Privacy Statement

Schering-Plough is committed to protecting the privacy of its customers and the users of this website. This statement explains how we achieve that goal and gives you details of our privacy practices, including:

Section 1: Your Consent

By using this site, you agree with the terms of this Privacy Statement. Whenever you submit information to us through this site, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of that information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Statement.

Section 2: Information We Collect and Why

We may ask you to provide us with personal information on a voluntary basis in certain areas of our site. In particular, you may be asked to provide the following information.

Membership Information: If you want to access certain content otherwise unavailable on the website or obtain special personalised services, we will ask you to provide personal information, including contact details (e.g., name, email address, and organisation), as well as generate your own personal password. We will use this information to maintain your membership account with and registration onto this website, and to furnish you with information about products and services that we think may be of interest to you where you specifically request it.

Feedback Information: If you submit information or comments to us in the section of the website designated for user feedback, we will ask you to provide personal information, including your name and e-mail address. We will process this information in order to respond to your feedback, where appropriate, including responding to a question, comment or request. In order to respond to your feedback, it may be necessary to make the personal information that you submit in this section available to subsidiaries and affiliates of Schering-Plough and, if necessary, to certain of our service providers. Where appropriate, your feedback also may be processed in an effort to improve our website.

Contact Services: In certain areas on this website, you will be provided with contact details for personnel at Schering-Plough. You cannot contact any such individual through this site, but you may enter into direct mail or telephonic communication with any such person if you choose to do so. Any such communication will be deemed to be personal communication between you and the individual in question. Such communication does not fall under the remit of this Privacy Statement and Schering-Plough will not be responsible for or have any liability in relation to such communications.

Passive Information: As is the case with many sites, our site logs navigational data (such as your IP address, log files, and clickstream data) and uses standard technology called "cookies", which are small data files that are downloaded onto your computer when you visit our site. Cookies automatically identify your browser to the Schering-Plough server whenever you interact with our site. If you prefer not to allow us to collect "cookie" information, you can disable the cookies by turning them off in your browser; however, some areas of our site may not function properly if you do. We will use navigational data for systems administration purposes. We do not link navigational data to any personally identifiable information that we collect from you via the personalised services on this website. This means that your session will be tracked, but you will not be identified. We use cookies to track the pages that you visit on our site and to ensure that you do not see the same information repeatedly.

Section 3: Information Retention and Disclosure

Schering-Plough will hold all of the personal information it collects solely in the UK, and will not transfer it outside the UK except under the conditions specified herein. Schering-Plough may from time to time need to disclose your personal information to third party agents located in the United Kingdom or in another country, but only for necessary technical support and only where they process the information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Statement. We may also need to disclose your information in connection with the sale, assignment or other transfer of the business of this site, or if required to do so by applicable laws, court orders, government regulations or authorities.

Section 4: Other Uses of Your Information

As well as using information about you for the specific purposes set out above, we may also collect non-personal information, such as number of site visits, tracking patterns of page viewing, and so forth to monitor the performance of the site and make improvements to it.

Section 5: Your Rights

Opt-out: Although most Schering-Plough customers indicate that they welcome details of offers and other promotional material about our products, and the products and services provided by our business partners and advertisers, we acknowledge the right of our customers to choose. You have the right to opt-out of receiving such information and we will honour your decision to do so once it has been communicated to us. If you wish to opt-out at any time, you can contact us as set out below, indicating that you no longer want to receive any information relating to products and services.

Access and Correction: You have a right to know about the personal information that Schering-Plough holds about you. You also have a right to correct, amend or delete the information that we hold about you if it is incorrect. If you wish to exercise these rights please contact us by post or e-mail at the address shown in the "Contact" section below.

Section 6: Security

This site incorporates appropriate safeguards to protect the security, integrity, completeness, accuracy and privacy of the personal information we have collected and we have put in place reasonable precautions to protect information from loss, misuse and alteration. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as required and only authorised individuals have access to the information you provide us.

Section 7: External Links

This website provides links to various other websites that we do not control. When you click on one of these links, you will be transferred out of our website and connected to the website of the organisation or company that you selected. Even if an affiliation exists between our website and a third-party website, we exercise no control over linked sites. Each of these linked sites maintains its own independent privacy and data collection policies and procedures. If you visit a website that is linked to our site, you should consult that site's privacy policy before providing any personal information.

Section 8: Terms and Modifications to Privacy Statement

Schering-Plough may modify this Privacy Statement at any time at its discretion and modifications are effective upon being posted on this site. You are responsible for reviewing this Privacy Statement periodically to ensure that you are aware of any changes to it. When Schering-Plough does effect a change, it will update the "Last Updated" notice appearing at the end of the Privacy Statement.

Section 9: Children

This site is not directed to children and Schering-Plough does not knowingly solicit information from any child. Should a child whom we know to be under 13 send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child to inform him or her that we must have parental consent before receiving his or her personal information.

Section 10: Contact Details

If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, the privacy practices of this site or if you want to exercise any of the rights that you are given under this Privacy Statement you can contact:

Schering-Plough Ltd
Shire Park
Welwyn Garden City
AL7 1TW

Date of preparation: May 2009 / Code: E&D 09-013