Privacy Statement

By using this Site, you acknowledge that you have reviewed the terms of our Privacy Statement and Consent to Use of Personal Information (the “Privacy Statement and Consent”) and agree that we may collect, use and transfer your Personal Information in accordance therewith. If you do not agree with these terms, you may choose not to use our Site, and please do not provide any Personal Information through this Site. This Privacy Statement and Consent, which forms part of our Site Terms of Use conforms to the privacy laws of Australia and New Zealand and applies only to our Australian and New Zealand customers and to visitors to our Web site.

You agree to submit any dispute arising out of your use of this web site to the exclusive jurisdiction of Australia or New Zealand. Please note that this Privacy Statement and Consent does not apply to the providing or use of Personal Information other than through the Site, nor to the providing or use of Personal Information of past or present employees of, or consultants engaged by, Becton, Dickinson and Company and/or its subsidiaries, for employment or benefits administration purposes, both of which are governed by BD Policies designed for those respective purposes (the “Other Policies”).

The Australian Privacy Principles (or APPs) are the cornerstone of the privacy protection framework in the Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act). They apply to any organisation or agency the Privacy Act covers.

There are 13  Australian Privacy Principles and they govern standards, rights and obligations around:

• the collection, use and disclosure of personal information; 
• an organisation or agency’s governance and accountability;
• integrity and correction of personal information;
• the rights of individuals to access their personal information.
   

The Australian Privacy Principles are principles-based law.

This Site and our business change constantly. As a result, at times it may be necessary for BD to make changes to this Privacy Statement and Consent. BD reserves the right to update or modify this Privacy Statement and Consent at any time and from time to time without prior notice. Please review this Statement periodically, and especially before you provide any Personal Data. This Privacy Statement and Consent was last updated in June, 2022. Your continued use of the Site after any changes or revisions to this Privacy Statement and Consent shall indicate your agreement with the terms of such revised Privacy Statement and Consent.

Welcome to www.bd.com/anz (the “Site”). This Site is operated by Becton Dickinson Pty. Ltd., an Australian corporation, and Becton Dickinson Ltd., a New Zealand corporation, wholly owned subsidiaries of Becton, Dickinson and Company, a United States corporation (“BD” or “we” or “us”) and has been created to provide our customers the information, products and other initiatives developed and/or offered by BD and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, the “BD Services”). You are important to BD and, as described in this Privacy Statement and Consent, we will take appropriate measures to protect your privacy as you use this Site. This Privacy Statement and Consent sets forth BD’s approach with respect to information that is collected from users of this Site. This Site is intended for users in Australia and New Zealand.

"Aggregated Data" means customer demographics, interests and behavior based on Personal Data and other information provided to us, which is compiled and analysed on an aggregate and anonymous basis. 

"Personal Data" means all information which are related to an identified or identifiable individual, including, by way of example, the individual's name and e-mail address, and User Data. 

"Public Information" means information posted to any public areas of the Site, such as bulletin boards, chat rooms and comment areas as well as the definition of "Public and Unsolicited Information" contained in our Terms of Use. 

"Unsolicited Information" means any ideas for new products or modifications to existing products and other unsolicited communications. Personal Data included in Unsolicited Information will be handled in the manner set forth in this Privacy Statement; however please refer to our discussion of "Public and Unsolicited Information" contained in our Terms of Use. 

"User Data" means information we automatically collect from you in connection with your use of our Site such as information about the type of device you are using, as well as your unique mobile device ID, internet protocol (IP) address or online identifiers, which are numbers that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet. 

Analytics: We may use third-party service providers, such as Google Analytics or other similar providers, which use cookies and other tracking technologies, to help analyse how you use the Site and to improve our Site and our services. The information collected about your interactions with our Site are used to assess how often you visit our Site, what pages you view when you visit our Site and what other websites you have visited before coming to our Site. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where those third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. For more information on Google’s privacy practices for Google Analytics, please visit https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 and “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps” located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners.

Besides Google Analytics, we may use a number of technologies offered by different providers to support website analytics and user tracking. If you wish to prevent or control the use of those technologies by third parties, you may do so by changing your privacy settings directly with those third parties.

We may also use web beacons on the Site, in our emails and in our advertisements. Web beacons are tiny graphic images that are used to collect information about your visit to the Site, such as the pages you view and the features you use, as well as information about whether you open and/or act upon one of our emails and ads. Web beacons help us analyse our Site visitors' behavior and measure the effectiveness of the Site. We may work with service providers that help us track, collect and analyse this information.

We maintain BD pages in the social networks of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube to share news about BD products and services and interact with individuals.

Our Site incorporates social plug-ins, which are buttons, from those social media networks. If you click on a button to any one of those social networks from the Site, you are agreeing to share the following additional data to those third-party networks: IP address, browser information, operating system, screen resolution, installed browser plug-ins like Adobe Flash Player, previous website information here.

By visiting this website, you consent to the collection and processing of your Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Statement and applicable U.S. laws, and to the storage of such data on servers of BD and the affiliates, agents and service providers referred to herein located in the U.S. and in other countries, as applicable. If, despite our disclaimer on the home page of this website, you access this website from a country outside the U.S., you do so with the understanding that, due to the nature of the Internet, your communications will inevitably result in the transfer of your Personal Data across international borders. By visiting this Site you expressly consent to the collection and transfer of your Personal Data to the U.S. and to the processing of your data by BD and third parties in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

BD permits a reasonable right of access and review of Personal Data held by BD by the individual to whom the Personal Data relates; however, to guard against fraudulent requests for access, BD will require information which it determines is sufficient to allow it to confirm the identity of the person making the request before granting access or making corrections. BD will endeavour to provide the information in question within a reasonable time and may charge an appropriate cost (e.g. photocopying, mail charges) to the individual making the request. BD reserves the right not to change any Personal Data but will append alternative text the individual concerned believes is appropriate.

In addition, in certain circumstances, BD may decline to provide access to Personal Data, including where BD determines that the information requested:

(a) May disclose:

• The Personal Data of another individual or of a deceased individual; or

• Trade secrets or other business confidential information;
   

(b) Is subject to attorney-client or litigation privilege or a professional privilege or obligation;

(c) Is not readily retrievable and the burden or cost of providing would be disproportionate to the nature or value of the information;

(d) Does not exist, is not held, or cannot be found by BD;

(e) Could reasonably result in serious harm to the treatment or recovery of the individual concerned, serious emotional harm to the individual or another individual, or serious bodily harm to another individual; or

(f) May harm or interfere with law enforcement activities or other investigative or regulatory functions of a body authorised by statute to perform such functions.

Please note that although after receiving a request to update, correct or delete information, we will make reasonable efforts to effect such a change promptly, it is not always possible to complete the process before another communication is distributed. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Even if you have requested removal of your Personal Data from our lists, BD reserves the right to retain it in our files in some limited circumstances such as when such Personal Data may be necessary to honor your request to opt out of further communications, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, comply with applicable law or as provided in our Terms of Use. . If BD is required to retain any portion of the Personal Data for such purposes, BD will use reasonable efforts to limit that retention of Personal Data to what is necessary to accomplish the particular purpose. Therefore, you should not expect that your Personal Data will be completely removed from our systems in response to your request. 

BD will not respond to repetitious or vexatious requests for access. In determining whether a request is repetitious or vexatious, we will consider such factors such as the frequency with which information is updated, the purpose for which the information is used, and the nature of the information. 

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in some web browsers, allowing users to opt out of tracking by websites and online services. At the present time, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has not yet established universal standards for recognisable DNT signals and therefore, the Site does not recognise DNT. 

BD may disclose your Personal Data, User Data and other information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) comply with a legal obligation, (b) protect and defend the rights or property of BD or its affiliates, (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public, or (d) protect against legal liability. Please note that compliance with a legal obligation is not limited to compliance with court orders or other legal processes specifically related to this Privacy Statement. BD may also disclose Personal Data, including health-related data, to meet its obligations under FDA and other governmental agency regulations and state and federal laws where applicable. 

The protections set out in this Privacy Statement do not apply to Public Information you provide to BD through this Site or through any other means. If you include Personal Data in Public Information, we will use that Personal Data only as provided here, but we caution you that, because such information (including your Personal Data) was made available in a forum accessible by the public, the use and disclosure of information by others accessing the Site is not monitored or controlled in any way by BD - nor are their activities governed by this Privacy Statement. 

Please refer to our discussion of "Public and Unsolicited Information" contained in our Site Terms of Use. 

Please note that, as set forth above, this Privacy Statement does not apply to the providing or use of certain Personal Data other than through the Site or in connection with BD Services that reference the Privacy Statement on this Site. It does not apply to the use of Personal Data of past or present employees of, or consultants engaged by, Becton, Dickinson and Company and/or its subsidiaries, for employment or benefits administration purposes, both of which are governed by BD policies designed for those respective purposes. 

BD takes reasonable steps to protect any Personal Data you provide to us and to protect such information from loss, misuse, and unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Unless otherwise stated on the relevant page of the Site or through a BD or BD partner mobile application, BD uses general security standards but has not taken additional action to secure data provided to its sites or from its applications or from a BD partner mobile application, and such transmissions are subject to normal Internet security risks. As noted, no Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully 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 or to BD partners. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Data to BD or to any other party via the Internet. Moreover, when you use passwords, ID numbers, or other special access features on this Site, it is your responsibility to safeguard them.