Privacy policy and Disclaimer

A. Privacy Policy

I. General information

1.The following privacy policy is intended to inform you about the nature, scope, purpose, duration, and legal basis for the processing of such data either under our own control or in conjunction with others. We also inform you about external components we use to optimize our website.
2. Responsible for ensuring compliance with the standards of data protection for this website is:

kohlpharma GmbH
Im Holzhau 8
D-66663 Merzig

Telephone: +49 (0) 6867 / 920-0
Fax: +49 (0) 6867 / 920-1503
Email: info@kohlpharma.com

Our data protection officer can be reached at:

datenschutz@kohlpharma.com

3. Personal data will only be processed by us as follows:

a) Accessing the kohlpharma website

When you access the kohlpharma website, the browser on your terminal device automatically transmits information to our web server. This information will be stored temporarily in a so-called log file. Without any action on your part, the following information will be captured and stored until it is automatically deleted:

• IP address of the computer sending the request

• date and time of access

• name and URL of the file requested

• website from which the access originated (referrer URL)

• the browser used and potentially your computer’s operating system as well as the name of your access provider

We process the data specified for the following purposes:

• to ensure connections to the website are created without any problems

• to ensure the website is convenient to use

• to evaluate system security and stability, and also

• for other administrative purposes

The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 para. 1(1) (f) General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter referred to as the “GDPR”). Our legitimate interest results from the aforementioned purposes for data collection. We will never use the data collected to draw any conclusions about the individual concerned.

b) Cookies

We use cookies on our website. These involve small files created automatically by your browser and stored on your terminal device (laptop, tablet, smartphone etc.) when you visit our website. Cookies are used in order to make the site more user-friendly. For instance, if our website is called up again, cookies allow us to detect that you visited the site previously, as well as recalling data you entered and settings you adjusted to save you from having to repeat these steps.

We also use cookies to record and evaluate statistics on the use of our website.

The data processed by cookies is necessary for the designated purposes to protect our legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1(1) (f) GDPR.

You can configure your browser to prevent cookies being stored on your computer or to trigger a notification to be shown whenever a new cookie is about to be created. However, if you completely disable cookies, it is possible you will not be able to use all the functionality on our website.

c) Getting in touch with us

If you get in touch with us (for example using the contact form or via email), your details will be stored in order to process your enquiry and in case, there are any follow-up questions. The processing of contact details to communicate with you based on your freely given consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1(1) (a) GDPR.

4. We transmit personally identifiable data to third parties only to the extent as described in this privacy policy below.

5. Your data will be stored by us. You are entitled to information from the controller about personal data relating to you. Provided no statutory obligations to retain data are contravened, you are also entitled to have data corrected or erased, to restrict or object to the processing of data, and you also have a right to data portability.

6. You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes any laws. The responsible supervisory authority is the Independent Data Protection Centre for Saarland (Unabhängige Datenschutzzentrum Saarland: https://datenschutz.saarland.de).

7. Personal data must be provided in order to access our website and to get in touch with us.

II. External services

1. Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. We have agreed an order processing contract with Google and, when using Google Analytics, we implement the strict requirements set out by the German data protection authorities in full.

Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer to enable analysis of your use of the website. The information obtained from cookies about your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA, where it is stored. However, since we have enabled IP address anonymization on this website, your IP address will first be truncated by Google in European Union member states and in other countries which are contracting parties to 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 truncated 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 activities and to perform other services for the website operators that are linked to the website or internet use. Our legitimate interest in data processing is also applicable for these purposes. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Section 15 para. 3 of the TMG [Telemediengesetz: German Telemedia Act] and Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The data sent by us, and linked with cookies, usernames (e.g. user IDs) or promotional IDs, is automatically deleted after 14 months. The deletion of data, which has reached the end of its storage period is done automatically once a month.

The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of the Google Analytics process will never be combined with other data from Google. You can configure your browser software to prevent cookies from being saved. However, it is important to note that this may result in you not being able to make full use of the functionality offered by this website. In addition, you can prevent Google from capturing data created by cookies relating to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) and stop Google from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available from the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

More detailed information on this is available at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de and also at https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/ as well as https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en (general information on Google Analytics and data protection). Please note that on this website the Google Analytics function “gat._anonymizeIp();” has been added to ensure that IP addresses are captured in anonymised form (so-called IP address masking).

This website uses the Google Analytics “demographic characteristics” function. This allows the creation of reports containing information on the age, gender and interests of website visitors. This data originates from interest-related advertising from Google and visitor data from third parties. This collected data cannot be attributed to any specific individual person. You can disable this function at any time via the ad settings for your Google account, or you can prevent Google Analytics from capturing your data in general by using the browser plugin referred to above.

2. Google Maps

We use the Google Maps API for the visual display of geographical information. By using Google Maps, information about your use of the website (including your IP address) can be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Google will potentially pass on the information obtained from its Maps to third parties, if this is legally prescribed or if a third party is processing this data on Google’s behalf.

Google will not link your IP address with other data from Google. Nonetheless, it would be technically feasible for Google to identify individual users based on the data it receives. It is possible for website users’ personal data and profiles to be used by Google for other purposes over which we have no influence.

You can disable Google Maps, thus preventing the transmission of data to Google, by disabling JavaScript in your browser.

By using this website and not disabling JavaScript functionality, you explicitly declare, in full awareness of the problem relating to data privacy legislation, that you consent to data about you being processed by Google in the manner described above and for the aforementioned purpose.

B. Disclaimer

I. Liability for content

The contents of our pages were created with care. However, we cannot assume any liability for the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of the content. Liability claims against us relating to material or immaterial damage caused by the use or non-use of the information provided or caused by the use of incorrect or incomplete information are categorically excluded, unless it can be proved that there was deliberate or grossly negligent conduct on our part. All offers are subject to alteration and are non-binding. We explicitly reserve the right to change parts of the site or the entire offering without notice, to add to or delete published information or to modify it on a temporary or permanent basis.

II. Copyright and trademarks

In all our publications, we strive to respect copyright for any images, graphics, audio files, video sequences and texts we use, to use images, graphics, audio files, video sequences and texts we have created ourselves or to make use of unlicensed graphics, audio files, video sequences and texts. All trademarks and brand names referred to within our internet offering (which are potentially protected by third parties) are subject in full to the provisions of the relevant trademark legislation and the ownership rights of the relevant registered owner. It does not follow that a trademark is not protected by third party rights just because it is mentioned. We retain sole copyright for published items that we have created ourselves. Our express permission shall be required for the reproduction or use of any such graphics, audio files, video sequences or texts in any other electronic or printed publication.

III. Legal validity of this disclaimer

This disclaimer must be considered as part of the internet offering from which you have been referred to this page. If sections of this text or specific wording used within the text are no longer or not completely correct in terms of the current legal situation, this has no impact on the content or validity of the remaining sections of this document.

IV. Liability for Links

This website contains links to external websites of third parties on whose contents we have no influence (“external links”). Therefore, we cannot assume any liability for theses external contents. The respective provider or operator is always responsible for the content of the linked pages. When an external link is made to third-party content for the first time, we check whether there are any possible legal infringements. At that time, no legal infringements were discernible. The inclusion of external links does not mean that we have adopted as our own the content referred to in the link. We cannot reasonably be expected to constantly check external links for legal infringements unless there is a specific indication that such an infringement may exist. Nonetheless, upon notification of violations, we will remove such content immediately.

Please consult the relevant pages for information on the applicable data protection standards by checking the provider’s privacy statement.