Terms & Conditions of Use
1. Information about the use of cookies by Terns
We use cookies to provide you with the information included on this website and to ensure a smooth browsing experience. This helps us also to improve our site on an on-going basis.
2. What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information, normally consisting of just letters and numbers, that a website provide, when users visit it. Software (e.g. a web browser) on the user’s device (e.g. a computer, telephone, tablet) can store cookies and send them back to the website next time they visit.
3. What types of cookies are there?
Depending on who manages them:
a. First- party cookies: Those are stored by us directly on your device, when you visit this website. Those cookies are set and managed by us.
b. Third party cookies: Those are set by a domain other than the domain of this website, that you are visiting. This typically occurs when a website incorporates elements from other sites, such as images, social media plugins or advertising. When the browser or the software fetches these elements from the other sites, they can set cookies, as well. Those cookies are not managed by us, but by the third party that processes data obtained from users.
However, we store cookies on your device, only if you agree.
Depending on their purpose:
a. Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you, which amount to a request for services, such as logging in or filling in forms. However, these cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off.
b. Functional Cookies: These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to the website and enables us to personalize our content for you. If you do not accept these cookies, the website’s performance and functionality may be affected and access to the content on the website may be restricted.
c. Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our website. They help us to know, which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the website. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our website and will not be able to monitor its performance.
d. Analytics Cookies: These cookies track user navigation and interaction with the website, collecting information on visitor behaviour and demographics.
e. Advertising/Targeting Cookies: These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly identifiable personal information but are based on unique identifiers for your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
Depending on their storage duration:
a. Session cookies: These cookies expire at the end of a browser session (normally when a user exits the browser), ensuring no information is stored beyond this period.
b. Persistent cookies: These cookies are stored on a user’s device across different browsing sessions. They allow the preferences or actions of the user across a site (or across different websites) to be remembered.
The length of time between a cookie being set and expiry can be set by us or third parties, where third party cookies might be used. A user can also delete previously set persistent cookies manually or configure the browser settings to delete cookies at a set interval.
4. Do we collect any of your personal information, via cookies?
We use cookies to collect automatically certain personal information about you, such as you Internet Protocol (IP) address, location information, your preferred language Internet service provider, types and duration of your activity, details about your browser, information about the links you click and other information about how you use our services. For more information on how and why we use your personal information, please visit our Privacy Policy.
5. How are cookies used in this website?
Below you may find information on how cookies are used on this website.
a. Strictly necessary cookies
We use the following strictly necessary cookies:
| Cookie Name | Source | Purpose | Additional Details | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SSESSXXXXXXXXXXXX | Notified | Logging Into the CMS | Dynamically generated for authenticated users logged into the content management system; this cookie is not set for anonymous website users. | Session |
| SimpleSAMLSessionID | Notified | Logging Into the CMS | Identifies authenticated users who access the CMS via single sign-on; this cookie is not set for anonymous website users. | Session |
| SimpleSAMLAuthToken | Notified | Logging Into the CMS | ||
| ak_bmsc | Akamai | Bot Manager | Used to optimize site security by distinguishing between humans and bots | 2 hours |
| bm_sv | Akamai | Bot Manager | Used for session validation | 2 hours |
| bm_mi | Akamai | Bot Manager | Used for session validation | 2 hours |
| JSESSIONID | NewRelic | Platform Performance | Monitors browser load time for website performance metrics. | Session |
| DrupalVisitorMobile | Drupal | Mobile Device Detection | Determines whether the visitor is originating from a mobile device, and routes the user to a mobile-version if applicable. | Session |
| AWSELBCORS | app.jazz.co | The cookies AWSELB and AWSELBCORS are functionally the same cookies. The latter has an explicit SameSite attribute set because of changes made from Chrome 80 and upwards. | 2 hours | |
| s_cc | Adobe | Website Analytics | Tests whether or not the user accepts cookies. | Session |
| ss_cvt | www.ternspharma.com | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site | 30 minutes | |
| ss_cvr | www.ternspharma.com | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site | 1 year 1 month | |
| crumb | www.ternspharma.com | Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) | Session | |
| test | www.ternspharma.com | Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors | Session | |
| _ga | .ternspharma.com | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. | This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. | 1 year 1 month |
| _gid | .ternspharma.com | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. | It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews. | 1 day |
| _gat_gtag_UA_141702394_1 | .ternspharma.com | Website Analytics | This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to limit requests (throttle request rate). | 53 seconds |
b. Performance/Functional Cookies
We use the following performance/functional cookies:
| Cookie Name | Source | Purpose | Additional Details | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GZIP | IHS Markit | Stock Chart | Standard compression/decompression flag | Session |
| XXXX%5F0 | IHS Markit | Stock Chart | Stores the username to ‘remember’ a user’s login | Session |
| XXXX%5F1 | IHS Markit | Stock Chart | Generated for all requests to for dynamic stock charts, | Session (expires after 60 minutes) |
| Drupal.visitor.auth_token | Notified | Protecting content | Remembers authentication token for users visiting protected sites or pages | 24 hours |
| omn_data | Notified | Website Analytics | Allows customers to single sign on into their Adobe report suite. | Session |
| _ga_1DKW3KCJGY | .ternspharma.com | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. | 1 year 1 month | |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Spam Protection | Used to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks | 179 days |
c. Analytics cookies
We use the following analytics cookies:
| Cookie Name | Source | Purpose | Additional Details | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| s_sq | Adobe | Website Analytics | Tracks the last link clicked by the user for use in the analytics suite. This cookie is set and read by javascript code. | Session |
| s_vi | Adobe | Website Analytics | This cookie is used to identify a unique visitor | 2 years |
| AMCV_###@AdobeOrg | Adobe | Website Analytics | Unique visitor IDs used by Experience Cloud Solutions. | 2 years |
| AMCVS_####@AdobeOrg | Adobe | Website Analytics | Flags whether a session has been initialized. Its value is always 1 and discontinues when the session has ended. | Session |
| YSC | .youtube.com | Website Analytics | This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. | Session |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | .youtube.com | Website Analytics | This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites;it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface. | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | .youtube.com | 6 months |
d. Vendor Cookies
We use the following vendor cookies:
| Cookie Name | Source | Purpose | Additional Details | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JSESSIONID | Business Wire | Platform Performance | Enables the web application to identify users during their browsing session. | Session |
| BWcookie | Business Wire | Verifies that javascript is enabled for correct browsing behavior. | Session | |
| incap_ses_####_SESSIONID | Globenewswire | Platform Performance | Load balancing | Session |
| c | Cision | Targeting/ Advertising | This domain is owned by IPONWEB and is used to provide a real time bidding platform for online advertising. | |
| JSESSIONID | Cision | Platform Performance | ||
| __cfduid | Cision | Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to speed up page load times. According to CloudFlare it is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information. | ||
| __cf_bm | Cision | Bot Manager | The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. |
6. How can you accept, refuse or configure the cookies we use on this website?
You can use our cookie consent tool (i.e. cookies banner) to manage your cookies:
By clicking “Allow All”, you accept and give your consent to us to use all cookies on our website, which require your consent.
By clicking “Modify Cookie Settings”, you can choose which cookies you decide to accept or reject.
By clicking “Reject All”, you can reject the use of all cookies requiring your consent.
Please kindly note that, according to the applicable legislation, cookies whose sole purpose is to enable or facilitate communication by electronic means or which are strictly necessary for the provision of an online communication service at your express request, will not require your prior consent.
However, for cookies that do require your prior consent and where you have previously provided it, you have the right to withdraw such consent at any time. You may do so by clicking on the blue icon on the bottom-left corner of the Website to access the cookie consent management tool (i.e. cookies banner) and proceed as specified above. Withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent prior to its withdrawal.
Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.
Information captured through cookies is stored for a certain retention period. However, you can eliminate these cookies any time before the expiration date through your browser settings as follows:
You can also opt-out of analytics using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on Download Page.
For more information on cookies installed through this website, you can contact our Privacy Office at: privacy@ternspharma.com
7. Policy Update
This policy may be updated periodically, so it is recommended to consult this document each time you access the website, in order to be properly informed about any updates to our use of cookies.