SPRING GROVE LABORATORIES PRIVACY POLICY

At Spring Grove Laboratories ("Spring Grove"), we respect your privacy. We've structured our web site so that, in general, you can visit Spring Grove on the web to review and update your personal and medical information. Once you choose to provide us personal and medical information, you can be assured that such information will only be used in compliance with this privacy policy.

We respect the privacy rights of individuals
Spring Grove will comply with all applicable laws that exist regarding the privacy of personal information and will only disclose or use such information in compliance with this privacy policy. Spring Grove is not subject to the federal “HIPAA” privacy regulations, which you may have read about, or other formal patient confidentiality rules. Although we are not required by law to maintain the privacy of medical information we gather and use about our panelists, we, as a matter of policy, will use reasonable efforts to maintain the confidentiality of such medical information and disclose or use such information in compliance with this privacy policy. Spring Grove will, from time to time, review its personal and medical information collection, use, and disclosure practices in order to assure compliance with laws and regulations. We may change our privacy policy or terminate our privacy policy from time to time without prior notice to you. We reserve the right to use and disclose your personal and medical information in accordance with the revised privacy policy once the revised privacy policy goes into effect.

What personal information we collect
On some Spring Grove web pages, you can enter personal and medical information. The types of personal and medical information collected at these pages may include, but are not limited to, name, mailing address, email address, phone number and medical information that will assist us in determining if you may be a candidate to participate in one of our studies.

We do not collect any personal or medical information about you unless you provide it to us or it is generated as a result of your participation in one of our studies. If you email us or answer questions we have placed on this web site, you are voluntarily releasing that information to us. Please do not submit personal or medical information to us if you do not want us to have this information in our database.

How we use personal information
Spring Grove will use your information to communicate back to you and to update you on research programs that we will be conducting. We will also use and disclose your personal and medical information for the following purposes:

  1. For the internal or research purposes of Spring Grove or its affiliated entities.
  2. To communicate with your physician or other health care provider if you seek non-emergency medical treatment due to an adverse reaction.
  3. For payment or business operations of Spring Grove or its affiliated entities, such as quality assurance.
  4. To health care providers or others, as we think necessary, in the unlikely event of an emergency medical condition.
  5. To a public health agency, for purposes such as controlling disease.
  6. To health oversight authorities or for regulatory, licensing and other legal purposes, such as responding to subpoenas or court orders.
  7. To other Spring Grove affiliates and/or business partners, who are acting on our behalf, which may include transferring the personal information to other countries.

In the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, dissolution, reorganization or acquisition of involving Spring Grove, information Spring Grove has collected about you may be sold or otherwise transferred. However, this will only happen if the party acquiring the information agrees to be bound by the terms of the Spring Grove privacy policy.

Your choice
Spring Grove will provide you the opportunity to let us know if you do not wish to receive unsolicited materials from us. Please notify us in writing at the address listed below and we will make all reasonable efforts to honor such requests. In the event of such notification, we will maintain your personal and medical information on our database and are not responsible for removing your personal and medical information from the lists of any third party who has been provided your information in accordance with this privacy policy, such as an affiliate or business partner.

Security
Spring Grove will use reasonable efforts to keep any personal and medical information about you that we may create or receive confidential and such information will only be used in accordance with our privacy policy. We have put in place reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure your personal and medical information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Collection of Information from Children
Spring Grove has no intention of collecting personal information from children (i.e., individuals under the age of 13). Spring Grove will maintain procedures to assure that information about children is only collected with explicit consent and is protected against improper use, consistent with applicable law. If a child has provided us with personal information, we asks that a parent or guardian of the child contact Spring Grove at the address listed below to inform us of that fact. Spring Grove will use reasonable efforts to delete such information from its database.

Your Consent
By using this web site, you consent to our use of your personal and medical information as set forth in our privacy policy. Furthermore, you expressly agree that we are free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to us without compensation and for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products and services using such information.

Access to and Correction of Information
Spring Grove will maintain procedures consistent with applicable law for you to gain access to your collected personal and medical information and, when appropriate, correct any information that is inaccurate or incomplete. You may review copies of any adverse effects disclosures that were made about you to health care providers or other third parties, upon written request to the address listed below.

Comment and Questions
If you have comments or questions about our privacy policy or your personal and medical information or would like to review or correct your personal information, please contact us in writing at the address listed below.

United States of America
Our web site is maintained in the United States of America. By using the web site, you authorize the export of your personal information to the USA and its storage and use as specified in this policy.

Changes to Privacy Policy
Spring Grove may change our privacy policy or terminate our privacy policy from time to time without prior notice to you. We reserve the right to use and disclose your personal and medical information in accordance with the revised privacy policy once the revised privacy policy goes into effect. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post the new privacy policy on this page, so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it. In addition, you may also obtain a copy of the current privacy policy at any time upon written notice to the address listed below.

Effective Date
This privacy policy is effective and was last updated on May 8, 2007.

If you have any questions or comments about this privacy policy, please contact:

Spring Grove Laboratories
375 Thomas More Pkwy. Suite 112
Crestview Hills, KY 41017
Attn.: Disclosure Dept.