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Revised April 1, 2004

St. Jude Medical is committed to protecting the privacy of our Web site visitors. This privacy statement describes how we protect, gather, and use information from this St. Jude Medical Web site. We may change this privacy statement at any time for any reason. We will post changes to the privacy statement on this Web site.

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Personal Information

Use of Personal Information

Non-Personal Information

Use of Non-Personal Information

Disclosure of Personal Information

Children's Privacy

Links to Other Web Sites

Cookies

Security

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Personal Information

Personal information is information that identifies you individually, such as your name, address, email address, phone number, or other information that is specific to you. Some pages on this Web site provide online contact forms that require personal information.

Use of Personal Information

St. Jude Medical keeps and uses the personal information collected about you on the contact form to respond to your questions and comments.

In addition, we may use this information to:    

  • Develop internal company reports, based on personal information, for promotion, research, and Web site content
  • Track Web site usage so we can improve site content and functionality
  • Formulate personalized Web site access based on your site use and areas of interest
  • Contact you about our products or services or those of others that may be of interest to you
  • Learn about our customers and markets

Read our link notice regarding links to other Web sites.

Non-Personal Information

Non-personal information is information that does not identify you individually. Non-personal information is information we collect from your computer, such as your Web browser, the date and time of your Web site visit, the Web address from which you accessed our site, the number of visitors to the site, the pages viewed and the length of time on the Web site.

Use of Non-Personal Information

St. Jude Medical uses non-personal information to collect general information about our site visitors. Non-personal information is used by St. Jude Medical and is shared with third parties to:

  • Improve our products, services, and Web site content
  • Generate information about site visitors so we can make this Web site more useful and valuable
  • Personalize information and services for visitors that return to our site

Disclosure of Personal Information

St. Jude Medical and our affiliates will not share personal information collected through this Web site with unrelated third parties, except as provided in this privacy policy.

St. Jude Medical and our affiliates may share personal information with companies that we hire to perform services for us, such as mailing or data processing, where they need your personal information to perform the service. These companies are not authorized to keep or use your personal information for any other purpose.

St. Jude Medical and our affiliates also may share your personal information to comply with legal requirements, such as law, regulation, warrant, subpoena, court order, or in a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, acquisition, dissolution or similar event.

Children's Privacy

St. Jude Medical does not intentionally collect personal information from children under age 13. If you think that a child has provided us with personal information, please email us. We will use reasonable efforts to delete this information.

Links to Other Web Sites

St. Jude Medical operates multiple Web sites for different purposes in countries where laws that differ from those in the United States may apply. This privacy policy applies only to this Web site.

This privacy policy does not apply to Web sites of other companies or organizations to which our Web site links. These links are provided for your convenience. St. Jude Medical does not control these Web sites, nor are we responsible for their operation or content. We suggest that you review the privacy policy for each Web site you visit.

Cookies

Non-personal data on our Web site may be collected using a technology called cookies. Cookies are small data files that are sent to your browser and placed on your computer's hard drive when you visit a Web site. You can set your browser to accept or decline cookies. Some sections of our Web site may not work properly if you decline cookies.

Security

St. Jude Medical takes reasonable steps to protect personal information from loss and misuse. Please keep in mind that no Internet transmission is 100% secure. Some email sent to or from this site may not be secure. Please consider this when sending information to us by email.

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If you have any questions or comments about this privacy policy, please contact us.

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