PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: March 30, 2023

We at Tyra Biosciences, Inc. (“Company”, “we” or “us”) respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use and disclose information about users of the Company’s website, https://tyra.bio (the “Website”), including the services, tools and features on the Website (collectively, the “Services”).

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY SO THAT YOU UNDERSTAND YOUR RIGHTS IN RELATION TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, AND HOW WE WILL COLLECT, USE AND PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES OR OTHERWISE PROVIDE YOUR INFORMATION TO US.

THIS PRIVACY POLICY SUPPLEMENTS ANY OTHER PRIVACY RELATED NOTICES AND POLICIES WE MAY PROVIDE TO YOU FROM TIME TO TIME, AND IS NOT INTENDED TO OVERRIDE THEM, INCLUDING ANY INFORMED CONSENT FORM OR PATIENT INFORMATION LEAFLET PROVIDED TO YOU IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR PARTICIPATION IN ANY CLINICAL TRIAL SPONSORED BY US.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Some features of the Services may require you to enter certain personal information about yourself. You may elect not to provide this information, but doing so may prevent you from using or accessing these features.

Information We Collect Directly From You

We collect information you provide us voluntarily and knowingly. You are not legally required to provide us your information.

We collect certain information directly from you when you choose to communicate with us, for example, when you send a message to our e-mail address or when you sign up for our newsletters or alerts, such as our investor email alerts. We may collect your basic contact details, including name and e-mail address, from such communications and any other information provided by you when contacting us (“Inquiry Information”).

Information We Collect Automatically

When you visit our Website and use our Services we may automatically collect information about your interaction with the Website. sent to us by your computer, mobile phone or other device. This information includes: (i) your IP address; (ii) device information including, but not limited to, name and type of operating system; (iii) mobile network information; (iv) standard web information such as your browser type, links clicked and the pages you access on our Website; (v) security information including a list of certain installed software, device and internet connection information, and available space on the device] . We refer to this data as “Analytics Information”.

We may use such information to help improve the contents of the Website, optimize your experience and the ways we communicate with you and/or to compile aggregate statistics about visitors using our Website for our internal usage statistics and market research purposes.

COOKIES

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on the Website and hold certain information including your browsing activities over time and across different websites. Cookies are files with small amounts of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze the Services. You can find more information about cookies and how to manage them herein below.

Do Not Track

Your browser settings may also allow you to transmit a “Do Not Track” signal when you visit various websites. Like many websites, our Website is not designed to respond to “Do Not Track” signals received from browsers. To learn more about “Do Not Track” signals, you can visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may use the information you provide.

1. to respond to your inquiry or message.
2. to provide you with the Service, other content and Website functionality.
3. to be responsive to you, to provide effective services to you, and to maintain our business relationship
4. to respond to your message;
5. to improve the Website;
6. for internal business analysis or other business purposes consistent with our mission;
7. administer the Website, and for internal operations, in order to conduct troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and;
8. maintain the safety and security of our users, the Website, and our business;
9. send you announcements in relation to security, privacy or administrative related communications (these communications are not marketing orientated, and we do not rely on consent, so you may not opt out);
10. personalize our Website and to ensure content is presented in the most effective manner for you and your device;] and

Where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent to provide you with certain materials, such as updates related to our news / press releases.

In addition, we will use some or all of the above information to comply with any applicable legal obligations and cooperate with regulators and law enforcement bodies, to enforce any applicable terms and conditions and/ or terms of service, and to protect or defend our business, our rights, the rights of our users, or others.

WHEN AND HOW WE SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH OTHERS

This Privacy Policy describes the circumstances in which we may share your Personal Information. We may share your Personal Information with our subsidiaries and affiliated companies to exchange information and maintain databases in different countries. We also may transfer Personal Information to third parties who act on our behalf, for further processing in accordance with the purpose(s) for which the data were originally collected or may otherwise be lawfully processed, such as services delivery, evaluating the usefulness of our Website, marketing, advertising, data management, or technical support.

We will not sell, share, or otherwise transfer your Personal Information to third parties other than those indicated in this Privacy Policy or when you provide us your explicit and informed consent.

Specifically, we may share your personal data:

• (a)   With our service providers helping us operate our business and the Website. Such third parties include: (i) data analytics vendors; (ii) security vendors; and (iii) website hosting vendors. These service providers assist us with many different functions and tasks, such as providing data storage and disaster recovery services and communicating with you. These service providers are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us and not for their own promotional purposes. We do not sell your personal information to third parties.(b)   If we are legally required to. If we are required to disclose your information by a judicial, governmental or regulatory authority we will do so as legally required.(c)    With competent authorities and professional advisors, if you violated the law or abused your rights to use the Website. If you have violated this Policy or any other agreement you have with us, abused your rights to use the Website, or violated any applicable law, your information will be shared with competent authorities and with third parties (such as legal counsel and advisors), for the purpose of handling of the violation or breach.(d)   With our affiliates. We may share your personal data with companies within our corporate family.(e)   In connection with an asset sale or purchase, a share sale, purchase or merger, bankruptcy, or other business transaction or re-organisation, in our legitimate interests. We will share your personal information with a prospective buyer, seller, new owner, or other relevant third party as necessary while negotiating or in relation to a change of corporate control such as a restructuring, merger, or sale of our assets.
  We will share your personal information with a prospective buyer, seller, new owner, or other relevant third party as necessary while negotiating or in relation to a change of corporate control such as a restructuring, merger, or sale of our assets.

THIRD PARTY WEBSITE AND LINKS

Our Website may contain links to other sites operated by third parties. Company does not control such other sites and is not responsible for their content, their privacy policies, or their use of personal information. Company’s inclusion of such links does not imply any endorsement of the content on such sites or of their owners or operators except as disclosed through the Website. Any information submitted by you directly to these third parties is subject to that third party’s privacy policy.

We expressly disclaim any and all liability for the actions of third parties, including but without limitation to actions relating to the use and/or disclosure of personal information by third parties.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our Website are not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children. Children must not use our Website or Service, except where their parent or guardian has provided consent, if this option is available in your location. If you use our Website, you represent that you are at least the age of majority under the laws of the jurisdiction of your place of residence. If we learn that we have collected or have been sent personal information about or from a child, we reserve the right to delete that personal information as soon as reasonably practicable. If you believe that we might have collected or been sent information from a child, please contact info@tyra.bio as soon as possible

DATA SECURITY, INTEGRITY AND RETENTION

We will retain your personal information for as long as we need it to operate the Website and interact with you, and thereafter as needed for record-keeping matters.

We retain personal data for the duration needed to support our ordinary business activities operating the Website and interacting with you. Thereafter, we will still retain your personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, establish and defend legal claims, enforce our agreements, or for legitimate businesses purposes.

After the expiry of the retention periods specified above, we may store your information in an aggregated and anonymised format that does not permit your continued identification.

We implement measures to reduce the risks of damage, loss of information and unauthorized access or use of information. However, these measures do not provide absolute information security. Therefore, although efforts are made to secure your personal information, there is no guarantee that it will be immune from information security risks.

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

We do not share personal information as defined by California Civil Code Section 1798.83 (“Shine The Light Law”) with third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR USERS IN THE EU/EEA or UK

The following entity is the data controller for the purposes of the personal data we collect via the Website:

TYRA BIOSCIENCES INC. – 2656 STATE STREET CARLSBAD, CA 92008, USA

If you are based in the EU and have any questions about our privacy policy, your rights regarding your personal information, or how we use your personal information, please do not hesitate to contact us at: info@tyra.bio

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR INFORMATION

The legal basis for collecting and processing your Inquiry Information is our legitimate business interest in responding to your inquiry and developing our business relations.

The legal basis under for collecting and processing Analytics Information is our legitimate interest in managing the Website including business development and planning or your consent, as applicable.

The legal basis for sharing your information with competent authorities, if you violated the law or abused your rights to use the Website, is our legitimate interest in protecting our business from abuses and violations of law.

The legal basis under for required disclosures of your information to a judicial, governmental or regulatory authority is our legitimate interest in protecting our business from abuses and violation of law, our compliance with legal obligations.
The legal basis under EU law for sharing your information to enable the structural change at the Company is our legitimate business interests in our own business continuity.

YOUR RIGHTS

Whenever we process personal information, we take reasonable steps to keep your personal information accurate and up-to-date, for the purposes for which they were collected. We will provide you with the ability to exercise the following rights under the conditions and within the limits set forth in the law.

You have certain rights to access, update or delete your Information, obtain a copy of your Information, withdraw your consent and object or restrict certain data processing activities.

If you are located in the EEA or the UK, you have certain rights in relation to your information as follows:

• Access: You have the right to access information we hold about you, how we use it, and who we share it with.
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  Portability: You have the right to receive a copy of the information we hold about you and to request that we transfer it to a third party, in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.
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  Correction: You have the right to correct any of your information we hold that is inaccurate.
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  Erasure: In certain circumstance, you have the right to delete the information we hold about you.
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  Restriction of processing to storage only: You have the right to require us to stop processing the information we hold about you, other than for storage purposes, in certain circumstances.
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  Objection: You have the right to object to our processing of your information.
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  Objection to marketing: You can object to marketing at any time by opting-out using the unsubscribe/ opt-out function in our communications to you.

Please note that a number of these rights only apply in certain circumstances, and all of these rights may be limited by law, for example, where fulfilling your request would adversely affect other individuals or our trade secrets or intellectual property, where there are overriding public interests or where we are required by law to retain your information.

To exercise any of these rights, you can contact info@tyra.bio

You have a right to submit a complaint to the relevant supervisory data protection authority. Subject to applicable law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. If you are in the EU, then according to Article 77 of the GDPR, you can lodge a complaint to the supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, place of work or of an alleged infringement of the GDPR. For a list of supervisory authorities in the EU, click here.
If you are in the UK, please contact the ICO, click here.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We operate globally. Accordingly, your Personal Information may be transferred and stored in other countries, that are subject to different standards of data protection, such as the US. Recipients of your Personal Information may be in countries that do not provide the same standard of legal protection for your Personal Information as in your country.

We will take appropriate steps to ensure that transfers of Personal Information are made in accordance with applicable law, and carefully managed to protect your privacy rights and interests and limited to countries which are recognized as providing an adequate level of legal protection or where we can be satisfied that alternative arrangement are in place to protect your privacy rights.

UPDATING THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time in which case we will update the “Last Revised” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. It is your sole responsibility to check the Website from time to time to view any such changes in the Privacy Policy. When we change the Privacy Policy in a material manner, we will notify you by posting an announcement on our Website. Your continued use of the Website after any change constitutes your acceptance of the new Privacy Policy.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, INCLUDING ANY CHANGES, THEN YOU MUST NOT ACCESS OR USE THE WEBSITE

CONTACTING US

Any questions or concerns regarding the use or disclosure of information about you should be directed to Company at info@tyra.bio.

You may contact us regarding the Website or this Privacy Policy at: 2656 State St., Carlsbad, CA 92008, by phone at (619) 728-4760 or by e-mail at info@tyra.bio.

COOKIES POLICY

Last updated: March 30, 2023

This Cookies Policy for Tyra Biosciences, Inc. (“Company”, “we” or “us”) describes how we and certain third parties use cookies (“Tracking Technologies”) to collect personal data and to store information or gain access to information stored on your device, when you use our website at https://tyra.bio (the “Website”), including, tools and features on the Website (collectively, the “Service”). This policy tells you more about Tracking Technologies and how we use them in our Service.

We and the third parties we work with use Tracking Technologies to collect information about your use of the Service, such as your IP address, browser type, browser version, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked and conversion information. This information may be used by us and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests on the Service and other websites, provide customer support, troubleshoot issues with and improve the operation of our Website and Service, and better understand your online activity. You can find more information about cookies and how to manage them here.

Some of the Tracking Technologies we use are essential and we cannot provide access to our Website without them. When you use our Website for the first time, we will provide you with a notice which lets you know how we use cookies and how you can change which Tracking Technologies you accept. You have the right to choose whether or not to accept non-essential Tracking Technologies.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a Tracking Technology is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all Tracking Technologies. You do this through your browser settings. For more information on how to manage your browser settings, please see below:

• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
• Cookie settings in Edge
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Chrome
• Cookie settings in Safari

If you have disabled one or more Tracking Technologies, we will still use information collected from Tracking Technologies prior to your disabled preference being set; however, we will stop using the disabled Tracking Technologies to collect any further information.

If you turn Tracking Technologies off, it may affect your user experience.

How do we use Tracking Technologies?

We use first party and third party Tracking Technologies. First party Tracking Technologies are set directly by us whereas third party Tracking Technologies are set by a third party (such as analytics providers, our advertisers and business partners).

We use Tracking Technologies that perform the following functions (The table below sets out the types of Tracking Technologies we and our partners use in connection with the Service, and the purposes for which we use them).

Essential Tracking Technologies, which are essential to the functioning of our Service, to provide a service requested by you or to comply with the law (e.g. the security requirements of data protection law). We do not need to obtain your consent in order to use these Tracking Technologies and these Tracking Technologies cannot be turned off as we cannot provide the Service without them.

UPDATING THIS COOKIES POLICY

We may modify this Cookies Policy from time to time in which case we will update the “Last Revised” date at the top of this Cookies Policy. If we make any material changes to the way we handle your personal data in relation to Tracking Technologies, we will let you know by posting an updated version of this policy on our website.

CONTACTING US

Any questions or concerns regarding this policy should be directed to Company at info@tyra.bio.