Data Privacy Policy

Our website may be used without entering personal information. Different rules may apply to certain services on our site, however, and are explained separately below. We collect personal information from you (e.g. name, address, email address, telephone number, etc.) in accordance with the provisions of German data protection statutes. Information is considered personal if it can be associated exclusively to a specific natural person. The legal framework for data protection may be found in the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the Telemedia Act (TMG). The provisions below serve to provide information as to the manner, extent and purpose for collecting, using and processing personal information by the provider.

Iris Biotech GmbH

Telefon: +49 (0) 9231 97121-0

E-Mail: info@iris-biotech.de

Please be aware that data transfer via the internet is subject to security risks and, therefore, complete protection against third-party access to transferred data cannot be ensured.

Purpose of Registering

We offer you the opportunity to sign up for our website. The information entered when signing up, as shown in the registration form

Iris Biotech GmbH

Telefon: +49 (0) 9231 97121-0

E-Mail: info@iris-biotech.de 

 

is collected and stored solely for use by our website. When signing up for our website, we also store your IP address and the date and time you registered. This serves to protect us in the event a third party improperly and without your knowledge makes use of your data to sign up for our site. None of this information is transferred to third parties. Nor is any of this information matched to any information that may be collected by other components of our website.

 

Name and contact of the controller pursuant to Article 4 (7) GDPR
Iris Biotech GmbH
Adalbert-Zoellner-Str. 1
95615 Marktredwitz, Deutschland
Tel.: +49 (0) 9231 97121-0
Fax: +49 (0) 9231 97121-99
Mail: info@iris-biotech.de

Data Protection Officer
Iris Biotech GmbH
Thomas Robl
Adalbert-Zoellner-Str.1
95615 Marktredwitz: Deutschland
Tel.: +49 (0) 9231 97121-0
Fax: +49 (0) 9231 97121-99
Datenschutz@iris-biotech.de

Security and protection of your personal data
We consider it our primary responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of the personal data you provide and to protect it from unauthorized access. That's why we use the utmost care and state-of-the-art security standards to ensure maximum protection of your personal data.
As a private company, we are subject to the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the regulations of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). We have taken technical and organisational measures to ensure that data protection regulations are complied with by both us and our external service providers.

 

 

Definitions
The legislation requires that personal data be processed lawfully, fairly and in a manner that is comprehensible to the data subject ("lawfulness, fairness processing, transparency"). To ensure this, we inform you about the individual legal definitions, which are also used in this privacy policy:

Personal Data
"Personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter referred to as "data subject"); 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.

Processing
"Processing" means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data, whether by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, deletion or destruction.

Restriction of processing
"Restriction of processing" means the marking of stored personal data with the aim of restricting its future processing.

Profiling
"Profiling" means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting in the use of such personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, to analyse or predict aspects relating to that natural person's work performance, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements.

Pseudonymization
"Pseudonymization" means the processing of personal data in such a way that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person can be replaced.

File system
"File system" means any structured collection of personal data that is accessible according to certain criteria, whether such collection is centralised, decentralised or organised according to functional or geographical criteria.

Controller
"Controller" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union law or the law of the Member States, the controller or the specific criteria for its designation may be provided for by Union law or the law of the Member States.

Processor
"Processor" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that processes personal data on behalf of the Controller.

Recipient
"Recipient" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body to which personal data is disclosed, whether or not it is a third party. However, public authorities that may receive personal data in the context of a specific investigative mandate under Union or Member State law shall not be considered as recipients; the processing of these data by the aforementioned authorities will be carried out in accordance with the applicable data protection regulations, in accordance with the purposes of the processing.

Third party
"Third party" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body, other than the data subject, the controller, the processor and the persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or the processor, are authorised to process the personal data.

Consent
"Consent" by the data subject is any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes, in the form of a statement or other unambiguous affirmative action, by which the data subject indicates that he or she consents to the processing of personal data concerning him/her.

Lawfulness of processing

The processing of personal data is lawful only if there is a legal basis for the processing. In accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) – (f) of the GDPR, the legal basis for processing may be in particular:

• The data subject has given consent to the processing of personal data concerning him or her for one or more specific purposes
• processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party or for the performance of pre-contractual measures taken at the request of the data subject
• processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Controller is subject.;
  processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person
• processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller
• processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, unless such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require the protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.

 

Information on the collection of personal data

(1) In the following, we inform you about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data includes, for example, name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior.

(2) If you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the data you provide (your name, also your company name, country and e-mail address) will be stored by us in order to forward your questions to the right contact person and to be able to answer the questions through them. We delete the data collected in this context at the latest when a legal basis in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) – (f) GDPR no longer exists.

Collection of personal data when you visit our website

If you use the website for informational purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which are technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure its stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR):

• IP address
• Date and time of the request
• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Content of the request (specific page)
• Access status/HTTP status code
• Amount of data transferred in each case
• Website from which the request comes
• Browser
• Operating system and its interface
• Language and version of the browser software.

 

Use of cookies

(1) In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive associated with the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to the entity that sets the cookie. Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the website more user-friendly and effective overall.

(2) This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functionality of which are explained below:

• Transient Cookies
  are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, which can be used to assign various s requests from your browser to the common session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.
• Persistent Cookies
  are automatically deleted after a specified period of time, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser.

 

You can configure your browser settings according to your preferences and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. So-called "third party cookies" are cookies that have been set by a third party, i.e. not by the actual website you are currently on. We would like to point out that if you disable cookies, you may not be able to use all the functions of this website.

You can prevent the use of HTML5 storage objects by using private mode in your browser. We also recommend that you manually delete your cookies and browsing history on a regular basis.

Other features and offers of our website

(1) In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. To do this, you will usually have to provide further personal data that we use to provide the respective service and to which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.

(2) In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly checked.

(3) Furthermore, we may pass on your personal data to third parties if we offer participation in promotions, competitions, contracts or similar services together with partners. You will find more information about this by entering your personal data or in the description of the offer.

 

 

Newsletter

(1) You have the option of filling out a contact form on our website, which will forward your request to us. You will be notified of your inclusion in the newsletter distribution list by sending a confirmation e-mail to the address provided. No further confirmation is required.

(2) You can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can revoke your consent by clicking on the link provided in each newsletter e-mail, via the contact form on the website, or by sending a message to the contact details given in the imprint.

Rights of the data subject

Withdrawal of consent
If the processing of personal data is based on consent given, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out based on the consent before its withdrawal.

To exercise the right of withdrawal, you can contact us at any time.

Right to confirmation

You have the right to obtain confirmation from the controller as to whether we are processing personal data concerning you. You can request confirmation at any time using the contact details above.

Right to information
You may request information about the collection and processing of personal data and about the following information at any time:

• the purposes of processing.
• the categories of personal data that are processed.
• the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations.
• the planned duration for which the personal data will be stored.
• the existence of a right to rectification or erasure of personal data concerning you or to restriction of processing by the controller or a right to object to such processing
• the existence of a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
• if the personal data is not collected from the data subject, all available information on the origin of the data will be.
• the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, in accordance with Article 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR and, at least in these cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the scope and intended effects of such processing for the data subject.

 

If personal data is transferred to a third country or to an international organisation, you have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards in accordance with Article 46 of the GDPR in connection with the transfer. We will provide a copy of the personal data that is the subject of processing. For any further copies that you personally request, we may charge a reasonable fee based on the administrative costs. If the request is made electronically, the information must be provided in a commonly used electronic format, unless otherwise specified. The right to obtain a copy referred to in paragraph 3 shall not prejudice the rights and freedoms of any other person.

Right to rectification
You have the right to obtain from us without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Considering the purposes of the processing, you have the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data, including by means of a supplementary statement.

Right to erasure ("right to be forgotten")
You have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning you without undue delay, and we are obliged to erase personal data without undue delay if one of the following grounds applies:

• The personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
• The data subject withdraws his or her consent on which the processing was based pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
• The data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) of the GDPR.
• The personal data has been unlawfully processed.
• The erasure of the personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject.
• The personal data has been collected in relation to information society services offered in accordance with Article 8(1) of the GDPR.

Where the controller has made the personal data public and is required to erase them in accordance with paragraph 1, he or she shall take appropriate measures, including technical measures, taking into account the available technology and the costs of implementation, to inform data controllers who process the personal data that a data subject has requested from them the deletion of all links to such personal data or of requested copies or replications of that personal data.

The right to erasure ("right to be forgotten") does not exist insofar as the processing is necessary:

• on the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information
• for compliance with a legal obligation requiring processing under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject, or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller
• for reasons of public interest in the field of public health pursuant to Article 9(2)(h) and (i) and Article 9(3) of the GDPR;
  for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89 (1) GDPR, to the extent that the right referred to in paragraph 1 is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of such processing, or
• to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data if one of the following conditions applies:

• the accuracy of the personal data is disputed by the data subject, for a period enabling the Controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data,
• the processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests the restriction of the use of the personal data instead;
• the controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but the data subject needs them for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, or
• the data subject has objected to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR, pending the verification of whether the legitimate grounds of the controller outweigh those of the data subject.

Where processing has been restricted in accordance with the conditions set out above, such personal data shall be processed only with the consent of the data subject or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or of a Member State, with the exception of their storage.

To exercise the right to restriction of processing, the data subject may contact us at any time using the contact details provided above.

Right to data portability
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit such data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to whom the personal data have been provided, provided that:

• the processing is based on consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) or Article 9(2)(a) or on a contract pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, and
• the processing is carried out by automated means. When exercising the right to data portability referred to in paragraph 1, you have the right to obtain the transfer of personal data directly from one controller to another, to the extent technically feasible. Exercising the right to data portability is without prejudice to the right to erasure ("right to be forgotten"). This right does not apply to processing necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.

 

Right of objection
You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your situation, at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out based on Article 6(1)(e) or (f) of the GDPR; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. The controller shall no longer process the personal data unless it can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

If personal data is processed for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of such advertising; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is related to such direct marketing. If you object to the processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data will no longer be processed for these purposes.

Notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, in relation to the use of information society services, you may exercise your right to object by means of automated procedures using technical specifications.

You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes in accordance with Article 89(1), unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest.

You can exercise your right to object at any time by contacting the relevant controller.

Automated individual decision-making, including profiling
You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. This does not apply if the decision:

• is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between the data subject and the controller,
• is permitted by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and that legislation contains appropriate measures to safeguard the rights and freedoms and legitimate interests of the data subject, or
• with the explicit consent of the data subject.

The Controller shall take reasonable measures to safeguard the rights and freedoms and legitimate interests of the data subject, including at least the right to obtain the Controller's intervention from a person, to express one's own point of view and to contest the decision.

The data subject may exercise this right at any time by contacting the relevant controller.

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you also 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 the data subject considers that the processing of personal data relating to him or her infringes this Regulation.

Right to effective judicial remedy
Without prejudice to any available administrative or non-judicial remedy, including the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority pursuant to Article 77 of the GDPR, you have the right to an effective judicial remedy if it considers that your rights under this Regulation have been infringed as a result of processing of your personal data not in accordance with this Regulation.

Use of Google Analytics

(1) This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", which are text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. 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 be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services related to website activity and internet usage.

(2) The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data held by Google.

(3) You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

(4) This website uses Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp()". As a result, IP addresses are processed in an abbreviated manner, so that personal reference can be excluded. Insofar as the data collected about you has a personal reference, this will be excluded immediately and the personal data will therefore be deleted immediately.

(5) We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website and to improve it on a regular basis. We can use the statistics obtained to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

(6) Third-party information: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001.
Terms of use: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html,
Privacy Overview: http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html, and
Privacy Policy: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

(7) This website also uses Google Analytics for a cross-device analysis of visitor flows, which is carried out via a user ID. You can deactivate the cross-device analysis of your usage in your customer account under "My data", "personal data".

 

 

Use of Google Webfonts

In order to display our content correctly and graphically appealing across browsers, we use script libraries and font libraries such as Google Webfonts (https://www.google.com/webfonts/) on this website. Google web fonts are transferred to your browser's cache to avoid multiple loads. If the browser does not support Google web fonts or prevents access, content will be displayed in a standard font.

Calling script libraries or font libraries automatically triggers a connection to the operator of the library. In doing so, it is possible that operators of the respective libraries collect data.

The privacy policy of the library operator Google can be found here:
www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Processor

We use external service providers (processors), e.g. but not exclusively for the shipping of goods or payment processing. A separate order data processing has been concluded with these service providers to ensure the protection of your personal data. You can find out which service providers process data on our behalf by sending us an inquiry.