Privacy Policy
Effective Date: August 30, 2021
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Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (“Acadia”, “we”, or “us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy, and we value your trust that we will protect your information. This Privacy Policy describes how we use, disclose, share, protect or otherwise process your Personal Information (as defined below). This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and made a part of our Terms of Use.
This Privacy Policy applies to the Personal Information we obtain through your use of our websites, mobile applications and any other website that links to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Site”); your interaction with us offline (e.g. at a convention or event); or other interactions you have with us.
This Privacy Policy contains information about your privacy rights and how you can exercise them. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy and click on the available links below if you want additional information on a particular topic. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand how we may process your Personal Information. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site or otherwise provide any Personal Information to us.
- How do we obtain your Personal Information?
- What are the legal bases for collecting and processing your Personal Information?
- How do we use your Personal Information?
- How will we share your Personal Information?
- How can you request access, amendment, or deletion of your Personal Information?
- Your Marketing Choices
- Additional Technical Information Security
- Retention of Personal Information
- Children’s Privacy
- International Transfer of Personal Information
- Third Party Website and Services
- Additional Information for Individuals in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom
- Additional Information for California ResidentsChanges to Privacy PolicyContact Us
1. What type of Personal Information do we collect?
“Personal Information” refers to any information that relates to you directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier, location, or factors specific to physical, physiological, genetic, economic, cultural or social identity. We may collect and process the following Personal Information about you:
- Contact information, such as your name, email address, phone number, address, company affiliation, or job title;
- Access information, such as your log-in username and password details;
- Online and technical identifiers, such as your IP (Internet Protocol) address and cookies;
- Professional credentials, such as curriculum vitae/resume, work history, qualifications or any other type of information that may be included on a resume or curriculum vitae;
- Demographic and medical information;
- Communication and correspondence information, such as the content of communications you send us to report a problem or to submit a query, or your response to a survey for market research purposes;
- Financial and government identifying numbers, such as social security numbers;
- Any other information that you provide to us that can be used to identify you.
2. How do we obtain your Personal Information?
We collect Personal Information from a number of sources, including:
- Directly from you, such as when you enquire about our products and services, contact us via the Site, apply for employment, ask to be a research study participant or a principal investigator in one of our trials, or in any way engage with us or our personnel;
- Cookies and automated technologies, such as when you interact with our website, mobile applications or click on links in our emails;
- Through the use of social media platforms, such that if you link to social media platforms or use social media plug-ins, we may (depending on your user privacy settings on that social media platform) automatically receive information about you from that social media platform;
- Third party vendors, which may include those vendors, suppliers, contractors or business partners that provide services for us (e.g. market research vendors);
- Adverse event reporting reporters or subjects;
- Consumers and customers;
- Government officials; and
- Publicly available sources.
3. What are the legal bases for collecting and processing your Personal Information?
In certain jurisdictions, we are required to have a legal basis in order to process your Personal Information. The legal basis that applies will depend on your relationship to us and the nature of our processing activity:
We may collect and use your Personal Information with your consent for the specific purpose identified in a notice given to you at the point of data collection.
We may process your Personal Information or in order to manage or fulfill our contractual relationships. For example, in some circumstances, processing of your Personal Information is necessary to fulfil our or your (at your request) obligation in a commercial, employment or service contract.
We may need to collect and process your Personal Information to comply with our legal obligations and/or fulfill our legitimate interests.
We are committed to collecting and processing your Personal Information in a lawful and transparent manner. For further details on the legal bases Acadia assigns for particular data collection and use, please reference the below table.
| Use of your Personal Information | Categories of Personal Information We Process | Source of the Personal Information | Legal Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use of your Personal Information | Categories of Personal Information We Process | Source of the Personal Information | Legal Basis |
| Sharing for the provision of products or services | Contact information | You | Contract: To allow for the secure transfer and processing of personal data |
| Reviewing requests to participate in research studies and screening eligibility for enrollment | Contact information, research study participant qualification information, and other information relevant to your eligibility and qualifications to participate in research studies sponsored or conducted by Acadia | You and your health care provider | Legitimate interest: To ensure research subjects are eligible and appropriate for the studies we sponsor or conduct |
4. How do we use your Personal Information?
Subject to applicable privacy laws, the Personal Information we collect from you may be used for the following business purposes:
- to perform or enter into a contract;
- to comply with applicable laws, regulations, codes, court order or other legal obligations (e.g., pharmacovigilance obligations, financial disclosure requirements);
- to send communications (including documents and electronic messages or alerts) regarding our products and services and related materials;
- to respond to and fulfill inquiries and requests;
- to provide our products or services offered through the Site;
- to perform website analytics and understand usage trends to personalize your access to the Site;
- to recruit study participants;
- to conduct research and development activities for our products and services;
- to conduct market research relating to our products and services;
- to provide patients assistance;
- fraud and security monitoring;
- to enforce these privacy principles and to protect our rights or property; or
- for any other administration of legal and/or business processes that are in Acadia’s legitimate interest unless such use is prejudicial to your rights or your liberties.
We may also aggregate or de-identify your Personal Information so that it can no longer be used to identify you. This aggregated or de-identified information may be used for any purpose permitted by law and is no longer subject to this Privacy Policy.
5. How will we share your Personal Information?
6. How can you request access, amendment, or deletion of your Personal Information?
7. Your Marketing Choices
9. Security
10. Retention of Personal Information
11. Children’s Privacy
12. International Transfer of Personal Information
13. Third Party Websites and Services
14. Additional Information for Individuals in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom
15. Additional Information for California Residents
If you are a California resident, you can learn more about the Personal Information we collect from or about you through both your online and offline interactions with our products or services in the Supplemental Notice for California Consumers below:
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Privacy Policy | |
|---|---|
| Why? | The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) gives California residents the right to know what personal information Acadia Pharmaceuticals collects about them, including whether it is being sold or disclosed to third parties. The CCPA also grants certain rights to California residents, including the right to delete their personal information (subject to certain exceptions) and the right to prevent Acadia Pharmaceuticals from selling their personal information. Companies are prohibited from retaliating or discriminating against consumers for exercising their rights under the CCPA. All companies need to collect and share consumers’ personal information for everyday business purposes, marketing, and maintenance of the safety, security, and integrity of their websites and other assets, among other reasons. This Supplemental Notice provides the information required under the CCPA and applies to both Acadia Pharmaceuticals’ online and offline activities. For more information about how we collect, use, and share information through our websites and online services, please review our Privacy Policy. |
| What? | The types of personal information we collect and disclose depends on your relationship and interaction with Acadia Pharmaceuticals. Please review the Consumer Type below that applies to your relationship or interaction with Acadia Pharmaceuticals to learn about the categories of personal information we have collected about you in the preceding 12 months, along with the categories of sources from which the personal information was collected, the purpose for collecting the personal information, and the categories of third parties with whom we share the personal information. If you interact with Acadia Pharmaceuticals in more than one way, please review each Consumer Type below that applies to you in order to learn about the personal information we collect and how we use and share it in connection with each particular relationship. In addition to the purposes for collecting and sharing personal information described under each Consumer Type below, Acadia Pharmaceuticals collects and discloses any and all personal information (regardless of your relationship or interaction with us) as necessary or appropriate to: comply with laws and regulations; monitor, investigate potential breaches of, and enforce compliance with Acadia Pharmaceuticals policies and procedures and legal and regulatory requirements; comply with civil, criminal, judicial, or regulatory inquiries, investigations, subpoenas, or summons; and exercise or defend the legal rights of Acadia Pharmaceuticals and its employees, affiliates, customers, contractors, and agents. |
| Disclosure About Direct Marketing | California’s “Shine The Light” law permits California residents to annually request and obtain information free of charge about what personal information is disclosed to other entities for their own direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. Acadia Pharmaceuticals does not distribute your personal information to other entities for their own direct marketing purposes, except as provided for in our Privacy Policy. |
| Personal Information | In this Supplemental Notice, “personal information” (or “PI”) means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with you or your household, whether directly or indirectly. In the charts below, we use the following categories of personal information to describe the personal information we collect, use, and share about consumers: Identifiers: Identifiers, such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol (IP) address, phone number, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers. Biometric Information: Biometric information, including an individual’s physiological, biological, or behavioral characteristics (including DNA) to the extent it can be used to establish individual identity. Biometric information consists of, but is not limited to, imagery of the iris, retina, fingerprint, face, hand, palm, vein patterns, and voice recordings, from which an identifier template (such as a faceprint, a minutiae template, or a voiceprint) can be extracted, and keystroke patterns or rhythms, gait patterns or rhythms, and sleep, health, or exercise data that contain identifying information. Commercial Information: Commercial information, including records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. Education Information: An individual’s education information, including academic information and records. Electronic and Sensory Data: Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information (e.g., a recording of a customer service call or profile photograph). Geolocation Data Inferences: An individual’s precise geolocation data. Inferences drawn from any of the information listed above to create a profile about an individual reflecting the individual’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, preferences, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. (e.g., predications about an individual?s preferences or tendencies). |
Website Visitors
| Categories of PI Collected | Sources of PI | Purposes for Collecting or Sharing PI | Third Parties to Whom We Disclose PI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identifiers Geolocation Data Network Activity Data Professional Information Protected Characteristics Other Identifiable Information | Directly from you From your device | To deliver information, content, products or services that you request. To provide marketing communications about our products and services, or those of third-parties, that may be of interest to you. To understand how you use our products, services, and sites in order to improve and further develop our products and services and the content, features, performance, and support available through our sites. To detect, prevent, and respond to fraud, intellectual property infringement, violations of our Terms of Use, violations of law, or other misuse of our sites. To protect our rights or the rights, property, and safety of others. | Service providers Public authorities |
Patients
| Categories of PI Collected | Sources of PI | Purposes for Collecting or Sharing PI | Third Parties to Whom We Disclose PI |
|---|---|---|---|
Health Care Professionals (HCPs) and Caregivers
| Categories of PI Collected | Sources of PI | Purposes for Collecting or Sharing PI | Third Parties to Whom We Disclose PI |
|---|---|---|---|
16. Changes to this Privacy Policy
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17. Contact Us
We welcome your questions and comments about this Privacy Policy or how we process your Personal Information. Please contact us using the information below and we will respond to you as soon as reasonably possible.
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc.
12830 El Camino Real, Suite 400
San Diego, CA 92130
Email: privacy@acadia-pharm.com
For Individuals Located in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom:
If you have a question about your Personal Information or would like to exercise your data protection rights, please click here to submit your request through our web portal or contact our European Data Protection Officer:
Name: Data Compliant Limited, Attention: Michelle Evans
Address: 25-26 Nethergate Street, Clare, Suffolk, CO10 8NP, United Kingdom
Phone: 01787 277742
Email: acadiadpo@datacompliant.co.uk