Last updated 18th May 2018
We value our ability to provide you with information through our interactions with you, whether they are face to face interactions, through our digital platforms (like our mobile applications and websites) or one of the other ways you can choose to interact with us
This Privacy Notice explains how GlaxoSmithKline and its group of companies (“GSK,” “we,” “us” and “our”) collect, use, and share personal information that you provide to us, or that we may otherwise obtain or generate, which relates to you. Please take a moment to review this Privacy Notice and, if you have any questions, feel free to get in touch via one of the methods set out under the header “GSK Contact Information“ below.
We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. We encourage you to review the Privacy Notice periodically.
If you are a healthcare professional interacting with us in your professional capacity, the personal information that we collect about you includes:
If you are a member of the public, the personal information that we collect about you includes:
We may also process information about you which reveals information about your health status. For example, where you tell us about a health condition you are experiencing, where we receive a report that you have experienced a side effect associated with one of our products, or where health information can be inferred from information that you have provided to us when you get in touch with us for any reason. Where we process this type of information about you we will, if required by law, take appropriate steps to get your consent to our use of this information.
We collect your personal information in the course of monitoring our technology tools and services, including email communications sent to and from GSK. Otherwise, we gather and generate information about you when you provide it to us or interact with us directly. For example, when you register on one of our digital platforms, engage with one of our sales representatives, attend events hosted by or attended by us, and when you get in touch for customer support or to provide feedback. We may also receive professional information about you from other sources, such as external sources of healthcare provider information (including publicly available sources), social media companies in accordance with their authorisation procedures (e.g. where you have linked your GSK account with your social media account), and your patients (e.g., where they have told us that you are their healthcare provider). We may combine information that we have about you from various sources, including the information that you have provided to us.
We collect your personal information in the course of monitoring our technology tools and services, including email communications sent to and from GSK. Otherwise, we gather and generate information about you when you provide it to us, e.g. via registration or feedback forms on our digital platforms. We may also receive information about you from our suppliers, for example, to help us to identify if you have redeemed any coupons on our products or services. We may combine information that we have about you from various sources.
We use your personal information to:
A. Provide you with services, including to:
B. Contact and interact with you, including to:
C. Manage our day-to-day operations, including:
D. Improve our day-to-day operations, including:
We may share your personal information with any of the following:
We may transfer your personal information outside of your home country. The countries to which your personal information is transferred may not offer an equivalent level of protection for personal information to the laws of your home country. These countries may include: United States and India, as well as countries within the European Union.
We will implement appropriate measures to ensure that your personal information remains protected and secure when it is transferred outside of your home country, in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. These measures include data transfer agreements implementing standard data protection clauses. You can find more information about data transfer agreements here.
From time to time we may provide links to websites or mobile applications that we do not own or control. This Privacy Notice does not apply to those websites. If you choose to use those websites, please make sure that you check the legal and privacy statements posted on each website or mobile application you access to understand their privacy practices.
We have a records retention policy that sets out how long we keep your personal information. As a general rule, we keep your personal information for as long as required (a) to comply with law; (b) in connection with legal action or an investigation involving GSK; or (c) to provide you with information, access you have requested to digital channels (like our websites), our products and our services; or (d) otherwise to fulfil other purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice.
We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. Our suppliers are carefully selected and required to use appropriate measures to protect the confidentiality and security of your information. Unfortunately, the transmission to us of information via the internet or a mobile phone network connection may not be completely secure; any transmission is at your own risk.
You may have the right:
If you would like access to the information that we hold about you, if any of the information that we hold about you is inaccurate or out of date, or if you wish to restrict or object to us processing it, please let us know by getting in touch via one of the methods set out under the header “GSK Contact Information“ below.
Where you are given the option to share your personal information with us, you can always choose not to do so.
If you choose not to provide us with your personal information, you object to our processing of your personal information, or you choose to withdraw any consent that you may have provided to processing, we will respect such requests in accordance with our legal obligations. This may mean, however, that we may not be able to perform the actions necessary to achieve the purposes set out above. It may also mean that you may not be able to make use of the services and products offered by us.
GSK may be required or entitled to retain your information to comply with legal and regulatory obligations and to protect and exercise our legal rights and interests.
GSK’s websites, online services, interactive applications, email messages, and advertisements may use cookies and other technologies such as device identifiers to improve user experience, help us understand how our platforms are being used – for example, which parts of our websites have been visited and which emails opened – and to measure the effectiveness of advertisements and services. We generally treat information collected by cookies and other technologies as non-personal information. However, to the extent Internet Protocol (IP) or similar identifiers are considered personal information by local law, we also treat these identifiers and information collected by cookies and other technologies, which can be linked to such identifiers, as personal information.
To enhance your experience of our websites, we may use “cookies.” A cookie is a unique numeric code that is transferred to your computer’s browser to track your interests and preferences and to recognize you as a return visitor. Information may be collected automatically by cookies and other technologies. To learn how to prevent information from being collected automatically, please see the “Putting you in control of your personal information” section below. Please note that certain features of our websites will not be available if cookies are disabled.
We use cookies for different purposes:
You may be provided with advertisements for GSK products and services, events and disease awareness materials on third-party websites and mobile services based on online user behaviors. In addition, our advertising network partners may place and use cookies on GSK sites and on other third-party websites to collect information about your activities in order to provide you with online advertisements that are based on your interests. This is known as online behavioral advertising, or “OBA”. If these business partners will be allowed to use the personal information for their own purposes they should identify themselves to you and let you know about how they are using your personal information.
Please see above for more information about cookies. To opt out of OBA, please see the “Putting you in control of your personal information” section below.
Once you have given us your personal information, there are various ways in which you can control how it is processed even without having to exercise any of the rights described in this Privacy Notice.
Where you have registered for an account with GSK, you can manage certain personal information held by GSK through your account settings.
If you don't want to receive promotional e-mail from us, you can unsubscribe using the link at the bottom of our promotional email. Where you have registered for an account with GSK, you can manage your email preferences via your account settings.
Many web browsers allow you to manage your preferences. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or to delete certain cookies. You may be able to manage other tracking technologies in the same way that you manage cookies using your browser's preferences.
If you do choose to refuse or delete cookies, please note that not all elements of the GSK digital platforms may function as intended, so your experience on our websites may be affected.
When a GSK online behavioral advertisement is delivered to you, you will see an “Ad Choices” icon. Clicking on the icon or link will take you to a website where you can manage or opt out of the use of data about your browsing history that is used for the delivery of online behavioural advertising. On your mobile device, you may also have a “Limit Ad Tracking” setting (in iOS devices) or a setting to “Opt out of Interest-Based Ads” (on Android), which allows you to limit the use of information about your use of apps for purposes of serving ads targeted to your interests.
If you opt out, you may still see advertisements online, including advertisements from GSK that are based on other information (e.g., based on the content of the page being viewed rather than your prior web-browsing activity). In some cases, data may still be collected about your browsing activity by these third-party advertisers, but they will not use this data to deliver advertisements that are based on your past online browsing behavior.
To learn more about the choices that advertisers provide generally for individuals to influence how information about their online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services is collected and used, visit the Network Advertising Initiative at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp, the Digital Advertising Alliance at http://www.aboutads.info/, or the European Digital Advertising Alliance at http://youronlinechoices.eu/.
GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical Sdn Bhd (3277-U) is the controller of your personal information.
Please address any questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Notice to your local GSK affiliate using the contact information below. If you contact us, please note the name of the websites you have visited, as well as how we may contact you.
To contact GSK in Malaysia, call +60374952600 or write to us at:
Level 6, Quill 9, No 112, Jalan Professor Khoo Kay Kim, 46300, Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
(Attn: Vaccines Marketing Department)
To contact GSK in the United Kingdom, call 0808-234-6680.
To contact GSK in the United States, call 1-866-475-3844.
Contact information for other GSK locations can be found at http://www.gsk.com/en-gb/contact-us/worldwide/.
In the event of any inconsistency between the English version and the Bahasa Malaysia version of this Privacy Notice, the English version shall prevail over the Bahasa Malaysia version.