privacy notice

www.brightsideofthemood.com


Last updated October 18, 2021

The company Angelini Pharma S.p.A. (hereinafter "Angelini" or "Data Controller"), pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data (hereinafter "GDPR" or "General Data Protection Regulation") and Legislative Decree 196/2003 (Privacy Code), provides you with the following information on the processing of your personal data, in your capacity as users/browser of the website www.brightsideofthemood.com (hereinafter the "Website").

  1. Data Controller and Data Protection Officer (DPO)

    The Data Controller is Angelini Pharma S.p.A., with registered office in Viale Amelia n. 70, 00181 - Rome (Rome), Italy, email: privacy.italia@angelinipharma.com.
    The Data Controller has appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO), who can be contacted directly at the following addresses: Data Protection Officer - DPO c/o Angelini Pharma S.p.A., Viale Amelia n. 70, 00181 - Rome (Rome), Italy, email: dpo.italia@angelinipharma.com.

  2. Purposes of processing and legal basis for the processing

    All personal data provided by you is processed in compliance with the provisions of the law in a correct, lawful and transparent manner for the purposes set out below and according to the following conditions of lawfulness (Legal basis for processing).

    Purposes of the processing Legal basis of the processing
    a) Proper and comprehensive management of any communication or request you may send to Angelini (for example a request for information or assistance) [management of your requests]. Processing of your personal data for this purpose is necessary to the execution of a contract or to the execution of precontractual measures (here construed as the “legal relationship” established between yourself and the Data Controller, following your potential request) (Art. 6.1.b of the GDPR).
    b) Proper and comprehensive management of your registration with the reserved area of the Website (the “Reserved Area”) and your use of the contents and services reserved to registered users, including related communications [registration with the reserved area and use of the related contents and services]. Processing of your personal data for this purpose is necessary to the execution of a contract or to the execution of precontractual measures (reference is made to the conditions of the contract regulating registration with the Reserved Area and use of the related contents and services) (Art. 6.1.b of the GDPR).
    c) Proper and comprehensive management of reports relating to pharmacovigilance [pharmacovigilance]. The processing of your personal data for this purpose is a legal obligation (Art 6.1.d of the GDPR). he processing of “special categories of personal data” is necessary for reasons of public interest in the public health care sector, by way of guarantee of high quality and safety parameters in medicinal products and medical devices (Art. 9.2.i of the GDPR).
    d) Compliance with legal obligations. In certain circumstances, legislation obliges us to use your personal data (for example to send you communications required by the law or by the authority) [compliance with legal obligations]. The processing of your personal data for this purpose is a legal obligation (Art 6.1.c of the GDPR).
  3. Categories of data processed
    The Data Controller will process the following categories of your personal data:
    • in the event that you should submit communications or requests to Angelini, your personal data necessary to the correct management of your communication or request (in particular, name and surname, postal address, e-mail address and telephone number) and any other personal data you may include in your message;
    • in relation to the Reserved Area (i) your personal data necessary for your correct identification, to verify that you meet the subjective requirements necessary and to use the contents and services reserved to registered users including related communications (in particular, name and surname, country, being a healthcare professional, email);
    • if you should make any reports in relation to pharmacovigilance, the data necessary to comply with the related legal obligations assigned to the Data Controller. More specifically, as “reporting party”, as a guarantee of the exactness and pertinence of data and its verifiability for the purpose of the scientific assessment of the reports: e-mail address or telephone number, to obtain, if necessary, additional information with respect to that already communicated (“follow-up”); and, in order to manage the report correctly, any classification as medical-health care professional (for example doctor, dentist, nurse, pharmacist, medical examiner) or type of non health care professional, such as patient, attorney or person in relation to the subject to whom the report refers (for example friend, relative, assistant). As the subject to whom the report refers (the “patient”): initials of name and surname, city and country of residence, age (or age range) and/or date of birth, gender, height and weight and data relating to sex life or which reveals racial or ethnic origin, health of the subject (medical history, any current or previous pathologies, pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies, pregnancy, breast-feeding) “special categories of data”) concerned by pharmacovigilance obligations, in particular in respect of “Safety information” on the medicinal product, such as adverse reactions, special situations (abuse, overdose, improper use (misuse), therapeutic error, “off-label” use, occupational exposure), exposure during pregnancy or breast-feeding, with or without associated adverse reactions, lack of efficacy or suspected transmission of infectious agent through the medicinal product;
    • all data necessary to comply with legal obligations (such as, for example, your contact data for communications required by the law or by the authority).
  4. Data source
    Your personal data will be obtained by the Data Controller:
    • directly from you and your interaction with the Data Controller;
    • by another company belonging to the business group of which Angelini is the parent company (“Angelini Pharma Group”).
  5. Nature of data conferral

    The conferral of your personal data in order to manage your requests (purpose pursuant to paragraph 2, letter a) is mandatory to allow the Data Controller to process your communication: failure to provide such would make it impossible for you to receive a reply to your communication (in particular, to receive a response to a request you make for information or assistance).
    Conferral of your personal data in order to register with the reserved area and use the related contents and services (purpose pursuant to paragraph 2, letter b) is a contractual obligation: failure to provide such would make it impossible for you to register with the reserved area and use the contents and services reserved to registered users.
    Conferral of your personal data for pharmacovigilance (purpose pursuant to paragraph 2, letter c) and to comply with legal obligations (purpose pursuant to paragraph 2, letter d) is mandatory insofar as it derives from provisions of the law.

  6. Processing methods

    Data processing is carried out using both automated and non-automated tools, with logic strictly related to the purposes of the processing and, in any case, with methods and procedures able to ensure the security and confidentiality of the data.

  7. Categories of personal data recipients
    For the purposes indicated above (paragraph 2), your personal data may be communicated:
    • to persons authorized by the Data Controller to carry out personal data processing operations (employees or collaborators of the Data Controller);
    • to the data processors appointed by the Data Controller (suppliers of computer, technological and telematic services, Internet operators);
    • to autonomous data controllers (to handle your requests: couriers and dispatch companies; for pharmacovigilance: national and European medicine and drug agencies, other pharmaceutical companies, including companies of the Angelini Pharma Group, bound to the Data Controller by license contracts and distribution agreements for pharmaceutical products or, in the case of transfer of marketing authorizations for the pharmaceutical product; to comply with legal obligations: public authorities).
    Your data may also be transmitted in accordance with the law to tax authorities, police and judicial and administrative authorities, for the assessment and prosecution of crimes, prevention and protection from threats to public security, to allow the Data Controller to ascertain, exercise or defend a right in court, as well as for other reasons related to the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
  8. Data retention period
    We store your personal data for a limited period of time depending on the purpose of processing. After the expiry of this period, your data will be permanently deleted or in any case rendered irreversibly anonymous. Your personal data will be stored in accordance with the terms and criteria specified below:
    • for the management of your requests (purpose pursuant to paragraph 2, letter a) for a maximum period of 6 (six) months from the proper and comprehensive management of your request;
    • for the registration with the reserved area and use the related contents and services (purpose pursuant to paragraph 2, letter b), if a registered user, until (i) deletion of your account, which you may request at any time by contacting the Data Controller or until (ii) loss, by yourself, of the subjective requirements needed to use the service (Reserved Area) and, in any case, until (iii) deletion of the Reserved Area (including its contents and services). During registration, verification of your capacity as subject meeting the necessary requirements to access and use the service (Reserved Area) will last for up to 30 (thirty) days. Failure to complete the verification during this period of time will mean that your personal data is deleted from our databases and your request for registration is deemed unsuccessful;
    • for pharmacovigilance (purpose pursuant to paragraph 2, letter c) as long as the medical product is authorised and for at least 10 (ten) years after the marketing authorisation has expired;
    • to comply with legal obligations (purpose pursuant to paragraph 2, letter d) for a maximum period of 10 (ten) years from when the calendar year ends during which the Data Controller has complied with the legal obligation, in order to document and be able to show correct compliance with the law (for example having correctly informed you of any security breaches that may have involved your data and the measures we took to address such situations).
    For technical reasons, the termination of the processing and the consequent deletion of your personal data, or its anonymization, will take place within 30 (thirty) days from the terms indicated above. This is without prejudice to cases where retention for a longer period is required for any litigation, requests by the competent authorities or under applicable law.
  9. Transfer of personal data outside the EU/EEA

    Your personal data will not be transferred to countries outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA) that do not offer an adequate level of data protection, as established by specific resolutions issued by the European Commission ( https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/adequacy-decisions_en ).

  10. Rights of the data subject
    As data subject, you have the right to:
    • have confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you are being processed and, if so, to obtain access to the data and related information (in particular, the purposes of the processing; categories of personal data processed; recipients or categories of recipients to whom the data have been or will be communicated; the period of retention of the data or the criterion for determining it; the existence of the right to rectify or erase the data or to limit or oppose the processing; the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; the origin of the data; the possible existence of an automated decision-making process, including profiling and, in such cases, significant information on the logic used and the importance and expected consequences of such processing for the data subject; the appropriate safeguards in case of transfer of personal data outside the EU/EEA), as well as a copy of such personal data, provided that this does not harm the rights and freedoms of others (right of access);
    • obtain the rectification of your personal data, i.e. to obtain the correction, modification or updating of any inaccurate or no longer correct data, as well as to obtain the supplement of incomplete personal data, including by providing an additional statement (right of rectification);
    • request the deletion of your personal data when these, in particular, (i) are no longer necessary with respect to the purposes for which they were collected or processed, or (ii) they have been processed unlawfully, or (iii) they must be deleted in order to comply with a legal obligation, or, finally (right to be forgotten). Deletion may not be carried out if, in particular, the processing is necessary for the fulfillment of a legal obligation or for the establishment, exercise or defense of a right in court;
    • obtain a restriction on the processing of your personal data, i.e. that the Data Controller retains such data without being able to use them. This right can be exercised only when, in particular, (i) the accuracy of the personal data is contested, for the period necessary for the Data Controller to verify the accuracy of such data, or (ii) the processing of the data is unlawful and a restriction on the use of the data is requested, instead of their deletion, or (iii) although the Data Controller no longer needs them for the purposes of processing, the personal data are necessary for you to ascertain, exercise or defend a right in court (right to restriction)
    • obtain from the Data Controller your personal data, processed on the basis of a contract, in a standard format, and that they are transferred, where technically possible, directly to a third party indicated by you (right to portability).
    To exercise these rights you can contact the Data Controller at any time, writing to Angelini S.p.A., viale Amelia n. 70, 00181 - Rome (Rome), Italy or at the email address privacy.italia@angelinipharma.com or by writing to the Data Protection Officer (DPO) c/o Angelini S.p.A., viale Amelia n. 70, 00181 - Rome (Rome), Italy, or to the email address dpo.italia@angelinipharma.com.
  11. Complaint

    If you believe that your personal data has been processed unlawfully, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority (in Italy, the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, for more information www.garanteprivacy.it ).
    The complaint can also be made to a data protection authority other than that of Italy, if said data protection authority is that of the EU Member State in which you have your habitual place of residence or of the place where the alleged breach took place.

  12. Changes to this notice

    The constant evolution of our activities could lead to changes in the characteristics of the processing of your personal data described above. As a result, this privacy notice may be subject to changes and additions over time, which may also be necessary with regard to new legislation on the personal data protection.
    The updated version of this privacy notice will be published on this page, indicating the date on which it was last updated. Please therefore refer to this page when accessing the Website.