Cookie policy
GSK uses cookies to improve the experience for visitors to our websites, including websites that can be accessed through our mobile applications, and has published this Cookie Policy.
Updated: 10 January 2018
GSK uses cookies to improve the experience for visitors to our websites, including websites that can be accessed through our mobile applications, and has published this Cookie Policy. It explains what cookies are and how we use them on our websites. If you don’t want to receive cookies while browsing our website, you can modify your browser and/or mobile device settings so that it notifies you when receiving cookies or you can choose to restrict or block cookies.
Cookies are tiny files, composed of a string of letters and numbers, placed on your computer by web page servers. They enable the website owner to distinguish you from other users of the website. Cookies cannot be executed as code or used to deliver viruses and they cannot enable us to access your hard drive. We cannot read any information on your hard drive even if we store cookies there.
The data generated through cookies on GSK websites can be used for various purposes including the following:
Strictly necessary
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website and saving items to a shopping basket.
Performance
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often and if they receive error messages. They are used to improve how a website works in future versions.
Functionality
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make such as user name, language or region you are in and provide a more enhanced personal experience.
Targeting or advertising
These cookies are used to deliver content more relevant to you and your interests.
Other than as described in the section below (Third Party Advertising Technologies), we don’t permit any third parties to advertise on our website but we cannot control advertisers that are allowed by internet service providers to advertise whilst you are browsing on the internet.
GSK is required by law to obtain your consent for all types of cookies that we place other than those that are “strictly necessary”.
Third party advertising technologies
In addition to using cookies and related technologies, we also may permit certain third party companies (such as Google, Facebook, Twitter) to help us tailor advertising that we think may be of interest to users and to collect and use other data about user activities on our sites (for example, to allow them to tailor ads on third party services). These companies may deliver ads that might also place cookies and otherwise track user behaviour. These companies may use information about user behaviour in order to provide customised advertisements. In the course of placing advertisements, these third party companies may place or recognise a unique cookie on your computer, and may record information to these cookies based upon your activities on any of our sites and on third party websites. Each of these companies uses this cookie information according to their own privacy and security policies. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out of third party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page. Please note this does not opt you out of being delivered advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads.
You can learn more about how to manage your cookies by visiting the Help function of your browser, the settings of your mobile device or you can visit www.aboutcookies.org which provides detailed information on managing cookies on popular browsers. Please be aware that parts of our websites may not function correctly if you disable cookies.