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SANOFI is committed to protect your personal data and your privacy and implements all relevant measures to ensure such protection, in accordance with applicable laws and the terms of its Global Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Notice explains the purpose(s) and the modalities by which SANOFI processes your personal data collected through this Website.
Who is responsible for your data?
The personal data is collected and processed under the control of Sanofi Aventis Nigeria.
Why is your data collected/processed?
We collect Your personal data for the following reasons:
To ensure reported Pharmacovigilance events, Product quality complains are satisfactorily resolved,
To respond to all medical information, general enquiries requested.
This processing is based on your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time by sending us a request, in which case SANOFI will stop processing your data (without affecting past processing). You are free to refuse to communicate your data to us. However, if you refuse to communicate your data, please note that you might not get satisfactory response to reported concerns/ questions. Your personal data will be retained for a period of 30 years
How long your data will be retained?
Your personal data is retained for the durations described above in the purpose(s) section, and in any case only for the duration that is necessary to fulfil the above mentioned purposes, unless further retention is necessary to meet legal or regulatory requirements or to the protection of SANOFI’s interests.
Who will have access to your data?
For the purposes set forth above, SANOFI may communicate your personal data to the following entities:
Legal and administrative authorities when required to do so by applicable law.
International transfers
SANOFI is a multinational Group. As such, Sanofi may need to transfer your personal data to entities of its Group or to third-party partners outside of the Sanofi Group. Such Sanofi or non-Sanofi entities may be located outside Nigeria, in countries where personal data legislation does not necessarily offer the same level of protection or in countries not recognized as offering an adequate level protection.
In order to ensure an adequate level of protection of your data, those transfers are safeguarded physical, technical, and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure and alteration.
What are my rights concerning my personal data?
In accordance with the rights granted to you by law, you are entitled to:
access by simple request to your personal data – in which case you may request to receive a copy of your personal data, unless such personal data is made available to you directly;
request a rectification of your personal data if such is inaccurate, incomplete or obsolete;
obtain the deletion of your personal data in the specific cases provided for by law;
obtain a limitation of the processing of your data in the specific cases provided for by law;
if applicable, receive your data in a standard format for transmission to another controller;
to lodge a complaint with your data protection authority.
Who to contact for queries?
To exercise your rights as set out above, please go to this webpage.
For any other queries concerning the processing of your personal data, you can contact SANOFI’s Data Protection Officer at this address:
privacy-office-NIGERIA@sanofi.com.
Other information:
We store and process your personal information on our computers in Nigeria. We protect your information using physical, technical, and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure and alteration. Some of the safeguards we use are firewalls and data encryption, physical access controls to our data centers, and information access authorization controls. In the event of any violation of this policy, we will remediate the issue within 30 days.