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Privacy Policy

Paragon’s Commitment

Paragon Biomedical shares the clinical research industry's commitment to protecting the privacy of employees, contractors, clients and visitors to its web site. You can navigate around most of our site without giving us any personal information about yourself. However, sometimes we need additional information about you in order to provide the information or services you require.

Your privacy is important to us; to protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on every page where you may opt to provide us your personally identifiable information.

Global Policy

Paragon has offices in the United States, the United Kingdom and India. Consequently, your personal information may be used, stored and processed outside of the country where you entered that information. Our ethics on privacy are included in our global Policies and Standard Operating Procedures.

Disclaimer

Business Transition

If Paragon goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, data subjects' Personal Information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred. Data subjects will be notified via a notice on our website prior to a change of ownership or control of their Personal Information. If as a result of the business transition, the data subjects' Personal Information will be used in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection they will be given choice consistent with our notification of changes section.

Changes to Policy and Notification

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time without notice. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on our Web Site so our users are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

How to Contact Us

The easiest way to contact us is via an e-mail to webmaster@parabio.com.
Alternatively telephone (949) 224-2800, Fax (949) 224-2811 or write to:

The Privacy Officer
Paragon Biomedical Inc.
9685 Research Drive
Irvine, CA 92618
USA

Collecting Information

How We Collect Information

This website (www.parabio.com) is hosted in the USA and we are the sole owners of information gathered by this site. Our data collection methods are:

Direct Data Entry

We collect your personal data mainly via your deliberate input when you register and logon to our applications hosted on this website.

e-mails

Some pages of our web site prepare pre-addressed and pre-titled e-mail templates to enable you to easily contact us. Aside from the data that you routinely include in your e-mail template, all the personal data that you provide is entered by you as text or attachments.

Log Files

We do not employ log files to gather personal data or to record the character and frequency of your access of our website.

Surveys

Paragon may conduct surveys via their website which gather personal data. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name, email and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip or post code or age level). If you give us personal information about somebody else, such as a spouse or work colleague, we will assume that you have their permission to do so. Survey information may be used to monitor or improve the use and satisfaction of this Web Site.

Blogs

An externally visible corporate blog may be implemented in future. A blog (meaning "Web log") is a Web site with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Company employees, teams, or spokespersons share their views. It may be used to announce new products and services, to explain and clarify policies, or to react to public issues. It allows for informal interaction between the company and the public that is less formal than traditional press releases. It encourages dialogue rather than a monologue and so may collect personal data. Because of the personal nature of blogs, the views expressed may not always be the views or policies of Paragon Biomedical.

Scope

Children Under 13

Our Web site is not structured to attract anyone under 13 years of age and Paragon do not intend to collect or maintain information at our Web site from those we know are under 13.

Legally Required Disclosure

Paragon will disclose your personal data when ordered to by a court of law or government agency, but not otherwise.

Your Consent

Your use of this website is taken to imply your agreement to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you are unable to agree to this we would be happy to communicate with you using other means.

What Information Do We Collect?

The information that we collect depends upon the type of request that you make.

Investigator Recruitment

If you are interested in serving as an Investigator on one of our Clinical Trials we can collect your contact details via an e-mail to investigators@paragonbiomedical.com. Alternatively you may register and login to our web site and provide details of your experience, facilities and qualifications.

Employment

If you are interested in employment as a Contractor or working as an Associate (employee) we can collect your resume by e-mail to careers@paragonbiomedical.com. If your resume matches our requirements you will be contacted and asked to provide further information about yourself. The information requested from you will be based on your area of interest.

Information Requests

On some pages, you may request to receive customized information. This facility is generally provided on "Contact Us," “News & Information” pages as e-mail templates where you can ask a Paragon representative to contact you in order to answer questions or provide specific information. The personal information you provide on your e-mail may include your name, title, company name, address, contact numbers, and email address.

On some pages, you may choose to receive access to webcasts, periodic newsletters, or information on a specific Paragon service. Generally, this information is available for viewing or downloading without providing further personal information.

What Do We Do With Information?

We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.

Transfer Across Sites

Your personal data may be shared with staff at Paragon offices overseas and their subsidiaries, but this policy applies to all such Paragon sites, employees and contractors.

Store In Databases

We make use of databases to record and retrieve information sent to us via e-mails or by user direct entry (such as our Investigator Database.). This information is kept indefinitely in backups but is only held in the live database as long as necessary.

Not Shared With 3rd Parties

We will never intentionally share with anyone, sell, or rent individual personal information without your advance permission or unless ordered to do so by a court of law.

Processing May Be Outsourced

Information submitted to us is only available to our employees managing this information for purposes of contacting you or sending you emails based on your request for information and to contracted service providers for purposes of providing services relating to our communications with you. These employees and contracted service providers have been trained to handle such data properly and in accordance with our security protocols and strict standards of confidentiality. Although we cannot guarantee against any loss, misuse, unauthorized disclosure, alteration or destruction of data, we take reasonable precautions to prevent such occurrences.

Links

This website contains links to other websites. Please be aware that Paragon are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. When you leave our site please read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal information. This policy applies solely to information collected by this website.

Newsletters

From time to time we may issue Newsletter (electronic or paper) to contacts who have expressed an interest. Such Newsletters contain information as to how to unsubscribe from them if you change your mind.

Employment And Contracting

We may use personal data gathered via our web site to facilitate recruitment of Associates (employees) or Contractors.

Keeping Your Data Safe

Data Security And Integrity

Paragon uses appropriate physical, electronic and procedural security measures to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of data located on our systems. We employ measures and processes, such as using encryption when transmitting certain sensitive information, to help us to keep your information secure and to maintain its quality. We regularly review our security and related policies for our systems to ensure the data is held securely and safely. We apply security technology as new threats evolve.

Enforcement

Paragon conduct compliance audits of its relevant privacy practices to verify adherence to this policy. Any employee that Paragon determines is in violation of this policy will be subject to disciplinary action.

Before Paragon transfers information to a third party that is acting as an agent, it ascertains that the third party safeguards Personal Information consistent with this policy. Where Paragon has knowledge that an agent is using or disclosing Personal Information contrary to this policy, they will take reasonable steps to prevent or stop the use or disclosure.

Your Control Of Your Personal Data

You have the following facilities to manage and control your personal data gathered via our web site.

View It

You may view most data that we collect on you using the systems themselves (for example by logging into our Investigator Database using your User ID and Password), or you may request to see any personal data that we hold on you by contacting the Privacy Officer as detailed in this Policy.

Edit Your Data

Using your User Name and Password you may logon to systems and edit your own data.

Have Us Change It

You can also contact our Privacy Officer as detailed in this Privacy Policy if you want to update your personal information or change your preferences. We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before amending your personal data.

Remove It

You can request that we remove your personal data from our systems or unsubscribe from communications you no longer wish to receive. We provide unsubscribe (opt-out) instructions in our communications.