Privacy Statement

When you access 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.

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

We only use optional cookies if we have obtained your prior consent. 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 Privacy Preference Center.

a) Google Analytics

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 Privacy Preference Center. 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, Google is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield Privacy Shield, which ensures an adequate level of data protection with respect to the processing of 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 Privacy Preference Center, 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 the Google Privacy Policy.

b) Website analysis with SitecoreAI Analytics

On our website, we use SitecoreAI Analytics, a web analytics and personalization service offered by Sitecore Deutschland GmbH, 1 Plus Business Center GmbH, 04 4 68161, Mannheim, Germany ("Sitecore"). Sitecore uses cookies to collect and analyze information in connection with your use of our website on our behalf.

The information collected by Sitecore includes your IP address, device/browser information like language, operating system, and screen resolution, your time of visit, referring URLs, and the web pages you accessed on our website.

The collected information is processed in Sitecore’s cloud environment and made available to us in aggregated form. We process the collected information for the purpose of enhancing content and improving the usability and performance of the website.

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is your prior consent. You may withdraw your consent to the use of SitecoreAI Analytics at any time, either by administrating your consents in the Privacy Preference Center or by configuring your browser settings accordingly.

It cannot be ruled out that your personal data is transferred to unsafe third countries (such as the United States). We have entered into a data processing agreement (DPA) with Sitecore that ensures that personal data will only be processed in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the applicable data privacy laws. Sitecore USA Inc. is further certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, including the UK Extension, which regulates the secure processing of EU and UK citizens' data in the US.

Further information on Sitecore’s privacy policy can be found at: https://www.sitecore.com/legal/privacy-policy

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)
• Message
• Professional Qualification

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

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.

If you wish to recommend us to others, you can do so by using the recommendation function on our Website. You may, in your and our legitimate interest, send a message to any person if you assume that the recipient wishes to receive such information.

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. 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.

The following rights are generally available to you under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 ("DPDP Act") and other applicable data protection, privacy, and related laws:

a) Right to Access:
The right to obtain from Bayer information regarding the personal data being processed about you, including a summary of such personal data and details of the processing activities undertaken.

b) Right to Correction and Completion:
The right to request the correction, completion, updating, or rectification of any inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated personal data.

c) Right to Erasure:
The right to request the deletion or erasure of your personal data when it is no longer necessary for the specified purposes for which it was collected, subject to applicable legal, regulatory, contractual, and record-retention requirements.

d) Right to Grievance Redressal:
The right to seek redressal of grievances relating to the processing of your personal data through Bayer’s designated Grievance Officer in accordance with applicable law.

e) Right to Withdraw Consent:
Where the processing of your personal data is based on consent, the right to withdraw such consent at any time through the mechanisms made available by Bayer. Withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out prior to such withdrawal.

f) Right to Nominate:
The right to nominate one or more individuals who may exercise your rights under the DPDP Act on your behalf in the event of your death or incapacity.

Bayer will facilitate the exercise of these rights in accordance with the DPDP Act and other applicable data protection, privacy, and related laws.

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

C. Contact

D. Amendment of Privacy Statement