Cookies
The Website uses "cookies". Cookies are small text files sent by the corresponding web server to your browser upon first visiting of the Website and saved onto your device or in the cache of the browser. When the same device accesses the Website the next time, the browser checks whether a corresponding cookie is already available. The browser then sends the data saved in the cookie back to the web server. That way the web server can detect whether the browser has already visited the respective Website.
The data collected with the help of cookies are merely used by Idorsia or its service provider to analyze the usage and to improve the Website and its functionalities. There is no other use of the data, nor are the data under any circumstances used to identify you personally.
You can set your browser not to save any cookies of the Website on your hard disk, or have your browser delete the cookies already saved on your device respectively. However, you should bear in mind that by doing so you may no longer be able to use all the provided functions of the Website. The procedure to change the browser settings vary from browser to browser. Information on how to modify or define your browser settings can be found in the "Help" menu of each browser.
Idorsia Cookie Policy shall apply accordingly.
Google Analytics
The Website uses Google Analytics, a web-analyzing service by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies. The information created by the Google Analytics cookie regarding the usage of this Website (including the IP addresses) is sent to, and saved onto, a Google server in the USA. If IP-anonymity is activated on the Website, your IP address will be shortened by Google beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. Google will use this information to analyze the usage of the Website, compile reports on the web traffic for the Website owners and provide other services related to the usage of the Website and the Internet. Furthermore, Google will send this information to third parties only if required by law or if third parties will process this information on behalf of Google. The IP address disclosed by your web browser in the context of Google Analytics will not be aggregate with other data compiled by Google.
A specific setting of your web browser allows you to prevent cookies from being saved; however, you are reminded that you will no longer be able to use all the functions of the Website in full.
Use of Social Plugins: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and YouTube
Our Website uses social plugins ("Plugins") of the social networks facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"), twitter.com, operated by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA ("Twitter")and youtube.com, operated by YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (“YouTube”) (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ hereinafter referred to as "Social Networks"). The Plugins are labeled with an icon of the corresponding Social Network.
When you visit a Website containing Plugins, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of the corresponding Social Network. The content of the Plugins is directly transmitted from the Social Network to your browser and linked to the Website. Due to the integration of the Plugins, the Social Network is notified that your browser has called up the Website.
If you are logged in on the corresponding Social Network, it can assign the access of the Website to your account of the corresponding Social Network. When you interact with the Plugins, for instance with Facebook's "Like" button, or add a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to the corresponding Social Network and stored there.
Please refer to the data privacy statements of Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or YouTube regarding the purpose and extent of data collection, the processing and usage by the corresponding Social Networks, as well as your rights in this respect and setting options for protecting your privacy.
Google reCAPTCHA
We use "Google reCAPTCHA" (hereinafter "reCAPTCHA") on our Website. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, 4 Dublin, Ireland ("Google"). The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to verify whether data entry on our Website (e.g. in a contact form) is made by a human or by an automated program, script or bot. For this purpose, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the Website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the Website visitor enters the Website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, time spent by the Website visitor on the Website or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google. If you have any concerns in connection with the use of Google reCAPTCHA you may block Google reCAPTCHA by installing e.g. a plug-in in your browser. A plug-in for the most common browsers can be downloaded here.
Contact form: Should you send us requests via the contact form, we will collect the data entered on the form, including the contact details you provide, to be able to get in touch with you and answer your question and any follow-up questions. We may pass on your data within Idorsia or to our external service provider. We will retain the data you provide on the contact form until you request its deletion, revoke your consent for its storage, or the purpose for its storage no longer pertains (e.g. after fulfilling your request). Any mandatory statutory provisions, especially those regarding mandatory data retention periods, remain unaffected by this provision.
Stay Informed Media Releases: If you would like to receive the “Stay Informed” offered on the Website, we require from you information that allows us to verify that you agree to receive the newsletter. Further data is not collected or only on a voluntary basis. Where necessary for the registration, dispatch and administration of the newsfeed, we may pass on your data within Idorsia affiliates or to our external service provider. The processing of the data entered in the registration form is based exclusively on your consent. You can revoke your consent to the storage of the data, the e-mail address and their use for sending the newsfeed at any time, for example via the "unsubscribe" link in the Stay Informed message. The legality of the data processing operations already carried out remains unaffected by the revocation. The data you provide for the purpose of receiving the newsfeed will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsfeed and will be deleted after you unsubscribe.
External links: Our website may contain links to third-party websites over whose processing we have no control, e.g. if personal data is transmitted to the third party by clicking on the link (e.g. your IP address or the URL of our website on which the link is located). We assume no responsibility for the processing of personal data by third parties. Rather, the respective data protection provisions of the third party apply.