Privacy and Cookie Policy
Your trust is important to us.
At Chiesi SA/NV (“Chiesi”), we want to make sure you understand what personal data we may collect about you when you interact with Chiesi, how we use your personal data and how we keep it safe.
This Privacy and Cookie Policy explains:
(1) Who is the Data controller?
The Data controller for the collection and processing of your personal data is CHIESI SA/NV (hereafter Chiesi), with Tax Identification Number 0826.654.883 and with registered office at Telecomlaan 9, 1831 Diegem, Belgium.
The Data controller has appointed a Data Protection Officer who can be contacted at the following coordinates:
Karen LAEVAERT
Telecomlaan 9
1831 Diegem
Tel.: +32 (0)2 788 42 00
Email: dpo.be@chiesi.com
(2) What data do we collect about you?
When you interact with Chiesi using this website, we collect the following types of data:
(3) How do we use your data?
We may use your data to:
(4) On what basis do we collect and use your data?
Applicable data protection legislation sets out a number of different reasons for which a company may collect and use your personal data.
We use your data for the following reasons:
(5) For how long will we keep your data?
If the law requires the retention of your personal data, Chiesi will comply with the relevant necessary retention periods. In other cases, we keep your data:
(6) Do we share your personal data with others and transfer it internationally?
Within Chiesi, recipients of your personal data are persons specifically authorised by Chiesi for this purpose. These persons are bounded by a confidentiality clause and other legal obligations regarding the collection and processing of personal data.
Your data may also be communicated to Chiesi’s parent company, Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A., and its affiliate companies inside and outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”), for the purpose of internal qualitative and statistical analysis. In this respect, Chiesi has taken all the necessary legal steps to ensure that the transfer of your personal data to countries outside the EEA is secure, and performed in accordance with the provisions of the applicable legislation. It has executed the appropriate standard contractual clauses in order to secure the international transfer of data.
Similarly, your data may be accessed by service providers and suppliers and by authorised partners, in cooperation with whom Chiesi provides its products and services and with whom it has concluded relevant contracts were necessary.
(7) How do we protect your personal data?
We have adopted the appropriate organisational and technical measures to ensure the security of your data and their protection against destruction, loss, alteration, leakage, unauthorised dissemination or access and any other form of illegal processing.
Please note that internet is however not a totally secure environment. When you transmit information to us using internet or a mobile phone network connection, these transmissions may not be completely secure.
As well, from time to time we may provide on our website links to other websites or mobile applications that are not owned or controlled by us. This Privacy and Cookie Policy does not apply to those websites or mobile applications. Please check the privacy policies of those websites and mobile applications, before you choose to use them.
(8) What are your rights?
According to the terms of the data protection legislation and regulation in force, throughout the processing of your personal data, you are entitled to enforce, where applicable, the following rights:
You can exercise the abovementioned rights (except for point 7) by sending an email to the attention of Karen Laevaert (dpo.be@chiesi.com). Your request shall be processed without undue delay and in any case within 30 days of receipt of the request, except for complex cases or when a large amount of requests is received. The said period may be extended by two further months.
(9) What is our Cookie Policy?
Cookies are tiny text files placed automatically on your computer, smartphone or tablet via your Internet browser. Cookies are automatically transferred on the hard disk of your device when you visit our website. Cookies allow our system to recognize you when you visit our website later. They also allow us to ameliorate the use of our website.
Cookies can be temporary (“session cookies”) or permanent (“tracking cookies”). Session cookies are only active during your session on our website and automatically erased when closing your browser. Permanent or tracking cookies stay on your hard disk until you erased them manually or until your browser suppress them after a certain period. Some cookies are used to keep your connection data so that you do not have to fill these data when visiting our website again. Others allow us to store information on the server to help make the web experience better for you and conduct site analysis and website performance reviews.
Most web browsers are set up to accept cookies. You can although reset your web browser to refuse all cookies. You can learn more about how to manage your cookies by visiting the Help function of your browser, the settings of your mobile device or you can visit the www.aboutcookies.org, which provides detailed information on managing cookies on popular browsers.
Please be aware that some parts of our website and applications may not function correctly if you disable cookies.
(10) Revision
Please note that we may change this Privacy and Cookie Policy from time to time. We thus encourage you to review this Policy periodically.
LIST OF COOKIES IN USE
The following is a list of the cookies used by this Site with a description of their specific functioning:
COOKIE NAME |
EXPIRE TIME |
COOKIE DESCRIPTION |
PHPSESSID |
End session |
Session cookie used to maintain an anonymous browsing session |
NID |
End session |
Google Analytics cookie that identifies the source of the connection |
OptanonConsent |
1 year |
Onetrust cookies for the acceptance of privacy cookies |
OptanonAlertBoxClosed |
1 year |
Onetrust cookies for the acceptance of privacy cookies |
For more information about Cookies used on the Site, and to know how to block or restrict them please visit www.aboutcookies.org.
For general legal information about Chiesi and the use of the Site please see the "Terms of Use" of the Site.