Effective Date: December 23, 2013
Purpose of the Privacy Statement. Bristol-Myers Squibb respects the privacy of visitors to this Web site and understands that information about you, your health, and your health care is sensitive. Except as provided in the Transfer of Control section of this Web site's Internet Privacy Statement, Bristol-Myers Squibb will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information. Bristol-Myers Squibb developed this Internet Privacy Statement to provide information about our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of information that you may provide when you visit this Web site. This privacy statement applies to this web site and other Bristol-Myers Squibb web sites providing resources such as consumer and health care professional product related information and services.
We encourage you to read this Internet Privacy Statement before submitting information. By using this Web site, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to the terms of the Internet Privacy Statement.
Information Voluntarily Provided by Users. You can visit much of the Web site without telling us who you are or providing us with other personally identifiable information. Some areas of the Web site allow you to contact us to ask questions or provide comments. When you communicate with us and request a response, we ask for your name and contact information. We intend to let you know how we will use such information before we collect it from you; if you tell us that you do not want us to use this information to make further contact with you beyond fulfilling your requests, we will respect your wishes.
Some areas of the Web site may also require that you submit information in order to access specific content, features, interactive tools, services or participate in a particular activity. For example, to create an online account, online user profile or to subscribe to a newsletter, we may ask for your name, contact information, professional credentials and other additional information so we can complete your request.
You may always choose not to provide the required information, but then you may not be able to participate in the particular activity that requires the information.
Use of Cookies. We may store some information on your computer using a technique your browser supports called "cookies". The cookies are used for a variety of purposes, including but not limited to helping you login (e.g., remembering your user name if you register or login), remembering some of your customized user preferences, to help us better understand how people use our Web site, to collect anonymous traffic data, and to help us improve our Web site. In some cases, this information will help us tailor content to your interests or help us avoid asking for the same information when you revisit our Web site. The cookies set by our Web sites are used only by our Web sites. With respect to collecting anonymous traffic data, we may use third parties to collect such data on our behalf. To disable or limit the use of cookies, please refer to the options provided by your Internet browser. If you do so, however, some pages or features (such as customized products/services or user preferences) on this Web site may not work properly.
Web Beacons. A Web Beacon is a clear GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) image or pixel tag (also known as a "Web beacon") that companies place on their Web sites to allow an Internet advertising or audience measurement company to help them analyze their advertising campaigns and general usage patterns of visitors to their Web sites. Bristol-Myers Squibb uses Web beacons on some of its Web sites. Subject to the transfer of control situation described below, Bristol-Myers Squibb will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information.
Web Server Data Collection and IP Addresses. With or without cookies, our Web site keeps track of usage data, such as the source address that a page request is coming from (i.e., your IP address, domain name), date and time of the page request, the referring Web site (if any), and other parameters in the URL (e.g., search criteria). We use this data to better understand Web site usage on the whole and to determine which areas of our Web site users prefer (e.g., based on the number of visits to those areas). This information is stored and used by Bristol-Myers Squibb for statistical reporting. In some cases, to provide you better tailored programs and information, we may collect and consolidate your online information, and match it with personally identifiable information collected from other resources and programs. We may work with 3rd parties to help us with these activities.
Do-Not-Track Signals. When you visit our Websites, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and parties that we work with, may collect and use anonymous traffic data through the use of cookies, web beacons, online behavior ads, web server data and IP addresses, as described in this Privacy Statement. The collection of anonymous traffic data occurs even when do-not-track signals are enabled on your Internet browser. If you register on one of our Web sites, and provide us with your personally identifiable information, we may be able to identify your previous online visits to our Web sites (which would have been anonymous before you registered). For example, once you register on our Web site, we may be able to link your personally identifiable information to previous visits on our sites depending on whether our Web site cookies from earlier visits are still stored on your computer. In addition, when you register or login to our Web site, we can see where you have been on our Web site while you are visiting. Bristol-Myers Squibb, and the parties it works with, do not track your online activities once you have exited our Web sites. For more information about do not track signals, visit www.allaboutdnt.com.
Law Enforcement. In rare situations, we may be required by court order or other legal or regulatory process, or as otherwise required by law to divulge information obtained through our Website to law enforcement authorities, the courts, or regulatory authorities. Bristol-Myers Squibb will cooperate in responding to such requests, in accordance with the regulatory or legal process, and will take appropriate measures to ensure that the requester understands the sensitive nature of any health-related personally identifiable information they receive.
Privacy Policies Governing Linked Web Sites. As a convenience to our visitors, the Web site contains links to other Web sites that may offer useful information. The Internet Privacy Statement described here does not apply to your use of those other Web sites. Before using the linked Web sites, please review their Internet privacy statements to understand how they use and protect personally identifiable information.
Changes in Our Privacy Statement. Bristol-Myers Squibb may at any time revise this privacy statement by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the most current privacy statement.
Questions. If you have any questions about the Web site's Internet Privacy Statement or other aspects of privacy on our Web site, please contact us at:
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Benefits Services
1-844-557-3344