At Cephalon, we understand that protecting your privacy is important and that your health
information is particularly sensitive. We only collect personally identifiable information about you if you choose to give it to us. Please review this Privacy Statement to learn more about how Cephalon collects, uses, shares and protects information online.
Cephalon shares personally identifiable data about you with various outside companies or agents working on our behalf to help fulfill business transactions, and we also may share personally identifiable data with our company's affiliates. However, we do not share any of your personally identifiable information with third parties for their own marketing use unless you explicitly give us permission to do so.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
Information You Give Us
At our Web sites, we only collect your personally identifiable information (such as your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address) when you choose to submit it to us. For example, you may choose to register to receive additional product information or information about a disease state that interests you.
In some cases, we also remove personal identifiers from data and maintain it in aggregate form. We may combine this data with other information to produce anonymous,
aggregated statistical information helpful to us in improving our products and services.
Automatically Collected Information
We automatically receive certain types of information whenever you interact with us on our sites and in some e-mails we may send each other. Automatic technologies we use may include, for example, Web server logs and IP addresses, cookies and Web beacons.
Web Server Logs and IP Addresses
An IP address is a number assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. All computer identification on the Internet is conducted with IP addresses, which allow computers and servers to recognize and communicate with each other. Cephalon collects IP addresses to conduct system administration and report aggregate information to
affiliates, business partners and/or vendors to conduct site analysis and Web site
performance review.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of information that is placed on your computer when you access certain Web sites. The cookie uniquely identifies your browser to the server. Cookies allow us to store information on the server to help make the Web experience better for you and to conduct site analysis and Web site performance review. Most Web browsers are set up to accept cookies, although you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Note, however, that some portions of our sites may not work properly if you refuse cookies.
Web Beacons
On certain Web pages or e-mails, Cephalon may utilize a common Internet technology called a "Web beacon" (also known as an "action tag" or "clear GIF technology.") Web beacons help analyze the effectiveness of Web sites by measuring, for example, the number of visitors to a site or how many visitors clicked on key elements of a site.
Web beacons, cookies and other tracking technologies do not automatically obtain personally identifiable information about you. Only if you voluntarily submit personally identifiable information, such as by registering or sending e-mails, can these automatic tracking technologies be used to provide further information about your use of the Web sites and/or interactive e-mails to improve their usefulness to you.
YOUR CHOICES
You have several choices regarding your use of our Web sites. Cephalon may require you to provide certain personally identifiable information in order for you to receive additional product information or information about a disease state. You could decide not to submit any personally identifiable information at all by not entering it into any forms or data fields on our sites and not using any available personalized services. Certain sites may ask for your permission for certain uses of your information and you can agree to or decline those uses. If you opt-in for particular services or communications, such as an e-newsletter, you will be able to unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions included in each communication. If you decide to unsubscribe from a service or communication, we will work to remove your information promptly, although we may require additional information before we can process your request.
As described above, if you wish to prevent cookies from tracking you anonymously as you navigate our sites, you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Note, however, that some portions of our sites may not work properly if you refuse cookies.
USE OF DATA
Cephalon and/or the companies we hire to perform services on our behalf will use any personally identifiable information you choose to give us to comply with your requests or as otherwise disclosed to you in this Statement or on the Web page where you submit your information to us. We may refer to this information to better understand your needs and how we can improve our products and services.
We use aggregated (non-personally identifiable) information to help us understand trends and customer needs. For example, we may analyze the gender or age of visitors to sites about a particular medication or disease state, and we may use that analysis of aggregate data internally or share it with others.
DATA SHARING AND TRANSFER
Cephalon shares personally identifiable data about you with various outside companies or agents working on our behalf to help fulfill business transactions, such as providing customer services, sending marketing communications about our products, services and offers, and doing technological maintenance. We may also share personally identifiable data with our company's affiliates.
We may also disclose personally identifiable information for these purposes:
(a) in connection with the sale, assignment or other transfer of the business of the site to which the data relates;
(b) to respond to appropriate requests of legitimate government agencies or where required by applicable laws, court orders, or government regulations; or
(c) where needed for corporate audits or to investigate or respond to a complaint or security threat.
No Third-Party Direct Marketing Use
Cephalon will not sell or otherwise transfer the personally identifiable information you provide to us at our Web sites to any third parties for their own direct marketing use unless we provide clear notice to you and obtain your explicit consent for your data to be shared in this manner.
E-mail a Friend or Colleague
On some Cephalon sites, you can choose to send a link or a message to a friend or colleague referring them to a Cephalon Web site. 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 Cephalon or other third parties for additional purposes.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Our sites contain links to a number of Web sites that may offer useful information to our visitors. This Privacy Statement does not apply to those sites, and we recommend communicating to them directly for information on their privacy policies.
Privacy Statement for Children
Our Web sites are not intended or designed to attract children under the age of 13. We do not collect any personally identifiable information from anyone we know to be under the age of 18.
Additional Information on Web Sites
If a Web site has particular provisions relating to privacy that differ from those stated here, those provisions will be disclosed to you on the page on which personally identifiable information is collected.
Note to Users of Business or Professional Web Sites
If you have a business or professional relationship with Cephalon, we may use information you submit on our sites, including sites intended specifically for business and professional users, to fulfill your requests and develop our business relationship with you and the entities you represent. We may also share such information with third parties acting on our behalf.
Updates to Privacy Statement
From time to time, Cephalon may revise this Privacy Statement. Any such changes to this Privacy Statement will be promptly communicated on this page. Continued use of our sites after receiving notice of a change in our Privacy Statement indicates your consent to the use of newly submitted information in accordance with the amended Cephalon Privacy Statement. The effective date of this Privacy Statement is May 9, 2005.
How to Contact Cephalon
If you have any questions about the Cephalon Privacy Statement or the information practices of our sites, you may contact us as follows:
Cephalon, Inc.
41 Moores Road
PO Box 4011
Frazer, PA 19355
610-344-0200