Privacy Statement

This forms (hereinafter the “Website“) is provided by Bayer Consumer Care AG | 1611 | Switzerland as well as other Bayer Consumer Care AG Group companies (hereinafter “us” or “we”). For further information regarding the provider of the Website, please refer to our imprint.

Information on other selected non-Website related data processing activities performed by us and all of our affiliates in Germany (e.g. when you give us a business card or we collect your data from publicly available sources) can be found in the privacy information for selected specific processing activities.

 

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 (Art. 6(1) and Art. 31 of the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and, for EU/EEA data subjects, Art. 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)).

 

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 (Art. 6(1) and Art. 31 FADP and, for EU/EEA data subjects, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

 

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 link leads to the Privacy Preference Center and provides a detailed description of the optional cookies in use:  https://OneTrust.ToggleInfoDisplay()

Subject to your consent

We only use optional cookies if we have obtained your prior consent (Art. 6(6) FADP and, for EU/EEA data subjects, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). 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 behavioural 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 Centre, 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.

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.

Use of contact forms

You can contact us directly via the contact forms available on our Website, including the WIN Registry interest form and the WIN Research Consortium interest form.

In particular, you may provide us with the following information:

  • Name and surname
  • Gender and title
  • Contact data (e.g. postal/email address or phone number)
  • Message
  • Professional qualification
  • Organization type, Primary Area of Focus, Approximate Member Size

For the WIN Registry and WIN Research Consortium interest forms, this information may include your name, email address, country, organization, professional qualification, and any questions or comments you submit. We process this information to manage your expression of interest in the WIN Registry or WIN Research Consortium and to send you registration information when the WIN Registry launches in your country. 

We process this information on the basis of consent, after providing the information required under Art. 31 nDSG (Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP)) and in accordance with Art. 6(6) nDSG; where the processing concerns sensitive personal data, Art. 6(7) nDSG requires explicit consent. Where applicable to individuals in the EU/EEA, we additionally rely on consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. 

Participation in the WIN Registry will include completing quarterly online surveys.

We process information provided by you via contact forms exclusively for the processing of your specific request. We retain information submitted through the WIN Registry and WIN Research Consortium interest forms for as long as necessary to manage your expression of interest and, if you participate in the WIN Registry, for the duration of the WIN Registry program or until you withdraw your consent, whichever occurs first, unless a longer retention period is required by law. If the WIN Registry does not launch in your country within 24 months after you submit your expression of interest, we will delete the information relating to that expression of interest, unless a longer retention period is required by law. For other contact form requests, we delete this information as soon as it is no longer required to process or follow up on your request.

The WIN Registry may collect information about women’s experiences of menopause. Under the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP; nDSG), this information constitutes sensitive personal data under Art. 5(c) nDSG. We will process such data only with the data subject’s explicit consent, obtained in accordance with Art. 6(6) and (7) nDSG. Where the GDPR applies to individuals in the EU/EEA, this information also qualifies as health data and special category personal data under Art. 9 GDPR, and processing will be based on consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and the explicit-consent condition in Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR. Such consent may be withdrawn at any time with future effect, without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

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.

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 Art. 6(6) FADP and, for EU/EEA data subjects, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).

If you wish to receive a customized newsletter, you may, on a voluntary basis, provide us with the following additional information:

  • Name and surname

  • Gender and title

  • City, country

  • Subject(s) of interest

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).

In addition, we track the opening rate of our newsletter for statistical purposes. This means that a small transparent tracking image embedded in the newsletters. When you use your browser to open the received newsletter this image will be loaded, which will be counted as an opened email, and will be recorded in an aggregated form. No other data such as IP address would be processed. The tracking opening rates solution is provided by Intuit Mailchimp
405 N Angier Ave. NE Atlanta, GA 30308 USA. You can disable the newsletter tracking functionality by disabling the loading of images within you email client or browser.

Use of the recommendation function

If you wish to recommend us to others, you can do so by using the recommendation function on our Website. You may, in your and our legitimate interest, send a message to any person if you assume that the recipient wishes to receive such information. We delete the personal data involved with this (e.g. name and email address) after the recommendation is sent.

 

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).

This includes in particular also:

ApotheCom, 6th Floor, Holborn Gate, 26 Southampton Buildings, London WC2A 1AN, which maintains the website, manages communications and, on our behalf, processes personal data submitted through the WIN Registry and WIN Research Consortium interest forms, supports WIN Registry participation and the quarterly online surveys, and sends registration information when the WIN Registry launches in a user’s country.

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.

 

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.

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.

 

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
Bayer Consumer Care AG
Peter Merian Straße 84
CH-4052 BASEL
Email: privacy_ch@bayer.com

Bayer AG is designated as representative in the European Union for our non-European legal entities in accordance with Art. 27 GDPR. You may contact the representative at the following address:

Data Privacy Representative
Bayer AG
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee 1 
51368 Leverkusen, Germany
Email: 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: 21-09-2026