Cookie Notice

Effective Date: February 1, 2020

This Cookie Notice (“Notice”) explains how the Association for Accessible Medicines (the “Association”, “we” or “us”) uses “cookies” or similar technologies on our websites, including accessiblemeds.org, access.accessiblemeds.org, members.accessiblemeds.org, biosimilarscouncil.org, biosimilarshandbook.org, doesntaddup.com, grxbiosims.org, medsforamerica.org, and rxsavingsmap.org (collectively, the “Site”). This Notice applies to all individuals who access or use the Site.

We may change this Notice from time to time, so please review this page periodically for changes. The “Effective Date” at the top of this page will indicate when the Notice was most recently updated.

When you first access the Site from certain jurisdictions, you will receive a message advising you that cookies and similar technologies are in use. By clicking “Accept” you signify that you understand and agree to the use of these technologies, as described in this Notice. You do not have to accept cookies and your consent can be withdrawn at any time (see “How to Control Cookies” below). You can change your browser settings to refuse or restrict cookies, and you may delete them after they have been placed on your device at any time. If you do not accept or delete our cookies, some areas of the Site that you access may take more time to work or may not function properly.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Notice, please contact us at:

E-mail address: [email protected]

Telephone number: 202-249-7100

Mailing address: Association for Accessible Medicines, 601 New Jersey Ave NW, Suite 850, Washington, DC 20001.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small files containing a string of characters that we may store on your computer or mobile device when you access our Site. When you access the Site again, the cookies allow us to recognize your browser. Cookies may store your preferences and other information, but cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.

Cookies that we, the website owner, set on our Site are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable us to provide third party features or functionality through our Site (i.e., advertising, social media functions and analytics).

The Cookies We Use

Cookies make the use of our Site easier by, among other things, saving your preferences. We may also use cookies to deliver content tailored to your interests. Our cookies may enable us to relate your use of our Site to personal information that you previously provided.

The information that we collect with cookies allows us to statistically analyze usage of our Site, and to improve and customize our content and other offerings. However, we only disclose information collected with cookies to third parties on an aggregated basis without the use of any information that personally identifies you.

The specific types of first party and third party cookies placed by our Site and the purposes they perform are described in the table below:

Type of Cookies

Who serves these cookies

How to Refuse

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site. They include, for example, cookies used for authentication, security and to optimize our Site to your device settings.

  • Cloudflare
  • The Association

These cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website and therefore cannot be refused. They can be deleted or blocked using your browser settings, however (see How to Control Cookies, below).

Performance and Functionality Cookies

These are used to recognize you when you return to our Site. This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region), but are non-essential to the performance of the Site.

  • The Association
  • New Relic
  • amCharts
  • Vimeo
  • Phone2Action
  • Citrix
  • C-span
  • Amazon S3
  • Google Tag Manager

These cookies can be deleted or blocked using your browser settings (see How to Control Cookies, below).

Performance and Functionality Cookies

These are used to recognize you when you return to our Site. This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region), but are non-essential to the performance of the Site.

  • The Association
  • New Relic
  • amCharts
  • Vimeo
  • Phone2Action
  • Citrix
  • C-span
  • Amazon S3
  • Google Tag Manager

These cookies can be deleted or blocked using your browser settings (see How to Control Cookies, below).

Performance and Functionality Cookies

These are used to recognize you when you return to our Site. This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region), but are non-essential to the performance of the Site.

  • The Association
  • New Relic
  • amCharts
  • Vimeo
  • Phone2Action
  • Citrix
  • C-span
  • Amazon S3
  • Google Tag Manager

These cookies can be deleted or blocked using your browser settings (see How to Control Cookies, below).

Analytical Cookies

These cookies collect information about how users access and move through our Site. We use this information in aggregate form to help us to improve the way our Site works.

  • The Association
  • Google Universal Analytics
  • Phone2Action
  • Higher Logic

These cookies can be deleted or blocked using your browser settings (see How to Control Cookies, below).

Alternatively, please follow the links below to review the third party’s privacy policy or to opt-out:

Analytical Cookies

These cookies collect information about how users access and move through our Site. We use this information in aggregate form to help us to improve the way our Site works.

  • The Association
  • Google Universal Analytics
  • Phone2Action
  • Higher Logic

These cookies can be deleted or blocked using your browser settings (see How to Control Cookies, below).

Alternatively, please follow the links below to review the third party’s privacy policy or to opt-out:

Social Media Cookies

These cookies allow us to integrate social media functions into our website and may also be used for advertising purposes.

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

These cookies can be deleted or blocked using your browser settings (see How to Control Cookies, below).

Alternatively, please follow the links below to review the third party’s privacy policy or to opt-out:

How to Control Cookies

As noted above, when you first access our Site from certain jurisdictions, you will receive a message advising you that cookies and similar technologies are in use. By clicking “Accept”, you signify that you understand and agree to the use of these technologies, as described in this Notice.

You do not have to accept cookies and consent can be withdrawn at any time, although you may not be able to use certain features of our Site. You can do this by activating the settings on your browser that allows you to refuse all or some cookies.

Please follow the links below to helpful information for the most popular browsers:

Microsoft Internet Explorer:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Google Chrome:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Site%3DDesktop&hl=en

Mozilla Firefox:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

Apple Safari:

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?locale=en_US

In addition, you can exercise advertising cookie choices by visiting:

http://www.aboutads.info/choices/,

http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/; or

http://youronlinechoices.com/.

Web Beacons

As well as cookies, we use other technologies to recognize and track your use of our Site. A web beacon (also known as a “tracking pixel” or “clear GIF”) is a clear graphic image (typically a one-pixel tag) that is delivered through a web browser or HTML e-mail, typically in conjunction with a cookie.

Web beacons allows us, for example, to monitor how users move from one page within our Site to another, to track access to our communications, to understand whether users have come to our Site from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to measure how ads have been viewed and to improve site performance.

Targeting Advertising

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. These companies may use information about your visits to our Site and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and service that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements.