As of January 28, 2004.
We at McKesson Corporation are committed to maintaining the privacy and security of our
customers' personal information. Through this privacy statement, McKesson wants to
assure you of our commitment to privacy and security.
Our privacy philosophy is based on the concept of fair information practices. This means
we provide our customers with notice of how we manage information so that they can have
a more informed understanding of how we operate.
Read more about:
Notice: If we collect information from or about you, we will tell you what information is
being collected, how, by whom, and for what purposes.
Choice: We will give you options about how the personal information that you provide us
may be used.
Security: We use recognized industry safeguards to protect customer personal information
from unauthorized access or use.
Access: You will have the opportunity to update your personal information that you have
provided to us. We will also take steps to make sure that any updates that are provided are
processed in a timely and complete manner.
Customer Service and Recourse: We will tell you how you can contact us regarding our
privacy statement and practices.
NOTICE
If we collect information about you, we will tell you what information is being collected,
how, by whom, and for what purposes.
Through this statement and our Web pages, we let you know what types of information we
collect from and about you, the types and intended uses of such information, and the types
of third parties to whom the information may be disclosed. If we collect information from
you, we clearly identify the information that is necessary to fulfill your request and the
optional information that is used to deliver tailored information to you.
When you visit our site, we may collect information about your use of our site through
'cookies'. Cookies are small bits of information transferred to your computer's hard drive
that allow us to know how often someone visits our site and the activities they conduct
while on the site. The information collected by cookies allows us to monitor how our
customers are using our Web site. If you simply want to browse, you do not have to accept
cookies from us. However, if you wish to take advantage of specific services offered
online, we may require you to accept cookies placed by a third party supporting this
activity on our behalf. We also capture the paths taken as you move from page to page (i.e.,
your "click stream" activity).
Information we collect on McKesson.com may be used to enhance your use of this Web site
in ways like these:
Arrange the Web site in the most user-friendly way
Customize your browsing experience of this web site
Communicate special offers and featured items to you, if you choose to receive
such notices
Respond to your question or suggestions
Disclosure of Personal Information for Legal Purposes and Protection of McKesson.com and
Others:
We reserve the right to share your personal information with third parties if required to do
so by law or if we believe such action is necessary in order to: (a) conform with the
requirements of the law or to comply with legal process served upon us; (b) protect or
defend our legal rights or property, McKesson.com, or our users; or (c) investigate,
prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving
potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or violations of the terms and
conditions of using McKesson.com.
Linking To Other Sites:
Please remember that when you use a link to go from McKesson.com to another Web site,
the McKesson.com Site Rules and this Privacy Policy are no longer in effect. Your
browsing and interaction on any other Web site, including any site that has a link on
McKesson.com, is subject to the rules and policies of that site. We encourage you to read
the rules and policies of the sites you visit to further understand their procedures for
collecting, using, and disclosing personal information.
CHOICE
We will give you options about how the personal information that you provide us may be
used.
Before we use your personal information for any purpose, we will give you choices about
whether or not to allow us to engage in that use. We will give you the opportunity to keep
us from using or sharing the personal information that you have provided to us for purposes
other than to fulfill your request. To exercise this choice, we will allow you to notify us of
your preferences during the information collection process.
If there are third parties that process McKesson data, we will require them to hold all
personally identifiable information confidential, and to use our customer information only
for the purpose of fulfilling their business obligation. McKesson does not sell personally
identifiable information to third party marketers.
SECURITY
We use recognized industry safeguards to protect personally identifiable information from
unauthorized access or use.
We will employ industry-recognized security safeguards to protect the personally
identifiable information that you have provided to us from loss, misuse, and unauthorized
alteration. If you are required to transmit sensitive information (such as social security
and/or credit information) to us through our Web site, we will provide you access to our
secure server that allows encryption of your data as it is transmitted to us.
We will protect personally identifiable information stored on the site's servers from
unauthorized access using commercially available computer security products (e.g.,
firewalls), as well as carefully developed security procedures and practices.
ACCESS
We will let you update your personal information that you have provided to us. We will
also take steps to make sure that any updates that you provide are processed in a timely and
complete manner.
If we collect personal information through our sites, we will maintain the information and
allow you to update it at any time. We will continue to work on better methods of accessing
your information to increase your access to it for update purposes. Note that some
McKesson sites may contain links to other sites that are beyond our control, and that you
may want to read those sites' privacy policies before entering information.
CUSTOMER SERVICE AND RECOURSE
We will tell you how you can contact us regarding our privacy statement and practices.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, our information handling practices,
or any other aspects of your privacy and the security of information, please send an e-mail
to privacy@mckesson.com, or call us at 1.800.305.0730. Our mailing address is: One Post
St., San Francisco, CA, USA 94104, ATTN: Privacy Officer.
We retain the flexibility to update this policy.
McKesson may periodically update this policy to describe how new Web features may
affect our use of your information and to let you know of new controls and features that we
may provide you. McKesson will NOT apply changes to this policy retroactively to
information McKesson has previously collected.
HIPAA AT MCKESSON
As a key provider of services and technology to the health care industry, McKesson
Corporation and its affiliated companies collectively, ("McKesson") are implementing
programs to address the transaction standards, and the privacy and security implications of
the rules promulgated pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
of 1996 ("HIPAA"). Learn more about HIPAA at McKesson.