to be read in conjunction with
Global Privacy Policy for Healthcare Professionals and other experts
Last updated: 5 November 2026
1. Supplemental Jurisdiction – Republic of Korea
1. 1. Data Controller
For the Republic of Korea, ‘Controller’ refers to Sanofi-Aventis Korea Co., Ltd. or ‘Sanofi Korea’.
1. 2. Collection and Use of Personal Data
In addition to the collection and use of Personal Data included in article 3 of the Global Privacy Notice for Healthcare Professionals and other experts “Personal Data” and article 4 “Why may SANOFI process your Personal Data?” SANOFI may collect and use your Personal Data for the following purposes:
* The Personal Information Protection Act or ‘PIPA’
1. 3. Provision of Personal Data to Third Parties
In addition to article 6 of the Global Privacy Notice for Healthcare Professionals and other experts “Who can access your Personal Data?” and article 7 “Personal Data Transfers” SANOFI provides Personal Data to third parties as described below:
1. 4. Delegation of Personal Information Processing
In addition to article 6 of the Global Privacy Notice for Healthcare Professionals and other experts “Who can access your Personal Data?” SANOFI delegates the processing of Personal Data as described below, and the delegatees may process Personal Data according to the purpose of the delegation. SANOFI also delegates the processing of Personal Data to overseas delegatees. Details of such delegatees and the delegated services are set out in Section 1.5:
1. 5. Overseas Transfer of Personal Data
In addition to article 7 of the Global Privacy Notice for Healthcare Professionals and other experts “Personal Data Transfers,” SANOFI transfers Personal Data overseas as follows:
* To access the list of SANOFI legal entities, including their name, country and contact details, click here.
* To access the list of each country's regulatory authority websites, including their country and contact details, click here.
You may have the right to refuse the overseas transfer of your Personal Data as described above. You may exercise this right by contacting the privacy officer or by using SANOFI’s contact form. However, in doing so, you may not be able to use our services for which overseas transfer of Personal Data is necessary.
1.6. Destruction of Personal Data
In addition to the security measures under article 11 of the Global Privacy Notice for Healthcare Professionals and other experts “Security Measures,” in principle, when the purposes of collection and use of Personal Data are achieved, SANOFI will destroy the Personal Data without undue delay. However, if any Personal Data is required to be retained under applicable law, such Data will be retained for the period and purpose as prescribed by law. Examples of retention prescribed by law are as follows:
- Pharmaceutical Affairs Act (Article 47-2(1))
- Expenditure reports and related ledgers, supporting documents (5 years) - Protection of Communications Secrets Act (Article 15-2)
- record of computer communication or Internet log, trace data of access point (3 months)
And SANOFI will destroy Personal Data as follows:
- SANOFI will select the Personal Data subject to destruction and destroy it.
- SANOFI will destroy Personal Data recorded and stored in electronic files in an irrevocable manner, and shred or incinerate Personal Data recorded and stored in paper documents.
1.7. Additional Use and Provision
In accordance with the PIPA, SANOFI may use or provide Personal Data within the scope of reasonably related to the initial purpose of the collection, in consideration of whether disadvantages have been caused to data subjects and whether necessary measures have been taken to secure such as encryption, etc. SANOFI will determine with due care whether to use or provide Personal Data in consideration of general circumstances including relevant laws and regulations such as the PIPA, purpose of use or provision of Personal Data, how Personal Data will be used or provided, items of Personal Data to be used or provided, matters to which data subjects provided consent or which were notified/disclosed to data subjects, impact on data subjects upon the use or provision, and measures taken to protect subject data. Specific considerations are as follows:
- Whether the additional use or provision of personal data is related to the original purpose of collection;
- Whether the additional use or provision of personal data is foreseeable in light of the circumstances in which personal data is collected or practices of processing personal data;
- Whether the additional use or provision of personal data unduly infringes on the interests of users; and
- Whether necessary measures have been taken to ensure security, such as pseudonymization or encryption.
1.8. Collection of Behavioral Information by SANOFI
SANOFI collects and uses behavioral information, such as cookies and other technologies on our websites Information about the types of cookies and other technologies we use, their purposes, retention periods, and how you can manage your cookie preferences is available in our Cookie Policy here. You may refuse the storage of cookies by changing your web browser settings (e.g., Chrome: Settings>Privacy and Security>Third-party cookies; Edge: Settings>Cookies and site permissions). If you refuse cookies, some features of our website may not be available.
1.9. Collection of Behavioral Information by Third Parties
In the course of using SANOFI websites and applications, SANOFI allows advertising partners to use cookies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites. They do not store directly Personal Data but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device.
You can manage the permission or block the collection of behavioral information by third
parties by changing your browser’s cookie settings. For more information on how our
advertising partners use cookies, please see our Cookie Policy here.
1.10. Contact Information
If you have any concerns about the way your Personal Data has been collected or handled by SANOFI, or any queries regarding this Privacy Policy, you can exercise your data protection rights here. Requests submitted by South Korean data subjects will be handled by the Privacy Officer responsible for South Korean operations.
- Local Privacy Officer: Rachel Somervaille (PrivacyOfficeSouthKorea@sanofi.com)
- Department handling privacy requests and complaints: Privacy Team (Ethics and Business Integrity)
If you need to report or seek advice on an infringement of your Personal Data, you may contact the following organizations:
- Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee (1833-6972, www.kopico.go.kr)
- Personal Information Infringement Report Center (118, www.privacy.kisa.or.kr)
- Supreme Prosecutors’ Office (1301, www.spo.go.kr)
- Korean National Police Agency (182, www.ecrm.polic.go.kr)
1.11. Updates to the Privacy Policy
As explained in article 12.2 “Updates to the Privacy Policy,” SANOFI may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. SANOFI will give notice of any amendments to its website before it takes effect. Amendments that may materially affect your rights will be notified in advance.
This Privacy Policy applies from 2026. 11. 05. The previous privacy policy can be found
below.
2024. 04. 01 ~ 2026. 11. 05 Privacy Policy
Annex. Central Laboratories and Other Clinical Study Service Providers
These recipients receive data under the clinical study row of Section 1.5 as sub-delegatees of Sanofi S.A. Each recipient’s own sub-delegation and overseas transfers are described in its own privacy policy.