Data Protection Statement from STADA Arzneimittel AG
NON-BINDING TRANSLATION FROM THE GERMAN LANGUAGE - FOR CONVENIENCE ONLY
STADA complies with all legal provisions on data protection. The protection of the privacy of visitors to
this website is very important to STADA. Therefore, please take note of the following information:
STADA has set up links from all pages of this website to this data protection statement; if this is not the case, it is
due to a technical error. In these exceptional cases, access to this statement is, however, possible via the website’s
start page.
In the future, it may be necessary for STADA to update this data protection statement. Such changes will then be announced
on this page so that you always have complete knowledge of the type and the scope of personal data STADA saves and for which
purposes STADA processes and utilizes this data.
On pages where STADA saves personal data, additional statements (for example on the use of the data) may be added as the
need arises.
1. Personal data
In the STADA Data Protection Statement, the term ‘personal data’ comprises all individual details on personal or material
conditions from a particular or determinable natural person such as names, date of birth, E-mail-address, home address or
phone number - i.e. data which can be used to identify a person.
The following paragraphs will explain how and when STADA records and collects personal data.
2. Web statistics (Google Analytics)
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google
Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files which are
saved on your computer and enable an analysis of your usage of the website.
Information on your usage of this website generated by the cookie is generally
transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymization
is activated on this website, Google will, however, shorten your IP address
within member countries of the European Union or other contracting states of the
European Economic Area before. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP
address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On
behalf of the website operator, Google will use this information to evaluate
your usage of the website, to prepare reports on website activity and to provide
further services to the website operator in connection with website use and
Internet use. The IP address transferred from your browser in the context of
Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You may refuse the
use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however
please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full
functionality of this website. In addition, you can refuse the transmission of
data relating to your usage of the website (including your IP address) by the
cookie to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and
installing the browser plugin available at the following link:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
3. Collecting, processing and use of personal data
STADA only (excepting web statistics) collects such data from you that you disclose yourself to STADA to make use of one
of the services offered by STADA (e.g. ordering of information brochures). This data will then be processed and used
exclusively for carrying out the service that you requested (e.g. sending of the requested information material).
Furthermore, this data will only be processed or used for other purposes (e.g. sending of more information on products
or services or service material from STADA) if you have previously given your consent to do so to STADA.
Given consent can naturally be canceled under the following address at any time with effect for the future:
STADA Arzneimittel AG
Stadastraße 2-18
61118 Bad Vilbel, Germany
Fax: +49 6101/ 603-849
E-mail: kontaktstop@stada.de
Most Internet pages and functions which are made available by STADA do not require personal registration from the visitor.
In some areas of this website, however, a registration is required for legal reasons (e.g. STADA service for experts). To
be granted access to these areas, visitors must complete a form on the respective Internet page, whereby certain fields are
obligatory (obligatory fields) and others are optional. In particular cases, visitors thereby select a user name and a
password. If the obligatory fields are left empty, access to the selected website is denied and STADA cannot process the
request.
Alternatively, instead of such registration access can also be given via a so-called DocCheck password.
Personal data which is collected via this website can also be made available by STADA to other STADA companies and
contractually bound sales partners as well as to other third parties. This, however, is only done within the legally
allowed scope.
4. Safety and confidentiality
To guarantee the safety and confidentiality of the personal data which STADA records online, STADA utilizes data networks,
which amongst others are equipped with firewalls and password protection of the best available technology. Even if STADA
cannot guarantee that data is not lost, misused or changed, STADA will try to avoid such incidents. Alternatively, you can
also send your data by post or fax to the business address of STADA Arzneimittel AG.
5. Data transfer to foreign countries
STADA is a globally active company which has databases in countries with different legal systems. STADA can transfer
personal data to databases outside of the country of domicile of persons concerned, also outside of the European Union
or the European Economic Area. In these cases, STADA, however, makes sure that an appropriate level of data protection
is guaranteed at the recipient of the data.
6. “Cookies” and “Tags”
STADA can install so-called Cookies on the website which, when the website is visited, record the visitor’s Internet
provider as well as the date and the time of the visit to the website. A Cookie is a small part of information which
is sent to the browsers and saved on the hard drive of the respective computer. Cookies do not damage computers. Users
can set their browser in a way so that a message appears on the screen when a new Cookie arrives. This makes it possible
for users to decide whether the Cookie is or is not to be installed on their hard drive.
STADA can use so-called “Internet Tags” (also known as “one-pixel GIFs” or “Web Beacons”) in connection with Cookies
on STADA’s websites or make third party advertising partners use them. These Tags can both be placed on online advertising
media which forward users to this website as well as in several places on the website itself. STADA can utilize this
technology to evaluate the visitors’ reactions to the website and the effectiveness of publicity campaigns. This can for
example include information on how often a page is opened and which information is accessed.
7. Personal data from children
Knowingly, STADA will not record, use or make available to third parties any personal data from children younger than 14
years without obtaining their legal agent’s (e.g. parent or legal guardian) consent by means of direct contact. In these
special cases (i), STADA will inform the legal agent which personal data from the child is to be collected and (ii) grant
the legal agents the possibility to forbid the further use or saving of the child’s personal data. The compliance with
child protection laws is naturally observed by STADA.
8. Links to other sites
STADA can place so-called Links to other sites which in STADA’s point of view are of interest. This data protection
statement, however, only applies to STADA’s websites, excluding third party websites.
9. Contact to STADA
Do you have more questions on data protection at STADA (e.g. disclosure, cancellation and correction wishes for your
data)? Then contact STADA’s data protection officer by post, fax or E-mail via the following address.
STADA Arzneimittel AG
Stadastraße 2-18
61118 Bad Vilbel, Germany
Fax: +49 6101/65295
E-mail: datenschutz@stada.de
