Last Updated: February 2026
This California Privacy Notice at Collection (“Notice at Collection”) describes how Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (“Ligand,” “us,” “we” or “our”) collects, uses and maintains Personal Information (defined below) about California residents obtained through our website located at www.ligand.com (the “Site”). This Notice at Collection supplements our Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated Privacy Notice as required under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA”). Terms used in this California Privacy Notice have the meaning ascribed to them in the CCPA.
For additional information, please see our California Privacy Notice and the Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated Privacy Notice.
A PDF version of this California Privacy Notice at Collection is available here.
Categories of Personal Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect or use information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you or your household (“Personal Information”). The below chart describes the Personal Information we collect, our purposes for collecting and using it, and whether it is sold or shared.
Please note, we do not “sell” your Personal Information for monetary consideration or as that term is traditionally defined. However, certain of our marketing or advertising activities or analytics tools used could be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information under the CCPA. You have the right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of personal information. You have the right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of Personal Information for certain purposes. For more information or to exercise your rights please see the below section, Your Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing.
Category of Personal Information Collected | Types of Personal Information Collected | Business or Commercial Purposes for Collection and Use | Is Personal Information Sold or Shared? |
Identifiers | Name, Email Address, Postal Address, Company Affiliation, and Areas of Interest. | Provide our services and procedures, improve our Site, develop new products and services, fulfill your orders. | Yes |
Professional and Employment-Related Information | Work History, Education History, Resume Information. | Assess your fitness for the job to which you have applied and others within our business. | Yes |
Internet or Other Similar Network Activity | Domain name of referring website, search engines used, IP address, length of time spent on the Site, pages viewed on the Site, other websites you visited before and after visiting the Site, internet browser, frequency of your visits to the Site, and other relevant statistics. | Provide and improve our Site, develop new products and services, customize and personalize the advertising and content delivered to you. | Yes |
Retention of Personal Information
We will only retain the categories of Personal Information described above for as long as is needed to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected. For example, we may require it for our business purposes, to perform our contractual obligations, or where law or regulation obliges us to do so. We will generally retain your Personal Information throughout the lifecycle of your relationship with us. Some Personal Information will be retained after your relationship with us ends. We expect to delete your Personal Information (at the latest) once there is no longer any local, state, federal, and other legal requirement or legitimate business purpose for retaining your Personal Information.
Your Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing
You have the right to opt-out of the sharing of your Personal Information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes. You can exercise your right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of Personal Information clicking the “Your Privacy Choices” link on the footer of our Site or through an opt-out preference signal, such as a “Global Privacy Control”. If you choose to exercise this right through an opt-out preference signal and we detect such a signal, it will be honored. If you submit a request to opt-out, including through an opt-out preference signal, after you have agreed to our sale or sharing of Personal Information, we will opt you out of any further sale or sharing of Personal Information.
For Additional Information
For additional information, including details regarding your privacy rights, please see our Privacy Policy and/or our California Privacy Notice. If you have any questions about this Notice at Collection, please contact us:
By email: [email protected]