Cookie Policy

1. About This Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Alkira Bio Pty Ltd ("the Company," "we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on alkirabio.com and the Alkira compound ranking platform. It supplements our Privacy Policy. Alkira Bio Pty Ltd is registered at Level 3, 700 Swanston Street, Carlton VIC 3052, Melbourne, Australia.

The platform serves medicinal chemists who submit compound libraries for binding affinity, toxicity, and synthesizability scoring. Cookies on alkirabio.com are used to maintain your research session, remember your preferences, and measure how researchers interact with the scoring workflow.

2. What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They allow us to recognise your device, store preferences, and measure usage. We also use related technologies such as local storage to hold session state between scoring runs.

3. How We Use Cookies

Category	Examples	Lifetime
Strictly necessary	Session token, CSRF protection, cookie-banner state	Session - 12 months
Preferences	Display settings, scoring view preferences	Up to 12 months
Analytics	Self-hosted, anonymised usage statistics (scoring run counts, feature interaction)	Up to 13 months
Marketing	Not currently used	N/A

4. Notice and Choice

The Company operates a notice-only cookie model under Australian privacy practice. By continuing to use the Service, you acknowledge our use of cookies as described in this policy. You can opt out of analytics cookies at any time through our cookie banner or by configuring your browser. Strictly necessary cookies cannot be disabled without impairing core platform functionality such as authenticated scoring sessions.

5. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies may be set by third-party providers acting as the Company's service providers -- for example, anonymised analytics services. The Company has data-processing agreements with such providers limiting their use of data to the purpose of providing services to Alkira Bio.

6. Managing Cookies

• Use the cookie banner shown on your first visit to acknowledge our use, or select "Cookie preferences" in the site footer at any time.
• Browser settings allow you to block or delete cookies at the device level; see aboutcookies.org for instructions specific to your browser.
• If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, the Company will not initialise analytics tracking for your session regardless of banner state.

7. Changes and Contact

The Company may update this policy as our use of cookies changes. The "Last updated" date above will reflect any change.

Alkira Bio Pty Ltd
Level 3, 700 Swanston Street, Carlton VIC 3052
Melbourne, Australia
Email: [email protected]