Privacy Statement
At Pharming Group N.V. (“we” “us” “Pharming”) we are committed to protecting your personal data. If you use our website, we may collect information that can be used to identify you (“personal data”).
This Privacy Policy explains how we use the personal data we collect during your use of this website and the rights you have in connection with your personal data. By using this website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Please read our Terms of Use for the general rules about your use of this website.
You may be subject to additional terms when you follow a link from this website to other sites. We suggest that you review the Privacy Policy or Terms of Use of any linked website. Other websites Privacy Policy’s and Terms of Use are considered separate and apart from this website’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Categories of Personal Data
You can access most of this site without us collecting any personal information from you. However, we may collect the following types of personal data from you when you use our website:
Contact information– such as your name, address, telephone numbers, email addresses and social media information, that you provide to us.
Demographic information– such as gender, citizenship, date of birth that you provide to us.
Personal data in forms, reports and notifications that you submit to us.
Health information– such as medical conditions that you submit to us.
Registrations of your conversations with us– if you contact us in anyway, by telephone, email, online form, or via our website or social media, we can keep and record information that you provide.
Our website– we will collect information about the pages you look at and how you use them. For more information please see our Cookies Policy below.
Location data– your device’s IP address can tell us your location when you connect to our website.
Categories of Personal Data
We collect and use your personal data for the purposes described in the table below:
Processing purpose | Categories of Data processed |
To contact you and communicate with you in connection with our company, our products and services. | All personal data mentioned above |
If you contact us for questions or complaints, we will use your personal data toanswer you. | All personal data mentioned above |
To evaluateour products and services and their safety and operation and to develop new products and services. | All personal data mentioned above |
To conduct market research. | Contact details Demographic data Other personal data relevant to a market investigation. |
For people to report suspected adverse reactions to Pharming Group N.V.’s products. | Contact details Health information |
All the above now referred to as the “Purposes of Processing”.
How we collect your personal data
Processing activities
Your personal data will be ‘processed’ by Pharming as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016). Processing may include, but is not limited to:
Collecting, recording, systemizing, storing, updating, modifying, retrieving, using, transferring (distributing, providing, accessing), blocking, erasing or removing (“Processing”).
Pharmingonly usesyour personal data when the law permits us to do so. These are the main reasons in which the law allows Pharming to use your personal data:
When dealing with sensitive personal data (such as medicaldata)Pharming isrequiredto haveadditional legal grounds for collection and use. These are some instances in which the law allows Pharming to use your sensitive personal data:
Withdrawing your consent
If Pharming collects and processes your personal data that you provide to us, you can withdraw your consent for us to process that data at any time. After you withdraw your consent we will not process your data from that point onwards.
If you would like to withdraw your consent, you can contact us by email at gdprcompliance@pharming.com.
How long we keep your personal data
Pharming only retains your personal data for as long as necessary to complete the Purposes of Processing. This may include compliance with legal or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, Pharming considers:
In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data so that it can no longer be connected to you, and we can use such information without further notice.
Keeping your personal data safe
Pharming has security measures in place to prevent your personal data from being improperly accessed, lost, used, modified or disclosed in an unauthorized manner.
Pharming’s service providers and employees have restricted access to your personal data. They will only use your personal data in accordance with our instructions and must keep your personal information confidential.
If Pharming suspects there is a security breach, we will notify you and the appropriate organizations in accordance with our legal requirements.
Who can access your personal data?
Pharmingmay share personal information with the following persons and organizations:
Pharming does not disclose personal information except for the above, where we have a legal obligation to do so, or where we need to share information to assist with investigating and preventing crimes. Pharming may provide other third parties with statistical information and analysis, but we verify that the information is aggregated prior to disclosure and that no one can be identified from this information.
Processing your personal data outside Europe
Your personal data may be transferred to companies in countries that operate and are located outside of the EU/EEA (Europe). When transferring personal data to countries outside of Europe, Pharming uses standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission to ensure a sufficient level of protection for your personal data.
Your rights
In certain circumstances, you have the right to:
If you would like to complete any of the above actions, you can contact us by email at gdprcompliance@pharming.com.
Pharming will immediately investigate your requests and respond to you within a month of receiving your request. We can extend this period by another two months, where necessary, to enable us to respond appropriately (for example if the request is complicated for our settlement and we need more time), but in that case we will share the reasons for delay.
If we decide not to act on the request, we will inform you of the reasons. If you disagree with a decision taken by us in connection with a filed request regarding your rights or believe that we are infringing data protection laws in Europe, you can file a complaint with the data protection regulator in Europe.
Cookies
If you use our website, we may use cookies to collect information about how you use our website. Cookies are small files which are stored on a user’s computer. They are designed to hold a small amount of data specific to the user and can be accessed either by the web server or the client computer. This allows the server to deliver a website tailored to the user.
To help us understand who uses our website and how they use our website, Pharming may use cookies or equivalent software to collect information about your website activities, your browser and device.
You can delete or reject browser cookies through the settings on your browser or device however the rejection or removal of cookies may affect the availability and functionality of our services.
Updates of this Statement
We encourage you to check this statement for updates from time to time. We reserve the right to make additions, deletions, or modifications to this statement from time to time to reflect the changes to the way in which we process personal data.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about how we process your personal information, or you want to assert one of your rights, please contact us at gdprcompliance@pharming.com.
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