GSK respects the privacy of all those individuals that wish to volunteer to participate in clinical trials and we will use your information only in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Your Personal Information and How We Use It
Information which can identify you such as your name, address, phone number and e-mail address, provided by you through our website will be retained in our database of potential clinical trial volunteers so that we can contact you to ascertain your suitability to take part in our clinical trials and may be used for administering the recruitment process and analysing recruitment methods and results.
Once we have received your full application and processed it GSK will retain your personally identifiable information in our database of clinical trial volunteers so that we can contact you should we undertake a trial which is suitable for your participation. All your personal information will be treated as confidential, that is, any information that identifies you and will be held and processed under secure conditions.
Access to your personal information will be limited to you, authorized GSK staff and contractors working at the Cambridge and Hammersmith clinical units and possibly to representatives of regulatory agencies.
From time GSK may decide to modify its practices and policies and reserves the right to revise this GSK Internet disclaimer and privacy statement as necessary to disclose such changes in our practices and policies. Any such changes to this GSK Internet Privacy Statement will be promptly communicated on this page, so please check it periodically.
Cookies And How We Use Them
When you use our sites, GSK may assign cookie files to you, which are a small amount of data we send to your web browser. Cookies enable the computers operating our websites to differentiate between visitors and to track the patterns of activities engaged in by different visitors. By tracking such activities, the computers operating our websites can recognize a visitor and customize certain features for that visitor. We may also use aggregated, non-identifiable data regarding persons who visit our site in order to learn more about the use of the site and how we can improve it.
You may be able to modify your browser preferences to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is sent, or to reject all cookies. If you choose not to accept cookies, you may not be able to use those functions of the websites that require registration, such as the on-line registration form.
We may also receive IP addresses in the normal course of the operation of our website. An IP address is a number assigned to you by your Internet service provider so you can access the Internet. Although we do receive IP addresses, we do not use them to identify you personally or disclose them to others.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 07 July 2010.