This Privacy Notice is addressed to:
Novo Nordisk Limited is required by law to protect your personal
data. This Notice explains how we process (e.g. collect, use, store,
and share) your personal data. We will process any personal data about
you in accordance with this Notice and with applicable law.
The company responsible for processing your personal data is:
Novo Nordisk Limited
3 City Place, Beehive Ring Road
Gatwick, West Sussex
RH6 0PA
Registration number 1118740
You can always contact Novo Nordisk or the UK Novo Nordisk Data Privacy Officer or UK Data Protection Responsible at privacyuk@novonordisk.com with questions or concerns about how we process your personal data.
We get your personal data from the following sources:
We always process your personal data for a specific purpose and only process the personal data which is relevant to achieve that purpose. In particular, we process your personal data for the following purposes:
For the purposes described above in Section 3, we may process the following types of personal data:
If you intend to provide us with personal data about other individuals (e.g. your colleagues), you must provide a copy of this Privacy Notice to the relevant individuals, directly or through their employer.
Personal data are collected only to the extent required. Under no circumstances are the collected data sold on to third parties for any reason.
Our processing of your personal data requires a legal basis.
We will not process your personal data if we do not have a proper justification foreseen in the law for that purpose. Therefore, we will only process your personal data if:
Please note that, when processing your personal data on this last basis, we always seek to maintain a balance between our legitimate interests and your privacy. Examples of such ‘legitimate interests’ are data processing activities performed:
· to benefit from cost-effective services (e.g. we may opt to use certain platforms offered by suppliers to process data);
· to offer our products and services to our customers;
We may share your personal data with:
In the course of our activities and for the same purposes as those listed in this Privacy Notice, your personal data can be accessed by, or transferred to the following categories of recipients, on a need to know basis to achieve such purposes:
The above third parties are contractually obliged to protect the confidentiality and security of your personal data, in compliance with applicable law.
We may also make public disclosures of transfers of value, where required by law, relevant authorities and/or industry codes of practice.
Your personal data can also be accessed by or transferred to any national and/or international regulatory, enforcement, public body or court, where we are required to do so by applicable law or regulation or at their request.
For the purposes described above in Section 3, we transfer your personal data to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). The level of data protection in certain countries outside the EEA does not conform to the level of data protection for personal data currently applied and enforced within the EEA.
We therefore use the following safeguards, as required by law, to protect your personal data in case of such transfers:
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected or to comply with legal or regulatory requirements.
For contracts, the retention period is the term of your (or your company’s) contract with us, plus the period of time until the legal claims under this contract become time-barred, unless overriding legal or regulatory schedules require a longer or shorter retention period. When this period expires, your personal data is removed from our active systems.
Personal data collected and processed in the context of a dispute are deleted or archived (i) as soon as an amicable settlement has been reached, (ii) once a decision in last resort has been rendered or (iii) when the claim becomes time barred.
In general, you have the following rights:
Under applicable law, there may be limits on these rights depending on the specific circumstances of the processing activity. Contact us as described in Section 1 with questions or requests relating to these rights.
If you have any questions about this privacy, cookies and legal disclaimer, if you want to obtain insight in any personal data held about you, or if you have any concerns regarding Novo Nordisk’s use of your personal data you may contact us via privacyuk@novonordisk.com
November 2020