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This Privacy Statement sets out how GSK uses and protects any information that you give to us. We respect your privacy and we are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Statement explains how we collect, transfer, process, use and disclose your data and sets out our security practices.
By providing us with your personal information, you agree and consent to its transfer, processing, use and disclosure as outlined in this Privacy Statement.
Information about the operator of websites or mobile applications (and GSK entity controllin any PII that is collected) can be found in the footer and/contact page of websites and in the licensing agreement of mobile applications.
We collect personally idetifiable information (PII) that you provide to us, which is information that identifies you as an individual. We only do this when you have agreed to our request for that information. This PII may include:
By providing your PII, you agree that, where it is permitted by local law or where you have agreed to receiving these communications from us we may use the information:
We also automatically collect information about your computer browser type and operating system, websites you visited before and after visiting websites, standard server log information, Internet Protocol (IP) addrsses, GPS location data, mobile phone service provider and mobile phone operating system. We aggregate this information to understand how our vissitors uses our websites and mobile applications so that we can improve them and the services we offer. GPS location data does not typically identify individual users. We may also share this aggregated information with other companies within the GSK group and with other third parties. This information includes:
GSK will take appropriate legal, organisational and technical measures to protect your personal information consistant with applicable privacy and data security laws. When GSK uses third part service provider that provider will be carefully selected and required to use appropriate measures to protect the confidentiality and privacy of personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your PII from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. Unfortunately the transmission of information via the internet or mobile phone network connection is not completely secure. Although, we will do our best to protect your PII. We cannot guarenttee the security of the PII you transmit to our websites or mobile applications: any transmission is at your own risk. While we cannot guarentee that, loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur, once we have received your information we will employ appropriate technical security measures to prevent such unfortunate occurences.
We may share your PII with our affiliates, contractors and agents in the normal course of business for the delivery of activities to which you have agreed. Unless otherwise specified on the website or mobile application. We will not sell or rent PII to third parties, except that your PII may be transferred to a third party in the event that the business of this site or a part of it or the customer data connected with it is sold assigned or transferred. Sometimes we use selected third parties to provide support in connection with our websites, mobile applications or in the normal course of business. These parties may, from time to time, have access to your information to enable them to provide those services to us. We require all companies providing such a support to provide the same standards such as our own. They are prohibited from using the information for their own purposes, in particular we do not allow service providers to use your PII for their own marketing activities.
GSK reserves the right to disclose personal information about you, including your e-mail address, for reporting to government authorities to parties in relevant legal proceedings as authorized by the presiding court or tribunal and otherwise to the extent required or explicitly authorised by applicable law. In certain special cases where permitted by local law, we may disclose your PII:
PII collected may be transferred to, stored and processed in your country of residence or any other country in which GSK (including its affiliates) subcontractors or agents maintain facilities, including the United States and countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). This means that your information may be processed in countries with lower data protection standards than your country of residence. By using our websites and mobile applications, you consent to any transfer, processing or storing of information outside of your country of residence and outside the EEA. We will ensure that if information is transferred outside your country of residence, it will still be treated in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
An PII address is a set of numbers automatically assigned to your computer whenever you log on to your internet service provider or through your organisation’s local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN). Web servers automatically identify your computer by the IP address assigned to it during your session online.
GSK or third party companies acting on behalf, may collect IP addresses for the purposes of systems administration and to audit the use of our websites. We also may use IP addresses to identify users of our websites when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with the websites’ terms of use or to protect our service, websites or other users.
Our websites and mobile applications may use technology called ‘cookies’. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a server. Cookies allow our websites and mobile applications to respond to you as an individual. The website or mobile application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. For instance, our server may set a cookie that keeps you from having to enter a password more than once during a visit to a website.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored if you prefer. Please refer to your internet browser’s instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions or help screen to learn more about these functions and to specify your cookie preferences.
If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of our websites or any other websites that you visit. For additional information regarding the use of cookies, review our global Cookie Policy.
Where permitted by local law, we may also collect legally obtained information from third parties to add to our existing user databases. Some of this information may be PII. We do this to better target information offerings and promotional campaigns in which we think you would be interested. Such PII will only be collected and used by us in accordance with the basis on which it was originally provided by the subject, or as otherwise permitted by local law.
We will retain your information only for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Statement unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. You may contact us in writing to request the updating, correcting or removal of PII that you have provided to us at any time using the contact information provided at the end of the Privacy Statement. Your local laws may also give you the right to access information that you have provided to us. In some countries, you may need to pay a reasonable fee to meet our costs in providing you with this information.
Our websites and mobile applications may from time to time provide links to or embed third party websites. This Privacy Statement does not apply to those websites. If you choose to enter such a linked site, you agree that we are not responsible for the availability of such websites and do not review or endorse and shall not be liable, directly or indirectly, for:
Please ensure you check the legal and privacy statements posted on each website or mobile application you access before entering any PII.
Unless otherwise explicitly stated, websites and mobile applications on which this Privacy Statement appears are not intended or designed to attract children under the age 13. We do not knowingly collect PII from visitors in that age group via these websites or mobile applications. On those websites or mobile applications that are intended for use by children under the age 13, we only collect PII with the explicit consent of a parent or guardian.
We may occasionally update this Privacy Statement. If the changes we make are material, we also may post a notice regarding the changes on our websites or mobile applications and related licensing agreements. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the PII we collect. Your continued use of our websites and mobile applications constitutes your agreement to the Privacy Statement and any updates. Subsequent changes in this Privacy Statement will not apply to data that were collected before the change is made.
The Privacy Statement was last updated on 10 December 2014
References to ‘GSK’, ‘we’,’us’ and ‘our’ are references to GlaxoSmithKline PLC and its affiliates. Please address any questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Statement to your local GSK affiliates using the contact information’s below. If you contact us, please note the name of the websites you have visited, as well as how we may contact you.
To contact GSK in the United Kingdom, call 0808-234-6680
To contact GSK in the United States, call 1-866-475-3844
Contact information for other GSK locations can be found at the following website:
http://www.gsk.com/en-gb/contact-us/worldwide
The website may provide information about medical conditions and their treatment. GSK makes no representation that material in the site is appropriate or available for use outside of the territory of the intended audience. Those who choose to access this site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent that local laws are applicable. In addition, nothing on this website should be construed as providing any kind of medical advice or recommendation, and should not be relied on as the basis for any decision or action. Specific medical advice should always be sought from a qualified medical practitioner.
GSK uses reasonable efforts to update this website, but some information may become out of date over time. Except as specifically stated, GSK makes no claims or warranties as to the accuracy, completeness or use of the information contained on this website.
This website has a specific section for members of the public, a specific for patients and a specific section for healthcare professionals. “Healthcare professional” refers to an individual who in the course of their professional activities may prescribe, supply or administer a medicine or medical devices/ {Reference may also be made to other appropriate healthcare staff in accordance with local codes and policies.
The section for the public has been designed as a library resource to provide reference information relating to GSK medicines, including but not limited to, prescription only medicines, to the public within the United Kingdom. Within the public section there are specific patient-only pages for those who have been prescribed the medicine relating to those pages. These pages remain hidden from the site navigation and can only be accessed once a member of the public has confirmed they are a patient that has been prescribed a particular medicine.
FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS ONLY: Please note that approved prescribing information must guide the appropriate use of the all medicines. Before prescribing any medicine, healthcare professionals should consult the approved prescribing information for that medicine in their country.
This website may link you to other websites on the internet, including the website for GSK affiliates in other countries. Please ensure that you read the legal and privacy policy sections of any other GSK or third-party site to which you link. GSK is not responsible for, does not recommend and accepts no liability for any information or opinion contained in any third-party website.
All intellectual property rights in the material on this site are owned by the GSK group of companies, or they have been granted permission to use such material except where specifically stated otherwise. Reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than in accordance with the following permissions.
You may read, view, print, download, and copy the material on this website for your personal and non-commercial use, but only if you acknowledge the website as the source of the material and include the copyright statement “© GSK group of companies, all rights reserved”. Unless specifically indicated, no other use of the material is permitted.
Nothing contained in this website should be construed as conferring any licence or right under any intellectual property (Including patents, trademarks and copyright) of the GSK group of companies or any third party.
GSK claims no ownership in, nor any affiliation with, any third-party trademarks appearing on this website. Such third-party trademarks are used only to identify the products and services of their respective owners, and no sponsorship or endorsement on the part of GSK should be inferred from the use of these marks.
Communication from users or other material sent through the internet posted on a GSK website or otherwise (Other than those containing personal and/or health-related information, which fall within GSK’s Privacy Policy) are deemed to be non-confidential and non-propriety, and GSK shall have no obligation of any kind with respect to such information. GSK shall be free to use this information for any purpose it deems appropriate, including reproduction and publication, and may use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in such information for any purpose whatsoever, including commercial purposes, without paying users for the right to do so.
GSK respects the privacy of its website visitors. Please refer to GSK’s Privacy Policy for an explanation of your rights and responsibilities with respect to the information that is disclosed on this website.
Nothing on this website constitutes an invitation or offer to invest or deal in the securities or ADRs of GSK. In particular, actual results and developments may be materially different from any forecast, opinion or expectation expressed on this website, and the past performance of the price of securities must not be relied on as a guide to their future performance.
GSK uses cookies to improve the experience for vissitors to our websites, including websites that can be accessed through our mobile applications, and has published this Cookie Policy. It explains what cookies are and how we use them on our websites.If you don’t want to receive cookies while browsing our website , you can modify your browser and/or mobile device settings so that it notifies you when receiving cookies or you can choose to restrict or block cookies.
Cookies are tiny files, composed of a string of letters and numbers placed on your computer by web page servers. They enable the website owner to distinguish you from other users of the website.Cookies cannot be executed as code or used to deliver viruses and they cannot enable us to access your hard drive. We cannot read any information on your hard drive even if we store cookies there.
<The data generated through cookies on the GSK websites can be used for various purposes including the following:
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use features, such as accessing secure areas of the website and saving items to a shopping basket.
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often and if they receive error messages. They are used to improve how websites work in future versions.
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make such as user name, language or region you are in and provide a more enhanced personal experience.
These cookies are used to deliver content more relevant to you and your interests.
We don’t permit any third parties to advertise on our website but we cannot control advertisers that are allowed by internet service providers to advertise whilst you are browsingon the internet.
GSK is required by law to obtain your consent for all types of cookies that we place other than those that are “strictly necessary”
You can learn more about how to manage your cookies by visiting the Help function of our browser , the settings of your mobile device or you can visit www.aboutcookies.org which provides detailed information on managing cookies on popular browsers. Please be aware that parts of our websites may not function correctly if you disable cookies.