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Welcome to the Allevia website (www.allevia.com), which is owned by Allevia AG (the Site).

The use of this Site is subject to the ALLEVIA Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions of Website Use which you can print or download from the Site.

At ALLEVIA we respect and are committed to protecting the privacy of the visitors of the Site, our customers and our employees and we secure and safeguard the information we collect through the website and information you choose to share with ALLEVIA.

ALLEVIA makes all reasonable efforts to protect your personal information and other information and data that you provide on-line or otherwise. We will take all reasonable measures and effort to protect your information both on-line, during data storage and use and off-line. We will take all reasonable steps and efforts to ensure that data we retain in our databases are reliable for their intended purposes and that the data are accurate and complete.

ALLEVIA is a global company with offices throughout the world. We may transfer data and Your Personal Information to our other offices which may be outside your country of domicile or business. We make every reasonable effort that your information is protected while transferred.

Your Personal Information
You can navigate most of the Site without giving us any personal information. Sometimes, in order to provide you with specific information or services, we will need personal information from you. Through this Site we may collect information that can identify you as a natural person, for example your name, address, telephone number, email address or other similar information (Your Personal Information) that you submit voluntarily to us through the site or email addresses provided by the site for contacting us at ALLEVIA.

The ALLEVIA website may use your Internet Protocol (IP) address so you can access the internet. This IP address is a number assigned by your Internet Service Provider to your computer and this number changes every time you connect to the internet (dynamic IP address). If you use a broadband connection, however, you may have a fixed IP address which could be interpreted as Your Personal Information. We may use both the dynamic and the fixed IP address for the purpose of aggregating and analyzing information relating to the usage of our website so we can improve our Site and our services to our customers and not for gathering personal information about you.

We will use Your Personal Information to respond to your specific requests for information or services or to submission of applications for positions or to information and suggestions that you volunteered to ALLEVIA.

The ALLEVIA Privacy Policy adheres to the safe harbor principles outlined in the July 2000 Agreement between the United States Department of Commerce and the European Union which outlines the data privacy principles relating to transfer of Personal Information between the United States of America and member states of the European Economic Area (Safe Harbor Program: http://www.export.gov/safeharbor).

How we use Your Personal Information
We collect and store Your Personal Information for the following purposes only:

Employment and employee recruiting actions and obligations.
ALLEVIA human resource programs.
ALLEVIA employee training programs.
ALLEVIA employee performance management.
Site and employee security and occupational health and safety.
Maintenance of business information such as for example financial, accounting, auditing, and economic data and analyses.
Collection, maintenance and auditing of quality assurance programs.
Maintenance of contractor information relating to past, present and potential projects and contracts.
Collection and maintenance of customer information.
Provision of goods and services to our customers, contractors and employees.
Improving ALLEVIA’s goods and services.
To implement and improve communication with customers, contractors and study personnel as requested.
Compliance with legal obligations.
Monitoring and improving the ALLEVIA website.

The Site contains for example a page on how to apply for positions and how to contact ALLEVIA. You will need to expect that the information provided by you in response to these pages will be shared with the appropriate ALLEVIA employees and agents such as Human Resources agents involved in the recruiting process.

We at ALLEVIA collect Your Personal Information when you register with ALLEVIA for a login and password or when you ask to be included in an email or mailing list. We will inform you at that point that Your Personal Information is collected and for what purpose.

The information you provide about yourself will be shared on a need-to-know basis with ALLEVIA employees to accommodate your requests or to conduct business with you.

We at ALLEVIA will not disclose Your Personal Information or other information to third parties and we will inform you of the purposes for which we collect and use Your Personal Information so you can contact ALLEVIA with any complaints and inquiries relating to the use of Your Personal Information.

We will take reasonable steps to give you reasonable access to Your Private Information for completing, correcting, amending or deleting such information.

We may make use of all information acquired through this Site that is not in personally identifiable form for purposes of improving our products and services and our website.

Transfer of Your Personal Information to Third Parties
When ALLEVIA is transferring information to a third party such as an agent or contractor, we will before doing so ascertain that such third party is safeguarding Your Personal Information and any other information consistent with this ALLEVIA Privacy Policy, the Safe Harbor Certification and other relevant legislation. ALLEVIA may require the third party to sign an agreement to provide privacy protection at the same level as required by this ALLEVIA Privacy Policy.

We will not transfer Your Personal Information to third parties without your consent except under certain limited conditions:

To correct technical problems and malfunctions and to technically process your information.
To protect the security and integrity of our website.
To protect our rights and property and the rights and properties of others.
To take precautions against liability.
To the extent required by law or to respond to judicial process.
To the extent permitted under other provisions of law, to provide information to law enforcement agencies or for an investigation on a matter related to public safety, as applicable.

In the event of a business transition or transaction such as a merger with or acquisition by another company or a sale or transfer of all or part of ALLEVIA’s assets to another company you will be notified via a notice on the ALLEVIA website prior to the change of ownership or control of Your Personal Information so you can choose if you want to update, change or delete Your Personal Information.

Access to password protected secure areas
Access to and use of password protected areas of this Site is limited to authorized users. If you are not authorized and attempt to access a password protected or secure website area you may be prosecuted.

Confidentiality of unsolicited confidential information via this Site
ALLEVIA does not want to receive confidential information or proprietary or commercially sensitive information from you through his website. Any unsolicited material that you send will be deemed NOT CONFIDENTIAL by ALLEVIA. By sending any unsolicited material or information you grant ALLEVIA unrestricted irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, transmit and distribute this material and information and you agree that ALLEVIA is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques that you send to ALLEVIA via this website for any purpose. We will not release your name or the fact that you provided the information or material to ALLEVIA without your prior permission, or ALLEVIA notifies you that the information or materials will be used or published with your name mentioned, or ALLEVIA is required to do so by law.

Cookies
This Site may use ‘cookies’ to provide additional functionality to our Site and help us analyse Site usage so we can improve our Site and our services. A ‘cookie’ is a piece of information that the ALLEVIA web server sends to your computer when you access our Site. This enables our Site to identify you if you return to our Site. The usage of cookies is not linked to any personally identifiable information while you are on our Site.

Information storage
Your information is stored on our server log files in a secure location indefinitely, for data backup, historical and potential auditing purposes. The information is accessible only by specified and authorized ALLEVIA employees or external hosts of servers contracted by ALLEVIA for particular and specific purposes. Access to these servers is controlled by unique ID and password combinations and access role privileges on a need-to-know basis.

Children’s Privacy
The ALLEVIA website content and services are intended for use by adults. We do not intend to provide website content and services to under age child users and we do not collect any information from our Site of users we know are under the age of 13 years. Any information provided to us by children less than 13 years of age will be deleted from all our databases as soon as we become aware of the existence of such information.

Links to other websites
ALLEVIA is not responsible for the contents or privacy policies of other websites that you may access through a link from our Site. By providing a link to other sites ALLEVIA does not indicate or imply endorsement of the services, information or products offered through the linked sites. We encourage you to carefully read the Privacy Policy document of every website you visit and ensure your information handling system and your computer is protected by up-to-date virus protection procedures and software.

Training
ALLEVIA has put in place managerial, physical and electronic standard operating procedures (SOPs) to protect and secure information collected on-line and off-line and to prevent unauthorized access and use. All ALLEVIA employees and contractors are trained in the methods we at ALLEVIA use to maintain the privacy of all Your Personal Information and of other proprietary, commercially sensitive and confidential information so that loss, misuse, unauthorized disclosure, destruction or alteration of information is prevented.

Information change notification
To be removed from ALLEVIA’s contact lists and databases please write to ALLEVIA at the following address:

Upon receiving your request to delete Your Personal Information we will delete all Your Personal Information stored in any of our active databases that are used to conduct our day-to-day business activities.

Please be aware that you may continue to receive Allevia materials for a while until our lists and databases have been updated.

It is not technically possible to remove each and every record of Your Private Information from historical databases that have been archived such as from backups or non-erasable forms of stored data files.

Terms and conditions of website use
By using this Site you agree to the terms and conditions of use.

By using this website you acknowledge that you have the skills and means required to access and use this Site, you have checked that the computer configuration used is virus free and in perfect working condition and you have read this Allevia Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions of Website Use.

All elements of this website including content and design are copyrighted materials of Allevia AG or its subsidiaries and affiliates. By using this Site you agree that all documents, logos, proprietary trademarks and media contained on the website are the intellectual property of Allevia AG. Unauthorized use of these materials and media is subject to the relevant international copyright and other laws that apply.

You may print or copy materials and media from the Site for non-commercial use within your organization. Copies of these materials and media must retain the copyright and other proprietary notices in the same form as the originals. Other uses of the materials and media are not authorized and no license or rights owned by Allevia may be implied

We have prepared this Site and the information contained therein solely for the purpose of providing information about Allevia and its products and services.

Allevia makes no representations about the accuracy and completeness of content and suitability of the information in the website for any purpose. Although we endeavor to keep the website up-to-date we provide the information and content ‘AS IS’, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, WHETHER CONTRACTUAL OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OR OTHERWISE.
Allevia assumes no liability for the use or interpretation of the information contained in this Site by you. Any decisions you make on the basis of the information contained in the Site will be your responsibility.
Allevia is not liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages arising from your visit of our Site or use or inability to use the material contained in the Site, even if Allevia is proven negligent.

IN NO EVENT WILL ALLEVIA BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES FOR OR ARISING FROM ANY USE OF, OR ACCESS TO, THIS WEBSITE OR ANY OTHER HYPERLINKED WEBSITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY LOST PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF PROGRAMS OR OTHER DATA ON YOUR INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ALLEVIA IS EXPRESSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE.

Update of the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions of Website Use
Allevia may update the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions of Website Use from time to time and make the updated policies available on its Site