Privacy Statement


This website (hereinafter the “Website“) is provided by Bayer (Proprietary) Limited South Africa (hereinafter “us” or “we”). For further information regarding the provider of the Website, please refer to our imprint.


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.


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 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.


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 main-categories of cookies: (1) strictly necessary cookies, 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:



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 in the Privacy Preference Center.


Website analysis and online behavioral advertising

Website analysis with Adobe Analytics

If you provide us with your consent, we use a web analysis service of Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited, 4-6 Riverwalk, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24, Republic of Ireland (“Adobe”) on our website to evaluate your use of our website, to compile reports on the website activities and to receive further services from Adobe in connection with the website and internet use. For this purpose, we use the cookies described in more detail in the above table. The information collected by Adobe 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 Adobe in Ireland, 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 Adobe, which will replace the last octet of your IP address by zeroes before conducting approximate geolocation and subsequently we replace your IP address by a generic IP address before storing the dataset. An access to your data by Adobe Systems Inc., 345 Park Ave., San Jose, CA 95110 located in the USA (“Adobe Inc”) cannot be excluded. Outside the European Union (“EU”) or the European Economic Area (“EEA”) the data protection level may be lower than in European Countries, please see below “Processing of data outside the EU/the EEA”. For further information please visit: https://www.adobe.com/za/privacy.html.

You may withdraw your consent to the use of web analysis at any time, either by downloading and installing the provided Browser Plugin https://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html 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.


Online behavioral advertising with Adobe

This Website uses an online behavioral advertising service offered by Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited“, 4-6 Riverwalk, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24, Airijos Respublika („Adobe“).

Adobe will analyze your use of this Website. For this purpose, Adobe uses the cookies described in more detail in the Privacy Preference Center. The information collected by Adobe in connection with your use of our Website and about your browsing behavior (the pages you visit, links you click, etc.), helps to create a profile of your interests. This information will be transmitted to a server of Adobe, where it will be stored and analyzed. This allows Adobe Audience Manager to track your activity across different websites and platforms that use the same service. This profile information is then used to deliver targeted advertising and content that might be relevant to you. We can also use the data Adobe to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.


An access to your data by Adobe Systems Inc., 345 Park Ave., San Jose, CA 95110 located in the USA (“Adobe Inc”) cannot be excluded. Outside the European Union (“EU”) or the European Economic Area (“EEA”) the data protection level may be lower than in European Countries, please see below “Processing of data outside the EU/the EEA”. For further information please visit: https://www.adobe.com/za/privacy.html.


You may withdraw your consent to the use of web analysis at any time, either by downloading and installing the provided Browser Plugin https://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html 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 online behavioral advertising only as long as you use the browser on which you installed the plugin and do not delete the opt-out Cookie.


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:



Google Maps API and The Weather Company (TWC) API

This website uses a Weather Widget, which will allow us to identify your geographic environment in order to provide you with a personalized experience based on local conditions, specifically localized weather forecasts. Your location information may be obtained, only based on your consent and in two ways:


1. Geolocation: We ask for your consent to use your browser's geolocation feature. If you agree, we only use this information on the browser side to display the weather forecast for your area. Rest assured, your location data is not transmitted or stored on Bayer or TWC server and is utilized to retrieve weather forecasts via The Weather Company (TWC) API.


2. Postcode: You also have the option of manually entering your postcode. The entered data is processed only in browser, not on Bayer or TWC server, and is utilized to retrieve weather forecasts via The Weather Company (TWC) API.


The determination of geographic coordinates for providing weather forecasts can involve deducing an approximate location from your IP address or making use of data you input, such as your postcode, which is processed with the help of Google Maps API.


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.

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).


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.


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.

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:

Data Privacy Officer/ Information Officer
Bayer (Pty) Ltd
27 Wrench Road
Isando, 1601
South Africa
Email: za_data_privacy@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.

Declaration as of: 12.09.2024