Altus respects the privacy of visitors to our web site, and we recognize your need for appropriate protection and management of the personally identifiable information you share with us, such as your name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number. You may visit our web site without telling us anything about yourself. If you contact us and choose to provide personally identifiable information, we will utilize it for the purposes for which it was made available. We do not collect or maintain personally identifiable information for resale purposes, or share your information with any other company or organization unless you authorize us to do so. Any and all uses comply with all applicable laws.

Our web site has security measures in place, including the use of industry standard secure socket layer encryption (SSL), to protect the confidentiality of any of your information that you volunteer. However, to take advantage of this, your browser must support encryption protection (found in Internet Explorer release 3.0 and above and Netscape Navigator release 3.0 and above). These security measures also help us to honor your choices for the use of your information.

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children and do not collect information from any person we actually know is a child under the age of 13. From time to time, our web site may be configured to collect domain information as part of our analysis of the use of this site. This data enables us to become more familiar with which users visit our site, how often they visit and what parts of the site they visit most often. Altus uses this information to improve our web site. This information is collected automatically and requires no action on your part.

Periodically, some pages on this web site may use "cookies," which are small files that the site places on your hard drive for identification purposes. These files are used for site registration and customization the next time you visit us. You should note that cookies cannot read data off of your hard drive. Your web browser may allow you to be notified when you are receiving a cookie, giving you the choice to accept it or not. By not accepting cookies, some pages may not fully function and you may not be able to access certain information on this site. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use any area of our web site.

As a convenience to our visitors, this web site currently contains links to a number of sites that we believe may offer useful information. The policies and procedures we described here do not apply to those sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy, security, data collection and distribution policies.

Additional Policies Relating to Clinical Trial Participation

Purpose and Reason for Collecting your Information: The purpose of this policy is to explain what Altus does with personally identifiable information that you provide to us through our website, such as your name, address, age, and information relating to your medical conditions, to be considered by Altus for participation in a clinical trial. We want you to know how your personally identifiable information will be protected, who we may share it with, and for what purposes. The information we collect is used to determine whether you are eligible to participate in a clinical trial, to identify the location of a study stie nearest your home, and then to provide you and the site with contact information to facilitate your possible enrollement if you determine you wish to be considered for enrollment and you are eligible for enrollment.

Consent to Provide Your Information to Altus: We request your consent to collect your personally identifiable information when you seek information about whether you can participate in a clinical trial.

Sharing Your Information With Third-Parties: When you provide personally identifiable information to Altus, it will be accessible to some of Altus' business partners, such as companies we retain to conduct a clinical trial as well as to physicians or medical offices we engaged to run the clinical trial. These third parties have agreed to protect the privacy of your information and to comply with the privacy laws relating to your personally identifiable information.

There may also be instances where Altus may be required to share your information with third parties who have not been retained by us (directly or indirectly), such as with health authorities to report possible adverse drug experiences, during inspections or audits, or as ordered or directed by courts or other governmental agencies. Many entities receiving personally identifiable information under there conditions have privacy requirements that apply to their handling of your information.

Sharing Your Information with Altus: The information that you provide Altus may be shared with other departments within Altus. This may mean that your personally identifiable information may be shared with departments within Altus. This may mean that your personally identifiable information may be transferred outside your country or state. Other departments within Altus will abide by these privacy policies in terms of using or sharing your personally identifiable information.

Security of Your Information

Loss, Alteration or Misuse of Data: While we cannot guarentee against any loss, misuse or alteration of data, we try to prevent such unfortunate occurrences. You should keep in mind that Internet transmissions-and particularly email transmissions-are never 100% secure or error-free. We accordingly caution you to take special care in deciding what information to send us through email or over the Internet, and to guard your own computer and password from unauthorized access by other.

Updating and Accessing Your Information: Altus complies with laws and regulations applicable to the limited right to amend your data in our files. These rights are limited in a number of ways. In addition, in order to protect your data from unauthorized access or alteration by third parties, all requests to update or access your information will be subject to verification of the identity of the requesting individual.

Altus may, at any time, revise this Privacy Statement by updating this posting.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this web site, please contact info@altus.com.