This project is supported by the Innovative Health Initiative Joint Undertaking (IHI JU) under grant agreement No 101194710. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme and COCIR, EFPIA, Europa Bío, MedTech Europe, Vaccines Europe, Charles River Discovery Research Services Germany GMBH, Fenwal Inc, Fresenius Se & Co. KGaA, Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch
GmbH, Idcq Hospitales Y Sanidad SL, and Philips Electronics Nederland BV.
Funded by the European Union, the private members, and those contributing partners ofthe IHI JU. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the aforementioned parties. Neither of the aforementioned parties can be held responsible for them.
This Privacy Notice provides informs you about which personal data will be collected when visiting the website, and how this information will be processed and used.
Your personal data are processed in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals regarding the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).
Responsible for the processing of your personal data is: Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA
E-Mail: easygen@fresenius.com
According to the GDPR, we are obliged to provide you with a data protection officer. This person can be reached at the address of the responsible person for the attention of the Data Protection Department or by email: dataprotection@fresenius.com
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We use two types of cookies:
We use this information to get a better sense of how you engage with our content.
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3.1. When you actively provide information when contacting us
We will collect and process data you actively provided to us for instance when filling in online forms when contacting us by means of communication such as e-mail, telephone or mail. In case of online forms, the purpose for which you provide us with your personal data can be found on the form itself, generally the purpose will be to communicate with you.
If you contact us via e-mail, phone, fax or an online contact form provided on our website, we process personal data as far as provided by you: your name, company, profession, address data, e-mail address, phone number, fax number, content and type of your request and possible further information provided by you for the purpose of responding to your inquiry. We do this based on your prior given consent (Art. 6 sec. 1 lit. a) GDPR) or, in order to execute a contract you are party to (Art. 6 sec. 1 lit. b) GDRP), or based on our legitimate interest in communicating with you and answer your inquiry, which is not overridden by your interests, rights or freedoms since you contacted us yourself (Art. 6 sec. 1 lit. f) GDPR). We will not use the information as a basis for contacting you further for marketing purposes, unless you have given us your explicit consent to do so. Your contact data will be stored for up to six months after completion of the request or survey, unless there is a legal obligation to store the data longer. Details provided on online forms are always collected using a secure connection to protect personal information from manipulation or unauthorized access. Please be aware
that regular e-mail traffic is not secure.
3.2. When signing up for a newsletter
You can register for a newsletter by entering your e-mail address. We verify your registration by using the so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that we first request active confirmation of your registration by sending an e-mail to the e-mail address you provided during registration, before we start sending you newsletters. We use the information about the confirmation to document your registration and, if
necessary, to prove it.
If you have given the corresponding consent, your data will be processed in accordance
with Art. 6 I a) GDPR. You can unsubscribe from the receipt of the newsletters at any
time by clicking on the corresponding unsubscribe link in one of the received newsletters.
We will then no longer use your e-mail address to send you newsletters.
Your personal data are processed in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (hereinafter GDPR).
The data subjects are invited to provide their personal information through an online form. The legal basis for this processing operation is consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time by writing an email to the following address: contact@easygen-consortium.eu
In order to fulfill the aforementioned purposes, we may share your personal data in whole or in part with other companies of the EasyGen consortium and/or service providers.
In addition, the following categories of recipients may receive your personal data:
- authorities, courts, parties to a legal dispute or their designees to whom we are required to provide your personal data by applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental order, e.g., tax and customs authorities, regulatory authorities and their designees, financial market regulators, public registries;
- auditors or external consultants such as lawyers, tax advisors, insurers or banks, and
- another company in the event of a change of ownership, merger, acquisition or disposal of assets.
In order to fulfill the aforementioned purpose, we may transfer your personal data to recipients outside Germany. Transfers within the European Economic Area (EEA) always take place in accordance with the uniform EEA data protection level.
Transfers to third countries are always carried out in compliance with the supplementary requirements of Article 44 et seq. GDPR.
Your personal data may be transferred to certain third countries for which an adequacy decision of the EU Commission determines that an adequate level of protection exists in accordance with the uniform EEA data protection level. The full list of these countries is available here.
As a rule, EU standard contractual clauses (“SCC”) are concluded with the recipient for transfers to other third countries. These have been issued by the EU Commission to safeguard such international data transfers.
Ultimately, personal data may be transferred on the basis of an exceptional circumstance under Article 49 GDPR.
We implemented activity feeds of social media providers on our website (in our case namely those of LinkedIn). These activity feeds are deactivated by default. Via the cookie settings you can give your consent to data processing, for example, by means of cookies, the use of local storage, and other transmission of your data. For this purpose, please activate the category "Services from other companies (autonomous third-party
providers)" The processing of data takes place in order to enable you to use and connect with the services of these social media providers. Your consent provides the legal basis for this transfer of your personal data by Fresenius (Art. 6 sec. 1 lit. a) GDPR). In addition, if you are currently logged in to a social network of one of the listed providers, your activity may be linked to your user account by the respective social media provider
at the same time. If you activate the activity feeds of social media providers your web browser will connect to the servers of the respective providers and send your specific user data. The transmitted data may in particular include: date and time of your visit on our website, URL of the website you are on, URL of the website you visited before, used browser, used operating system, and your IP-Address.
When using Local Storage, data is stored locally in the cache of your computer. This data also exists after closing the browser window or closing the program and can therefore be read out. In contrast to cookies, which are partly deleted after a usage session or after a given period of time, the data in the local storage are only deleted by actively emptying the cache.
We has no influence on the scope or the kind of data that will be submitted by activating the activity feeds. Besides, further data processing operations by the respective social media providers could be triggered, on which we do not have any influence. To learn more about the scope of personal data collected and processed, the purpose your data may be used for, as well as your respective rights and configuration options in order to
protect your privacy (including your right of withdrawal of consent), please refer to the respective social network’s privacy policy:
LinkedIn
All processing of personal data in relation to the activity feed is carried out by and in responsibility of these providers. Fresenius is not responsible for such processing of personal data.
As a rule, we store your personal data for one of the following periods:
In accordance with applicable laws, for as long as we are subject to a retention obligation;
- Unless a mandatory record retention provision applies, we will retain your personal data for the duration of the contractual relationship with you or the company for which you work;
- In accordance with applicable law, as long as we have a legitimate interest outside of a contractual relationship;
- Preservation of evidence for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims within the framework of the statutory limitation provisions. According to §§ 195 ff. BGB, these limitation periods can be up to 30 years, with the regular limitation period being three years.
The exact period depends on the company you work for and your position in the company. In the case of longer retention periods (e.g. because we are obliged to store the data for the company audit), the aim is for the data to be blocked and archived until the end of the respective retention period and then deleted. Your data will be blocked for purposes other than archiving and kept until the end of the respective retention period.
According to the GDPR you are entitled to various rights. You have the right to access your personal data (Article 15 GDPR, section 34 et seq. BDSG), to correct incorrect personal data (Article 16 GDPR), to delete your personal data under certain circumstances (Article 17 GDPR, section 34 et seq. BDSG) and to restrict the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances (Article 18 GDPR).
In case of processing based on consent, you have the right to withdraw this consent (Article 7 (3) GDPR) and, in case of processing carried out by automated means, the right to receive personal data you provided to us in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format in order to forward it to another controller (Article 20 GDPR).] [if needed: If the processing is based on a contract and carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive personal data you provided to us in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format and to transmit your personal data to another controller (Article 20 GDPR).
Right to object on a case-by-case basis
In case the processing is based on Article 6 (1) (1) (e) or (f) GDPR including profiling based on those provisions, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation (Article 21 (1) GDPR).
Right to object to processing for direct marketing purposes
In case your personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to processing of your personal data for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing (Article 21 (2) GDPR).
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 of an alleged infringement of the GDPR (Article 77 GDPR in conjunction with section 19 BDSG). The responsible data protection authority for Fresenius is "Der Hessische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit", Postfach 3163, 65021 Wiesbaden. The right of appeal is without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy.
We may process your personal data in various other contexts, for example when you visit our website. For the processing of your personal data in these situations, please refer to the specific information in each case.
If you have any questions about data protection, please contact at: contact@easygen-cosortium.eu or easygen@fresenius.com.
