DATA PROTECTION NOTICE: HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL

Revised in November 2019

PSI CRO AG (PSI, we) is a global contract research organization located in Baarerstrasse 113a, 6300 Zug, Switzerland. Our professional interest is to help pharmaceutical companies, sponsors, to conduct clinical studies.

What is the purpose and the legal basis for processing your personal data

The services we provide to sponsors include finding healthcare professionals for clinical studies. Based on the legitimate interest related to our core business, we would like to collect, store and use some of your personal information to be able to assess your eligibility to participate in the studies managed by PSI and consider inviting you to work with us in future clinical studies. We may also use your personal data to improve our internal processes. For these purposes, PSI will act as the data controller.

Which of your personal data we need to collect

We will keep the data that you may share with us, including your full name, professional interests, qualification, contact information, and place of your work. We may be searching for potential investigators at professional websites, for instance websites of the medical institutions that may post contact information of their staff and department heads. Such resources will normally be public. We may also refer to official commercial professional resources. This allows PSI specialists to get in touch with potential investigators. PSI would need to do eligibility assessment and record the results of such assessment into our database. This database will not be available outside of PSI.

Who will have access to your personal data

PSI will keep your information in internal database of healthcare professionals. PSI personnel from PSI Group companies whose responsibility is identifying and selecting professionals for clinical studies, will have access to this database. As for our business, we may have to share your personal data, including our assessment of your eligibility for a study, with study sponsors who will decide whether your qualifications match their study requirements. The applicable law may require PSI to disclose some of your data to the auditors and competent regulatory authorities. In this case, we will have to do so. When we use personal data to improve our internal processes, we may need to engage professional service providers who will be bound by the obligations to comply with all applicable laws and PSI’s instructions.

When the parties with whom we need to share your data are located abroad, your personal data will need to be sent or/and accessed from abroad, including to/from countries where the data protection laws may be less strict as compared to your home country. PSI makes reasonable efforts to ensure that these PSI staff and external recipients, regardless of their location, commit to protect your personal information. Such efforts include technical and organizational measures, as well as certain contractual protections to safeguard your data. You can ask PSI to tell you more about these safeguards, including a review of any applicable protective measures.

How long your personal data will be kept

We will retain your data as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected them for. At any time you can ask us to erase your data or exercise other data protection rights as we explain below. However we may be required to keep some of your data to comply with our legal obligation. To make sure that your data are accurate we strive to review our database of healthcare professionals. When you inform us of any relevant changes to your personal data, we will be happy to make corrections in our database.

How to exercise your rights regarding your personal data

You can exercise your rights of access to data, objection, correction, erasure, restriction of data processing, as well as data portability in accordance with the applicable laws.

In case by the time of your enquiry you enter into a study managed by PSI, the terms of personal data use pertinent to the study will apply. Such terms will be explained to you in a study data protection notice.

Please address your enquiries to PSI Data Protection Officer at privacy@psi-cro.com

If you are based in the EU, you have the right to lodge a complaint to the competent supervisory authority. You may find a list of the national data protection authorities and their contact details at this link.

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