• 1. In what instances does Amgen collect personal information about you?

    • When you interact with Amgen staff members or our representatives.
    • When you participate in, or request to be considered for Amgen-related activities, such as clinical trials, advisory boards, or consultancies.
    • When you register for an Amgen-sponsored event (including online events); and
    • When you contact us for medical information, safety, or quality issues.
    • When you interact with Amgen or third-party websites or mobile applications (“Apps”) where you have provided personal information in accordance with their respective privacy policies.

    In addition, Amgen is regularly provided with professional information about HealthCare Professionals in Europe from a third-party service provider. Amgen takes steps to ensure that the information it receives has been collected and transferred in compliance with applicable privacy laws.

  • 2. Why does Amgen process information about you?

    Amgen may process personal information about you on one of the following grounds: A) for legitimate business purposes, (B) where you have given your consent, (C) to comply with Amgen's legal and regulatory obligations, and (D) in connection with a contract under which you perform a task.

    Amgen's Legitimate Business Reasons
    Processing activities
    • Amgen's Professional and Scientific Activities
    • Promotion and evaluation of Amgen products and services
    • Interaction with Amgen personnel
    • Participation in professional meetings and conferences
    • Response to requests for medical information
    • Communication of information (e.g. via email) promoting Amgen products and services, information and invitations to events or conferences organized by Amgen or in which Amgen participates, etc.
    Managing and complying with a contract
    • Compensate you for services or reimburse you for expenses incurred.
    • Assist you in planning your travel related to Amgen activities or products.
    • Manage your participation in clinical trials/medical research.
    Comply with legal and regulatory obligations
    • Reporting of adverse events for pharmacovigilance and product complain.
    • Clinical Trials.
    • Transparency in the event of a provision provided for by local legislation.
    • Tax obligations
    Consent
    • Participation in surveys and online services or applications
    • Consent granted to our third-party service providers.
    • Transparency in the event the transparency is not local legal requirement.
  • 3. What kind of personal information do we process?

    epending on the purposes for which personal information is collected, Amgen may process:

    • Your name
    • Your contact information such as address, email, or telephone number
    • Your login and password to connect to Amgen services online.
    • Your curriculum vitae and professional information such as areas of specialization
    • Your past collaborations with Amgen
    • Dates and brief summary of interactions with Amgen’s sales representatives or medical staff; and
    • Professional registration number
    • Professional and interaction preferences and,
    • Financial and banking information, but only if necessary to pay you for services or reimburse your expenses.
  • 4. Who can access personal information about you?

    Depending on the purposes for which personal information is collected, such information may be accessed by:

    • Authorized staff from Amgen or its representatives acting on Amgen’s behalf, subject to applicable privacy laws.
    • Regulatory authorities and ethics committees or other third parties pursuant to applicable laws.
    • Third parties processing personal information as a data processor under Amgen’s instruction (for example, a travel service or a clinical research organization); and
    • Third parties with which Amgen collaborates (for example, other pharmaceutical companies), but only after taking reasonable steps to ensure that we can share such information in compliance with applicable privacy laws.
  • 5. Where is information about you being processed?

    Amgen is a multi-national company headquartered in the United States. Amgen maintains data centres around the world, including in the European Union and the United States. Amgen may process personal information in global databases that can be accessed by authorised Amgen personnel worldwide. Transfers outside of Europe are made in accordance with applicable privacy laws. Transfers of personal information among Amgen and its group entities follow applicable laws and our Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs). For more information on the BCRs, including your ability to file a complaint about any processing of your personal information in violation of the BCRs, please visit http://www.amgen.com/bcr/. Regardless of where your personal information is collected or processed, Amgen maintains and shall ensure that third parties maintain appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect information about you.

    Recipients
    Safeguards used to transfer personal information to countries non declared adequate by the EU Commission
    Additional information
    Amgen’s group of companies
    Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs)
    http://www.amgen.com/bcr/ Visit the link if you want to file a complaint about any processing of your personal information in violation of BCRs.
    Vendors processing personal data under Amgen’s instructions
    Model Contracts (Standard Contractual Clauses) in the form approved by European Commission or any other relevant Authority

    To obtain a copy please contact Amgen’s Privacy Compliance at privacy@amgen.com

  • 6. Retention of your personal information

    Amgen process your personal data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice and to preserve your personal information in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and regulations.

    The criteria followed is determined by:

    • The purpose of the data collected and the fulfillment of that purpose.
    • The ground on which the data are being collected : e.g. in case of consent, you can revoke it at any time.
    • Mandatory retention periods provided by contractual and regulatory requirements.

    If you would like to receive more information about a specific processing, please contact Amgen's Data Protection Officer at privacy@amgen.com or Amgen Ireland Limited, 21 Northwood Court, Santry, Dublin 9, Ireland.

  • 7. How can you access, correct or delete the personal information about you that we process?

    If you wish to access, correct, or delete your personal information, please contact Amgen's Data Protection Officer at privacy@amgen.com or Amgen Ireland Limited, 21 Northwood Court, Santry, Dublin 9, D09 TX3, Ireland or Amgen Technology (Ireland) UC, Pottery Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, A96 F2A8, Ireland.

    Alternatively, you can click on the "Privacy Request" link found at the end of this paragraph. By doing so, you agree to be redirected to a secure website provided by OneTrust, which handles Amgen's privacy requests. To submit a request, click here.

  • 8. How can you exercise the right to data portability?

    According to the right to data portability, you have the right to request that your personal information provided to Amgen be delivered to you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, subject to certain conditions and can be requested by contacting Amgen’s Privacy Compliance at privacy@amgen.com.

    Alternatively, you can click on the "Privacy Request" link found at the end of this paragraph. By doing so, you agree to be redirected to a secure website provided by OneTrust, which handles Amgen's privacy requests. To submit a request, click here.

  • 9. You have the right to make a Privacy Complaint with a Supervisory Authority.

    If you believe that your personal information has been processed in violation of any applicable law, rule, or regulation, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. The contact details of your local supervisory authority can be located here: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en.

    If you are visiting the website from Switzerland, the contact details are: Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter – EDOEB, Feldeggweg 1, 3003.

    Bern, https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/de/home.html.

    For the United Kingdom contact the Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

  • 10. How can you contact a Data Protection Officer?

    Amgen's Data Protection Officer: privacy@amgen.com

The Privacy Statement does not cover our online practices. Please consult our internet privacy policy.

For information about our obligations to disclose personal information (including financial information ) under the EFPIA Financial Transparency Rule and country-specific financial transparency regulations, please click here or visit http: www.efpia.eu.

This privacy statement was last updated on: November 2024