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BioNanoSim (BNS) Ltd. (“BNS”, “we” or “us”) welcomes you (“you”, “user”) to BNS’s website (the “Site”).

Please carefully read the following terms and conditions (these “Terms”).

Consent and Modification

Your use of the Site and is subject to these Terms. By accessing the Site, you are agreeing to be bound by these Terms and all applicable laws and regulations. If you do not agree with any of these Terms, you are prohibited from accessing or using this Site, in any manner.

We may modify, suspend or discontinue (temporarily or permanently) the Site or revise these Terms from time to time, without prior notice.

When we do, we will revise the “last updated” date given below. It is your responsibility to review these Terms frequently and to remain informed of any changes made. The then-current version of these Terms will supersede all earlier versions. You agree that your continued use of the Site will constitute your acceptance of such revised Terms.

Use of the Site

The Site provides content and information about BNS, its activities, personnel, areas of practice, activities and more. The Site’s content is presented for informative purposes only. The information and content provided on and through this Site does not, and is not intended to, constitute any form of professional advice.

You may contact us by using the ‘Contact’ form available on our Site. To complete our online form, we will ask you to provide us with certain contact information, as further described in our Privacy Notice, which can be viewed here: https://www.bionanosim.com/privacy-policy/. Should you provide false, incorrect, incomplete or outdated information, you may impair our ability to contact you.

Nothing on the Site, including submission of “Contact Us” forms, obligates us to contact you and/or make any engagements or business arrangement with you, engage in any present or future activities or engage in any discussions or negotiations with you.

The following terms define the acceptable use of the Site and its content. You further agree that you are solely responsible for all acts or omissions associated with your access and use of the Site and the access and use of the Site by anyone on your behalf. When using the Site, you agree to refrain from:

breaching these Terms or any other applicable rules and instructions that BNS may convey with respect to the use of the Site;

• interfering with, burdening or disrupting the functionality of the Site;
• breaching the security of the Site or identifying any security vulnerabilities in it;
• circumventing or manipulating the operation, or functionality of the Site, or attempting to enable features or functionalities that are otherwise disabled, inaccessible or undocumented in the Site;
• using or launching any automated system, including without limitation, robots, crawlers and similar applications to collect and compile content from the Site, for the purposes of competing with the Site, or in such ways that may impair or disrupt the Site’s functionality;
• displaying the Site or any part thereof in an exposed or concealed frame, or linking to elements on the Site, such as images, content and videos, independently from the web pages on which they originally appear;
• impersonating any person or entity, or making any false statement pertaining to your identity, employment, agency or affiliation with any person or entity; and/or using the Site in a manner that violates the law.

Links to other sites and online sources

The Site may include links to other Sites and online sources. BNS does not operate or monitor these Sites. By linking to a certain Site, BNS does not endorse or sponsor its content, or confirm its accuracy, credibility, authenticity, validity, integrity or legality. BNS assumes no responsibility or liability for such third party Sites.

 Privacy

We respect your privacy. BNS’s Privacy Notice, which can be viewed here https://www.bionanosim.com/privacy-policy/ explains our privacy practices on the Site and is incorporated by reference to these Terms.

Intellectual property

All rights, title and interest on the Site, including the content, patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade names, service marks, trade secrets, domain names and other intellectual property rights, and any goodwill associated therewith, are owned by BNS.

Unless expressly permitted in these Terms, you may not copy, distribute, display or perform publicly, sublicense, decompile, disassemble, reduce to human readable form, execute publicly, make available to the public, adapt, make commercial use, process, compile, translate, sell, lend, rent, reverse engineer, combine with other software, modify or create derivative works of any of the content on the Site, which is subject to intellectual property or other proprietary rights, either by yourself or by a third party on your behalf, in any way or by any means, including, but not limited to electronic, mechanical or optical means.

You may not adapt or use otherwise any name, mark or logo that is identical, or confusingly similar to the trademarks, service marks, domain names and logos of BNS.

You must refrain from any action or omission which may dilute, or tarnish BNS’s goodwill.

You agree to abide by all messages and signs pertaining to proprietary rights, such a copyright mark [©] accompanying the content. You agree to retain and avoid distorting such signs and notices in any copy thereof.

Changes in the Site

BNS may change the Site’s layout, design or display, as well as the scope and availability of the content and the Site, without giving any prior notice. You agree and acknowledge that BNS does not assume any responsibility with respect to, or in connection with the introduction of such changes or from any malfunctions or failures that may result therefrom.

Site availability

The availability and functionality of the Site depends on various factors and elements, including software, hardware and communication networks that are partially provided by third parties. These factors are not fault free. BNS does not warrant or guarantee that the Site will operate without disruption, errors or interruptions, or that it will be accessible, or available at all times, or immune from unauthorized access or error free.

Termination of operation

BNS may at all times, in its sole discretion, terminate the operation of the Site, or any part thereof, temporarily or permanently. BNS may not give any notice prior to the termination of the Site. At any time, BNS may block, remove or delete any content from the Site, without maintaining any backup copy. You agree and acknowledge that BNS does not assume any responsibility with respect to, or in connection with the termination of the Site’s operations and loss of any data.

Disclaimer of Warranty

The Site may contain descriptions of certain activities and results. Each of these matters and the results were dependent on their specific circumstances, and are in no way intended to be predictive of future results, even in similar circumstances, or offer any type of guarantee or assurance of outcome.

WITHOUT DEROGATING FROM THE FOREGOING, THE SITE IS PROVIDED FOR USE “AS IS”. BNS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO THE SITE, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, QUALITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, TITLE, COMPATIBILITY, PERFORMANCE, SECURITY OR ACCURACY. YOU AGREE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE USE OF THE SITE IS ENTIRELY, OR AT THE MAXIMUM PERMITTED BY THE APPLICABLE LAW, AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Limitation of Liability

BNS, INCLUDING BNS’S OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, SHAREHOLDERS, EMPLOYEES, SUB-CONTRACTORS AND AGENTS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE APPLICABLE LAW, FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGE, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGE, AND LOSS (INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFIT AND LOSS OF DATA), COSTS, EXPENSES AND PAYMENTS, EITHER IN TORT, CONTRACTUAL, OR IN ANY OTHER FORM OF LIABILITY, ARISING FROM, OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, OR FROM ANY FAILURE, ERROR, OR BREAKDOWN IN THE FUNCTION OF THE SITE, OR FROM ANY FAULT, OR ERROR MADE BY BNS’S STAFF OR ANYONE ACTING ON BNS’S BEHALF, OR FROM YOUR RELIANCE ON CONTENT AVAILABLE ON THE SITE, OR FROM ANY COMMUNICATION WITH THE SITE, OR WITH OTHER USERS AND PROFESSIONALS ON OR THROUGH THE SITE.

Assignment

These Terms are personal to you, and you may not assign your rights or obligations hereunder to anyone. BNS, however, may assign these Terms without your notice or consent.

Governing Law

These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Israel without giving effect to its conflict of laws rules and you irrevocably submit to the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in the city of Tel Aviv, Israel.

Entire Agreement

The Terms and the documents referenced herein constitute the entire agreement between you and BNS with respect to the use of the Site and supersedes any and all other agreements.

Failure on BNS’s part to demand performance of any provision in the Terms shall not constitute a waiver of any of BNSs rights under the Terms.

Severability

If any provision of the Terms is held to be illegal, invalid, or unenforceable by a competent court, then the provision shall be performed and enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law, and the remaining provisions of the Terms shall continue to remain in full force and effect.

Survival

The provisions of the intellectual property, disclaimer of warranty, limitation of liability, shall survive the termination, or expiration of the Terms.

 Last Updated: July 2020

This is the privacy notice (“Privacy Notice”) that governs how we, BioNanoSim (BNS) Ltd. (“BioNanoSim” “we”, “our” or “us”), use Personal Information (defined below) that we collect, receive and store about individuals in connection with the use of our website, any sub-domains and any other website that we operate (together with all sub-domains, content and services, the “Site”)

By accessing our Site, you (“you” or “user”) are accepting the terms of this Privacy Notice and consent to our collection, use, disclosure, retention and protection of data that identifies or is associated with you, as a natural person (“personal information”), as described herein.

Capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Privacy Notice shall have the meaning given to them in our Terms of Use that can be found at bionanosim.com/terms.

Updates to Privacy Notice

We may amend this Privacy Notice from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the amended Privacy Notice on the Site. Please review the Privacy Notice periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Notice are effective when they are posted on the Site.

Data Controller of your personal information

BioNanoSim is the data controller of your personal information, and BioNanoSim is responsible for, and controls, the processing of your personal information. If you wish to contact us, you can find our contact details at the end of this Privacy Notice.

Personal information collected

In the context of using the Site, we may collect information about you. This information regularly includes the following:

• If you merely visit the Site: our server logs from your browser or device, which may include your IP address, geolocation data, device identification, device model and type, browser data, browser type, operating system version, screen resolution, information on your usage of the Site and online activities obtained with use of cookies (see below).
• If you contact us (via the Site or via phone, email or letter)​: your name, e-mail address, IP address, information on our communication with you and any additional information you provide us with.

How we collect your personal information

Your personal information is collected in many ways which may include:

• Personal information you provide to us. Information you provide us directly, such as when visiting the Site or communicating with us. You are free to choose which information you want to provide to us or whether you want to provide us with information at all. However, some information, such as your name, email address, mailing address, phone number are necessary in order to be able to contact you in response to your request. Without providing this information, you will not be able to contact us.
• Personal information collected via technology. As you use the Site, we may collect passive information through the use of cookies and other technologies. Please see the provision below entitled (“Cookies and other tracking models “) for more information.
• Personal Information we collect from others. We may collect personal information about you from third parties services. For example, we may receive information about you when you interact with the Site through various social media, for example, via LinkedIn or by logging in through or liking us on Facebook. The data we receive is dependent upon your privacy settings with the social network. You should always review, and if necessary, adjust your privacy settings on third-party websites and services before linking or connecting them to the Site.

How will we use your personal information

The reasons for using your personal information may differ, depending on the purpose of the collection. Regularly, we use your personal information for the following purposes and on the following legal grounds:

• If justified by our legitimate interests. The usage of your personal information may also be necessary for our own business interests. For example, we may use some of your personal information to evaluate and review our business performance, create financial statements, improve the Site or to identify potential cyber security threats. If necessary we may also use your personal information to pursue or defend ourselves against legal claims.
• If you provide your consent. In certain circumstances, we may ask you to grant us separate consent to use your personal information. You are free to deny your consent and the denial will have no negative consequences for you. You are free to withdraw your consent at any time, after granted, with effect going forward. If you have granted us consent to use your personal information, we will use it only for the purposes specified in the consent form. This also includes our marketing campaigns.
• If you sign up to our email newsletter, when providing us with your email address to allow us to use this email address for email marketing or when providing us with your Facebook messenger account, we will use your personal information in our email marketing campaigns or in our Facebook marketing campaigns, respectively. You may unsubscribe from our email newsletters or from our Facebook marketing campaigns at any time by following the link to unsubscribe at the bottom of our marketing emails or on the Facebook marketing campaigns. You may also contact us at the contact details provided at the end of this Privacy Notice to request that we remove you from any of our marketing campaigns.

To comply with legal obligations. We are obligated to retain certain information because of legal requirements, for example, tax or commercial laws.

We will only use your personal information for the purposes for which we have collected them. We will not use your personal information for other purposes. We do not use your personal information for automated individual decision-making.

With whom do we share your personal information?

We may share your personal information with the following third parties:

• Service providers and advisors. Third party vendors and other service providers that perform services for us or on our behalf, which may include marketing campaign services, providing mailing or email services, tax and accounting services, IT services, product fulfilment, data enhancement services, fraud prevention, web hosting, or providing analytics services. These third parties include: Amazon Web Services, Google, etc. Any such service providers will by appropriate data processing agreements be bound to only process the data on BioNanoSim’s behalf and under its instructions.
• Purchasers and third parties in connection with a business transaction. Personal information may be disclosed to third parties in connection with, or during the negotiation of, any merger, sale of BioNanoSim’s shares or assets, financing, reorganization, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion of BioNanoSim’s business, or in the event of a bankruptcy or similar proceedings.
• Law enforcement, regulators and other parties for legal reasons. Third parties as required by law or subpoena or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement; and/or (b) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of BioNanoSim, our users, or others.

How long do we store your personal information?

We will store personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collect the personal information, in accordance with our legal obligations and legitimate business interests. Storage is also subject to the exercise of your rights and choices, as detailed below.

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. In the event that any information under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation and, where appropriate, notify those individuals whose information may have been compromised and take other steps, in accordance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Cookies and other tracking models

The Site may use cookies, web beacons, file information and similar technologies. This will help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the Site and also allows us to improve it.

Cookies are small data files that we transfer to your device’s hard disk (your computer or smartphone) when you visit our Site. Cookies are pieces of code that allow for personalization experience by saving your information, such as user ID and other preferences.

We use or may use the data collected through tracking technologies to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Site; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information, including targeted content and advertising; (c) identify you across multiple devices; (d) provide and monitor the effectiveness of the Site; (e) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, usage, and demographic patterns on the Site (f) diagnose or fix technology problems; and (g) otherwise to plan for and enhance the Site.

We may use the following types of cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. ​These are cookies that are required for the essential operation of the Site such as to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use.
• Analytical/performance cookies​. These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way the Site work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to the Site. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to the Site, the pages you have visited, the links you have followed and may also gather information about your online activity after you leave the Site. We will use this information to make the Site, the advertising displayed on it, and the marketing messages we send to you more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties who provide a service to us for this purpose.
• Third party cookies. Please be aware that advertisers and other third parties may use their own cookies tags when you click on an advertisement or link on the Site. These third parties are responsible for setting out their own cookie and privacy policies.

How to manage cookies?

The cookies we use are designed to help you get the most from the Site but if you do not wish to receive cookies, most browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. Please note that if you choose to refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of the Site. These settings will typically be found in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser.

Other tools

We may collect analytics data or use third-party analytics tools, such as but not limited to Google Analytics, to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Site and to understand more about the demographics of our users.

Your rights and choices

You have the following rights in respect to your personal information that we hold:

• Right of access. You have the right to obtain access to your personal information.
  Right to rectification. You have the right to obtain rectification of your personal information without undue delay where that personal information is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Right to erasure. You have the right to obtain the erasure of your personal information without undue delay in certain circumstances, such as where the personal information is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or processed.
• Right to restriction. You have the right to obtain restriction of the processing undertaken by us of your personal information in certain circumstances, such as, where the accuracy of the personal information is contested by you, for a period of time enabling us to verify the accuracy of that personal information.
• Right to portability. You have the right to request that we transfer personal information collected about you to another organization under certain conditions.
• Right to object. You have a right to object to any processing based on our legitimate interests where there are grounds relating to your particular situation. You can object to marketing activities for any reason whatsoever.

If you wish to exercise one of these rights, please contact us using the contact details below.

Children’s Privacy

The Site is not targeted or directed at children under the age of 18. If you are under 18, you may use the Site only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. We do not knowingly collect or store any personal information from children under the age of 13 without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian. If we discover that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such information from our servers immediately.

How to contact us?

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Notice, or if you want to exercise your rights, please send an email to info@bionanosim.com or write to us at BioNanoSim (BNS) Ltd., Jerusalem BioPark, the Hebrew University-Hadassah Ein Kerem Campus, P.O. Box 12182, Jerusalem 9112101, Israel.

Last updated: July, 2020

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We boast a rich, diverse, and growing pipeline of products – from cosmetics and medical devices to reformulations of known drugs and the creation of new ones – that are at the forefront of new treatment options for hard-to-treat health problems. Our proprietary nanocarrier technologies are used to improve the delivery, stability, and bioactivity of drugs in multiple areas. We operate in diverse verticals that combine quick-to-market, revenue-generating products (CBD-cosmetics), low-risk products of reformulated compounds with a clear path to market, and new chemical entities that answer some of healthcare’s greatest challenges designed to meet market needs. This diverse model enables us to generate new IP and extended patent protection.