For healthcare professionals
THEA WEBSITE & BUSINESS CONTACT PRIVACY & COOKIES NOTICE
Effective Date: 8th June 2021
Thea Pharmaceuticals Limited ("we", "us", or " Thea") of IC5 Building, Innovation Way, Keele, Newcastle, England, ST5 5NT take our obligations to protect privacy and personal information very seriously. Please read this Website & Business Contact Privacy & Cookies Notice ("the Notice") carefully as it sets out important information relating to how we handle your personal information. This Notice sets out how we, as data controller, will collect and use personal information, and the choices and rights available to you in connection with our use of your personal information.
This Notice describes our practices when using:
This Notice will apply whether you have provided the information directly to us or we have obtained it from a different source, such as a third party.
We collect personal information from our business contacts directly or from the following sources:
The categories of information we collect about business contacts includes:
We use this information for certain activities, including:
We use this information because:
A legitimate interest will only apply where we consider that it is not outweighed by a business contact's interests or rights which require protection of their personal data.
If a business contact requires further information regarding our legitimate interests as applied to their personal information, they may contact privacy.uk@theapharma.com
In certain circumstances, where a business contact does not provide personal information which is required, we will not be able to perform our obligations under the contract with them or may not be able to provide them with services in the context of our UK operations. We will make it clear if and when this situation arises and what the consequences of not providing the information will be for the business contact.
We may disclose personal information of business contacts to third parties as follows:
Please see sections 4 to 8 below for further information concerning our use of personal data.
The categories of information we collect about users of our website include information users provide when they enter information on our website, such as when they provide contact details;
We also collect personal information about the use of our website from users, including:
Thea will not store any financial details (credit or debit card numbers). If a website user makes a purchase directly on the website the card details are not passed to Thea by Paypal.
We use personal information of users of our website, including:
We use personal information about the use of our website for certain activities, including:
We use personal information of users of our website:
We use personal information about the use of our website because:
A legitimate interest will only apply where we consider that it is not outweighed by a website user's interests or rights which require protection of their personal data.
If a website user requires further information regarding our legitimate interests as applied to their personal information, they may contact privacy.uk@theapharma.com
We may disclose website users' personal information to third party recipients, as follows:
Our websites and online services are for individuals who are at least 18 years of age. Our online services are not designed to be used by children under the age of 18.
Please see sections 4 to 8 below for further information concerning our use of personal data.
Thea is a subsidiary of Laboratoires Théa SAS, which is a global company and, as such, we may transfer personal information to other Thea group companies or suppliers outside your home jurisdiction. Thea will take all reasonable steps to ensure that personal information is protected and any such transfers comply with applicable law.
Thea may transfer and maintain the personal information of individuals covered by this Notice on servers or databases outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Some of these countries may not have the equivalent level of protection under their data protection laws as in the EEA. We will only do this when it is necessary to respond to queries from residents in the country to which the data is sent.
If we need to transfer personal data outside the EEA, we will take steps to make sure your personal data is protected and safeguarded once it leaves the EEA, in particular the use of Model Clauses approved by the European Commission and permitted under Article 46 of the GDPR.
We will retain your personal information for as long as required to perform the purposes for which the data was collected, depending on the legal basis for which that data was obtained and/or whether additional legal/regulatory obligations mandate that we retain your personal information. We may also retain personal information for the period during which a claim may be made in relation to our dealings with you.
In general terms, this will mean that your personal data will be kept for the duration of our relationship with you and:
In certain circumstances, data may need to be retained for a longer period of time, for example, where we are in ongoing correspondence or there is a continuing claim or investigation.
What an individual's rights are in relation to the personal data
An individual will have certain rights in relation to their personal data. Some of these rights will only apply in certain circumstances. If an individual would like to exercise, or discuss, any of these rights, they should submit their request in writing or email to privacy.uk@theapharma.com and provide sufficient information to allow us to understand the scope of the request.
If you wish to obtain any further information, or exercise any of the rights set out above you can contact:
Telephone: 0345 521 290
Email: privacy.uk@theapharma.com
We have put in place technical and organisational security measures to prevent the loss or unauthorised access of your personal information. However, whilst we have used our best efforts to ensure the security of your data, please be aware that we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted over the Internet. If you have reasons to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us as set out below.
Our Website may contain links to other "non-Thea " websites. We do not control and assume no responsibility for the content, security or the privacy policies and practices on those websites. Thea encourages all users to read the privacy policies of those sites to determine how they protect and use personal information.
From time to time, we may change and/or update this Notice. If this Notice changes in any way, we will post an updated version on this website. We recommend you regularly review this website to ensure that you are always aware of our information practices and any changes to such. Any changes to this Notice will go into effect on posting to this page.
A cookie is a small text file which includes a unique identifier that is sent by a web server to the browser on your computer, mobile phone or any other internet enabled device when you visit an on-line site. Cookies and similar technologies are widely used to make websites work efficiently and to collect information about your online preferences. For simplicity, we refer to all these technologies as "cookies".
Some of our website pages may contain electronic images known as web beacons (also known as clear gifs, tags or pixels) that allow us to count users who have visited our pages. Web beacons collect only limited information, e.g. a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides. We may also carry web beacons placed by third party advertisers. These beacons do not carry any information that could directly identify you.
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to customise content and advertising, provide social media features and to see how our visitors move through our website. We use this information to make decisions about ways to improve the services we offer you.
We may engage third party tracking and advertising providers such as those named below to act on our behalf to track and analyse your usage of our website through the use of cookies. These third parties collect, and share with us, usage information about visits to our website and, sometimes by correlating this information with other information (e.g. your IP address), measure and research the effectiveness of our advertisements, track page usage, help us target our recommendations and advertising, and track use of our recommendations and advertisements.
The table below describes the cookies that we use.
Cookie name / provider / type |
What these cookies do |
Accessibility cookies |
The accessibility cookies remember the settings you selected, such as the text size. If you have sight problems the text resizer allows you to increase or decrease the font size – the cookie enables us to remember this setting. |
Advertising cookies |
These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests. |
Analytics and customization cookies |
Analytics cookies enable us to collect anonymous information about the way you use the Thea Pharmaceuticals site. They help us track which information is being viewed most frequently to help us customize our Websites for you. The cookies cannot be used to identify individuals; they are used for statistical purposes only. Information collected during your visit includes:
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Essential cookies |
These cookies are essential for parts of our website to operate. They enable users to move around our website and allow us to recognise a user within our website so that we can provide them with service they asked for such as remembering the user's sign-in details. |
Functionality cookies |
These cookies help us customise our website content based on a user's preferences. They remember the user's choices such as their language, the country pages visited and any changes the user makes to text size or other parts of our website pages. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track browsing activity on other websites. |
Performance cookies |
These cookies collect information on how users use our websites, in order to help us improve areas such as navigation, and to help us fix technical issues or errors. For example, we use these cookies to help us understand how you arrive at our website, browse or use our website and highlight areas where we can improve our website. |
System cookies |
System cookies are used by the software that runs the Thea Pharmaceuticals website. These system cookies do not contain any personal information and are required to run the site. |
If you have any specific queries regarding cookies which are deployed on our website, we maintain a Cookie Register which is available [here] or you can contact privacy.uk@theapharma.com
You can find more information about cookies, behavioural advertising and online privacy at www.allaboutcookies.org or www.youronlinechoices.eu.
8.3 How do I reject cookies?
If you do not want to be tracked by Google Analytics cookies you can opt-out by installing a browser plug-in here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
At any time, you can prevent cookies from being set on your browser. For instructions on how to block, delete or disable any cookies, please consult your browser's 'Help' or 'Support' section. Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our website.
Please consult the following links for information on cookie management and blocking according to your browser:
Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11.
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19214?locale=en_GB
You can also find more information and manage cookie storage at: www.youronlinechoices.eu
Théa Pharmaceuticals Limited
IC5 Innovation Way
Keele University Science and Innovation Park
Keele
Newcastle-under-Lyme
ST5 5NT
0345 521 1290