個人情報保護方針

本ウェブサイト（以下「ウェブサイト」）は、Bayer AG（以下「当社」）によって提供されています。ウェブサイトのプロバイダの詳細については、当社のインプリントをご覧ください。
 

 

A. 個人情報の取り扱い

以下に、お客様が当社ウェブサイトを利用する際に、当社がお客様の個人情報をどのように取り扱うかについて情報を提供いたします。以下の章に明記されていない限り、個人情報の取り扱いに関する法的根拠は、お客様により要求されたウェブサイトの機能を使用可能にするために必要であるということです。
 

 

当社ウェブサイトの使用

1. 当社ウェブサイトへのアクセス

当社ウェブサイトを呼び出すと、お客様のブラウザから当社のウェブサーバーに特定のデータが転送されます。これは技術的な理由により行われる処理であり、要求された情報をお客様に提供するために必要なものです。ウェブサイトへのアクセスを容易にするために、以下のデータが収集され、短期間保管されて使用されます。

  • IPアドレス
  • アクセス日時
  • グリニッジ標準時（GMT）との時差
  • 要求の内容（特定のサイト）
  • アクセスの状況／HTTPステータスコード
  • データ送信量
  • アクセスを要求するウェブサイト
  • ブラウザ、言語設定、ブラウザソフトウェアのバージョン、オペレーティングシステム、および表層のシステム さらに、当社の正当な利益を守るため、当社のサーバーに実際に不正アクセスを行った場合またはそのような試みが行われた場合に個人情報の追跡を開始できるように、当社は限られた期間のデータを保管します。

2. ウェブサイトの解析

当社ウェブサイトでは、Google Inc.,（所在地：1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States、以下「Google」という）のウェブ解析サービスであるGoogleアナリティクスを利用しています。Googleが当社に代わり、当社ウェブサイトのご利用状況を解析します。その目的で、当社はクッキーを利用しています。詳細については、上記の表に記載されています。当社ウェブサイトのご利用に関連してGoogleが収集した情報（参照先のURL、お客様が閲覧した当社ウェブページ、ブラウザタイプ、言語設定、オペレーティングシステム、画面解像度など）は、米国内のGoogleのサーバーに転送され、そこで保管されて解析されます。個々の結果は匿名化されて当社に提供されます。このプロセスで、お客様のご利用状況に関するデータとお客様の完全なIPアドレスが結び付けられることはありません。当社はウェブサイト上で、Googleが提供するIP匿名化機能を有効にしています。この機能により、お客様のIPアドレスの最後の8ビット（タイプIPv4）または最後の80ビット（タイプIPv6）が削除されます。さらに、GoogleはEU-US間プライバシーシールドの下で認証を取得しています。これにより、データ処理に関して米国内でGoogleにより適正なデータ保護レベルが確保されていることが保証されます。お客様は、提供されているGoogleのブラウザプラグインをダウンロードしてインストールするか、または上記の表で同意を管理することによって、随時、ウェブ解析の利用への同意を取り消すことができます。この場合は、オプトアウトクッキーが配置されます。どちらの方法でも、お客様がプラグインをインストールしたブラウザを使用しており、オプトアウトクッキーを削除しないかぎり、ウェブ解析の利用は回避されます。

Googleアナリティクスの詳細については、Googleアナリティクス利用規約、Googleアナリティクスの個人情報保護ガイドライン、およびGoogleプライバシーポリシーでご覧いただけます。
 

 

B. お客様の権利に関する情報

適用される個人情報保護法に従って、お客様には通常、以下の権利があります。

  • 当社が保管しているお客様の個人データについての情報に関する権利
  • お客様の個人情報の修正、削除、または処理制限を要求する権利
  • 当社の正当な利益、公共の利益、またはプロファイリングを理由とした処理に抗議する権利。ただし、お客様の利益、権利、および自由に優先する、やむを得ない正当な理由が存在すること、またはかかる処理が法的要求の表明、行使、または弁護を目的として行われることを当社が証明できる場合を除きます。
  • データポータビリティに関する権利
  • データ保護当局に苦情を申し立てる権利
  • お客様は、個人情報の収集、処理、および使用への同意を随時、その時点以降、取り消すことができます。詳細については、お客様の同意に基づくデータ処理について説明した上記の章を参照してください。

権利を行使する場合は、以下に示すお問い合わせ先にご要望をお送りください。[−> C.]. 米国のカリフォルニア州またはネバダ州にお住まいの方は、個人情報に関して追加の権利を有する場合があります。詳細は、こちらでご覧いただけます。
 

 

C. お問い合わせ先

個人情報保護に関するご質問については、所定の［

お問い合わせフォーム
］を使用するか、以下の住所宛てに当社の個人情報保護担当役員までお問い合わせください。

Group Data Protection Officer

Bayer AG
51368 Leverkusen
 

 

D. 個人情報保護方針の改訂

当社は個人情報保護方針を改訂する場合があります。当社の個人情報保護方針の改訂版は、当社ウェブサイトに公開されます。改訂は、当社ウェブサイトへの公開をもって有効になります。今後の改訂を把握するため、定期的にサイトをご覧いただくことをお勧めします。

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 in the Privacy Preference Center.


3.    Website analysis and online behavioral advertising


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 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 in the Google Privacy Policy.


4.    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:


5.    Use of contact forms


You can contact us directly via the “Ask a question” or “Contact Bayer” form available on our Website. In particular, you may provide us with the following information:

  • First Name and Last Name
  • Contact data (e.g. email address or phone number)
  • Country
  • The content of your message, which may include personal data that you voluntarily provide

We process information provided by you via contact form exclusively for the purpose of responding to your inquiry. Depending on the content of your inquiry, this may include health data or other special categories of personal data. We process your personal data based on your explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) and Art. 9(2)(a) General Data Protection Regulation. You may withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before such withdrawal, by contacting us using the contact details provided in the Contact section below. We delete this information as soon as it is no longer required anymore in order to process or follow up on your request.


6.    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.

Further information about data privacy and side effect reporting are available in the Bayer Privacy Statement for Pharmacovigilance Data.


II.    Recipients of personal data


Commissioned processing

For the processing of your personal data we will to some extent use specialized service contractors that process your data on our behalf (e.g. for IT-Support or cloud services).

Such service contractors are carefully selected and regularly monitored by us. Based on respective data processing agreements, they will only process personal data in accordance with our instructions.


Affiliates

We may share your personal data with our affiliates from the Bayer Group, where necessary for the purposes described above. 


Authorities and state institutions

We may share your personal data with law enforcement agencies or other authorities and state institutions if legally required or necessary for the purposes described above.


External lawyers

In order to support legal decisions and to pursue or defend against legal claims, we may share your personal data with external lawyers.


Prospective buyers in the context of Mergers & Acquisitions

We may share your personal data with a prospective buyer in case of an acquisition, merger or any other type of corporate or asset transition involving a change of ownership or control concerning us or our services.


III.    Processing of personal data outside the EEA


Your personal data may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area, including such for which the European Commission has not issued an adequacy decision. If no adequacy decision exists for the respective country, we will ensure an adequate level of protection for your personal data by concluding so-called standard contractual clauses - adopted by the European Commission - with the recipient (to obtain a copy, please refer to the contact details below), or we will ask for your explicit consent to the transfer.


B.     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 based on legitimate interest or public interest, 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;
  • Where you have provided your consent to the processing of your personal data, you may at any time withdraw your consent with future effect. Such a withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to the withdrawal.

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 on the
US privacy statement addendum
.


C.     Contact

For any questions you may have with respect to data privacy, or if you wish to exercise your rights, please address your request to our 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 General Data Protection Regulation. You may contact the representative at the following address:

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


D.     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.


Declaration as of: April 13, 2026