Privacy Policy
Milestone One Data Privacy Policy
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Milestone One (“MO1”, “we”) as a data controller, is responsible for the processing of your personal data on this website. This Policy describes how we collect information about individuals who visit our website and individuals whose information we may legitimately receive or obtain otherwise, including from business partners, through professional networks, etc.
If you would like to apply for a position at MO1, please read MO1 Data Protection Notice for job applicants.
We do not knowingly attempt to solicit or receive personal information from children.
Our global data protection program is built to achieve compliance with the applicable data protection laws, including Regulation (EC) 2016/679 of
If you are a US resident living in the State of California, please also read California-Specific Description of Privacy Rights.
Contact for Data Protection
Please send all your enquiries regarding personal data protection, including related to the execution of your data protection rights at privacy@milestoneone.com or address your request by post at:
Milestone One AG
Data Protection
Baarerstrasse 113a
6300 Zug
Switzerland
For which purposes and which of your personal data do we process?
Navigation through our website does not require any form of registration. However, if you subscribe to newsletters, contact us for additional information or reach out to us with other enquiry through this website, to fulfill your enquiry, we will need to collect some of your personal data, at least your name, and e-mail address. We shall also receive the information that you decide to share within your message to MO1. Please make sure that you do not disclose the personal information of other individuals without their awareness.
MO1 may also receive your business-related personal data at the time of conferences or other events organized by professional communities related to clinical trials and pharmaceutics, through professional, customer meetings, etc. In such cases we would normally receive your contact and other professional information from you directly or we may be provided with your information. We deem you aware of such possible distribution of your personal data in the business and professional context.
We may collect and process information about your visit to this website, such as the pages you visit, the websites that linked you to our website, and the searches you do on this website. We will compile aggregate statistics about how people interact with our website, which we do to improve the contents of the site and user experience. To be able to collect such information, we will use cookies and web beacons. Cookies are pieces of data that a website transfers to a user’s computer connected to the Internet. Web beacons are used together with the cookies and are the transparent pixel images that collect information about website usage, e-mail response and tracking. Cookies will enable MO1 to identify the user of the website by the domain name, user’s internet service provider, operating system, and the date and time the user visited our website. MO1 shall not seek for additional information to identify users beyond this.
You can manage your cookie preferences. For more information, please review our Cookie Notice.
What are the legal bases for processing your personal data?
When we collect and use your personal data, we may rely on one or several of the following legal bases:
- Our responsibility to comply with legal obligations, as provided under the applicable law, or requests from public, national, and/or foreign government authorities, etc.
- Our legitimate interest to ensure information security and website availability, enable business communication with customers and partners, provide online service, navigation and functionality, improve our internal business processes, etc.
- Your consent when you gave us such, for example via checking a box to confirm your request for news subscription, etc.
With whom do we share your personal data?
The personal data that MO1 obtains via this website will be available to MO1 staff members responsible for its maintenance and administration, as well as MO1’s team responding to your enquiry. In addition, MO1 may need to share personal data with its business partners and third-party suppliers. Under some circumstances, MO1 may be required to release personal data to law enforcement agencies or judicial authorities.
MO1 will not trade or sell any of your personal information. Unless permitted or required by law, we will not share or transfer your personal information to any business outside MO1 without notifying you accordingly.
MO1 is a global company with affiliates worldwide. Doing international business, MO1 has partners and third-party suppliers located in different countries. This means that personal data collected and used by MO1 may be transferred from your home country to other countries around the world.
When the recipients of your data are located abroad, information about you will need to be sent or/and accessed from abroad, including to/from countries where the personal data protection laws may be less strict as compared to your home country. However, MO1 takes appropriate steps to protect your personal data.
How do we protect personal data?
MO1 makes reasonable efforts to ensure that MO1 staff and external recipients commit to protect your personal information to the same level as MO1 does, regardless of their location. Such efforts include technical and organizational measures, as well as may consist in contractual protections to safeguard your personal information. You can ask MO1 to tell you more about these safeguards, including a review of any applicable protective measures.
MO1 employs reasonable organizational and technical safeguards to protect personal information in its possession from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
Can third parties and linked third parties’ websites access your personal data?
We use interfaces with social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and others. If you have an account with these social media sites, they may make a connection between your visit to MO1’s website and your personal data, normally under certain conditions, for example if you “like” a comment or post. We recommend that you review their privacy policies to know more about their data processing practices.
Our website may contain links to websites of other entities that are not affiliated with MO1. Such websites are not under the control of MO1. This Policy does not cover third party websites. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of each linked website that you may choose to go onto.
For how long do we keep personal data?
We shall retain personal data for no longer than is necessary to follow our standard procedures, to reach our commercial goals with the consideration of your rights and our business interests, and to fulfill our obligations stemming from contracts, as well as any laws and regulations that may apply to MO1’s business activities. In some cases, we may envisage removal of personal data earlier than our procedures and practices require. For example, if we receive a data erasure request from an individual whose data we process.
your rights regarding control of your personal data and how you can exercise your rights
You have the right to request access to, rectification or erasure of your personal data, restriction of processing, as well as object to processing in some cases. You can also request a digital copy of the personal data that you provided to MO1. In case you have given to MO1 your consent to data processing, you have the right to withdraw your consent and stop data processing.
If you are based in the EU, you have the right to lodge a complaint to the supervisory authority. You will find your national data protection authorities and their contact details following this link.
how do we notify you about the revisions to this policy?
MO1 reserves the right to modify this Policy as needed to reflect changes in laws, MO1 practices and procedures, or requirements imposed by data protection authorities. Please check back periodically for updates to this Policy.
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