Privacy Policy
Shorla Pharma (‘Shorla’ or ‘we’ or ‘us’) is committed to safeguarding the privacy of visitors to its website https://www.shorlapharma.com (the ‘Site’) as well as the privacy of persons or companies who interact with Shorla, provide data to Shorla about their company, products, or people, including confidential or personal data. This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) sets out the terms on which Shorla processes any personal data that we collect from you or that you provide to Shorla or that we hold about you as a result of having interacted with you. By using the public Site, or by emailing us, giving us your business card, phoning or mailing us, you consent to such processing.
The information Shorla collects
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. You are not required to provide any personal or business information through this Site or via email, mail or other method. However, you may choose to do so by, for example, contacting us through our website, sharing your business card at an event, or by submitting information about your company or an innovative product that you are developing by electronic, telephonic, ordinary mail or by any other means. In addition, we sometimes hold Personal Data of contacts who have been introduced to us by other contacts in our corporate network, via websites, social media etc., or through other industry blogs, newsletters and media.
How Shorla uses this information
Shorla will use the information you provide on the relevant sections of the Site or by electronic, telephonic or other means, (i) to provide you with access to content either through the download of materials , (ii) in order to provide you with relevant updates or news selected by Shorla, (iii) in order to evaluate investment opportunities that you have offered to Shorla for evaluation; (iv) in order to improve the user experience of our website and help us to understand our visitor profile and interest in our business.
Shorla will only disclose your information to third parties where you have given your consent, or where third parties are contracted by us to help us with managing data, or where Shorla is required to do so by law or by a regulatory body, or where it is necessary for the purpose of, or in connection with, legal proceedings or in order to exercise or defend Shorla’s legal rights and, as the case may be, those of its partners and staff members.
Where Shorla enters into due diligence for the purposes of evaluating opportunities presented to it for investment, Shorla will if requested sign the Shorla Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with the entity or individual offering the investment opportunity.
We use personal data that we collect to fulfil contractual or regulatory obligations, for communication purposes and to maintain and expand our network. This includes sending updates about Shorla’s news, invitations to events and meetings, and to communicate, interact and correspond with our network generally on a day to day basis for legitimate business reasons via electronic, telephonic or postal means. We rely on our legitimate interests in maintaining business relationships and communicating with our contacts as a business contact, about our Shorla activities, events and news. We consider that our legitimate interests are in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and with all of our contacts’ legal rights and freedoms.
Where Personal Data is stored
Shorla stores data on our own servers in Ireland.
How long do we keep Personal Data
Personal data will be saved for the specified purposes mentioned above for as long as each contact continues to be a business contact. Our contacts can opt-out at any time, if they no longer wish to receive communications from us. Our contacts can also ask us to change or completely delete their personal data any time.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Cookies
Shorla is collecting and processing information regarding the browsing by visitors on the Site via its logging systems. In addition, Shorla uses two types of cookies on the Site.
Strictly necessary cookies – Some of the cookies on the Site are essential in order to enable you to move around the Site and use its features. This includes accessing secure download areas of the Site.
Performance cookies – Some of the cookies on the Site collect information about how visitors use the Site, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
IP addresses
When you visit the Site, Shorla’s server will record your IP address together with the date, time and duration of your visit. An IP address is an assigned number, which allows your computer to communicate over the Internet. It enables Shorla to identify which organisations have visited the Site. Shorla uses this information to compile statistical data on the use of the Site to track how users navigate through the Site in order to enable Shorla to evaluate and improve the Site and understand the interest areas of visitors and the types of visitors who use our Site.
Emails
All email messages sent to and from Shorla may be monitored to ensure compliance with internal policies, for IT security purposes and to protect Shorla’s interests. Emails and attachments received may be stored in soft or hard copy.
Security
Shorla uses up-to-date data storage and security techniques to protect your personal and business data from unauthorised access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorised modification or unlawful destruction or accidental loss. All Shorla’s employees and any relevant third parties it engages to process your personal and business data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your data.
Your Rights
You have the right to ask what personal data Shorla holds about you and to have any inaccurate information about you corrected. You also have the right to be forgotten as outlined in the GDPR. If you have left comments on this Site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. In order to submit a request for such please complete the Data Subject Request Form.
Click here to submit Data Subject Request Form.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Contact Information
The processing of personal data in the framework of this Site and through any of our communications channels is carried out under the authority of Shorla Pharma with registered offices at Questum Acceleration Center
Ballingarrane Science & Technology Park, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, being the data controller.