Takeda Website Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting one of the websites ("Websites")
owned by Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc., its affiliates or subsidiaries
(“Takeda”). We have provided this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to describe
to you how we collect, use, share and protect the personal information you
provide to us at this Website. This Privacy Policy only applies to personal
information we collect at our Websites and via the electronic communications
technologies that we use. It does not apply to personal information collected
through other means, including personal information you provide in e-mail
messages you send to us or personal information we may collect from you offline.
This Privacy Policy is intended for all visitors of Takeda Websites including
consumers, healthcare professionals and other Takeda business partners.
At some of our Websites, we may use personal
information in a manner not described in this Privacy Policy. In those
instances, the different uses of personal information will be disclosed to you
at the web page where your personal information is collected, prior to such
collection.
From time to time, our internal processes may
change, or we may offer new or altered features at our Websites. If appropriate,
we will revise this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to return to this area to
read the most recent version of our Privacy Policy. If we alter our practices in
a manner that will affect the treatment of the personal information you have
already provided, we will attempt to provide visitors who have registered on our
Websites with notice of our new Privacy Policy via e-mail.
Table of Contents
Personal Information Collected
Information You Provide
At our Websites, we allow you to sign up to
receive information or services from us. As part of this process, we ask you to
provide us with personal information about you (such as name, address, telephone
number or e-mail address). For example, you could register to receive e-mail
updates about a Website, information about a particular health condition, or
materials relating to products or services offered by Takeda and its
product-related co-promotion partners, and you may provide us with your e-mail
address to receive such communications. You may always choose not to provide us
with your personal information, and we will disclose to you at the time we
collect your personal information whether it is required for you to receive the
information or services you have requested.
To better understand and address your interests,
and to keep the personal information we have about you accurate, we may correct
or add to the personal information you provide to us at our Websites with
personal information we receive from you offline or from other sources.
Automatically Collected Information --
Cookies and Other Website Information
Like most other commercial websites, we use standard “cookie” and “web
beacon” technology and web server logs to collect information about how our
Website is used. Web beacons are transparent pixel images that are used in
collecting information about Website visitor activities and e-mail response and
tracking. For example, if we send you an e-mail message, we (or third parties
providing services on our behalf) may collect information through web beacons to
determine whether you have opened the e-mail message or clicked on links located
within the e-mail message.
Cookies are pieces of data that a website transfers to a visitor's hard drive
for record-keeping purposes. Cookies placed on our Websites may be set directly
by our servers or by third parties providing technical services to us. To
prevent cookies from tracking you as you navigate our Websites, you can reset
your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
Please note that some portions of our Websites may not work properly if you
refuse cookies.
Information gathered through cookies and by our web server logs may include
your IP address, your Internet browser (e.g., Netscape), your operating system
(e.g., Windows 2000), the domain name of your internet service provider (e.g.,
AOL) the date and time of your visits, the pages viewed, the time spent at our
Website, and the websites visited just before and just after our Website. This
information may be associated with your personal information.
Your Choices
You have several choices regarding your use of our Websites. You could decide
not to submit any personal information at all. Although certain Websites may ask
for permission to use your personal information for certain purposes, you can
agree or decline to provide your personal information. If you subscribe for
particular communications or services such as e-mail updates, you will be able
to unsubscribe at any time by: (i) following any opt-out instructions contained
in communications you receive from Takeda, (ii) un-subscribing at specific areas
of the Websites where you registered, if available, or (iii) sending a written
request to the Takeda contact address, which appears at the end of this Privacy
Policy.
As described above, if you wish to prevent cookies from tracking you as you
navigate our Websites, you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to
indicate when a cookie is being sent. Please note, however, that some portions
of our Websites may not work properly if you refuse cookies.
Use of Personal Information
Takeda and its service providers will use your personal information to
provide information and services to you, including information and services you
have requested, or as otherwise disclosed to you in this Privacy Policy or on
the web page where you submit your personal information to us. We may also use
that information to provide you with materials about products and services
offered by Takeda and its product-related co-promotion partners, including new
content or services on our Websites. We may provide you with these materials by
phone, mail, facsimile or e-mail. We do not share any of your personal
information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes unless we
have your consent.
We may use aggregate information collected from visitors of our Websites to
help us better understand visitors’ needs and how they use the Websites.
Aggregate information about Website visitors that does not contain personal
information may be shared with third parties.
E-mail-a-Friend or Colleague
On some of the Takeda Websites, you can send a
link or e-mail message to a friend or colleague. E-mail addresses you may
provide for a friend or colleague will be used to send your friend or colleague
information on your behalf and will not be collected or used by Takeda or other
third parties for any other purpose.
Note to Healthcare Professionals and Business Partners
If you have a business or professional
relationship with Takeda, we may use your personal information, including
personal information we may collect about you from other sources, to develop our
business relationship with you and your organization.
Sharing of Personal Information
Takeda may share personal information about you
with: (i) various third-party companies or agents working on our behalf to help
us engage in the activities described in the “Use of Personal Information” section of
this Privacy Policy, including fulfilling business transactions, providing
services or information you requested, providing other customer services,
sending marketing communications about our products, services and offers, and
conducting technological maintenance, and (ii) our parent company, subsidiaries,
affiliates and product-related co-promotion partners.
We may also share your personal information with
third parties under the following circumstances:
-
if you request or authorize such a disclosure;
- in connection with the sale,
assignment, license or other transfer of our company or our parent company,
subsidiaries, affiliates, product-related co-promotion partners or products;
- to
protect our rights, property or safety, or the rights, property or safety of
our employees or others;
- to enforce an agreement we have with you;
- to
comply with the terms of an agreement with a product-related co-promotion
partner;
- to respond to appropriate requests of legitimate government
agencies or where required by applicable laws, court orders or government
regulations; or
- where needed for corporate audits or to investigate or
respond to a complaint or security threat.
Note: We do not share any of your
personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes
unless you explicitly give us permission to do so.
Personal Information of Children
Our Websites are not intended or designed to
attract children under the age of 18, and we do not believe that our Websites
are appealing to children. Therefore, we do not knowingly collect any personal
information from anyone under the age of 18
at our Websites.
Links to Other Websites
Our Websites may provide links to other websites
as a service to you. The third-party websites are operated by companies that are
outside of our control, and your activities at those websites will be governed
by the policies and privacy practices of those third parties. We encourage you
to review the policies and privacy practices of those third parties before
disclosing any of your personal information, as we are not responsible for their
policies and privacy practices.
How We Protect Your Personal Information
To help protect the privacy and security of
personal information you transmit through the use of our Websites, we have
implemented reasonable physical, technical and administrative safeguards to help
protect your personal information against unauthorized access or loss.
Changing Your Preferences; Opt-Out of Receiving Communications
When you provide us with your personal
information, you will be given some choices about how we use that personal
information. You may changes these preferences later. For example, if you sign
up for an e-mail newsletter, you may opt out of receiving future e-mail
newsletters at any time. Takeda will always provide you with one or more of the
following ways to opt out: (i) by following any opt-out instructions contained in
communications you receive from Takeda, (ii) by un-subscribing at specific areas
of the Website(s) where you registered, if available, or (iii) by sending a
written request to the Takeda contact address immediately below.
Questions; Updating Your Personal
Information; Takeda Contact Address
If you have any questions about our privacy
practices or if you need help accessing your personal information or changing
your preferences, please send a written request to us at the following address:
Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc.
Attn: Privacy Office/Legal Department – Website Communications
One Takeda Parkway
Deerfield, Illinois 60015
Note: Please make sure to provide the name
of the Website(s) applicable to your request, and your name, address, telephone
number and e-mail address (if any). If you do not provide us with this
information, we may not be able to respond.
Note to Employment-Applicant Users of Our Websites
If you wish to modify or update your personal
information submitted at one of our Websites in response to an employment
opportunity at Takeda, you can do so on the appropriate web page of the Website where you applied.
Effective Date of Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of January 5,
2007.