PRIVACY STATEMENT
Schering-Plough HealthCare Products, the manufacturer of TINACTIN® products respects the privacy of anyone who visits our websites or responds to our interactive advertisements or promotions. This statement tells you what information Schering-Plough HealthCare Products will collect and how we will use that information. This statement also provides direction on what to do if you do not want your personal information collected or shared when you visit www.tinactin.com or respond to our on-line advertisements or promotions.
What information will Schering-Plough HealthCare Products collect?
This website actively collects information from its visitors by asking
you specific questions and by permitting you to communicate directly
with us via e-mail or survey questionnaires. Some of the information
that you submit may be personally identifiable, such as your full name,
address, e-mail address.
Some areas of this site may require you to submit information in order for you to benefit from the specified features (such as eMail newsletters, free samples, electronic coupons) or to participate in a particular activity (such as sweepstakes or other promotions). You will be informed at each information collection point what information is required and what information is optional. We will provide a clear notice or our intended use of the data.
As you navigate through a website, certain non-personally identifiable information may be collected automatically. Examples of this non-personally identifiable information include the name of your internet service provider, the website that you used to link to our site, the websites that you visit from our site and your IP-Address. This data could possibly lead to your identification; however it is not collected or used for this purpose. The data is used for statistical purposes, but the individual user remains anonymous.
A cookie is a bit of information that a website sends to your web browser that helps the website remember information about you and your preferences. Persistent cookies are more permanent bits of information that are placed on the hard drive of your computer and stay there unless you delete them.
Persistent cookies store information on your computer for a number of purposes, such as retrieving certain information you have previously provided (e.g., passwords), helping to determine what areas of the website visitors find most valuable, and customizing the website based on your preferences. This site uses persistent cookies.
Internet tags (also known as single-pixel GIFs, clear GIFs, invisible GIFs, and 1-by-1 GIFs) are smaller than cookies and tell the Web site server information such as the IP address and browser type related to the visitor's computer. This site uses Internet tags. Tags have been placed both on online advertisements that bring people to the site and on different pages of the site. These tags indicate how many times a page is opened and which information is consulted. We do not collect or seek personally identifiable information through these tags.
Navigational data ("log files," "server logs," and "clickstream" data) are used for system management, to improve the content of the site, market research purposes, and to communicate information to visitors. This site uses navigational data.
How will Schering-Plough HealthCare Products use the personally
identifiable information we collect?
We collect this information to better understand your needs and ways
in which we can improve our products. We recognize that by providing
us with personally-identifiable information you are demonstrating your
trust in our company and our brands and we take that trust very seriously.
We maintain this information in a secure database that we use to analyze
consumer needs. To further understand key issues, we may contact you
for additional information.
Except as otherwise stated, we may use your information to improve the content of our site, to customize the site to your preferences, to communicate information to you (if you have requested it), for our marketing and research purposes, and for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy.
Any information collected from you on this web site may be used for marketing purposes.
If you provide personally identifiable information to this site, we may combine such information with other actively collected information unless we specify otherwise at the point of collection.
We may disclose your personally identifiable information to other Schering-Plough affiliates that agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. In addition, we may disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties, but only
to contractors we use to support our business (e.g., fulfillment services, technical support, delivery services, and financial institutions), in which case we will require such third parties to agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy;
in connection with the sale, assignment, or other transfer of the business of this site to which the information relates, in which case we will require any such buyer to agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy; or
where required by applicable laws, court orders, or government regulations.
In addition, we will make full use of all information acquired through this site that is not in personally identifiable form.
Your Right to Cancel
You can cancel your authorization for use of your personal data at any
time with regard to future use. If you wish to cancel your authorization
for use of your personal data, contact us at 1-901-320-2998 or email
us.
Security
We take reasonable steps to protect your personally identifiable information
as you transmit your information from your computer to our site and
to protect such information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access,
disclosure, alteration, or destruction. You should keep in mind that
no Internet transmission is ever 100% secure or error-free. In particular,
email sent to or from this site may not be secure, and you should therefore
take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail.
Moreover, where you use passwords, ID numbers, or other special access
features on this site, it is your responsibility to safeguard them.
What about children?
Schering-Plough HealthCare Products does not intend this site for child
audiences, and has no intention of collecting personally-identifiable
information (such as name, address, telephone number) from children
under 13 years old. Should a child under 13 attempt to provide us with
personally-identifiable information, we will decline to collect that
information, and set a session cookie [or use other means for tracking
the child while on the site] to make sure the child does not attempt
to change his/her age and provide us with his/her personally-identifiable
information. If you discover that your child has provided us with personally-identifiable
information, we ask that a parent or guardian of the child contact us
at 1-901-320-2386 or email us
to cancel authorization for use of the child's personal data.
Your consent
By using our websites or clicking on our advertisements or promotions,
you consent to the collection and use of non-personally identifiable
information by Schering-Plough HealthCare Products. Any change to our
privacy policy will be posted on this page so that you are always aware
of the information collected and its intended use.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on January 10, 2005.