Privacy Policy
Revised April 1, 2004
St. Jude Medical is committed to protecting the privacy of our Web site
visitors. This privacy statement describes how we protect, gather, and use
information from this St. Jude Medical Web site. We may change this privacy
statement at any time for any reason. We will post changes to the privacy
statement on this Web site.
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Personal Information
Personal information is information that identifies you individually, such as
your name, address, email address, company name, birth date, medical device
serial number, phone number, or other information that is specific to you. Some
pages on this Web site provide online contact forms that require personal
information.
Use of Personal Information
St. Jude Medical keeps and uses the personal information collected about you on
the contact form to respond to your questions and comments.
We collect, keep, and use the information to register and track patients who
have implanted St. Jude Medical devices. In the United States, no patient
consent or authorization is required to disclose information to medical device
manufacturers for tracking purposes, in accordance with the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Your
device is tracked in accordance with the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
Compliance by manufacturers is mandatory within the United States.
In addition, we may use this information to:
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Develop internal company reports, based on personal information, for promotion,
research, and Web site content
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Track Web site usage so we can improve site content and functionality
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Formulate personalized Web site access based on your site use and areas of
interest
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Contact you about our products or services or those of others that may be of
interest to you
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Learn about our customers and markets
Read our link
notice regarding links to other Web sites.
Non-Personal Information
Non-personal information is information that does not identify you individually.
Non-personal information is information we collect from your computer, such as
your Web browser, the date and time of your Web site visit, the Web address
from which you accessed our site, the number of visitors to the site, the pages
viewed, and the length of time on the Web site.
Use of Non-Personal Information
St. Jude Medical uses non-personal information to collect general information
about our site visitors. Non-personal information is used by St. Jude Medical
and is shared with third parties to:
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Improve our products, services, and Web site content
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Generate information about site visitors so we can make this Web site more
useful and valuable
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Personalize information and services for visitors that return to our site
Disclosure of Personal
Information
St. Jude Medical and our affiliates will not share personal information
collected through this Web site with unrelated third parties, except as
provided in this privacy policy.
St. Jude Medical and our affiliates may share personal information with
companies that we hire to perform services for us, such as mailing or data
processing, where they need your personal information to perform the service.
These companies are not authorized to keep or use your personal information for
any other purpose.
St. Jude Medical and our affiliates also may share your personal information to
comply with legal requirements, such as law, regulation, warrant, subpoena,
court order, or in a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, acquisition,
dissolution, or similar event.
Children's Privacy
St. Jude Medical does not intentionally collect personal information from
children under age 13. If you think that a child has provided us with personal
information, please email us. We will
use reasonable efforts to delete this information.
Links to Other Web Sites
St. Jude Medical operates multiple Web sites for different purposes in countries
where laws that differ from those in the United States may apply. This privacy
policy applies only to this Web site.
This privacy policy does not apply to Web sites of other companies or
organizations to which our Web site links. These links are provided for your
convenience. St. Jude Medical does not control these Web sites, nor are we
responsible for their operation or content. We suggest that you review the
privacy policy for each Web site you visit.
Cookies
Non-personal data on our Web site may be collected using a technology called
cookies. Cookies are small data files that are sent to your browser and placed
on your computer's hard drive when you visit a Web site. You can set your
browser to accept or decline cookies. Some sections of our Web site may not
work properly if you decline cookies.
Security
St. Jude Medical takes reasonable steps to protect personal information from
loss and misuse. Please keep in mind that no Internet transmission is 100%
secure. Some email sent to or from this site may not be secure. Please consider
this when sending information to us by email.
Contact St. Jude Medical
If you have any questions or comments about this privacy policy, please
email us.
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