Privacy Statement

This website (hereinafter the “Website“) is provided by Bayer Aktiengesellschaft (hereinafter “us” or “we”). For further information regarding the provider of the Website, please refer to our imprint.

 

Information on other selected non-Website related data processing activities performed by us and all of our affiliates in Germany (e.g. when you give us a business card or we collect your data from publicly available sources) can be found in the privacy information for selected specific processing activities.

 

A. Handling of personal data

When you call up our Website, your browser will transfer certain data to our web server. This is done for technical reasons and required to make available to you the requested information. To facilitate your access to the Website, the following data are collected, briefly stored and used:

 

I. Using our Website

1. Accessing our Website

When you call up our Website, your browser will transfer certain data to our web server. This is done for technical reasons and required to make available to you the requested information. To facilitate your access to the Website, the following data are collected, briefly stored and used:

  • IP address

  • Date and time of access

  • Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

  • Content of request (specific site)

  • Status of access/HTTP status code

  • Transferred volume of data

  • Website requesting access

  • Browser, language settings, version of browser software operating system and surface

 

Moreover, to protect our legitimate interests, we will store such data for a limited period of time in order to be able to initiate a tracking of personal data in the event of actual or attempted unauthorized access to our servers (Art. 6(1)(f) General Data Protection Regulation).

 

2. Setting of cookies

a) What are cookies?

This Website uses so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the memory of your terminal via your browser. They store certain information (e.g. your preferred language or site settings) which your browser may (depending on the lifespan of the cookie) retransmit to us upon your next visit to our Website.

 

b) What cookies do we use?

We differentiate between two categories of cookies: (1) functional cookies, without which the functionality of our Website would be reduced, and (2) optional cookies used for e.g. website analysis and marketing purposes. The following tables contain a detailed description of the optional cookies we use:

 

Optional Cookies
Purpose and content Lifespan On/Off
Website analysis with Google Analytics:
These cookies assign a randomly generated ID to your device, enabling us to recognize your device upon your next access. For details on website analysis please see the respective chapter below.		 6 months
OnOff

 

c) Subject to your consent

We only use optional cookies if we have obtained your prior consent (Art. 6(1)(a) General Data Protection Regulation). Upon your first access to our Website, a banner will appear, asking you to give us your consent to the setting of optional cookies. If your consent is given, we will place a cookie on your computer and the banner will not appear again as long as the cookie is active. After expiration of the cookie’s lifespan, or if you actively delete the cookie, the banner will reappear upon your next visit to our Website and again ask for your consent.

 

d) How to prevent the setting of cookies

Of course you may use our Website without any cookies being set. In your browser, you can at any time configure or completely deactivate the use of cookies. This may, however, lead to a restriction of the functions or have adverse effects on the user-friendliness of our Website. You may at any time object to the setting of optional cookies by using the respective objection option indicated in the table above.

 

3. Website Analysis

On our Website we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“Google”).

 

Google will analyze your use of our Website on our behalf. To this purpose we use the cookies described in more detail in the above table. The information collected by Google in connection with your use of our Website (e.g. the referring URL, our webpages visited by you, your browser type, your language settings, your operating system, your screen resolution) will be transmitted to a server of Google in the US, where it will be stored and analyzed. The respective results will then be made available to us in anonymized form. Your usage data will not be connected to your full IP address during this process. We have activated on our Website the IP anonymizing function offered by Google, which will delete the last 8 bits (type IPv4) or the last 80 bits (type IPv6) of your IP address. Moreover, by concluding specific agreements with Google we ensure that an adequate level of data protection is maintained with respect to the processing of personal data by Google in the US.


You may revoke your consent to the use of web analysis at any time, either by downloading and installing the provided Google Browser Plugin or by administrating your consents in the above table, in which case an opt-out cookie will be placed. Both options will prevent the application of web analysis only as long as you use the browser on which you installed the plugin and do not delete the opt-out Cookie. Further information on Google Analytics is available in the Google Analytics Terms of Use, the Privacy and Data Protection Guidelines of Google Analytics and in the Google Privacy Policy.

 

4. Use of contact forms

You can contact us directly via the contact forms available on our Website. In particular, you may provide us with the following information:

  • Name, surname, title

  • Contact data (e.g. E-mail address)

  • Message

 

We collect, process and use the information provided by you via the contact forms exclusively for the processing of your specific request.

 

5. External services or content on our Website

We include third-party services and/or content on our Website. When you use such third-party services or when third-party content is displayed, communication data are exchanged between you and the respective provider for technical reasons.

 

The respective provider of the services or content may also process your data for own additional purposes. To the best of our knowledge, we have configured the services and content of providers known to process data for own purposes in such a way that either any communication for other purposes than to present their services or content on our Website is blocked, or communication only takes place once you have actively opted to use the respective service. However, since we have no control over data collected and processed by third parties, we are not in a position to provide binding information regarding the scope and purpose of such processing of your data.

 

For further information regarding the scope and purpose of such collection and processing of your data, please consult the privacy statements of the providers whose services and/or content we include and who are responsible for the protection of your data in this context:

 

6. Use of commentary function

On our Website, you may comment our blogs. Therefore we file the following personal data:

  • Name
  • Comment

 

You are welcome to provide us with the following optional information:

  • E-mail address

 

7. Using the online ticket order function

You can order tickets for events on the Kölnticket website. We collect and use the data you provide to send you your tickets and process your order.

  • Name, surname and title
  • Address (Street, Post code, Town, Country)
  • Contact details (e.g. e-mail address, phone number)

 

You are welcome to provide us with the following optional information:

  • Mobilnumber

 

8. Choose your seats

You can choose the seats you want for an event on the Kölnticket website. On the basis of your prior consent, we collect and use the data you provide to send you your tickets and process your order.

  • Name, surname and title
  • Address (Street, Post code, Town, Country)
  • Contact details (e.g. e-mail address, phone number)

 

You are welcome to provide us with the following optional information:

  • Name affix
  • c/o
  • Mobilnumber
  • Date of birth

 

9. Information on side effects and quality complaints

This Website is not intended or designed for communications regarding side effects, lack of therapeutic effect, medication errors, grey market products/counterfeit medicine, incorrect or off-label use, quality complaints and/or other issues regarding the safeness or quality of Bayer products. If you wish to report side effects or make a quality complaint, please contact your health care professional (e.g. physician or pharmacist), your local health authority, or use our Website for the report of undesirable side effects.

 

If you nevertheless report to us undesirable side effects or other issues regarding the safeness or quality of Bayer products, we will be legally bound to deal with your communication and may have to contact you for clarification purposes. Subsequently, we may have to notify the competent health authorities of the issues reported by you. In this context, your information will be forwarded in pseudonymized form, i.e. no information by which you may be directly identified will be passed on. We may also have to forward these pseudonymized notifications to our group companies and cooperation partners, to the extent these are likewise obliged to notify their respectively competent health authorities.

 

II. Collection of data during the coronavirus pandemic

As a result of the novel COVID-19 (“coronavirus”), we are obligated to document your presence on our premises. This is for your protection and to ensure that all possible chains of infection are traced as quickly as possible. Please read the following information regarding data processing:

 

1. Purposes of processing and categories of personal data processed

The purpose of this data processing is to protect the health of our employees, to contain the pandemic by tracing chains of infection and to protect the vital interests of the person concerned or those of another person. For this reason, we will process the following data concerning you during the coronavirus pandemic:

  • First name and last name

  • Address

  • Phone number

  • Date of visit and time of day and/or duration of visit

 

2. Retention periods for personal data

Your personal data will be saved for this purpose for a duration of four weeks from the time of your visit, and then it will be deleted.

 

3. Legal basis for processing your personal data
Purpose Legal basis Comments Data provision required Consequences if data are not provided
Protection of the health of our employees, containment of the pandemic by tracing chains of infection and protection of the vital interests of the person concerned or those of another person. Legal basis according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR in conjunction with § 2a (1) CoronaSchVO

Performance of tasks in the public interest Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e GDPR		 Processing of your personal data as per the ordinance regarding the prevention of new infections of the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Yes You cannot take advantage of our offer.

 

4. User Surveys

Participation in the user surveys conducted from time to time on our website is voluntary. We use functional cookies to carry out the user surveys. The technical information recorded by the user survey is the same information that is recorded when users visit the website (see above). Your responses submitted during the user survey will not be linked to your personal data such as your IP address.

 

5. Transfer of data for commissioned processing

For the processing of your data we will to some extent use specialized service contractors. Such service contractors are carefully selected and regularly monitored by us. Based on respective data processor agreements, they will only process personal data upon our instruction and strictly in accordance with our directives.

 

6. Transfer of data to third parties

We share your data with the following third parties for the following purpose:

Third Party Scope and purpose of transfer
DERTICKETSERVICE.DE GmbH & Co.KG Große Neugasse 2 50667 Köln Ordering of event tickets

 

7. Processing of data outside the EU / the EEA

Your data will in part also be processed in countries outside the European Union (“EU”) or the European Economic Area (“EEA”), which may have a lower data protection level than European countries. In such cases, we will ensure that a sufficient level of protection is provided for your data, e.g. by concluding specific agreements with our contractual partners (copy available on request), or we will ask for your explicit consent to such processing.

 

III. Information regarding your rights

The following rights are in general available to you according to applicable data privacy laws:

  • Right of information about your personal data stored by us;

  • Right to request the correction, deletion or restricted processing of your personal data;

  • Right to object to a processing for reasons of our own legitimate interest, public interest, or profiling , unless we are able to proof that compelling, warranted reasons superseding your interests, rights and freedom exist, or that such processing is done for purposes of the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims;

  • Right to data portability;

  • Right to file a complaint with a data protection authority;

  • You may at any time with future effect revoke your consent to the collection, processing and use of your personal data. For further information please refer to the chapters above describing the processing of data based on your consent.

 

If you wish to exercise your rights, please address your request to the contact indicated below.

 

If you are a resident of California or Nevada in the United States, you may have additional rights regarding your personal data. More information may be found here.

 

IV. Contact

For any questions you may have with respect to data privacy, please use the provided contact form or contact our company data protection officer at the following address:

Group Data Protection Officer
Bayer AG
51368 Leverkusen

 

V. Amendment of Privacy Statement

We may update our Privacy Statement from time to time. Updates of our Privacy Statement will be published on our Website. Any amendments become effective upon publication on our Website. We therefore recommend that you regularly visit the site to keep yourself informed on possible updates.