| Privacy
Statement
Welcome to the GfK U.S. Healthcare Companies
web site. We at GfK U.S. Healthcare Companies are committed
to maintaining the privacy and security of the Personal Information of all
the visitors to this web site. As a part of that commitment, GfK U.S. Healthcare
Companies is in the process of implementing our updated Privacy Policy for
Domestic and Global Information and Information Privacy Statements to reflect
the current needs of our visitors to know what information about them we
collect, why we collect it, and where it goes. We encourage you to read
this Information Privacy Statement and our Global Information Privacy Policy.
In addition, as a member of the Council of American Survey Research Organizations
(“CASRO”), the professional trade association of survey research
companies, GfK U.S. Healthcare Companies adheres to the mandated CASRO Code
of Standards and Ethics for Survey Research. You may visit CASRO, and view
the CASRO Code, at www.casro.org.
At this web site, GfK U.S.
Healthcare Companies does not actively initiate any collection of any individual
information. We passively collect information that is automatically sent
to us by your web browser. This information typically includes your domain
name (the site after the @ in your e-mail address). It may also contain
your user name (the name before the @ in your e-mail address). The amount
of information sent depends on the settings you have on your web browser;
please refer to your browser if you want to learn what information it sends.
At this page we do not actively seek to identify any individual visitor,
with the exception of investigating security breaches or cooperating with
authorities pursuant to a legal matter.
We use the information we
automatically receive from your web browser to see which pages you visit
within our site, which site you visited before coming to ours, and where
you go after you leave. We at GfK U.S. Healthcare Companies can then develop
statistics that are helpful to understanding how this site is used by our
visitors. This statistical data is interpreted by GfK U.S. Healthcare Companies
in its continuing effort to present the web site content that visitors are
seeking in a format they find most helpful.
GfK U.S. Healthcare Companies will not use
or share, either within GfK U.S. Healthcare Companies or
with a third party, any information collected at this page for direct marketing
purposes. Because of the nature of the Internet, we may transmit the information
to another country, but within GfK U.S. Healthcare Companies, for purposes
other than direct marketing, such as for storage, or because of where our
servers are located. We may also use it to investigate security breaches
or cooperate with authorities pursuant to a legal matter. We may also remove
all the personally identifiable information and use the rest for historical,
statistical or scientific purposes.
If you e-mail us, you are
voluntarily releasing information to us. Your e-mail address will be used
by GfK U.S. Healthcare Companies to respond to you. We will not use the
information that can identify you, such as your e-mail address, for direct
marketing purposes.
In addition, we may have
collected similar information from you in the past. By entering this website
you are consenting to the terms of our information privacy policy and
to our continued use of previously collected information.
In the event of a sale,
merger, liquidation, dissolution, reorganization or acquisition of GfK
U.S. Healthcare Companies, or a GfK U.S. Healthcare Companies business
or business unit, information GfK U.S. Healthcare Companies has collected
about you may be sold or otherwise transferred. However, this will only
happen if the party acquiring the information agrees to be bound by the
terms of GfK U.S. Healthcare Companies' privacy policy and the notice
provided to you when the information was collected.
For your convenience, this
page may contain certain hyperlinks to other GfK U.S. Healthcare Companies
pages as well as to web sites outside GfK U.S. Healthcare Companies. While
GfK U.S. Healthcare Companies has posted an appropriate Information Privacy
Statement throughout our web site, we can make no promises or guarantees
regarding data collection on the hyperlinked pages and sites that are
not owned by GfK U.S. Healthcare Companies. We therefore recommend that
you read the privacy policy/ statement for each site you visit.
If you are concerned about
our use of your Personal Information, please contact us at gfkushcinquiries@gfkushc.com,
with the subject line, "privacy.”
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