Privacy Statement
ASTRAZENECA PRIVACY STATEMENT
LAST UPDATED: July 08, 2008
Introduction
Collection of Information
Security
Cookies
Advertising
Minors
Tell A Friend
Links
Contact Us
Introduction
AstraZeneca respects that the privacy of your personal information is important
to you. We have developed this privacy statement to let you know how the
Information (as defined below) that we collect about you will be maintained and
used. We may change this statement from time to time so we ask that you revisit
this privacy statement to be sure that you are familiar with our current
policies because the revised policy will apply to you. In the event we make any
changes to this privacy statement we will post the revised policy on this web
site together with the date on which we made the most recent changes.
If you are a physician or other health care professional, this statement only
applies to Information collected online through this web site, other
AstraZeneca web sites, or where we specifically say that this policy shall
apply.
Collection of Information
AstraZeneca may collect personally identifiable information about you, such as
name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, date of birth, or other
similar information ("Information") when you voluntarily submit it to us or
when you give permission to others to share such Information with us. Your
Information may be used to fulfill your request for information, to send you
health-related materials, to develop products, services and programs that you
may find useful, to provide access to your account information, or to contact
you. If you do provide Information to us, you agree that we may contact you
through a variety of methods including postal mail, e-mail and telephone. From
time to time we may also request that you provide us with additional
demographic, or other health information through responses to questions or
surveys, or through use of search functions or other forms of feedback that we
may use to serve you better. Except as specifically provided in this privacy
statement, AstraZeneca will not transfer, sell or rent Information to anyone
without your consent. We may share your information with other AstraZeneca
companies worldwide or with our co-promotion partners. We may occasionally
transfer or share your Information with third parties who perform certain
services on our behalf. Such third parties have agreed that they will only use
the Information on behalf of AstraZeneca. All Information that we transfer or
share will be used and disclosed in a manner consistent with the terms of this
privacy statement.
You can visit much of our web site without providing us with Information.
However, some areas of the web site may require that you register in order to
access specific content, features, interactive tools, or services or
participate in a particular activity, such as subscribing to a newsletter or
joining a program. You may always choose not to provide the requested
Information but you may then not be able to participate in the particular
activity.
Through our web sites, AstraZeneca also collects non-personally identifiable
information relating to such matters as: the total number of visits to our web
sites, the number of visitors to each page of our web sites, the Internet
Protocol (IP) addresses of our visitors, and the time spent on our web sites.
We use this information to understand how our visitors use our web sites so we
can improve the customer experience. We may also use your IP address to help
diagnose problems with our servers, and for purposes of system administration.
From time to time we may also share non-personally identifiable information
with others.
We gather aggregate data about visitors to our web sites for purposes of
product development and improvement of our web sites, and also for market
analysis. We may provide information from our web sites in aggregate form
without personally identifiable information to third parties. Any third party
that receives aggregated data must agree not to attempt to re-identify the
persons to whom it belongs.
If you contact us to report on your experience, or the experiences of your
patient, with the use of our products, we may contact you for follow up
information. We may also use the information you provide to submit reports of
side effects to government agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration, or as otherwise required by law or governmental audit.
AstraZeneca reserves the right to share your Information in order to respond to
authorized information requests of government authorities, the courts, law
enforcement agencies or where required by law, or for corporate audits or to
respond to complaints or security threats. Further, in the event we determine
for business reasons to reorganize, sell or transfer a product or all or a part
of our business, we may share your Information with third parties involved in
such transactions, such as actual or prospective purchasers, and other business
partners, in which case we will obtain written assurances that the Information
will be appropriately protected.
Security
AstraZeneca uses reasonable technical and administrative safeguards to protect
Information from unauthorized access, use, loss or destruction. Any Information
you provide to us is held on a secured web server (a computer that stores web
documents, allowing users to access web pages using web client software)
operated by AstraZeneca (or by an agent of AstraZeneca performing services on
our behalf). Please be advised that although we have tried to create a secured
and reliable site for you, the confidentiality of any Information, or
communication or material transmitted over the Internet cannot be guaranteed.
We urge you to exercise caution when conveying personally identifiable
information over the Internet. When disclosing any personally identifiable
information, you should remain mindful that such information might be
accessible by the public and, consequently, may be collected and used by others
without your consent. You should also recognize that your use of the Internet
and this site is solely at your own risk.
Cookies
The use of cookies is now standard, and you will find them used by most major
web sites. A cookie is a text file stored on a user's computer hard drive
containing information about the user. Cookies are used for a variety of
purposes, including to help you log into parts of our web sites, to enable us
to track the interests of our users to enhance their experience on this site,
for market research purposes, and to deliver content specific to a user's
interests. We will place a cookie in the web browser (e.g., Internet Explorer)
file of your computer when you visit our site; we or an independent advertising
company or other contractor whom we engage may also from time to time deliver a
uniquely-numbered cookie to your web browser through an e-mail if you have
opted-in to receive e-mail from AstraZeneca. You may delete or decline the
cookie using the tools in your web browser, and you may still use our site;
however, some parts of our site may not work properly for you.
Advertising
We sometimes use independent advertising companies to provide ads on our behalf
across the Internet ("advertising company"). These advertising companies also
help us analyze our advertising campaigns and the general usage patterns of
visitors to our web sites. This is primarily accomplished through the use of
cookies, and Internet tags (such as action tags, web beacons, pixel tags, clear
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) images and invisible GIFs). Such companies
may place these tags on our web sites or on other web sites. Used in
conjunction with cookies, Internet tags are programmed by the advertising
company to collect certain non-personally identifiable information about
visitors to our web site and other web sites. This information may be used to
provide ads about goods and services of potential interest to you, or to
improve your web site experience. The advertising company does not know the
names, addresses, e-mail addresses or telephone numbers of web site visitors,
and does not link online actions to an identifiable person. The advertising
company reports the non-identifiable data that it collects on our behalf back
to us without identifying specific web site visits (other than to our own Web
sites). We use this information to improve our web sites and our advertising.
In order to deliver more relevant content or advertising, from time to time we
may link the information we receive to our customers' Information. If we do
link such data, it is treated under this policy as Information as described
above under Collection of Information. If you would like more information about
this practice, or if you want to prevent an independent advertising company
from sending and reading cookies or action tags on your computer, you can visit
the advertising company's web site and opt out.
Minors
We do not knowingly collect directly any personal information from anyone under
the age of 13, nor do we knowingly market our web sites to anyone under the age
of 13.
Tell-A-Friend
On some AstraZeneca sites, you can choose to use a "tell-a-friend" or referral
function on our website to let someone else know about an AstraZeneca web site
or product. In such a case we will ask for your friend's name and email
address, as well as Information about you. The information that you may provide
for a friend will be used to send an email on your behalf and will not be
collected or stored by AstraZeneca for any additional purpose.
Links
As a convenience to you, AstraZeneca may provide links from this web site to
other web sites maintained by independent third parties. This privacy statement
applies solely to the information collected on this web site. We are not
responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to
be aware when you leave this site and to read the privacy policies of any web
site that you may visit.
Contact Us
We welcome your questions and comments regarding this privacy statement and the
use of your Information. You may also contact us to update or correct the
Information you have provided to us or to opt out of services that you may have
previously signed up for. If you have any questions about this privacy
statement or about our use of Information, or if you would like to request any
changes be made to your Information, please contact the Information Center at
AstraZeneca at 800-236-9933.