Bayer Consumer Health Competition Privacy Statement UK

Handling of personal data

In the following, we explain the purpose(s) of processing, as well as related to each purpose, the categories of personal data, the legal basis, the retention period.

The purpose for the processing of your personal data is to administer the Prize Draw or Competition you have entered.

The legal basis for the processing of your data for the aforementioned purpose is your consent, Art. 6 (1) (a) General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). You hereby consent to this processing. You are free to withdraw your consent at any time with future effect. For further information or for exercising your rights, please refer to this Privacy Statement.

If you do not provide your personal data, you will not be able to the prize draw or competition. 

We will store your personal data as long as necessary for the administration of the prize draw or competition, but for no longer than 6 months after the prize draw or competition end date.

 

Automated decision-making

The winners will be automatically drawn using a random number generator using software provided by Prizeology Limited.

 

Recipients of personal data

Commissioned processing

For the processing of your personal data we will to some extent use specialized service contractors that process your data on our behalf (e.g. for IT-Support or cloud services).

This includes in particular also:

Prizeology Limited (Registered office 81 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3AY, United Kingdom), which administers the prize draw or competition for us.

Such service contractors are carefully selected and regularly monitored by us. Based on respective data processing agreements, they will only process personal data in accordance with our instructions.

 

Affiliates

We may share your personal data with our affiliates from the Bayer Group, where necessary for the purposes described above. 

 

Authorities and state institutions

We may share your personal data with law enforcement agencies or other authorities and state institutions if legally required or necessary for the purposes described above.

 

External lawyers

In order to support legal decisions and to pursue or defend against legal claims, we may share your personal data with external lawyers.

 

Information regarding your rights

The following rights are in general available to you according to applicable data privacy laws:

• Right of information about your personal data stored by us;
• Right to request the correction, deletion or restricted processing of your personal data;
• Right to object to a processing based on legitimate interest or public interest, unless we are able to proof that compelling, warranted reasons superseding your interests, rights and freedom exist, or that such processing is done for purposes of the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims;
• Right to data portability;
• Right to file a complaint with a data protection authority;
• Where you have provided your consent to the processing of your personal data, you may at any time withdraw your consent with future effect. Such a withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to the withdrawal.

 

Contact

For any questions you may have with respect to data privacy, or if you wish to exercise your rights, please send an email to dataprotection-uk-eire@bayer.com  or contact our company data protection officer at the following address:

 

Data Privacy Officer
400 South Oak Way
Green Park
Reading
RG2 6AD

Telephone +44(0)118 206 3000

 

If you believe that your personal data has not been handled correctly, or you are not satisfied with the response for any requests you have made to us regarding our use of your personal data, you have a right to make a compliant to the Information Commissioners Office, by telephoning 0303 123 1113 or visiting their website at www.ico.org.uk 

 

Updated 22nd May 2023