Privacy Policy

B. BRAUN MEDICAL INC.
Last Updated: 1/1/2020

This Privacy Policy sets forth the types of information B. Braun Medical Inc. (“B.Braun” or “us”) collects from prospective or current business contacts on this site (the “Site”) or that such individuals provide to us through other means, how we may use that information, to whom and under what circumstances we may disclose it, and how we protect it. By using this Site or voluntarily providing personal information to us, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the policy, please do not use the Site.

Collection and Use of Personal Information for Business Purposes

B.Braun collects, uses, and discloses personal information of its business contacts for business purposes only and consistent with applicable laws. Where B.Braun discloses personal information to third parties, it does so for the same business purposes described below and, where appropriate, requires that such parties maintain its confidentiality and maintain appropriate systems and processes to ensure its security and protection.

We may collect and use the following categories of personal information about you to manage our business relationship with you:

Category of Personal Information	Purpose for Collection
Contact information: such as your name, work address, personal and work telephone numbers, personal and work email addresses.	To open and maintain records of our interactions with you and your company, to provide you with the products and services you requested on behalf of your company, and to communicate with you for business purposes.
Job-related information: such as employer, title and job role.	To maintain our business relationship with you or the company for whom you work.
Purchase and order information: contact information, together with purchase details, delivery details, payment details, any communications we have received about your order or purchase	To validate, confirm, verify, deliver, install, and track your order, including to arrange for shipping, handle returns and refunds, maintain a record of the purchases you make, to service products you purchased from us, and to provide you offers that may be of interest to you.
Other delivery information: name and address of recipient for delivery, if different from yours	To deliver to the person at the address which you have requested.
Payment information: name, card issuer and card type, credit or debit card number, expiration date, CVV code, billing address, bank account number and other bank account details	To accept payment from you, to check that the right person is using the right card or account, to meet the requirements of the card brands or account issuers, and to make sure we are paid for what you buy.
Legal information: fraud checks or flags raised about your transactions, the payment card you want to use, payment card refusals, suspected crimes, complaints and claims	To protect you, other customers and our business against criminal activities and risks, make sure we understand and can meet our legal obligations to you and others and can defend ourselves.
Preference information: your marketing preferences, your account settings including any default preferences, any preferences you have indicated, the types of services/offers that interest you, or the areas of our website that you visit	To enhance your online experience, including as a way to recognize you and welcome you to the Site, to provide you with customized Site content, targeted offers, promotions and advertising on the Site, through other third party sites, via email, or text messages that are offered by us or other marketing partners that might be of interest to you.
Communications: communications we have with you. Please note that we may record calls to our customer service team.	To handle your requests, to contact you when necessary or requested, including to respond to your comments and questions and provide customer service.
Device information: IP address, internet provider, operating system and browser used, type of device, such as laptop or smart phone, device cookie settings and other device details, such as MAC address and geolocation, if you permit it to obtain your precise geolocation	To make sure our Site works properly with your device and make sure you can see and use our intended website on the device you are using, and for analytical and demographic purposes and to provide offers that may be of interest to you. We also will use this information to protect the security or integrity of the Site and our business, such as by protecting against and preventing fraud, unauthorized transactions, and managing risk exposure, including by identifying potential hackers and other unauthorized users.
Information automatically collected from your browser: when you use the Site, some data is automatically transferred from your browser to our server, including your browser type, operating system type or mobile device model, viewed webpages, links that are clicked, IP address, mobile device identifier or other unique identifier, sites or apps visited before coming to our Site, the amount of time you spend viewing or using the Site, the number of times you return, or other click-stream or site usage data, emails we send that you open, forward, or click through to our Site	We will use this information in an aggregated non-specific format for analytical and demographic purposes. We also will use this information to protect the security or integrity of the Site and our business, such as by protecting against and preventing fraud, unauthorized transactions, and managing risk exposure, including by identifying potential hackers and other unauthorized users.

In addition to the sharing of your personal information as described above, we also may disclose personal information we collect as follows:

In Connection with Business Transfers

In the event that a division or part or all of B.Braun is bought, sold or otherwise transferred, or is in the process of a potential transaction, customer information will likely be shared for evaluation purposes and included among the transferred business assets.

To Comply with Laws

B.Braun may also disclose specific information when such disclosure appears necessary to comply with the law, a subpoena or other litigation process or to protect the interests or safety of its visitors and customers, B.Braun employees or others.

Google Analytics

Using the technologies provided by Google Analytics (https://www.google.com/analytics), user data is collected and stored on this Site in an anonymized form. Cookies may be used for these purposes; however, these cookies collect and store data only in a pseudononymous form. The data is not used to personally identify the visitors to this Site and is not combined with other data pertaining to the bearer of any pseudonym. You may disable receipt of cookies using features of your web browser that disable or turn off cookies. With cookies disabled in your browser, the Site’s customization features may not function properly.

Pixel tags

Pixel tags (also known as web beacons or clear GIFs) may be used on certain portions of the Site, including the Solutions for Life page (www.bbraunusa.com/solutionsforlife). Through pixel tags we collect information to, among other things, enhance your online experience, track online movements of users of the Site, measure the success of our marketing campaigns, and compile statistics about usage of the Site. Pixel tags also enable our advertising management partners to learn which advertisements bring users to the Site. Pixel tags may be placed in our advertisements on third party websites by us or by another advertiser who works with our advertising management partners. To learn more information about your choices concerning interest-based advertisements, visit https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/what-are-my-options or www.aboutads.info/choices

Collection, Processing and Transmission of Personal Data

Personal data is only collected when you submit the data yourself, as, for example, in an inquiry form on the “Contact Us” page of this Site. Your personal data will not be transmitted to any third party unless you explicitly indicate that this is your wish.

Consent and Use

The submission of personal or business data (including e-mail addresses, names and addresses) is done on an explicitly voluntary basis. In submitting such data you indicate your consent that such data may be collected, stored, processed or used by and/or disclosed to B.Braun and its affiliates, agents and third party service providers for the purpose of making contact with you, responding to your requests for information, or for other purposes indicated by you, as well as for the protection of our own legitimate business interests. B.Braun may also disclose personal or business data as may be required by law or a court order, subpoena or other similar legal instrument. Your consent to our use of your personal data may be withdrawn by you at any time by contacting B.Braun at unsubscribe.us@bbraunusa.com.

Employment Opportunities

iCIMS, Inc. (“iCIMS”) manages B.Braun’s Employment Opportunities posted on this Site. Data provided by users in response to B.Braun’s Employment Opportunities is transmitted directly to iCIMS. B.Braun encourages you to refer to iCIMS’s privacy policy (available at https://www.icims.com/gc/data-security-privacy-statement/) to learn more about its commitment to privacy.

Other Third Party Sites

From time to time, B.Braun may provide links to other third party websites that it does not control. B.Braun urges you to review the privacy policies posted on these third party websites at the time you first visit such sites. B.Braun undertakes no obligation to review or ensure enforcement or compliance with the privacy policy of any website to which it links.

Children’s Privacy

Under Age 13

We understand the need to protect children’s privacy online (we define “children” as minors younger than 13). We do not knowingly collect or use any personal information from children without verifiable parental consent. We do not knowingly allow children to register with us, communicate with us, or to use any of our online services. If it comes to our attention that we have unknowingly collected information from a child under the age of 13, we will take all reasonable measures to delete it as soon as possible and will not use such information for any purpose (except where necessary to protect the safety of the child or others as required or allowed by law). If you become aware of any personally identifiable information we have collected from children under 13, please call us at 1-610-997-4550 or email us at privacynotice@bbraunusa.com.

Under Age 18

Minors under 18 years of age may have the personal information that they provide to us deleted by sending an email to privacynotice@bbraunusa.com requesting deletion. Please note that, while we make reasonable efforts to comply with such requests, deletion of your personal information does not ensure complete and comprehensive removal of that data from all systems.

Do Not Track

Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set in some web browsers, allowing users to opt out of tracking by websites and online services. At the present time, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has not yet established universal standards for recognizable DNT signals and therefore, B.Braun and the Site do not recognize DNT.

Governing Law and Data Storage

This Privacy Policy and your use of this Site, pursuant to the Terms of Use set forth below, are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the United States of America. You should be aware that when you submit your personally identifiable information to B.Braun through this Site, your information will be deemed sent to B.Braun from the United States of America, that your information may go to a country that has different privacy laws than your home country and that your information will be handled in accordance with the laws of the United States of America. By providing any personal information to B.Braun through this Site, all users, including without limitation users in the member states of the European Union, fully understand and unambiguously consent to the submission, collection and processing of such information in the United States of America. Some of B.Braun’s web pages are targeted towards countries other than the United States and are intended for visitors from those countries. If you are a resident of a country other than the United States and you give B.Braun personal information through a B.Braun web page targeted towards your country of residence, that information will be stored and used in accordance with the laws of the country in which the web page is maintained.

Transfer of Information

In the event B.Braun, one of its divisions or affiliates is ever sold to or acquired by another company, B.Braun reserves the right to transfer ownership of the customer information to the acquiring company.

Changes in this Privacy Policy

If B.Braun decides to make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, B.Braun will notify users by posting any such material changes on this page in this section. B.Braun reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Your use of this Site after changes to this Privacy Policy have been made constitutes acceptance of those changes going forward.

Social Media Plugins

Within the Internet presence of B.Braun it may occur that contents of third parties are used (so-called “plugins”). These can appear in the form of YouTube videos, RSS-Feeds or graphics of other websites or also by social media pushbuttons, such as for example the share button of Facebook.

If you are on a website of B.Braun, on which contents of third parties are integrated, under certain circumstances a connection will be set up with the respective social network. The content of the pushbuttons may be transmitted to your browser hereby and be integrated into the website hereby. This means that the respective provider always receives the information that your have called the B.Braun website. It is not relevant in this case whether you are a member of a social network or are not logged into such a network. Furthermore, irrespective whether you actually act with the integrated content, information will be automatically collected by the social network. The following data can be transmitted hereby: IP address, browser information and operating systems, screen resolution, installed browser plugins (e.g. Adobe Flash Player), origin of the visitor (if you have followed a link) and the URL of the current website.

If you are logged into one of the social networks during the use of the website of B.Braun, under certain circumstances the information about the call of the website will be linked with your member data and saved. If you are a member of a social network and do not want this data to be transmitted you must logout of the social network before visiting the B.Braun website.

B.Braun has no influence on the scope of the data that are collected by the social networks. Please refer to the privacy policy of the respective social network regarding the type, scope and purpose of the data collection, information about the further processing of the data as well as your rights in this respect and setting possibilities for the protection of your privacy.

You additionally have the possibility to block social media plugins by add-ons in your browser and therefore to prevent a data transmission.

Privacy Policy for the Use of Facebook Plugins

Plugins of the social network Facebook are integrated on our websites, provider Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo on our website. You will find an overview of the Facebook plugins here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=en_US.

If you visit our websites a direct connection is established between your browser and the Facebook server via the plugin. This way Facebook receives the information that you have visited our website with your IP address. Facebook can hereby allocate the visit to our website to your user account. We would like to point out that we as the provider of the websites neither receive any knowledge of the content of the transmitted data, nor their use by Facebook. You can find further information in this respect in the privacy policy of Facebook under http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.

If you do not want Facebook to be able to allocate the visit to our websites to your Facebook user account please logout of your Facebook user account.

Privacy Policy for the Use of Twitter

Functions of the Twitter service are integrated onto our websites. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By the use of Twitter and the “Re-Tweet” function the websites visited by you are linked with your Twitter account and announced to other users. Data are also transmitted to Twitter hereby. We would like to point out that we as the provider of the websites neither receive any knowledge of the content of the transmitted data, nor their use by Twitter. You can find further information in this respect in the privacy policy of Twitter under http://twitter.com/privacy.

You can change your data protection settings at Twitter in the account settings under: https://twitter.com/login.

Privacy Policy for the Use of LinkedIn

Our website uses functions of the LinkedIn network. The provider is the LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. A connection to servers of LinkedIn will be set up with each call of one of our websites, which contains functions of LinkedIn. LinkedIn is informed that you have visited our websites with your IP address. If you click the “recommend button” of LinkedIn and are logged into your account at LinkedIn, it is possible for LinkedIn to allocate your visit to our website to you and your user account. We would like to point out that we as the provider of the sites neither have any knowledge of the content of the transmitted data, nor their use by LinkedIn.

You can find further information in this respect in the privacy policy of LinkedIn under: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Privacy Policy for the Use of YouTube

Our website uses plugins of the YouTube website operated by Google. The operator of the websites is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of our websites fitted with a YouTube plugin a connection will be established to the servers of YouTube. It will be communicated to the Youtube server hereby, which of our websites you visited.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to directly allocate your surf behavior to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

You can find further information regarding the handling of user data in the privacy policy of YouTube under: www.youtube.com/static?template=privacy_guidelines.

Contact Us

For questions about this privacy policy, or to request this privacy policy in another format, please contact us at privacynotice@bbraunusa.com.