Bayer in the UK operates within the pharmaceutical industry and we are committed to ensuring that our activities comply with the relevant laws, regulations and industry-specific codes.   When it comes to your use of Bayer’s social media accounts, your use of those accounts is governed by the terms and conditions of the relevant platform.  However, in order to enable us to comply with our industry-specific obligations, we reserve the right to remove posts in certain circumstances. 

To enable compliance, we may need to remove comments that mention: 

• Health or medical advice 

• A medicine  

• Private or personal information (yours or anyone else’s) 

Further, we respect all visitors to our social media channels and, in return, we ask that everyone treats other users with respect. Bayer screens comments on its social media channels for content which we deem inappropriate or offensive.  We may remove comments which include: 

• Profane or Vulgar language 

• Personal insults or degrading comments of any kind, disparaging comments about institutions, organisations or companies, sexist or racist comments, or hate propaganda, calls to violence of any kind, calls to join in demonstrations or rallies of any political orientation indiscriminately  

• Any violation of the rights of third parties including, in particular, copyright. 

• Comments that do not relate to the messages under discussion, or are off topic 

• Offering goods or services, of either a commercial or private nature, or using the page as an advertising space 

• Spam, i.e. any form of automatically generated content or repeatedly posting the same comment 

• Information that is misleading, inaccurate or out of date, or promotes illegal or unsafe activity. 

 While Bayer does its best to monitor comments, Bayer is not responsible for the opinions or information shared by users.  

Reporting side effects 

If you get any side effects whilst taking a medicine, talk to your doctor, pharmacist or nurse. This includes any possible side effects not listed in the package leaflet. You can also report side effects directly via the yellow card scheme at https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/. By reporting side effects, you can help provide more information on the safety of medicines. 

Adverse events (side effects) to Bayer’s products should also be reported to Bayer plc (tel: 0118 206 3500 (24 hour message service); e-mail: pvuk@bayer.com). 

For more information on how we process any personal data you share with us in relation to reporting adverse events please see our Privacy Policy.  

COR-OTH-GB-0064 / June 2025