Glossary of key terms
For purposes of our Privacy Statement, the following terms shall have the meaning attributed to them herein. If such terms are also defined by the laws of your market, they shall have the meaning attributed to them by the applicable laws in your market.
Term | Meaning |
| Affiliate | An organization that is owned or controlled by another, usually larger, organization |
| Anonymize / Aggregate | The process of permanently removing any personal identifiers from personal data, so that the individuals whom the data describe remain anonymous. This is done for the purpose of protecting individuals’ private activities while maintaining the integrity of the data gathered and shared. |
| Biometric data | Personal data resulting from specific technical processing relating to the physical, physiological, or behavioural characteristics of a natural person, which allow or confirm the unique identification of that natural person. Examples include fingerprints, retina scans, voice prints, facial characteristics, and identifying DNA information. |
| Consent | Any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of a person’s wishes by which they, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signify agreement to the processing of personal data relating to them. |
| Cookies (and similar technologies) | A small text file stored on a user machine that may later be retrieved by a web server from the machine. Cookies allow web servers to keep track of the end user’s browser activities and connect individual web requests into a session. |
| Data controller | Any natural or legal person, public authority, non-governmental organization, agency or any other body or entity which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data. |
| Data subject | An identified or identifiable natural person to whom the personal data relates. |
| Direct marketing | A form of advertising in which companies provide marketing materials to consumers to communicate information about a product or service. |
| Encryption | The method by which plain text or any other type of data is converted from a readable form to an encoded version that can only be decoded by another entity if they have access to a decryption key. |
| Genetic data | Personal data relating to the genetic characteristics of a natural person which gives unique information about the physiology or the health of that natural person and which results, from an analysis of a biological sample or bodily fluid of that natural person. |
| Health data | Personal data related to the physical or psychological health of a natural person, including the provision of health care services, which reveal information about their health status. |
| IP address | An IP address (or internet protocol address) is a number that is automatically assigned a computer by your Internet Service Provider. An IP address is identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user visits the website or app, along with the time of the visit and the pages visited. Collecting IP addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many online services. A MAC Address (or Media Access Control address) on the other hand is a unique, hardware-based identified permanently assigned to a (connected) device, serving as a device’s “physical” address to communicate on a local network. |
| Personal data | Any information that can identify a data subject /person directly or indirectly by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data or an online identifier, or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity of that individual or natural person (or any analogous definition under applicable law). |
| Process/Processing | Any operation performed on personal data, including but not limited to collection, storage, preservation, alteration, retrieval, disclosure, transmission, making available, erasure, destruction of, consultation, alignment, combination, or the carrying out of logical or arithmetical operations on personal data (or any analogous definition under applicable law). |
| Profiling | Processing of personal data to evaluate, analyze or predict aspects concerning that data subject’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, credibility, behavior, habits, location or movements. |
| Retention | The policies and processes used for determining the time period for the storage of personal data. |
| Targeted advertising | A form of advertising, including online advertising, that is directed towards an audience with certain traits, based on the product or person the advertiser is promoting. |
| Third-Party | Any agency, body, legal person, or public authority, external to Johnson & Johnson and affiliates. |