Privacy Statement

Roche respects the privacy of visitors to this Website. Roche may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address, when it is voluntarily submitted to us. Roche will use this information to respond to your request for information or as otherwise disclosed to you. From time to time, Roche may refer to that information to better understand your needs and how we can improve our products and services. Roche may use that information to contact you and/or provide you with information. You can notify Roche at any time that you wish to discontinue receiving such information.

Roche will not disclose or otherwise transfer the personally identifiable information you provide to Roche to any third party. However, Roche reserves the right to disclose information to respond to duly authorized information requests of governmental authorities or where required by law. In addition Roche may share your information with agents, contractors and partners of Roche or other members of the Roche Group.  Agents, contractors or partners are restricted from using this information in any way other than to provide services to a Member of the Roche Group, or services for the collaboration in which they and a Member of the Roche Group are engaged.  Such services may include providing customer services, sending communications about our products, performing audits or verifying technical security, responding to complaints or security threats, or doing technical maintenance.

This Website may collect web log information. Web log information is gathered when you visit this Website. The server automatically recognizes some information, such as the date and time you visited the Website, the pages you visited and the domain names of your visitors’ Internet service provider. No personally identifiable information is available in this process.

This Website may use a technology called "cookies". A cookie is a piece of information that your server sends to your browser when you access a website. Cookies are capable of storing many types of data. Cookies help provide additional functionality to the Website or to help Roche analyze Website usage more accurately. For instance, our server may set a cookie on your browser that keeps you from having to enter a password more than once during a visit to one of our websites. In all cases in which cookies are used, the cookie will not collect personally identifiable information.  Most web browsers are set up to accept cookies, although you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.  Note, however, that some portions of this Website may not work properly if you refuse cookies.

This Website may utilize a common Internet technology called a “Web beacon” (also known as an “action tag” or “clear GIF technology”).  Web beacons help analyze the effectiveness of websites by measuring, for example, the number of visitors to a site or how many visitors clicked on key elements of a site. 

This Website is not intended or designed to attract children under the age of 18. We do not collect personally identifiable data from any person we actually know is an individual under the age of 18.

As a convenience to our visitors, this Website currently contains links to a number of websites that we believe may offer useful information. The policies and procedures described here do not apply to those websites. We suggest contacting those websites directly for information on their privacy, security, data collection and distribution policies.

We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time. Any changes to this Privacy Statement will be promptly available on this Website.  Continued use of this Website after receiving notice of a change in our Privacy Statement on this page indicates your consent of the use of newly submitted information in accordance with the amended Privacy Statement.

Please bear in mind that no Internet transmission is ever 100% secure or error free. It is your responsibility to ensure that the computer you use for processing your data is adequately secured and protected against malicious software, such as trojans, computer viruses and worm programs. You are aware of the fact that without adequate security measures there is a risk that your information you provide could be disclosed to unauthorized third parties.