Our website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance website functionality, analyze site usage, enable social media features and assist in our marketing efforts. Our aim is to improve the experience for visitors to our websites which includes websites that can be accessed through our mobile applications.

What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are also sent back to the original website or another website that recognises the cookie and act as a memory for a website, allowing the site to remember details on subsequent visits. For instance, cookies can remember end user preferences, improve user experience as well as adjust content to items most relevant to end users.

You can find more generic information about cookies at www.aboutcookies.org

AstraZeneca uses cookies for the following purposes:

• Providing website functionality and assisting in navigation
• Assisting in registration and login to our events and provide the ability to deliver feedback
• Analyzing site usage
• Enabling social media features
• Assisting with our promotional and marketing efforts

Generic Types of Cookies

Session and persistent cookies

When a site is launched, these cookies attempt to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information

• Session cookies exist only until you close your web browser
• Persistent cookies exist longer but for a specified period of time

Third party cookies

Third-party cookies are created by domains that are not the website (or domain) that you are visiting. These cookies are used for our marketing efforts, as well as to understand your browsing of the website, for example, which page you visit or how long you stay on each page.

• These types of cookies are set by AstraZeneca affiliates and/or vendors we are working with to enhance end user experience

The Cookie Preferences Panel

You may utilize the Cookie Preferences Panel at any time to change or withdraw your consent for each cookie category - except strictly necessary cookies - by clicking the “Cookie Preferences” button on the website banner or clicking the “Cookie Notice Link”, located in the website footer. You may select “Allow All Cookies” on the panel which permits the download of all available cookies for use.

The panel identifies categories of cookies as well as provides information about the individual cookies available to the site you are visiting. This allows you to better understand the way our website uses cookies. The panel enables you to control and change your cookie preferences, and the information in the Panel is delivered in an open and transparent way, providing complete visibility into how cookies are used to enrich your visitor experience and make an informed choice to allow their usage.

You may use the Toggle bar next to each category of cookies to set acceptance or denial of cookies being placed on your device. Be aware however, that restricting cookies may impact the functionality of a website. Many of the interactive functions offered by websites are dependent on cookies and disabling or blocking cookies can prevent these services from working and reduce their usefulness. Once your selections are made, click the “Confirm Your Preferences” button to confirm your cookie usage choices.

Cookie Category Description

Strictly Necessary Cookies

The strictly necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You may be able to decline these cookies through your browser, but necessary parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Performance and Operational Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources, perform customer surveys and other web analytics, so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. The information these cookies collect is aggregated and in some instances limited identifiable data may be collected.

Functional Cookies

These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality, aid site personalisation, maintain user-selected options and site navigation aids. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.

Marketing and targeted advertising cookies

These cookies are used to track our visitors browsing habits and activity across our websites. They can be used to build up a profile of search and/or browsing history for every visitor. Identifiable or unique data may be collected which enables us to show you relevant/personalized marketing content. We do not store directly personal information, but information that uniquely identify your browser and internet device and use this to display targeted advertising and/or share this data with third parties for the same purpose. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less personalized marketing content and targeted advertising.

Control cookies from the browser

Along with the Cookie Preferences Panel, you can also change your browser and/or mobile device settings so that cookies from this website cannot be placed on your computer or mobile device. You can usually change the browser’s settings to refuse new cookies, disable existing ones or simply let you know when new ones are sent to your device. In order to set your browser to reject cookies, refer to the help instructions supplied by the browser provider (usually located within the “Help”, “Tools” or “Edit” menu) or the settings of your mobile device. More detailed guidance can be found at www.aboutcookies.org
Please be aware that, if you refuse or disable cookies, some of the website’s functionality may be lost.

Personal data

Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Notice.

Contact Information

If you have any queries in relation to this notice, please contact us at privacy@astrazeneca.com.