Data Protection Declaration

This data protection declaration gives you an insight into the use of your personal data.

Personal data is already generated by your visit and subsequently by your individual interaction during the duration of your visit to this website. While you are visiting this website, personal data is collected, processed, analysed and stored. The operator/owner of this website is responsible for the careful handling of your personal data. The contact details can be found in the imprint of this website.

Your data will not be passed on to third parties without your consent. By using this website you expressly agree to the provisions of the data protection declaration. If you are redirected to other websites via links, the data protection declaration of the respective website applies.

 

What rights do you have regarding your data?

In principle, you have the rights to information, correction, deletion, transferability and objection. Please feel free to contact us at any time if you have any further questions on the subject of data protection:

Bionic Composite Technologies AG
Flurhofstrasse 150
9000 St. Gallen
Switzerland

Phone: +41 71 242 72 00

Email: composites(at)biontec.ch

 

If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or your data protection rights have otherwise been violated in any way, you have the opportunity to contact the data protection authority.

 

Who can access your personal data?

The operator himself, external representatives of the operator and the technical administrators have access to your personal data on this website.

 

Which personal data are processed?

In principle, the use of this website is possible without providing personal data. Personal data is collected as soon as you voluntarily use possible functions of this website. Personal data are:

 

Web and e-mail

The data in the fields you fill in (name, e-mail, telephone, address, etc.) are for communication purposes and are used or stored for internal purposes.

 

Newsletter

Your newsletter subscription is protected by the double opt-in procedure: After the active order you will receive an e-mail which you have to confirm again. You can unsubscribe each time you receive a newsletter with a click of the mouse - your stored data remains saved. For manual, irrevocable deletion, please contact the operator of this website directly.

We will use the information you provide when you subscribe to our newsletter to keep in touch with you and to send you information about our events, services, product news, etc. By submitting the data you have entered, you agree to the data processing and confirm our data protection declaration.

We use CleverReach® for our email marketing. By submitting your newsletter subscription, you confirm that the information you provide will be forwarded to CleverReach® for processing in accordance with its privacy policy (https://www.cleverreach.com/en/privacy-policy/, https://www.cleverreach.com/en/data-security/) and its general conditions (https://www.cleverreach.com/en/terms-of-service/).

 

CRM platform

We use Pipedrive in our sales process. Your data will be processed with due care and in accordance with Pipedrive's data protection guidelines (https://support.pipedrive.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000335129-Pipedrive-and-GDPR).

 

Social media plug-ins

If you actively use social media sharing functions on the website, a direct connection is established between your browser and the corresponding social media server. This website uses the social media plug-ins of AddThis, 1595 Spring Hill Road, Suite 300, Vienna, VA 22182, USA, http://www.addthis.com (provided by Oracle America, Inc., 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065, USA). Social Media Share functions are marked with an icon and are available for the following services:

  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • WhatsApp
  • Google+
  • Xing
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube
  • e-mail

 

User Management / Login-Areas

This page can be extended by a login area in the future. Through your personal registration you can then view individual page contents. Your registration is done either automatically or by manual activation by the operator. Passwords that you set as part of a personal registration are always encrypted and cannot be viewed by the operator or the administrators.

 

Online shop

If this website contains an online shop, your registration serves the use of extended shop functions (deposit of alternative delivery addresses, order archive, payment methods, etc.) as well as the enjoyment of individual special prices. In addition to the manually triggered registration by you personally, your personal data may also have been implemented via the ERP system of the operator via interface (customer, supplier, distributor lists). For further questions on this topic, please contact the shop owner directly.

 

Web hosting and ssl encryption

Each time our website is accessed, our system automatically collects data and information from the computer system of the accessing computer.

The following data is collected: Information about the browser type and version used, the operating system used, the internet service provider, the IP address, date and time of access, internet pages via which our site is accessed.

We store this information (log files) for a maximum period of 24 hours. The storage is done for data security reasons to ensure the stability and operational security of our system.

Within the website visit, we use the widespread SSL/TLS procedure in conjunction with the highest encryption level supported by your browser. You can see whether an individual page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form by the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the address bar of your browser.

 

Storage of cookies

"Cookies" are used on the browser side for the duration of your current website session and beyond. You will be informed of the use of cookies on this website via an additional message that is displayed. If you accept this, you expressly agree to the processing and transmission or storage of information.

Cookies are small configured files that enable certain user functions and website functions. The main cookie technologies are:

  • session cookies, which are automatically deleted when the browser is closed
  • web beacons that serve as tracking pixels for analysis purposes
  • third-party cookies that display regional or topic-specific banners

You can deactivate cookies individually in the respective browser, however, this can lead to restrictions of the functionality of the website.

 

Web analysis

This website uses various services of Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, including for example

  • Google Analytics
  • Google reCaptcha
  • Google Maps
  • Google Fonts
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Google Adwords

These services serve various purposes, such as the analysis of visitor behavior, the implementation of fonts, the display of route maps or security against automated crawlers (bots) for web forms and are integrated on this website by cookies or API keys (interfaces).

By implementing these services, your user behavior is recorded and transferred to Google Inc. servers in the United States or other countries. Google assures that your IP address within the EU will be shortened and only in exceptional cases transmitted in full.

 

If you want to prevent Google Analytics from using your data, you can download and install an add-on for your web browser.

You can find this plug-in here:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB

The privacy policy of Google Inc. can be found here:

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB

 

This website also uses services of Leadfeeder, Mikonkatu 17 C, 00100 Helsinki, Finland. The Web Visitors tracker collects data through Leadfeeder's AWS infrastructure, where it is encrypted both in transit and at rest. Leadfeeder is fully committed to GDPR compliance.

We collect the behavioural data of all website visitors, which includes pages viewed, visitor source, and time spent on the site. The visitor IP address is collected to detect the company and geographic location. We only show company visits and automatically filter out all users visiting from residential IP addresses.

You can learn more about Leadfeeder and GDPR here.