PharmARC Analytic Solutions Private Limited (hereinafter "PharmARC") provides sales & marketing analytics consultancy services to the world-wide health care industry. This privacy statement covers the site www.pharmarc.com.
PharmARC is committed to protecting the privacy of the users of its website. Following is the PharmARC privacy statement outlining our policies governing the collection and use of registered user information.
Privacy Policy
When you use the PharmARC website, you gain access to the details on our services, case studies and other offerings from PharmARC. PharmARC requires users to register for the service and provide personal information including but not limited to the user's name, company, phone number and email address. PharmARC uses this information to establish and deliver service to the user. PharmARC may use this information to contact registered users to notify them of service updates, provide instructions and to deliver other service related information. PharmARC may also contact users to request additional information and feedback. PharmARC may employ companies and people to perform tasks on its behalf (such as for servicing your account) and may need to share personal information with these agents. PharmARC's agents do not receive any right to use personal information beyond what is necessary to perform their assigned tasks.
Collection of Information
Your information collected by PharmARC consists of personally identifiable information collected or received about you when you interact with PharmARC's website, services and offerings as a registered user. Depending on how you use the service, your PharmARC information may include:
Registration related information (such as name, home or work addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers)
Information about your visits to PharmARC web sites and pages, and your responses to the offerings presented on these web sites and pages
Information about the searches you perform through PharmARC and how you use the results of those searches
Information about PharmARC services or offerings that you use, and how frequently you use them
Information about how long you have used services from PharmARC prior to registering with the service
Customer service information about you as a PharmARC web site user or other information specifically related to your use of a particular PharmARC service or offering.
Your information may also include certain technical information gathered or
received when you use the PharmARC web site. Some of the technical information
that may be collected or received includes: the type of browser you are using
(e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using
(e.g., Windows or Mac OS), CPU type, your manner of connecting to the Internet;
other information about your geographic location; and the domain name of your
Internet service provider.
How your information is used
Your information collected by PharmARC is used:
To fulfill your requests for services
To communicate with you and respond to your inquiries
To conduct research about your use of PharmARC web site
To help offer you other services that may be of interest
To diagnose technical problems
To administer the site and
To improve the quality of service delivered
Your information will not be shared with third parties unless it is necessary to
fulfill a transaction you have requested, in other circumstances in which you
have consented to the sharing of your information, or except as described in
this Privacy Policy. PharmARC may use your information to present offers to you
on behalf of business partners. These business partners receive aggregate data
about groups of PharmARC users, but do not receive information that personally
identifies you.
The contents of information about you as a PharmARC web site user, may be
accessed and disclosed in response to legal process (for example, a court
order, search warrant or subpoena); in other circumstances in which PharmARC
believes the PharmARC web site is being used in the commission of a crime; when
we have a good faith belief that there is an emergency that poses a threat to
the safety of you or another person; or when necessary either to protect the
rights or property of PharmARC, or for us to render the service you have
requested.
PharmARC may use agents and contractors in order to help operate the service. If
such agents and contractors have access to personally identifiable information,
they are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent
with this Privacy Policy by, for example, not using the information for any
purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for PharmARC.
If at some point PharmARC sells all or a portion of its assets, your information
is an asset that may be transferred or acquired by a third party. The third
party would then have the right to continue using the personal information
solely as set forth in this policy. Further, in the event that ownership of
PharmARC was to change as a result of a merger, acquisition or transfer to
another company, your information may be transferred. If such a transfer
results in a material change in the use of your information, PharmARC will
provide notice about the choices you have to decline to permit such a transfer.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Cookies are text files that are placed in your computer's browser, and that can
be used to help recognize you as a PharmARC website user. Web beacons are small
pieces of code placed on web pages that can be used, among other things, to
count the users who visit that web page, or to deliver a cookie to the browser
of a user viewing that page. You can control cookies through your browser's
settings. If you reject all cookies, however, you will not be able to take
advantage of certain PharmARC offerings.
PharmARC may use cookies, web beacons or similar technologies in combination
with your information to enhance and personalize your experience on the
PharmARC website; to help authenticate you when you use the PharmARC website;
to remember your preferences and registration information; to present and help
measure and research the effectiveness of PharmARC offerings and e-mail
communications (by determining which PharmARC e-mails you open and act upon);
and to customize the content provided to you through the PharmARC website.
Security
PharmARC has established safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access to or
misuse of your information, but cannot guarantee that your personally
identifiable information will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with
this Privacy Policy (for example, as a result of unauthorized acts by third
parties that violate applicable law or the policies of the service and its
affiliated providers). To protect your privacy and security, PharmARC uses
passwords to help verify your identity before granting access or making
corrections to any of your information. It is the user's responsibility to
protect the security of his or her login information. PharmARC's servers are
located in secure server environments. Firewalls and other advanced security
technologies are employed to prevent interference or access from outside
intruders. These safeguards help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data
accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of data.
Third Party Sites
This Privacy Policy applies only to information PharmARC collects about you as a
user of the PharmARC web site. This policy does not apply to information about
you collected by third party web sites and offerings linked to or otherwise
accessible from PharmARC. The information collected or received by such third
parties is subject to their own privacy policies.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about PharmARC's Privacy Policy or its
implementation, you may contact us at this email address webmaster@pharmarc.com
or call us at +91 80 4123 8900.
Access and Correction for Personally Identifiable Information
If a user's personally identifiable information (such as zip code, phone, email
or postal address) changes, or if a user no longer desires our service, we
provide a way to correct, update or delete/deactivate users' personally
identifiable information and data the user has contributed to the PharmARC.
Please be aware that even after your request for removal from our systems is
processed, PharmARC may for a time retain residual information about you in our
backup and/or archival copies of our database (e.g., our records of deletion).
PharmARC will make reasonable commercial efforts to assure that such
information is deleted as soon as possible following your request. You may make
changes to your personal information (generally effective upon submission) or
by contacting support via a support request. If after trying these methods, you
believe they are not effective, you may also send an email seeking the
necessary changes or deletions to the following address to
webmaster@pharmarc.com
Access requests will be responded to within 30 days of receipt of the request.
Opt Out Requests
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter or other communications, you may
opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each
newsletter or promotional communication, or by emailing us at
webmaster@pharmarc.com
Users must be able to receive service-related communications in order to
continue accessing the service.
Changes to this Privacy Policy and Additional Information
PharmARC may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, and hence you should
review this Policy periodically. If there are significant changes to PharmARC'ys
information practices, you will be provided with appropriate online notice. You
may be provided other privacy-related information in connection with your use
of the PharmARC website, as well as for special features and services not
described in this Policy that may be introduced in the future.
Last Updated: 1st Aug, 2007
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