Cookie Policy

Effective as of January 1, 2024.

What does this Cookie Policy cover?

This Cookie Policy explains how Spruce Biosciences, Inc. (“Spruce”, “we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and other similar technologies on our websites that link to this Cookie Policy (the “Site”), as well as in our emails. It also outlines your choices around managing these cookies and similar technologies.

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 Site relating to cookies and similar technologies (including opting-out), you can do so at any time through our website.

If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of our Site. For example, we may not be able to recognise your device and you may need to log in every time you visit our Site.

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

What types of technologies does Spruce use?

We may use any or all of the following “technologies” on our Site and in our emails:

Cookies:

A cookie is a very small text file that may be placed on your browser or in the storage on your device. 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 Spruce and third-party service providers may set cookies via our Site – these ‘third party cookies’ are set by domains other than those we control and may recognise your device across different websites.

Other similar technologies:

We may also use other tracking technologies, such as 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 Policy.

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

Why do we use cookies and similar technologies?

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

• Necessary technologies: these technologies are essential in order to enable our Site to provide the function you have requested, such as by helping to ensure that the content of a page loads quickly and effectively.
• Non-Necessary technologies: these technologies allow us to provide enhanced personalisation and functionality, such as tailoring content to you, remembering your choices and preferences on the Site (e.g. language, text size, etc.) or remembering search parameters. These technologies also collect information on how users interact with our Site and enable us to improve how it operates and our business more widely. In particular, for more details about how Google uses data in the context of Google Analytics, please see here: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

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

How can you manage your consent?

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

• Managing your preferences on our Site (including by opting-out) at any time through our website.
• 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 about the cookies have been set on your 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 Site. For example, we may not be able to recognise your device where expected.

Details of Cookies and Similar Technologies

Below are details of the specific cookies and other similar technologies that we use. The details shown below (including the cookies and other similar technologies shown there) may change over time.

Changes to this Cookie Policy

Information about the cookies and similar technologies we use may be updated from time to time, so please check this Cookie Policy on a regular basis for any changes.

Questions

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