Privacy Policy

An important part of Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals's commitment to privacy is ensuring that your personal contact information is seen only by those who must have it in order to fulfill your requests. For the purposes of this Web site and clinical trial, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals is working with a company known as MMG to securely collect and appropriately use the personal information you provide to explore your interest in the trial. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals will not receive or be exposed to your personal information. To learn more about how MMG will handle your data, please review the privacy policy listed below.

Our Commitment To Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. We ask you to provide us with personal and confidential information, and we will safeguard that information and make sure that it is used only for the purposes you intend. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices.

The Information We Collect

Through forms on our Web site, we collect information that can be used to identify or contact you. This "personal information" allows us to determine if you may be eligible for a clinical trial. Personal Information may include name, address, or date of birth. It also allows the clinical trial site conducting the trial to contact you regarding your participation and may allow us to contact you if you are eligible for a future clinical trial. You will always be given the opportunity to tell us how and if you would like to be contacted.

Information about you or your usage of the Web site may also be collected through log files or cookies, created as you fill out forms on our Web site. "Cookies" are pieces of information that may be placed on your computer by a Web site for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing your communication and interaction with that Web site. This information will remain anonymous and aggregate information which does not identify any specific individual, will not be used to contact or identify you, and is not considered personal information.

The Information We Offer

Information provided through the MMG Web site and the sites it sponsors has been developed by MMG staff. The lead author for the site is Whitney Brimfield. Ms. Brimfield has a Masters in Health Science, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and is a member of the American Public Health Association.

Information specific to a clinical trial is developed in consultation with trial sponsors and medical staff, and has been subject to IRB review and approval before being posted to a site.

The information provided on the MMG corporate Web site and sites sponsored by MMG is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between site visitors and their physicians.

Advertising Policy

Neither the MMG corporate Web site, nor any of the sites that MMG sponsors displays advertising.

How We Use Your Information

We use your personal information in order to determine if you may be eligible to participate in the PREMIER clinical trial. You can be sure that:

• We will not use your personal information without your permission
• We will not share your personal information with anyone without your explicit approval
• We will keep for personal information private and secure

MMG does not sell information to outside parties, but may share personal information with designated PREMIER clinical trial study sites. Information is shared only if a Web site user has:

• successfully completed a prescreening questionnaire


and
• expressly consented to have their information shared

Information may be used by study sites to further determine if a person may be eligible to participate in a clinical trial.

MMG reserves the right to access and/or disclose personal information as required by courts or administrative agencies and to the extent required to permit us to investigate suspected fraud, harassment or other violations of any law, rule or regulation or the Web site's policies. We may transfer your personal information to a third party who purchases or merges with MMG, however, we shall only do so to a party that commits to provide the same level of privacy as set forth in this policy.

Our Commitment To Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. However, due to the inherent open nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and MMG or information stored on the Web site or our servers, will be completely free from unauthorized access by third parties such as hackers and your use of the Web site demonstrates your assumption of this risk.

HIPAA Compliance

Federal regulations called the "Privacy Rule" were issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The Privacy Rule protects certain health information and balances an individual's need to keep health information confidential with benefits that may be gained from health care research. HIPAA regulations cover certain corporate entities, although MMG is not a covered entity as defined by these regulations. However, because MMG works with organizations that may be covered entities, we have adopted additional safeguards to further protect the privacy of potential clinical trial volunteers.

Correcting or Deleting Your Personal Information

You may review, correct, or delete your personal information at any time by e-mailing privacy@mmgct.com. However, we are not responsible for removing your personal information from the lists of any third party who has previously been provided your information in accordance with this policy. Non-identifiable information in our aggregate database will not be deleted.

Changes to the Policy

We regularly review our policy to ensure that it provides an appropriate level of protection for your personal information. From time to time, we may make changes to our Policy to keep it current with industry standards. We will post the date of the most recent revisions on this page. Please keep in mind that your use of our Web site means that you accept our Privacy and Security Policy.

How To Contact Us

Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please call either Barbara Kester or Tony Hursey, MMG's privacy officers, at 301-984-7191 or send us an e-mail at privacy@mmgct.com.

We subscribe to the HONcode principles.