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As part of its day to day operation, Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH (hereinafter “Sanofi-Deutschland GmbH”), a subsidiary of the Sanofi Group (hereinafter “SANOFI”) provides access to a variety of tools and resources which are destined to provide information to all the individuals with whom it has business interactions with (patients and their relatives, participants to clinical trials, healthcare professionals, users of products and services, etc.) regarding its activities.
Such tools and resources may be provided in various formats, including, more specifically in electronic format and by means of online electronic communications, including this website mystarsanofi.com. to which this policy applies (hereinafter together the “Website”).
As stated in our Global Data Privacy Policy , SANOFI is fully committed to the protection of personal data. Therefore, Sanofi-Deutschland GmbH intends to provide you with all relevant information regarding the way in which it processes your personal data on the Website and invites you to read such information before using the Website.
You will therefore find below all relevant information regarding the processing of Personal Data conducted on this Website. Please note that the content of this Privacy policy may change without prior notification. Therefore, we advise you to often visit this page.
Sanofi-Deutschland GmbH is responsible for the processing of personal using this website and therefore acts as the data controller:
Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
Industriepark Höchst – 65 926 Frankfurt am Main – Germany
For the purposes of this Website privacy policy, personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, for all data processing carried out in the framework of its business and activities.
To make things clear, it is any information that relates to an individual. Such data can take the form of
In this respect, the notion of “processing” designates any action that is undertaken on personal data such as, for instance:
When operating, this Website may collect the following categories of personal data:
Any processing of personal data must be implemented for a defined purpose. In this respect, the collection and processing of personal data on this Website is conducted for the following purposes:
For the purposes of this Website, your personal data is only processed on the basis of:
Sanofi-Deutschland GmbH may transfer your personal data both internally and to third party service providers to understand how visitors use the Website, e.g. the number of visitors per day, usage behavior, etc. Such third party will use your personal data only to release to Sanofi a report on the usage behavior trends of the Website. In any case, Sanofi-Deutschland GmbH is committed to ensure a sufficient level of protection of your personal data by implementing adequate guarantees when operating the transfer. Where such internal or external transfer of personal data implies the transfer of your personal data to a country providing a lower level of protection to personal data, SANOFI will implement adequate guarantees such as the Binding Corporate Rules (BCR), the European Clauses or asking for your explicit consent.
You have rights of information, access, rectification, portability and erasure of your personal data and rights to limitation of or objection to the processing of your personal data. In order to exercise these rights, or to obtain further information on Data Protection at SANOFI, please contact privacy-office-global@mystarsanofi.com . If, after contacting us, you reckon that your rights to Privacy and Data Protection weren’t respected, you have the right to lodge a complaint to the relevant Data Protection Authority.
A cookie is a small data file stored on your computer or mobile device at the request of your browser from a website. The cookie allows the website to “remember” your actions or preference for a certain period of time . Most browsers allow cookies. However, users can set their browsers to refuse or remove them, if they wish. There are different types of cookies:
A cookie can temporarily store anonymous information about the use and users of a website.
Some cookies are necessary to be able to use the website, others allow customization and optimization of the content displayed, the collection of user preferences or the monitoring of the audience of the website, website errors and the securing of its access.
Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH only uses strictly necessary cookies which are essential to the operation of this Website and secure the access to the Website. The sole purpose of the used cookies is carrying out the transmission of a communication over the Website, to allow the authentication on the Website. When using the Website you explicitly request access to the content and functionality of the Website. Without the cookies you would not be able to access the Website properly and the functionality of the Website would be very restricted. Thus, the cookies are essential to secure the functionality of the Website. The used cookies are encrypted and do not store personal information but act as a unique key between you and the server of the Website and enable the functioning of the Website.
| COOKIE NAME | COOKIE DESCRIPTION | COOKIE EXPIRY TERM |
|---|---|---|
| ASP.NET_SessionId |
Sitecore tracking. ASP.Net_SessionId
is a cookie which is used to identify the users session on the server. |
As long as the browser action session is open |
| SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE |
Sitecore tracking.
Sitecore sends a persistent session cookie to the web client to identify repeat visits from a single user. |
2 days |
These cookies indirectly help improving this Website by tracking your use. This set of cookies collects information about the use of the Website, such as the pages that are visited, or the error messages that may appear. These cookies do not collect any information to identify you - all information collected is anonymous and it is used only for the purpose of improving the functioning of our Website. They also permit to understand which pages the audience is interested in and to assess the efficiency of our advertising.
| COOKIE NAME | COOKIE DESCRIPTION | COOKIE EXPIRY TERM |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | The Website will place a cookie of the company Google as part of the service “Analytics”., Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH uses this service to track and obtain reports on how visitors are using the Website. The information obtained with this,cookie, which includes the IP-address of your computer, will be transmitted,to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google may share,that information with third parties if Google is obliged to do so by law or,to the extent such third parties are processing this information on behalf of,Google. Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH has no influence on this. The same,process is done when the Website uses Google Maps. | See expiry term of specific google analytics cookies below |
| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | 3 years |
| _gat_UA-59357586-158 | Pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. | 3 years |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | 2 days |
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