Boehringer Ingelheim
Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Online Privacy Policy
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
("BIPI"), its affiliates and subsidiaries, are committed to
protecting the privacy, accuracy and reliability of any Personal Information
you choose to provide through our website. In order to maximize your visit to
this BIPI website and to provide you with valuable health and disease state
information, we may ask you for certain Personal Information. To ensure that
your Personal Information is kept confidential and secure, we have developed
information privacy practices that are described in detail in this policy. BIPI
maintains your Personal Information in strict adherence with this 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 Policy and Questions
Please read this privacy policy carefully. By using this
site, you agree to the terms of this 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 policy or our data collection and use
practices, please write to us at the address provided at the end of this Online
Privacy Policy.
Collection of Personal
Information
It is not necessary to provide any information that
identifies you (hereinafter referred to as "Personal Information") to
use this website. In general, you can visit our website without telling us who
you are or revealing any Personal Information.
If you want, however, to access certain features offered
through this site, it may be necessary to provide Personal Information, such as
your name, address, and telephone number, and possibly other information. 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.
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 information about Spiriva® HandiHaler® (tiotropium bromide
inhalation powder) ("SPIRIVA"). Third, we may
use your information in aggregate form to help us evaluate and improve our
SPIRIVA web site and other SPIRIVA related services or communications.
If you register for announcements or for information
about SPIRIVA, you can always choose not to be contacted or to
"opt-out" of further contact or solicitations from BIPI and Pfizer.
Disclosure of
Personal Information
BIPI’s responsibility to keep your information private is
taken very seriously. Accordingly, BIPI shares your Personal Information in
only the following circumstances:
BIPI Affiliates and Subsidiaries: BIPI may disclose
your Personal Information to its corporate affiliates and subsidiaries. Any
Personal Information provided to affiliated entities or subsidiaries will be treated
in accordance with this privacy policy.
BIPI Operations and Maintenance
Contractors: BIPI
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 BIPI. BIPI
also may hire third-party technology providers to host this website and to
store your Personal Information.
Legal Authorities. BIPI may disclose
Personal Information when required by law or legal process; when necessary to
protect and defend the rights or property of BIPI or when necessary to protect
the personal safety of BIPI website users and customers.
Aggregate
Information. Aggregate information does not contain
any Personal Information about our users. From time to time, BIPI may share
aggregate, non-personal information about website usage with third parties,
including government agencies and advertisers.
Collection and Use of
Non-Personal Information
BIPI 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 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 and 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 allows 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 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 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 BIPI’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.
As a convenience to our visitors, BIPI 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 BIPI website
and be connected to the website of the organization or company that you
selected. The BIPI 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.
Changes to Policy and
Questions
BIPI reserves the right to modify, add or remove portions
of this privacy statement at its discretion. If we decide to change this
policy, we will post those changes at this site. If you have any questions
about our policy, this website or its offerings, you may write to us via the
following address:
Boehringer
Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Attn: Public Affairs
P.O. Box
900 Ridgebury Road
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