Effective as of April 01, 2005

Privacy Notice

You attended the XV International AIDS Conference (IAC) in Bangkok, Thailand (July 11th - July 16th 2004) and have provided your contact information or you have provided your contact information directly to Merck & Co., Inc. or Merck Sharp & Dohme Interpharma. Such contact information have been compiled in our mailing list.

Merck Sharp & Dohme Interpharma, an affiliate of the Merck & Co., Inc. family of companies, and others who work on their behalf to facilitate their interaction with you (collectively "MSD"), is committed to protecting the privacy and security of personal information about you in compliance with applicable laws.

MSD values your views and opinions, along with your involvement/interest in the HIV/AIDS environment. For this reason, we are sending you this newsletter.

The overall aim of this newsletter is to provide you with information regarding MSD's contribution to the development and implementation of comprehensive HIV strategies as well as general information on the HIV/AIDS environment.

Our mailing list has been registered with the "Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés" (the French Data Protection Authority). It contains your first name, family name and email address which shall be used only to send you this newsletter.

In accordance with articles 38 and seq. of the French Data Privacy Law dated January 6, 1978 as amended, you may access, modify or delete your personal information upon request.

For this purpose or should you have any question, you may contact us at the following address:
Merck Sharp & Dohme Interpharma
IT Service
106, avenue Jean Moulin - B.P 62
78170 La Celle Saint Cloud
France
Email: hiv-msdinfo@merck.com

For more information on how MSD protects personal information about you, please read our Internet Privacy Policy.