Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting one of the websites (the "Websites") owned by MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and any of its subsidiaries or affiliates (collectively, “MAP Pharmaceuticals”).

MAP Pharmaceuticals respects the privacy of each user who visits our Websites. This Privacy Policy outlines our policies and practices regarding information collected or submitted to us through our Websites. By using this website, you consent to the collection and use of the information as described herein.

If you request information through our websites, we will collect personally identifiable information about you, such as your name, address, email address or phone number. This Privacy Policy applies to the personal information collected on MAP Pharmaceuticals websites. The term "personal information" as used throughout this Privacy Policy, applies to any information that is used by or on behalf of MAP Pharmaceuticals to identify an individual.

We have provided this Privacy Policy to describe how we collect, use, share and protect the personal information you provide to us at this Website. This Privacy Policy only applies to personal information we collect at our Websites and via the electronic communications technologies that we use. It does not apply to personal information collected through other means, including personal information you provide in e-mail messages you send to us or personal information we may collect from you offline. This Privacy Policy is intended for all visitors of the MAP Pharmaceuticals Websites including consumers, healthcare professionals and MAP Pharmaceuticals business partners.

At some of our Websites, we may use personal information in a manner not described in this Privacy Policy. In those instances, the different uses of personal information will be disclosed to you at the web page where your personal information is collected, prior to such collection.

From time to time, our internal processes may change, or we may offer new or altered features at our Websites. If appropriate, we will revise this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to return to this area to read the most recent version of our Privacy Policy. If we alter our practices in a manner that will affect the treatment of the personal information you have already provided, we will attempt to provide visitors who have registered on our Websites with notice of our new Privacy Policy via e-mail.

Table of Contents

  1. Personal Information Collected
  2. Your Choices
  3. Use of Personal Information
  4. Sharing of Personal Information
  5. Personal Information of Children
  6. Links to Other Websites
  7. How We Protect Your Personal Information
  8. Changing Your Preferences; Opt-Out of Receiving Communications
  9. Questions; Accessing Your Personal Information; MAP Pharmaceuticals Contact Address
  10. Effective Date of Privacy Policy

1. Personal Information Collected

Information You Provide

In general, you may browse the MAP Pharmaceuticals Websites without providing any personal information. At our Websites, we may provide you with opportunities to sign up to receive information or services from us. As part of this process, we ask you to provide us with personal information about yourself (such as name, address, telephone number or e-mail address). For example, you may choose to register to receive e-mail updates about a Website, information about a particular health condition, or materials relating to products or services offered by MAP Pharmaceuticals and its product-related co-promotion partners, and you may provide us with your e-mail address to receive such communications. You may always choose not to provide us with your personal information, and we will disclose to you at the time we collect your personal information whether it is required for you to receive the information or services you have requested.

To better understand and address your interests, and to keep the personal information we have about you accurate, we may correct or add to the personal information you provide to us at our Websites with personal information we receive from you offline or from other sources.

Automatically Collected Information -- Cookies and Other Website Information

Like most other commercial websites, we use standard “cookie” and “web beacon” technology and web server logs to collect information about how our Website is used. Web beacons are transparent pixel images that are used in collecting information about Website visitor activities and e-mail response and tracking. For example, if we send you an e-mail message, we (or third parties providing services on our behalf) may collect information through web beacons to determine whether you have opened the e-mail message or clicked on links located within the e-mail message.

Cookies are pieces of data that a website transfers to a visitor's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies placed on our Websites may be set directly by our servers or by third parties providing technical services to us. To prevent cookies from tracking you as you navigate our Websites, you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Please note that some portions of our Websites may not work properly if you refuse cookies.

Information gathered through cookies and by our web server logs may include your IP address, your Internet browser (e.g., Netscape), your operating system (e.g., Windows 2000), the domain name of your internet service provider (e.g., AOL) the date and time of your visits, the pages viewed, the time spent at our Website, and the websites visited just before and just after our Website. This information may be associated with your personal information.

2. Your Choices

You have several choices regarding your use of our Websites. You could decide not to submit any personal information at all. Although certain Websites may ask for permission to use your personal information for certain purposes, you can agree or decline to provide your personal information. If you subscribe for particular communications or services such as e-mail updates, you will be able to unsubscribe at any time by: (i) following any opt-out instructions contained in communications you receive from MAP Pharmaceuticals, (ii) un-subscribing at specific areas of the Websites where you registered, if available, or (iii) sending a written request to the MAP Pharmaceuticals contact address, which appears at the end of this Privacy Policy.

As described above, if you wish to prevent cookies from tracking you as you navigate our Websites, you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Please note, however, that some portions of our Websites may not work properly if you refuse cookies.

3. Use of Personal Information

MAP Pharmaceuticals and its service providers will use your personal information to provide information and services to you, including information and services you have requested, or as otherwise disclosed to you in this Privacy Policy or on the web page where you submit your personal information to us. We may also use that information to provide you with materials about products and services offered by MAP Pharmaceuticals and its product-related co-promotion partners, including new content or services on our Websites. We may provide you with these materials by phone, mail, facsimile or e-mail. We do not share any of your personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes unless we have your consent.

We may use aggregate information collected from visitors of our Websites to help us better understand visitors’ needs and how they use the Websites. Aggregate information about Website visitors that does not contain personal information may be shared with third parties. We may also use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, or to administer our website.

Policy on Use of Social Security Numbers

If Social Security numbers are disclosed as part of the employment process, MAP Pharmaceuticals has a policy which provides for the proper use and protection of Social Security numbers obtained in the course of doing business by MAP Pharmaceuticals. Such policy protects the confidentiality of Social Security numbers, prohibits unlawful disclosure of Social Security numbers, and limits access to Social Security numbers. This policy applies to all methods of collection of Social Security numbers, including Social Security numbers obtained by oral, written and electronic means.

E-mail-a-Friend or Colleague

On some of the MAP Pharmaceuticals Websites, you can send a link or e-mail message to a friend or colleague. E-mail addresses you may provide for a friend or colleague will be used to send your friend or colleague information on your behalf and will not be collected or used by MAP Pharmaceuticals or other third parties for any other purpose.

Note to Healthcare Professionals and Business Partners

If you have a business or professional relationship with MAP Pharmaceuticals, we may use your personal information, including personal information we may collect about you from other sources, to develop our business relationship with you and your organization.

4. Sharing of Personal Information

MAP Pharmaceuticals may share personal information about you with: (i) various third-party companies or agents working on our behalf to help us engage in the activities described in the “Use of Personal Information” section of this Privacy Policy, including fulfilling business transactions, providing services or information you requested, providing other customer services, sending marketing communications about our products, services and offers, and conducting technological maintenance, and (ii) our parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates and product-related co-promotion partners, if any.

We may also share your personal information with third parties under the following circumstances:

  • if you request or authorize such a disclosure;
  • in connection with the sale, assignment, license or other transfer of our company or our parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates, product-related co-promotion partners or products;
  • to protect our rights, property or safety, or the rights, property or safety of our employees or others;
  • to enforce an agreement we have with you;
  • to comply with the terms of an agreement with a product-related co-promotion partner;
  • to respond to appropriate requests of legitimate government agencies or where required by applicable laws, court orders or government regulations; or
  • where needed for corporate audits or to investigate or respond to a complaint or security threat.

As a company with global operations, MAP Pharmaceuticals may share your personal information with parties described in this section who are (1) located in other countries, and (2) subject to other applicable laws, rules and regulations relating to your personal information, that do not offer the same protections as the country in which your personal information was collected. In particular, your personal information may be processed in the United States and subject to applicable US laws, rules and regulations. For more information about how MAP Pharmaceuticals is committed to protecting your personal information, see the “How We Protect Your Personal Information” section of this Privacy Policy.

Note: We do not share any of your personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes unless you explicitly give us permission to do so. Nor does MAP Pharmaceuticals rent or sell any personal information you submit.

5. Personal Information of Children

Our Websites are not intended or designed to attract children under the age of eighteen (18), and we do not believe that our Websites are appealing to children. Therefore, we do not knowingly collect any personal information from anyone under the age of eighteen (18) at our Websites.

6. Links to Other Websites

Our Websites may provide links to other websites as a service to you. The third-party websites are operated by companies that are outside of our control, and your activities at those websites will be governed by the policies and privacy practices of those third parties. We do not recommend or endorse the content of these websites. We encourage you to review the policies and privacy practices of those third parties before disclosing any of your personal information, as we are not responsible for their policies and privacy practices.

7. How We Protect Your Personal Information

To help protect the privacy and security of personal information you transmit through the use of our Websites, we have implemented reasonable physical, technical and administrative safeguards to help protect your personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. Our Websites have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All personally identifying information submitted through forms is stored in a secure database for use only by MAP Pharmaceuticals. This information may also be retained by our outside vendor which administers our Websites. MAP Pharmaceuticals assumes no responsibility for the privacy or security of sites linked to or from www.mappharma.com.

8. Changing Your Preferences; Opt-Out of Receiving Communications

When you provide us with your personal information, you will be given some choices about how we use that personal information. You may changes these preferences later. For example, if you sign up for an e-mail newsletter, you may opt out of receiving future e-mail newsletters at any time. MAP Pharmaceuticals will always provide you with one or more of the following ways to opt out: (i) by following any opt-out instructions contained in communications you receive from MAP Pharmaceuticals, (ii) by un-subscribing at specific areas of the Website(s) where you registered, if available, or (iii) by sending a written request to the MAP Pharmaceuticals contact address, below.

9. Questions; Updating Your Personal Information; MAP Pharmaceuticals Contact Address

If you have any questions about our privacy practices or if you need help accessing your personal information or changing your preferences, please send a written request to us at the following address:

MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
2400 Bayshore Parkway, Suite 200
Mountain View, CA 94043
United States of America
Phone: 650-386-3100
Fax: 650-386-3101
info@mappharma.com

Note: Please make sure to provide the name of the Website(s) applicable to your request, and your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address (if any). If you do not provide us with this information, we may not be able to respond.

Note to Employment-Applicant Users of Our Websites

If you wish to modify or update your personal information submitted at one of our Websites in response to an employment opportunity at MAP Pharmaceuticals, you can do so on the appropriate web page of the Website where you applied.

10. Effective Date of Privacy Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this site, and your continued use of one or more of our Websites following such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement and agreement to such changes. This policy was last updated in November 2011.