Pharming Privacy Policy

Last Updated: April 2, 2026

Introduction

Pharming Healthcare, Inc., along with our subsidiaries and affiliates (“Pharming,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your Personal Information. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) describes how we collect, use, and disclose Personal Information we receive in course of providing our products and services (the “Services”), which includes when you visit our website www.pharming.com or any of our product-specific websites that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Website”), or otherwise interact with us directly or indirectly. This Privacy Policy also addresses our privacy practices with respect to job applicant data, but it does not address our treatment of employee data. Also, please note that our handling of pseudonymized clinical trial data is not addressed in this Privacy Policy. 

You can review our European Privacy Statement here, and our Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy here.

Information collection

“Personal Information” refers to any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual.

The Personal Information we collect about you depends on your relationship with us. We may collect Personal Information directly from individuals (e.g., from patients who use our therapies, from caretakers, from healthcare providers, from individuals who attend our conferences, events, and webinars, etc.), indirectly via tracking technologies on our Website, from third parties that provide your information with your authorization or otherwise on your behalf (e.g., information about patients from prescribers or pharmacies), or from other sources such as insurers, public or paid databases, advertising and market research partners, or social media (including social media listening tools). The Personal Information we may collect includes the following:

  • Contact details such as name, email address, phone number, and address
  • Account details such as username and password
  • Website tracking data such as IP address 
  • Professional information such as employer, job title, National Provider Identifier (NPI), professional publications, travel-related information and preferences, business contact information, and education or employment history 
  • Protected classification characteristics to the extent voluntarily provided by job applicants 
  • Insurance information such as insurance policy number or other health insurance information
  • Commercial information such as samples, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered
  • Payment and billing information
  • Sensitive Personal Information such as precise geolocation and consumer health data 
  • Inferences drawn from any of the information listed above to create a profile about an individual reflecting their preferences, characteristics, behavior, or attitudes

We may also collect Personal Information automatically using various tracking technologies, such as cookies, on our Website. The information collected by these tracking technologies may include IP address, precise geolocation, referring URL, device ID, web browser characteristics, and date and time of activity. See further information in the section below.

If you provide us Personal Information relating to other individuals, you warrant that you have the authority to do so, and where required, have obtained the necessary consent, and acknowledge that it may be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Cookies & marketing tools

We use cookies and similar technologies such as tracking pixels and web beacons (collectively referred to as “cookies”) to collect user activity information, including your browsing activities and preferences. We may use the following types of cookies:

  • Necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Website.
  • Functionality cookies. These cookies remember choices you make and are used to recognize you when you return to the Website. 
  • Analytics cookies. These cookies collect information about how you use the Website. They measure and improve the performance of our Website. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the Website. We may also use these types of cookies to gauge how you interact with our marketing emails.
  • Targeting or Advertising cookies. These cookies collect information about your browsing activities in order to understand your interests for marketing purposes. We, or third parties, may place these cookies on your browser when you visit certain websites for the purpose of serving you with advertisements regarding our products and services that may be of interest to you (i.e., retargeting).

Analytics cookies, targeting and advertising cookies, and the user activity information generated from these cookies, are created, stored and/or managed by third party service providers that provide us with web traffic analytics, sales engagement and marketing automation services, such as Google Analytics and others. The user activity information collected by these tracking technologies may be stored and used by these third parties. You can opt-out of Google Analytics by downloading Google’s Opt-Out Browser Add-on. 

Some internet browsers have “Do Not Track” or “DNT” features which, when turned on, send a signal to a website that the individual visiting the website does not wish to be tracked. Such browser features and industry standards are not uniform, so our Website does not respond to DNT signals, but you can control your cookie preferences in the settings of your Internet browser. Please note that if you block or reject cookies on our Website, some functionality of the Website may be limited.

Information use

We process Personal Information for a variety of purposes, including to:

  • Respond to your questions and communicate with customers and prospective customers.
  • Solicit feedback from customers and prospective customers.
  • Provide patient and customer support and process reports and inquiries related to quality control, returns, and adverse events.
  • Operate, manage, and run our business and maintain records.
  • Provide, develop, improve, and maintain our products and Services.
  • Analyze and better understand consumers’ needs, preferences, and interests and conduct analysis and research.
  • Advertise and promote our products and Services, including by contacting you to market products, services, and topics that may be of interest to you or otherwise provide you with news, announcements, or updates.
  • Engage with current and prospective advertisers, advocacy organizations, service providers, and third parties.
  • Collect and analyze information about characteristics and behavior of visitors to our Website.
  • Undertake quality and safety assurance measures and conduct risk and security controls and monitoring.
  • Detect and prevent fraud and perform identity verification.
  • Perform accounting, audit, and other internal functions, such as internal investigations.
  • Evaluate job applicants for employment.
  • Comply with law, regulation, legal process, and internal policies.
  • Exercise and defend legal claims.
  • For any other purpose you may agree to at or before the time your Personal Information is collected.

We may also aggregate and/or anonymize Personal Information and analyze that data for statistical or any other purposes permitted by law. 

Information disclosure 

We disclose Personal Information in the following ways:

  • To affiliates and subsidiaries within our corporate family.
  • To service providers who process Personal Information on our behalf, including service providers who provide order fulfillment and returns processing, data hosting, information technology support, email hosting, marketing, and analytics services, and other services for the operation of our business. 
  • To third-party marketing, advertising, analytics, and social media companies, who may process Personal Information for their own purposes.
  • To certain other third parties with your consent or direction such as healthcare providers, pharmacies, or insurers. 
  • To third parties as deemed necessary to protect our rights, defend or pursue a legal claim, or investigate or prosecute illegal activities.
  • To institutional review boards, government agencies, or judicial authorities to comply with a subpoena, court order, governmental inquiry, legal process, legal obligation, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of other users or the public. This includes complying with product safety and adverse event reporting obligations.
  • To a successor entity or purchaser upon a merger, consolidation, or other corporate reorganization in which we participate, or pursuant to a financing arrangement or event of bankruptcy.

Pharming does not sell Personal Information for monetary consideration, though certain of our digital analytics and advertising activities may constitute a “sale” or “sharing” of Personal Information as those terms are defined under applicable privacy laws (see further discussion in Your Privacy Rights and Additional Information for California Residents sections below).

Data security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to ensure that the Personal Information we collect is protected from accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction, or access by unauthorized persons. We make reasonable efforts to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk associated with the processing of Personal Information, however, no data transmission or storage system is guaranteed to be 100% secure in all circumstances.

Retention of personal information

We retain the Personal Information we collect for the time period required to fulfill the legitimate business purposes for which it was collected and to engage in the use and disclosure practices outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a different retention period is required by applicable law, or otherwise to fulfill a legal obligation or protect our legal rights. We may also maintain for an indefinite period of time certain personal information that has been de-identified. This information is no longer considered Personal Information and we commit not to attempt to reidentify such information.

Third party links

For practical reasons and for your information, our Website may contain links to other websites, such as links to our profile pages on social media sites. Pharming exercises no control over such other websites and is not responsible for the content thereon. This Privacy Policy does not apply to third party websites, and we recommend that you review the online privacy policy of any website you visit to determine how the operator handles Personal Information collected through its website.

Children’s data

Our Website is not intended for use by children under the age of 16 and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 16. If we learn we have inadvertently collected Personal Information from children under 16 years old through our Website, we will take steps to delete that information. Pharming does not have actual knowledge that it collects, sells, or shares for cross-context behavioral advertising the Personal Information of individuals under 16 years of age.

International users

Pharming is an international company with operations in various jurisdictions, including the United States. By visiting the Website or otherwise using the Services, you acknowledge and agree that your Personal Information may be processed as set forth in this Privacy Policy and it may be processed in a country other than your country of residence, where laws regarding processing of Personal Information may be less stringent than the laws in your country.

Your communication choices

You may opt out of receiving email marketing communications from us by clicking the unsubscribe link included in our emails or contacting us. Please note that we may still send you transactional and administrative emails even if you opt out of marketing communications.

Based on where you live, you may have additional rights regarding your Personal Information (see further information in the Your Privacy Rights section below).

Your privacy rights

Depending on your state of residence, you may have some or all of the following rights with respect to the Personal Information we maintain about you. Depending on the jurisdiction, these rights may apply specifically to consumer health data. Please note that these rights are not absolute, may apply only in certain circumstances, and we may decline your request to exercise them as permitted by law.

  • Right to Confirm / Access / Know. You may have the right to request access to Personal Information that we hold about you, including details relating to the ways in which we collect, use, and share your information. Residents of California have the right to know the categories of Personal Information we have collected about them, the categories of sources from which the Personal Information is collected, the categories of Personal Information sold, shared, or disclosed, the business or commercial purpose for selling, sharing, or disclosing the Personal Information, and the categories of third parties to whom we have sold, shared, or disclosed their Personal Information. California’s “Shine the Light” law also permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
  • Right of Portability. You may have the right to receive a copy of the Personal Information we hold about you and to request that we transfer it to a third party.
  • Right to Delete. You may have the right to request that we delete Personal Information we maintain about you.
  • Right to Correct. You may have the right to request that we correct inaccurate Personal Information we maintain about you.
  • Right to Withdraw Consent. You may have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your Personal Information.
  • Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. You may have the right to limit the processing of your sensitive Personal Information.
  • Right to Opt-Out. You may have the right to opt-out of certain uses of your Personal Information such as for (i) targeted advertising, (ii) “sale” or “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising, or (iii) profiling or automated decision-making activities that result in a legal or similarly significant effect on you. We do not engage in (iii), but you can opt-out of uses (i) and (ii) by adjusting your cookies settings to reject analytics and advertising cookies, noting that these adjustments may be specific to the Pharming site on which you make them. 
  • Right to Appeal. You may have a right to appeal our decision if we decline to process your request in part or in full. You can do so by replying directly to our denial. If you are not satisfied with our response to your appeal, you may contact your state Attorney General.

Requests to exercise these rights may be made using the contact information listed at the end of this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise described in this section. Only you, or as permitted by law, a person that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a request related to your Personal Information. For certain requests, we must verify your request before we can fulfill it. Verifying your request will require you to provide sufficient information for us to reasonably confirm that you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information or that the requestor is authorized to act on your behalf. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.

Additional information for California residents

This section provides additional disclosures for residents of California, as required by the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended (the “CCPA”). Please remember that the information we collect varies based on our relationship with you and note that certain Personal Information or activities may not be reflected in this section because they are exempt from the CCPA.

CCPA Categories of Personal Information We Collect and How and Why We Collect Them 

We collect the following categories of Personal Information about California consumers. This information may be, or have been, collected directly from you, automatically when you use our Services, from third parties, or from publicly available sources.

  • Identifiers, including real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, IP address, email address, account name, social security number, or other similar identifiers.
  • Personal Information described in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e), including name, signature, address, telephone number, education, employment, employment history, bank account information, credit card number, debit card number, or other financial information, or health insurance information.
  • Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, including age and date of birth, gender, medical condition, or disability. Additional protected classification characteristics may also be collected from job applicants such as race or ethnicity.
  • Commercial information, including records of samples, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information, including Internet or other similar activity, browsing history, search history, information about a consumer’s interaction with our Website.
  • Geolocation data, including location data inferred from your device IP address.
  • Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information, including audio recordings of customer calls and webinars.
  • Professional or employment-related information, including business contact information as well as information collected from job applicants during the hiring process.
  • Non-public education information, including transcripts or other information which may be collected during the hiring process.
  • Inferences used to create a profile reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
  • Sensitive Personal Information, including information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s health; account log-credentials; precise geolocation; and citizenship or immigration status (job applicant context only). To the extent we collect sensitive personal information, we may use it (namely, information concerning a consumer’s health) for purposes of inferring characteristics about a consumer.

We use the Personal Information we collect for the purposes described in the Information Use section above.

CCPA Categories of Personal Information Disclosed 

We disclose all of the above categories of Personal Information to service providers or to other third parties as described in the Information Disclosure section above. 

CCPA Categories of Personal Information Sold or Shared‘

Under the CCPA, a “sale” of Personal Information does not necessarily involve an exchange of money. Instead, a sale also includes disclosures of Personal Information to third parties who may use the information for their own purposes, such as analytics and advertising partners. Similarly, under California law, “sharing” Personal Information refers to disclosing of Personal Information to third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising. Per these definitions, we may sell and share the following categories of Personal Information to third party analytics and advertising partners:

  • Identifiers
  • Personal Information described in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)
  • Commercial information
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information
  • Geolocation data
  • Inferences
  • Sensitive Personal Information (e.g., precise geolocation)

California residents should refer to the Your Privacy Rights section above for information regarding their privacy rights under the CCPA and how to exercise them.

Changes to this privacy policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date stated at the top of this page. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes to this policy, we will post the updated version on our Website and indicate the date the policy was last updated. We encourage you to review this page periodically to check for any updates.

Contact information

If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us at:

Pharming Healthcare, Inc.

10 Independence Blvd #401

Warren, NJ 07059

https://www.pharming.com/contact

USPrivacy@Pharming.com