Privacy Policy

B. Braun Philippines
Privacy Policy

B. Braun Medical Supplies, Inc.
B. Braun Avitum Philippines, Inc.
15/F Sun Life Centre
5th Avenue corner Rizal Drive
Bonifacio Global City
1634 Taguig City 
Philippines

Data Protection Policy and the Data Privacy Act of 2012

In B. Braun, we are committed to a trust based cooperation with all parties whom we deal with such as our clients, doctors, advisers and employees. Keeping information in particular personal information secure is an aspect of this trust which we take seriously.

In the Philippines, B. Braun is subject to data protection principles under the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (“the Act”) and this notice is intended to outline how we intend to keep secure the personal data of individuals (“data subjects”) and to ensure that the rights of data subjects are protected.

In this policy, we seek to inform data subjects of the purpose for which their personal data is collected and processed and the data subject’s right to access or refuse to provide such personal data.

By using this website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood the terms of this privacy policy and agree that B. Braun, including the recipients described below, may collect, hold, process, use, transfer, disclose and share your personal data in accordance therewith. If you do not agree with these terms, you may choose not to use the website and not to provide any personal data to us. Further, B. Braun reserves the right to update or modify this privacy policy from time to time as may be necessary without prior notice to, or the consent of, data dubjects, unless otherwise required by law. Thus, we encourage you to review this privacy policy periodically, as your continued use of this website after any change or revision to this privacy policy shall indicate your agreement with the revised terms.

Notice and Choice and Rights as a Data Subject

Please be aware that you have the right to make a choice not to provide your personal data to us, and that you may revoke your consent or object to our collection, retention, processing, use, transfer, disclosure and sharing of personal data. However, since the provision of our services will necessarily require the processing of your personal data, your refusal to consent to our collection, processing and/or use of your personal data may lead to the termination of our services and our relationship with you.

You always have a right to access your personal data, the origin and recipients and the purpose of data processing free of charge as well as a right to seek rectification, erasure or restrict the processing of such personal data. The information, if requested shall be provided in a machine-readable format.

All queries are to be directed to the Data Protection Officer of the Company.

General Information on Processing of Personal Data

This data protection statement applies to data, including personal data which B. Braun collects about a data subject.  Personal data may be individual data or source or from a combination of individual data by which data subject can be identified.

The process by which we gather, process and use the personal data of a data subject is in compliance with the Act as well as the data protection regulations of the Federal Republic and Germany and also of the European Union.

Under no circumstances will B. Braun pass on the personal data of a data subject to third parties outside of the B. Braun Group of companies (being B. Braun Melsungen AG and its subsidiaries worldwide) without the data subjects consent.

Within the B. Braun Group, compliance with legal requirements including this Act and with this Policy is monitored.

Categories of personal data we collect and hold

The nature and type of data we collect and the source of such data varies depending on the nature of the relationship we have with the data subject and may include:

  • personal data which we collect from our website (as more particularly detailed in subsequent paragraphs), if such data has been voluntarily provided or where such data is required for the purposes of providing the service which a data subject requires
  • personal data which we collect on application forms or other information forms such as name, address, email, telephone, occupation, income
  • personal data from credit bureau reports and credit reporting agencies
  • personal data from governmental agencies.

Purpose of collecting personal data

Personal data is used to provide products and services and to inform about products and services offered by B. Braun and may include:

  • for the purposes of technical administration of our website
  • statistical analysis
  • developing new products and services
  • registration for programs or offers upon your request
  • providing services offered to you
  • payment processing for purchases
  • protection against or identifying possible fraudulent transactions
  • where permitted by law, to supply customized, unsolicited offers and information about B. Braun and services
  • developing and providing advertising adapted to our customers
  • profiling and determining service preferences
  • finance and marketing operations and/or as required by the terms and conditions of business and other business administration purposes including credit monitoring and control purposes
  • to meet regulatory and legal requirements
  • for risk management
  • for all other purposes incidental and associated with the above.

Disclosure of Personal Data

Information may however be disclosed to the following categories of parties for the purposes who are service providers and for the purposes as set out:

  • to any B. Braun Group companies in and outside the Philippines
  • to our advisers, including consultants, advocates and solicitors for purposes of determining our rights and enforcing any agreement with data subjects
  • any agent, contractor or service provider to whom we may have outsourced services to, subject always that such parties acknowledge the confidentiality and rights of the data user and to comply with the provisions of the Act
  • to regulatory authorities or notified bodies including bodies providing quality certification of our products upon their request
  • to such other parties as may be permitted under Philippine law.

Data Subject’s Rights

Under the Act, data subjects have the following rights:

1. Right to be informed.  The data subject has a right to be informed whether personal data pertaining to him or her shall be, are being, or have been processed, including the existence of automated decision-making and profiling.

2. Right to object. The data subject shall have the right to object to the processing of his or her personal data, including processing for direct marketing, automated processing or profiling.

3. Right to Access. The data subject has the right to reasonable access to, upon demand, the following: 

  • Contents of his or her personal data that were processed;
  • Sources from which personal data were obtained;
  • Names and addresses of recipients of the personal data;
  • Manner by which such data were processed;
  • Reasons for the disclosure of the personal data to recipients, if any;
  • Information on automated processes where the data will, or is likely to, be made as the sole basis for any decision that significantly affects or will affect the data subject; 
  • Date when his or her personal data concerning the data subject were last accessed and modified; and 
  • The designation, name or identity, and address of the personal information controller. 

4. Right to rectification. The data subject has the right to dispute the inaccuracy or error in the personal data and have the personal information controller correct it immediately and accordingly, unless the request is vexatious or otherwise unreasonable

5. Right to Erasure or Blocking. The data subject shall have the right to suspend, withdraw or order the blocking, removal or destruction of his or her personal data from the personal information controller’s filing system.

Protection of minors

As a general rule, children and persons under the age of 18 years (hereinafter, collectively referred to as “Minors”) should not disclose personal data to us without the consent of their parents or guardians.  We do not solicit or collect personal information from Minors and/or use said data in any way or disclose said data to third parties without authorization from the concerned parents or guardians.

Transmission of data over the Internet

The Internet is a global platform.  By using our websites, or communicating with us electronically via contact forms, you agree to the unencrypted transfer of all data that you want to send us.  Due to the nature of operations on the Internet, and the inherent systemic risks, all data transfers initiated by you occur at your own risk.  The only exception to this is if we offer you an encrypted transmission path.

Security measures

We have taken extensive precautions to ensure the security of your data.  Your personal data, as stored by us, which you for example have entered on HTML pages (contact forms), are transferred in an encrypted format (SSL – Secure Socket Layer) over the public data network to our Internet service provider, from there to the respective data processing systems of the B. Braun companies responsible for the triggered transactions, or to the appropriate contractual partners of B. Braun and are placed into storage.

Data Collection and Processing from Internet Access

Access via our website, social media pages and plugins as well as queries on various platforms may result in the collection and processing of data. Following are details of specific policy measures which relate to such collection and processing:

Data collection and processing in case of access from the Internet

When you visit our website, our web servers save each access temporarily to a log file. The following data are entered and saved until automated deletion:

  • Anonymized IP address of the requesting computer
  • Date and time of the access
  • Name and URL of the called data
  • Report whether the call was successful
  • Identification data of the used browser and operating system
  • Website, from which the access is carried out
  • Name of your Internet access provide

The lawful processing of these data occurs for the purposes of enabling use of the website (establishing connection), for system security, for technical administration of the network infrastructure and for optimization of the Internet offering. By agreeing to this privacy policy, you give your consent to our collection of these data. You may refuse this data processing. Insofar as you refuse the use of the data, we hereby inform you that our services may only be usable to limited degree. 

These personal data are not processed beyond the cases indicated above, unless you explicitly consent to further processing.

Processing of your communication inquiries - Salesforce Marketing Cloud

If you send us inquiries by using the contact form your details from the inquiry form including the contact details entered by you there will be saved by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and for the event of follow-up questions. We will not forward these data without your consent.

Use of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud

We use the remarketing functions of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud of the service provider salesforce.com, Inc. The Landmark @ One Market Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA (“Salesforce”). If you have consented to the receipt of our newsletter and visit our Website via a newsletter, web beacons are used. This way it is possible for us to track the effectiveness of our newsletter, e.g. whether you have opened an e-mail or which part of the newsletter was particularly interesting.

For this purpose we use e.g. the tracking methods “Email Open Tracking” and “Email-Link Tracking”. 

Email Open Tracking: Here we track whether you have opened the newsletter via the 1x1 pixel in the HTML template described below.

Email-Link Tracking: It is tracked here whether a link was clicked within the e-mail (Click-Trough). For this purpose the links are converted by the Marketing Cloud into trackable links.

Salesforce uses so-called “web beacons” in the majority of the used e-mails. Web beacons (also called “ClearGIFs” or “tracking pixels”) are small graphics (GIF files with a size of approx. 1×1) that are used among others on websites or in HTML e-mails. Web beacons fulfill similar functions as cookies, can however not be noticed by the user. Via web beacons information can, in particular, be obtained whether the e-mail was opened and whether the system of the user is capable of receiving HTML e-mails. No personal data are collected via the web beacon.

If you would not like to receive any e-mail notifications with web beacons, you can alternatively also receive your e-mails in a text form (not in the HTML format) by changing the corresponding settings to this extent within your e-mail client and by blocking the receipt of HTML formated e-mails.

Consent to the transmission of data within the scope of the services 

Within the use of Salesforce, the scope of the use of this portal data from a user can be transmitted to the USA to a contractually bound and carefully selected service provider. The data protection existing in the USA may differ from Philippine standards. Appropriate data protection cannot be guaranteed continuously but in order to provide security of your data as far as possible, our company takes necessary protective measures and transmits data to the USA according to the principle of purpose limitation and data economy so that only the absolutely essential information that is provided by you is retained.

Privacy policy for the use of Webanalytics

Adobe Analytics, a web analysis service of Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited ("Adobe"), is used on this website. Adobe Analytics uses cookies. If the information regarding use of the website that is generated by the cookie is transmitted to an Adobe server, then the settings ensure that the IP address is anonymized before geolocalization and replaced by a generic IP address before saving. Adobe utilizes this information on behalf of the operator of this website in order to evaluate usage of this website by the user, to compile reports on website activity for the website operator and to perform additional services connected with use of the website and the Internet in respect of the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser in connection with Adobe Analytics is not combined with other data from Adobe. You can prevent the saving of cookies by a corresponding setting in your browser software. Note that in this case, you may not be able to fully utilize all functions of this website. You can furthermore prevent the entry of the data generated by the cookie and referring to your usage of the website (incl. your IP address) to Adobe as well as the processing of these data by Adobe by downloading and installing the available browser plugin here.

The contract concluded with Adobe for the contract data processing concluded by the B. Braun Group for use of Adobe Analytics allow for the implementation of the strict stipulations of the German data protection.

Privacy policy for the use of Friendly Captcha

To protect forms on our website from spam and misuse, we use the "Friendly Captcha" service from Friendly Captcha GmbH (Germany). By using this service, it is possible to distinguish whether the corresponding input is of human origin or is abusive due to automated machine processing.

The tool prevents automated and abusive requests by so-called "bots". As part of this process, your IP address is captured by Friendly Captcha in order to send a cryptographic task to your device. This task is solved in the background and once solved, a confirmation is sent by Friendly Captcha to the server that this is a natural person.

In this regard, Friendly Captcha processes and stores the following data:

  • IP address of the requesting computer (anonymized via one-way hashing).
  • Information about the browser and operating system used
  • Anonymized counter per IP address to control the cryptographic tasks
  • Website from which the access took place (referrer URL)

For more information on this data processing, please visit the Friendly Captcha website: https://friendlycaptcha.com/legal/privacy-end-users/

Customer Journey Tracking

On this website through technologies of Pixelpark GmbH (https://www.publicispixelpark.de/) data is collected in an anonymized form (Marketing Cookies) and sent to Pixelpark GmbH. These cookies are set for the design in line with the needs, as well as to optimize this website and for the determination of statistical analyses and for cross-medial use. Pixelpark GmbH uses so-called “cookies” for this purpose. Text files that are saved on the computer and which enable an analysis of the use of the website (cf. “8. Cookies”).

The data is not used to personally identify the visitor of this website.

These anonymized usage data can be used both by website operators as well as by other advertisers and partners of Pixelpark GmbH in order to identify usage interests without it being possible to draw a conclusion about your identity as a visitor of a website.

Links

This data protection policy applies to all data gathered and processed by B. Braun.  In rare cases, the B. Braun Internet sites link directly to the websites of another party, for which the respective party itself is then responsible.  However, any switching of this kind to external websites will be clearly announced to you in advance.  We accept no responsibility for the handling of your data by the operators of other websites.  When you exit B. Braun Internet sites, we therefore recommend that you ask all operators of the linked websites for their data protection policies.

Cookies and etracker

Cookies are small text files stored locally by the site visitor’s web browser.  Cookies are a common feature on almost all websites; they enable us to make our Internet site as convenient as possible for you to use.  If you reject the use of cookies (this is an optional setting in your browser), you can still use our website (although some restrictions might apply).  This website uses technologies provided by etracker GmbH (https://www.etracker.com/en) to collect and store data which have been made anonymous.  Cookies, which collect and store data exclusively in pseudonymous form, may be utilized for this purpose.  Based on this data, usage profiles are creased under a pseudonym.  The data are not used to personally identify any visitor to this website and are not merged with the data relating to the holder of the pseudonym.  You can object to this data being collected and stored at any time; this objection will then continue to apply in the future.

Social Media Plug-ins

As part of B. Braun's internet presence, third-party content may sometimes be used (plug-ins). This can take the form of Youtube videos, RSS feeds or graphics of other pages, or social media buttons, such as the Facebook Share button. Some data may be transmitted to and collected by the social networks, such as IP address, browser information and operating systems.

B. Braun has no influence on the amount of data collected by the social networks. The nature, scope and purpose of the data collection, information on the further processing of the data, your rights in relation to these and setting options for protecting your privacy are explained in the data protection policies of the respective social network.

Accessing the data protection policy

B. Braun Melsungen and its subsidiaries worldwide are governed by the laws of the respective jurisdiction in which they operate in. You can view and print out the privacy policy of B. Braun Melsungen AG and each of its subsidiaries worldwide by clicking on the "Privacy Policy" link on the respective website.

Contact person in data protection matters

If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data, please contact us via the following:

E-mail to our Data Protection Officer at compliance.ph@bbraun.com.

Or write to us:

B. Braun Medical Supplies, Inc.
B. Braun Avitum Philippines, Inc.
15/F Sun Life Centre, 5th Avenue Corner Rizal Drive, Bonifacio Global City
1634 Taguig City, Philippines

Attn:  Data Protection Officer