Introduction

Date Updated December 13, 2024.

This policy explains how and why we collect, use, hold and disclose your personal information. "We", "us" and "our" means Anteris Technologies Global Corp., 860 Blue Gentian Road, Suite 340, Eagan, MN, USA, 55121, and its related entities and affiliates.

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

The policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.anteristech.com (our “Website”), when you contact us, or that you otherwise provide to us, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing personal information.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

What is personal information?

Broadly, “personal information” is any information about an identified individual or an individual who can be reasonably identified from the information. Personal Information may include your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, social media handle, professional or employment related details, or other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline. 

If you are someone who uses our products, including clinical trial participants, we may collect additional specific information about your use of our products and you, such as your gender, date of birth, medical history and conditions, treatment efficacy and results, device information, medical inquiries you or your physician make, and your participation in clinical trials.  We may receive some of this information from you directly or from third parties, such as your healthcare professional.  Some of this information may be, but is not always, anonymized or de-identified. 

If you are a shareholder, we may collect information concerning our investors from our share registrar.

If you are a supplier, vendor, healthcare professional, or other external stakeholder, we may collect additional specific information including information about your professional details, practice specialty and areas of interest, membership of professional associations, product usage and your dealings with us.

If you are a job applicant, employee, or contractor, we may also collect personal information about you during your employment or engagement with us.  This information may include your gender, date of birth, contact details, and information collected in our employment records. The collection of personal information from job applicants may be obtained from third parties, such as a recruitment agency or from reference checks.

What personal information do we collect and how do we collect it?

What information we collect, and how we collect it, will depend upon the nature of your dealings with us. 

We may collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including (1) personal information, (2) information that is about you but individually does not identify you, or (3) about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details. 

We may collect this information (1) directly from you when you provide it to us (such as when you interact with our Website, contact us, fill out a form from us, attend an event sponsored by us, or visit our offices), (2) automatically as you navigate through the Website, or (3) from third parties. 

If you interact with our Website, emails, or other electronic messages, we automatically collect information about your device and your usage of our websites or emails (such as Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or other identifiers) about how you access, use and interact with the website. We do this by using a range of tools such as Google Analytics, Amazon Web Services, Adobe Analytics, YourIR, Mailchimp and Vision6. This information may include the location from which you have come to the site, the pages you have visited, and technical data such as your IP address, type of device, device attributes, browser type, language and operating system.  Learn more about Google’s Privacy Policy here

We also use cookies, web beacons, and pixels on the Website to automatically collect certain information. A cookie is a small text file that the Website may place on your device to store information if you allow it. We may use persistent cookies (which remain on your computer even after you close your browser) to store information that may speed up your use of our Website for any of your future visits to the Website. We may also use session cookies (which no longer remain after you end your browsing session) to help manage the display and presentation of information on the Website. You may refuse to use cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of the Website.

A pixel is a piece of code or image embedded in a website to track user activity.  We may use pixels to track how you interact with the Website and to track and analyze Website traffic patterns.  We may use retargeting pixels from Google, Facebook, and other ad networks.  We may use web beacons in HTML emails that we send to determine whether the recipients have opened those emails and/or clicked on those emails.

We also may collect information about you from  third parties (including third parties from whom we purchase personal information) and from publicly available information. We may combine this information with personal information provided by you. This helps us update, expand, and analyze our records, identify new customers, and create more tailored advertising to provide products, services, and information that may be of interest to you. The personal information we collect from other sources includes identifiers, professional or employment-related information, education information, commercial information, visual information, internet activity information, and inferences about preferences and behaviors.

If you provide us or our service providers with any personal information relating to other individuals, you represent that you have the authority to do so and acknowledge that it may be used in accordance with this privacy policy. If you believe that your personal information has been provided to us improperly, or want to exercise your rights relating to your personal information please contact us by using the information in the “Contact Details" section below.

Why do we collect, hold and use your personal information?

We collect, hold and use your personal information that we collect about you or that you provide to us so that we can:

• Present our Website and its contents to you;
• Provide you with information, products and services, and manage our relationship with you;
• Contact you, for example, to respond to your queries or complaints, or if we need to tell you something important;
• Identify and tell you about other products or services that we think may be of interest to you
• Perform clinical trials and other research organized by us which you have agreed to be involved in;
• Organize and administer conferences, symposia, seminars or other events and meetings;
• Generate and maintain our investor information to comply with legal requirements and to enable reporting to investors;
• Provide you with information such as our press releases;
• Maintain our register of shareholders and investor communication lists and to make offers and communicate with our shareholders and investors; and
• Comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidance, codes of conduct, product approvals, license requirements and ethical requirements including to comply with demands or requests made by regulators, governments, courts and law enforcement authorities.
   

If you do not provide us with your personal information, we may not be able to provide you with our services, communicate with you or respond to your inquiries

How do we store and hold personal information?

We store most information about you in computer systems and databases operated by either us or our external service providers.

We implement and maintain processes and security measures to protect personal information which we hold from misuse, interference or loss, and from unauthorized access, modification or disclosure.

These processes and systems include, but are not limited to:

• the use of identity and access management technologies to control access to systems on which information is processed and stored; and
• requiring all employees to comply with internal information security policies and keep information secure.
   

We will also take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify personal information once we no longer require it for the purposes for which it was collected or for any secondary purpose permitted under the applicable laws.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to us via the internet. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures.

Who do we disclose your personal information to, and why?

We may transfer or disclose your personal information to our related companies.

We may disclose personal information to external service providers who have a need to know the information so that they may perform services for us or on our behalf.

We may also disclose your personal information to others outside our group of companies where:

• we are required or authorized by law to do so;
• you may have expressly consented to the disclosure or the consent may be reasonably inferred from the circumstances; or
• we are otherwise permitted to disclose the information under the Privacy Act.
   

If the ownership or control of all or part of our business changes, we may transfer your personal information to the new owner.

Do we disclose personal information to overseas recipients?

We may disclose your personal information to recipients, including our related companies, who are likely to be located in Australia, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, France, and the United States.

Do we use your personal information for marketing?

We will use your personal information to offer you products and services we believe may interest you, but we will not do so if you tell us not to. These products and services may be offered by us, our related companies, our other business partners or our service providers. We are committed to protecting the information you entrust to us and will never sell your personal information to third parties.

Where you receive electronic marketing communications from us, you may opt out of receiving further marketing communications by following the opt-out instructions provided in the communication.

Access to and correction of your personal information

You may access or request correction of the personal information that we hold about you by contacting us at privacy@anteristech.com. There are some circumstances in which we are not required to give you access to your personal information.

There is no charge for requesting access to your personal information, but we may require you to meet our reasonable costs in providing you with access (such as photocopying costs or costs for time spent on collating large amounts of material).

We will respond to your requests to access or correct personal information in a reasonable time and will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we hold about you remains accurate, up to date and complete.

Your rights under the Australian Privacy Laws

If you have rights as an individual under the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (“Privacy Act”), the Privacy Act allows you to:

• know why your personal information is being collected;
• have the option of not identifying yourself, or of using a pseudonym in certain circumstances;
• ask for access to your personal information (including your health information);
• stop receiving unwanted direct marketing;
• ask for your personal information that is incorrect to be corrected; and
• make a complaint about an organization or agency the Privacy Act covers, if you think they’ve mishandled your personal information.
   

In addition to complying with the listed rights, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify personal information once we no longer require it for the purposes for which it was collected or for any secondary purpose permitted under the Australian Privacy Principles (APP). To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at:

Privacy Officer
Anteris Technologies Ltd
Toowong Tower, Level 3
9 Sherwood Road
Toowong QLD 4066
privacy@anteristech.com

If you remain unsatisfied with the way in which we have handled a privacy issue, you may approach an independent advisor or contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (www.oaic.gov.au) (or similar local authority in your geographic area) for guidance on alternative courses of action which may be available.

Your rights under the EU GDPR

If you have rights under the European Union (“EU”) General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), as a data subject you have the right to:

• access your data;
• have your data deleted or corrected where it is inaccurate;
• object to your data being processed and to restrict processing;
• withdraw consent to having your data processed;
• have your data provided in a standard format so that it can be transferred elsewhere; and
• not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing.

We have processes in place to deal with your requests for this information (“Data Subject Rights”). Our actions and responsibilities will depend on whether we are the controller or processer of the personal data at issue. Depending on our role as either a controller or processor, the process for enabling Data Subject Rights may differ, and are always subject to applicable law. To exercise any of these Data Subject Rights, please contact us at privacy@anteristech.com.

Your rights under US State Privacy Laws

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:

• Confirm whether we process their Personal Information;
• Access and delete certain Personal Information;
• Correct inaccuracies in their Personal Information, taking into account the information's nature processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah);
• Data portability;
• Opt-out of personal data processing for:
• targeted advertising (excluding Iowa);
• sales; and
• profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).
• Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.

The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at privacy@anteristech.com.

Children under the age of 16

Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at privacy@anteristech.com.

Complaints

If you have a complaint about the way in which we have handled any privacy issue, including your request for access or correction of your personal information, you should contact us. Our contact details are set out below.

We will consider your complaint and determine whether it requires further investigation. We will notify you of the outcome of this investigation and any subsequent internal investigation.

If you remain unsatisfied with the way in which we have handled a privacy issue, you may approach an independent advisor or local authority in your geographic area for guidance on alternative courses of action which may be available.

Contact Details

If you have any questions, comments, requests or concerns, please contact us at:

Privacy Officer
Anteris Technologies Global Corporation
860 Blue Gentian Road,
Suite 340, Eagan, MN, 55121
privacy@anteristech.com