Privacy Policy

BAYER ONYX respect the privacy of visitors to the RafScience web site. This web site endeavors to collect, maintain and secure your personal information in accordance with the principles described within this policy. This policy applies only to the information collected on this web site. This privacy policy does not apply to information collected offline. Information collected online from other web sites operated by BAYER or ONYX are governed by the privacy statements that appear on those sites.

Data We Collect

BAYER and ONYX will only collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address that you provide or that is provided to us with your permission. Portions of this Web site may not ask you to supply your personal information, allowing you to visit our site without telling us who you are. However, some areas or services may require you to provide personal information in order to receive promotional offers. When you register with us, you may need to complete certain fields (some are required and some are optional). In this instance, if you choose to withhold any personally identifiable information required by us, it will not be possible for you to obtain the promotional offers.

In addition, BAYER and ONYX may collect non-personally identifiable information about how you use our websites using analysis technologies. These analysis technologies may be provided by third parties. Information that might be collected using these technologies includes, for example, the pages you visit on our site, the paths you take within our sites and the length of time that you spend on our websites. We use this information in the aggregate in order to better understand how to improve the quality of our websites.

How We Use and Disclose Your Information

BAYER and ONYX and/or the companies we hire will use this information to comply with your request for information, to contact you to better understand your needs and how we can improve our products and services, or as otherwise disclosed to you on the web page when you submit your information to us. We will not sell or otherwise transfer the personally identifiable information you provide to us at this website to any third parties for their own use without your permission.

Cookies and Internet Tags

Like many websites, this website uses a technology called "cookies". A cookie is a small text file that a web server gives your browser to store on your computer when you access a website. Cookies are capable of storing many types of data and may be placed on your browser by BAYER and ONYX or by a third party. Cookies may be used for a variety of purposes on this website:

• This site sets cookies that keep you from having to enter a password more than once during visits to one or more of our sites.
• We also use cookies to help us analyze usage of our sites and traffic among our sites more accurately and to provide you with information of interest to you. For example, cookies are used on this site to record the total number of hits received on the site and web pages.
• Cookies also allow BAYER and ONYX to determine whether you came to this site from another BAYER and ONYX site or from an advertising banner or link on a non-BAYER, Schering-Plough or ONYX website, so that we can, for example, measure the effectiveness of the links among our sites and the effectiveness of our advertising on non-BAYER or ONYX websites.
• Similarly, cookies allow us to determine whether you register on or visit any of our websites, which enables us to analyze how particular users use our sites and whether registered and unregistered users of our websites use our sites differently.
• Cookies also allow us to maintain information about how particular visitors use our family of sites, which enables us to better provide such visitors with information relevant to their interests. This may include using information about your use of our sites in conjunction with personally identifiable information that you have volunteered to us on one of our sites.

This is not an exhaustive list of all uses of cookies on this web site. In all cases in which cookies are used, however, neither BAYER, ONYX nor any third party will use the cookie to collect personally identifiable information from our site unless you voluntarily agree to enter the information. Most web browsers are set up to accept cookies. You can, however, reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Note, however, that some portions of our sites may not work properly if you refuse cookies.

Some BAYER or ONYX websites use a third party advertising service to display advertising on other, non- BAYER or ONYX websites. In addition to placing advertisements on certain non- BAYER and ONYX web pages, these services may also place a segment of code called a clear pixel tag, also known as a "GIF", on certain BAYER and ONYX web pages contain for the purpose of measuring the effectiveness of advertisements in bringing visitors to our web sites. GIFs may also be used with cookies to track the total number of visitors to our website, the number of visitors to various web pages, and the domain names of our visitors' Internet service providers. No personally identifiable information is collected in this process.

As is common among Internet site operators, BAYER and ONYX websites maintain web server logs. Web servers automatically identify your computer by its IP address and collect that information in its web server logs. BAYER and ONYX web server logs collect statistical data that is generated by your computer when it visits a BAYER and ONYX website, such as the type of web browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer) and operating system (Windows 95 or Mac OS) used to access the site, the domain name of your Internet service provider, the date and time you access our site, and the pages you visit. BAYER and ONYX websites use this non-personally identifying web server log information for a variety of purposes. Some of these purposes include: system administration; to examine overall traffic trends on our sites; trouble-shooting; and to gather broad demographic information about users of our sites. No personally identifiable information is contained in these web server logs.

Confidentiality

You should keep in mind that no Internet transmission is ever completely secure or error-free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from this site may not be secure and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail. Moreover, where you use passwords, ID numbers or other special access features on this site, it is your responsibility to safeguard them.

Security

BAYER and ONYX use reasonable and appropriate physical, technical and administrative security safeguards, in order to protect your data from coincidental or deliberate manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons. As part of the collection and processing of personal data, all transferred information will be encrypted to prevent misuse of the data by third parties. Our security procedures are reviewed on a regular basis.

Personal Information and Children

This BAYER and ONYX website is not intended or designed to attract children under the age of 13. We will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from any person under the age of 13.

As a convenience to our visitors, BAYER and ONYX's sites currently contain links to a number of websites that we believe may offer useful information. The privacy policy and provisions described here do not apply to those sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their data collection and distribution policies.

International Policy

This web site is intended for access and use by U.S. residents only and is subject to all applicable U.S. laws.

Changes to our Privacy Statement

From time to time, BAYER and ONYX may decide to modify its practices and policies, and we reserve the right to revise this BAYER and ONYX Internet Privacy Statement as necessary to disclose such changes in our practices and policies. Any such changes to this BAYER and ONYX Internet Privacy Statement will be promptly communicated on this page. Any information that you submit before the change in policy will be used by BAYER and ONYX and/or the companies we hire in a manner that is consistent with the BAYER and ONYX Internet Privacy Statement in effect at the time you submitted your information. Continued use of our sites after receiving notice of a change in our privacy statement shall indicate your consent to the use of newly-submitted information in accordance with the changed, amended, or updated BAYER and ONYX Internet Privacy Statement.