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Privacy Statement & Terms and Conditions

Last Updated Sep 29th, 2021
 

General Statement

Amarin respects your right to privacy. The current Policy describes how Amarin, collects, uses, shares and secures the personal data you provided or is collected through our website.
 

Collection of Your Personal Data

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person that enables a third party to identify this person, directly or indirectly.
The provision of your personal data is optional and you can generally use our website without revealing any personal identifiable information about yourself. However, in certain areas of our website, we may offer you the opportunity to contact us or we may request information from you to verify that you are a healthcare provider. In these cases, we will collect your personal data.

We will collect your personal data:

  • when you contact us through the email addresses provided on our website, when you subscribe to our mailing list or when you use our career opportunities portal;
  • when we answer your requests and comments made through the above communication channels;
  • via cookies and trackers used on our website.
     

Use of Your Personal Data

We use your personal data to:

  • manage our relationships with you, e.g., to communicate with you in response to the requests and comments you communicate to us, to send you our alerts, news and financial information, etc.;
  • manage our external and financial communications;
  • manage the recruitment of our future employees;
  • comply with our legal obligations and cooperate with regulators and law enforcement authorities.

The bases upon which we process your personal data include the following:

  • Pursuance of our legitimate interests, for example, to provide you with information that enables us to better know you, to answer to your requests, etc. When we process personal information to meet our legitimate interests, we put in place robust safeguards to ensure that your privacy is protected;
  • Performance of any contract we execute with you; for instance, in our relationships with our investors;
  • Compliance with our legal obligations; for example, to respond to legally binding requests from regulators, law enforcement authorities or other government authorities;
  • Collection of your consent, when required.
     

Recipients of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data with third parties under the following circumstances:

  • Amarin group companies: the personal data we collect about you is intended for Amarin and its affiliated companies and their employees only;
  • Service providers: in some cases, your personal data may be disclosed to our service providers that perform business operations for us; for example, to send you our news. These companies are authorized to use your personal data only insofar as it is necessary for them to provide these services to us;
  • Law enforcement agency, court, regulator, government authority or other third party: we may share your personal data with these recipients when we are required to do so in order to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or otherwise to protect our rights or the rights of any third party. Where permitted by law or regulation and reasonably practicable, we will attempt to notify you when we are required to share your personal data under these circumstances;
  • Asset purchasers: we may share your personal data with any third party that purchases, or to which we transfer, all or substantially all of our assets and business. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to ensure that the entity to which we transfer your personal data uses it in a manner that is consistent with the current Policy. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of your personal data under these circumstances so that you are able to exercise your rights if you so wish (and within the framework of applicable legal requirements).
     

International Data Transfers

Because we operate as part of a global business, the potential recipients of your personal data referred to above may be located outside the country in which you are located. We may transfer your personal data to our entities and service providers located outside the European Economic Area, some of which may have laws on personal data protection that differ from those of the European Union. We will ensure that your personal data is adequately protected when transferred and that the level of protection afforded iscomparable to the GDPR .  We rely on appropriate safeguards in doing so, such as execution of the Standard Contractual Clauses of the European Commission.
 

Retention of Your Personal Data

We only store a minimum of your personal data for the period necessary and proportionate to the purpose of the processing detailed above and to enable us to:
•    Comply with record retention requirements under the law;
•    Defend or bring any existing or potential legal claims;
•    Deal with any requests, complaints or adverse events reports;
•    Maintain business records for analysis and/or audit purposes;
•    Manage our relationships with our investors.
 

Your Rights

You have the following rights regarding the processing of your personal data by Amarin:

•    Access to your personal data;
•    Rectification of your personal data;
•    Erasure of your personal data;
•    Restriction of processing;
•    Data portability;
•    Objection to the use of your personal data;
•    Withdrawal of your consent, if the processing required your consent for collection;
•    Provide instructions about the processing of your personal data after your death.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The relevant supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioners Office (ICO).  Contact information for the relevant office is as follows:

England Information Commissioners Office
Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or Tel: 01625 545 745 (national rate)
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Email: [email protected]

Scotland Information Commissioner's Office
Tel: 0131 244 9001
45 Melville Street
Edinburgh
EH3 7HL
Email: [email protected]

Wales Information Commissioner's Office
Tel: 029 2067 8400
2nd Floor Churchill House
Churchill Way
Cardiff
CF10 2HH
Email: [email protected]

Northern Ireland Information Commissioner's Office
Tel: 0303 123 1114 (local rate), or Tel: 028 9027 8757 (national rate)
3rd Floor, 14 Cromac Place
Belfast
BT7 2JB
Email: [email protected]

You can exercise these rights by contacting us at the following address:  [email protected].
 

Security of Your Personal Data

We implement technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risks posed in the normal course to the personal data we process. These measures are aimed at ensuring the on-going integrity and confidentiality of personal data. We evaluate these measures on a regular basis to ensure the security of the processing.
 

Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies 

A "cookie" is a small data file stored on your device (e.g., computer, smartphone, laptop, tablet, etc.) when you visit a website or access or use a mobile application that collects information, such as your settings and preferences. Cookies are typically classified as either "session" cookies or "persistent" cookies:

  •  "Session" cookies are temporary cookies that do not stay on your device after you leave our website or close your browser. The aggregate information collected permits us to analyze traffic patterns on our website. This can enable us over time to provide a better experience on our website by improving content or personalization and making our website easier to use.
  • "Persistent" cookies are permanent cookies that remain on your device after you visited the website and closed your browser. They are used to facilitate personalization and registration services. 

Most cookies that we use are necessary to provide the requested services on our website. Other cookies may not be strictly necessary but help us with respect to the above purposes. Some of the cookies used by our website are set by us and some are set by third parties. 

Certain cookies are required for operation of our website and do not require your consent.  For those cookies that are not strictly necessary, we collect your consent before placing them on your device. You will have the ability to withdraw your consent to the use of these cookies through our website and your browser settings: 

You can learn more about cookies by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org.  This site contains  useful information on cookies and information on how to block cookies using different types of browsers or mobile devices. Please note, however, that if you turn off cookies used by the website, there may be some features of our website that will not be available to you and some web pages may not display properly.

Regarding third-party cookies, please note that this website uses Google Analytics ("Google Analytics"), a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). In case you have provided your consent, Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how users use our website, including the number of visitors to our website, the websites our visitors have come from and the pages they visit. This information is used by us to improve our website offerings and services. As a rule, any information generated by the cookie about your use of our website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Since this website has implemented the IP-anonymization functionality offered by Google, your IP address will, before being transferred to the US, be shortened by Google within the Member States of the European Union or in other contractual states of the Treaty on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will your full IP address will be transferred to a Google server in the US and be shortened there. 

Google will use this information as our processor to help us evaluate the use of our website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other statistical and analytical services relating to usage of our website. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google.

You can withdraw your consent and prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) at any time as follows:

  • To opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, please download and install a browser-plugin which is available here.
  • For an overview of privacy at Google, please click here.
     

Contact Us

Should you have any questions regarding any privacy issues you may have, or you wish to access\amend\or erase any of your personal details, please email [email protected].
 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we change this Privacy Policy, you will be able to locate the latest version on our website.

UK-NP-00209  03/2023