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| BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. Privacy
Statement |
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| Last Updated: June 20, 2008 |
BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. (the "Company") is committed to
protecting the privacy of our customers' personal information. This Privacy
Statement applies with respect to the information that we collect from biotechbuildings.com. Please read this Privacy
Statement carefully so that you understand what information we collect through
this website and what we do with that information. By visiting
biotechbuildings.com, you agree that your visit, and any dispute over privacy,
is governed by this Privacy Statement and our Terms and Conditions of Use.
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| THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT |
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| The information we gather falls into two categories: (1)
information supplied by visitors to the site when they place an ad on the site,
respond to an ad on the site, or initiate a transaction, and (2) tracking
information gathered as visitors navigate through our website. Third-party
advertisers featured on or linked by our website, such as vendors of laboratory
space and services offered through our site, may be gathering information, as
well, through processes we do not control. |
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| Advertisements. To make use
of certain features on our site, visitors need to provide limited information
about themselves so that we can respond to their needs. If you find an advertisement
that interests you and elect to send the advertiser an email through our
website, we will share with the advertiser any contact information you supply
online through our website. When an advertiser lists lab space for sale or
lease, we may ask for information about the lab space and how the advertiser
can be contacted by potential buyers. |
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| Registration. Some areas of
our site request registration. During the registration process, we may collect
personal information from the user such as contact information (name, address,
and email address). |
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| Email Addresses. If you
provide us your email address, we may email you about our website or our
services, or to inquire about your experience using our website or sites
operated by others.
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| Cookies. We
use this information to improve our site by making it more responsive to the
needs of our users. Those who advertise and provide products and/or services
through our site may also assign their own cookies, a process we do not
control. We do not have access to these cookies or to any information they
contain. The help function on most web browsers contains information on how to
set your browser to notify you before accepting a cookie or to disable cookies
entirely. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to take
advantage of certain features on our site that are available to other visitors.
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| Web Beacons. To help us keep track of how many users are
visiting particular pages within our website, and how many users are accessing
particular advertisements that we distribute, we may place a small file, called
a web beacon, on some of our pages and on some of the listings we distribute.
These web beacons allow us to track the number of users that view our pages and
our advertisements, but they do not reveal any personally identifying
information about individual users. |
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| Browser Level Information. Our
web server automatically collects limited information about your computer
configuration when you visit our site, including the type of browser software
you use, the operating system you are running, the resolution of your computer
monitor, the website that referred you and your IP address. (Your IP address is
a numerical address that is used by computers connected to the Internet to
We may use this
information to improve our site by making it more responsive to the needs of our
users. Those who advertise and provide products and/or services through our site
may also assign their own cookies, a process we do not control. We do not have
access to these cookies or to any information they contain. The help function on
most web browsers contains information on how to set your browser to notify you
before accepting a cookie or to disable cookies entirely. However, if you do not
accept cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of certain features on our
site that are available to other visitors.
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| Web Beacons.ass="pageheading">LINKS AND FEATURES OFFERED IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER
PROVIDERS |
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| Our site includes links to other websites, and provides
access to products and services offered by third parties, whose privacy
policies we do not control. When you access another website or purchase
products or services or conduct other transactions through our website, use of
any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator
of the site you are visiting or the provider of such products or services. When
you provide information in the course of obtaining products or services through
our site, use of any information you provide may be governed by the privacy
policy of the provider of those products or services. The provider's privacy
policy may differ from ours. If you cannot find the privacy policy of any of
our provider partners via a link either from their site's homepage or from the
pages on which the products or services are offered, you should contact the
provider directly for more information. |
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| OTHER DISCLOSURES |
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| We may need to disclose your personally identifiable information when required by law or if we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to protect our rights or property, to comply with a court order or subpoena, to cooperate with investigations by law enforcement or regulatory authorities or to participate in or cooperate with a judicial proceeding. As our business grows,
we may buy or sell various assets. To ensure that the email marketing
preferences of our visitors are honored, we may share email addresses collected
on our website with advertisers (or their designated agents) for the limited
purpose of identifying and removing from the advertiser's distribution lists
the email addresses of any persons who have "unsubscribed" or otherwise
indicated a preference not to receive commercial electronic mail messages from
or transmitted on behalf of, the relevant advertiser. If BioMed Realty Trust, Inc., one of its business units or substantially all of its
assets is acquired by another company, information about our visitors would be
among the transferred assets. We may allow others to search some of our
databases (our member list, for example) and to analyze the data they find
there or aggregate it with other data, either for their business purposes or
ours. Though some of the information in our databases may be personally
identifying (such as names and credit card information), we will only allow
searches of the portions of our database that contain information that is
otherwise publicly available on our website. When we use other companies to
help us operate our site or improve the services we offer to you, we may
provide them with information about our visitors that is necessary for them to
perform their services. We require that these companies commit to use the
information only to perform the services that we request. |
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| SECURITY |
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| Our site has industry standard security measures in place to
protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
While there is no such thing as "perfect security" on the Internet, we will
take all reasonable steps to insure the safety of your personal information.
When users enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number), that
information is encrypted and is protected with industry standard secure sockets
layer (SSL) encryption. While on a secure page, the lock icon on the bottom of
web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes
locked, as opposed to unlocked, or open, when you are just "surfing".
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| CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT |
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| Amendments to this statement will be posted at this URL and
will be effective when posted, with the reference to the effective date updated
to reflect the date of the amendment. Your continued use of the site following
the posting of any amendment, modification or change shall constitute your
acceptance thereof.
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