Privacy Policy
Privacy Notice
General Privacy Statement
At F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd (“Roche”), we are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Notice outlines the types of personal information Roche may collect; the means by which Roche may collect, use, or share your personal information; steps Roche takes to protect your personal information; and choices you are provided with respect to the use of your personal information.
This Notice only applies to Roche Gabayka application that link to this Notice. Our Gabayka application also may contain links to third-party websites. We do not endorse and are not responsible for the content of third-party websites or resources, and our privacy notice does not apply to any sites that are not affiliated with Roche, even if you access them via a link on our site. You should review the privacy policies of any third-party site before providing any information.
For purposes of this Privacy Notice, “Personal Data” is any information by which you can be individually identified both directly and indirectly, including, but not limited to, your name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number. This app does not access any personal and sensitive user data.
Minors
Our platform is not designed or intended for use by children under the age of 16 unless explicitly advertised in the application. We do not knowingly collect any Personal Data on this site from anyone under the age of 16 without the prior, verifiable consent of a parent or guardian. Such parent or guardian may have the right, upon request, to view the information provided by the child and require that it be deleted. Moreover, all minors should seek their parent’s or guardian’s permission prior to using or disclosing any Personal Data on this app or website.
Identity and Contact Details of the Data Controller
The data controller is F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Grenzacherstrasse 124, CH-4070 Basel, Switzerland. In the event that your Personal Data is covered by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“EU”) 2016/679 (“GDPR”), the EU representative of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd is Roche Privacy GmbH, Emil-Barell-Str. 1, D-79639 Grenzach-Wyhlen.
You may contact the data controller by mail at Grenzacherstrasse 124, CH-4070 Basel, Switzerland or email at
[email protected].
How and Why We Process Your Personal Data
On this app, we may request Personal Data about you. Examples of Personal Data that we may collect that directly identifies you includes your name, contact information, email address, and other information in combination with these identifiers. We may also may collect certain Personal Data that does not directly identify you by name, but could be used to identify that a specific computer or device has accessed our app.
We process your Personal Data on our app or websites for many reasons, including:
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To respond to your requests or inquiries;
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To complete a transaction;
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To personalize your experience;
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To perform app or website analytics and measure performance;
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To track and monitor adverse events and other activities related to pharmacovigilance; and
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To maintain the app or website, including for security purposes.
More Information on our Processing Activities
This table outlines each processing activity and provides information on the categories of information collected for each activity Furthermore, this table defines the legal basis of processing for each of these activities and citation, if and to the extent the data processing is subject to GDPR
Use of Data for Marketing
We do not sell or transfer your Personal Data to any non-affiliated entity for their own direct marketing use unless we provide clear notice to you and obtain your explicit consent. We use third party advertising companies to place ads on other websites. These companies may use data about your visits to this and other websites in order to measure advertising effectiveness and to provide advertisements about our goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and your choices to opt out of having this information used by these companies, see our Cookies Policy
Information Sharing / Recipients of Personal Data
Recipients of your Personal Data
We may share your Personal Data with Roche’s affiliates around the world. Our Roche affiliates will use your Personal Data for the same purposes as we do. A list of Roche’s affiliates is available in the current annual report, which can be found in the Investors section of www.roche.com
We may also share your Personal Data with third parties, such as our service providers, for the following purposes:
To help fulfill Roche business transactions;
To conduct technical maintenance of our app or websites and other web platforms;
To facilitate a merger, consolidation, transfer of control or other corporate reorganization in which Roche participates, or pursuant to a financial arrangement undertaken by Roche;
To respond to appropriate requests of legitimate government authorities, or where required by applicable laws, court orders, or government regulations; and
Where needed for corporate audits or to investigate or respond to a complaint or security threat
International Transfers of Your Personal Data
Any Personal Data you provide to us through your use of this app or website may be transferred to or stored in a geographic region that imposes different privacy obligations than your country of origin. This means that your Personal Data may be sent to a country with less restrictive data protection laws than your own. Any such transfer will be conducted in compliance with applicable law.
If your Personal Data is covered by the GDPR: For transfers of Personal Data to a third country outside the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA) or in absence of an adequacy decision, within the Roche Group, business partners and service providers, we establish the contracts containing the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, which according to the EU Commission decisions of 27 December 2004 (2004/915/EC) and 05 February 2010 (C(2010)593) constitute appropriate and suitable safeguards to ensure compliance with GDPR.
Retention / Storage Period of Your Personal Data
The length of time in which we will store your Personal Data will differ depending on the purpose for which we have collected and are processing your data. In most cases, we will keep the data for three (3) years following our last interaction with you. We may, however, maintain your data for a longer period of time if we are required by law to maintain your data. For example, reports related to pharmacovigilance are kept for a minimum of 10 years after the withdrawal of the product in the last country where the product is marketed.
Information About Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Data
You may have certain rights regarding our use and processing of your Personal Data. If data processing is based on consent, note that you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, but that the withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Your Rights If Your Data is Covered by the GDPR
If your Personal Data are covered by the GDPR (that is, if you are an individual within the European Economic Area), you have the following rights with respect to your Personal Data:
The right to request access to the Personal Data that Roche has about you;
The right to rectify or correct any Personal Data that is inaccurate or incomplete;
The right to request a copy of your Personal Data in electronic format so that you can transmit the data to third parties, or to request that Roche directly transfer your Personal Data to one more third parties;
The right to object to the processing of your Personal Data for marketing and other purposes;
The right to erasure of your Personal Data when it is no longer needed for the purposes for which you provided it, as well as the right to restriction of processing of your Personal Data to certain limited purposes where erasure is not possible.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided above. Please note that erasure or restriction of processing is only possible if and to the extent that the processing of Personal Data is based on your consent or our legitimate interests. If data processing is based on consent, note that you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, but that the withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. In the event of an erasure request, we may retain a copy of your Personal Data for our record-keeping purposes and to avoid entering your personal data in our systems after your request.
In the event that you believe or have the impression that our data processing does not comply with the GDPR, you are entitled to lodge a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority.
Data Security
Roche and its service providers and collaboration partners take reasonable steps to protect Personal Data we access or receive through this app or website from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Nevertheless, Roche makes no guarantee as to the security of your Personal Data and disclaims, to the fullest extent permitted by law, all liability and damages caused by loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. We recommend that you take any available precautions to protect Personal Data you submit on this app.
Updates to This Privacy Notice
From time to time, we may revise this Privacy Notice. Any such changes to this Privacy Notice will be reflected on this page. Roche recommends that you review this Privacy Notice regularly for any changes. The date on which this notice was last revised is located at the top of this notice.
