Use of Cookies on Sun/Ranbaxy websites and digital properties/platforms (‘Sites’)
Sun/Ranbaxy uses cookies and similar technologies such as web beacons to collect information about you and store your online preferences. Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a Site. Cookies are then sent back to the website when you return to it: this is useful because it allows the website to recognise your device. To find out more about cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Sun uses the following categories of cookies on the Site:
Category 1: Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Site and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for (such as remembering your login details) cannot be provided.
Category 2: Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information on how people use the Site. For example, we use these cookies to help us understand how customers arrive at the Site, browse or use the Site and highlight areas where we can improve such as navigation, user experience and marketing campaigns. The data collected is only used to improve how the Site works.
Category 3: Functionality Cookies
These cookies remember choices you make (such as language choices). These can then be used to provide you with an experience more appropriate to your selections and to make your visits to the Site more tailored. The information these cookies collect may be non-directly identifiable and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Category 4: Social Media Cookies
Our Site may include buttons that allow you to connect with the following third-party social media networks. When you consent to us sending your personal data to these entities or when you click on these connect buttons, you agree that your device will access the respective webpages and device data and other information about your visit will be sent to the relevant social network to provide measurement services, target ads and as otherwise set out in their privacy policy (together with information about the rights and options to protect your privacy). These are available at the websites of those third-party social media networks.
We are not responsible for their subsequent use of your personal data or any personal data you provide them once you leave our website. If you would like to exercise your data subject rights over the personal data shared with a third-party social media site, you may contact them directly to withdraw your consent, as appropriate.
Category 5: Advertising cookies
These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited the Site and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers.
Use of Web Beacons
Some pages of our Site and e-mails we may send may contain electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes known as clear gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited these pages or read our e-mails. Web beacons collect only limited information which include a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides. These beacons do not carry any personal data and are only used to track the effectiveness of a particular campaign.
In line with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA):
- Cookies collecting personal information are used lawfully and transparently
- Non-essential cookies are used only with your consent
- You may withdraw consent at any time
You can:
- Accept or refuse non-essential cookies via our cookie banner
- Adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies
We may use trusted third-party services (e.g., analytics providers) that place cookies. These parties operate under their own privacy policies.
Cookies are stored either temporarily (session cookies) or for a limited period (persistent cookies), depending on their purpose.
Under POPIA, you have the right to:
- Access, correct, or delete your personal information
- Object to processing
- Withdraw consent
Contact Information
Ranbaxy (S.A) (Pty) Ltd & Sonke Pharmaceuticals (Pty) Ltd.
Ground Floor,
Tugela House, Riverside Office Park, 1303 Heuwel Avenue,
Centurion, Pretoria, RSA
Tel. No.: +27 12 643 2000
South African Pharmacovigilance Department
Ground Floor,
Tugela House, Riverside Office Park, 1303 Heuwel Avenue,
Centurion, Pretoria, RSA
Tel. No.: +971 50 9217985 / +971 55 5599314/ +27 12 643 2000 / +27 73 152 3491
Email: pharmacovigilance.africasme@sunpharma.com
Changes to this Notice
This Notice may change from time to time. Sun will place an updated version of the Notice on its website and may otherwise communicate changes as appropriate.
