This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 1, 2021.

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.

By using the Site, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Policy. If you do not agree, please do not access, or use the Site.

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 most 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 to describe our services to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.

Information Automatically Collected:
Whenever you visit or interact with the Site, we, as well as any of our third-party service providers, may use a variety of technologies such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, local shared objects (Flash cookies), HTML5 cookies, or other technologies to collect certain information automatically or passively about your online activity.

Please note that we may automatically collect the following information about you:

  • Computer or Device Information. We may automatically collect your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address or other unique identifier or information from the computer, mobile device, tablet, or other device that you use to access the Site, including but not limited to your browser type, device type, operating system, software version, phone model, phone operating system, and the domain name from which you accessed the Site.
  • Usage Information. We may collect information about your use of the Site, including the date and time you visit the Site, the areas or pages of the Site that you visit, the amount of time you spend viewing or using the Site, the number of times you return to the Site, other click-stream or site usage data, emails that you open, forward or click-through to our Site, and other sites that you may visit.
  • Location Information. We collect general information about where traffic on our site is coming from around the world. This is used at an aggregate level that does not identify individual users to create reports to better understand our engagement with visitors to the site. Location information at an individual level may be used for narrowly tailored efforts for our products or research activities.
  • Our Third-Party Service Providers. We may use third party service providers to support our Site. Some of these service providers may use technology such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, Flash cookies, or HTML5 cookies to receive, collect, and store information.
  • Use of Third-Party Analytic Technologies. We may use third parties’ analytics and tracking tools, including Google Analytics, to better understand who is using the Site, how people are using the Site, and how to improve the effectiveness of the Site and related content. These tools may use technology such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, Flash cookies, HTML5 cookies, or other technologies to automatically collect and store certain information. They may also combine information they collect from your interaction with the Site with information they collect from other sources. We do not have access to, or control over, these third parties’ use of cookies or other tracking technologies.

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 regardless of whether a DNT signal is received. If we do so in the future, we will update our Privacy Policy to reflect that.

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.

Other Uses by Ascentage:
Ascentage may use the information we collect from and about you for any of the following purposes:

  • To respond to your inquiries and contact and communicate with you when necessary.
  • To review the usage and operations of our Site and conduct analysis to enhance or improve our content, products, and services.
  • To provide you with advertising on the Site, via mail or email, or across other websites, mobile applications, social media, or online services.
  • To contact you, including by mail or email, with information, newsletters, and promotional materials from Ascentage or on behalf of our affiliates, and to request information from you relating to your use of our products and services.
  • To use your data in an aggregated non-specific format for analytical and demographic purposes.
  • To address problems with the Site or our business, and to protect the security or integrity of the Site and our business.
  • For other purposes disclosed at the time you provide your information or otherwise with your consent.
    B. How We Use Your Information for Interest-Based Advertising
    We may use third parties to measure and target advertisements for us about our products and services that are tailored to your online interests. We allow these third-party companies to use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags and similar technologies to collect certain data and other information about your online activity. This information is used to display advertisements for Ascentage on the Site or across other websites that you visit.

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. 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 troubleshooting 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 across against unauthorized 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:

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
(FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SEE CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGTS BELOW)
Ascentage shares personal information between Ascentage affiliates and marketing agents for marketing purposes. We do not share your personal information with unaffiliated third parties for their own independent marketing purposes without your consent. California residents may request the categories of personal information Ascentage shared with third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes during the previous calendar year, if any. To make your request, send an email to . Written requests may be sent to:

Ascentage Pharma
Attn: Privacy Officer
800 King Farm Boulevard
Suite 300
Rockville, MD 20850

You must put the statement “Your California Privacy Rights” in the subject field. We are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or do not have complete information.

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
This section of the notice applies solely to visitors, users, health care providers, patients, and others who reside in the State of California (referred to herein as a “consumer” or “consumers”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice. The term “personal data” means “personal information” for purposes of the CCPA.

Personal Data We Collect Under the CCPA:
We collect personal data that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. We have collected the following categories of personal data from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

  • Identifiers. A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, IP address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers.
    • Protected Classification Characteristics Under California or Federal Law
      Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex genetic information (including familial genetic information).
  • Commercial Information. Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
  • Biometric Info. An individual’s physiological, biological, or behavioral characteristics, that can be used, singly or in combination with each other or with other identifying data, to establish individual identity. Biometric information includes, but is not limited to, and gait patterns or rhythms, and sleep, health, or exercise data that contain identifying information.
  • Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information. Browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.
  • Geolocation. Physical location or movements.
  • Inferences Drawn from Other Personal Data. Inferences drawn from the information identified above to create a profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

Personal data does not include:

  • Publicly available information from government records.
  • De-identified or aggregated consumer information; or
  • Information excluded from the CCPA.

We obtain the categories of personal data listed above from the following categories of sources:

  • You and your devices
  • Your business partners and employees
  • Our business partners or their agents
  • Our website, applications, devices, and services
  • Consumer data resellers
  • Public records
  • From third parties that interact with us in connection with our products and services.

Use of Personal Data
We may use or disclose the personal data we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

  • Auditing related to a current interaction with you and concurrent transactions, including, but not limited to, counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with this specification and other standards
  • Detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity
  • Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality
  • Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, the contextual customization of ads shown as part of the same interaction
  • Performing services, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer products or services, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing advertising or marketing services, providing analytic services, or providing similar services on behalf of the business or service provider
  • Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration
  • Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us
  • For business related activities such as contact options, planning, and marketing preferences
  • As described to you when your personal data is collected, as directed by you or as otherwise permitted under the CCPA or applicable law
  • When you have provided your consent/authorization, to support benefit resolution and prescription fulfillment; and/or
  • To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data held by us is among the assets transferred.

Sharing Personal Data
We have not sold consumers’ personal data in the preceding 12 months. We may disclose your personal data to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal data for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal data confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract. In the past 12 months, Ascentage may have disclosed the following categories of information about consumers for a business purpose:

  • Name and Other Identifiers such as real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
    • Protected Classification Characteristics Under California or Federal Law
  • Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex genetic information (including familial genetic information).
  • Commercial Information. Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
  • Network Activity Information including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement.
  • Geolocation Data. Business or personal location for delivery of products or services
  • Professional, Education, and Employment-Related Information.
  • Inferences Drawn from any of the information above to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

We disclose your personal data for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:

  • Our affiliates
  • Advertising networks
  • Internet service providers
  • Data analytics providers
  • Government entities
  • Social networks
  • Service providers such as entities who provide IT and related services; services performed on their operating systems and platforms; information you have requested; customer service activities; and our products and services; and/or
  • Third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal data in connection with products or services we provide to you.

Your Rights and Choices
In accordance with applicable law, you may have the right to:

Access to/portability of personal data about you consistent with legal requirements. In addition, you may have the right in some cases to receive or have your electronic personal data transferred to another party.
Request correction of your personal data where it is inaccurate or incomplete. In some cases, we may provide self-service tools that enable you to update your personal data, or we may refer you to the controller of your personal data who is able to make the correction.

Request Deletion of your personal data, subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please log into your account, writing to us or emailing us at . We will process such requests in accordance with applicable laws. To protect your privacy, we will take steps to verify your identity before fulfilling your request.