Accell Clinical Research Data Privacy Statement

The below provisions are an outbound statement made by Accell Clinical Research to its Website’s visitors about how Accell Clinical Research is collecting, using, and disclosing personal information.

Accell Clinical Research would like to inform you that to navigate through the majority of the web pages of this Website you will not be asked to share your personal information. However, Accell Clinical Research may need to have your personal data if you request some additional information or services from us.

Our commitments

At Accell Clinical Research we are committed to respect your personal privacy. Accell Clinical Research values the confidence of those who have entrusted Accell Clinical Research with their personal data: clinical investigators and other healthcare professionals, job applicants, employees, customers, and business partners. Accell Clinical Research has developed procedures and practices to periodically review and monitor the use of personal information to ensure that it is used responsibly and complies with internationally recognized standards of privacy protection.

In addition to these international regulations, Accell Clinical Research always strives to collect and use personal data in a manner consistent with the national laws of the countries where Accell Clinical Research does business.

Purposes of data processing

Accell Clinical Research processes personal data for specific, limited, and legitimate purposes. Examples of such purposes include, but are not limited to:

– Investigator data is processed by Accell Clinical Research to be able to identify and contact individual investigators to ascertain their interest in participating in clinical trials in accordance with their experience, specialty, availability, and other factors. Investigators selected to conduct clinical trials may also be required to provide additional information to facilitate reimbursement for their participation in clinical trials.

– Personal data of job applicants is processed by Accell Clinical Research to enable screening, selection and hiring of candidates and communication with them.

– Personal data of potential customers is processed by Accell Clinical Research to enable prompt responses to requests for information.

– Information about cookies and IP address of the visitors of this Website is processed by Accell Clinical Research to allow site visitors to effectively navigate through and use services available at Accell Clinical Research corporate Website.

Collection and use of personal data

Categories of personal data collected for one of the purposes described in the previous section include contact details such as your first and last name, e-mail address, and/or “cookie” information may be collected for processing external requests.

Sensitive personal data is defined under local data privacy law, and may include information relating to a data subject’s racial or ethnic origin, nationality, political opinion, religious and philosophical beliefs, membership of a trade union, physical or mental health conditions, biometric or genetic data, and sexual life. Accell Clinical Research does not collect sensitive personal data via its Website. In cases the collection of sensitive data is required by law, Accell Clinical Research will obtain such information directly from individuals with notification appropriately given. Via this Website Accell Clinical Research may collect personal data for the purposes of responding to individual’s requests.

All individuals, who may wish to request Accell Clinical Research to provide them with specific information will need to complete a “Request a Proposal” form. An individual’s personal information that will be captured on these forms will include his/her first and last name and individual/company e-mail.

No part of the Accell Clinical Research Website is designed to attract minors, nor to intentionally collect or use information about children known to be under thirteen years old.

– Cookies
Cookies are pieces of data that a website transfers to a user’s computer connected to the Internet. This Website uses cookies

– IP Addresses
Like many other websites, Accell Clinical Research receives IP addresses in the normal course of the operation of this Website. An IP address is a number assigned to each user by the Internet service provider so one can access the Internet. Accell Clinical Research does not use IP addresses to identify individuals nor trades this information to any third party.

Sharing of personal data

– With affiliated companies and business partners
The information provided to Accell Clinical Research in the course of its business, including via this Website will be available to Accell Clinical Research. The personal data may need to be shared by Accell Clinical Research with its business partners and third party suppliers. Access to personal data is at all times restricted to appropriately trained and duly authorized parties having a business need, to know the data.

Under some circumstances, Accell Clinical Research may be required to release personal information to law enforcement agencies or judicial authorities. Unless permitted or required by law, Accell Clinical Research will not trade or sell, nor release, share or transfer personal information of the individuals for use by any business outside Accell Clinical Research without making the individual aware of the intended data sharing and/or upon his/her explicit consent.

Business partners of Accell Clinical Research and third party suppliers selected by Accell Clinical Research are committed to protect the confidentiality of information shared with them by Accell Clinical Research.

Accell Clinical Research is an international company having its representatives and information databases in multiple countries. Doing international business, Accell Clinical Research has its partners and third party suppliers located in different countries around the world. This means that personal data collected and used by Accell Clinical Research may be transferred from the home country of the person concerned to other countries around the world.

Accell Clinical Research will strive for ensuring that cross-border data transfers are done with reliance upon the appropriate mechanisms of international data transmission, including the informed consent of the concerned individuals.

– With social media websites
This Website uses interfaces with social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and others. If you have an account with these social media sites, these sites may connect your visit to your personal information. If you choose to “like” or share your information through these services we recommend that you review their privacy policies.

Security measures to protect personal data

Accell Clinical Research employs reasonable organizational, physical, administrative and technical safeguards to protect personal information in its possession from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. For personal information subject to electronic storage or transmission, Accell Clinical Research maintains a secure network that is protected from computer virus infection and monitored for unauthorized access. Both electronic and paper-based records holding personal information are maintained in access controlled facilities.

In addition, we train our employees about the importance of confidentiality and maintaining the privacy and security of your information. This way, we strive for ensuring that all those who process and/or have access to personal data as part of their regular job functions are fully aware of their individual responsibilities and of Accell Clinical Research corporate objectives with respect to the protection of data privacy.

Third parties and linked parties’ websites

The Accell Clinical ResearchH Website may contain links to websites of entities that are not affiliated with the company. Such websites are not under control of Accell Clinical Research. This Statement does not cover third party websites. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of each linked website that you may choose to go onto.

Accell Clinical Research does not knowingly allow any third party to collect your personally identifiable information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you use the Accell Clinical Research Website.

Contact us about privacy

All your inquiries, complaints, as well as your requests for accessing information that we process about you, should be forwarded electronically for action or response to bd@accellclinical.com. Using reasonable efforts, Accell Clinical Research will promptly respond to any queries or complaints regarding the protection of personal data.

Changes to this Statement

Accell Clinical Research reserves the right to modify or amend this Statement. For instance, we may need to change this Statement as new privacy legislation is introduced or as existing regulations are amended. Changes to this Statement will be posted on the Accell Clinical Research Website. Please, check back periodically for updates to this Statement. Copies of this Statement may be printed from www.accellclinical.com.