Privacy Policy

Last Updated: July 20, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how Vivid BioInnovations, PBC ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you visit our website or interact with us.

We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This policy outlines our practices regarding data collection, use, and protection.

For questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@vivid-bio.com.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us and information that is automatically collected when you use our website.

a) Information You Provide:

  • Contact Information: We may collect your name, email address, phone number, and any other information you provide when you fill out a contact form, subscribe to a newsletter, or otherwise communicate with us.
  • Professional Information: If you apply for a position with us, we may collect your resume, cover letter, and any other professional information you provide via email.

b) Information Collected Automatically:

  • Log and Usage Data: Our servers automatically collect information when you access our website, which may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and the dates/times of your visits.
  • Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We may use cookies, web beacons, and other similar tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activities. This helps us operate and improve our website. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

  • To provide, operate, and maintain our website.
  • To improve, personalize, and expand our website.
  • To understand and analyze how you use our website.
  • To communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, for customer service, to provide you with updates, and for marketing and promotional purposes.
  • To review and consider employment applications.
  • To find and prevent fraud.

3. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information (GDPR)

If you are an individual in the European Economic Area (EEA), we collect and process information about you only where we have a legal basis for doing so under applicable EU laws. The legal basis depends on the services you use and how you use them. This means we collect and use your information only where:

  • We need it to provide you the services, including to operate the website, provide customer support and personalized features, and to protect the safety and security of the services.
  • It satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data protection interests), such as for research and development, to market and promote our services, and to protect our legal rights and interests.
  • You give us consent to do so for a specific purpose.
  • We need to process your data to comply with a legal obligation.

4. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell your personal information. We may share your information in the following limited circumstances:

  • With Service Providers: We may share information with third-party vendors who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, email delivery, and analytics providers (like Google Analytics). These third parties are obligated to protect your information.
  • For Legal Compliance: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
  • To Protect Our Rights: We may disclose information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, or situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.

5. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

6. Your Data Protection Rights under GDPR

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data. These rights include the right to access, rectify, object, restrict processing, data portability, and withdraw consent. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@vivid-bio.com.

7. Your California Privacy Rights (CCPA)

If you are a California resident, you have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

  • Right to Know and Access: You have the right to request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, as well as the categories of sources from which such information is collected, the purpose for collecting such information, and the categories of third parties with whom we share such information.
  • Right to Delete: You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
  • Right to Correct: You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate personal information.
  • Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: You have the right to opt-out of the "sale" or "sharing" of your personal information. We do not sell your personal information.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: You have the right to not be discriminated against for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@vivid-bio.com. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.

8. Security of Your Information

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.

9. Children's Privacy

Our website is not intended for use by children under the age of 16 in the EEA or 13 in other regions. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child, we will take steps to delete such information.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us: