Data privacy statement

Effective Date: May 23, 2018

Octapharma USA, Inc., 117 W. Century Rd, Paramus, NJ, US 07652 (hereinafter “Octapharma” or “we” or “us”) respects the right of individuals regarding their personal information. This Data Privacy Statement (“statement”) describes the way we process your personal information when you visit our website.

Please click here for our Terms of Use

Please contact Octapharma USA data protection officer(s) for further questions at usdataprivacy@octapharma.com. USA data protection officers include:

  • Amanda Heller, Vice President, Human Resources

  • Michael Donham, Director, Information Technology

  • Stanley Ammons, Senior Director Compliance

Please DO NOT report drug safety related information, such as side effects, via this website. Drug safety related information should be reported to safetyreporting@octapharma.com. If you are a patient, please contact your physician in case of adverse reactions. Please consider the pharmacovigilance data privacy statement, if you are reporting drug safety relevant events.

Collection of information

In order to properly manage our website, we may log information and identify categories of visits by items such as domain name, browser type and version, the pages visited within the Octapharma USA site and the URL to which the user goes upon leaving Octapharma USA’s site to continuously improve the performance of our website. This information is used in an aggregate form only and personal data is therefore anonymized.

Disclosure and use of personal information

Information will not be disclosed to third parties except where the third party is a supplier or contractor who is involved in fulfilling the individual’s request for information, or a supplier or contractor who is involved in the development and management of Octapharma USA’s website

Information about cookies

The following cookies are used on the website. Unless otherwise stated below, all allowed cookies are stored for one year. Further information can be found below:

Strictly necessary

Cookie type

Name

Purpose

Cookie permission

app_cookie_permission

This is used to store the permission for cookie usage

Performance cookies

Cookie type

Name

Purpose

Google analytics

_ga

Used by Google Analytics.

Google analytics

_gat_gtag_UA_XXXXXXXXX_1

Used by Google Analytics.

Google analytics

_gid

Used by Google Analytics.

If you actively change the settings to allow performance cookies, you are giving your consent for Google Analytics to collect information about how you use and navigate our site. We use this information to improve the user experience for all visitors to our homepage.

At any time, you can go to Google preferences to see what Google thinks are your age, gender and interests. You can also add, edit or delete information on that page, or you can opt-out of Google collecting and analysing your behaviour altogether. The data is stored for 14 months.

Functionality cookies

Cookie type

Name

Purpose

Displayed notifications

app_displayed_notification_types

Stores types of already displayed notifications, so we don't show them anymore.

Target group

app_target_group

Stores the target group selected by user.

Visited pages

app_visited_pages

Stores pages visited by user to improve content recommendations of the assistant.

Third-party cookies

Cookie type

Name

Expires

Purpose

Vimeo

player; vuid

2 years

To display and deliver videos, Octapharma makes use of Vimeo, a video sharing website. The embedded Vimeo player, uses these cookies to check if certain features or preferences have been selected by the user. To find about more about how each cookie is used see Vimeo’s Cookie List. More information can be found on Vimeo’s Privacy Policy (link below)

Youtube

SIDCC; _Secure-3PAPISID; _Secure-APISID; _Secure-SSID; APISID; _Secure-HSID; SAPIDID; _Secure-3PSID; SID; _Secure-3PSIDCC; HSID; SSID; 1P_JAR; DV; NID; SEARCH_SAMESITE; ANID; CONSENT

Varies from end of session up to 1 year

To display and deliver videos, Octapharma makes use of Youtube, a video sharing website. More information can be found about Youtube's cookie policy under the links below.

Additional information regarding cookies

Cookies are pieces of data that a website can transfer to a user’s web browser. The cookies may remain on your computer after you leave the website but you can manually delete them using most browsers. Most web browsers are pre-set to accept cookies. Some cookies store data just for the time you are on the website. These are called session cookies and are not stored on your computer after you have left the website.

If you prefer not to receive cookies, you can adjust your web browser to refuse cookies or to warn you when cookies are being used. Most elements of this site will still function if you disable cookies in your web browser settings.

When you visit this site, if your browser is using the standard settings and it is accepting cookies, you are giving consent for cookies on this site to be stored on your computer. If you do not wish for this to happen, you can disable them in the settings of your browser. You can find more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them at www.aboutcookies.org.

Your rights

You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online. You may also demand the deletion of your personal data unless the applicable laws and regulations oblige us to store your personal data.

You can request to be provided with information about data which we store/process about you. In addition, you have the right to have any personal data blocked or deleted, to object to the processing of your data, to have any incorrect data corrected and the right to have your data transferred to a third party.

You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us an email that credibly shows the error. You likewise have the right to request the correction of incorrect personal data.

To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before making corrections. Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy statement or want to have your data deleted from our database, please send an email to dataprivacy@octapharma.com.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, if applicable.

We may update or amend this statement at any time by posting the amended statement to the website.

Your California privacy rights

Residents of the State of California may reference California Privacy Notice.