Chimerix Cookie Notice
Last updated on: May 30, 2024
Effective date: May 30, 2024
Introduction and Scope
This Cookie Notice (the “Notice”) is designed to assist you in understanding how and why Chimerix, Inc. (“Chimerix,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) use cookies and other similar technologies (“Tracking Technologies”) on our chimerix.com website and on any webpage linking to this Notice (collectively, the “Website”) to collect and develop data. We use Tracking Technologies to allow the Website to operate, to increase its functionality and efficiency, to analyze how you use it so that we can improve it, to tailor the content and information that we display to you, and fulfill other legitimate purposes as described below.
To the extent that any information collected by the Tracking Technologies, either on its own or in combination with other information, constitutes Personal Data as the term is defined in our Privacy Notice, both our Privacy Notice and this Notice shall apply to the processing and transferring of such Personal Data.
What are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file stored on your device (computer, phone, tablet, etc.) that contains information about your browser and online activity. This information often consists of a string of numbers and letters that uniquely identifies your device.
How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals
“Do-Not-Track” is an optional browser setting that you can use to express your preferences regarding tracking by advertisers and other third-parties. We commit to user privacy by honoring Do Not Track (“DNT”) browser settings.
Opting Out
You can alter the configuration of your browser to reject certain types of Tracking Technologies, including cookies. Please note, however, that if you reject certain cookies, you may not be able to access and use all of the features on our Website. You may also set your browser to send a Do Not Track (DNT) signal. For more information about how to manage cookies, please visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/.
You may also control your online behavioral advertising preferences and opt out from having your data processed by certain marketing companies by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ and http://optout.aboutads.info/. Please note, however, that managing these preferences will not turn off internet advertisements in general. You will still receive the same number of advertisements, but those advertisements will be less reflective of your interests, as indicated by your web browsing habits. In addition, please note that the opt-out preferences that you set using these tools may be nullified if you delete your cookies after setting them.
Types of Cookies
We use session cookies and persistent cookies on our Website. The session cookies are deleted or removed when you close your browser. The persistent cookies may remain on your device after you close your browser, but they have an expiration date.
Some of the cookies placed on your device through our Website are first-party cookies, meaning they are placed directly by us. Others are third-party cookies, meaning they are placed on your device through ourWebsite by third parties, such as Google.In other words, when you visit our Website, certain third parties may place cookies on your device to collect information about your online activities over time and across different Internet websites o ronline services.
In the cookie tables below, we provide you with links to the applicable privacy notices for the providers who place third-party cookies on your device through our Website, where possible. Please refer to the privacy notices of those third parties to learn more about the ways in which they collect and process personal data about you.
How We Use Tracking Technologieson our Website
Strictly NecessaryTracking Technologies
Technologies, but if you do block these Tracking Technologies, some parts of our Website will not work.
| Name | Provider & Provider Privacy Notice Link | Purpose | Duration |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Google (third-party cookie) | Only on the Request Information page https://ir.chimerix.com/contact-us This cookie is used for spam protection and may store browsing device information. | 6 months |
| Ak_bmsc | Akamai (third-party cookie) | This cookie is used to differentiate between web requests generated by humans and web requests generated by bots. | Session |
| bm_sv | Akamai (third-party cookie) | This cookie is used for session validation. | Session |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Microsoft (third-party cookie) | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft.NET based technologies. Used to maintain an anonymized user session by the server. | Session |
CookieConsent | Chimerix | This cookie stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain | 1 Year |
wpEmojiSettingsSupp | Chimerix | This cookie is part of a bundle of cookies which serve the purpose of content delivery and presentation. The cookies keeps the correct state of font, blog/picture sliders, color themes and other website settings. | Session |
Performance Tracking Technologies
The following Tracking Technologies allow us, among other things, to count Website visits and traffic sources so that we can measure and improve the performance of our Website. They help us to know which pages are the most – and least – popular, and see how visitors move around the Website. If you do not allow these Tracking Technologies, we will not know when you have visited our Website, and we will not be able to monitor our Website’s performance.
| Name | Provider & Provider Privacy Notice Link | Purpose | Duration |
| AMCV_*AdobeOrg | Adobe (third-party cookie) Privacy Notice | Website Analytics. This cookie is used to identify a unique visitor ID that can be used by Adobe Experience Cloud services. | 2 years |
Functional Tracking Technologies
The following Tracking Technologies enable the Website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be used by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these Tracking Technologies, then some or all of these services may not function properly.
| Name | Provider & Provider Privacy Notice Link | Purpose | Duration |
| GZIP | S&P Global (third-party cookie) | This cookie is utilized to display the Nasdaq stock chart on the Chimerix Investor Relations site. | 1 year |
| 4228%5F1 | S&P Global (third-party cookie) | Generated for all requests for dynamic stock charts | Session |
| 4228%5F0 | S&P Global (third-party cookie) | Stock Chart – Stores unique username to remember a user’s login | Session |
Changes to this Notice
If we make any material change to this Notice, we will post the revised Notice to our Website and update the “Effective Date” above to reflect the date on which the new Notice became effective.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Notice or our processing of your Personal Data, you may contact our Data Protection Officer directly using these contact details:
VeraSafe
Zia Maharaj
100 M Street S.E., Suite 600
Washington, D.C. 20003
Email: [email protected]
Web: https://www.verasafe.com/about-verasafe/contact-us/
Tell: +1-617-398-7067
Upon receipt of your request, please allow up to one month for us to reply.