Privacy Statement

Astellas Pharma US, Inc. (Astellas) and Pfizer Inc. respect the privacy of visitors to our online sites. Astellas and Pfizer Inc. will only collect your personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address, when you provide it to us at this web site. Astellas and Pfizer Inc. and/or the companies we hire will use this information to comply with your request for information or as otherwise disclosed to you on the web page when you submit your information to us. From time to time, we may refer to this information to better understand your needs and how we can improve our products and services. We may use this information to contact you. We will not sell or otherwise transfer the personally identifiable information you provide to us at this web site to any third parties for their own use unless we tell you when you submit your information to us that we intend to do so.

Like many web sites, this Astellas and Pfizer Inc. web site uses a technology called “cookies”. A cookie is a small text file that a web server gives your browser to store on your computer when you access a web site. Cookies are capable of storing many types of data and may be placed on your browser by Astellas and Pfizer Inc. or by a third party. Cookies may be used for a variety of purposes on this web site:

This site sets cookies that keep you from having to enter a password more than once during visits to one or more of our sites.
We also use cookies to help us analyze usage of our sites and traffic among our sites more accurately and to provide you with information of interest to you. For example, cookies are used on this site to record the total number of hits received on the site and web pages.
Cookies also allow Astellas and Pfizer Inc. to determine whether you came to this site from another Astellas and Pfizer Inc. site or from an advertising banner or link on a non-Astellas or Pfizer Inc. web site, so that we can, for example, measure the effectiveness of the links among our sites and the effectiveness of our advertising on non-Astellas or Pfizer Inc. web sites.
Similarly, cookies allow us to determine whether you register on or visit any of our web sites, which enables us to analyze how particular users use our sites and whether registered and unregistered users of our web sites use our sites differently.
Cookies also allow us to maintain information about how particular visitors use our family of sites, which enables us to better provide such visitors with information relevant to their interests. This may include using information about your use of our sites in conjunction with personally identifiable information that you have volunteered to us on one of our sites.

This is not an exhaustive list of all uses of cookies on Astellas or Pfizer Inc. web sites. In all cases in which cookies are used, however, neither Astellas, Pfizer Inc., nor any third party will use the cookie to collect personally identifiable information from our site unless you voluntarily agree to enter the information. Most web browsers are set up to accept cookies. You can, however, reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Note, however, that some portions of our sites may not work properly if you refuse cookies.

In addition to cookies, Astellas or Pfizer Inc. may collect non-personally identifiable information about how you use our web sites using other analysis technologies. These analysis technologies may be provided by third parties. Information that might be collected using these technologies includes, for example, the pages you visit on our site, the paths you take within our sites and the length of time that you spend on our web sites. We use this information in the aggregate in order to better understand how to improve the quality of our web sites.

Some Astellas or Pfizer Inc. web sites use a third party advertising service to display advertising on other, non-Astellas or Pfizer Inc. web sites. In addition to placing advertisements on certain non-Astellas and Pfizer Inc. web pages, these services and/or Astellas and Pfizer Inc. may also place a segment of code called a clear pixel tag, also known as a “gif”, on certain Astellas and Pfizer Inc. web pages that do not contain advertisements for the purpose of measuring the effectiveness of advertisements in bringing visitors to our web sites. Gifs may also be used with cookies to track the total number of visitors to our web site, the number of visitors to various web pages, and the domain names of our visitors’ internet service providers. No personally identifiable information is collected in this process.

As is common among internet site operators, Astellas and Pfizer Inc. web sites maintain web server logs. Web servers automatically identify your computer by its IP address and collect that information in its web server logs. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer by your internet service provider (e.g., aol, msn, earthlink) whenever you log onto the world wide web or “surf” the web. Astellas and Pfizer Inc. web server logs collect statistical data that is generated by your computer when it visits a Astellas and Pfizer Inc. web site, such as the type of web browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer) and operating system (Windows 95 or Mac OS) used to access the site, the domain name of your internet service provider, the date and time you access our site, and the pages you visit. Astellas and Pfizer Inc. web sites use this non-personally identifying web server log information for a variety of purposes. Some of these purposes include: system administration; to examine overall traffic trends on our sites; trouble-shooting; and to gather broad demographic information about users of our sites. No personally identifiable information is contained in these web server logs.

Astellas and Pfizer Inc. use technical and organizational security precautions, in order to protect your data from coincidental or deliberate manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons. As part of the collection and processing of personal data, all transferred information will be encrypted to prevent misuse of the data by third parties. Our security procedures are continuously revised based on new technological developments.

This Astellas and Pfizer Inc. web site is not intended or designed to attract children under the age of 13. We do not collect personally identifiable information from any person we know to be under the age of 13.

As a convenience to our visitors, Astellas and Pfizer Inc.’s sites currently contain links to a number of web sites that we believe may offer useful information. The privacy policy and provisions described here do not apply to those sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their data collection and distribution policies.

From time to time, Astellas and Pfizer Inc. may decide to modify its practices and policies, and we reserve the right to revise this Astellas and Pfizer Inc. internet privacy statement as necessary to disclose such changes in our practices and policies. Any such changes to this Astellas and Pfizer Inc. internet privacy statement will be promptly communicated on this page. Any information that you submit before the change in policy will be used by Astellas and Pfizer Inc. and/or the companies we hire in a manner that is consistent with the Astellas and Pfizer Inc. internet privacy statement in effect at the time you submitted your information. Continued use of our sites after receiving notice of a change in our privacy statement shall indicate your consent to the use of newly-submitted information in accordance with the changed, amended, or updated Astellas and Pfizer Inc. internet privacy statement.

Questions about Astellas’ Internet Privacy Statement, including categories of data collection, may be directed to webmaster@us.astellas.com.