Privacy Policy

Privacy at Eli Lilly and Company

Eli Lilly and Company ("Lilly") has established a comprehensive privacy program, including a global privacy office and a chief privacy officer, designed to help us respect and protect your privacy rights. This statement includes both Lilly's European Union - U.S. Safe Harbor Privacy Statement and the Website Privacy Statement.

U.S. - EU Safe Harbor Privacy Statement

For personal information of employees, consumers, healthcare professionals, medical research subjects and investigators, customers, investors, and government officials that Lilly receives from the European Economic Area, Lilly has committed to handling such personal information in accordance with the Safe Harbor Principles. Lilly's Safe Harbor certification can be found at http://web.ita.doc.gov/safeharbor/shlist.nsf/webPages/safe+harbor+list. For more information about the Safe Harbor Principles, please visit the U.S. Department of Commerce's Website at http://export.gov/safeharbor/.

Lilly Website Privacy Statement

Lilly respects the privacy of visitors to its website. As a result, we have developed this website privacy policy ("Privacy Policy"). This Privacy Policy applies only to the operation of the website that directly links to this policy when you click on "privacy statement" in the website footer.

Personal Information Collected by Lilly Online

Through this website, you may be asked to voluntarily provide to us information that can identify or locate you, such as your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and other similar information ("Personal Information"). You may always refuse to provide Personal Information to us, but this may lead to our inability to provide you with certain information, products or services.

If you do provide us with Personal Information, we may enhance or merge it with information about you obtained from third parties for the same purposes. By using the site and providing us with your Personal Information, you consent to our use of such information as described in this Privacy Policy.

We may use your Personal Information:

• To respond to your requests for information, products, services;
• If you register online, to administer your account;
• For legal compliance, such as adverse event reporting or to enforce our rights;
• For other everyday business purposes, such as website management, research and product development; and
• To collaborate with potential investors (with your prior consent).

This site may allow you to send a link or e-mail message to a friend or colleague. E-mail addresses you may provide for a friend or colleague will be used to send your friend or colleague information on your behalf and will not be collected or used by Lilly or other third parties for any other purpose.

Google Analytics

We will use Google Analytics in order to examine visitor data.

Web Administrator Use of Data

Google Analytics will be used to track information on visitors to this site for the purpose of website optimization and assessing whether key audiences are visiting the site. Google Analytics uses a first-party cookie and JavaScript code to collect information about visitors. Visitors to this website who have javascript enabled are tracked using Google Analytics. Google Analytics anonymously tracks how visitors interact with a website, including where they came from and what they did on a site. Google Analytics collects the following types of information from users:

• Type of user agent (web browser) used, software manufacture and version number.
• Type of operating system
• Screen colors (color processing ability of the users screen)
• Javascript support
• Flash version
• Screen resolution
• Network location and IP address
• Can include country, city, state, region, county, or any other geographic data.
• Hostname
• Bandwidth (internet connection speed)
• Time of visit
• Pages visited
• Time spent on each page of the website
• Referring site
• The website (URI) the user came through in order to arrive at this website (example: clicking on a hyperlink from Yahoo.com that took the user to this website)
• Search engine query used (example: typing in a phrase into a search engine like Google, and clicking on a link from that search engine) This data DOES NOT include any personalized identification information such as:
• Name
• Phone Numbers
• Mailing Addresses
• Social Security Numbers
• Bank Account Numbers
• Credit Card Information

This information is used to administer and update the website. This site will be a more user-friendly site if we know which pages our users are visiting and how often. We will also assess whether the visitors to the site match the expected site demographics and determine how key audiences are navigating the content.

Opt-Out Provision:

Google analytics offers an opt-out provision for website visitors who do not want their data to be collected. You can receive more information about this option here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Google's Use of Data:

Please note that Google and its wholly owned subsidiaries may retain and use, subject to the terms of its Privacy Policy (located at http://www.google.com/privacy.html, or such other URL as Google may provide from time to time), information collected in your use of the Google Analytics

Other technology tracking

This website may use a technology called a "cookie". A cookie is a piece of information that our webserver sends to your computer (actually to your browser file) when you access a website. Then when you come back our site will detect whether you have one of our cookies on your computer. Our cookies help provide additional functionality to the site and help us analyze site usage more accurately. For instance, our site may set a cookie on your browser that keeps you from needing to remember and then enter a password more than once during a visit to the site. With most Internet browsers or other software, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your browser instructions to learn more about these functions. If you reject cookies, functionality of the site may be limited, and you may not be able to take advantage of many of the site's features.

Information Disclosures and Sharing

The purpose of this site is to provide a set of capabilities under a Commons construct for improved collaboration to accelerate and transform clinical development. This includes discussion forums and ability to share content such as scientific insights with others. While you are able to explore the site without providing any Personal Information, in order to contribute to the site you are required to register. Once registered, your basic profile will be available for others to see, including username, gravatar and activity stream. You have the option of sharing additional profile information such as real name, website, location, date of birth and general profile information. Per the Terms of Use, all content contributed to this site will be under CC0 license and in the public domain with no rights reserved.

Except as provided below, Lilly will not share your Personal Information with third parties unless you have consented to the disclosure. We may share your Personal Information with our agents, contractors or partners in connection with services that these individuals or entities perform for, or with, Lilly, such as sending email messages, managing data, hosting our databases, providing data processing services or providing customer service. These agents, contractors or partners are restricted from using this data in any way other than to provide services for Lilly, or services for the collaboration in which they and Lilly are engaged (for example, some of our products are developed and marketed through joint agreements with other companies). Lilly may use third party advertising companies to place ads on the site and to place our ads on other web sites. These companies may use Other Information about your visits to this and other web sites to provide advertisements on the site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you.

Lilly will share Personal Information to respond to duly authorized subpoenas or information requests of governmental authorities, to provide Internet security or where required by law. In exceptionally rare circumstances where national, state or company security is at issue (such as with the World Trade Center terrorist act in September, 2001), Lilly reserves the right to share our entire database of visitors and customers with appropriate governmental authorities.

We may also provide Personal Information and Other Information to a third party in connection with the sale, assignment, or other transfer of the business of this website to which the information relates, in which case we will require any such buyer to agree to treat Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Your Choices

We will not use or share your Personal Information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without first letting you know and offering you a choice. As previously stated, we also provide you the opportunity to opt out of the website at any time. We will obtain your permission first should we ever seek to share your information with third parties that are not acting on our behalf or governed by our applicable privacy policies. We also respect your marketing and communications preferences. You can opt-out of receiving emails from us at any time by following the opt-out instructions in our update emails. Please note that you may continue to receive materials while we are updating our lists.

Access and Corrections

We strive to keep your Personal Information accurate. You can access and update the Personal Information that you have provided to us at any time. If you wish to update Personal Information provided to us, please access your account where you may view, update or correct your information online. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your data or enabling you to make corrections.

E-mail Communications

When you send an e-mail to us, you are communicating with us electronically. You thereby consent to receive communications from us electronically; however, please note that e-mail communications are not necessarily secure and confidential. For instance, it is possible that information transmitted to us via e-mail may be read or obtained by other parties. In an attempt to protect your privacy, our e-mail responses do not include Personal Information or your personal account information. We recommend that you do not include such information in e-mail communications directed to us. We may communicate with you by postal mail, e-mail or by posting notices on the Site. All agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

Children’s Information

Lilly encourages parents and guardians to be aware of and participate in their children's online activities. You should be aware that this site is not intended for, or designed to attract, individuals under the age of 18. We do not collect Personal Information from any person we actually know to be under the age of 18.

Information Security

Lilly protects all Personal Information with reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards. For example, areas of this website that collect sensitive Personal Information use industry standard secure socket layer encryption (SSL); however, to take advantage of this your browser must support encryption protection (found in Internet Explorer release 3.0 and above).

Links to Third Party Websites

As a convenience to our visitors, this website may contains links to a number of sites owned and operated by third parties that we believe may offer useful information. The policies and procedures we describe here do not apply to those sites. Lilly is not responsible for the collection or use of Personal Information or Other Information at any third party sites. Therefore, Lilly disclaims any liability for any third party's use of Personal Information or Other Information obtained through using the third party web site. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy, security, data collection, and distribution policies.

Changes to Our Privacy Practices

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do update it, for your convenience, we will make the updated policy available on this page. We will always handle your Personal Information in accordance with the Privacy Statement in effect at the time it was collected. We will not make any materially different use or new disclosure of your Personal Information unless we notify you and give you an opportunity to object. Please keep in mind that your use of our website means that you understand and accept our privacy statement.

For More Information

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at coi@lists.lilly.com.

Last Updated: October 5, 2011