Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last updated on November 20th, 2023.

Our Policy Welcome to the web site (the “Site”) of Third Rock Ventures (“Third Rock Ventures”, “we”, “us” and/or “our”). This Site is operated by Third Rock Ventures and has been created to provide information about our company to our visitors (“you”, “your”). This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) sets forth Third Rock Ventures practices with respect to information including personally identifiable data (“Personal Data”) and other information that is collected from visitors to the Site.

By using the Site, you are acknowledging that you have reviewed and understand the privacy practices described in this Policy. This Site is intended for use only in the United States. If you use the Site, you acknowledge and agree that your Personal Data may be transferred from your current location to the offices and servers of Third Rock Ventures and the authorized third parties referred to herein located in the United States.


Personal Data We Collect

When you use the Site, we may collect and process information about you. In the twelve months preceding the effective date of this Privacy Policy, we have collected the following categories of Personal


Data:

  • Identifiers, such as your name, address, email address and telephone numbers;
  • Professional or employment information, such as your job title, specialty, educational and professional history, institutional affiliations and place of work;
  • Employment-related information, such as information required to administer an employment relationship with us;
  • Internet or other similar network activity information, such as your internet protocol (IP) address, login data, unique device identifiers, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, mobile device carrier and other technology on the devices you use to access the Site; as well as usage information, such as information about how you use the Site and our products and services, referring/exit web pages, date/time stamps, error logs, and the frequency of your use of the Site;
  • Marketing information, such as your preferences in receiving marketing communications from us, and communications that we exchange with you, including when you contact us with questions, feedback, or otherwise; and
  • Other information that we may collect which is not specifically listed here, but which we will use in accordance with this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.


Information We May Obtain

  • Social media information; We may maintain pages on social media platforms, such as Twitter and LinkedIn. When you visit or interact with our pages on those platforms, you or the platforms may provide us with information through the platform.
  • Other sources; We may obtain your personal information from other third parties, such as marketing partners, data providers, and publicly-available sources.


How We Collect Personal Data

We may collect Personal Data and other information directly from you or through you interactions with the Site, 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, respond to one of our surveys, or use certain portions of the Site. Wherever Third Rock Ventures collects Personal Data we make an effort to provide a link to this Privacy Policy.
  • Personal Data Collected Automatically: In operating the Site, we may use technologies such as cookies, web server log files, and web beacons. A cookie is a piece of information that the computer that hosts our Site gives to your browser when you access the Site. Our cookies help provide additional functionality to the Site and help us analyze usage more accurately. For instance, our Site may set a cookie on your browser that allows you to access the Site without needing to remember and then enter a password more than once during a visit to the Site. A web server log is a file that stores website activity. A web beacon is a web page element, such as a pixel tag, that can be embedded on a website.
  • Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. You can change the settings of your web browser to notify you when cookies are set or updated, and to block cookies. Please note that if you have turned off all cookies, some features of the Site may not be available to you or otherwise function as intended. To learn more about how to manage cookies on different types of browsers, you can visit the website www.allaboutcookies.org.
  • We do not currently use technology that recognizes “do not track” signals from your web browser.
  • Using privacy plug-ins or browsers: You can block our websites from setting cookies by using a browser with privacy features, like Brave, or installing browser plugins like Privacy Badger, Ghostery, or uBlock Origin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers.
  • Note that because these opt out mechanisms are specific to the device or browser on which they are exercised, you will need to opt out on every browser and device that you use.
  • Aggregated, Non-Identifiable Data: When you interact with Third Rock Ventures through the Site, we may also receive and store certain non-identifiable information. Third Rock Ventures may store such information itself or such information may be included in databases owned and maintained by Third Rock Ventures affiliates, agents or service providers. We 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.


Cookie Policy

How do we use cookies and other similar technologies?

We use both persistent cookies and session cookies. Persistent cookies stay on your device for a set period of time or until you delete them, while session cookies are deleted once you close your web browser. We use persistent cookies, for example, to record your choice of language and country location. The cookies placed through your use of our website are either set by us (first-party cookies) or by a third party at our request (third-party cookies).

What types of cookies and similar technologies does Third Rock use? We use the following categories of cookies:

  • Essential. We use essential cookies to help make our website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but then some parts of the websites will not work.
  • Functionality / performance. We use these cookies to enhance the functionality and performance of the services.
  • Local storage technologies, like HTML5, provide cookie-equivalent functionality but can store larger amounts of data, including on your device outside of your browser in connection with specific applications.
  • Analytics. We use these cookies to help us understand how our services are performing and being used. Specifically, we use Google Analytics to collect information about how users use our services, which we then use to compile reports that disclose trends without identifying individual visitors and help us improve our services. For more information on Google Analytics, click here. For more information about Google’s privacy practices, click here. You can opt out of by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpag....
  • We may also use web beacons in promotional emails and other communications with you, to allow us to count how many people read them and to verify any clicks through to links within an email. We (or our marketing service providers on our behalf) use this to help us understand how an email campaign performed, what types of emails and content our recipients find interesting, and what actions our recipients took, so we can improve our email campaigns in the future and make our emails more relevant to our recipients. If you do not wish the web beacon to be downloaded onto your device, you should select to receive emails from us in plain text rather than HTML.


Our Use of Your Personal Data and Other Information

Third Rock Ventures uses the Personal Data for various business purposes and 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 email, we will use the Personal Data you provide to answer your question or resolve your problem. Also, if you provide Personal Data in order to obtain access to certain features, we will use your Personal Data to provide you with access to such features and to monitor your use of such features. Any of the Personal Data you provide may be used as set forth below:

  • To respond to your questions or resolve your problems;
  • To provide you with access to certain features;
  • To communicate with you about our products, services, and related issues;
  • To conduct internal or statistical analysis, market research, and marketing activities;
  • To protect our rights and interests;
  • To ensure the security of our Site, assets, systems, and networks, or to prevent, detect, and investigate fraud, unlawful or criminal activities;
  • To enforce our terms and conditions; and
  • For compliance and protection: We may use personal information to comply with legal obligations, and to defend us against legal claims or disputes, including to:
    • protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety, or property (including by making and defending legal claims);
    • audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements and internal policies;
    • enforce the terms and conditions that govern the services;
    • prevent, identify, investigate, and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical, or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft; and
    • comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.


If Third Rock Ventures intends on using any Personal Data in any manner that is not consistent with this Privacy Policy, you will be informed of such anticipated use prior to or at the time at which the Personal Data is collected.

Our Disclosure of Your Personal Data and Other Information

Third Rock Ventures is not in the business of selling your information. We consider this information to be a vital part of our relationship with you. There are, however, 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.
  • Related Companies: We may also share your Personal Data with our subsidiaries and affiliates for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
  • Agents, Consultants and Related Third Parties And Service Providers: Third Rock Ventures, like many businesses, sometimes hires other companies to perform certain business-related functions. Examples of such functions include mailing information, maintaining databases and processing payments. When we employ another entity to perform a function of this nature, we only provide them with the information that they need to perform their specific function.
  • Legal Requirements: Third Rock Ventures 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 Third Rock Ventures, (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of our users or the public, or (iv) protect against legal liability.

Privacy Rights and Choices

Opt out of direct marketing communications: You may opt out of marketing-related communications by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions contained in the marketing communication (if any) we send you. You may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing communications.

Privacy rights requests: We also offer you choices that affect how we handle the personal information that we control. Depending on your location and the nature of your interactions with our services, you may request the following in relation to personal information:

  • Information about how we have collected and used personal information. We have made this information available to you without having to request it by including it in this Privacy Policy.
  • Access to a copy of the personal information that we have collected about you. Where applicable, we will provide the information in a portable, machine-readable, readily usable format.
  • Correction of personal information that is inaccurate or out of date.
  • Deletion of personal information that we no longer need to provide the services or for other lawful purposes.
  • Additional rights, such as to object to and request that we restrict our use of personal information.
  • Appeal our denial of your privacy request by contacting us as set out below.


To make a request, please email us or write to us as provided in the How to Contact Us section below. We may ask for specific information from you to help us confirm your identity. Depending on where you reside, you may be entitled to empower an “authorized agent” to submit requests on your behalf. We will require authorized agents to confirm their identity and authority, in accordance with applicable laws. You are entitled to exercise the rights described above free from discrimination.

Limits on your privacy rights and choices: In some instances, your choices may be limited, such as where fulfilling your request would impair the rights of others, our ability to provide a service you have requested, or our ability to comply with our legal obligations and enforce our legal rights. If you are not satisfied with how we address your request, you may submit a complaint by contacting us as provided in the How to Contact Us section below. Depending on where you reside, such as if you reside in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, you may have the right to complain to a data protection regulator where you live or work, or where you feel a violation has occurred.

Children

Third Rock Ventures does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 16. If you are under the age of 16, please do not submit any Personal Data to us. 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 to us without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 16 has provided Personal Data to Third Rock Ventures, 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 our Site. Our Site may contain links to other web sites not operated or controlled by Third Rock Ventures (the “Third Party Sites”). The policies and procedures we described here do not apply to the Third Party Sites. The links from our Site do not imply that Third Rock Ventures endorses or has reviewed the Third Party Sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy policies.

Retention of Personal Information

Where required under applicable laws, we retain personal information only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected and processed, in accordance with our retention policies, and in accordance with applicable laws and regulatory obligations or until you withdraw your consent (where applicable). To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of personal information, the purposes for which we use personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

Security

Third Rock Ventures takes reasonable steps to protect the Personal Data from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, email sent to or from us may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via email. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Data to Third Rock Ventures via the Internet.

Job Applicants

When you apply for one of our open positions, we collect the information that you provide in connection with your job application. This includes name, contact information, professional credentials and skills, educational and work history, and other information that may be included in a resume or provided during interviews (which may be recorded). This may also include demographic or diversity information that you voluntarily provide. We may also conduct background checks and receive related information. We use applicants’ information to facilitate our recruitment activities and process employment applications, including evaluating candidates and monitoring recruitment statistics. We also use successful applicants’ information to administer the employment relationship. We may also use and disclose applicants’ information to improve our website and for the compliance and protection purposes described above.

Other Terms and Conditions

Your access to and use of the Site is subject to the Terms of Use at www.thirdrockventures.com. Changes to Third Rock Ventures Privacy Policy Our business may change from time to time. As a result, at times it may be necessary for Third Rock Ventures to make changes to this Privacy Policy. Third Rock Ventures 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.

Update Your Information; Contacting Third Rock Ventures

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 to us.

Please also feel free to contact us if you have any questions about Third Rock Ventures Privacy Policy or our information practices. You may contact us as follows: info@thirdrockventures.com