PRIVACY POLICY
WHITESPACE duly acknowledges the importance of protecting personal information. Accordingly, WHITESPACE complies with the laws, regulations, and rules concerning personal information, and it endeavors to handle and manage personal information both properly and safely.
WHITESPACE acts in accordance with the following provisions concerning the handling of personal information.
1. Acquisition of Personal Information
WHITESPACE will acquire the personal information by lawful and fair means.
2. Use of Personal Information
WHITESPACE will use the personal information only for the purposes of use which WHITESPACE has already notified or publicly announced on this website. WHITESPACE will not use the personal information beyond the scope necessary to achieve these purposes of use, without the concerned person's consent.
In case that WHITESPACE shares the personal information with its overseas subsidiary companies, it will use the personal information in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.
In case that WHITESPACE jointly uses the personal information with a third party, it will notify the concerned person about the matters prescribed in laws and regulations, including the scope of use by the person jointly using the personal information, or will publicly announce these matters on this website, prior to jointly sharing the personal information with the third party.
3.Provision of Personal Information to a Third Party
(1)WHITESPACE will not provide the personal information to any third party, except in any of the following cases.
1. Cases in which the concerned person's prior consent is obtained;
2. Cases in which the personal information is disclosed in a manner that cannot identify the concerned person;
3. Cases in which disclosure of the personal information is required by laws and regulations or by a public entity, such as a court or the police; or
4. Cases in which disclosure of the personal information is otherwise acceptable under laws and regulations.
(2) Notwithstanding the foregoing, WHITESPACE will provide the following personal information of the Healthcare Professionals ("HCPs") to HCPs, its subsidiary companies and organizations, wholesalers and pharmaceutical companies, when it has business reasons to do so. In case that WHITESPACE receives a request from the concerned person, it will take reasonable action after confirmation of identity.
1. items to provide
name, email address, business office, business address, business telephone, specialty, title, graduation year, graduation college, year of practice, membership of academic society and/or medical society, sales result, etc.
2. way of provision
verbal, writing, electronic way, etc.
4.Control of Personal Information
WHITESPACE will maintain the personal data accurate and conduct security control of such personal data. Moreover, WHITESPACE will prevent loss, damage, falsification, leaks to outside the company, and unauthorized external access; as well, it will undertake strict security measures to manage the personal data safely.
5.Disclosure of Retained Personal Data, etc.
In case that any person who is subject to WHITESPACE's retained personal data requests to disclose, correct, discontinue the utilization of, or erase the retained personal data, WHITESPACE will appropriately respond to such request within the reasonable scope.
6.Internal Organization and Structure
WHITESPACE will appoint company-wide personal information managers. Moreover, WHITESPACE will supervise its employees handling the personal information and implement necessary and appropriate education and training for such employees to ensure the protection of the personal information.
7. Cookies
From time to time, we may, like many other commercial websites, use a standard technology called a “cookie”. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on a computer or other device and is used to identify the user or device and to collect information. Cookies are typically assigned to one of four categories, depending on their function and intended purpose: necessary cookies, performance cookies, functional cookies, and cookies for marketing purposes. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses, or capture your e-mail address. Currently, websites use cookies to enhance the user’s visit; in general, cookies can securely store a user’s ID and password, personalize home pages, and identify which parts of a site have been visited. It is possible to set your browser to inform you when a cookie is being placed. This way you have the opportunity to decide whether to accept the cookie. By showing how and when our visitors use this website, this information can help us to improve our site on a continual basis.
8. Social Media Plug-ins
This website uses social medial plugins (e.g., the Facebook “Like” button, “Share to Twitter” button) to enable you to easily share information with others. When you visit our website, the operator of the social plugin can place a cookie on your computer, enabling that operator to recognize individuals who have previously visited our site. If you are logged into the social media website (e.g., Facebook, Twitter) while browsing on our website, the social plugins allow that social media websites to share data about your activities on our website with other users of their social media website. For example, Facebook Social Plugins allows Facebook to show your Likes and comments on our pages to your Facebook friends. Facebook Social Plugins also allows you to see your friends’ Facebook activity on our website. WHITESPACE does not control any of the content from the social media plugins. For more information about social plugins from other social media websites you should refer to those sites’ privacy and data sharing statements.
Changes to Our Privacy notice
WHITESPACE may update privacy notice from time to time. We encourage you to check our site frequently to see the current privacy notice so that you may stay informed of how WHITESPACE is using and protecting your information. Whenever a change to this notice is significant, we will place a prominent notice on this site and provided an updated effective date.