Philips Data Principles

At Philips, we are committed to ethical use of data in our mission to improve people’s lives through meaningful innovation. When using personal data [1], we aim to benefit our customers, patients, and society as a whole. To ensure we handle and use data with great care, we diligently apply the following principles.

Security

We ensure the security of all data entrusted to us. We operate under global security policies that guide our activities to protect against vulnerabilities and manage any incidents.

Privacy

We handle all personal data with integrity in compliance with all applicable privacy regulations of the countries in which we operate. We adhere to the Philips Code of Conduct – our binding corporate rules – that governs data transfers and processing within our company. When our business partners process personal data on our behalf, we ensure that they comply with our security and privacy requirements.

Beneficial

We aim to create innovative solutions that benefit our customers, patients, and society as a whole. We use your personal data in line with your reasonable expectations.

Contact

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[1] Most jurisdictions define personal data as information that relates to an identifiable person, and we embrace the following formal definition:

‘Personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person; GDPR Article 4.1