Thank you for visiting our website. The protection of your personal data is important to us and we want you to feel secure when visiting our website. We protect your privacy and your personal data. We process your personal data in accordance with the content of this privacy policy, the country-specific data protection regulations that apply to us and the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR").
SGS INSTITUT FRESENIUS GmbH, Im Maisel 14, D-65232 Taunusstein ("We") as the operator of the website sgs-institut-fresenius.de ("Website") is the controller within the meaning of the GDPR and other country-specific data protection regulations.
You can contact our data protection officer at any time with all data protection concerns at privacy.de@sgs.com.
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
Personal data also includes information about your use of our website. In this context, we collect the following personal data from you: Information about your visits to our website, such as the extent of data transfer, the location from which you retrieve data from our website and other connection data and files and other content that you retrieve. This is usually done through the use of log files and cookies. Further information on log files and cookies can be found below.
The scope and type of collection, processing and use of your data differs depending on whether you visit our website merely to retrieve generally available information or to make use of additional services:
a) Informational use
For purely informational use of our website, it is generally not necessary for you to provide personal data.
In this case, when you visit our website, we only collect the data that your internet browser automatically transmits to us, such as
The IP address of your computer is only stored in log files for the duration of your use of the website and is then immediately deleted or anonymized by shortening it. The remaining data is stored for a limited period of time. We use this data for the operation of our website, in particular to detect and eliminate errors on the website, to determine the utilization of the website and to make adjustments or improvements.
b) Use when utilizing further services
If you make use of further services of our company via our website, it may be necessary for you to provide personal data for this purpose.
Which personal data is required for the provision of the service can be seen from the respective input mask.
We will only collect the personal data required to fulfill the service you have selected, for example your postal address for billing purposes if you select the "on account" payment method. In the event that you choose another payment method, for example by credit card, you will be redirected to the pages of a third-party provider. We would like to point out that we have no influence on the collection, processing and use of personal data by this third-party provider, meaning that this privacy policy does not apply to the third-party provider.
You can provide further information voluntarily. You can recognize which information is required and which is voluntary by the fact that required information is marked with an asterisk (*).
Your data is collected, processed and used exclusively for the purpose of providing the service you have requested.
If you send SGS inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored in our contact and administration databases for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass this data on to third parties without your express prior consent, whereby third parties in this case are not the subsidiaries affiliated with SGS Holding Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG's affiliated subsidiaries. By submitting the contact form, you consent to the storage, processing and use of your personal data from the form within the aforementioned companies. Your legal rights to information, modification and deletion of your personal data are of course not affected by this. For further information, please refer to our privacy policy.
The processing of your data entered in the contact form is therefore carried out exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time. All you need to do is send us an informal email. The legality of the data processing operations carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
The data entered by you in the contact form will remain in our contact and administration databases until you ask us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory statutory provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected.
a) Use of cookies
Depending on the settings of your browser, we also collect information about your use of our website through the use of so-called cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your data carrier and that store certain settings and data for exchange with our system via your browser. A cookie usually contains the name of the domain from which the cookie data was sent as well as information about the age of the cookie and an alphanumeric identifier. Cookies enable our systems to recognize the user's device and make any default settings immediately available. As soon as a user accesses the platform, a cookie is transferred to the hard disk of the user's computer. Cookies help us to improve our website and offer you a better and more personalized service. They enable us to recognize your computer when you return to our website and thereby store information about your preferred activities on the website and thus tailor our website to your individual interests. This may include, for example, advertising that matches your personal interests; and speeding up the processing of your requests.
The cookies we use only store the above-mentioned data about your use of the website. This is not done by assigning it to you personally, but by assigning an identification number to the cookie ("cookie ID"). The cookie ID is not merged with your name, IP address or similar data that would allow the cookie to be assigned to you. You can find out how to prevent the use of cookies in the help function of your browser.
If you do not wish cookies to be used, you can set your browser so that the storage of cookies is not accepted. Please note that in this case you may only be able to use our website to a limited extent or not at all.
If you only want to accept our own cookies, but not the cookies of our service providers and partners, you can select the "Block third-party cookies" setting in your browser.
b) Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). Google Analytics also uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will first be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other member states of the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there.
Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part 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. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).
You can find more information on this at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and at www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html (general information on Google Analytics and data protection).
We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code "gat._anonymizeIp();" in order to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).
We do not pass on your personal data to third parties unless you have consented to the data being passed on or we are entitled or obliged to pass on data on the basis of statutory provisions and/or official or court orders. In particular, this may involve the disclosure of information for the purposes of criminal prosecution, averting danger or enforcing intellectual property rights.
The website may contain hyperlinks to and from third-party websites. If you follow a hyperlink to one of these websites, please note that we cannot assume any responsibility or guarantee for third-party content or compliance with data protection conditions. Please check the applicable data protection conditions before you transmit personal data to these websites.
All information that you transmit to us is stored on servers within the European Union. However, we use technical and organizational measures to protect our website and other systems against loss, destruction, access, modification or dissemination of your data by unauthorized persons. In particular, your personal data is transmitted to us in encrypted form.
You have the right to obtain from us
Furthermore, you have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time with effect for the future.
For further information on your rights, please contact our data protection officer.
We process and store personal data only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purpose, but no longer than until the statutory retention and storage periods have expired.
Once the purpose has been fulfilled and the statutory retention and storage periods have expired, the personal data will be deleted or blocked in accordance with the data protection regulations.
Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR.
A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at
www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Service/Anschriften/Laender/Laender-node.html