Patient Privacy
Patient Privacy
Genentech, Inc. ("Genentech") respects the privacy of visitors to its Web sites,
and we recognize your need for appropriate protection and management of personally
identifiable information you share with us (any information by which you can be
identified, including but not limited to, name, address, e-mail address, and telephone
number). That is why we have established this Privacy Policy, so that you are informed
about how we treat any personally identifiable information that you provide to us
in the course of using this Web site. This Privacy Policy will inform you of:
- How you will be informed of updates to this Privacy Policy
- What personally identifiable information of yours we may collect from you through
our Web site
- How we may use your personally identifiable information
- Limits on how we would share and disclose your personally identifiable information
- Our policy regarding links to third-party Web sites
- Security of our Web site
Please note that the Genentech Web sites are directed toward users who reside in
the United States of America. It is not our intent to gather personally identifiable
information from individuals residing outside the U.S.
Privacy Policy Updates
Due to the Internet's rapidly evolving nature, Genentech may need to update this
Privacy Policy from time to time. If so, Genentech will post its updated Privacy
Policy on our Web site located at DMEStudy.com so users are always aware of what
personally identifiable information we may collect and how we may use this information.
Genentech encourages you to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes.
Your continued use of this Web site will be subject to the then-current Privacy
Policy.
Information Collection and Use
You can generally visit this Web site without revealing any personally identifiable
information about yourself. However, to access certain options and services, we
may ask you to provide certain personally identifiable information. Without providing
such personally identifiable information, you may be unable to access certain options
and information. We (along with our third-party vendors engaged to provide services
on our behalf) collect personally identifiable information about you only if you
voluntarily provide it to us. You have the option not to provide any personally
identifiable information to us.
The following is personally identifiable information that you may voluntarily provide
to us and how we use it:
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Prescreening Surveys
Information obtained from you on web surveys, such as contact information (name
and mailing address), demographic information (for example: ZIP code, age level),
and medical condition. We may use this personally identifiable information to provide
you with information and services for which you have expressed an interest or that
you may find useful based on your answers in a survey. Additionally, we may refer
to your personally identifiable information to better understand your needs and
how we can improve our Web site.
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Registration
Information obtained from you on registration forms used to process your requests
for information, such as contact information (name, address, e-mail address), password,
username or code, age, date of birth, gender, ethnicity, and medical condition.
This registration information may also be gathered if you register for certain services
via fax or mail. We may use this information to send you a welcoming e-mail to verify
your username and password, Web site updates, 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 Web site.
Genentech is the owner of all information collected on this Web site.
Minors
You must be 18 years of age or older to submit registration or survey information.
If you are under the age of 18 and wish to register to obtain further information
or be included in a survey, then your parent or legal guardian must register to
obtain the information or to participate in the survey.
Cookies and GIF files
This Web site does not use cookie technology to identify users who have previously
visited to recognize the user upon return. A cookie is a piece of data stored on
the user’s hard drive containing information about the user.
This Web site uses ad-tracking tools, such as ad-codes or link-tracking tools, to
help manage online advertising. These tools enable our ad management partners to
learn which advertisements bring users to our Web site. The information, which may
be shared with our partners, is anonymous and is not personally identifiable.
Log Files and Aggregate Information
We may track the total number of visitors to our Web site, the number of visitors
to each page of our Web site, 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 Web site,
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 Web site and to enable them to better understand
users' needs.
Sharing and Disclosure of Your Personal Information
By submitting information to questionnaires, surveys, or other places where we collect
information on this web site, you expressly agree that we may provide your personally
identifiable information that we collect to a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate entity
within the Genentech corporate family, partner entities, to the vendors and service
agencies that we may pay to assist us, and to the study centers and doctors that
participate in our clinical research studies. We will use your personally identifiable
information for purposes of evaluating whether you might qualify to participate
in a clinical research study, or to complete a service to you, for example, to refer
your information to a study center so that you can be contacted with information
about participating in a clinical study. We will also disclose your personally identifiable
information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, regulation,
or other government authority (such as reporting safety information to the Food
and Drug Administration). We will not sell your personally identifiable information
to any other company or Organization, except we may transfer your personally identifiable
information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation, or other corporate
reorganization in which Genentech participates or to a purchaser of all or substantially
all of Genentech's assets. Such successor entity shall be bound by the terms and
conditions of this Privacy Policy.
Links to Third-Party Sites
Some of our Web sites may contain links to other Web sites on the Internet that
are not under the control of, or maintained by, Genentech. Such links do not constitute
an endorsement by Genentech of those other Web sites, the content displayed therein,
or the persons or entities associated therewith. You acknowledge that Genentech
is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and you agree that Genentech
is not responsible for the content of such Web sites. Your use of these other linked
Web sites is subject to the respective terms of use and privacy policies located
on the linked Web sites.
Security
Genentech and its third-party providers may employ procedural and technological
security measures, consistent with industry practice. Such measures are reasonably
designed to protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized
access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Genentech may use encryption, password
protection, secure socket layers, internal restrictions and other security measures
to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information.
Privacy Policy Last updated: Nov. 29, 2006