Takeda Privacy Notice

The type of personal data we collect depends on the interactions you have with Takeda and the Takeda Services you use. These may include:

• Name and contact data: We may collect your name, postal address, email address, telephone number and other similar contact data.
• Credentials: We may collect passwords, password hints and similar security information used for authentication and Takeda account access.
• Educational and Professional Details: We may collect when you submit your CV, qualifications and organizational or institutional affiliations, activities performed as part of your professional experience, and your skills;
• Government-issued Identification: We may collect certain types of government-issued data from you, including Social Security Numbers, national identification numbers, driver’s license data, and passport data.
• Demographic data: We may collect data about you such as your age, gender, country of origin or residence, and preferred language.
• Preferences, interests and favorites: We may collect data about your professional or personal interests and favorites, such as the websites you visit, your dietary requirements etc.
• Financial data: We may collect data necessary to process payments, such as a bank account or credit card number.
• Usage data: We may collect data about how you and your device interact with our Services, such as Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser-plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform; Information about your visit and online activities (e.g. page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.)
• Relationship and interaction data: We may collect data about our interactions and meetings, such as when you contact us for information and support.
• Photographic and video information: We may collect images or videos related to you, including as a result of video surveillance for us to keep our premises secure.
• Location data: We may collect data about your location, which can be either precise or imprecise. Precise data includes geolocation data. Imprecise location data includes, for example, a location derived from your IP address or data that indicates where you are located with less precision, such as at a city or postcode level.
• Health-related data: We may collect data related to your healthcare, including prior authorization for payment of healthcare services, patient engagement and support services, and prescription information.
• Clinical data: We may collect data related to our research and development and clinical studies, registries and trials.
• Biometric Information: We may collect data related to your biometrics, such as fingerprints, voice prints, or other unique physical characteristics.
• Legally Required Information: We may collect additional data about you that is related to patient safety and adverse events, or that may be required by laws that apply to Takeda.

In some cases, we may enhance the information we hold about you with information we receive from third parties and with information which is publicly or commercially available and/or which is obtained by any other legal means.

For example, we may collect publicly available information about you, including online postings, social media platforms, publication databases, journals, and societies. Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services may become publicly available information to users of the service you provided it to, and to the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal data, or any other information, in these forums, and to carefully review and familiarize yourself with applicable privacy settings and options.

We may use personal data:

• To communicate with you regarding any requests or inquiries you may submit and to provide you with related support or Service.
• To contact you from time to time to provide you with important information, required notices, and promotional materials.
• To send administrative information to you, for example, information regarding the (changes to) Services we provide.
• To personalize your experience when using our Services by presenting products and offers tailored to you.
• To identify you to anyone to whom you send messages using our Services.
• For our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, developing new products, enhancing, improving or modifying our Services, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, conducting surveys, and operating and expanding our business activities.
• To better understand how our products and Services impact you, to track and respond to safety concerns and to further develop and improve our products and Services.
• To offer special programs, activities, clinical trials, events or promotions via our Services that have specific terms, privacy notices and/or informed consent forms that explain how personal data you provide will be processed in connection with such special program. Some of these special programs may involve sharing information with a third party and Takeda will provide you with notice of this. You may be offered the opportunity to agree to or opt-out of the sharing of your data with such third party. But, in some instances, it may be necessary to agree to share with a third party in order to participate in the special program. The personal data you provide may be used by the third party in accordance with the special program terms and, unless provided otherwise in such special program terms, for their own purposes in accordance with their own policies/terms. We encourage you to review both the special program terms and any applicable third-party policies/terms before participating.
• As we believe necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public or government authorities, including authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may incur.

Takeda may share your personal data with affiliates and third parties as follows:

• Among affiliates for the purposes described in this Notice. Takeda is the party responsible for the management of the jointly-used personal data.
• To our third-party service providers that provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing and other similar services. Takeda policy requires that our service providers adhere to appropriate restrictions on access and use of your personal data.
• To third parties to allow them to send you marketing communications.
• To third-party sponsors of sweepstakes, contests and similar promotions.

We may also disclose your personal data in the following circumstances:

• In the event of a merger, reorganization, acquisition, joint venture, assignment, spin-off, transfer or sale or disposition of all or any portion of our business, including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings. As required by law, including laws outside your country of residence, to comply with a subpoena, required registration, or legal process.

We may also disclose aggregate or de-identified data that is not personally identifiable to third parties. Aggregate data is created by collecting and processing information about individuals and summarizing the data, eliminating the possibility to identify an individual.

Takeda may transfer personal data to countries outside of your country of residence. The laws of the receiving countries may not provide as stringent protections for personal data as your country of residence. In instances where a lesser level of protection is provided by a receiving country, Takeda undertakes that adequate safeguards are in place and that applicable laws and regulations are complied with in connection with such transfers.

In certain cases, Takeda undertakes to enter into contractual agreements (e.g., European Union Standard Contractual Clauses), or relies on other available data transfer mechanisms that aim to provide adequate protections. A copy of the EU Standard Contractual Clauses boilerplate contracts may be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/international-transfers/transfer/.

To obtain additional information regarding the safeguards that Takeda has put in place to govern cross-border transfers of personal data, please contact us using the information provided in the “How to Contact Us” section.

If you would like to make a request for Takeda to access, correct or delete personal data that you have provided to Takeda, please contact us as described in the “How to Contact Us” section below, and we will respond in a reasonable time. We will make a good faith effort to provide you with access to your personal data and to correct any inaccuracies or delete such information at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for Takeda’s legitimate business purposes. If for any reason your request is declined, we will notify you. Before fulfilling your requests we may require additional information from you in order to verify your identity.

Takeda will inform you if it intends to use your data for marketing purposes and to send marketing communications to you or if it intends to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You have the right to opt out from marketing communications that are being sent to you by Takeda. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by informing Takeda at any time that you do not wish to receive such marketing. Where you wish to exercise this right, please use the “unsubscribe” functionality in the relevant communications or refer to the “How to Contact Us” section below.

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Your browser settings and other tools to control cookies and similar technologies may impact your experience with our Services.

We use various types of cookies, as well as similar technologies such as Local Shared Objects (or “Flash Cookies”) and web beacons (also called single-pixel tags) to identify your IP address, browser type, device characteristics, domain name, referring URLs and specific links and web pages through which you click. This data is collected automatically and is used for purposes as mentioned above. This technology also allows us to recognize you when you return to this Site and to provide you with a customized experience that we feel will be of value to you.

For example, Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google").  Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to analyze how Users use the Domains, and provide other services related to the site and internet use. Google may also collect information about domain visitors’ use of other websites. For more information about Google Analytics, or to opt out of Google Analytics, please go to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

To do so, these companies may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser (including through the use of pixel tags).

The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) offers useful information about internet advertising companies, including information about how to opt-out of interest-based advertising by their members. See http://www.networkadvertising.org for general information about the NAI and http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp for the opt-out page. You may also visit http://www.aboutads.info/consumers to learn about interest-based advertising and how to opt-out from ads served by some or all participating companies.

These opt-out mechanisms rely on cookies to remember your choices. If you delete your cookies, use another computer or device, or change browsers, you will need to repeat this process. In addition, opting out of interest-based ads will not opt you out of all ads, but rather only those ads that are personalized to your interests.

Please note that we are not responsible for the collection, use and disclosure policies and practices (including the data security practices) of other, non-Takeda organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer.  If you choose to share or disclose your personal data to other organizations through, or in connection with our social media pages, you should refer to the privacy notices and terms of use provided by those organizations. Takeda encourages you to review and familiarize yourself with applicable privacy settings and functions of these third-party platforms and applications.