Privacy Policy Germany
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INTRODUCTION
This Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice”) describes the data that we collect about you on the website from which you linked (“Site”); how we use and disclose that data; how we protect it; and the choices you may make with respect to it. We encourage you to review our Privacy Notice and click on the available links or select “read more” if you want additional information on a particular topic.
PERSONAL DATA
“Personal Data” is data that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual. We collect Personal Data in various ways on our Sites, including through registrations, applications, surveys, in connection with your inquiries, and automatically when you browse our Sites.
We may request basic Personal Data when you use a Site; if you are an HCP, we may request additional Personal Data.
Personenbezogene Daten, die wir anfordern können, umfassen:
- Name
- Kontaktdaten (Postanschrift, Telefonnummern, E-Mail-Adresse)
- Ihre bevorzugte Sprache
- Fotografien
- Ihre Interessen (wie etwa Gesundheitsinformationen und Themen, zu denen Sie Informationen über die Seite anfordern oder Interesse bekunden)
Wenn Sie ein HCP sind, können wir auch zusätzliche Daten anfordern, die sich auf unsere professionelle Zusammenarbeit mit Ihnen beziehen:
- Beruflicher Lebenslauf/Referenzen
- Daten bezüglich Ihrer Zulassung, Fachgebieten, Berufsvereinigungen, Veröffentlichungen, Referenzen und anderer beruflicher Leistungen
- Daten zu unerwünschten Ereignissen
- Daten im Zusammenhang mit Ihrer Nutzung unserer Produkte, Ihren Interaktionen mit uns und Dienstleistungen für diejenigen, um die Sie sich kümmern
We may also collect Personal Data from other sources, including data companies, publicly accessible databases, joint marketing partners, social media platforms and other third parties.
Wenn Sie sich dazu entschließen, Ihr Social Media-Konto mit der Webseite zu verbinden, um Social Sharing zu ermöglichen, werden bestimmte personenbezogene Daten aus Ihrem Social Media-Konto mit uns geteilt, zu denen auch personenbezogene Daten gehören können, die Teil Ihres Profils oder der Profile Ihrer Freunde sind.
Wir können personenbezogene Daten von anderen Dritten erhalten, um Kontakt- oder Finanzdaten zu bestätigen oder Ihre Interessen besser zu verstehen, indem wir demographische Daten mit den von Ihnen zur Verfügung gestellten personenbezogenen Daten in Verbindung bringen.
When you are asked to provide Personal Data, you may decline. But if you choose not to provide data that is necessary to for us to provide requested services, we may not be able to provide you those services.
If you provide or permit us to collect any Personal Data relating to another person, you are telling us that you have the authority to share that data and to permit us to use the data as described in this Privacy Notice.
HOW WE USE PERSONAL DATA
We use Personal Data in order to:
- Provide Site functionality and fulfill your requests when we have a contractual relationship or a legitimate interest.
Die Webseiten-Funktionalität und die Erfüllung Ihrer Anfragen umfasst:
- Ihnen einen Kundenservice zu bieten.
- Auf Ihre Anfragen zu antworten, Ihre Wünsche zu erfüllen und Ihre Transaktionen abzuschließen.
- Ihnen administrative Informationen zu senden, wie z.B. Änderungen an unseren Geschäftsbedingungen und Richtlinien, sowie Kommunikation zu Marketingzwecken, von der wir glauben, dass sie für Sie von Interesse sein könnte.
- Zur Erleichterung der Social-Sharing-Funktionalität.
- Um Ihnen zu erlauben, Nachrichten an Dritte zu senden, beispielsweise an einen Kollegen, Betreuer, Freund oder Patient.
- Provide personalized services when we have your consent or a legitimate interest in providing you with information of interest to you.
Personalisierte Dienstleistungen umfassen:
- Um Sie besser zu verstehen und unsere Interaktionen mit Ihnen zu personalisieren.
- Analyse oder Vorhersage der Präferenzen unserer Nutzer, um aggregierte Trendberichte über die Nutzung von Pfizer Digital Content zu identifizieren.
- Um Ihre Präferenzen zu analysieren oder vorherzusagen, um unsere Interaktionen mit Ihnen zu verbessern, d.h. um Ihnen die Inhalte, Produkte und Angebote (über unsere Webseiten, E-Mails oder digitale Tools) zu liefern, von denen wir glauben, dass sie für Ihre beruflichen Interessen relevant sind.
- Engage with you as an HCP when we have a contractual relationship or a legitimate interest.
Die Kontaktaufnahme mit Ihnen als Gesundheitsexperte schließt ein:
- Zur Überprüfung, ob Sie berechtigt sind, auf bestimmte Produkte, Dienstleistungen und Daten zuzugreifen, die nur bestimmten lizenzierten HCPs zur Verfügung gestellt werden dürfen.
- Mit Ihnen zu interagieren, basierend auf Ihrem Fachwissen und Ihrer Meinung auf digitalem oder anderem Wege.
- Sie in Programme/Panels von medizinischen Fachkräften einzubinden.
- Um Sie nach Ihrer fachlichen Kompetenz zu fragen, z.B. im Rahmen von Umfragen zu Produkten oder Dienstleistungen einer Pfizer-Einheit oder ihres Geschäftspartners.
- Um mit Ihnen bei medizinischen Veranstaltungen, Publikationen oder Beratungsgesprächen zusammenzuarbeiten.
- Ihre Meinung zu Produkten und Dienstleistungen, die von uns, einem anderen Konzernunternehmen von Pfizer oder Geschäftspartner zu Entwicklungs- und Verbesserungszwecken beworben werden, einzuholen.
- Allow you to participate in special programs, activities, events, or promotions as part of our contractual relationship with you or where we have a legitimate interest.
In diesen Fällen können wir Ihre persönlichen Daten auf zusätzliche Weise verwenden, die im Rahmen dieser speziellen Programme, Aktivitäten, Veranstaltungen oder Aktionen offengelegt werden.
- Operate our business to comply with our legal obligations and to meet our legitimate interests in maintaining our business.
Unsere diesbezüglichen Aktivitäten umfassen:
- Durchführung von Datenanalysen und Audits.
- Identifizierung von Nutzungstrends bei der Nutzung unserer Webseiten und Analyse der Effektivität unserer Kommunikation.
- Aufdeckung, Vorbeugung, Untersuchung von Betrug und Überwachung und Prävention der (Cyber-)Sicherheit.
- Unsere Produkte und Dienstleistungen zu entwickeln, zu verbessern oder zu modifizieren.
- Ihre Möglichkeit, auf bestimmte Produkte oder Dienstleistungen zuzugreifen oder diese zu nutzen, zu überprüfen.
- Besser verstehen zu können, wie sich unsere Produkte und Dienstleistungen auf Sie und die Menschen auswirken, um die Sie sich kümmern.
- Die Nachverfolgung und Reaktion auf Bedenken, einschließlich dem Nachkommen der Verpflichtung zur behördlichen Überwachung und Berichterstattung im Zusammenhang mit unerwünschten Ereignissen, Produktbeschwerden und Patientensicherheit.
- Das Betreiben und Erweitern unserer Geschäftsaktivitäten.
We may aggregate the Personal Data that you and other Site users provide. If we do, we may use and disclose such aggregated data for any purpose. Aggregated data does not personally identify you or any other individual.
HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE PERSONAL DATA
We disclose Personal Data as follows:
- To other Pfizer companies for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice.
- To our third party service providers, to provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing and other services.
- To other companies with which we collaborate regarding particular products or services. These may include our co-promote partners for products that we jointly develop and/or market.
- When you post data or materials on message boards, chat, profile pages, blogs and other services.
Wenn Sie sich dafür entscheiden, Daten oder Materialien über unsere Webseiten weiterzugeben, beachten Sie bitte die folgenden Hinweise:
- Alles, was Sie posten, steht anderen Benutzern der Webseite und der Öffentlichkeit zur Verfügung.
- Seien Sie vorsichtig, wenn Sie sich entscheiden, Daten oder Materialien über die Webseiten offen zu legen oder Ihr Social Media-Konto zu verlinken.
- Wenn Sie die Webseiten zum Senden einer Nachricht oder zur Offenlegung von Daten oder Materialien (einschließlich der Nutzung von Social Sharing-Funktionen) verwenden, stehen die Nachricht, Daten oder Materialien anderen zur Verfügung (z. B. anderen Benutzern der Webseiten, Ihren Freunden, die mit Ihrem Social Media-Konto verbunden sind, Ihrem Social Media-Kontoanbieter und/oder der allgemeinen Öffentlichkeit).
We also use and disclose your Personal Data as we believe to be necessary or appropriate:
- To comply with applicable law and our regulatory monitoring and reporting obligations (which may include laws outside your country of residence), to respond to requests from public and government authorities (which may include authorities outside your country of residence), to cooperate with law enforcement, or for other legal reasons.
- To enforce our terms and conditions.
- To protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others.
In addition, we may use, disclose or transfer Personal Data to a third party in connection with any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
MARKETING CONTROLS
If you no longer want to receive marketing communications from us, contact us as indicated in the Contact Us section, or on some Sites update your preferences in your profile or account. In your request, please provide your name and the addresses where you no longer wish to be contacted. If you opt out of receiving marketing communications from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, from which you cannot opt out.
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
On some Sites, you have the opportunity to update your profile through the Site.
If you would like to request to review, correct, update, suppress, restrict or delete Personal Data that you have provided to us through the Site, or if you would like to request to receive an electronic copy of such Personal Data for purposes of transmitting it to another company, you may contact us as indicated in the Contact Us section. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.
In your request, please tell us what Personal Data you would like to have changed, whether you would like to have it suppressed from our database, or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of it. For your protection, we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.
Please note that we may need to retain certain Personal Data for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting a change or deletion.
DATA SECURITY
We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect your Personal Data. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
RETENTION PERIOD
We will retain your Personal Data for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and as outlined in this Privacy Notice. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include: (i) the length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Site to you; (ii) whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject; or (iii) whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to the enforcement of the Site Terms of Use, applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).
CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER
The data we collect through the Site may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, including in the U.S. and where our affiliates operate.
Some non-EEA countries are recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection according to EEA standards (the full list of these countries is available here. For transfers from the EEA to countries not considered adequate by the European Commission, we have put in place adequate measures, such as by ensuring that the recipient is bound by EU Standard Contractual Clauses, to protect your Personal Data. You may obtain a copy of these measures by contacting us as indicated in the Contact Us section.
THIRD-PARTY SERVICES
This Privacy Notice does not address, and we are not responsible for, the data collection, use, disclosure or security practices, or other practices, of any third party, including any third party operating a service to which the Site links. The inclusion of a link within the Site does not imply our endorsement of the linked service.
USE BY MINORS
The Site is not directed to individuals under the age of sixteen (16), and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from such individuals. If you are under the relevant age of consent in your jurisdiction, you will need your parent’s or legal guardian’s permission to use the Site. Please consult with your parent or legal guardian before using the Site.
If you are providing us with Personal Data of individuals under the age of sixteen (16), you represent that you have the appropriate authority to do so, and that you can demonstrate such authority to Pfizer upon request.
UPDATES
From time to time, we will update this Privacy Notice. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Notice on the Site. This Privacy Notice was last updated as of the “Last Updated” date shown above.
CONTACT US
The company responsible for collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Data under this Privacy Notice is
Pfizer Deutschland GmbH or Pfizer Pharma GmbH
All: Linkstraße 10, 10785 Berlin
If you have questions about this Privacy Notice, or if you would like to request to exercise any individual rights, please contact us at info@pfizer.de, or write to the following address:
Pfizer.... Rechtsabteilung, Linkstraße 10, 10785 Berlin
You may also contact our data protection officer responsible for your country or region, if applicable. To find their contact information, visit DPO.Pfizer.com.
LODGING A COMPLAINT WITH A REGULATOR
You may lodge a complaint with a data protection authority competent for your country or region or place of alleged infringement. Please click here for contact information for such authorities.
COOKIES
Cookies are a standard feature of websites that allow us to store small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to our Site. Cookies help us learn which areas of the Site are useful and which areas need improvement.
You can find information about cookies that we use and change your settings for cookies and similar technologies by clicking on the Cookie Consent Tool in the lower right corner of each page of our Site. In addition, you can refuse or accept cookies from the Site at any time by activating the settings on your browser. Information about the procedure to follow in order to enable or disable cookies can be found on your Internet browser provider’s website via your help screen. Please refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html for information on commonly used browsers. Please be aware that if cookies are disabled, your experience on the Site may be diminished, and not all features of the Site may operate as intended.
We may also use technologies similar to cookies, such as:
Pixel Tags. Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) are used to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Site, measure the success of our marketing campaigns, and compile statistics about usage of the Site and response rates.
Adobe Flash. Flash Local Shared Objects (also known as Flash cookies) (“Flash LSOs”) and other technologies are used to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of the Site. For your options with respect to Flash LSOs, please visit this page. Please note that setting the Flash player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash LSOs may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications.
Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). We use Google Analytics to collect anonymized statistics in order to improve the Site.
Learn more about Google Analytics and privacy. You can selectively disable Google Analytics by installing the opt-out component provided by Google on your browser. For more information, please refer to the links below:
Browser or Device Information. Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Mac), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version, and the name and version of the Site you are using. We use this information to ensure that the Site functions properly.
To the extent any Personal Data is collected through cookies or similar technologies, the other sections of this Privacy Notice apply.