Privacy Statement

Cassia, LLC. (“Cassia”) respects the privacy of personal information relating to individuals and values the confidence of its employees, customers, vendors and partners.

This Privacy Policy sets forth Cassia’ practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personally identifiable information collected in connection with your use of this website. Please read this entire Privacy Policy before using this site or submitting personally identifiable information to Cassia through this website.

By using this site and whenever you submit information through this site to Cassia, you agree with the terms of Cassia’ Privacy Policy written below.

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROCESSING OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION?

Cassia, LLC, with offices in the United States, is responsible for processing your personally identifiable information.

PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION:

Cassia may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, job title, business name, industry segment, telephone number and email address, when you visit our website. Cassia may collect this information through its “Contact” page.

Cassia also collects Internet Protocol (IP) address information, which may be considered personally identifiable information in some jurisdictions, and we may use the IP address to analyze information about visits to and activity on our website, such as the date and time our site was visited, location associated with the IP address, pages viewed, whether a visitor came to our website through a search engine or other site. We also may use the IP address to collect additional information through service providers, such as the identity and other information about organizations associated with the IP addresses that visit our website.

COOKIES AND OTHER NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION:

Cookies allow us to bring you the content and features likely to be of greatest interest to you based on our previous activities on our site. We use other non-personally identifiable information, including information obtained through surveys, to improve this site.

We may sometimes collect information about your usage of our site through cookies and similar technology. There are two types of cookies: session cookies (non-persistent cookies) and persistent cookies. Session cookies temporarily store non-personally identifiable information about your visit to our website in your computer’s memory. The cookie is deleted as soon as you close your browser. Persistent or permanent cookies will uniquely identify your browser and will permanently save in your computer’s memory information requested by the website.

With cookies, the information that we collect and share is anonymous and not personally identifiable. It does not contain your name, address, telephone number, or email address.

We may also track the total number of visitors to our website, the number of visitors to each page of the website, and the domain names of our visitors’ Internet service providers. We may ask users that have opted to receive information to complete a survey. No personally identifiable information is gathered in any of these processes.

HOW CASSIA USES THIS PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION:

Communicate with you about our business
Provide publications, products and services you have requested
Invite you to, and register you for, events
Add you to mailing lists and send you marketing materials we believe will be of interest to you
Process and respond to requests, enquiries and complaints; and for other purposes and operations which are reasonably related, such as administering, monitoring and improving this site, our products and services
Cassia does not sell any of your personally identifiable information for marketing or advertising purposes

STORAGE AND TRANFER OF INFORMATION:

Cassia may store personally identifiable data collected via this site in an electronic database. In addition, personally identifiable data collected through the “Contact” Cassia function on this site may be stored by Cassia at Cassia’ hosting site, Web.com. Cassia may also exchange such data with you over the internet or over intranet systems for the purposes of processing the data, mailing information to you in response to your request, or otherwise carrying out the services described above. We may also release your personally identifiable data in response to a court order, subpoena, search warrant, or applicable law or regulation. Your information may be accessed by third party service providers who will process that information solely for our benefit and in accordance with our instructions.

We use measures that are appropriate to protect your personally identifiable information against unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, and all our employees and any third parties that process your personally identifiable information on our behalf are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your information.

While Cassia makes every reasonable effort to protect the personally identifiable data collected through its website, please be aware that there is always some risk involved when submitting data over the Internet. We cannot guarantee that our website is 100% safe from illegal tampering or “hacking.”

STORAGE PERIOD:

We retain information that is collected through this site for as long as needed for the purpose for which it was provided, or as otherwise required for our legitimate business purposes. Your information may be retained for longer periods if there are valid legal grounds, for example if required by law or court order or to defend or pursue legal claims.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION:

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide as described in the privacy policy:

To our affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it, such as to provide you with information you have requested or to complete and deliver a purchase transaction you have initiated.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.

WE MAY ALSO DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION:

To comply with any court order, subpoena, search warrant, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our Website Terms of Use or Standard Terms and Conditions of Purchase, and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes (see www.cassiallc.com for these documents).
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Cassia, our customers, or others.

The majority of the personally identifiable information collected by Cassia is provided by you voluntarily through your use of www.cassiallc.com, for example, when you complete a request on its “Contact” page, and therefore is collected with your permission. The remaining personally identifiable information is collected for Cassia’ legitimate business purposes, for example to monitor and improve the quality of www.cassiallc.com and our services, and to protect and defend our rights, property or safety or that of our customers and other users of www.cassiallc.com.

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION:

YOUR INFORMATION CHOICES:

You have a number of rights regarding the processing of your personally identifiable information by Cassia. Subject to any statutory or legal requirements applicable to Codexis to maintain such personally identifiable information, you may:

Request access to the personally identifiable information we process about you;
Request corrections of your personally identifiable information;
Request erasure or deletion of your personally identifiable information;
Request restriction or further processing of your personally identifiable information;
Object to the further processing of your personally identifiable information;
Withdraw any future consent with future effect.

If at any time you wish to stop receiving emails or other communications from us, or if you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to make any request, objection or withdrawal as provided above, please notify us at info@cassiallc.com.

You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority if you believe that your personally identifiable information has been collected or used in breach of relevant privacy legislation.

As a reminder to you when exchanging emails, any email that you send or receive on your employer’s email system may be the property of your employer. Consequently, your employer may have the ability to review your personally identifiable information sent via email.

Please note that although we attempt to adhere to requests to remove personally identifiable information from our records, it may not be possible to remove all copies depending on the manner in which the information was submitted to us.

COOKIES AND OTHER NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION:

Your Web browser can be set to allow you to control whether you will accept cookies, reject cookies, or to notify you each time a cookie is sent to you. If your browser is set to reject cookies, sites like ours that are cookie-enabled will not recognize you when you return to the site and some site functionality may be lost.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES:

As a convenience to our visitors, our sites may contain links to a number of other (non-Cassia) sites that we believe may offer useful information. The privacy policy presented here does not apply to those sites. You should contact these sites directly for information on their privacy policies, confidentiality agreements, and data collection/distribution procedures.

Please note that linked non-Cassia sites may also use cookies. Cassia cannot control the use of cookies by these non-Cassia sites. In addition, when you link from a Cassia website to another website, that site may have the ability to recognize that you have come from a Cassia site. If you do not want any other websites to know that you have been on this website, we recommend that you do not use the links provided in our site.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS:

We use Google Analytics to optimize traffic to and between corporate websites and integrate and optimize web pages where appropriate. “Google Analytics” is a service offered by Google Inc. (“Google”) that generates detailed statistics about a website’s traffic and traffic sources and measures conversions and sales. Google Analytics uses “cookies” stored on your computer to help analyze how users use our website.

The information generated by the cookies about your use of our website, including your IP address, will be anonymized by use of the appropriate settings and transmitted to Google servers in the United States. For more information on how IP anonymization works please see:

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052.

On behalf of Cassia, Google will use the personally identifiable information generated by the cookies for the purpose of evaluating the use of our website, compiling reports on website activity providing us with these reports for analytical purposes.

Google may transfer this personally identifiable information to third parties in case of a statutory obligation or if a third party processes data on behalf of Google. Under no circumstances, Google will combine or associate your IP address with other data stored at Google.

You may prevent or stop the installation and storage of cookies by your browser by downloading and installing the free Opt-out Browser Add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. By opting out, you may lose some functionality of our website.

By using our website you consent to the processing of any personally identifiable information Google will collect on you in the way and for the purpose as described above.

CHILDREN’S POLICY:

We are committed to complying with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Our websites are not intended or designed to attract children under the age of 16. We do not collect personally identifiable information from any person we actually know is a child under the age of 16. If we receive personally identifiable information that we discover was provided by a child under the age of 16, we will promptly destroy such information.

CALIFORNIA PRIVICY RIGHTS:

Pursuant to California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83), we inform you that we do not presently disclose personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. If we do make such disclosures in the future, we will afford you the right to opt-out of such disclosures at that time.

PRIVICY POLICY UPDATES:

Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this page. If a change to this Privacy Policy results in a materially different use of your personally identifiable information provided prior to the date of the change, you may opt out of such use by providing notice to Cassia.

Last Updated: 17 January 2024