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As
of January 2004
We at McKesson Corporation are committed to maintaining the
privacy and security of our customers' personal information.
Through this privacy statement, McKesson wants to assure you
of our commitment to privacy and security.
Our privacy philosophy is based on the concept of fair information
practices. This means we provide our associates with notice
of how we manage information so that they can have a more
informed understanding of how we operate.
This privacy statement is intended to inform our customers
about how we collect, use, share and protect their information
on McKesson branded websites. We have established the following
principles that govern our information practices:
• If we collect information from or about you, we will
tell you what information is being collected, how, by whom,
and for what purposes.
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We will give you options about how the personal information
that you provide us may be used.
• We use recognized industry safeguards to protect customer
personal information from unauthorized access or use.
•
You will have the opportunity to update your personal information
that you have provided to us. We will also take steps to make
sure that any updates that are provided are processed in a
timely and complete manner.
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We will tell you how you can contact us regarding our privacy
statement and practices.
If we collect information about you, we will tell
you what information is being collected, how, by whom and
for what purposes.
Through this statement and our Web pages, we let you know
what types of information we collect from and about you, the
types and intended uses of such information, and the types
of third parties to whom the information may be disclosed.
If we collect information from you, we clearly identify the
information that is necessary to fulfill your request and
the optional information that is used to deliver tailored
information to you.
When you visit our site, we may collect information about
your use of our site through “cookies”. Cookies
are small bits of information transferred to your computer’s
hard drive that allow us to know how often someone visits
our site and the activities they conduct while on the site.
The information collected by cookies allows us to monitor
how our customers are using our Web site. If you simply want
to browse, you do not have to accept cookies from us. However,
if you wish to take advantage of specific services offered
online, we may require you to accept cookies placed by a third
party supporting this activity on our behalf.
McKesson may release personal information in the event that
we are legally compelled to do so (i.e., through a court order,
subpoena, etc.).
We will give you options about how the personal information
that you provide us may be used.
Before we use your personal information for any purpose, we
will give you choices about whether or not to allow us to
engage in that use. We will give you the opportunity to keep
us from using or sharing the personal information that you
have provided to us for purposes other than to fulfill your
request. To exercise this choice, we will allow you to notify
us of your preferences during the information collection process.
If there are third parties that process McKesson data, we
will require them to hold all personally-identifiable information
confidential, and to use our customer information only for
the purpose of fulfilling their business obligation. McKesson
does not sell personally identifiable information to third
party marketers.
We use recognized industry safeguards to protect personally
identifiable information from unauthorized access or use.
We will employ industry recognized security safeguards to
protect the personally identifiable information that you have
provided to us from loss, misuse and unauthorized alteration.
If you are required to transmit sensitive information (such
as social security and/or credit information) to us through
our Web site, we will provide you access to our secure server
that allows encryption of your data as it is transmitted to
us.
We will protect personally identifiable information stored
on the site’s servers from unauthorized access using
commercially available computer security products (e.g., firewalls),
as well as carefully developed security procedures and practices.
We will let you update your personal information that
you have provided to us. We will also take steps to make sure
that any updates that you provide are processed in a timely
and complete manner.
If we collect personal information through our sites, we will
maintain the information and allow you to update it at any
time. We will continue to work on better methods of accessing
your information to increase your access to it for update
purposes. Note that some McKesson sites may contain links
to other sites that are beyond our control, and that you may
want to read that sites' privacy policy before entering information.
We will tell you how you can contact us regarding
our privacy statement and practices.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, our
information handling practices, or any other aspects of your
privacy and the security of information, please send an e-mail
to privacy@mckesson.com
or call us at 1-800-305-0730. Our mailing
address is: One Post St., San Francisco, CA, USA 94104, ATTN:
Privacy Officer.
We retain the flexibility to update this policy.
McKesson may periodically update this policy to describe how
new Web features may affect our use of your information and
to let you know of new controls and features that we may provide
you. McKesson will NOT apply changes to this policy retroactively
to information McKesson has previously collected.
HIPAA at McKesson
As a key provider of services and technology to the healthcare
industry, McKesson Corporation and its affiliated companies
collectively, ("McKesson") are implementing programs
to address the transaction standards, and the privacy and
security implications of the rules promulgated pursuant to
the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
1996 ("HIPAA"). Learn
more about HIPAA at McKesson.
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