Overview The Data Protection Act 1998 regulates the processing of information relating to you and grants you various rights in relation to your personal data.
Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited ("MSD") is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected and that it complies with its obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998.
This Statement explains how we use the information which we collect about you when you register for the MSD service.
The information we collect. When you first register on our website at univadis.co.uk and when you register for one of our services, we collect personal information from you such as your name, e-mail address and clinical specialty. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with the website and if you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. We may ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
We gather this information to allow us to process your registration and to provide you with customised content, including articles relating to your fields of interest and various conference and training opportunities, as well as using it to develop and improve our services.
IP address and cookies. We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our content providers. These are statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and do not identify an individual.
For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us: to estimate our audience size and usage pattern; to store information about your preferences and so allow us to customize our website according to your individual interests; to speed up your searches and to recognise you when you return to our website.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our website.
Uses made of information. We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our content providers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 100 men aged under 30 have clicked on their material on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help our content providers reach the kind of audience they want to target.
We may disclose information about you to Merck & Co., Inc. in the United States and its worldwide Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD) subsidiaries. Your information may also be available to Merck's affiliates, or companies working as agents on behalf of Merck (such as companies that collect and process your information, invite you to participate in scientific and/or professional programmes as well as to deliver to you educational and scientific material, as well as companies that fulfil your requests for more information about our products or other services). Merck has sought assurances by contract from these companies that they will only use this information at Merck’s direction, in a manner that is consistent with this policy. These companies are also required to sign a confidentiality agreement that prohibits them from sharing, selling, or in any way providing this information to anyone else.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties in the following circumstances: in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets; if MSD or substantially all of its assets are acquire by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets; or if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use or other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of MSD, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
We would like to provide you with information by email about services on and updates to the Website, and also about other MSD services and products, which we think, may be of interest to you. We will only do this if you have given us your express permission in the registration form. If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for these purposes, you may change your mind at any time by amending your settings on the email subscription page.
Our content services may provide links to other websites over which we have no control. The information practices of these linked websites and of univadis are not covered by this privacy policy and you should check these sites carefully to find out how they use your personal information.
Updating your personal information. If any of the information that you have provided to us changes, please let us know the correct details by emailing us at helpdesk@univadis.co.uk
Changes to our privacy policy. Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate notified to you by email.
If at any time you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policies, please email us at helpdesk@univadis.co.uk
