privacy statement

This website (hereinafter the “

“) is provided by Bayer Thai Co., Ltd. | 0422 | Thailand (hereinafter “

us

” or “

we

”). At Bayer, we understand the importance of your privacy and commits to responsible use and protection of your personal data. In our capacity as Controller of your personal data, we invite you to read this document carefully as it explains to our purpose(s) and method(s) of how we process your personal data, your rights as data subjects and how you may exercise your rights.

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 is 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. This will help us ensure security on our website. 

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
• Gender and title
• Contact data (e.g. postal/email address or phone number)
• User name and password
• Your Health-care professional License ID, 
• Your Specialty, 
• Your Place of work

The content in this website is intended ONLY to health-care professionals. We are legally obliged to ensure that you are a health-care professional in order to grant you access to our website. Therefore, we process this personal data in order to conduct a background check on you as a step towards granting you the said access. They are deleted in case you deactivate your user account.

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.

We differentiate between two main-categories of cookies: (1)

, which are essential to browse the website and use its features, and (2)

optional cookies

(e.g. analytic cookies, targeting cookies, functional cookies) used for e.g. website analysis, website personalization and marketing purposes. The following button leads to the Privacy Preference Center and provides a detailed description of the optional cookies in use:

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.

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 in the Privacy Preference Center

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

"). 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 Privacy Preference Center [please link to the OneTrust Cookie Module], 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.

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.

Further information about data privacy and side effect reporting are available in the Safetrack.

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
• Subject(s) of interest

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.

You may at any time with future effect withdraw your consent to receive our newsletter, in which case we will also delete your personal data connected to receiving our newsletter. To declare that you wish to unsubscribe, you may use the respective link included in all newsletters, or refer to the contacts indicated below (section contact).

In addition, we track the opening rate of our newsletter for statistical purposes. This means that a small transparent tracking image embedded in the newsletters. When you use your browser to open the received newsletter this image will be loaded, which will be counted as an opened email, and will be recorded in an aggregated form. No other data such as IP address would be processed. The tracking service is provided by Veeva Systems Inc. You can disable the newsletter tracking functionality by disabling the loading of images within your email client or browser.

To whom we may share your personal data depends on the nature of your business with us. We only share your personal data to those who have a business need for it. Some of those parties include:

• Bayer Group, Bayer Group's Subsidiaries and Affiliates
• Commissioned data processors: when necessary, we engage with professional service data processors to process your personal data on our behalf. They are bound by contract with us to protect your personal data.
• Relevant state authorities: if legally required or necessary for the purpose described above
• External lawyers: in order to support legal decisions and to pursue or defend against legal claims
• Bayer's prospective buyers: in the context of Mergers & Acquisitions or any other type of corporate or asset transition involving a change of ownership or control concerning us or our services
• IT Cloud Solution Providers

Bayer recognizes all of your data subject rights you are entitled to in your jurisdiction and will help you exercise them if you choose to. As data subjects, you have the following fundamental rights:

• Right to be informed about our processing of your personal data;
• Right to withdraw your consent to personal data processing if the processing is based on your consent.
• Right to object to a processing of your personal data based on a legitimate interest or public interest.
• Right to request the correction of personal data we hold;
• Right to request the erasure of or the restriction on processing personal data with evidence that the processing is unnecessary, illegal, or should be suspended awaiting a court decision;
• Right to file a complaint with a data protection authority;

In addition, the following rights may be recognized depending on the country you live in:

• Right to access personal data we store about you;
• Right to data portability;
• Right to be excluded from automated decision making;
• Right to be forgotten;

For any questions you may have with respect to data privacy, if you wish to exercise your rights, or if you suspect that personal data processed by Bayer may be at risk, the fastest way is to address your request to dpo.asean@bayer.com.

Alternatively, you may reach out to our office at:

130/1 North Sathon Road, Silom, Bangrak, Bangkok 10500. 
Tel. +66(0)-2232-7000

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.

 

Declaration as of: Oct 25 2024