SOCAR RESEARCH is committed to protecting the privacy of our web site users and customers. To do so, we maintain a company-wide policy restricting the use of, and dissemination of, identifying information made available to SOCAR RESEARCH. Our policy is designed to ensure the confidentiality of personal information and our strict compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations governing privacy.
You can navigate the majority of SOCAR’s web site without revealing any personal information about yourself. At certain points, you may, however, be asked to furnish certain personal information. For example, you can

• Register on our web site to receive customized information. This information is generally collected using an on-line "Contact Us" form that you can complete by inputting a question or information request. The personal data you furnish to SOCAR is solely designed to enable a SOCAR RESEARCH representative to contact you in order to answer your questions or provide the information requested. This information may include your name, title, company name, address, contact numbers, and e-mail address.
• Enter personal information about yourself that may give you access to specific SOCAR RESEARCH information, services or employment opportunities. For example, qualified customers, investigators, scientific consultants and physicians may enter identifying information that allows them to access SOCAR RESEARCH project information or other SOCAR RESEARCH data or services.

While the collection of personal data using the SOCAR RESEARCH web site is useful, SOCAR RESEARCH is committed to protecting that data from improper release into the public domain and from usage beyond the intent of the data provider. Accordingly, SOCAR RESEARCH abides by the following practices with respect to such information: (1) Confidential data collected on our web site is used to respond to your requests and is thereafter maintained in our secure database, (2) the information provided to us is shared with SOCAR RESEARCH employees only to the extent needed to comply with your request or inquiry, (3) such information is not released to any third-party, and (4) at any time you may ask that the information be removed from SOCAR’s database in which event it will be permanently deleted. SOCAR RESEARCH understands that a central component of its business practices is quality information management. As such, SOCAR’s corporate policy is to protect confidential information and to follow industry-best practices to ensure full and timely compliance with international law and treaty, the laws, regulations and rules of each country in which SOCAR RESEARCH operates, and medical research conventions. This includes strict compliance with the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) - mandated Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the European Union (EU) Data Protection Directive.

To protect your confidential information, SOCAR RESEARCH has adopted the following procedures:

• An internal operating committee monitors on an ongoing basis SOCAR’s compliance with applicable data protection laws and regulations, including HIPAA and the EU Data Protection Directive.
• Data collected by SOCAR RESEARCH is used only for the specific purpose for which it is collected; and such usage is fully disclosed in advance.
• All data retained by SOCAR RESEARCH is stored in electronic databases having security measures in place to protect against information loss or misuse; and to deter unauthorized access or misappropriation of data.
• Data may only be released if required by law, by court order, or by demand from a law enforcement agency in connection with a regulatory matter or a matter related to public safety.
• By accident, you may have removed or updated sensitive information from our databases. You can contact us at any time to correct this. We may request certain verifying information but will thereafter rollback the database to a convenient state.

In the future, SOCAR RESEARCH may expand the services that it provides through its web site; and the laws governing the privacy of information may change. To address this, SOCAR RESEARCH may revise its Privacy Policy from time to time without notice. SOCAR RESEARCH will post all such changes on its web site to ensure that you are fully aware of our policy with regard to protecting your identifiable confidential information. Please contact SOCAR RESEARCH if you have any questions regarding our privacy policy.