Privacy Policy
Intervet's Privacy Policy
has been developed as an extension of our commitment
to combine the finest quality products and services
with the highest level of integrity in dealing
with our customers. This Policy guides how we
collect, store and use information about customers
and prospects, and it will be periodically assessed
against new technologies, business practices and
our customers' changing needs.
Intervet may, from time to
time, modify this Privacy Policy to reflect legal,
technological and other developments. In that
event, the changes will appear at this location.
Our Policy recognizes that Personally-Identifiable Information includes,
for example, e-mail addresses, billing information,
employment status and "click stream"
data that tracks user activity on a Web site or
online service.
Intervet is committed to using
all reasonable efforts to abide by its Privacy
Policy, as stated below:
1. Collection.
First, and foremost, we do
not sell or provide your information to entities
outside Intervet Inc. (see "external distribution"
below.) Personally-Identifiable Information will
only be collected to the extent that Intervet
deems reasonably necessary to serve a legitimate
business purpose.
When you send us Personally-Identifiable
Information, (i.e. in an electronic mail message
containing a question or comment), or by filling
out a form that e-mails us this information, we
use this information to respond to your request
or inquiry for our products, programs, services
and offerings, and to offer you other products,
programs or services that we believe may be of
interest to you. Intervet may on occasion combine
information we receive online with outside records
to enhance our ability to market to you those
products or services that may be of interest to
you.
We may also forward your e-mail
to other Intervet employees, who are best able
to answer your questions. We sometimes use this
information to communicate with you, such as to
notify you when new resources are available, when
we make changes to online or print products and
services, and/or to fulfill a request by you for
an online newsletter.
If your browser accepts cookies,
we may use a cookie to determine if you are a repeat or new visitor,
or to understand how many different visitors come
to, and use, our site. We sometimes use the non-personally
identifiable information that we collect to improve
the design and content of our site and to enable
us to personalize your Internet experience. We
also may use this information in aggregate form
to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you
products, programs, or services.
Please be aware that if you
disclose Personally-Identifiable Information on
Web site message boards or chat areas, that information
may be collected and used by third parties without
our knowledge and may result in unsolicited communications
from third parties. Such activities are beyond
the control of Intervet.
2. Links to Other Sites.
The documents posted on this
Web site may contain hypertext links or pointers
to information created and maintained by other
public and private organizations. These links
and pointers are provided for the convenience
of our Web site visitors. Intervet does not control
or guarantee the accuracy, timeliness, or completeness
of any linked information from non-Intervet sites.
The inclusion of links or pointers
to Web sites is not intended to assign importance
to those sites or the information contained therein,
nor is it intended to endorse or recommend any
views expressed, or products or services offered
on these sites.
The non-Intervet sites may
also have their own privacy policies and practices.
While Intervet will employ commercially appropriate
procedures to help ensure that your information
is only used for authorized purposes as described
above, Intervet cannot make any guarantees with
respect to the actions or policies of such third
parties.
3. External Distribution
Intervet does not share any
information we receive with any outside parties,
except for the following: 1) When required by
law, in connection with legal proceedings and
investigations of crimes or other wrongdoing,
and 2) For Onward Transfers.
4. Onward Transfer.
Sharing Personally-Identifiable
Information with an entity working on behalf of
Intervet or transferring Personally-Identifiable
Information in conjunction with the sale or similar
transfer of a business unit is considered an Onward
Transfer.
Whenever Intervet permits
a third-party outside of Intervet to access Personally-Identifiable
Information through Onward Transfer, commercially
appropriate procedures will be followed to help
ensure that the information is used only for authorized
purposes and by authorized persons in a manner
consistent with the choices customers and prospects
have made under this Policy, and that the security,
integrity and privacy of the information is maintained.
5. Protection of Information.
We maintain physical, electronic,
and procedural safeguards that comply with industry
standards to protect your personal information
from unauthorized access or use. We restrict access
to your personal and account information to those
employees who need to know that information in
order to provide products and services to you.
All employees are required to protect and maintain
the confidentiality of your information in accordance
with our policies and procedures.
If we use a third-party to
host our Web site and/or data, the third-party
organization is required to ensure site security
by employing industry-standard methods to monitor
network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts
to upload or change information, or otherwise
cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload
information or change information on Intervet
Inc. servers, or servers used on behalf of Intervet
by a third-party organization, are strictly prohibited
and may be punishable by law, including the Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information
Infrastructure Protection Act.
6. Choice: Opt-Out from
Distribution Lists
Customers and prospects may
choose to refuse permission for use of their name,
address or other Personally-Identifiable Information
to be used in Distribution Lists maintained by
Intervet Inc. for the purpose of contacting you
with products, services, offerings or other communication.
If you wish to "opt-out"
and be removed from distribution lists of our
messages concerning products, services and offerings,
please Click
Here. Please include your name and address
in the e-mail text box. Please do not change the
Header Information in the e-mail.
7.
Cookies.
What is a "Cookie"?
A cookie is a small piece of information that
is sent to your browser, along with a Web page,
when you access a Web site. There are two kinds
of cookies: a "session" cookie and a
"persistent" cookie. A session cookie
is a line of text that is stored temporarily in
your computer's RAM. Because a session cookie
is never written to a drive, it is destroyed as
soon as you close your browser. A persistent cookie
is a more permanent line of text that gets saved
by your browser to a file on your hard drive.
Depending on your browser settings, you may receive
notification that a given site is requesting cookie
information, possibly with an expiration date.
Persistent cookies have an expiration date in
the future. Session cookies have no date associated
with them.
Intervet's Use of Cookies.
The Web site will create a session cookie whenever
you log onto our sites. The session cookie is
destroyed when you leave the site, or after 20
minutes of inactivity. Intervet does not create
any persistent cookies.
8. Questions?
If you have questions
about Intervet's Privacy Policy,
please Contact
Us, and we will be happy to assist you.
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