Welcome

Welcome to Ethicon Endo-Surgery Websites which include www.ethiconendosurgery.com. These sites are owned by Ethicon Endo-Surgery (Europe) GmbH Legal Notice / Company Details. This Privacy Policy applies only to this Website and is designed to tell you about our practices regarding collection, use, and disclosure of information that you may provide via this site. In as far as our website includes links to other pages or providers or content providers, these will be designated as such in the text. Please take note of the separate data protection information on the linked websites concerning the collection, processing and utilization of personal data. Please be sure to read this entire Privacy Policy before using or submitting information to this site. This site is intended for use by residents of Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Any personal data collected during your visit is processed in accordance with the provisions of German data privacy law. Personal data means information about your identity such as name, address, email, telephone, date of birth. This data is only stored if it was sent to us actively by you. We enable a visit to our website without the collection of any personal data in as far as this is possible.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on March 14, 2011. Please note that Ethicon Endo-Surgery update this privacy policy from time to time. Please check back periodically and especially before you provide any personally identifiable information.

Information You Provide, Purposes of Data Processing

The disclosure of personal data is voluntary. Some areas of these sites may ask you to submit personally identifiable information in order for you to benefit from the specified features (such as site registration, to receive information about EES products and educational opportunities, to facilitate communication with you regarding product complaints, for events or alerts or to participate in interest communities, chat rooms, blogs, message boards, bulletin boards, news groups or other interactive areas, or to request product samples) or to participate in a particular activity (such as Marketing, Market Research). You will be informed at the appropriate place what information is required, what information is optional and whether your consent is necessary. It is entirely up to you whether or not you provide us with this data. However, without the data in question we will in such cases be unable to provide you with the service you have requested.

Furthermore Ethicon Endo-Surgery processes your personal data just

1. to answer your queries,
2. to send information per E-Mail (only if you have explicitly signed in)
3. for promotion and market research carried out directly by us or commissioned by us for our services, and
4. to provide the services you have requested.

We do not store any information longer than necessary without your consent, We only utilize as much information as is necessary  and will not disclose your personal data to third parties except to our service providers which are also obliged by contract to German data privacy law.

Please note that we can use such data about you that cannot be gained solely via the Internet or email for advertising, market research and opinion survey purposes either directly by us or via our partner companies. You have the right to refuse such utilization of your data.  Please notify us of this in writing or send us an email to media-info@its.jnj.com. We will include your address in an advertising ban file on receipt of your refusal. In this way we are able to prevent unwanted information being sent to you even if we use addresses from publically accessible sources.  To a certain extent, you can also refuse to permit your data being used for advertising, market research and opinion survey purposes.

Passive Information Collection

Data is saved automatically when a web site is used and indirect reference to your person cannot be ruled out. This data is also generated when any other website of another provider is accessed. It includes, for example, information on the web browser used, the pages visited and the visit duration. Insofar as it might be possible to establish an indirect reference to a person, we delete this information a short time later and at the end of the year in question at the latest. The data is also used in an anonymized form in order to improve the web site further in the interests of its users and to ensure its security and stability. We do not require any further data from you if you visit our web site unless you wish to use any particular services we offer. This means you can navigate through our web site almost completely anonymously in the sense this term is defined by data protection law.

In certain cases we may supplement the data provided by you with data from other sources. Additional data of this kind helps us to evaluate and improve the content of our website and our services. It also shows us the preferences of our users so that we can tailor our website and services to your specific needs.

Passing on data that has been made anonymous can take place at any time without any prior notification.

About Children

If you are under age only use this website with the consent of a parent or legal guardian. We set great store by the protection of personal data of children. For this reason we deliberately do not collect any data of minors unless a parent or legal guardian has given their consent. If we see that a minor has provided personal data himself/herself without the consent set out above or that personal data on a minor has been provided, we will delete such data.

Access, Correction and Deletion

To keep personally identifiable information that you provide via these sites accurate, current, and complete, please contact us as specified below and we will take appropriate steps to update or correct such information in our possession, to delete your information from our contact list or unsubscribe your existing user profile.

Security

These sites take reasonable steps to protect personally identifiable information as you transmit it to our site and to protect such information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. You should keep in mind that no Internet transmission is ever completely secure or error-free. If you send us personal data electronically by entering it in our website, your data will be transferred to our computer for storage via the Internet in an encrypted form by means of a secure connection (SSL) that is state of the art. In particular, e-mail sent to or from this site may not be secure and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail. Moreover, where you use passwords, ID numbers or other special access features on this site, it is your responsibility to safeguard them.

Other Terms

Your use of this site is subject to our Legal Notice.

How to Contact Us

If you have

• any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the information practices of this site
• or wish to know , which information about you we have stored,

please contact us as follows:

Ethicon Endo-Surgery (Europe) GmbH
Data Privacy
Hummelsbuetteler Steindamm 71
22851 Norderstedt
Germany

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Changes to this Privacy Policy

If this Privacy Policy changes, the revised policy will be posted on this site. Please check back periodically and especially before you provide any personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy was last updated on March 14, 2011.