that information. If any of the information held about you is incorrect or out of date, you have the right to amend or rectify it, please follow the process outlined below and we will amend our records where appropriate. You also have the right to require us to erase your personal data, stop processing your personal data, restricting the processing of your personal information, right of portability of your personal information and/or to withdraw your consent to processing. This may not apply if there are other legal justifications to continue processing. If you think we may have incorrect personal information, or would like a copy of the personal information we hold on you, or to exercise any other data protection right, please contact us. Please note that we need you to prove who you are before we can provide you with any information.

Compliance With Law

Locust Walk complies with applicable privacy laws and regulations. Locust Walk may be compelled to surrender personal user or customer information to legal authorities if presented with a court subpoena or similar legal or administrative order, or as required or permitted by the laws, rules and regulations of any nation, state or other applicable jurisdiction. Also, in the event of a violation of the terms and conditions of use of the Site or a violation of any restrictions on use of materials provided in or through the Site, we may disclose personal user information to our affected business partners or legal authorities.

Disclaimer

Locust Walk is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any non-Locust Walk web sites to which we link from the Site. We are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide whilst visiting other websites and sites not governed by our Policy. We cannot control the content or security of such websites. We cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage incurred by a user as a result of visiting such websites. No links are intended to be, nor should be construed as, an endorsement of any kind by us of that other website. The information on this Site is provided without any expressed or implied guarantee of any kind. Under no circumstances can Locust Walk be liable for any damage that may have arisen from the use of, or inability to use the information on this Site or any linked-to websites. The Company’s Site pages in Japanese are translation from English originals.  No guarantees are made that the translations are free from errors.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, please contact us.

This Policy was last updated on August 6, 2021.