Boehringer
Ingelheim USA Corporation
Online Privacy Policy
Boehringer
Ingelheim USA Corporation (“BI-USA”), its affiliates, subsidiaries and
divisions, are committed to protecting the privacy, accuracy and reliability of
any personally identifiable information that you choose to provide through our
websites (“Personal Information”),. In order to maximize your visit to this BI-USA
website and in order to provide you with valuable health and disease state
information, we may ask you for certain Personal Information. In order to keep your Personal Information
confidential and secure, we have developed information privacy practices that
are described in detail in this online privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”). BI-USA
maintains your Personal Information in strict adherence with this Privacy
Policy.
This
Privacy Policy covers the following topics:
Collection of Personal
Information
Disclosure of Personal
Information
Personal Information:
Access and Correction
Collection and Use of
Non-Personal Information
Changes to Privacy Policy
and Questions
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using this site, you agree to the terms of
this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree
with these terms, please do not disclose any Personal Information through this
site. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time, so please check back
often. Should you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data
collection and use practices, please click
here for our contact information.
Collection of Personal Information
It is not necessary to provide any Personal
Information to use this website. You can
visit much of our website without telling us who you are or revealing any
Personal Information.
However, if you want, to access certain features
offered through this site, it may be necessary to provide Personal Information,
such as your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and possibly
other information. We also may ask for some Personal Information when you send
us a comment or question, or when you request information through our site. If
you do not want to give us any Personal Information, you can choose not to use
these features of our website. The choice is yours. We are only interested in
offering you convenient online services that match your interests and needs
while also protecting your privacy in the process.
Use of Personal Information
We use your Personal Information for three general
reasons. First, we use Personal Information to provide you with
the services that you request. Second, we may use your Personal
Information to send you additional information about our products or
information about other products and services in which you might be interested.
Third, we may use your Personal Information in aggregate form to
help us evaluate and modify existing services and to help us develop additional
services that are likely to be of interest to our users.
When initially providing us with Personal
Information, you can always choose not to be contacted by choosing to
"opt-out" on the registration screen.
Or, you may later decide that you do not want your Personal Information
used for these purposes, and you may opt-out by sending an e-mail or letter to
us at that time. Please refer to Personal Information: Access and Correction.
Disclosure of Personal Information
BI-USA’s responsibility to keep your information
private is taken very seriously. Accordingly, BI-USA shares your Personal
Information in only the following circumstances:
BI-USA Related Entities, Affiliates, Subsidiaries
and Divisions: BI-USA may disclose your Personal Information to
its corporate affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions. Any Personal Information provided to
affiliated entities, subsidiaries or divisions will be treated in accordance
with this Privacy Policy.
BI-USA Operations and Maintenance Contractors: BI-USA may
share your Personal Information with third-party contractors as is necessary to
respond to your requests for products and information, unless you have
opted-out of receiving information. Third-party contractors may access your
Personal Information to send you this information on behalf of BI-USA. BI-USA
also may hire third-party technology providers to host this website and to
store your Personal Information.
Legal Authorities. BI-USA may
disclose Personal Information when required by law or legal process, when
necessary to protect and defend the rights or property of BI-USA, or when
necessary to protect the personal safety of BI-USA website users and customers.
Aggregate Information. Aggregate
information does not contain any individually-identifiable Personal Information
about our users. From time to time, BI-USA may share aggregate, non-personal
information about website usage with third parties, including government
agencies and advertisers.
Email to a Friend. On some
sites, you can choose to send a link or a message to a friend or colleague
referring them to one of our product web sites. E-mail addresses you may
provide for a friend will be used to send your friend information on your
behalf and will not be collected or used by BI-USA or provided to other third
parties for additional purposes.
Personal Information: Access and Correction
If you would like to access your Personal Information,
or request that your Personal Information be removed from our database, please
contact BI-USA through our e-mail or
Collection and Use of Non-Personal
Information
BI-USA also collects information that, alone, cannot
be used to identify you (referred to as "non-personal information")
through this website. We
may use this non-personal information in aggregate form for product and service
development, for market analysis, and to understand how to improve the quality
of our websites. In doing so, we may
provide it to third parties. Examples of types of non-personal information
that we may collect include gender, age, survey responses, IP addresses, and
data stored in cookie files and captured by pixel tags. We describe IP
addresses, cookies, and other tracking technology in more detail below:
Internet Protocol Addresses. An
Internet Protocol (IP) address is a number automatically assigned to your
computer whenever you access the Internet. This number does not identify your
name, e-mail address or other Personal Information. If you request information
from this website, our server will enter your IP address into a log. We use
this information to measure site traffic, to help us to understand how people
are using our website and to hopefully improve your online experience.
Cookies and other Tracking
Technology. This
website may gather certain non-personal information through the use of
"cookies," web logs, and pixel tags/web beacons to identify a visitor
as the visitor navigates the website. Your web browser permits us to put
information, including session-based IDs and/or persistent cookies, on your
computer’s hard drive in order to recognize your computer.
"Cookies" are small text files that
recognize repeat visitors, facilitate ongoing access to some sites, and allow
sites to understand how and when pages are visited and by how many people. Visitors
who are concerned about the use of cookie technology may opt to enable a
feature in their browser software, if any, that will erase cookies, block all
cookies, or warn the user before cookies are stored or exchanged. Please be
aware, however, that some parts of this website may no longer function properly
if cookies are disabled.
Sometimes we work with third parties to put cookies
on your hard drive. Before we enter into
arrangements with third parties, however, we require these third parties to
enter into an agreement with us that they will comply with our Privacy
Policy.
Usually cookies contain no personally identifiable
information. However, if you have provided us with Personal Information, we may
correlate this information with the cookies or other tracking technology placed
on your computer by our web site in order to offer an improved website
experience for you.
We also may use tracking technologies such as pixel
tags. Pixel tags, also known as web
beacons, function similarly to cookies.
A pixel tag is an invisible, one pixel-sized piece of code which
transmits certain information to our servers.
They are placed on key pages, tools, and areas of our website. When a visitor requests/visits/clicks on
anything that includes a pixel tag, the information about the visitor’s action
is recorded in a web log. This is done
in order to track a visitor’s usage across various web pages on our
website.
We may also use pixel tags in our HTML-based e-mails
in order to determine if e-mails were opened and replied to or forwarded. This
information will be used only in aggregate for research to improve site content
and usability. You can disable pixel tags by changing your browser settings to
omit images or through commercially available software packages.
This website and any accompanying services offered
are not directed at children who are under 18 years of age. It is BI-USA’s
policy to require that individuals requesting information on our products be 18
years of age or older.
Should we receive Personal Information from a person
who we know is under 18, we will automatically delete such information from our
database. The information will not be used for any purpose.
Links to Other Sites
As a convenience to our visitors, BI-USA sites may
contain links to a number of sites that we believe may offer useful
information. When you click on one of these links, you will be transferred from
the BI-USA website and be connected to the website of the organization or
company that you selected. The BI-USA
Privacy Policy is no longer applicable when you leave our site by way of link.
Each of these linked sites maintains its own independent privacy policies and
procedures, which you should consult before providing any of your Personal
Information.
Additional
Provisions on Web Sites
Some BI-USA sites may have particular provisions
relating to privacy that differ from those stated here. Those provisions, if any, will be disclosed
to you on the page on which personally identifiable information is collected.
Changes to Privacy Policy and
Questions
BI-USA reserves the right to modify, add or remove
portions of this privacy statement at its discretion. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy,
we will post those changes at this site. Continued use of our sites following
any changes in our Privacy Statement indicates your consent to the use of newly
submitted information in accordance with the amended Privacy Policy. If you
would like your Personal Information removed following a change to the Privacy
Policy, or if you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, this website or
its offerings, you may contact us online using our e-mail address:
webmaster@rdg.boehringer-ingelheim.com or you may write to us via the following
address:
Boehringer Ingelheim USA
Corporation
Attn: Public Affairs
P.O. Box
900 Ridgebury Road
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