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Privacy Statement

This website (hereinafter the "Website") is provided by Bayer AG (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.

A. 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)(b) General Data Protection Regulation).

I. Using our Website

1. Accessing our Website

When you call up our Website, your browser will transfer certain data 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 are 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)(f) General Data Protection Regulation).

2. Setting of cookies[GE1]

a) 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.

b) What cookies do we use? We differentiate between two main-categories of cookies: (1) strictly necessary, 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.

c) Strictly Necessary Cookies These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. 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.

Cookie	Cookies used	Lifespan	Description
builderSessionId	First Party	30 minutes	A randomly generated ID for the current visitor’s session.

Cookies: builderSessionId
Cookies used: First Party
Lifespan: 30 minutes
Description: A randomly generated ID for the current visitor’s session.

d) 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 indicated in the Privacy Preference Center.

3. 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(1)(a) General Data Protection Regulation). In order to prevent any misuse of your personal data, we will log your subscription, filing the IP address you use when subscribing, the time of your subscription. 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.

4. 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 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 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 in this context: • Vimeo videos

II. Transfer of data for commissioned processing

For the processing of your personal data we will to some extent use specialized service contractors. Such service contractors are carefully selected and regularly monitored by us. Based on respective data processor agreements, they will only process personal data upon our instruction and strictly in accordance with our directives.

III. Processing of personal data outside the EU / the EEA

Your personal data will in part also be processed in countries outside the European Union ("EU") or the European Economic Area ("EEA"), which may have a lower data protection level than European countries. In such cases, we will ensure that a sufficient level of protection is provided for your personal data, e.g. by concluding specific agreements with our contractual partners (copy available on request), or we will ask for your explicit consent to such processing.

B. 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 for reasons of our own legitimate interest, public interest, or profiling, 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; • You may at any time with future effect withdraw your consent to the collection, processing and use of your personal data. For further information please refer to the chapters above describing the processing of data based on your consent. If you wish to exercise your rights, please address your request to the contact indicated below. If you are a resident of California, Virginia, 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.

C. Contact

For any questions you may have with respect to data privacy, please use the provided contact form or contact our company data protection officer at the following address: https://www.bayer.com/en/contacting-data-privacy Group Data Protection Officer Bayer AG 51368 Leverkusen, Germany 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 51368 Leverkusen, Germany E-mail: dp-representative@bayer.com

D. 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.