Cookie policy
Cookie policy for the primaned.com Website
1. SUBJECT OF THIS GUIDELINE
With this Cookie Policy, we inform you about how our companies, Primaned BV, Fascinatio Boulevard 522, P.O Box 247, 2909 VA Capelle aan den Ijssel, Netherlands and Primaned GmbH, Große Gallusstraße 16-18, 60312 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (hereinafter jointly referred to as “we“), use cookies in connection with the operation of our website https://www.primaned.com (hereinafter referred to as “our Website").
2. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small text files containing information that can be stored on the user’s end device via the browser when visiting a Website. If the Website is called up again with the same end device, the cookie and the information stored in it can be retrieved.
3. WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES WE USE
We use different types of cookies in different combinations on our Website:
Depending on their purpose
Technically necessary cookies Cookies that are used to enable essential functions of our Website, such as page navigation, and without which our Website cannot function properly.
Performance cookies Cookies used to determine how visitors navigate our Website, e.g. which pages they visit, how long they stay, other metrics such as
page views, bounce rates, mouse movements, clicks, scrolling and feedback, and whether users encounter errors.
Functional cookies Cookies that are used to determine how visitors use our Website and to save options selected by users or to provide personalised functions.
Marketing cookies Cookies that are used to display interesting advertising content to users and to measure the effectiveness of advertising measures. This is partly done by us on our Website, but mainly by advertising partners acting independently and on their own responsibility. It is not possible to draw direct conclusions about a person.
Depending on their period of validity
Temporary cookies Cookies that are automatically deleted when you close your browser
Persistent cookies Cookies that remain stored on your end device for a certain period of time after you close your browser
Depending on who sets or accesses the cookie
First-party cookies Cookies that we set ourselves or that we access ourselves
Third-party cookies Cookies that are set or accessed by other companies on our Website
4. FOR WHAT PURPOSES AND ON WHAT LEGAL BASIS WE USE COOKIES
We use cookies on our Website for the purposes set out in section 3 above.
The legal basis for the use of strictly necessary cookies is our legitimate interest in displaying our Website and ensuring its stability and security. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. These cookies cannot be deactivated via our Website.
All other cookies, in particular performance cookies, functional cookies and marketing cookies, are only used on our Website if you have given us your prior consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR.
When you access our Website for the first time, we display a cookie banner in which you can give your consent to the use of cookies on our Website by clicking a button.
You have the following options:
- If you click on the “ACCEPT" button, you can consent to the use of all cookies listed in our cookie list (see section 9 below).
- By clicking on the “DECLINE" button, you can exclude the use of all cookies listed in our cookie list (see section 9 below), with the exception of technically necessary cookies, as these are absolutely necessary for access to our Website.
- By clicking on the “VIEW PREFERENCES" button, you are directed to a second cookie banner that displays the categories of cookies (and more detailed information on the cookies falling into the categories) used on our Website and that allows you to restrict your consent to the use of the cookies per category as listed in our cookie list (see section 9 below).
- By clicking on the “VIEW PREFERENCES"-button, you can also customise your selection at a later date.
In addition, we store your consent and, if applicable, your individual selection of cookies in the form of an opt-in cookie on your end device in order to be able to determine whether you have already given your consent when you visit our Website again.
5. HOW LONG WE USE COOKIES
The duration for which we use cookies on our Website can be found in our cookie list (see section 9 below).
6. WHERE WE NORMALLY PROCESS AND TRANSMIT YOUR COOKIE DATA
We have commissioned external IT service providers to host and analyse our Website, some of which process your cookie data on our behalf. By concluding agreements on commissioned data processing or on joint control of the transfer of cookie data with our external service providers, we ensure that your cookie data is processed in accordance with the GDPR.
The cookies used on our Website are mainly processed within the European Union. In certain cases, cookie data is processed outside the European Union. These are explained in section 7 below.
7. TRANSFER OF COOKIE DATA TO RECIPIENTS OUTSIDE THE EUROPEAN UNION
Notwithstanding the above Section 6, cookie data may be transmitted to recipients outside the European Union. This concerns the following recipients:
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google"), to display adverts placed via Google and its partners only to users who have shown an interest in our Website or topics deemed relevant by Google. The cookies set for this web analysis service may also be transferred to Google facilities and servers in the USA.
Google participates in the current EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“DPF"), which is certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce and is currently recognised by the European Commission as providing an
adequate level of data protection equivalent to the level of data protection under the European General Data Protection Regulation.
We only use Google Analytics with activated IP anonymisation. This means that the user’s IP address is truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there.
If you use a common browser such as Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge or Firefox, you can deactivate the storage of cookies for Google Analytics by downloading an add-on from Google. Further details can be found at the following link:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
You also have the option of preventing the storage of cookies for Google Analytics directly via your browser. You can find more information on this in section 8 below. Further information on the use of data by Google as well as setting and opt-out options can be found on the Google Website:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners
Lucky Orange
In connection with the operation of our Website, we use web analysis services from Lucky Orange LLC, 86665 W 96th Suite 100, Overland Park, KS 66212, USA (“Lucky Orange").
Lucky Orange also participates in the current EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“DPF"), which is certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce and is currently recognised by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection equivalent to that provided by the European General Data Protection Regulation.
You can find Lucky Orange HubSpot’s privacy policy on their website via the following link:
https://www.luckyorange.com/legal
HubSpot
In connection with the operation of our Website, we use web analysis services from Hubspot, Inc., with headquarters at 2 Canal Park, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA (“HubSpot").
HubSpot also participates in the current EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“DPF"), which is certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce and is currently recognised by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection equivalent to that provided by the European General Data Protection Regulation.
You can find HubSpot’s privacy policy on their website via the following link:
https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy
8. HOW YOU CAN MANAGE THE STORAGE OF COOKIES
You can manage the use of cookies via our Website, but also via your browser settings.
Different browsers offer different options for configuring the cookie settings in the browser. You can find more information about this on the following Websites, for example:
In general, the English-language Website
https://allaboutcookies.org/how-to-manage-cookies
If you use Chrome:
If you use Microsoft Edge:
If you use Android:
If you use Safari:
https://support.apple.com/en-by/guide/deployment/depf7d5714d4/web
If you use Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookie-banner-reduction
If you generally deactivate cookies in your browser, individual functions of our Website may not work or may no longer work properly.
You can also object to the use of marketing cookies via the deactivation pages of the following English-language Websites:
https://optout.networkadvertising.org/
https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/
https://www.aboutads.info/choices
9. OUR COOKIE LIST
Further details on the cookies used on our Website can be found in the list below.
10. YOUR RIGHTS IN CONNECTION WITH OUR USE OF COOKIE DATA
You have the same data protection rights in relation to the processing of cookie data on our Website as in relation to the processing of your other personal data on our Website. These can be found in the privacy policy for our Website at the following link:
https://www.primaned.com/en/privacy-statement/
11. CHANGES
We reserve the right to amend or update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to adapt it to changes in the law or changes in the framework conditions for our data processing activities. We will obtain your consent for any changes or updates to this Cookie Policy, which may only be implemented with your consent.
