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Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (“Acorda ” or “we”) owns and operates the website
located at www.acorda.com (the “Site”). Acorda wants you to feel comfortable
using the Site, so we have created this Privacy Policy to let you know what
information we may collect from you on the Site and how we may use that
information. Please take a moment to review the terms of our Privacy Policy. By
using the Site, you agree to accept the terms of our Privacy Policy. If you do
not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site. This
Privacy Policy applies only to information collected on the Site. It does not
apply to information that we may collect by means other than on the Site.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Collection and Use
You are not required to provide any personal information in order to access
the Site and the information available on the Site. However, in order to take
advantage of certain features offered on the Site, you will need to provide
personal information such as your name, e-mail address, mailing address and
phone number. For example, we will collect certain personal information if you
choose to join our email list or send questions or comments to us via e-mail, or
if you would like to receive an information kit about Acorda. If you have
subscribed to our electronic mailing list and wish at any point to stop
receiving it, simply follow the opt-out instructions that are included in each
email.
If you provide us with personal information, we will retain and use that
information for the purpose for which it was submitted, such as e-mailing press
releases and company announcements to you or responding to a question that you
submit to us. If you provide a resume to us through the Site, we may retain your
resume in our files in order to contact you for current or future job openings.
We may also use personal information to customize the services we provide to you
and to ensure compliance with Acorda policies and applicable law.
Disclosure of Personal Information
Except for the limited situations discussed in this Privacy Policy, we will
not share your personal information with any third parties. We may sometimes use
other businesses to perform certain services for us, such as sending postal mail
and providing data analysis. We may provide personal information to those
businesses when that information is necessary for them to respond to your
requests or otherwise perform their duties.
As Acorda develops, we may buy other businesses or their assets or sell our
business assets. Customer information is generally one of the business assets
involved in such transactions. Thus, in the event that Acorda or all of its
assets are acquired, customer information, including any visitor information
collected through the Site, would be one of the transferred assets.
Finally, Acorda reserves the right to disclose visitor information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Acorda’s rights or property, other visitors, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Acorda also reserves the right to disclose visitor information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.
AGGREGATE INFORMATION
From time to time, we may collect general, non-personal, statistical information about the use of the Site, such as how many visitors visit a specific page on the Site, how long they stay on that page, and which hyperlinks, if any, they “click” on. We collect this information through the use of technologies such as “cookies” and “IP addresses”, which are discussed in greater detail below. We collect this information in order to determine which areas of the Site are most popular and to enhance the Site for visitors. We may also group this information into aggregate visitor data in order to describe the use of the Site to our existing or potential business partners or other third parties, or in response to a government request. However, please be assured that this aggregate data will in no way personally identify you or any other visitors to the Site.
IP Addresses
An IP address is a number that’s automatically assigned to your computer whenever you’re surfing the web. Web servers, the big computers that “serve up” webpages, automatically identify your computer by its IP address. Acorda collects IP addresses for purposes of system administration, to report aggregate information to third parties and to track the use of the Site. When visitors request pages from the Site, our servers log the visitors’ IP addresses. It is not our practice to link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that a visitor’s session will be logged, but the visitor remains anonymous to us. However, we reserve the right to use IP addresses to identify a visitor only when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with the Site’s policies or to protect Acorda, the Site, its visitors, or others.
Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual’s
hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make web-surfing easier for you
by saving your preferences while you’re at the Site. The use of cookies is an
industry standard -- you’ll find them at most websites. By showing how and when
visitors use the Site, cookies help us see which areas are popular and which are
not. Information such as the total number of visitors and pages viewed is most
easily tracked with cookies. We may use the information from cookies to make
improvements and updates to the Site and to tailor our services to our visitors’
needs. For example, the Site allows visitors to increase the font size of the
text contained on the Site to make it easier to read. Cookies enable the Site to
automatically use your preferred font size the next time you visit the Site.
You always have the option of disabling cookies using your browser preferences. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, please be aware that some features of the Site may not function properly or may be slower if you refuse cookies.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Please be aware that when you are on the Site, you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There may be links to other sites from the Site’s pages that take you outside our Site. These other sites may send their own cookies to visitors, collect data or solicit personal information. The privacy policies of these other sites may be significantly different from this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites and cannot guarantee the security of any of your personal information collected there.
SECURITY
Protecting the security of your personal information is very important to us. When you transmit personal information from your PC to our servers, your information is protected by both a “firewall” (a combination of computer hardware and software that helps keep unauthorized visitors from accessing information within our computer network) and industry standard SSL (secure socket layer) encryption. Once we receive your transmission, we will take reasonable precautions to ensure its security on our systems. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while Acorda strives to protect your personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and cannot be responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your personal information.
PRIVACY POLICY FOR CHILDREN
We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13 on the Site. If you are under the age of 13, please do not provide any personal information to us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database.
CHANGES TO THESE TERMS
The terms of this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will
notify you of any material changes to this Privacy Policy by posting a notice,
on the homepage of the Site for a reasonable period of time after such changes
are made, that this Privacy Policy has been updated, and by changing the “Last
Modified” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to check this
page periodically for any changes. Your continued use of the Site following the
posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
QUESTIONS
Any questions that you may have regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed to info@acorda.com.
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