Privacy Policy

(Last updated on 17 May, 2021)

Fresenius Kabi India Private Limited (hereafter referred to as "we" or “our” or "us" or “Fresenius”) respects your right to privacy. In this Notice “You” refers to data whose personal data is processed by Fresenius.

As a visitor of our website, we will collect and use certain personal data from you. This privacy notice informs you about the processing of personal data when visiting our website.

Please be aware that we also may process your personal data in other contexts, e.g. when you are a business contact  for products or services or when you interact with us in your capacity as a healthcare professional. Please see the specific information on the processing of your personal data in such situations.

We also inform you that our websites include links to external sites which are not covered by this privacy notice. Your visit to Fresenius Group websites is subject to their respective privacy notice.

Definitions

Data Subject - A natural person whose personal data is processed by Fresenius or vendors contracted by Fresenius.

Personal Data - Any information relating to a Data Subject who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that Data Subject.

Special Category of Personal Data - Any data that could potentially identify a specific individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, membership of trade union, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation. Hereafter ‘personal data’ and ‘special category of personal data’ are jointly referred as ‘personal data’.

Processing - Any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

Person - Any individual other than the data subject.

Third Party - A natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorized to process personal data.

Vendor - Processors contracted by Fresenius.

Why We Collect and Use Your Data

  • We collect and use your data for the following purposes:
  • To validate, handle and respond to you based upon your inquiry or request
  • To fulfill our compliance requirements under pharmacovigilance and medicines laws
  • To make the website work for the device you use it on
  • To provide the best possible service to you and enhance your user experience
  • To optimize our website

What Data We Collect and How We Do That

We may collect and use your personal data in the following situations:

Information you provide to us

We collect and process data you actively provided to us for instance when filling in online forms or when contacting us by other means of communication such as e-mail, telephone or mail. Such data includes:               

  • First and last name
  • Gender
  • Contact and address information (including address data, e-mail address, phone number, fax number)
  • Country of residence
  • Company
  • Profession
  • Type of request and possible further information for the purpose of responding to your inquiry

When visiting our website

We collect data of your visit to our site. We do this to present the website optimized to the device you are using and with all its functions or to store your preferences for your current or future browsing sessions.

We collect the following internet protocol data during your visits on our website:

  • the name of your service provider including IP address
  • the website that directed you to our site
  • the pages visited on our website
  • your web browser type, and
  • the date and length of your visit

Your IP address will be used in a pseudonymized manner by deleting the last three digits. That way we are no longer able to directly identify you as an individual.

Information we collect by using cookies

We use cookies on our website. A cookie is a small data file transferred to your computer (or other device) when it is used to access our service. Cookies may be used for many purposes, including to enable certain features of our service and remember your preferences, your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, to better understand how you interact with our service, to provide you advertising on and off the service, and to monitor usage by visitors and online traffic routing. You may be able to instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the online services you visit. If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use all portions of our service or all functionality of our service.

You can refuse the use of certain cookies for this website. Find out more about how you can change your cookie settings. Please note that if you choose not to accept the use of cookies you may not be able to experience the full functionality of this website. If you choose to delete cookies, you may have to confirm certain dialogs once again.

Your cookie settings are always related to the web browser you are using, and the settings are of no effect if you use a different web browser upon your next use of this website. Alternatively, you can manage the settings of your web browser or on your mobile device. Here you can delete cookies at your own discretion at any time.

We use the following types of cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies

This type of cookies is required to make the website work. They are exclusively used by us during the session and are therefore so called first party session cookies. They help to make the page load more quickly and to limit the number of sessions originating from a user to prevent a website-overload.

They remain valid during the session and are automatically deleted when you close the browser.

Functional cookies 

Functional cookies save the choices you make while visiting this website in order to offer you an improved functionality and personal features.

We use a "cookie notifier" cookie, which saves your decision either to agree with the usage of cookies on our website or not. It is saved automatically upon your click on one of the two options available. Your acceptance of our cookies is stored for one year from the acceptance date. If you decide to refuse our cookies, your decision will be stored for 30 days. During this time the cookie information banner will not be shown again.

Performance

In most cases, the information these cookies collect is anonymous and is only used to improve how a website works and to help us to identify issues you may have when using our online services. These cookies enable us to identify specific issues you may have/had. You can disable these cookies.

Analytical cookies

Analytical cookies allow us to analyze the way the website is used. This enables us to optimize its performance and increase the user experience. Our website uses Matomo, formerly Piwik, an open source web analytics tool. With this tool we track how often visitors use a page of our website, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from our pages. Your IP address will be processed in a pseudonymized manner by deleting the last three figures. That way we are no longer able to directly identify you as an individual. The software from Matomo is running on servers of our in-house service provider in Germany and the information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your pseudonymized IP address) will be stored on the server of our in-house service provider in Germany. The IP-address that is transmitted will not be merged with any other data collected by us. We will delete this data within three years.

Social media cookie

When you press ‘I consent’ in the social media feeds section, a cookie will be placed. You are then able to see the activity streams of our corporate social media channels which are embedded on our website. Your consent is stored for the duration of your visit through our “social media streams” cookie.

When activating social media plug-ins and activity feeds

If you activate plug-ins or activity feeds of social media providers (such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram or WhatsApp), your web browser will connect to the servers of the respective providers and send your specific user data to these providers.

In addition, if you are currently logged in to a social network of one of the above-mentioned providers, your activity may be linked to your user account with these providers at the same time.

Plug-ins for sharing via "Shariff"

In order to secure your privacy, we are using a tool called “Shariff”. Shariff enables you to decide whether and when to activate the share plug-ins on our website and, by doing so, whether to initiate a transfer of user specific data to the provider. Only if you specifically activate a plug-in via Shariff, your browser will connect to the servers of the respective provider and the user specific data (as further referenced below) will be sent to that provider. You activate a plug-in via Shariff, by clicking on one of the respective share buttons.

Activating activity feeds

When you activate the activity feed by clicking on the inactive mask on our website, your browser will connect to the servers of each provider and the user-specific data (as further referenced below) will be sent to each provider. Please note that a cookie is set automatically upon clicking on the mask and will be stored for the duration of your browsing session. During this time the mask will not be shown again.

Fresenius Kabi has no influence on the scope or the kind of data that will be submitted by activating the plug-ins or activity feed. Besides, further data processing operations 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 data protection statement.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy

Twitter: https://twitter.com/en/privacy

YouTube: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

WhatsApp: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/

As part of the activity feed, we may incorporate videos from YouTube on our website. YouTube uses cookies in order to collect user-specific data on its website, amongst other uses, for recording video statistics, preventing fraud, and improving the user-friendliness. By starting a video, further data-processing operations could be triggered simultaneously, on which we do not have any influence. For more information about privacy on YouTube see Google’s privacy policy:

https://policies.google.com/privacy

Change of Purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which it was collected, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us using the contact details provided.

If Fresenius wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Notice, then we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions. Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior explicit consent to the new processing.

Legal Basis for Processing Your Data

We process your personal data on one or more of the following legal bases:

You have given us your consent for the intended processing or international transfer of your personal data.

The processing of your personal data is necessary for us in order to comply with a legal obligation we are subject to.

The processing is necessary for purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data (Art. 6.1 f GDPR). These legitimate interests are:

  • the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims
  • to provide information on our products and service via a working and optimized website.

We Share Your Data

We collaborate with other organizations to achieve our purposes. Therefore, we may send your personal data in parts or as a whole to other organizations.

Such recipients are:

  • Other Fresenius Group companies if such a transfer of personal data is required for the specific purpose (Please refer to the overview of the locations in which Fresenius Kabi Group companies are active)
  • Service providers which process personal data on our behalf (e.g. for hosting or maintenance services) and have to follow our instructions on such processing; these service providers will not be allowed to use your personal data for other than our purposes
  • Authorities, courts, parties in a litigation in case we are required to do so to meet any applicable laws, regulations, legal processes or enforceable governmental requests
  • Professional advisors or auditors, such as tax advisors, financial auditors, lawyers, insurers, banks and other external professional advisors in the countries in which we operate.

International data transfers

Your personal data may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you reside, or your data was collected. These countries may have data protection laws that are different to the laws of your country (and, in some cases, may not be as protective).

However, we have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal data will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Notice. These include implementing the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses or Binding Corporate Rules for transfers of personal data to our vendors/third parties processing personal data, which require all the vendors/third parties to protect personal data they process from the EEA in accordance with European Union General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR).

How Does Fresenius Keep Your Personal Data Secure

We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the personal data that we collect and process. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal data.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach. In the event that we are required by law to inform you of any unauthorized access to your personal data we may notify you electronically, in writing, or if permitted by law, by telephone. We will also notify any applicable regulator of a data breach where we are legally required to do so.

How Long We Retain Your Data

Your contact details will be stored for up to six months after the inquiry has been completed unless legal obligation exists to retain data for a longer duration.

Information collected via cookies will be stored as long as the cookie is valid as explained above.

Requests, Inquiries and Complaints

Depending on the situation you have certain rights regarding your personal data. You have the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data
  • Request rectification of your personal data
  • Request erasure of your personal data
  • Request the restriction of processing of your personal data
  • Data portability
  • Object on grounds specific to your situation

You can exercise these rights online by using the data protection contact form https://www.fresenius-kabi.com/data-privacy-contact-form.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with our data protection officer or local data protection advisor.

Local Data Protection Advisor:

Nilesh N. Pingale

Fresenius Kabi India Pvt. Ltd.

CIN: U24231PN1995PTC014017
Ninth Floor, AP 81, S No. 83,
North Main Road, Mundhwa, Pune 411036, Maharashtra, India.
T + 91 20 67649000

E-mail: ldpa.fkipl@fresenius-kabi.com

 

Data Protection Officer:

Fresenius Kabi AG

Data Protection Officer

Else-Kröner-Straße 1

61352 Bad Homburg

Germany

E-mail: dataprotectionofficer@fresenius-kabi.com

Further Information for Specific Situations

Requirements to provide personal data

Your personal data is required to make the website accessible to you and to be able to follow up on your inquiry.

If you do not provide your personal data, the website will not work, and we may not be able to respond to or properly process your request.

Changes to this privacy notice

As our collection and use of your data may change over time, we may also modify this privacy notice to always correctly reflect our data processing practices. We encourage you to review it from time to time.