Welcome to members of the public in the UK.

Healthcare Professional Privacy Policy

Bausch & Lomb U.K. Limited, a Bausch Health company (‘Bausch & Lomb’), hereby informs you that it collects and uses personal information about you, such as contact details, specialty, curriculum vitae, information about your current and past interactions with Bausch & Lomb and about your participation in events, conferences and scientific studies, and other personal information that you may provide about yourself and your professional activities.

Bausch & Lomb processes your personal information in light of its legitimate interests, namely to maintain a relationship with you, to assess your interests and expertise, to consider future collaboration with you and to reach out to you in relation to such opportunities. In some cases, we may be required by law to collect your information, for example, in safety reports. Finally, there may be occasions where we will ask for your consent.

In accordance with applicable law, you have certain rights in respect of your personal information, such as a right of access, rectification, restriction, erasure, opposition, and portability. To exercise those rights, please contact Bausch & Lomb at: privacyuk@bausch.com. If you are not satisfied with Bausch & Lomb’s response or have concerns about Bausch & Lomb’s data processing practices, you can contact Bausch Health’s Data Protection Officer at: DPO@bausch.com. You also have a right to lodge a complaint with the Supervisory Authority for data protection in your country.

Your personal information will be shared with other Bausch Health entities including in the U.S. where different levels of privacy protection apply. Bausch & Lomb put in place contractual protection to guarantee an appropriate level of protection as required by applicable law. For more information, please contact Bausch Health’s Data Protection Officer. Certain personal information may also be shared with service providers of Bausch & Lomb, with competent authorities, as required by law.

Personal information about you will be retained for five years after your last interaction with Bausch Health, unless applicable laws impose longer retention times.

You have a right to oppose our collection and use of your personal information as explained in this form. If you wish to do so, please contact us at: privacyuk@bausch.com.

Legal Notice

Bausch & Lomb U.K. Limited (“Bausch + Lomb”) maintains this Website for the purposes of information, education and communication. This Website is intended for access and use only by residents of the United Kingdom. Nothing contained in this Website should be construed as a promotion or solicitation for any product or for the use of any product in a particular way which is not authorized by the laws and regulations of the country where the user is located.

Your access to and use of this Website is subject to the following:

(1) This Website is designed to provide general information about eye care and Bausch + Lomb’s products. It is not intended to provide medical advice. Consumers and patients should always consult an eye care professional for advice on the treatment of a specific condition or for any other particular need.

(2) Bausch + Lomb’s goal is to ensure that the information on this Website is accurate and up to date but makes no representations, warranties or assurances (express or implied) as to the accuracy, currency or completeness of such information. Bausch + Lomb shall not be liable for any damage or injury which may arise from the use of or reliance upon any information provided in this Website or from your inability to access the Website. Bausch + Lomb assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for any damage or injury to you, your computer or other personal property including but not limited to damages caused by viruses that infect your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to our Website or from your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video or audio, or other items from the Website.

(3) Some links in this Website may lead to Websites which are not under the control of Bausch + Lomb. When you visit any of those Websites you will leave the Bausch + Lomb Website and Bausch + Lomb will accept no responsibility or liability in respect of the material or any website which is not under the control of Bausch + Lomb. External sites are not endorsed by Bausch & Lomb and Bausch + Lomb makes no representation or warranty as to the content contained in any such external Website.

(4) These terms of use and your use of the Website shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. If any provision of these terms of use shall be deemed unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed void but shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions.

(5) This Website is provided as a service to its visitors. Bausch + Lomb reserves the right to delete, modify or supplement the content of this Website at any time for any reason without notification to anyone.

(6) Please view our Privacy Policy for information as to how we collect and use information collected or received through this Website.

(7) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY All brand names, characters, slogans, logos, service marks, and trademarks whether or not appearing in italicized, bolded and/or in large print, with or without the trademark symbols, are owned by or licensed to Bausch & Lomb Incorporated or its affiliates, and are protected from reproduction, imitation, dilution or confusing or misleading uses under national and international trademark and copyright laws. Any unauthorized use of the content or trademarks or any materials, may violate copyright, trademark, unfair competition, false advertising, privacy, and other English. and/or international laws, and may infringe upon the rights of Baush + Lomb and or its affiliates, Bausch & Lomb Incorporated. Such unauthorized use may result in your personal liability, including potential criminal liability. This includes the entire content of the Website, copyrighted and protected as a collective work.

(a) Reproduction of Images and Other Copyrighted Material. As with any image, possession of a copy of a digitized image does not give unrestricted rights to use it. The copyright of an image is generally owned by the photographer and only the copyright owner, or the owner’s legal representative, can grant permission to copy, distribute, or publicly display the image.

(b) It is illegal to reproduce photographs taken by a professional photographer or other copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner.

(c) Use of Information on this Website. The copyrights of the images and other material on this Website are owned by Bausch + Lomb or the individual photographers who have authorized their use on this Website.

(d) Use of Other Images and Information. Other images and information may be downloaded, reprinted and reproduced for non-commercial, private purposes. Other images and information may not be manipulated or altered without the express permission of Bausch + Lomb or the photographer.

This Website may contain Intellectual Property owned by third parties, including but not limited to promotional and business partners, licensors, licensees, sponsors and advertisers. The third party product names/brand names are trademarks of their respective owners.

(8) READY TO POST CONTENT PAGE. Ready to Post Content Page is specifically directed at eyecare practitioners. You are only permitted to access, use, reproduce and download the “Ready to Post Content” materials available on this website subject to the following conditions:

(a) By downloading and using these materials, users are deemed to have accepted the terms and conditions contained in this Legal Notice. If you do not agree to them, you are not authorized to copy, distribute, reproduce, or use these materials and should not do so.

(b) In particular these materials are intended to facilitate and reduce the burden on eyecare practitioners and others in eye health education and promotion of Bausch + Lomb vision care products. Each eyecare practitioner or other engaging in such activities bears full responsibility for its own promotional activity and accompanying materials to ensure both the accuracy of the promotion and materials and compliance with all applicable local, state, and national laws and regulations.

(c) The materials are for use only in your eyecare practice, including practice’s digital media, you may not use, reproduce, distribute, adapt, amend or exploit these materials for any other purpose or in any other medium or form.

(d) Bausch + Lomb, its affiliates, their personnel or agents shall not be held liable for any improper or incorrect use of these materials and assumes no responsibility for any user’s use of them.

(e) Changes may be periodically incorporated into the material. Bausch + Lomb may make improvements and/or changes in the products, and/or product aids described in these materials and or the material may become obsolete at any time without notice.

(f) These materials are provided ‘AS IS’ WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Neither Bausch + Lomb, its affiliates, their personnel or agents warrants or makes any representations regarding the use or the results of the use of the materials or information in this site, or the accuracy, adequacy, completeness, legality, reliability, or usefulness of the training materials.

(g) Further, you agree. that Bausch + Lomb may terminate your access to and right to use the “Ready to Post Content” materials at any time and that, if this occurs you will stop using such materials and immediately return them to us at your own expense (including any copies made), or immediately destroy such materials if we request you to do so.

(9) You agree to indemnify and hold Bausch + Lomb, its affiliates, their personnel and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your, your directors’, officers’, employees’ and agents’ violation of this Legal Notice.

10. Changes. Bausch + Lomb reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Legal Notice.