Company: DARE
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001401914-25-000014
Chunk: 21

Company: Dare Bioscience, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 21
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 household, family members who do not reside with them but whose transactions in our securities are directed by them or are subject to their influence or control, and any entities they influence or control, are also subject to the foregoing policy.

As of the date of this Proxy Statement, none of our personnel (and none of their related persons) has sought or obtained approval from the administrator of our insider trading policy to engage in any of the activities described above.

Clawback Policy

The SEC adopted final rules implementing the incentive-based compensation recovery provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act, and Nasdaq adopted listing standards consistent with the SEC rules. In compliance with those standards, we adopted a policy on recovery of erroneously awarded compensation, or “clawback” policy, which applies to our executive officers and any other key employees designed by the Compensation Committee. Under the policy, if we are required to prepare an accounting restatement of our financial statements due to our material noncompliance with any financial reporting requirement under U.S. securities laws, we will determine, with respect to each person subject to the policy, the amount of any incentive-based compensation received by such person during the applicable “look-back period” (which generally means the three completed fiscal years immediately preceding the date on which our board of directors concludes that we are required to prepare an Accounting restatement) that exceeds the amount of the incentive-based compensation that would have been received by such person had the amount of such incentive-based compensation been calculated based on the restated amounts, irrespective of any fault, misconduct or responsibility for the accounting restatement, and thereafter we will reasonably promptly recover such amount of erroneously awarded compensation, subject to limited exceptions as permitted by Nasdaq rules. The incentive-based compensation covered by the policy includes all compensation granted, earned or vested based wholly or in part upon the attainment of a financial reporting measure (which is generally defined as any measure that is determined and presented in accordance with the accounting principles used in preparing our financial statements, and any measure that is derived wholly or in part from such measure).

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#### Compensation Committee
The Compensation Committee’s responsibilities include reviewing, approving and making recommendations regarding our compensation policies, practices and procedures to ensure that legal and fiduciary responsibilities of our Board are carried out and that such policies, practices and procedures contribute to our success. The Compensation Committee also administers our clawback policy, our Amended and Restated 2014 Stock Incentive Plan and our 2022 Stock Incentive Plan.

The Compensation Committee