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.

Handling of personal data

In the following we wish to provide you with information on how we handle your personal data when you use our Website. Unless otherwise indicated in the following chapters, the legal basis for the handling of your personal data results from the fact that such handling is required to make available the functionalities of the Website requested by you (Art. 6(1)(b) General Data Protection Regulation).

Using our Website

Accessing our Website

When you call up our Website, your browser will transfer certain information 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 information 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 information 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).

Registration and login

In order to be able to use certain services of our Website, you need to first register an account with us, where you are able to determine your personal login credentials that you need to be able to log into your personal account. For this registration and subsequent login procedure, we collect the following information about you:

Name and surname
Contact data (icl. email address and phone number)

We process this personal data in order to provide you with an access to the services of our Website. They are deleted in case you deactivate your user account.

Website Analysis with Google

On our Website we use 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 after each data transfer to Google.

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 withdraw your consent to the use of web analysis at any time, either by downloading and installing the provided Google Browser Pluginor 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.

Google Tag Manager

We use Google Tag Manager to manage various tracking and analytics scripts on our website. Google Tag Manager itself does not collect personal data, but it facilitates the loading of other services that may collect data based on your consent preferences.

LinkedIn Insight Tag

With your consent, we use the LinkedIn Insight Tag, a service provided by LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. This service helps us measure the effectiveness of our LinkedIn advertising campaigns. Data retention period: 180 days. Legal basis: Your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).

OneTrust Consent Management

We use OneTrust to manage your cookie and privacy preferences. OneTrust collects minimal data necessary for consent management including consent preferences and browser information. Legal basis: Legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) for compliance with privacy regulations.

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, gender and title
Contact data (e.g. E-Mail address, phone number)
Transaction Number (e.g. Request ID)

We process information provided by you via contact forms exclusively for the processing of your specific request. We delete this information as soon as it is no longer required anymore in order to process or follow up on your request.

If you wish to receive a customized newsletter, you may, on a voluntary basis, provide us with the following additional information:

Name and surname
Title

Subscription to our newsletter

On our Website, you may subscribe to receive our newsletter. Based on your prior consent, we will collect and use the email address you indicate for providing you with the newsletter (Art. 6(1)(a) General Data Protection Regulation). If you wish to receive a customized newsletter, you may, on a voluntary basis, provide us with the following additional information:

Name and surname
Title

For subscription to our newsletter, we use the so-called double opt-in procedure. After you have subscribed to the newsletter on our website, we will send you a message to the indicated email address asking for your confirmation. If you do not confirm your subscription, your subscription will automatically be deleted. In order to prevent any misuse of your personal data, we will log your subscription and confirmation, filing the IP address you use when subscribing, the time of your subscription and confirmation, the messages sent by us regarding your subscription, and the wording of your subscription and confirmation. Furthermore, we determine and assign user parameters for user classification purposes. This can for example be parameters driven from a specific event registration, or user locations derived from the registered IP address.

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 personal data for own additional purposes. To the best of our knowledge, we have configured the services and content of providers known to process personal 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 personal 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 personal data.

For further information regarding the scope and purpose of such processing of your personal 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 personal data in this context:

Transfer of personal data for commissioned processing

For the processing of your personal 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.

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 withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data. For further information please refer to the chapters above describing the processing of personal data based on your consent.

If you wish to exercise your rights, please address your request to the contact indicated below. (-> Contact).

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.

Contact

For any questions you may have with respect to data privacy, please write an email to bjoern.malinka@bayer.com or contact our company data protection officer at the following address:

Björn Malinka (Head of DP Functional Governance / Data Privacy Officer)

Bayer AG

51368 Leverkusen

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.

Last updated: 01.03.2022.