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). 

Setting of cookies 

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. 

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: 
 

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. 

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.

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 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.

Website Analysis with Hotjar

On our Website we use a web analysis service of Hotjar Ltd, Levl 2, St Julians Business Centre 3, Elia, Zammit Street, St Julians STJ 1000, Malta, Europe („Hotjar“).

Hotjar will analyze your use of our Website on our behalf. To this purpose, we use the cookies describe in more detail in the above table. The information collected by Hotjar in connection with your use of our Website (e.g. how much time the user spends on which pages, how user move on the website, which links they choose to click, how user interact with forms, device ID (UDID, anonymized), location (country only), device screen size, browser type) will be transmitted to a server of Hotjar in Europe, 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. Your IP address will only be stored in anonymized format.

You may withdraw your consent to the use of web analysis at any time, either by downloading and installing the provided Opt-Out-Link 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.

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)
• Message

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.

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:

• Facebook share button
• LinkedIn share button
• Twitter share button
• YouTube videos
• Google ReCaptcha
• Google Maps
• Webfonts provided by Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc.
• Xing

Use of the recommendation function

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. We delete the personal data involved with this (e.g. name and email address) after the recommendation is sent.
User surveys and feedback

Participation in the user surveys conducted from time to time on our website or giving feedback is voluntary. We use functional cookies to carry out user surveys or ask for feedback. The technical information recorded by the user survey is the same information that is recorded when user visit the website (see above). Your responses submitted during a user survey or provided with feedback will not be linked to your personal data such as your IP address. Legal basis for processing your personal data is our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR) as such data processing is required to provide you with access to the survey and participation is voluntary. Your data is only briefly stored and processed.

Processing of personal data outside the EU / the EEA 

Your personal 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 personal 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. 

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 use the provided contact form or contact our company data protection officer at the following address:

Group Data Protection Officer
Bayer AG
51368 Leverkusen, Germany

Bayer AG is designated as representative in the European Union for our non-European legal entities in accordance with Art. 27 GDPR. You may contact the representative at the following address:

Data Privacy Representative
Bayer AG
51368 Leverkusen, Germany
E-mail: dp-representative@bayer.com

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: 26 May 2021.