Data Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice informs you of important information about how Hologic Ltd and our family of companies (together, “Hologic” “we” or “our”) process the personal data that we collect when using the Website www.hologic.co.uk.

Hologic is comprised of Hologic Ltd and its group of subsidiary companies which are different legal entities. These Disclosures are issued on behalf of this group of entities so when we mention ”Hologic”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this Privacy Notice, we are referring to the relevant company in the group responsible for processing your data.

The data controller responsible for this website is Hologic Ltd. Heron House, Oaks Business Park, Crewe Road, Wythenshawe, Manchester, M23 9HZ, UK.

Our General Data Privacy Statement of the Hologic Group you can find here https://www.hologic.com/privacy-policy.

When we use the term “Sites” we mean to refer collectively to the websites owned and controlled by us that link to this Privacy Notice (“Sites”).

When we use the term “personal data” we mean data that reasonably can be used to identify a person, or that reasonably relates to a person.

How we collect and use personal data

We collect and process personal data about a number of different individuals through the provision of the Services. These individuals include our customers, prospective customers and others who may be interested in our products and services, visitors to our Sites, vendors, and other individuals.

Contact possibility via the Site:

The Site contains information that enables a quick electronic contact to us, as well as direct communication with us, which also includes a general address of the so-called electronic mail (e-mail address). If a data subject contacts the controller by e-mail or via a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the data subject are automatically stored. Such personal data transmitted on a voluntary basis by a data subject to the data controller are stored for the purpose of processing or contacting the data subject. There is no transfer of this personal data to third parties.

Social media links via graphics:

Social media channels, pages and blogs offered as a service to users of the Services (“Social Media”) are hosted by third-party vendors. We integrate the following Social Media sites into our Site. The integration takes place via a linked graphic of the Site. Only by clicking on the corresponding graphic will you be forwarded to the service of the respective social network.

Once you click, that network may record information about you and your visit to our Site. Initially, this data includes such things as your IP address, the date and time of your visit, and the page visited. If you are logged into your user account on that network, however, the network operator might assign the information collected about your visit to our site to your personal account. To prevent this, you need to log out of your social media account before clicking on the graphic. The various social media networks also offer settings that you can configure accordingly.

The following social networks are integrated into our Site by linked graphics

Analyses Tools

Use of Hotjar

We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices (in particular device’s IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy by clicking on this link.

You can opt-out to the creation of a user profile, Hotjar’s storing of data about your usage of our site and Hotjar’s use of tracking cookies on other websites by following this opt-out link.

Use of Google Analytics

Our Site uses Google Analytics, operated by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland, a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351 USA.

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network. Google Analytics uses cookies. Each time you visit our site the cookie stores information such as access time, the location from which access was made and the frequency of site visits, as well as the IP address you use.

You can configure the use of cookies by reviewing your Internet browser settings, typically under the sections “Help” or “Internet Options,” to exercise choices you have for certain Cookies. If you disable or delete certain Cookies in your settings, you may not be able to use features of this Site. You can also opt-out of having made your activity on this Site available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. Please visit the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to learn more about the use of Cookies by Google for analytics and to exercise choice regarding those Cookies,

For further information to Google and Data Privacy see https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=en

Cookies

We use Cookies and related technologies (“Cookies”) to provide Services, gather information when users navigate through the Site to enhance and personalize the experience, to understand usage patterns, and to improve our Site, products, and Services. Cookies are small text files or other storage technologies stored on your computer by your browser. These Cookies process certain specific information about you, such as your browser, location data, or IP address. This processing makes our Site more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. For more information on our specific Cookies used please see our Cookie settings on the Site. The legal basis for such processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) and f) UK GDPR. You can withdraw your consent to the use of cookies or change your cookie preferences on our Site.

Additional uses of personal data

In addition to the uses described above, we may use your personal data for the following purposes. Some of these uses may, under certain circumstances, be based on your consent (art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) UK GDPR), may be necessary to fulfill our contractual commitments to you (art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) UK GDPR), are necessary to serve our legitimate interests in the following business operations (art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) UK GDPR), or to comply with our legal obligations (art. 6 para. 1 lit. c) UK GDPR):

• Operating our business, administering the Services and managing your accounts;
• Contacting you to respond to your requests or inquiries;
• Providing you with newsletters, articles, alerts and announcements, event invitations, and other information that we believe may be of interest to you;
• Providing you with marketing information, and other information that is tailored to your interests;
• Conducting research, surveys, and similar inquiries to help us understand trends and customer needs;
• Analyzing your interactions with us, and improving our products, services, programs, and other offerings;
• Preventing, investigating, or providing notice of fraud, unlawful or criminal activity, or unauthorized access to or use of Personal Information, our website or data systems; or to meet legal obligations; and
• Enforcing our Terms of Use and other agreements.

How we share and disclose personal data

We share personal data with the following categories of recipients.

Data Retention

We retain personal data pursuant to our records retention program, for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in the Hologic Privacy Notice, unless a longer period is required under applicable law or is needed to resolve disputes or protect our legal rights, in accordance with the principles set forth in Article 5(1) of the UK GDPR.

The criteria used to determine the period for which personal data about you will be stored varies depending on the legal basis under which we process such personal data:

We may face any threat of legal claim and in that case, we may need to apply a “legal hold” that retains information beyond our typical retention period.  In that case, we will retain the information until the hold is removed, which typically means the claim or threat of claim has been resolved.

Transfers of information across borders

Any information that you provide to us is stored and processed in, and transferred between, any of the countries in which Hologic and its agents, contractors and affiliated organizations have offices, in order to enable Hologic to use that information as set out in this Privacy Notice.

Not all of these countries have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the EEA and UK. In order to ensure the protection of your personal data outside of the EEA and UK we have put in place or ensured at least one of the following safeguards:

• Transfer of personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission, UK Secretary of State and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO – UK) (as applicable); or
• Use of European Commission and Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO – UK) approved Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs); or
• The use of any other valid cross-border transfer mechanism to ensure an adequate level of protection with respect to the privacy rights of individuals as required by Article 46 of the UK GDPR and/or Article 46 of the UK GDPR (as the case may be).

Data Security

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect personal data within Hologic.  Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be secure at all times.  If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.

Data Subject Rights

Individuals whose personal data we process subject to the GDPR have certain rights as required by law, including the right of access, erasure and data portability, as well as the right to rectification, to restrict processing, to withdraw consent, and to object to processing as follows.

Updates to this Privacy Notice

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Hologic may change its Privacy Notice from time to time, and at Hologic’s sole discretion. Hologic encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Notice.

How to contact us

To assert one of your legal rights described in these Disclosures, or if you have questions about these Disclosures or our data handling practices, please email data.privacy@hologic.com or write to:
Hologic Ltd. Heron House, Oaks Business Park, Crewe Road, Wythenshawe, Manchester, M23 9HZ, UK.

Status: December 2021