PRIVACY POLICY
Our Policy
Welcome to the website (the “Website”) of the Biosimilars Forum (“Biosimilars Forum,” “we,” “us, ” and/or “our”). This Website is operated by the Biosimilars Forum and has been created to provide information about our organization (the “Biosimilars Forum Services”) to our Website visitors (“you,” “your”). This Privacy Policy sets forth Biosimilars Forum’ policy with respect to information including personally identifiable data (“Personal Data”) and other information that is collected from Website visitors.
Information We Collect
When you interact with us through the Website, we may collect Personal Data and other information from you, as further described below:
Personal Data That You Provide Through the Website
We collect Personal Data from you when you voluntarily provide such information, such as when you contact us with inquiries and sign up for information.
By voluntarily providing us with Personal Data, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data to this Website, you acknowledge and agree that such Personal Data may be transferred from your current location to the offices and servers of Biosimilars Forum and the authorized third parties referred to herein.
Other Information
Non-Identifiable Data: When you interact with the Biosimilars Forum through the Website, we receive and store certain personally non-identifiable information. Such information, which is collected passively using various technologies, cannot presently be used to specifically identify you. The Biosimilars Forum may store such information itself or such information may be included in databases owned and maintained by Biosimilars Forum affiliates, agents or service providers. This Website may use such information and pool it with other information to track, for example, the total number of visitors to our Website, the number of visitors to each page of our Website, and the domain names of our visitors’ Internet service providers. It is important to note that no Personal Data is available or used in this process.
In operating this Website, we may use a technology called “cookies.” A cookie is a piece of information that the computer that hosts our Website gives to your browser when you access the Website. Our cookies help provide additional functionality to the Website and help us analyze Website usage more accurately. For instance, our Website may set a cookie on your browser that allows you to access the Website without needing to remember and then enter a password more than once during a visit to the Website. In all cases in which we use cookies, we will not collect Personal Data except with your permission. On most web browsers, you will find a “help” section on the toolbar. Please refer to this section for information on how to receive notification when you are receiving a new cookie and how to turn cookies off. We recommend that you leave cookies turned on because they allow you to take advantage of some of the Website’s features.
Aggregated Personal Data: In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the Biosimilars Forum, the Biosimilars Forum may conduct research on its user demographics, interests and behavior based on the Personal Data and other information provided to us. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and Biosimilars Forum may share this aggregate data with its affiliates, agents and business partners. This aggregate information does not identify you personally. The Biosimilars Forum may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
Our Use of Your Personal Data and Other Information
The Biosimilars Forum uses the Personal Data you provide in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy. If you provide Personal Data for a certain reason, we may use the Personal Data in connection with the reason for which it was provided. For instance, if you contact us by e-mail, we will use the Personal Data you provide to answer your question. Also, if you provide Personal Data in order to obtain access to the Biosimilars Forum information, we will use your Personal Data to provide you with access to such information and to monitor your use of such information. The Biosimilars Forum may also use your Personal Data and other personally non-identifiable information collected through the Website to help us improve the content and functionality of the Website, to better understand our users and to improve the Biosimilars Forum Services. Biosimilars Forum and its affiliates may use this information to contact you in the future to tell you about services we believe will be of interest to you. If we do so, each communication we send you will contain instructions permitting you to “opt-out” of receiving future communications. In addition, if at any time you wish not to receive any future communications or you wish to have your name deleted from our mailing lists, please contact us as indicated below.
If the Biosimilars Forum intends on using any Personal Data in any manner that is not consistent with this Privacy Policy, you will be informed of such anticipated use prior to or at the time at which the Personal Data is collected.
Our Disclosure of Your Personal Data and Other Information
The Biosimilars Forum is not in the business of selling your information. We consider this information to be a vital part of our relationship with you. There are, however, certain circumstances in which we may share your Personal Data with certain third parties without further notice to you, as set forth below:
Organization Transfers: In the event of a reorganization, dissolution or similar event, Personal Data may be part of the transferred assets.
Related Companies: We may also share your Personal Data with our affiliates for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Agents, Consultants and Related Third Parties: The Biosimilars Forum, like many organizations, sometimes hires other companies to perform certain organization-related functions. Examples of such functions include mailing information and maintaining databases. When we employ another company to perform a function of this nature, we only provide them with the information that they need to perform their specific function.
Legal Requirements: The Biosimilars Forum may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation, (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of the Biosimilars Forum, (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Website or the public, or (iv) protect against legal liability.
Your Choices
You can use the Website without providing any Personal Data. If you choose not to provide any Personal Data, you may not be able to use certain Biosimilars Forum functions.
Exclusions
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any Personal Data collected by Biosimilars Forum other than Personal Data collected through the Website. This Privacy Policy shall not apply to any unsolicited information you provide to Biosimilars Forum through this Website or through any other means. This includes, but is not limited to, information posted to any public areas of the Website, such as bulletin boards (collectively, “Public Areas”), any ideas for new products or modifications to existing products, and other unsolicited submissions (collectively, “Unsolicited Information”). All Unsolicited Information shall be deemed to be non-confidential and Biosimilars Forum shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, and distribute such Unsolicited Information to others without limitation or attribution.
Children
Biosimilars Forum does not knowingly collect Personal Data through the Website from children under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not submit any Personal Data through the Website. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Data on this Website without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Data to Biosimilars Forum through this Website, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.
Links to Other Websites
This Privacy Policy applies only to the Website. This Website may contain links to other web sites not operated or controlled by Biosimilars Forum (the “Third Party Websites”). The policies and procedures we described here do not apply to the Third Party Websites. The links from this Website do not imply that Biosimilars Forum endorses or has reviewed the Third Party Websites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy policies.
Social Media
Through the Website, you can choose to access certain social media websites and services that are owned and/or controlled by third parties (including, without limitation, Facebook and Twitter) (such websites and services, collectively, the “Social Media Services”). When you elect to access and use the Social Media Services, may be sharing your information (which will include personal information if you elect to share such information) with those Social Media Services. As with other Third Party Websites, the information that you share with the Social Media Services will be governed by the privacy policies and terms of service of the providers of such Social Media Services and not by the policies and procedures we describe here. You may also be able to modify your privacy settings with these Social Media Services to, for example, control what information the Social Media Services disclose to other entities, including Biosimilars Forum. When you log in to your Social Media Services account through the Website, we will collect relevant information necessary to enable the Website to access that Social Media Service, however you will provide your login information, like your password, directly to such Social Media Service (and not to Biosimilars Forum). As part of such integration, the Social Media Service will provide Biosimilars Forum with access to certain information that you have provided to such Social Media Service, and we will use, store and disclose such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and, if and to the extent applicable, the policies of such Social Media Services. However, please remember that the manner in which Social Media Services use, store and disclose your information is governed by the policies of the applicable Social Media Services provider, and, as a result, Biosimilars Forum shall not have any liability or responsibility for the privacy practices or other actions of Social Media Services that may be enabled within and/or otherwise accessible through the Website.
Security
The Biosimilars Forum takes reasonable steps to protect the Personal Data provided via the Website from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from this Website may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Data to the Biosimilars Forum via the Internet.
Other Terms and Conditions
Your access to and use of this Website is subject to the Terms of Use.
Changes to the Biosimilars Forum’ Privacy Policy
The Website and our business may change from time to time. As a result, at times it may be necessary for Biosimilars Forum to make changes to this Privacy Policy. Biosimilars Forum reserves the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time without prior notice. Please review this policy periodically, and especially before you provide any Personal Data. This Privacy Policy was last updated on the date indicated above. Your continued use of the Website after any changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy shall indicate your agreement with the terms of such revised Privacy Policy.
Access to Information; Contacting the Biosimilars Forum
To keep your Personal Data accurate, current, and complete, please contact us as specified below. We will take reasonable steps to update or correct Personal Data in our possession that you have previously submitted via this Website.
Please also feel free to contact us if you have any questions about Biosimilars Forum’ Privacy Policy or the information practices of this Website.