Privacy Policy

InterMune, Inc. (“InterMune”) recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of visitors to our Website and the information it obtains in the course of conducting its business, either through this Website (the "Website"), or through other means. InterMune ("we" or "us") provide this privacy policy and agreement ("Privacy Policy" or “Policy”) to make you aware of (i) how we collect, use, and treat personal information in electronic and paper form and (ii) the choices you can make about how your personal information is collected and used, both on-line and off-line. We respect your privacy and would like to thank you for placing your trust in InterMune.

By visiting the Website or submitting your personal information, you accept the terms described in this Policy. We do not sell your personal information to third parties; however, we may share your personal information with third parties as described in this privacy statement. If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please refer to the end of this Policy for information about how to contact us.

This privacy statement applies to TRUSTe certified InterMune Websites. To view a list of these validated InterMune Websites, click here.

InterMune complies with the U.S. – E.U. Safe Harbor framework and the U.S. – Swiss Safe Harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union and Switzerland, respectively. Information regarding the E.U. and Swiss Safe Harbor Frameworks can be found at: http://export.gov/safeharbor. InterMune where applicable, complies with the EU Data Protection Directive and its implementation in Member States where we conduct business.

InterMune has been awarded TRUSTe's Privacy Seal signifying that this privacy policy and our practices have been reviewed by TRUSTe for compliance with TRUSTe's program requirements including transparency, accountability and choice regarding the collection and use of your personal information.

If you have questions, concerns or complaints regarding our privacy policy or practices, you should first contact us at privacy@intermune.com. If you are not satisfied with our response or if contacting us does not resolve your complaint you can contact TRUSTe here.

You may also contact TRUSTe by:
(i) Internet at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php
(ii) Mail at Watch Dog Complaints, TRUSTe, 55 Second Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA, USA 94105
(iii) Phone at 415-520-3400
(iv) Fax at 415-520-3420.

If you are contacting TRUSTe to lodge a complaint by U.S. mail, you must include the following information: the name of the company (i.e., InterMune), the alleged privacy violation, your contact information, and whether you would like the particulars of your complaint shared with the company.

For information about TRUSTe or the operation of TRUSTe's dispute resolution process, see http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog complaint.php or request this information from TRUSTe at the addresses listed above. The TRUSTe dispute resolution process is conducted in English.

Information we collect

In General. You may visit this Website without providing us any personal information. However, we may collect and store any information you choose to submit through the Website. This includes personal information, such as your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, and financial account information. We also may collect personal information when you send us an email message or otherwise communicate with us regarding our products and services or request for information.

Some pages on our Website that appear as InterMune pages, such as our investor relations pages, in fact are hosted by third-party service providers. These pages may collect personal information such as email addresses and are governed by this privacy policy. We do not share any of your personally identifiable information with third parties for their own marketing purposes.

Automatic Information. When you visit this Website, we automatically collect and analyze certain information about your computer. This information may include your IP address, Web browser software (such as Internet Explorer), the webpages you visit, and the referring Website address.

Cookies and Similar Technologies. We may use “cookies” or other similar technologies when you visit this Website. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our Website. We use these technologies to facilitate access to this Website and to recognize you when you return to the Website. A cookie is a small piece of information that is sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or to reject cookies and this will enable you to decide if you want to accept it or not. InterMune may not permit you to access certain Web pages within its Website in the event your browser does not accept a cookie request.

The use of cookies by our partners, affiliates, and service providers is not covered by our privacy statement. We do not have access or control over these cookies. Our partners, affiliates, tracking utility company and service providers may use session based cookies only to provide anonymous “state” information on our Website. Anonymous State information is information in a form that does not allow a third party to identify you. Anonymous information might include, for example, the fact that an unidentified Website visitor viewed certain pages on our Website, or performed certain searches on the Website. Anonymous information might also include survey responses and other feedback that users provide to us, where we have taken reasonable steps to de-identify the information to prevent disclosure of the user who provided the information. We use such anonymous information, and may engage service providers to assist us in using this information, to improve the features and content of this Website, to compile and analyze aggregate statistics about our users, and to engage in related business, marketing, and research activities, on the commitment that any such uses will not identify you.

Session based cookies are temporary bits of information that are used to improve navigation, block visitors from providing information where inappropriate (the Website "remembers" previous entries of age or country of origin that were outside the specified parameters and blocks subsequent changes), and collect aggregate statistical information on the Website. Session based cookies are not stored with any collected user-identifiable information.

This Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the Website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Information on Google Analytics can be found at: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html

Some of our service providers employ a software technology called “clear gifs” (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our Website by informing us as to what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ personally-identifiable information.

As is true of most Websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use the information referenced above, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the Website, to track users’ movements around the Website and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

How we use this information

We may use the information we collect about you to:

Respond to your request for information;
Deliver the services you have requested;
Obtain feedback on our products and services;
Compile invitation lists to upcoming investor events at medical conferences and other select events;
Perform business analyses or other activities to improve the quality of our business and the products and services we offer, or to enhance your online experience;
Enforce our Terms and Conditions; and
As otherwise described to you at the point of collection or pursuant to your consent.

With whom we share this information

We may share your personal information under certain circumstances, including:

With our subsidiaries and affiliates;
With our authorized service providers that perform certain functions or services on our behalf (for example, we may share your information with entities that support our website functionality, fulfill orders, or perform other functions involving features offered through our Sites);
To respond to subpoenas, court orders or other legal process, in response to a request for cooperation from law enforcement or another government agency, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
When necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, or as otherwise required by law;
In connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy;
In aggregated or another non-personally identifiable form to third parties for business analyses and various other business purposes, including to improve the quality of our business and the products and services we offer;
To enforce our Terms and Conditions;
As otherwise described to you at the point of collection or pursuant to your consent.

In addition, circumstances may arise where we decide to reorganize or divest part or all of our business or of a line of our business, including our information databases and Websites, through a sale, divestiture, merger, acquisition, or other means of transfer. In any such circumstance, personally identifiable information may be shared with, sold, transferred, rented, licensed or otherwise provided or made available by us or on our behalf to actual or potential parties to, and in connection with, the contemplated transaction (without your consent or any further notice to you). In such circumstances, we will seek written assurances that personally identifiable information submitted through this Website will be protected appropriately.

Our service providers are subject to contractual obligations to safeguard the security of your personal information.

Access and Choice

If your personally-identifiable information changes, you may correct, update or delete it by emailing our Compliance Group at privacy@intermune.com or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below.

We will respond to your request within 30 days.

We will retain your information for as long as needed to provide you with requested information and information about upcoming seminars and investor events, to provide you with requested products and services, as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements and for other business purposes or as described to you at the point your information is collected. If you request that we no longer use your information you can contact us at privacy@intermune.com. We will retain and use your information.

Children's privacy

This Website is not directed toward children, and we do not knowingly collection information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will delete it from our database.

Security

We maintain appropriate security measures to help protect the confidentiality of any personal information that you volunteer, and follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmitting or storing electronic data is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that your personal information or other communications will always remain secure. If you have any questions about security on our Website, you can contact us at privacy@intermune.com.

Tell-A-Friend

If you choose to use our referral function to tell a friend about our Website, our Website will ask you for your friend's name and e-mail address as well as your information. The form automatically sends your friend a one-time e-mail inviting him or her to visit the Website. We do not access or store this information, except to send this invitation.

Links to other Websites

As a convenience to our visitors, this Website currently contains links to a number of other Websites that we believe may offer useful information. The policies and procedures we describe in this Policy do not apply to those Websites. We suggest contacting those Websites directly for information on their privacy, security, data collection and distribution policies.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we modify this Policy, we will revise the effective date below. We will notify you about material changes to this Policy by sending you notice by electronic or postal mail, or by placing a prominent notice on this Website prior to the change becoming effective. Your continued use of this Website after any modification indicates your agreement to the new terms.

Your California privacy rights

California law permits our visitors who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us at the email address listed below.

How to contact us

If you have any comments or questions about this Privacy Policy, please send an email to privacy@intermune.com or contact us via postal mail at:

InterMune, Inc.
3280 Bayshore Blvd.
Brisbane, CA. 94005
Attn: Chief Compliance Officer

Last updated March 2013.