Cookie Notice

Status: December 2023

This Cookie Notice applies to Sartorius websites or applications (each a Sartorius Online Offering).

1. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

In the context of Sartorius Online Offerings, web-browser-cookies and tracking technologies (“Cookies”) may be used.

1.1 Web-Browser-Cookies

A web browser cookie is a small text file sent from a website to your computer or mobile device where it is stored by your web browser. Web browser cookies may store information such as your IP address or other identifier, your browser type, and information about the content you display and interact with on the digital services. By storing such information, web browser cookies can store your preferences and settings for online services and analyze how you use online services.

1.2 Tracking Technologies: Web Beacons / Gifs, Pixels, Page Tags, Script

Emails and mobile applications can contain small, transparent image files or lines of code to record how you interact with them. This information is used to help website and app publishers better analyze and improve their services.

2. Categories

We distinguish between three categories, depending on their function and intended purpose: neces-sary cookies, performance cookies and marketing cookies.

2.1 Necessary Cookies

By necessary cookies we mean cookies without which the technical provision of the online service cannot be ensured. These include e.g. cookies that enable you to move around the Sartorius Online Offering and use its features, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. Without these cookies, services requested through usage of our website cannot be properly provided.
Necessary cookies do not require consent from the user under applicable law. You may configure your web browser to block necessary cookies, but you might then not be able to use the website’s functionalities as intended.

To the extent that information processed in connection with necessary cookies should qualify as personal data in a given case, the legal ground for that processing is legitimate interest of Sartorius to operate the Sartorius Online Offering.

2.2 Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a Sartorius Online Offering, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and how visitors move around the site. They help us to better under-stand a user’s behavior on our Sartorius Online Offering. This is necessary to improve the user friendli-ness of a Sartorius Online Offering and therefore enhance the user’s experience.

Further information collected by performance cookies may include e.g.: internet browser and operating system used, the domain name of the website which you previously visited, the number of visits, aver-age duration of visit, and pages called up.

In general, the information collected by these cookies is aggregated and can normally not be linked to a specific natural person. However, in certain cases the collected information can be linked to you di-rectly (provided you disclosed your identity to Sartorius, e.g., when creating an account or filing a re-quest with us). To the extent that information processed in connection with performance cookies can, in a given case, be directly linked to you or otherwise qualifies as personal data, the legal ground for that processing is your user consent.

2.3 Marketing Cookies

Marketing cookies (also referred to as targeting or advertising cookies) are used to deliver adverts on third party websites more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign.

Legal basis for the processing of personal data in connection with marketing cookies (if any) is the user's consent.

3. Implemented Cookies

You may find detailed information about the different cookies (e.g. purpose, legal basis and recipient of the information collected by the cookie) below: