This privacy policy sets out how Guide to PHARMACOLOGY uses and protects any information that you give to the Guide to PHARMACOLOGY when you use this website. The policy covers the Guide to PHARMACOLOGY, Guide to IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY, Guide to Malaria Pharmacology and Guide to Nucleic Acid domains. Hereafter, references to the Guide to PHARMACOLOGY include all domains

Guide to PHARMACOLOGY is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Guide to PHARMACOLOGY may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 1st August 2026.

What we collect

For users who register to access the database we collect the following information:

• Contact information which includes first and last names and an email address;
• Demographic information which includes affiliated institutions/organisations and country;
• Information on a user’s academic or organisational role;

For database contributors, in order to attribute authorship to the database content and pages, we collect:

• ORCIDs
• Links to departmental webpages and profiles
• Affiliated Institutions

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to support the Guide to PHARMACOLOGY’s user registration and login systems and to ensure that access to the website and database available only to registered users. It also helps us to understand who uses our database and to helps us to provide a better and more secure service. We also use he information for the following:

• Internal record keeping;
• To improve our products and services;
• To send emails about database updates, new features or other information which you may find interesting;
• To produce aggregate anonymous user data in our database reports;
• We may share basic contact information with our partner organisations: IUPHAR (International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology) and BPS (British Pharmacological Society) in order to provide updates on relevant news and events

We do not disclose individual information to our sponsors and advertisers.

We reserve the right to attempt to identify and track any individual who is reasonably suspected of trying to gain unauthorised access to computer systems or resources operating as part of our web services.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

This website does not store any information that would, on its own, allow us to identify individual users of this service without their permission. Any cookies that may be used by this website are used either solely on a per session basis or to maintain user preferences. Cookies are not shared with any third parties.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

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Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

• You can contact us at any time to have your user registration deleted and all personal data we hold on you removed
• If you have already set your cookie preference you can change your preference by clicking the "RESET COOKIES FOR THIS WEBSITE" button at the bottom of this page (may appear at the top if using a mobile or iOS device or Internet Explorer 6).