Privacy Policy And Notice Of Information Practices

Effective Date: October 1, 2018

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. ("BioMarin," “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects the privacy of visitors to our websites and online services and values the confidence of our customers, partners, patients, and employees.

This Privacy Policy and Notice of Information Practices (“Privacy Notice”) sets forth BioMarin’s practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of information that you may provide through the websites and online services that we operate and that link to this Privacy Notice, as well as through any of our offline services that reference this Privacy Notice (collectively, the “Services”). Please read the entire Privacy Notice before using our Services.

Collection of Information

We may ask you for some or all of the following types of information when you register with our Services, access various content or features, submit photos and other content, or directly contact us with questions or feedback:

• Contact information, such as name, email address, postal address, and telephone number;
• User name and password;
• Demographic information, such as age information and gender;
• Communications preferences;
• Search queries;
• Stories, comments, photos, and other information posted in our interactive online features; and
• Correspondence and other information that you send to us.

We also may collect certain information automatically when you visit the Services, including:

• Your browser type and operating system;
• Your Internet Protocol (IP) address, which is the number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet and that can sometimes be used to derive your general geographic area;
• Other unique identifiers, including mobile device identification numbers;
• Sites you visited before and after visiting the Services;
• Pages you view and links you click on within the Services;
• Information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies;
• Information about your interactions with email messages, such as the links clicked on and whether the messages were opened or forwarded; and
• Standard server log information.

We may use cookies, pixel tags, and similar technologies to automatically collect this information. Cookies are small bits of information that are stored by your computer’s web browser. Pixel tags are very small images or small pieces of data embedded in images, also known as “web beacons” or “clear GIFs,” that can recognize cookies, the time and date a page is viewed, a description of the page where the pixel tag is placed, and similar information from your computer or device. You can decide if and how your computer will accept a cookie by configuring your preferences or options in your browser. However, if you choose to reject cookies, you may not be able to use certain online products, services or features on the Services.

Response to “Do Not Track” Signals

Some Internet browsers include the ability to transmit “Do Not Track” signals. Since uniform standards for “Do Not Track” signals have not yet been adopted, BioMarin does not process or respond to “Do Not Track” signals.

Use of Information

Our legal basis to process your information includes processing that is necessary for legitimate business interests, including but not limited to the following examples:

• Providing you with the products, promotions, services, and information you request;
• Contacting you via email and otherwise about products, services, and events that we think might be of interest to you;
• Maintaining or administering the Services, performing business analyses, or for other internal purposes to improve the quality of our business, the Services, and other products and services we offer;
• Publishing stories, comments, photos, and other information posted in our interactive online features;
• Processing employment applications and inquiries; and
• Customizing and personalizing your use of the Services.

We may also process your information in order to comply with our legal obligations, perform a contract between us and you, establish and defend any legal claims, and in some cases our basis for processing will be because you have consented to our use of your information.

Sharing of Information

We are committed to maintaining your trust, and we want you to understand when and with whom we may share the information we collect.

• Corporate Parents and Affiliates. We may share your information with our corporate parents and other affiliated entities for a variety of purposes, including business, operational, and marketing purposes. For more information on those entities, see www.biomarin.com/contact.

• Service Providers. We may share your information with service providers that perform certain functions or services on our behalf pursuant to the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice (such as to host the Services, manage databases, perform analyses, or send communications for us).

• Other Parties When Required By Law or as Necessary to Protect the Services. We may disclose your information to third parties in order to: protect the legal rights, safety, and security of BioMarin, our corporate parents and affiliates, and the users of our Services; enforce our Terms of Use; prevent fraud (or for risk management purposes); and comply with or respond to law enforcement, or legal process, or a request for cooperation by a government entity, whether or not legally required.

• In Connection With a Transfer of Assets. If we sell all or part of our business, or make a sale or transfer of assets, or are otherwise involved in a merger or business transfer, or in the event of bankruptcy, we may transfer your information to one or more third parties as part of that transaction.

• Other Parties With Your Consent. We may disclose to third parties information that does not describe or identify individual users, such as aggregate website usage data or demographic reports.

• Aggregate Information. We may disclose to third parties information that does not describe or identify individual users, such as aggregate website usage data or demographic reports.

We may allow third parties to place and read their own cookies, web beacons, Local Shared Objects, and similar technologies to collect information through the Services. For example, our third-party service providers may use these technologies to collect information that helps us with traffic measurement, research, and analytics. Local Shared Objects (sometimes referred to as “Flash Cookies”) are similar to standard cookies except that they can be larger and are downloaded to a computer or mobile device by the Adobe Flash media player. Please note that you may need to take additional steps beyond changing your browser settings to refuse or disable Local Shared Objects and similar technologies. For example, Local Shared Objects can be controlled through the instructions on Adobe’s Setting Manager page. If you choose to refuse, disable, or delete these technologies, some of the functionality of the Services may no longer be available to you.

Social Networking Services

BioMarin has worked with certain third-party social media providers to offer you their social networking services through our Services. For example, you can use third-party social networking services, including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, and others, to share information about your experience on our Services with your friends and followers on those social networking services. These social networking services may be able to collect information about you, including your activity on our Services. These third-party social networking services also may notify your friends, both on our Services and on the social networking services themselves, that you are a user of our Services or about your use of our Services, in accordance with applicable law and their own privacy policies. If you choose to access or make use of third-party social networking services, we may receive information about you that you have made available to those social networking services, including information about your contacts on those social networking services.

You also may be able to link an account from a social networking service (e.g., Facebook, Twitter) to an account through our Services. This may allow you to use your credentials from the other site or service to sign in to certain features on our Services. If you link your account from a third-party site or service, we may collect information from those third-party accounts, and any information that we collect will be governed by this Privacy Policy.

Security and Retention

We maintain reasonable security procedures to help protect against loss, misuse or unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of the information you provide through the Services. However, no data transmission over the Internet or stored on a server can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and cannot be responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your information. In the event that we believe that the security of your information may have been compromised, we will endeavor to give you appropriate notice as quickly as possible, including by email, and in accordance with applicable laws.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account password and for any access to or use of the Services using your password, whether or not authorized by you. Please notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security.

Your information will be retained only for so long as reasonably necessary for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Notice, in accordance with applicable laws.

Children’s Privacy

BioMarin respects the privacy of children, and we are committed to complying with applicable legislation, including the US Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the EU General Data Protection Act (GDPR). The Services do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personal information from children without prior parental consent, except as permitted by applicable legislation.

If you have questions concerning our information practices with respect to children, please contact us using the form located here.

Your rights, depending on where you live, may include the right to review, have deleted, or stop the further collection of your child’s personal information. If you would like to make such a request, please contact us using the form located here.

Your Choices and Your Information

If at any time you wish to stop receiving emails or other communications from us, or if you have submitted information through the Services and would like to have that information deleted from our records, please use the form found here to notify us.

Your rights, depending on where you live, may include the right to object to or request restriction of processing of your personal information, and request access to, erasure and/or portability of your information held by BioMarin, and you may make such a request by contacting us by completing the form found here or by telephone at (415) 506-6700.

You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection supervisory authority if you believe that our use of your information violates applicable law.

International Transfers

Some of the parties to whom we disclose your information are located in countries that may not provide the same level of data protection as your home country. We take appropriate steps to ensure that such recipients of your information are bound to duties of confidentiality, and BioMarin implements measures such as the EU standard data protection contractual clauses to ensure that any transferred personal information remains protected and secure.

Links to Third-Party Content

As a convenience to our visitors, the Services may link to a number of sites, services, and other content that are operated and maintained by third parties. These third parties operate independently from us, and we do not control their privacy practices. Such links do not constitute an endorsement by BioMarin of the content or the persons or entities associated therewith. This Privacy Notice does not apply to third-party content. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third party to whom you provide information.

Policy Updates

This Privacy Notice may be revised from time to time as we add new features and services, as laws change, and as industry privacy and security best practices evolve. We display an effective date on the policy in the upper left corner of this Privacy Policy so that it will be easier for you to know when there has been a change. If we make any material change to this Privacy Notice regarding use or disclosure of personal information, we will provide advance notice through the Services. Small changes or changes that do not significantly affect individual privacy interests may be made at any time and without prior notice.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, you may contact us using the form found here or at:

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.
105 Digital Drive
Novato, CA 94949
Phone: (415) 506-6700