Safe Harbor Privacy Policy

This policy was last updated on 20th May, 2011.

ICON is committed to protecting your privacy. ICON has put in place internal procedures, to ensure that your personal information is processed responsibly and in accordance with applicable data protection/privacy laws. This privacy policy (the “Policy”) sets out the privacy principles that ICON follows with respect to transfers of personal data from the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland to the United States.

ICON complies with the US-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the US-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the US Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland. ICON has certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access and enforcement. To learn more about the Safe Harbor Program and to view ICON's certifications, please visit http://www.export.gov/safeharbor

This Policy applies to all personal information, either in electronic or paper format, received by ICON in the United States from the EEA and Switzerland. 

For the purposes of the Policy, the following definitions shall apply:

“Agent” means any third party processing personal information on behalf of, and under the instructions of ICON.

“ICON” means ICON Laboratory Inc, ICON Clinical Research Inc, their successors, subsidiaries, divisions and groups in the United States.

“Personal information” means any information or set of information that identifies or could be used by or on behalf of ICON to identify an individual. It does not include personal information that has been anonymized or that is publicly available, that has not been combined with non-public personal information.

“Sensitive personal information” means personal information that reveals race, ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, or information that concerns health or sex life. In addition, ICON will treat as sensitive, any information received from a third party where that third party treats and identifies the information as sensitive.

The privacy principles in this Policy are based on the Safe Harbor Principles.

Where ICON collects personal information directly from individuals in the EEA and Switzerland, it will inform them about the purposes for which it collects and uses personal information about them, the types of non-agent third parties to which ICON discloses that information, and the choices and means, if any, that ICON 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 ICON, or as soon as practical thereafter, and in any event before ICON uses the information for a purpose other than that for which it was originally collected.

Where ICON receives personal information from its subsidiaries, affiliates or other entities in the EEA and Switzerland, it will use such information in accordance with the notices provided by such entities and the choices made by the individuals to who such personal information relates.