Cookie Notice

This Cookie Notice is part of Ocular Therapeutix Inc.’s Global Privacy Notice and describes how Ocular and its affiliates (“Ocular,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) use technical activity and usage technologies (as defined below) on our websites and other online services we operate and that link to this Cookie Notice (collectively, the “Site”).

This Cookie Notice describes:

• what are technical activity and usage technologies and what they do (defined below as Usage Technologies);
• the types of information collected, and how and why we use Usage Technologies on our Site;
• when and how other companies may use Usage Technologies on our Site; and
• your rights and choices regarding our use of Usage Technologies on our Site.

What are Usage Technologies and What Information if Collected

We periodically evaluate our use of Usage Technologies and will update this Cookie Notice as our practices change. We will indicate the effective date at the top of this notice.

Our Use of Usage Technologies

We and certain third parties use technical activity and usage technologies, known as cookies, web beacons (or tags, pixels, or clear GIFs), and other similar technologies (collectively, “Usage Technologies”). Below is a chart that lists our and third-party Usage Technologies we use.

We use these Usage Technologies to collect certain identifying and non-identifying information about visitors to and devices used by visitors on our Sites; interactions with our emails, advertisements, and social media plugins; to honor navigation and content preferences; to establish and monitor network connections; to maintain and monitor the proper functioning of our Sites; to monitor and manage security and performance issues; to administer authenticated sections of the Site; to enable certain special features and functionality (including from third parties) on our Sites; and to generate usage and activity analytics to better understand and improve the use and performance of our Sites and their features. When Usage Technology we own and control collects information that identifies you directly or indirectly, or where such information is deemed to be Personal Data under applicable law, we will handle that information as described in the relevant Ocular Privacy Notice.

Usage Technologies often store the name of the website and a unique ID associated with the browser or device used to access the Site. This information allows us to retrieve or provide the correct information concerning the visit to our Site, including whether the same device or browser was used and the frequency of visits. These are also used to remember personal navigation or content preferences, to authenticate access and identity, monitor through IP addresses, collect browsing history, and to better under that the use of the Site (such as links clicked and navigation to, within, and from our Site). Each Usage Technology may vary in the way it retrieves information, how it stores it, and the extent of information it provides.

The retention period of Usage Technologies in your device will vary. Our Site uses single-session (transient) and multi-session (persistent) Usage Technologies. Transient Usage Technologies last only as long as the device’s web browser is open, and the information collected is used for technical purposes such as enabling better navigation on our Sites. Once you close your browser, the transient Usage Technology disappears. Persistent Usage Technologies are stored on your device for longer periods and are used for purposes which include tracking the number of unique visitors to our Site and information such as the number of views a page gets, how much time a device or user spends on a page, and other pertinent web statistics. If you wish to disable the use of Usage Technologies or remove them at any time from your device, you can disable or delete them using your browser (consult your browser’s “Help” menu to learn how to delete cookies and other Usage Technologies); however, you must enable certain Usage Technologies to access certain information on our Site. 

Depending on the Site you access, the Site may have a specific notice on Usage Technologies used on that site that supplements this Cookie Notice. If the Site has a specific notice, please refer to that notice directly for more information about specific Usage Technologies used on that Site.

Web Beacons

We use web beacons to see if someone has used or accessed certain content, to measure the effectiveness of our advertising, and how users interact with the Sites. A web beacon is an often-transparent graphic image, usually no larger than 1 pixel x 1 pixel, that is placed on a website or in an e-mail. We primarily use web beacons to help us understand which areas of our Site are most popular with our visitors, to improve and update the content on our Site, and measure the effectiveness of our marketing, for example, by counting the number of individuals who visit our Site or open an email message or click a link. Although a third-party logs the information coming from our Sites on our behalf, we control how that data may and may not be used. You may be able to stop this data collection by installing available browser extensions (depending on your browser type) and other actions. For more information on this, visit clickguard.com.

Social Media Plug-Ins

Ocular offers social media plug-ins for third-party social networks (each a “Social Media Company” and collectively, “Social Media Companies”) that include Facebook, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram. For example, we have Facebook like and share buttons, a tweet button for X, and embedded videos that offer certain interactive features.  We and the Social Media Company track your interactions with these functions. Integration of the plug-ins allows Social Media Companies to receive information that you have loaded onto our Site. When you visit our Site, the operators of the social media plug-ins place Usage Technologies on your computer that enable them to recognize you on their websites after you have visited our Site, or that enable them to add the information collected from your visit to our Site with your prior activity on those websites. 

We do not control what information is collected by the social media plug-ins or the information practices adopted by those Social Media Companies. This information exchange takes place automatically. To prevent this exchange, you can log out of your social media account(s) before using the Site and/or disable Usage Technologies through your device’s web browser. 

For more information on the purpose and scope of the data collection and how it is processed by Social Media Companies, please refer to the privacy policies provided below. There you will also find further information about your rights and setting options for the protection of your privacy.

• Facebook Inc., http://www.facebook.com/help/186325668085084 and https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/.
• X Corp., https://x.com/en/privacy. 
• LinkedIn Corporation, http://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
• YouTube, https://policies.google.com/privacy.
• Instagram, https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/. 

Kinds of Usage Technologies We Use