PRIVACY POLICY

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This notice provides highlights of the privacy statement of Pfizer Limited, India (‘Pfizer’). The privacy of your personal information is important to Pfizer. To better protect your privacy, we provide you with our Privacy Policy so that you will understand our commitment to you and to your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes what information we may collect about you; how we use your information; how we protect it; and what choices you have on how that information is used. At Pfizer, we understand that health is a very personal, private subject, and we want you to feel as comfortable as possible visiting our various websites and using their respective services. By accessing our website, you consent to the collection and use of information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, you should first contact the Privacy Officer. As our privacy policy changes in significant ways, we will make every effort to notify you of the changes. Minor changes to the policy may occur that will not affect our use of individually identifiable or personal health information. When the privacy policy changes in a way that significantly affects the way we handle personal information, we will not use the information we have previously gathered for any purpose not notified to you, without providing notice or obtaining your consent as and when appropriate.

The following articles make up our Privacy Policy. We hope that reading them gives you a clear idea of how we manage information regarding you. For immediate access to a particular topic, click on the title of that topic.

When we refer to ourselves as "we" or "Pfizer," we mean our entire company, including any company that we control (for example, a subsidiary that we own). We may share information among companies that we own or control, and we may share information with our co-promotion partners, and companies working with Pfizer but all information we share will always be protected under the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Pfizer is not responsible for how other websites treat your privacy once you leave a Pfizer site.

Personal information we collect

Information we collect from visitors

Visitors to each of our websites/ Digital/Electronic media including but not limited to applications etc (collectively referred to as “Website/ Digital/Electronic media”) can access the website's home page, and browse some areas of the site, without disclosing any personally identifiable information. We do track information provided to us by your browser, including the website you came from (known as the referring URL), the type of browser you use, the time and date of access, and other information that does not personally identify you. On some of our sites, you may have to register to access portions of the site

In addition, we gather information about you that is automatically collected by our web server, such as your IP address and domain name. Pfizer may use web server and browser information to individually customize its offerings and presentations if you submit your personal information.

Information we collect

Visitors may provide their identifying information, such as name, email address and contact information, which information is optional and may be given at your discretion only.

Other information

Use of cookies and other tracking systems

Cookies, log files, and pixel-tags (web beacons) are technologies used by the Pfizer websites to identify a user as the user moves through our websites. Pfizer Limited may use standard technology called “cookies” on this site. Cookies are small data files that are downloaded onto your computer when you visit a particular site. Your browser allows us to place some information (session based IDs and/or persistent cookies) on your computer's hard drive that identifies the computer you are using. We may use cookies to personalize our websites and to track your usage across other Pfizer websites.

You can disable cookies by turning them off in your browser, however, some of the areas of this site may not function properly if you do so.

In addition, we may use other tracking systems like pixel-tags. Pixel tags, sometimes called web beacons, are similar in function to a cookie. But because of their insignificant size, it is not visible; though, they are used to pass certain information to our servers to personalize our websites and to track your usage across other Pfizer websites. In addition, we may also use pixel tags in our HTML based e-mails.

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How we use the information

Aggregate data

We may gather aggregate data from the information provided by the visitors to our websites and share your personally identifiable information with other Pfizer businesses or affiliates, our agents, contractor or business partners in order that they may perform services for us. We use our best efforts to assure that such third parties agree to abide by Pfizer privacy policies and enter into appropriate agreements to ensure that the third parties who receive your information implement security measures commensurate to our security standards.

If we discover that a third party working on behalf of Pfizer inappropriately disclosed personal information about any of our visitors, we will take immediate action to prevent further occurrences.

Other than as described above, Pfizer will not release personally identifiable information to a third party.

Tell-A-Friend

Our website may provide a referral function whereby you may choose to use it to tell a friend about our site. Our site will ask you for your friend's name and e-mail address as well as your information. The form automatically sends your friend a one-time e-mail inviting him or her to visit the site. We do not access or store this information, except to send this invitation.

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Protection of information

How Pfizer handles privacy internally

Our commitment to security

We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online. While we strive to protect your personal data against potential risks and exposures, the absolute security of data in the online sphere cannot be guaranteed. Hence, we ask you to support our information security efforts by not disclosing any data on our website that is particularly sensitive or not required in the specific context. Furthermore, you can help us protecting your personal data by signing off when you finished using log-in protected areas of the website.

Storage of information

Personally identifiable information you may share with us is stored on our database servers at Pfizer data centers (in whatever country they may be located) or hosted by third parties who have entered into agreements with us that require them to observe our Privacy Policy. We have a firewall and other technology to prevent individuals from accessing information without authorization. Data centers are designed to be physically secure and protected from unauthorized access by unauthorized persons.

Third parties

In addition to aggregate information (discussed previously), we may share some kinds of information with third parties as described below.

Updating your personal information and contacting Pfizer

You can always contact us in order to (i) remove the personal information that you have provided to us from our systems, (ii) update the personal information that you have provided to us, and (iii) change your preferences with respect to marketing contacts by e-mailing our grievance officer Mr. Samir Kazi at 02266932148 or write into contactus.india@pfizer.com or if available also logging into your account to update your information.

You may note that a request for deletion of your personal information may lead to the cancellation of your registration with our website, restriction of your access to certain features of the website, as well as cessation of certain services.

Changes in Privacy Policy

This privacy statement is effective as of September, 2017. From time to time we may update this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of our website constitutes an acceptance of the then-current Privacy Policy. We also encourage you to visit this page periodically to review any changes.