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Our Use of Your Data and Communications
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Hyperlinking to this Site
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External Hyperlinks from the Site
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Acceptable Use
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Use of Robots
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Accuracy and Integrity of Information
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Updates
Galapagos may make improvements and/or changes to this Site at any time. Although we attempt to periodically update information on this Site, the information, materials and services provided on or through this Site may occasionally be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date. Galapagos does not have a duty to update information contained in this Site, and Galapagos will not be liable for any failure to update such information. We make no representation as to the completeness, accuracy or currency of any information on this Site, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise the information contained on this Site, whether as a result of new information, future events or circumstances or otherwise. It is your responsibility to verify any information contained in this Site before relying upon it.
This Galapagos website may contain information (including, without limitation, videos, abstracts, publications, postings, news and/or press releases), the content of which is current only as of the date of the particular information, video, abstract or publication, news and/or press release or posting.
No Warranty
THE SITE AND ALL INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS,” WITH ALL FAULTS, AND “AS AVAILABLE”. GALAPAGOS BIOTECH LIMITED DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, OR THAT THE RESULTS OF ANY QUERY WILL BE COMPLETE OR ACCURATE. GALAPAGOS BIOTECH LIMITED DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ACCESS TO THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS IN THE SITE WILL BE CORRECTED. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, GALAPAGOS BIOTECH LIMITED DOES NOT REPRESENT OR ENDORSE THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY SEQUENCE DATA, ANNOTATION, DESCRIPTION, IDENTIFICATION OR OTHER INFORMATION DISPLAYED, DISTRIBUTED, HYPERLINKED OR OTHERWISE REFERRED TO THROUGH THE SITE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW, GALAPAGOS BIOTECH LIMITED DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NON-INFRINGEMENT, CONFORMITY TO ANY REPRESENTATION OR DESCRIPTION, MERCHANTABILITY, QUALITY OF INFORMATION, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Limitation of Liability
GALAPAGOS MAINTAINS THIS GILEAD WEBSITE AS A SERVICE TO THE INTERNET COMMUNITY. THIS GALAPAGOS WEBSITE IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE SUBJECT MATTER PRESENTED.
Nothing in these Terms and Conditions excludes or limits our liability to the extent that the same may not be excluded or limited as a matter of law, including (to such extent) liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
NEITHER GALAPAGOS BIOTECH LIMITED, NOR ITS LICENSORS OR SUPPLIERS, WILL BE LIABLE UNDER ANY THEORY FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY DAMAGES OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND THE INFORMATION CONTAINED THEREIN, HOWEVER ARISING, EVEN IF GALAPAGOS BIOTECH LIMITED OR ITS REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THIS LIMITATION DOES NOT APPLY TO THE EXTENT IT IS PROHIBITED BY LAW. YOUR SOLE REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE SITE, SITE-RELATED SERVICES, AND/OR HYPERLINKED WEBSITES IS TO STOP USING THE SITE AND/OR THOSE SERVICES.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and defend Galapagos Biotech Limited from any claim (including attorneys’ fees and costs) arising from your (a) use of the Site, (b) violation of any third party right, or (c) breach of any of these Terms and Conditions. You agree to cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defence of any claim. Galapagos Biotech Limited reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification under this section and, in any event, you agree not to settle any such matter without the prior written consent of Galapagos Biotech Limited.
Health Information
This Galapagos website does not, and is not intended to, provide medical advice, nor does it provide instruction on the appropriate use of any product produced or supplied by Galapagos or its affiliates.
The information presented on this Galapagos website should not be interpreted or construed in any way as a replacement or substitution for medical advice provided by a doctor or healthcare provider. It is important that you discuss your treatment options and any questions that you may have with your doctor or healthcare provider.
Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement
Galapagos Biotech Limited respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide Galapagos Biotech Limited with the following information:
Investors – Disclaimer Regarding Forward Looking Statements
This Site may contain forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements containing the words “believes,” “anticipates,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “may,” “might,” “will,” “can,” “could,” “stands to,” “is designed to,” “continues,” “potential,” “predicts,” “objective,” “should,” or the negative of these, as well as similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements may involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which might cause the actual results, financial condition, performance or achievements of Galapagos, or industry results, to be materially different from any historic or future results, financial conditions, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Given these uncertainties, you are advised not to place any undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. You should not regard these statements as a representation or warranty by us or any other person that we will achieve our objectives and plans in any specified time frame or at all. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of publication and you should read all forward-looking statements contained in this Site with the understanding that our actual future results may be materially different from what we expect. Galapagos expressly disclaims any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements to reflect any change in its expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based, unless required by law or regulation. We qualify all of our forward-looking statements by these cautionary statements.
General
Except as provided below, these Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between Galapagos Biotech Limited and you pertaining to the subject matter hereof. We may, in our sole discretion, revise these Terms and Conditions from time-to-time by updating this posting. You should periodically visit this page to review the current Terms and Conditions, so you are aware of any revisions to which you are bound. Certain provisions of these Terms and Conditions may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages within this Site. The parties agree that any and all disputes, claims or controversies arising out of or relating to these Terms and Conditions that are not resolved amicably by mutual agreement shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction or the courts of Antwerp, division of Mechelen, Belgium and shall be governed by the laws of Belgium. If you have any questions concerning these Terms and Conditions please contact us at legal@glpg.com or Galapagos Biotech Limited, Salisbury House, Station Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB1 2LA, Attention: Legal Counsel.
If you have any other questions concerning Galapagos or you desire to reach out to Galapagos Biotech Limited for any reason, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Last updated: June 2021
Galapagos (“the Company,” “we” or “us”) values your privacy and we want to be transparent about the information we collect, why we collect it, and how the information is used. For the personal data collected through this website, Galapagos NV, Generaal De Wittelaan 11 A3, 2800 Mechelen will act as the controller. In this way, we control the process by which your personal data is collected and the purposes for which your personal data is used.
Furthermore, we want you to know your rights regarding your personal data. This Privacy Statement addresses how we handle and protect personal data collected via the Galapagos website (“the Site”) or a related website controlled by the Company or personal data collected in the provision of any support or other services (“Services”). We strongly recommend that you read this Privacy Statement and, if you have any questions, contact us via dpo@glpg.com.
We confirm that personal data will be dealt with in accordance with the Belgian, European, UK, and relevant United States privacy laws and regulations, including Belgian law of 30 July 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data, the Data Protection Act 2018 (UK), and the Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data – General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Information we collect
Personal data includes any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (also known as a “data subject”). This may include, but is not limited to: your name, address, email address, phone number, identification number or location data. More information on personal data we collect can be found below in specific sections of this Privacy & Cookie Statement.
For which purposes we use the information we collect
We use your personal data solely for the purposes of processing your requests, to conduct our business, to develop analytics and aggregated data that allow us and our partners to improve our Site and related Services, recruitment-relating purposes or to correspond with you. Below is a summary of the channels through which information is currently collected on the Site including the type of personal data collected via each channel and how that data is used.
Legal ground for processing
We will only process your personal data if: (a) we have obtained your prior consent, (b) the processing is necessary to perform our contractual obligations or to take pre-contractual steps at your request, (c) the processing is necessary to comply with legal or regulatory obligations or (d) the processing is necessary for our legitimate interests.
Use of our website
When using our website to subscribe to press releases, register for clinical trial updates or merely to contact us, we may collect the following information: your name, e-mail address, company you work for and preferred language of communication, as well as other information that you choose to provide to us.
Contact
The Contact Page provides you with our office addresses, email addresses and telephone contact information should you wish to contact us. Other contact details can be found on our online reporting page or in the news section of the Site. By contacting us, you may provide us with personal data amongst other information in relation to your query or request. Based on the personal data you provide us, we may communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your preference.
Our customers
Our customer database includes individuals with whom we had previous business relations including but not limited to researchers that participated in clinical trials, Key Opinion Leaders, (former-) members of the advisory and scientific boards, contacts gathered at events, and individuals that have contacted Galapagos. The database also includes publicly available contact information.
In case you are a customer or prospective customer of Galapagos, your personal data is used for business development purposes such as communication on the Services and related products, organization of focus-group discussions, market studies and others. The personal data that is being used may include but is not limited to: your name, e-mail address, telephone number, organization related details, contact history with Galapagos.
Data retention
Your personal data is kept for no longer than is necessary in relation to the purposes for which it is collected. We will frequently review the information we hold and when there is no longer a legal or business need for us to store it. In cases of clinical research information portals providing information on clinical research studies, your personal data will be removed once the portal is no longer live, or our Services are no longer being provided.
In order to protect the Company against any legal claims or to respond to potential inquiries, files may be stored in back-ups of the Company or in the archives in function of the applicable statutes of limitation. These archived copies will only be used if strictly required by the Company for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims and can, in such situations, be shared with legal advisors.
Your rights
You have the possibility to exercise your rights as described in the GDPR. As a data subject, you can exercise the following rights:
To exercise the above rights, you can contact Galapagos Data Protection Officer, dpo@glpg.com. After verifying your identity and data subject rights applicability criteria, we will do everything reasonably possible to comply with the request unless it will require completely unreasonable measures (e.g. technically or organizationally virtually impossible or extremely costly). We may refuse to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic.
Conditions under which we share information
Your personal data may be used by a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate entity within the Galapagos NV corporate family, partner entities, and the vendors and service agencies that we may engage to assist us. We will never pass your personal data to anyone else without your consent, except for (a) successors in title to our business, or (b) when required by law. We will share your personal data with providers only in the ways that are described in this Privacy Statement.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties, personal data we collect from you without your consent, except in cases where we may share personal data for any Services that may be in effect from time to time, including, without limitation, the situations described below:
International transfers
For users residing in the European Economic Area, including the United Kingdom (“EEA”), the data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the EEA. It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers.
If we do transfer data outside the EEA, we will ensure it is protected employing the following safeguards:
Information Security
We are committed to protecting the security and privacy of your information. We will use appropriate technical and organisational measures to restrict access to personal data to those of our employees, agents, contractors, or representatives who require access to such information to perform tasks assigned to them by us. All data gathered by our Services is stored by us in a secure, password-protected database. Only we and our third party processors, if any, have access to this database.
We will protect personal data provided to us by using reasonable security safeguards against loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification. Although we and our third party processors implement standard security protections, we cannot guarantee the physical or electronic security of the servers and databases on which the Services are hosted. We require our partners who receive your information to agree to security requirements consistent with this Privacy Statement. If you create copies of information from the Services, we cannot protect the security and privacy of the information contained in such copies.
Minors
This Site and our Services are not aimed at people under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal data, we will take reasonable steps to remove such information from our systems and terminate the applicable account.
Changes to our Privacy Statement
From time to time, this Privacy Statement may be revised. Any changes to this Privacy Statement will be indicated through the mention of effective date and version number. Continued use of our sites after changes made to our Privacy Statement indicates your consent to the use of newly submitted information.
Contact
For questions regarding this Privacy Statement, please contact: dpo@glpg.com.
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To help understand how visitors interact with the websites by providing information about the areas visited, the time spent on the website, and any issues encountered, such as error messages. This helps Us improve the performance of our websites. | By default, this cookie is set to expire after 2 years |
_gat (set by Google Analytics) |
This cookie is used to limit the collection of data when there is high traffic on the site. | 10 minutes |
_gid (set by Google Analytics) |
To store and group the session’s activity for each user. |
25 hours |
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OTHER COOKIES | ||
wordfence_verifiedHuman (set by the Wordfence Security WordPress plugin) |
To protect the site against malicious attacks. | 24 hours |
_gat_gtag_[ID of website] | Identification code of website for tracking visits |
2 years |
scf_cookielayer_storage | Saves the information regarding the fact that you have agreed to the website’s terms of use. | 30 days |
Third-party cookies
Certain cookies are placed by a third party, for example Google Analytics to measure the use of the website. These cookies are found in other companies’ internet tools which we use to enhance our site, for example LinkedIn and Twitter all have their own cookies, which are controlled by them. If you do not want a website to place cookies on your device, you can change the settings of your browser as abovementioned.
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