Company: DARE
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001401914-25-000014
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Company: Dare Bioscience, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
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 actual final amount of compensation earned by or actually paid to our named executive officers during the applicable FYs.

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All information provided above under the “Pay Versus Performance” heading will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any of our filings under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, whether made before or after the date hereof and irrespective of any general incorporation language in any such filing, except to the extent we specifically incorporate such information by reference.

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<div align='center'>DIRECTOR COMPENSATION</div>

### Overview
With the assistance of the Compensation Committee and Aon, the independent compensation consult to the Compensation Committee, our Board periodically (and at least annually) reviews and evaluates our non-employee director compensation policy. The following is an overview of our non-employee director compensation policy during 2024, which was designed to allow us to recruit and retain individuals with the requisite experience, skills and characteristics for membership on our Board, and to align the interests of our directors with those of our stockholders through the grant of equity awards exclusively in the form of stock options.

Retainers . Each of our non-employee directors was paid a retainer during 2024 for service on our Board and for each Board committee on which the director served as shown in the table below. Retainers are paid in cash in arrears in four equal quarterly installments, prorated to reflect the actual time served by the director during such quarter. Directors may elect to receive up to 100% of their retainer in the form of awards of unrestricted shares of our common stock. If so elected, on the first trading day of the quarter following the quarter to which the retainer relates, we would issue a number of shares of common stock equal to (x) the amount of the cash retainer that would otherwise have been payable to such director on the date of grant divided by (y) the fair market value of our common stock on the date of grant. Directors wishing to make this election for a given calendar year must make the election on or before the last day of the prior calendar year, except that the election with respect to any year in which a director is newly elected must be made on or before June 30th of such year or such other date as determined by our Board.

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