Cookie policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Geron Corporation (“Geron”, “we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website at www.geron.com or any other site that links ­­to this Cookie Policy (the “Sites”).

Please refer to our Privacy Policy for more information on our privacy practices.

Managing your preferences.

Before we dive into the details – if you are just looking to manage your preferences on our Sites relating to cookies and similar technologies (including opting-out), you can do so at any time through our Privacy Preference Center.

If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of our Sites. For example, we may not be able to recognize your device.

If you want to find out more about cookies and similar technologies on our Sites and emails, please keep reading.

What technologies does Geron use?

Cookies: Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer when you visit a site. Cookies serve different purposes, like helping us understand how a site is being used, letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your browsing experience. There are two types: “session cookies” and “persistent cookies”:

  • Session cookies are cookies that disappear from your device or browser when you close your browser.
  • Persistent cookies stay on your device even after you c­­­­­­­­­­lose your browser.

Please note that both Geron and third-party service providers may set cookies on our Sites – these ‘third party cookies’ are set by domains other than those we control and may recognize your device across different websites.

Pixel tags:

  • A pixel tag is a single pixel, transparent GIF image with a unique identifier that can recognize certain types of data on your device (similar to how cookies do). They are used to operate and improve the Sites and our email practices, including to help deliver cookies, count visits and understand usage and email campaign effectiveness.
  • For example, we may put pixel tags on emails to understand how you interact with that email – for example, whether you opened the email, whether you forwarded it, whether you clicked on a link in the email that directed you to our Sites etc. – these pixels may collect the time, location and operating system of the device you use to read the email.

Other similar technologies:

We may also use other tracking technologies, such as mobile advertising IDs and tags, HTML5 local storage / local shared objects (which store relevant data locally on your device), for similar purposes as described in this Cookie Notice.

So, when we refer to cookies and similar technologies in this Cookie Notice, such reference includes reference to the pixel tags discussed above, HTML5 local storage / local shared objects and other equivalent tracking technologies.

For what reasons do we use cookies and similar technologies?

The purposes for which we use technologies may fall into one of the following categories:

  • Strictly necessary technologies: these technologies are essential to enable our Sites to provide the function you have requested, such as by helping to ensure that the content of a page loads quickly and effectively.
  • Performance cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.
  • Functionality technologies: these technologies allow us to provide enhanced personalization and functionality, such as tailoring content to you, remembering your choices and preferences on the Sites (e.g. language, text size, etc.) or remembering search parameters.
  • Analytics technologies: these technologies collect information on how users interact with our Sites and enable us to improve how it operates and our business more widely.
  • Targeting technologies: these technologies collect information about your browsing habits in order to provide advertising which is more relevant to you and your interests – for example, they remember the Sites you have visited and share that information with other parties such as advertising technology service providers.

A full list of the technologies we use can be found in the section titled: Details of Cookies and Similar Technologies.

Your choices

You can control or limit how cookies and similar technologies are used by taking the following steps:

  • Managing your preferences on our Sites (including by opting-out) at any time by using our Privacy Preference Center.
  • Pixel tags in emails can typically be blocked by default by configuring your preferences in your email client to block external images or setting it to show “plain text only” emails.

For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your computer or mobile device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Also, to learn more about targeting and advertising cookies and your choices more widely, you can go to the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Choice, or if you are in Europe, Your Online Choices.

Finally, if you do not accept certain non-essential cookies and similar technologies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of our Sites. For example, we may not be able to recognize your device.

Details of Cookies and Similar Technologies.

This table shows details of the specific cookies and other similar technologies that we use. Please note that this table (including the cookies and other similar technologies it shows) may change over time.

Strictly necessary cookies

Host Name Type Duration Purpose
ir.geron.com OptanonAlertBoxClosed First Party 1 year This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information.
ir.geron.com contrast First Party Session This cookie provided functionality to the user to adjust contrast levels, where available.
ir.geron.com OptanonConsent First Party 1 year This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.
ir.geron.com __cf_bm First Party A few seconds 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. This is a CloudFoundry cookie
ir.geron.com __uxq412__ses.6327 First Party A few seconds N/A
ir.geron.com __uxq412__id.6327 First Party 2 years N/A
cookie-cdn.cookiepro.com OptanonAlertBoxClosed Third Party 1 year This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information.
cookie-cdn.cookiepro.com OptanonConsent Thrid Party 1 year This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.

Performance Cookies

Host Name Type Duration Purpose
geron.com _gat First Party A few seconds This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.
geron.com _ga First Party 2 years 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. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.
geron.com _gid First Party 1 day This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.
geron.com _gat_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx First Party A few seconds Google Analytics Cookies
cts.businesswire.com JSESSIONID Third Party Session General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written in JSP. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server.
cts.businesswire.com f5avraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa_session_ Third Party Session This cookie is associated with F5’s BIG-IP product set and is an integral part of load balancing. It is used to store the user’s session in order to identify it in the application’s traffic.

Targeting Cookies

Host Name Type Duration Purpose
ir.geron.com awxxxx First Party A few seconds Used to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came.
ir.geron.com sp First Party 1 year This cookie is associated with Eventbrite and is used to deliver content tailored to the end user’s interests and improve content creation. This cookie is also used for event-booking purposes.

Changes

Information about the cookies we use may be updated from time to time, so please check back on a regular basis for any changes.

Questions

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us by email at privacy@geron.com.

Last modified May 25th, 2022.