Boston Scientific Cookie Notice

Our Sites may use the following categories of tracking technologies depending on the purpose of the Site, applicable local law, and any consent that you provide.  You can find information about the cookies we use in our Cookie Preference Center here.

A. First-party Cookies and Third-party Cookies

Our websites use both first-party and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are set by us or on our behalf under our domain. They are typically necessary for the operation of the website and to provide services you request, such as remembering your preferences, maintaining your session, or enabling core site functionality. They may also be used for analytics and performance purposes, as described in the “Classifications” section below.

Third-party cookies are set by domains other than ours, such as advertising networks, analytics providers, and social media platforms. These third parties may use their cookies to collect information about your browsing activities over time and across different websites or services. This information may be used, for example, to deliver advertising or enable social media features. The processing of personal data is subject to the respective third party’s privacy and cookie policies, your browser settings, and any consent that you provide.

B. Classifications

Technical or Strictly Necessary Technologies:

These technologies enable basic functions on the Site and are not optional.  For example, they assist in:

• Enabling you to move around the Site and use its features;

• Distributing traffic to the Sites across several servers in order to optimize response times and improve your website experience;

• Identifying trusted web traffic to keep the Sites secure;

• Protect against fraud or unauthorized activity;

• Provide you with information relevant to the country or state in which you appear to be located;

• Collecting and storing your cookie consent preferences for that Site, such as if you opted out of marketing cookies.

Preference Technologies:

Preference (also referred to as Functional) technologies establish a unique user ID that enable the Sites to remember information that provide a more personalized or convenient experience for the user. We use preference technologies in the following ways:

• Authentication and security cookies to enable you to more easily log in or stay logged in to access the Sites;

• Remember information about the user's browser and settings preferences, such as preferred language, font size, and sound volume; and

• Test different versions of the Sites to see which features or content users prefer to optimize the Sites.

Performance and Analytics Technologies:

Performance and Analytics technologies help us understand how users interact with the Sites, such as to:

• Analyze how users interact with the Sites so that we can understand which features and contents will be most relevant, such as the number of visits, average time spent on a webpage, and which features or pages are used (e.g., through Google Analytics);  

• Determine what type of device (e.g., smartphones, tablets, computers), browser, operating system, and screen resolution are used to access the Sites;

• Record activity on our sites through session replay technologies to help us analyze how visitors use our Sites and how to improve them. 

Targeting or Advertising Technologies:

Targeting (also referred to as Advertising or Marketing) technologies are used by us and by our advertising and social media partners to:

• Understand your interests in our products and services based on your interactions with our Site as well as with other third party websites and online services, including building or enhancing user profiles

• Provide more personalized content to you and deliver ads on other websites or social media channels based on your interests

• Improve and measure the effectiveness of our marketing and advertising campaigns

• Allow you to share our content with your networks on social media channels, if you choose to do so

• Create aggregated benchmarking reports

• Targeting ads to other audiences with similar characteristics

Depending on your browser settings and any consent you provide, our advertising and social media partners also may collect and use information for their own purposes, such as to combine information they collect through technologies on our sites with information collected on other websites and online services.

Session technologies: We place these to identify a particular visit to our Site and collect information about your interaction with the Site. They expire after a short time or when you close your web browser.

Persistent technologies: These will remain on your device for a set period of time or until you manually delete them on your browser. They do not expire when you close your browser.

Again, please review the Privacy Notice featured on the footer of our Site to learn more about what personal data we collect using these technologies, how we use and disclose that personal data, and how to exercise any rights that you may have under your state’s privacy laws.     

In addition, you can find out more about Cookies and how to manage them by visiting www.AllAboutCookies.org. 

Cookie Banner and Preference Center 

When you first visit our Sites, you may be presented with a banner that offers you information about how we use technologies as well as the option to choose to opt-in or opt-out of non-essential technologies.  If you wish to change or manage your choices, you can do so through our Cookie Preference Center by clicking here.  

Browser Settings 

You also can change your Internet browser settings to refuse all or some technologies although you may not be able to access all or parts of the Site. You can consult the instructions offered by different browsers using the following links: 

• Firefox  

• Chrome  

• Microsoft Edge  

• Safari  

Please note that your decision to reject cookies is specific to each browser and device you are using. Therefore, if you opt out of cookies on a particular device and you want the same opt-outs to apply similarly to a different device, you will need to opt out from that other device as well. 

Please also note that if you accept third-party cookies, you will need to delete them from your browser settings or from the system provided by the third-party itself. You can withdraw your consent to cookies on your browser by installing a plug-in or through the opt-out system provided by some third-parties that install cookies on our website.  

Most mobile devices allow you to control advertising tracking through the “Limit Ad Tracking” option (more specific information for iOS devices can be found here), or the “Opt Out of Personalized Ads” option (more specific information for Android devices can be found here). 

Universal Opt-Out Mechanisms 

In addition to providing options for managing your cookie preferences, our Sites recognize the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) signal. If you are using a browser setting or plug-in that sends an opt-out preference signal to each website you visit, we will treat that as a valid request to opt out of non-essential cookies.  

To download and use a browser supporting the GPC browser signal, click here: https://globalprivacycontrol.org/orgs. If you choose to use the GPC signal, you will need to turn it on for each supported browser or browser extension you use.   

Do Not Track 

Certain browsers also offer a “Do Not Track” feature that sends signals to websites indicating that you do not want your online activities tracked. The Do Not Track feature does not work for every website or webpage and is separate from Global Privacy Control. To learn more about DNT, please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com. 

Some tracking technologies are located outside the country or region where you reside or the data was collected. When BSC engages vendors through tracking technologies that access or store personal data from other countries, BSC uses contractual and technical safeguards as appropriate based on the nature of the personal data and local requirements. You can find additional information about international transfers safeguards in the Privacy Policy linked at the footer of our Site, and, where applicable, the privacies policies of the third parties identified above.

We may update this Cookie Notice from time to time.  Please check this link to be informed of any updates. 

Please see our Privacy Notice on the footer of the Site to exercise your privacy choices or rights in accordance with this Cookie Notice.  The Privacy Notice also may have contact information for our local or regional privacy office.

Otherwise, you may contact Global Privacy through the following channels if you have questions or complaints related to our privacy practices.  When doing so, please include information about your identity, your relationship with us, and other relevant details. 

Global Privacy

Boston Scientific Corporation  

300 Boston Scientific Way 

Marlborough, MA 01752-1234 (USA) 

E-mail: GlobalPrivacy@bsci.com