This privacy statement describes ways in which BeiraBaga manages information about the individual persons who visit this website.
BY USING THIS SITE, YOU AUTHORIZE THE COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION AS DEFINED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. ALSO RECOGNIZES THAT BEIRABAGA MAY PERIODICALLY MODIFY, ADD OR REMOVE OR UPDATE THIS PRESENT PRIVACY POLICY AT ITS CRITERIA, WITHOUT NOTICE.
However, your personal data will always be treated in accordance with the Privacy Policy that was in force at the time of collection. It is our intention to publish on this page the changes to our privacy policy so that you are fully informed about the types of information we are collecting, how we can use it and under what circumstances it may be disclosed.
Our Privacy Policy is available on our homepage, as well as on any page where Personal Data is requested. At these data collection points, additional explanations can be provided if necessary regarding the purposes for which the data will be used.
How we treat your personal data:
- PRIVACY GUARANTEE
The term “Personal Data” used in this Privacy Policy refers to information such as your name, date of birth, e-mail address, address or telephone number that can be used to identify you.
We will generally only process your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy. However, we reserve the right to carry out additional data processing to the extent permitted or required by law or in support of any legal or criminal investigation.
The following sections explain how and when we collect your Personal Data.
- INTENTIONAL USE OF PERSONAL DATA
Most of our services do not require any form of registration, allowing you to visit our website without telling us who you are. However, some services may require you to provide us with Personal Data. In these situations, if you choose to refuse access to the Personal Data requested by us, it may not be possible to access certain parts of the site and request to obtain answers from us to your questions.
We may collect and use Personal Data to provide you with products or services, to notify you about products and services you have requested, to market products and services that we believe may be of interest to you or to communicate with you for other evident purposes from the circumstances in which the we inform you when we collect your Personal Data.
- CONFIDENTIALITY OF PERSONAL DATA
We do not sell, share or distribute your Personal Data to third parties, except as noted in this Privacy Policy. We may disclose your Personal Data to other Novartis affiliates worldwide who agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Personal Data may also be transferred to third parties acting on our behalf, for further processing in accordance with the purpose (s) for which the data was initially collected or to be legally processed, such such as providing services, evaluating the usefulness of this website, marketing, data management or technical support. These affiliates will only use your personal data for the purposes agreed above, and not to sell or disclose your personal information to third parties, unless required by law, as authorized by us or indicated in this Privacy Policy.
The Personal Data collected from you may also be transferred to third parties in the event that the company on this website or a part of it and the data of the customers associated with it are sold, assigned or transferred, in any case we will require the buyer, buyer or transferee to handle Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. In addition, Personal Data may be disclosed to third parties if we are required to do so due to the imposition of a law, court order or government regulation or if such disclosure is necessary to support a criminal investigation or any other legal process here or at foreign.
- RIGHT OF ACCESS, RECTIFICATION AND OBJECTION
Whenever we process Personal Data, we take reasonable steps to ensure that your Personal Data is accurately maintained and updated for the purposes it was collected.
We will provide you with the possibility to object to the processing of your Personal Data if such processing is not reasonably necessary for a legitimate purpose, as described in this policy or in accordance with the law. In the case of direct electronic marketing, we will provide you with an option to opt out of future marketing materials or a method of choosing to receive them, if required by law.
If you want to contact us regarding our use of your Personal Data or if you object to the processing of your Personal Data, please send us an email to privacy.portugal@novartis.com. If you contact us, please note the name of the website where you provided the information, as well as the specific information you would like us to correct, update or delete and your proper identification. Requests to delete personal data will be subject to all legal and ethical obligations or withholding obligations imposed on us.
- SECURITY AND CONFIDENTIALITY
In order to ensure the security and confidentiality of the Personal Data we collect online, we use protected data networks, inter alia, in accordance with industry standard firewall protection and password protection.
During the processing of your Personal Data, we take measures designed to protect that information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction.
- COOKIES AND INTERNET LABELS
We may collect and process information about your visit to this site, such as the pages you visit, the site you came from and some of the research you do. Such information is used by us to help improve the content of the website and to collect aggregated statistical data about individuals who use our website for internal market research purposes.
In doing so, we may install “cookies” that collect the user’s domain name, their internet service provider, their operating system and the date and time of access. A “cookie” is information that is sent to your search engine and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies do not damage your computer. You can configure your search engine to notify you when you receive a “cookie”, which will allow you to decide whether you want to accept it or not.
If you do not want us to install cookies, send us an email to privacy.portugal@novartis.com. We would like to inform you, however, that if you do not accept, you will not be able to use all the features of your search engine software. We may use the services of external third parties to help us collect and process the information described in this Section.
We may occasionally use internet tags (also known as action identifiers, single pixel GIFs, clear GIFs, invisible GIFs and 1 by 1 GIFs) and cookies on this website and we may use these identifiers / cookies through an advertising partner or a web analytics services partner that can be located and store their information (including your IP address) in a foreign country. These identifiers / cookies are placed in both online advertisements that attract users to this website and on different pages of this website.
We use this technology to measure the responses of visitors to our sites and the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns (including the number of times a page is opened and what information is consulted), as well as to evaluate your use of this site. The third party partner or the partner of the web analysis service may collect data about visitors to our site or other sites due to these internet identifiers / cookies, may prepare reports regarding the activity of the site and may provide other services related to use website and internet. They may provide such information to third parties, if there is a mandatory legal requirement or if they hire other third parties to process the information on their behalf.
If you want to get more information about web identifiers and cookies associated with online advertising or if you want to opt out of third parties’ collection of this information, visit the Network Advertising Initiative website.
- GOOGLE ANALYTICS
We use Google Analytics to streamline our website portfolio by (i) optimizing traffic to and between corporate websites and (ii) integrating and optimizing web pages where appropriate. “Google Analytics” is a service offered by Google Inc. “Google” that generates detailed statistical data about a website’s traffic and traffic sources and measures conversions and sales.
If you want to contact us regarding our use of your Personal Data or if you object to the processing of your Personal Data, please send us an email to privacy.portugal@novartis.com. If you contact us, please note the name of the website where you provided the information, as well as the specific information you would like us to correct, update or delete and your proper identification. Requests to delete personal data will be subject to all legal and ethical obligations or withholding obligations imposed on us.
- SECURITY AND CONFIDENTIALITY
In order to ensure the security and confidentiality of the Personal Data we collect online, we use protected data networks, inter alia, in accordance with industry standard firewall protection and password protection.
During the processing of your Personal Data, we take measures designed to protect that information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction.
- COOKIES AND INTERNET LABELS
Google Analytics uses “cookies” stored on your computer to help analyze how users use our site. The information generated by cookies regarding your use of our website, including your IP address, will be made anonymous using the settings function (“_anonymizelp ()” or equivalent) and transmitted to Google servers in the United States. For more information on how IP anonymity works, see https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052
On our behalf, Google will use the information generated by cookies in order to evaluate the use of our website, collect reports on website activity, providing us with these reports for analytical purposes.
Google may transfer this information to third parties in the event of a statutory obligation or if third parties process data on behalf of Google. Under no circumstances will Google combine or associate your IP address with other data stored at Google.
You can prevent or interrupt the installation and storage of cookies through your search engine settings by downloading and installing the free Reject Search Engine Feature available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl= en. In that case you will not be able to use all the functions of our website in full.
By using our site, you consent to the processing of any personal data that Google will collect about you taking into account the form and purpose described above.
- PERSONAL INFORMATION AND MINORS
Most of the services available on this website are aimed at people aged 18 or over. Anyone requesting information about a drug indicated for administration to children must be 18 years of age or older.
We will not knowingly collect, use or disclose Personal Data of a minor under the age of 18, without obtaining the prior consent of a person with parental responsibility (eg, a parent or guardian) through direct offline contact.
We will provide the parent with (i) notification of the specific types of personal data that are collected from the child and (ii) the opportunity to refute any further collection, use or storage of such information. We comply with laws designed to protect children.
- LINKS TO OTHER SITES
This Privacy Policy applies only to this website and not to websites owned by third parties. We may provide links to other sites that we believe may be of interest to our visitors. We aim to ensure that such sites are of the highest quality. However, given the nature of the internet, we cannot guarantee the privacy levels of sites to which we connect or be responsible for their content, this Privacy Policy is not intended to be applied to any associated site, which does not belong to Novartis.
- CONTACT US
If you have any questions or complaints to make regarding this Privacy Policy, or if you have any recommendations or comments to improve the quality of our Privacy Policy, send us an email to privacy@beirabaga.com.