Last updated: May 12, 2010.
Harlan Laboratories, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively,
“Harlan”) know that you care how information about you is used and
shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully
and sensibly. Harlan strives to collect, use and disclose personal
information in a manner consistent with the laws of the countries
in which it does business. Harlan has committed to handling
personal information in accordance with the Safe Harbor Principles
and 15 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that make up the Safe
Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce at
http://export.gov/safeharbor.
Harlan’s Safe Harbor certification can be found at
http://web.ita.dic.gov/safeharbor/shlist.nsf/webPages/safe+harbor+list.
For more information about the Safe Harbor Principles, please visit
the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Website at
http://export.gov/safeharbor.
This document describes our Privacy Policy with respect to
information that we collect on our website, other information that
we enter and store on our systems, and the principles that we
follow with respect to personal information transferred among the
Harlan affiliates throughout the world. By using the Harlan
web sites and providing personal information in any other way to
Harlan, you hereby consent to: (a) Harlan’s collection and use of
personal information as described in this Privacy Policy to the
extent you have opted in to any such collection and/or use through
the methods described in this Privacy Policy; (b) the notice,
choice, access and security Harlan is providing; (c) the methods
Harlan has described to notify you of changes to this Privacy
Policy; and (d) the transfer of personal information provided
across borders, outside of your country of residence to other
countries.
Information about our Organization and
this Web Site
Harlan is based in the United States of America with worldwide
subsidiaries. With our affiliates, we are engaged in commercial
physical and biological research, life sciences, custom antibody
production services and laboratory animal diets and bedding.
This Privacy Policy covers Harlan, its affiliates and related Web
sites and systems. Harlan’s headquarters are located at the
following address:
Organization Name: | Harlan Laboratories, Inc. |
Address: | 8520 Allison Pointe Blvd.,
Suite 400 |
City, State, Zip, Country: | Indianapolis, Indiana 46520 USA |
Controller: | Manager, eMarketing |
Phone number: | 317-806-6080 |
Scope
This Privacy Policy applies to all personal information received
by Harlan in any format including electronically (e.g., at
this site), paper (e.g., a fax or letter), and verbally
(e.g., over the phone or in person).
Definitions
“Agent” means a third party that collects or uses personal
information under our instruction or on our behalf.
“Personal information” means information that identifies or is used
by or on behalf of Harlan to identify an individual. Personal
information does not include information that is anonymized or
publicly available (provided it has not been combined with
non-public personal information).
“Sensitive personal information” means personal information that
reveals race, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, political
opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union
membership, or that concerns an individual’s health or medical
condition.
What Information Do We Collect In Our Systems And How Do We Use
It?
The information we gather in our systems falls into two
categories: (1) personal information you supply, and (2) tracking
information collected as you navigate through web site.
Personally Identifiable Information
We will collect personally identifiable information whenever you
do the following:
1. Purchase our products. When you purchase
products from us, we will collect personally identifiable
information about you such as your name, mailing address, e-mail
address, telephone number, and credit card number. We use this
information to process and communicate with you about your order.
When you purchase a product, you may also choose whether you want
us to send your information about our products, services, special
promotions or incentives.
2. Create an account. You have the option to
create an account with us on our web sites. When you create an
account, we collect personally identifiable information such as
your name, address, telephone number and email address. We use this
information to manage your account and customize and enhance your
online shopping experience. You may choose not to create an account
or not to provide us with certain information, but then you might
not be able to take advantage of several of the features on our
site.
If we wish to use your personal data for new purposes, we will
offer you the means to consent to those new purposes by: 1)
indicating at the point on the site where personal data is
collected; 2) contacting you by e-mail, phone or mail and asking
you to reply by sending an e-mail to harlan@harlan.com or by
visiting the site http://www.harlan.com/privacy.
Aggregate Information
When you use the web site, we may collect tracking information
such as your browser type, the type of operating system you use,
the domain name of your Internet service provider, and pages
visited on the site. None of this information identifies you
personally; we collect it for aggregate reporting on site activity.
For example, we may want to know how long the average user spends
on our site, or which pages or features get the most attention. We
use this information to make the site more useful to our customers.
We may share this information with our subsidiaries or other third
parties.
1. E-Mail. We use clear gifs in our HTML - based
e-mails that tell us whether or not you can accept HTML images and,
if you can accept HTML, whether or not you viewed the e-mail. We
use this information to help us make e-mails about our products and
services more useful and interesting. This process does not leave
any information on your computer, nor does it collect information
from your computer. We do not sell this information to others, and
we only use it to improve our e-mail communications with you.
3. Cookies. A cookie is a block of text placed in
a file on your hard drive by a web site you’ve visited. We use
cookies to understand how our site visitors click to our site and
what pages they view during their visit. Cookies allow us to
personalize your shopping experience and speed the check out
process. We do not store any personal or financial information in
any cookie at any time.
We also use a session cookie, which is not placed on your hard
drive. A session cookie is a piece of identification between your
browser and our server that keeps track of the items in your
shopping cart and other session information. This cookie will
disappear when the session expires or when you close your
browser.
The “help” function on most browsers contains information on how to
set your browser to notify you before accepting cookies or to
disable cookies entirely. However, if you don’t accept cookies, you
won’t be able to take advantage of various features on our site
that are available to other visitors.
Privacy Principles
1. Notice. Where Harlan collects personal
information directly from individuals, it will inform them about
the type of personal information collected, the purposes for which
it collects and uses the personal information, and the types of
non-agent third parties to which Harlan discloses or may disclose
that information, and the choices and means, if any, Harlan offers
individuals for limiting the use and disclosure of their personal
information. Notice will be provided in clear and conspicuous
language when individuals are first asked to provide personal
information to Harlan, or as soon as practicable thereafter, and in
any event before Harlan uses or discloses the information for a
purpose other than that for which it was originally collected.
Where Harlan receives personal information from its subsidiaries,
affiliates or other entities, it will use and disclose that
information in accordance with the notices provided by those
entities and the choices made by the individuals to whom the
personal information relates.
2. Choice. Harlan will offer individuals the
opportunity to affirmatively consent (opt in) to the disclosure of
the personal information to a non-agent third party. For sensitive
personal information, Harlan will give individuals the opportunity
to affirmatively consent (opt in) to the use of the sensitive
personal information for a purpose other than the purpose for which
it was originally collected or subsequently authorized by the
individual, or to the disclosure of the information to a non-agent
third party. Harlan will provide individuals with a reasonable
mechanism to exercise their choices.
3. Data Integrity. Harlan will use personal
information only in ways that are compatible with the purposes for
which it was collected or subsequently authorized by the
individual. Harlan will take reasonable steps to ensure that
personal information is relevant to its intended use, accurate,
complete and current. The personal information you provide to
Harlan will be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfill
the purposes for which the information was collected or as required
by law.
4. Transfers to agents. Harlan may provide
information stored on the site and on its systems to agents for the
purposes listed in the following section “Do We Share The
Information We Receive?” Prior to sharing of your personal
information, an agreement is made between Harlan and the agent to
whom we are transferring data. Under this agreement, the agent will
be held to privacy standards equal to those of Harlan. Where Harlan
becomes aware that an agent is using or disclosing personal
information in a manner contrary to this Privacy Policy, Harlan
will take reasonable steps to prevent or stop that use or
disclosure.
5. Security. Harlan will take reasonable
precautions to protect personal information in its possession from
loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and
destruction. This includes, but is not limited to, the use of
encryption technology, regularly scheduled backups with sensitive
media secured in locked storage, and physical access limitations to
the servers and media that store personal information. Our
personnel who have access to personal information have been trained
to maintain the confidentiality of the information. Data
transmissions over the Internet cannot, however, be guaranteed to
be 100% secure. As a result, although we strive to protect your
personal information, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security
of any information you transmit to or from the site, and you do so
at your own risk.
6. Enforcement. Harlan will conduct
compliance audits of its relevant privacy practices to verify
adherence to this Privacy Policy. Any employee that Harlan
determines is in violation of this Privacy Policy will be subject
to disciplinary action up to and including termination of
employment.
Do We Share the Information We Receive?
We may share your information with third parties in the
following circumstances:
- Service Providers: We may employ third party
service providers to perform functions on our behalf. They have
access to personal information needed to perform their functions,
but may not use it for other purposes. Examples include fulfilling
orders, delivering packages, sending mail, analyzing data,
providing marketing assistance and processing credit card
payments.
- Protection of Harlan and Others: We may
release personal information when we believe release is appropriate
to comply with the law; enforce or apply the Terms of Use on this
site and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or
safety of Harlan, our users, or others. However, this does not
include selling, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally
identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in
violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Policy.
- Business Transfers: As we continue to develop
our business, we might sell or buy subsidiaries or business units.
In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the
transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises
made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy (unless, of course, the
customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that
Harlan, or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer
information is likely to be one of the transferred assets.
- With Your Consent: Other than as set out
above, you will receive notice when information about you might be
shared with third parties, and you will have an opportunity to
choose not to share the information. For example, we might offer
you the opportunity to take advantage of a promotion that requires
us to share information with a third party. If you do not want your
information to be shared, you may choose not to provide the
information.
How do I Opt Out or Change my Information?
You can access and update information in your account profile at
any time by logging in to the Harlan web site with your login name
and password. Once you have logged in, you can update your name,
e-mail, password, and/or change your address. Changes to employee,
contractor or candidate data stored in internal systems will be
managed through Human Resources department. Changes to Customer
data will be managed by Customer Service department and vendor
information will be managed by the Procurement department.
We recognize that you may not want to receive offers or other
information from us. At any time, you may request to discontinue
receiving offers or other information from Harlan by following the
instructions included in each communication, or by visiting the
following site: http://www.harlan.com/unsubscribe.
How do I Access the Personal Data that we Hold about You?
You can ask us whether we are keeping personal data about you by
1) sending an e-mail to harlan@harlan.com; or 2) sending postal
mail to this address:
Organization Name: | Harlan Laboratories, Inc. |
Address: | 8520 Allison Pointe Blvd.,
Suite 400 |
City, State, Zip, Country: | Indianapolis, Indiana 46520 USA |
Attention: | Lisa Roberts, Manager, Customer Service department |
Phone Number: | 317-806-6080 |
Upon request, we will provide you, within a week, with a copy of
the personal data which we keep about you. We may require proof of
your identity before we provide this information. We will provide
the information without any charge. We allow you to challenge the
data that we hold about you and, where appropriate, you may have
the data erased, rectified, amended, or completed. We reserve the
right to refuse to provide our visitors with a copy of their
personal data, but will give reasons for our refusal. We allow you
to challenge our decision to refuse to provide you with a copy of
your personal data.
Children’s Policy
We understand and share your concerns regarding your children’s
access to the Internet and the Internet’s access to your children.
Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, we do
not knowingly request or accept information submitted to the Harlan
web site by any visitor under 13 years of age.
If we become aware that an individual under 13 has provided
information to us through the site, we will not use or disclose
that individual’s information for any purpose unless required to do
so by law.
We provide information about our personal data practices in
relation to children on our home page and wherever we knowingly
collect personal data from children on our Web site.
Third Party Links
This site may also contain links to other third party sites that
are not under our control. These sites have their own policies
regarding privacy, and you should review these policies before
providing information to these sites. Harlan has no responsibility
for linked web sites and provides these links solely for the
convenience and information of our visitors.
Terms of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit this site, your visit and any dispute
over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use
of this site including limitations on liability and damages,
application of the law of the State of Indiana and resolution of
any disputes in Indiana. If you have any concern about privacy at
this site, please contact us with a thorough description, and we
will try to resolve it.
Our business changes constantly, and this Privacy Statement and the
Terms of Use will change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders of
the notices and conditions on this site, unless you have instructed
us not to, but you should check this site frequently to see recent
changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Statement
applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never
materially change our policies and practices to make them less
protective of customer information collected in the past without
notifying affected customers, either by communicating directly with
those customers or by posting the changes on this site.
Privacy Support
If you have an inquiry or concern about this Privacy Policy,
please contact:
Name/designation : | Manager, eMarketing |
Department : | Harlan Laboratories, Inc. |
Address : | 8520 Allison Pointe Blvd., Indianapolis, Indiana 46250 |
Phone Number : | 317-806-6080 |
Email address : | lroberts@harlan.com |
Information for Individuals Residing in Japan
This Privacy Policy is established in compliance with the Act on
the Protection of Personal Information (Law No. 57 dated May 30,
2003) and related legal ordinances, based upon the “Privacy
Principles” applied by Harlan worldwide. In this Privacy Policy
“Harlan” refers to all Harlan companies and affiliates including
Harlan Laboratories Co., Ltd. in Japan (hereinafter referred to as
“Harlan Japan”), and the Privacy Policy applies to the online and
offline handling of personal information by Harlan Japan. This
Privacy Policy will be reviewed regularly and amendments made as
necessary.
Harlan has its head office in the United States and is a global
company. Personal data received by Harlan Japan may be sent, stored
and managed at Harlan Laboratories, Inc. in Indianapolis, Indiana,
USA. The personal data that is transferred to the United States
will be identified by the notice at the point where the data is
collected.
You may ask us whether we are keeping personal data about you by 1)
sending an e-mail to harlan@harlan.com ; or 2) sending postal mail
to this address:
Organization Name: | Harlan Laboratories Co., Ltd. |
Address : | 8520 Allison Pointe Blvd., Indianapolis, Indiana 46250 |
Attention: | Manager, eMarketing
RE: Japan Privacy Policy |
Phone Number : | 317-806-6080 |
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