Privacy Policy

 

PRESTIGE CONSUMER HEALTHCARE WEBSITE PRIVACY STATEMENT

1. PURPOSE OF THE PRIVACY POLICY

Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. and each of its affiliates and subsidiary entities (collectively "Prestige", "we", "our", "us") are committed to maintaining the accuracy, confidentiality, and security of your Personal Data. This Website Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose Personal Data that we obtain when you visit our website or communicate with us both on the website and offline.
This Privacy Policy applies to individuals residing within the United States and who do not also reside within the European Union or the United Kingdom. If you are a resident of the European Union or the United Kingdom, please click here for the applicable Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy addresses the following topics:

2. TYPES OF PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED BY PRESTIGE

Personal Data is defined as any information that can be used to identify an individual either on its own or when combined with other available data. 
Prestige collects information that you provide directly to us or through this website. The categories of Personal Data you may provide Prestige include:

  • first and last name
  • age/date of birth
  • gender
  • mailing address
  • IP address (we may also derive your approximate location from your IP address)
  • demographic information and any other information provided by you that does not reveal your specific identity, and
  • any other identifier that permits Prestige to contact you

Prestige does not generally seek to collect special categories (sensitive) of Personal Data through our website. Special categories of Personal Data for purposes of this Privacy Policy are information relating to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade-union membership, health or sex life, sexual orientation, genetic or biometric information. We ask that you not send us, and you do not disclose to us, any special categories of Personal Data. If we require any such information, Prestige will, at the time of collection, ask for your explicit consent to the proposed use of that information, as required by applicable law.

Prestige also automatically collects, stores, and uses information about your visits to our website and about the device through which you access the website. See our Cookie Policy for further information.

3. WHEN PRESTIGE COLLECTS YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Prestige collects your Personal Data as follows:

  • when you voluntarily provide it to us on the website or offline
  • when you sign up to receive emails, alerts, or other communications
  • when you communicate with us either on the website or offline,
  • when you participate in Prestige surveys, contests, or promotions, and
  • from third-party sources

Prestige will only use your Personal Information for the purposes for which it was collected, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose, or as otherwise required by law.

4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Prestige's uses your Personal Data for various purposes including:

  • Providing website functionality and fulfilling your requests. This includes, for example, providing a tailored website experience and responding to your questions, suggestions, and/or complaints submitted through Prestige's online contact forms.
  • Meeting pharmacovigilance-related obligations. Reports of adverse events related to a Prestige product will be reviewed and shared in order to comply with Prestige's pharmacovigilance-related obligations including reporting to relevant health authorities. In these circumstances, only details about the incident are reported and only limited Personal Data is shared (e.g., age, gender, and initials of a patient or initials, profession, and contact information of a reporting physician or pharmacist).
  • Providing you with our marketing materials and other information. Prestige uses your Personal Data to send you marketing-related emails, with information about Prestige's products, services, and other news about the company. Recipients of marketing-related emails may opt-out of receiving these types of communications.
  • Providing personalized services. Prestige uses your data to understand your interests and preferences so that Prestige can personalize our interactions with you and provide you with information and/or offers tailored to your interests.
  • Allowing participation in surveys, contests, and promotions. Prestige uses your data to offer you the opportunity to participate in (and to track your participation in) surveys, contests, and promotions. Some of these surveys, contests, or promotions include additional information about how we will use and disclose your Personal Data. Please read this additional information before choosing to participate.
  • Accomplishing Prestige's business purposes. Prestige uses personal data to continually improve its business. For example, we may use data analysis to improve the efficiency of our website or to help us understanding which parts of our products and services are of most interest to our users so we can focus our energies on meeting our users' interests.

5. DISCLOSURE OR SALE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Prestige does not share your Personal Information with third parties except as provided in this Privacy Policy.
In the preceding 12 months, Prestige, for business purposes, disclosed the following categories of Personal Information to third-parties:

  • Identifiers
  • Personal Information categories (e.g., name and contact information)
  • Commercial information
  • Internet or other electronic network activity (e.g., "cookies" or other tracking tags)
  • Geolocation data
  • Audio, electronic, visual, similar information
  • Professional or employment-related information

Prestige may disclose Personal Information for a business purpose to the following categories of third-parties:

  • Affiliated or Related Entities: Prestige shares your Personal Data with our affiliated or related entities as necessary to carry out the purposes for which the information was supplied or collected.
  • Business Partners and/or Service Providers: Prestige uses third-parties to assist with the running of the website and providing our products and services including, for example, web-hosting providers and IT providers. To obtain these services, Prestige needs to share your Personal Data with such third-parties.

In addition, Prestige may disclose information about you in the following circumstances:

  • If Prestige sells or buys any business or assets, we may confidentially disclose your Personal Information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets, including to permit the due diligence required to decide whether to proceed with a transaction,
  • If all or substantially all of Prestige's assets are acquired by a third-party, Personal Information held by Prestige about its customers will be one of the transferred assets,
  • If Prestige is under a duty to disclose or share your Personal Information to comply with any legal or regulatory obligation,
  • If necessary, to protect the vital interests of a person,
  • To enforce or apply our terms and conditions or to establish, exercise, or defend the rights of Prestige, our employees, customers, or others,
  • To third-party sponsors of surveys, contests, and providers, and
  • With your consent

6. RETENTION OF PERSONAL DATA

We retain your personal information no longer than is reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and processed and in accordance with Prestige's data retention policy, except as required by applicable law, contract, or otherwise to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and/or to enforce our agreements. 

7. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We employ reasonable physical, technical, and administrative safeguards designed to protect the security of personal data that we collect in connection with our Website and information systems. Safeguards we employ include building security, firewall barriers, encryption techniques, multi-factor authentication procedures, antivirus/anti-malware solutions, and access controls to help protect personal data against loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These safeguards vary depending upon a variety of factors including the sensitivity of the information.

Despite all reasonable practices, no security method is infallible. We cannot guarantee the security of the networks, systems, servers, devices, and databases we operate, that are operated on our behalf, or which you employ to access our Website and information systems. Nor can we guarantee the security of third-party networks, including any cellular networks and storage servers, used in connection with our Website and information systems.

8. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

Our Website is not designed to attract children 13 years or younger. In fact, you must be eighteen (18) years old or older to use it. As a general matter, if we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13 without parental consent, please contact us via the contact methods above.

9. LINKED SITES (Third-Party Sites)

Our Website may contain links to other websites (“Linked Sites”) for your convenience and information. If it does, these Linked Sites may be operated by organizations that are not affiliated with us. Linked Sites may have their own privacy policies or notices, and we strongly encourage you review them if you visit any Linked Site. We are not responsible for the content of any Linked Site not affiliated with us, any use of those Linked Sites, or the privacy practices or processing or personal data of them.

Jurisdiction-Specific Privacy Notices

Provided below are links to additional privacy notices that supplement our main Privacy Notice, depending upon whether you live in one of the jurisdictions.

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