Your privacy is important, so Connetics, Inc. ("Company") has created the following Privacy Policy to let you know what information we collect when you visit our websites, why we collect it and how it is used. This Privacy Policy also addresses Company's data security practices. This Privacy Policy explains the data collection and use practices of www.connetics.com, www.evoclin.com (the "Site") and the EVOCLIN Slide Database; it does not apply to other online or offline Company sites, products or services. Please note that the sites are directed towards users who reside in the United States of America. It is not our intent to gather personally identifiable information from individuals residing outside of the U.S. The terms "you," "your," and "yours" refer to the customer/purchaser utilizing our Site. The terms "Company," "we," "us," and "our" refer to Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates. This Privacy Policy is governed by our Terms of Use. By using the Site, you consent to the data practices prescribed in this statement.
What Information Is Collected
You can generally visit our Site without revealing any Personally Identifiable Information about yourself. However, to access certain portions of the Site and services we may ask you to provide certain personally identifiable information and without providing such personally identifiable information you may be unable to access certain portions of the Sites and services. We collect Personally Identifiable Information about you only if you voluntarily provide it to us and you have the option not to provide any personally identifiable information to us.
"Personally Identifiable Information" means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, home or other physical address, an email address, phone number or other contact information, whether at work or at home. Company collects the following Personally Identifiable Information from you when you use our Site: your full name, suffix, address, department, building, institution, city, state, zip, phone number, email address and medical specialty. Company also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie information, and time and date of access and the page you request. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features.
Use of Personally Identifiable Information
Newsletters
This includes information obtained from you from your request to subscribe to a newsletter, such as contact information (name and e-mail address). We may use this personally identifiable information to deliver the newsletters that you have elected to receive. If you elect to receive a newsletter and later want to be removed from this distribution list, you can unsubscribe from the newsletter by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link located at the bottom of any newsletter. You can use this form to send your request to unsubscribe to this newsletter.
Permission To Contact You
There are several areas of the website where you can submit questions or comments. These forms may ask for personally identifiable information such as your name, email address and phone number. This information will only be used for the purpose of responding to your request. This information will not be added to any mailing lists or used anywhere on this website.
Success Stories
This site contains a form where you can submit your name, email address, phone number, age, gender and success story. The personally identifiable information (name, email address, phone number, age, gender) will only be used for the purpose of responding to your submission.
If you chose to submit a success story on this form it becomes the sole property of Connetics Corporation and may in the future be included on the website as a reference for other users. However, the personally identifiable contact information you provide will remain confidential and will not be added to any mailing lists or used anywhere on this website. You must be 13 years of age or older to submit a story.
Registration
This includes information obtained from you on registration forms used to process your requests for services and information, such as contact information (name, address, department, building, institution, city, state, zip, e-mail address, phone number), username and password, and medical specialty. This registration information may also be gathered if you register for certain services via phone, fax, or mail. We may use this information to send you a welcoming e-mail to verify your username and password, website updates, special offers, notices regarding relevant medical conditions and treatment, or other information responsive to the data that you provide to us. Additionally, we may refer to your personally identifiable information to better understand your needs and how we can improve our website.
Third Parties
Subsidiaries and controlled affiliates are viewed as third parties for the purpose of data transfers. Personal information may be shared with these subsidiaries and affiliates without obtaining additional consent. For example, we may work with technical or marketing consultants who will have access to any of the personal information you chose to share with us. We require all such subsidiaries and controlled affiliates to comply with the terms of our privacy policy and limit their access to this personal information only to perform the duties that we have requested from them.
Other companies may also collect information on our behalf through their websites (for example, Webcast registration). In these cases we ask these companies to only collect the information that is necessary for them to fulfill their needs and to only use this information for the purposes in which we have requested their services.
Sharing and Disclosure
Company does not rent, sell or share personal information it collects about you to or with third parties, except to a third party to verify your licensure status and identity and to a parent, subsidiaries or affiliated entities. Information collected from you is only used to process your requests for services and information (such as requesting to access the EVOCLIN Slide Database), to send you newsletters about this web site and the EVOCLIN product, and to comply with any requirements of law. Company may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Company or the Site; (2) protect and defend the rights or property of Company; or (3) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Company, its web sites or the public. We will not sell your Personally Identifiable Information to any other company or organization except if Company should ever file for bankruptcy, reorganize, or merge or consolidate with another Company, we may sell the information you provide to us on this Site to a third party or share your Personally Identifiable Information with any company with whom we merge or transfer all or substantially all of Connetics' assets. Such successor entity shall be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
Log Files and Aggregate Information
We may track the total number of visitors to our website, the number of visitors to each page of our website, IP addresses, and the domain names of our users' Internet Service Providers, and we may analyze these data for trends and statistics in the aggregate, but such information will be in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable data. Such aggregate information is not linked to any personally identifiable information that can identify any individual person.
We may use such aggregate information to analyze trends, administer the website, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We may share this aggregate information with our corporate partners and contracted vendors to assist us in operating the website and to enable them to better understand Company's business.
Choice
On the registration page, we clearly label which information is required and which information is optional and can be submitted at your discretion. You also have a choice about whether or not you want to receive e-mail communications.
Please be aware that this Privacy Policy and the choices you make on this web site will not necessarily apply to personal information you may have provided to Company in the context of other, separately operated, Company products or services.
Correcting/Updating Your Personally Identifiable Information
If you submit information such as your full name, suffix, address, department, building, institution, city, state, zip, phone number, email address, medical specialty, username and password and would like to modify or update this information you may do so by contacting us. We will notify you when this change in your information has been made. Likewise, if you would like this information removed from our database, contact us. Your information will then be removed from our database and we will notify you when this removal of your information from our records has been made. Please note however, that if you request this information to be removed from our database, you will no longer have access to the features on this Site that require this information (such as the EVOCLIN Slide Database).
You may also "opt-out" of receiving e-mails, newsletters and other communications from us by using the unsubscribe link included at the bottom of the newsletters that we send.
The Security of Your Information
Any Information you provide to us is held on a secured web server. We have a firewall and other technology in place to prevent others from accessing information without authorization. We also have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of user information under our control. This data is accessed only for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy. Unfortunately, no security system, or system of transmitting data over the Internet, can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of the means by which the information is transmitted between your computer and this Site.
International Transfers
Personal Information collected on this web site may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Company or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this web site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.
Children
This Site is not intended for or directed to persons under the age of 13. Any person who provides their information to Company through any part of the Site represents to Company that they are 13 years of age or older.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored by your browser in your computer when you visit our Site. We use cookies to improve our Site and make it easier to use. Cookies permit us to recognize users and avoid repetitive requests for the same information. We mostly use "session cookies" that are automatically deleted after each visit. Cookies from our Site cannot be read by other Sites. Most browsers will accept cookies until you change your browser settings to refuse them.
Your Consent To This Privacy Policy
By using this Site, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This is our entire and exclusive Privacy Policy and it supecedes any earlier version. Our Terms of Use take precedence over any conflicting Privacy Policy provision. We may change this Privacy Policy by posting a new version of this Privacy Policy on this Site which it is your responsibility to review. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are protecting the Personally Identifiable Information we collect. Your continued use of the Site constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Statement and any updates.
Contacting Company
If you believe that Company has not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please contact us and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to remedy the problem.
Last Updated: June 9, 2005