Privacy Policy
Effective Date: March 9, 2026
1. Introduction The Pharmaceutical Compliance Forum (“PCF”, “we,” “our,” or “us”) values your privacy. This Privacy Statement outlines the types of information we collect, how we use it, and how we protect your information, including when you visit our website at https://pharmacomplianceforum.org/ (“Website”) or otherwise share information with PCF.
2. Information We Collect
- Personal Information: When you become a PCF member, whether via our Website, by filling out a form, or otherwise, we may collect personal information such as your name, email address, phone number, and other contact details. Beyond this basic demographic data, we do not collect or store any third-party financial or other sensitive personal information, including that of our members, our conference attendees, our Website users, or of the organizations for which our members, conference attendees, or website users work.
- Non-Personal Information: The Website may also collect non-personal information necessary to maintain proper Website operation and security and enable logged in user access. This information may include your browser type, device type, IP address, and browsing behavior.
3. How We Use Your Information: We may use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:
- Manage and improve PCF’s operations and expand our membership
- Provide, operate, and maintain our Website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our Website
- Understand and analyze how you use our Website and your membership benefits
- Process your transactions and manage your membership
- Send you member related emails and other communications
- Manage our compliance efforts, including to identify and prevent fraud
- Develop anonymized benchmarking surveys and information for our members
4. How We Protect Your Information: We are committed to securing your data and keeping it confidential. A variety of security measures using technologies, software, and internal policies, has been implemented to prevent data theft, unauthorized access, and uses beyond those identify in this Privacy Statement in accordance with applicable laws.
5. Sharing Your Information: We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless compelled to do so by law, regulation, or a court order. This does not include our trusted third parties who assist us in operating our Website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those third parties agree to keep this information confidential and not use it for any purposes other than assisting PCF.
6. Data Removal: We may retain personal data that we control for as long as reasonably required to fulfill our needs, legal obligations, resolve disputes, or as otherwise required by law. We periodically review and remove data based on our retention policy.
7. Links to Other Websites: Our Website contains links that lead to other websites. If you click on these links, PCF is not responsible for your data or privacy protection once you leave our Website. Visiting those websites is not governed by this Privacy Statement, our policies, or our other data protections. Make sure to read the privacy policy documentation of the website you go to from our Website. You agree that PCF is not liable in any way for any uses, losses, damages, fees, expenses, breaches, or other occurrences pertaining to your use of third-party websites or services, including if such websites or services are linked or referred by PCF or our Website.
8. Cookies: Our Website uses cookies to enhance your experience. Cookies are small files that a website or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. After we periodically consolidate the data for statistical analysis, the data is removed from our systems.
9. Requests for Restricting or Removing the Collection of your Personal Data: We will promptly reply to any request from a PCF member to modify or remove their personal information on file.
10. Your Consent By using our Website: By using our Website or otherwise submitting information about you to PCF, you consent to our Privacy Statement, including its terms and limitations of liability.
11. Changes to Our Privacy Statement: We reserve the right to change this Statement at any time, which changes will be promptly updated. If you want to make sure that you are up to date with the latest changes, we advise you to frequently visit our Privacy Statement, which is posted on our Website.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, please contact the Pharmaceutical Compliance Forum Administrator at info@pharmacomplianceforum.org.