Privacy Policy

Last updated April 9, 2025

AbCellera Biologics Inc. (“ABCELLERA” , “We”, or “Our”) respects the privacy of individuals who visit our website (AbCellera.com; “Website”) or respond to our interactive advertisements. This Policy outlines the information ABCELLERA may collect from individuals such as yourself that use our Website, and how we may use that information. This Policy also describes how you can exercise your privacy rights to, for example, access or rectify personal information.

Please review this Policy and the related cookie banner before accessing this Website. Continued use of the Website will constitute your acceptance of this Policy and cookie banner. If you submit personal information to ABCELLERA in association with this Website, we assume that you agree your information will be handled according to this Policy.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998, the General Data Protection Regulation, and the British Columbia Personal Information Protection Act, the data controller is:

AbCellera Biologics Inc.
150 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Y 1G6

Personal Information We Collect
Use of Personal Information
Use of Cookies
Right of Access and Rectification
Right to Withdraw Consent
Privacy for Children
Privacy on Other Sites
Data Storage and Security
Sharing Personal Information with Third Parties
Non-Personal Information Collected Automatically
Changes to Our Policy
Contact Information

Personal Information We Collect

Categories of Personal Information: ABCELLERA will not collect any personally identifiable information about you, including your name, address or email address, unless you provide it to us voluntarily or as may otherwise be described in this Policy and our cookie banner. If you do not want your personally identifiable information collected, please do not submit it to us.

Information You Give Us: We collect information you provide to our Website, including name, email address, and other provided identification.

Information We Collect Automatically Using Technology: We use automated technology to collect information, such as your browsing activity on our Website and your IP address.

Information from Third Party Sources: If you provide your personal information to third parties that interact with ABCELLERA, we may receive that personal information from those third parties in the course of our business.

How we collect Personal Information: We may collect personal information from you via your interaction with the Website and through your use of our services and product offerings. Sometimes, we may ask for your explicit consent to collect personal information. At other times, your use of the Website comprises your consent to collect personal information using the methods outlined in this Policy.

Purposes for collecting Personal Information: We may collect your personal information to provide, or improve upon, business services offered to you and to other consumers. We, or third party companies acting on behalf of ABCELLERA, may also collect IP addresses for the purposes of systems administration, auditing the use of our Website, and improving our products and services. We do not link a user’s IP address to personally identifiable information of that user; each user’s session may be logged but the user remains anonymous to us. If ABCELLERA desires to use your personal information in a manner not identified to you at the time of its collection or that is not required by law, we will ask for your updated consent.

Use of Personal Information

When you do provide us with personally identifiable information, we may use that information in the following ways and in accordance with the terms of this Policy unless stated otherwise:

• • We may store and process it to better understand your needs and how we can improve our products and services;
• • We may use it to personalize services and make recommendations; and/or
• • We may use it to contact, advertise and market to you.

We may retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill these purposes, unless the law or an exceptional situation requires us to keep it longer.

Use of Cookies

We use cookies to help us improve the overall performance of the Website as well as your user experience. Our cookies fall within one of the six following categories:

1. Necessary (Always Active):
   Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of the Website, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
2. Functional:
   Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the Website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
3. Analytics:
   Analytical cookies are used to understand how you may interact with the Website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors and source of internet traffic.
4. Performance:
   Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the Website, which help us deliver a better user experience to you.
5. Advertisement:
   Advertisement cookies may provide you with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously, and may analyze the effectiveness of advertisement campaigns.
6. Uncategorised:
   Other uncategorized cookies include cookies that have not yet been classified into one of the preceding five categories.

You may change the settings on your web browser to clear or disable non-necessary cookies. If you decide not to accept non-necessary cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of all features of our Website.

Right of Access and Rectification

You have the right to access and rectify your personal information that ABCELLERA may have collected and stored. To request such action, please send an inquiry to privacy@abcellera.com. You may also request the deletion of outdated information or provide written comments regarding the same.

Right to Withdraw Consent

If you provide your consent for ABCELLERA to collect and store your personal information, you may withdraw that consent later. To withdraw consent, please send a message to privacy@abcellera.com. Depending on the type of personal information, we may no longer be able to offer a service to you that depends on that information. If ABCELLERA’s retention and processing of your personal information is required by law or regulation or to comply with our contractual or legal obligations, you may not be able to withdraw your consent for us to store the particular personal information involved.

Privacy for Children

Our Website is intended for use by professionals and is not intended for children’s use. If we learn that personal information from any person younger than 18 has been collected, we will delete that child’s personal information from our database(s).

Privacy on Other Sites

We may provide links to other websites as a convenience for you. Please exercise caution when visiting any linked websites.

When you visit or make purchases through linked websites or other social media sites, you may be asked to provide personal information, including your name, address, email address, phone number, and/or debit or credit card information. In such cases, if you choose to provide information to them, ABCELLERA has no control over their use of your information. ABCELLERA does not accept responsibility or liability for their information collection, use, disclosure, or the security of your personal information.

Data Storage and Security

Any information that we collect from you is stored on secured server(s). Our server(s) may be located in Canada or elsewhere throughout the world. If you are a Québec resident, your personal information may be communicated to and stored in a location outside of Québec. If we disclose your personal information outside of Québec, we will protect your information with adequate contractual measures.

Only ABCELLERA personnel who need to process your personal information to perform their company duties will access it. Our employees will follow appropriate data handling and protection procedures throughout the processing cycle of your personal information, from collection to destruction. Some of the measures we have implemented to protect your personal information against loss, theft, and unauthorized access and disclosure include:

• • Physical measures, including locked premises and controlled physical storage locations;
• • Technological measures, including firewalls and IT security systems; and
• • Organizational measures, including data security practices and procedures.

No data security system is perfect or fully guaranteed. If you believe your interaction with us is no longer secure or has been compromised by an outside party, please contact privacy@abcellera.com.

Sharing Personal Information with Third Parties

ABCELLERA will not sell, rent, or lease personally identifiable information to any third party for any purpose. Selected third parties may provide ABCELLERA with support services in connection with its websites and such parties may, from time to time, have access to your information to enable them to provide those services to ABCELLERA. However, all companies providing such support services are required to meet the same standards of data protection as ABCELLERA and are prohibited from using the information for their own marketing purposes.

We may disclose your personally identifiable information in the following circumstances:

• • We have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to you, or otherwise injuring or interfering with ABCELLERA’s rights, property or operations, other users of this site, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities; or
• • We believe the law requires it, or in response to any demand by law enforcement authorities in connection with a criminal investigation, or civil or administrative authorities in connection with a pending civil case or administrative investigation.

Non-Personal Information Collected Automatically

In some cases, we may also collect information about you that is not personal or capable of identifying a particular individual. Examples of this type of information include the type of Internet browser you are using, the type of computer operating system you are using and the domain name of the website from which you linked to our site or advertisement.

Changes to Our Policy

The Policy is effective as of the update date shown above. We may change our Policy or cookie banner from time to time. Such changes will take effect at the time of publication. Please check back to see any updates.

Contact Information

Questions regarding our Policy should be addressed to:

AbCellera Biologics Inc.
ATTN: Chief Compliance Officer and Privacy Officer Tryn Stimart
150 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Y 1G6

Email address for questions: privacy@abCellera.com

You also may connect to us via the Website.

To learn more about your rights under Canadian and Québec laws, please visit the following links for Canada and Québec

We remain committed to protecting your personal information. Thank you for taking the time to review and understand our Policy.