LAST UPDATED: July 1, 2025
Bio-Techne Corp. and its affiliates (collectively, the “Company,” “we,” or “us”) want you to be familiar with how we collect, use, and disclose information. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect through:
Collectively, we refer to the Websites, Social Media Pages, emails, and offline business interactions as the “Services.”
This notice does not apply to our job applicants, employees, contractors, owners, directors, or officers where the Personal Information (as defined below) that we collect about those individuals relates to their current, former, or potential role with us.
“Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual. The Services collect Personal Information, which may include:
Collection of Personal Information
We and our service providers collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including:
Use of Personal Information
We and our service providers use Personal Information for the following purposes:
Providing the functionality of the Services and fulfilling your requests
We will engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you and/or to comply with a legal obligation.
Providing you with our newsletter and/or other marketing materials
We will engage in this activity with your consent or where we have a legitimate interest.
Analyzing Personal Information for business reporting and providing personalized services
We will provide personalized services based on our legitimate interests, and with your consent to the extent required by applicable law.
Allowing you to participate in sweepstakes, contests or other promotions
We use this information to manage our contractual relationship with you.
We may aggregate and/or anonymize Personal Information so that it will no longer be considered Personal Information. We do so to generate other data for our use, which we may use and disclose for any purpose, as it no longer identifies you or any other individual.
Accomplishing our business and operational purposes
We engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you, to comply with a legal obligation, and/or based on our legitimate interest.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose Personal Information:
Other Uses and Disclosures
We also use and disclose your Personal Information as necessary or appropriate, in particular when we have a legal obligation or legitimate interest to do so:
OTHER INFORMATION
“Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an identifiable individual. The Services collect Other Information such as:
If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we may use and disclose it for the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information as detailed in this Policy.
Collection of Other Information
We and our service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:
Uses and Disclosures of Other Information
We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law.
SECURITY
We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below.
CHOICES AND ACCESS
Your choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information
We give you choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information for marketing purposes. You may opt out from:
We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable.
We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, from which you cannot opt out.
How you can access, change, or delete your Personal Information
If you would like to request to access, correct, update, suppress, restrict, or delete Personal Information, object to or opt out of the processing of Personal Information, or if you would like to request to receive a copy of your Personal Information for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent these rights are provided to you by applicable law), you may contact us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law. If you are a California resident, please refer to the “Additional Information Regarding California” section at the end of this Policy for more information about the requests you may make under the CCPA.
In your request, please make clear what Personal Information you would like to have changed or whether you would like to have your Personal Information suppressed from our database. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting a change or deletion (e.g., when you make a purchase or enter a promotion, you may not be able to change or delete the Personal Information provided until after the completion of such purchase or promotion).
RETENTION PERIOD
We retain Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and consistent with applicable law.
The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
THIRD PARTY SERVICES
This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service to which the Services link. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.
In addition, we are not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure, or security policies or practices of other organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider, or device manufacturer, including with respect to any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with the Apps or our Social Media Pages.
THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING
We use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements regarding goods and services that may be of interest to you when you access and use the Services and other websites or online services.
USE OF SERVICES BY MINORS
The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of sixteen (16), and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from individuals under 16.
JURISDICTION AND CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER
Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and by using the Services you understand that your information will be transferred to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your Personal Information.
SENSITIVE INFORMATION
Unless we request it, we ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (e.g., Social Security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background, or trade union membership) on or through the Services or otherwise to us.
THIRD PARTY PAYMENT SERVICE
The Services may provide functionality allowing you to make payments to the Company using third-party payment services with which you have created an account. When you use such a service to make a payment to us, your Personal Information will be collected by such third party and not by us and will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy, rather than this Privacy Policy. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, this third party’s collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information.
UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
The “LAST UPDATED” legend at the top of this Privacy Policy indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services.
CONTACTING US
Bio-Techne Corporation, located at 614 McKinley Place NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413, USA, is the company responsible for collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information under this Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@bio-techne.com or:
614 McKinley Place NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413, USA
Attention: Legal
Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or other sensitive information in your emails to us.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE EEA
If you are in the EU, you may contact us at:
Bio-Techne Ireland Limited
Unit A6A, North City Business Park
North Road, Dublin 11
D11 Y1KF Ireland
If you are in the UK, you may contact us at:
Bio-Techne Ltd
19 Barton Ln, Abingdon
OX14 3NB United Kingdom
You may also lodge a complaint with an EU/EEA data protection authority for your country or region where you have your habitual residence or place of work or where an alleged infringement of applicable data protection law occurs. A list of data protection authorities is available at http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_id=612080.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING CALIFORNIA
Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CCPA”), we are providing the following additional details regarding the categories of Personal Information that we collect, use, and disclose about California residents.
Collection and Disclosure of Personal Information
The following chart details which categories of Personal Information about California consumers we collect, as well as which categories of Personal Information we have collected and disclosed for our operational business purposes in the preceding 12 months. The chart also details the categories of Personal Information that we “sell” and “share” for purposes of cross-context behavioral or targeted advertising, including in the preceding 12 months.
| Categories of Personal Information | Disclosed to Which Categories of Third Parties for Operational Business Purposes | Sold to or Shared with Which Categories of Third Parties |
|---|---|---|
|
Identifiers, such as name, alias, contact information, unique personal identifiers, IP address that can reasonably be linked or associated with a particular consumer or household, online identifiers, and government-issued identifiers (e.g., Social Security number) |
affiliates; service providers; business partners; contest sponsors; legal authorities | ad networks; joint marketing partners |
|
Personal information as defined in the California customer records law, such as name, contact information, financial account number; employment information |
affiliates; service providers; business partners; contest sponsors; legal authorities | none; joint marketing partners |
| Protected Class Information, such as characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as gender, race | affiliates; service providers | none |
| Commercial Information, such as transaction information and purchase history, including purchases considered | affiliates; service providers; business partners; contest sponsors | ad networks; joint marketing partners |
| Internet or network activity information, such as browsing history, search history and interactions with our online properties or ads | affiliates; service providers | ad networks |
| Geolocation Data, such as device location and approximate location derived from IP address | affiliates; service providers; contest sponsors | ad networks |
| Employment Information. Professional or employment-related information, such as work history and prior employer | affiliates; service providers | ad networks |
| Inferences drawn from any of the Personal Information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics | affiliates; service providers | ad networks |
We do not “sell” or knowingly “share” the Personal Information, including the Sensitive Personal Information, of minors under 16 years of age.
Sources of Personal Information
As described above, we collect this Personal Information from you and from publicly available databases and joint marketing partners, when they share the information with us.
Use of Personal Information
We may use this Personal Information to operate, manage, and maintain our business, to provide our products and services, and to accomplish our business purposes and objectives, including, for example, to: develop, improve, repair, and maintain our products and services; personalize, advertise, and market our products and services; conduct research, analytics, and data analysis; maintain our facilities and infrastructure; undertake quality and safety assurance measures; conduct risk and security control and monitoring; detect and prevent fraud; perform identity verification; perform accounting, audit, and other internal functions, such as internal investigations; comply with law, legal process, and internal policies; maintain records; and exercise and defend legal claims.
CCPA Rights and Requests
Requests to Know and Delete and Opt-Out
If you are a California resident, you may make the following requests:
You have the right not to be unlawfully discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights.
We will verify and respond to your request consistent with applicable law, taking into account the type and sensitivity of the Personal Information subject to the request. We may need to request additional Personal Information from you, such as mailing address, telephone number and/or email address, in order to verify your identity and protect against fraudulent requests. If you maintain a password-protected account with us, we may verify your identity through our existing authentication practices for your account and require you to re-authenticate yourself before disclosing or deleting your Personal Information. If you make a deletion request, we may ask you to verify your request before we delete your Personal Information.
To make a request, please contact us at privacy@bio-techne.com or (800)-343-7475.
To request to opt out of sale or targeted advertising, including the “sharing” of your Personal Information for cross-context behavioral advertising, via privacy@bio-techne.com.
We also process opt-out preference signals, such as the Global Privacy Control. These signals set your opt-out preferences only for the particular browser or device you are using. For information about how to use the Global Privacy Control, please visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/.
Authorized Agents
If an agent would like to make a request on your behalf as permitted by applicable law, the agent may use the submission methods noted in the section entitled “CCPA Rights and Requests.” As part of our verification process, we may request that the agent provide, as applicable, proof concerning their status as an authorized agent. In addition, we may require that you verify your identity as described in the section entitled “CCPA Rights and Requests” or confirm that you provided the agent permission to submit the request.
CALIFORNIA NOTICE OF FINANCIAL INCENTIVE
The California Consumer Privacy Act’s (the “CCPA”) implementing regulations define a “financial incentive” as a program, benefit, or other offering “for the collection, retention, sale, or sharing of personal information.” Bio-Techne Corp. offers customers the opportunity to participate in its Product Review Program (the “Review Program”), which may provide benefits such as gift cards to those who choose to submit reviews (the “reviewers”). Those benefits are described along with other material terms and conditions here.
Our collection of reviewers’ personal information (including name, email address, and other personal information as described in the “Personal Information” section of our Privacy Policy) allows Bio-Techne to operate the Review Program and provide benefits. Bio-Techne uses reviewers’ personal information to award and redeem Review Program benefits. Otherwise, the types of personal information that Bio-Techne collects from reviewers are generally similar to the types of personal information that Bio-Techne collects from individuals who are not reviewers. The amount of personal information that Bio-Techne collects from a reviewer or non-reviewer may vary and depends on the interactions that the reviewer or non-reviewer has with Bio-Techne.
Bio-Techne seeks to ensure that both reviewers and non-reviewers have a positive and rewarding experience when earning benefits with Bio-Techne. For this reason, Bio-Techne may collect information from both reviewers and non-reviewers related to their personal preferences in order to provide personalized services, as described in the “Personal Information” section of the Privacy Policy.
Bio-Techne “shares,” as the term is defined under the CCPA, personal information of both reviewers and non-reviewers to third parties to personalize online advertising content, as described in the Bio-Techne Privacy Policy.
We estimate the value of a reviewer’s personal information to the Review Program, solely for purposes of the CCPA and pursuant to the valuation options mandated by the CCPA regulations, to be reasonably related to the value of the benefits that reviewers obtain through participating in the Review Program. Bio-Techne bases this good faith estimate on: the value that arises from Bio-Techne’s commercial relationships, such as with business partners, vendors, and customers; the costs and expenses Bio-Techne incurs in offering benefits to reviewers; and the types of benefits provided. The value of Review Program benefits to reviewers varies significantly because individual reviewers take advantage of Review Program benefits in different ways and to varying degrees.
You may join the Review Program through the Bio-Techne website.
Reviewers who are California residents may exercise their CCPA rights, including the rights to know, correct, and opt out of the “sharing” of personal information, without any impact on their eligibility to receive benefits, and reviewers who exercise their privacy rights receive the same benefits as reviewers who do not. If a reviewer exercises their deletion right by choosing to delete their personal information, then Bio-Techne will no longer be able to contact them in order to provide them with the Review Program benefits once Bio-Techne has honored their deletion request.
You may opt out of the Review Program at any time by notifying Bio-Techne at: privacy@bio-techne.com.
BIO-TECHNE COOKIES & SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES POLICY
LAST REVISED: July 1, 2025
This Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy (“CST Policy”) describes the different types of cookies and similar technologies that are used on the websites of Bio-Techne and its affiliates from which you are viewing this policy (each website, the “Site”).
We may change this CST Policy at any time. Please look at the “LAST REVISED” legend at the top of this page to see when this CST Policy was last revised. Any changes in this CST Policy will become effective when we make the revised CST Policy available on or through the Site.
If you have any questions, please contact us by email at privacy@bio-techne.com.
WHAT ARE COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES?
Cookies are a standard feature of websites that allow us to store small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to the Site.
Cookies allow us to collect such information as browser type, time spent on the Site, pages visited, language preferences, and traffic data. We use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, and to personalize your experience. We also gather statistical information about use of the Site in order to continually improve its design and functionality, understand how it is used, and assist us with resolving questions regarding the Site. Cookies further allow us to select which of our advertisements or offers are most likely to appeal to you and display them while you are on the Site. We may also use cookies or other technologies in online advertising to track responses to our ads. For these purposes, we also use technologies that are similar to cookies, such as pixel tags.
You can choose whether to accept the use of cookies and similar technologies in general by changing the settings on your browser, or by changing specific settings for the Site (as set out in Section 3 of this CST Policy). We do not currently respond to browser do-not-track signals.
Note, however, that if you disable cookies and similar technologies, your experience on the Site may be diminished and some features may not work as intended. You also may not receive advertising or other offers from us that are relevant to your interests and needs.
WHAT COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES DO WE USE?
Below we describe the different types of cookies and similar technologies that are used on the Site. To the extent any personal information is collected through cookies, our Privacy Policy applies and complements this CST Policy.
Essential Cookies. Essential cookies enable you to navigate the Site and to use its services and features. Without these absolutely necessary cookies, the Site will not perform as smoothly for you as we would like it to, and we may not be able to provide the Site or certain services or features.
Preference Cookies. Preference cookies collect information about your choices and preferences and allow us to remember language or other local settings and customize the Site accordingly.
Social Media Cookies. Social media cookies collect information about social media usage.
Analytics Cookies. Analytics cookies collect information about your use of the Site and enable us to improve the way it works. For example, analytics cookies show us which are the most frequently visited pages on the Site, help us record any difficulties you have with the Site, and show us whether our advertising is effective or not. This allows us to see the overall patterns of usage on the Site.
Advertising Cookies. Advertising cookies are set to display targeted promotions or advertisements based upon your interests or to manage our advertising. These cookies collect information about your activities on this Site and other sites to provide you with targeted advertising.
Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics, which uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the Services and report on activities and trends. This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and opt out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Pixel tags. Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) are used to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Site, measure the success of our marketing campaigns, and compile statistics about usage of the Site and response rates.
Browser or Device Information. Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Mac), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version, and the name and version of the Site you are using. We use this information to ensure that the Site functions properly.
Physical Location. We collect the physical location of your device by, for example, using satellite, cell phone tower, or WiFi signals. We use your device’s physical location to provide you with personalized location-based services and content. We also share your device’s physical location, combined with information about what advertisements you viewed and other information we collect, with our marketing partners to enable them to provide you with more personalized content and to study the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. In some instances, you can allow or deny such uses and sharing of your device’s location, but if you do, we and our marketing partners may not be able to provide you with the applicable personalized services and content.
Device Fingerprinting. In order to be able to offer you content that we believe may interest you based on your activity on the Site, and for fraud prevention and authentication purposes, we may also use other technologies that are similar to cookies. For example, we may gather device attributes and combine information collected by most browsers or automatically through your device to create a unique ID that identifies your browser or device to us with reasonable certainty. In this context we may collect, use, and combine the following information:
Number of visits;
Last visit;
First visit;
External IP address;
Internal IP address;
Screen resolution;
Geolocation (latitude/longitude based on IP address);
Device performance benchmark;
Device bandwidth benchmark;
Device user-agent (browser type, version);
Device capabilities (Modernizer string for browser capabilities);
Device operating system;
Device plugins installed;
Browser language;
Device time on file;
Keywords used if coming from search engine;
Pages visited;
Length of visit;
Referral page;
Mouse cursor position;
Mouse clicks;
Page scroll position.
HOW DO I MANAGE COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES?
You can change your settings for cookies and similar technologies via email privacy@bio-techne.com.
In addition, you can refuse or accept cookies from the Site at any time by activating the settings on your browser. Information about the procedure to follow in order to enable or disable cookies can be found on your Internet browser provider’s website via your help screen. Please refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html for information on commonly used browsers. Please be aware that if cookies are disabled, not all features of the Site may operate as intended.
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website. Please be aware that if cookies are disabled, not all features of the Site may operate as intended. Please contact us at privacy@bio-techne.com if you have any questions or concerns.
If you want to clear all cookies left behind by the websites you have visited, here is a link where you can download a program that clean out tracking cookies: http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html.
