Cookie Policy

GSK uses cookies to enhance the experience of visitors to GSK's websites, including sites that can be accessed through GSK's mobile applications on which this Cookie Policy is published. This policy explains what cookies are and how they are used on GSK sites and applications.

Users of mobile sites and applications will only receive cookies when they browse the GSK website, provided the user has previously given their consent by clicking on "Accept" in the notice that appears on the homepage of the site.

Cookies are small text files composed of a string of letters and numbers placed on the user's electronic device through the Web page servers to store data that can be retrieved by a web server by the domain that placed the cookie. Cookies allow the site owner to distinguish the user from other users of the site. We use cookies and similar technologies to store and recall your preferences and settings, allowing you to sign in, providing interest-based advertising, fighting fraud, analyzing the performance of our products, and serving other legitimate purposes. Cookies can not be run as code or used to propagate viruses and do not allow GSK access to the user's hard drive. GSK can not read any information on the user's hard drive even if GSK stores cookies on that drive.

You have a variety of tools to control the data collected by cookies and similar technologies. For example, you can use controls on your Internet browser to limit how visited sites may use cookies and to withdraw their consent when clearing or blocking cookies.

GSK uses cookies and similar technologies for a variety of purposes, depending on the context, including:

• Store your preferences and settings. We use cookies to store your preferences and settings on your device and enhance your experiences. For example, if you enter your city or zip code when accessing a service on a GSK site, depending on your settings, we store that data in a cookie so that you see relevant local information when you return to the site. Saving your preferences with cookies, as your preferred language, prevents you from having to set your preferences repeatedly. If you opt out of interest-based advertising, we've stored your opt-out preference in a cookie on your device.
•  Login and authentication. We use cookies to authenticate you. When you sign in to a site using your personal account for a service offered by GSK, we store a unique identification number and the time that you signed in to an encrypted cookie on your device. This cookie allows you to switch from one page to another within the site without having to log in again on each page. You can also save your inbound information so you do not have to sign in every time you return to the site.
•  Safety. We use cookies to process information that helps us protect our products, as well as detect fraud and abuse.
•  Store information that you provide to a site. We use cookies to remember the information you shared. When you provide information to GSK, such as when you add products to a shopping cart on websites, we store the data in a cookie in order to remember the information.
•  Comments. GSK uses cookies to allow you to provide comments on a site.
•  Interest-based advertising. GSK uses cookies to collect data about your online activity and identify your interests so that we can provide the ads that are most relevant to you. You can choose not to receive interest-based advertising as described in the "How to access and control your personal information" section of this privacy statement.
•  Showing advertising. GSK uses cookies to record how many visitors clicked on an ad and to record which ads you saw, for example, so you do not see it repeatedly.
•  Analytics. We use first and third party cookies and other identifiers to collect usage and performance data. For example, we use cookies to count the number of unique visitors to a webpage or service and to develop other statistics about the operations of our products.

How to control cookies

• Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but provide controls that allow you to block or delete them. For example, you can block or delete cookies by selecting Settings> Privacy and security> Clear browsing data> Cookies and saved site data. For more information about deleting your cookies in browsers, see the instructions for this platform.
• Some features may depend on cookies. If you choose to block cookies, you will not be able to sign in or use some of these features, and cookie-dependent preferences will be lost. If you choose to delete cookies, all settings and preferences controlled by these cookies, including advertising preferences, will be deleted and must be re-created.

Other Similar Technologies

•  In addition to standard cookies, our sites may also use other similar technologies to store and read data files on your computer. This is usually done to maintain your preferences or improve speed and performance by storing certain files locally. But, like standard cookies, these technologies can also store a unique identifier for your computer, which can track the behavior. 

Among the various types of cookies used on GSK sites, we highlight the following:

Strictly necessary

These cookies are essential to allow users of mobile sites and applications to move around the site and use their features, such as accessing secure site areas and storing items in a shopping cart.

Performance

Cookies collect information about how visitors use a site, for example, which pages visitors visit most often and receive error messages. They are used to improve the way a website works in future versions.

Functionality

These cookies allow the site to remember the choices the user makes, such as the user name, language or region where the user is, and provide a more advanced personal experience.

Identification or Advertising

These cookies are used to provide more targeted content to users and their interests.

GSK does not authorize third-party advertising on GSK's website, but does not have any control over advertisers authorized to advertise by Internet service providers while users are browsing the Internet.

GSK is required by law to obtain users' consent for all types of cookies it places, in addition to those that are "strictly necessary".