SCOPE OF THIS SUPPLEMENTAL STATEMENT
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. ("Bio-Rad", "we", "us", "our") provides to residents of the European Economic Area (EEA) this Supplemental Website Privacy Statement ("Supplemental Statement"), which supplements and localizes the Privacy & Security Statements on the following Bio-Rad domains ("Statement"):
Unless defined specifically in this Supplemental Statement, capitalized terms shall have the meaning set forth in the Statement.
CONTROLLER AND EU REPRESENTATIVE
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., 2000 Alfred Nobel Drive, Hercules, California 94547, USA, operates the Site and is the controller of any personal data collected or otherwise processed on or through the Site. Information on our representatives in the EU can be requested by email at dataprivacy@bio-rad.com.
PURPOSES AND LEGAL BASES FOR PROCESSING
We process your personal data on several different legal bases, as follows:
Detailed information on our use of cookies, web analytic solution used on our Site, and marketing communications are set forth immediately below.
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Name and Provider of Solution |
Personal Data Processed by Solution |
Purpose of Solution |
Retention Period Applicable to Personal Data |
Your Choice Regarding the Solution |
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Google Analytics by Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA |
Information on your use of the Site, including, without limitation, your IP address |
Evaluating your use of the Site, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage to us |
2 Years |
You can prevent Google's collection and use of your personal data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under: |
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Webtrends |
Information on your use of the Site, including, without limitation, your IP address |
Evaluating your use of the Site, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage to us |
2 Years |
You can discontinue use of your personal data by removing cookies via your browser or by managing your cookie preferences via the 'Change Cookie Setting' link at the bottom of each page with a footer |
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Kenshoo |
Information on your use of the Site, including, without limitation, advertising IDs and other information about you, including interests, age, gender, and your IP address |
Evaluating your use of landing pages and email, compiling reports on activity for us and providing other services relating to advertising activity |
90 days |
You can discontinue use of your personal data by removing cookies via your browser or by managing your cookie preferences via the 'Change Cookie Setting' link at the bottom of each page with a footer |
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Marketo |
Information on your use of the Site, including, without limitation, your IP address |
Evaluating your use of landing pages and email, compiling reports on activity for us and providing other services relating to landing page activity |
2 Years |
You can discontinue use of your personal data by removing cookies via your browser or by managing your cookie preferences via the 'Change Cookie Setting' link at the bottom of each page with a footer |
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SessionCam Limited |
Information on your use of the Site, including, without limitation, website recording service that may record mouse clicks, mouse movements, page scrolling. The information collected does not include any PII data, bank details or any sensitive personal data |
Evaluating your use of the Site, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage to us to improve our website usability |
1 Year |
You can discontinue use of your personal data by removing cookies via your browser or by managing your cookie preferences via the 'Change Cookie Setting' link at the bottom of each page with a footer |
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S.L.I. Systems, Inc. |
Information on your use of the Site, including, without limitation, your IP address |
Site search capability on bio-rad-antibodies.com |
2 Years |
You can discontinue use of your personal data by removing cookies via your browser or by managing your cookie preferences via the 'Change Cookie Setting' link at the bottom of each page with a footer |
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Verint Systems (ForeSee), Inc. |
Information on your use of the Site, including, without limitation, your IP address |
Evaluating your use of the Site, compiling reports on web activity for us and providing services relating to enhancing the customer journey |
2 Years |
You can discontinue use of your personal data by removing cookies via your browser or by managing your cookie preferences via the 'Change Cookie Setting' link at the bottom of each page with a footer |
Cookies Used On the Site
The Site makes use of cookies. Cookies are small text files downloaded by your Internet browser and stored on the device you use to access the Site (e.g., your desktop computer, tablet or smartphone). Depending on their purpose, cookies log specific user-related information such as your user preferences, authentication information, security parameters, data concerning the device you access the Site with and statistical information regarding your use of the Site. Where necessary during your visit of the Site or when revisiting the Site, your Internet browser transmits the cookies including the contained information back to the servers they were initially downloaded from or created by. The analysis and processing of such information allows us to ensure the functionality of the Site, improve your online experience and optimize the structure and content of the Site.
The cookies we use can be categorized as follows:
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Strictly-Necessary Cookies (required) |
These cookies are essential for our website to function properly. They either serve as the sole purpose of carrying out network transmissions or they allow you to browse and use features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. These cookies are strictly necessary because services like the shopping cart and invoicing cannot be provided without these cookies. Since these cookies are strictly necessary in order for our website to function, no consent is required to enable them. If you wish to disable these cookies, please update your settings under your browser’s preferences. If these cookies are disabled, please be aware that you will not be able to access certain features of the site like purchasing online. |
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Functionality Cookies |
These cookies improve your browsing experience and provide useful, personalized features. They are used to remember selections that you have made such as your preferred language, region, and username. They also remember changes that you made in text sizes, fonts, and other customizable parts of the Web. Together, this information allows us to personalize features on our website in order to provide you with the best possible browsing experience. The information that these cookies collect is anonymous and cannot track your activity on other websites. |
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Analytics Cookies |
These cookies are used to help ensure that your browsing experience is optimal. They collect anonymous data on how you use our website in order to build better, more useful pages. For instance, we can recognize and count the number of visitors, see how visitors moved around the site, and we can identify which pages returned error messages. This information enables us to enhance your experience and helps us troubleshoot any issues that prevented you from reaching the content that you needed. In order to improve the performance of our site, we use products such as WebTrends OnDemand and Google Analytics to track site usage. |
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Targeting or Advertising Cookies |
These cookies are used to deliver personalized content based on your interests through third-party ad services. This allows us to improve your online experience by helping you find products that are relevant to your interests faster. They remember websites that you have visited and the information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. These cookies are also used to limit the number of times you see an ad and help measure the effectiveness of a marketing campaign. |
The following cookies may be used in Bio-Rad domains:
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Cookie Name |
Who Places the Cookie? |
Cookie Category |
Expiry |
Purpose |
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JSESSIONID |
Bio-Rad |
Strictly Necessary |
Session |
Facilitates user session for navigating bio-rad.com |
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JSESSIONID_PRIMEPCR |
Bio-Rad |
Strictly Necessary |
Session |
Facilitates user session for PrimePCR Custom Assay Builder |
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JSESSIONID_STERLING |
Bio-Rad |
Strictly Necessary |
Session |
Facilitates user session for ecommerce actions |
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JSESSIONID_DESIGNER |
Bio-Rad |
Strictly Necessary |
Session |
Facilitates user session for Digital Assay feature |
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JSESSIONID_FRGTPWD |
Bio-Rad |
Strictly Necessary |
Session |
SessionID for forgot password |
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JSESSIONID_IEF |
Bio-Rad |
Strictly Necessary |
Session |
SessionID for IEF |
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eVCntryLang |
Bio-Rad |
Strictly Necessary |
1 year (reset every login) |
Enables country language selection |
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isProc |
Bio-Rad |
Strictly Necessary |
Session |
Identifies commerce channel |
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SampleCookie |
Bio-Rad |
Strictly Necessary |
Session |
Checks if user has cookies enabled |
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sid |
Bio-Rad |
Strictly Necessary |
Session |
OKTA (SSO) session id |
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proximity_* |
Bio-Rad |
Strictly Necessary |
1 year |
OKTA(SSO) specific cookie |
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ADRUM_BT1 |
Bio-Rad |
Strictly Necessary |
Session |
OKTA(SSO) specific cookie |
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ADRUM_BTa |
Bio-Rad |
Strictly Necessary |
Session |
OKTA(SSO) specific cookie |
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t |
Bio-Rad |
Strictly Necessary |
Session |
OKTA(SSO) specific cookie |
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bio-rad:msgids |
Bio-Rad |
Functionality |
1 year (reset every save) |
Used to track dismissed messages |
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PreviouslyViewedCookie |
Bio-Rad |
Functionality |
1 year |
Used to track previously visited pages |
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HealthCareCookie |
Bio-Rad |
Functionality |
1 year |
France healthcare cookie for CDG |
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EU_COOKIE_PREFS |
Bio-Rad |
Functionality |
1 year |
Cookie used to store preferences for EU cookie policy |
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CartID_ |
Bio-Rad |
Functionality |
1 year |
Current cart for anonymous users |
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ASPSESSIONIDQSATSRCQ |
Bio-Rad |
Strictly Necessary |
Session |
Used by sites written with Microsoft ASP technologies for session management. |
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redirecting |
Bio-Rad Antibodies |
Strictly Necessary |
3 years |
Prevents repeat API calls to BRC servers |
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ForceSessionSync |
Bio-Rad Antibodies |
Strictly Necessary |
3 years |
Enables SSO via third party cookies disabled workflow |
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AnalyticsBrowserSession |
Bio-Rad Antibodies |
Analytics |
3 years |
Logs user activity |
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AnalyticsBrowserSessionId |
Bio-Rad Antibodies |
Analytics |
3 years |
Logs user activity |
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AnalyticsBrowserSessionStarted |
Bio-Rad Antibodies |
Analytics |
3 years |
Logs user activity |
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AnalyticsSessionId |
Bio-Rad Antibodies |
Analytics |
3 years |
Logs user activity |
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MachineId |
Bio-Rad Antibodies |
Strictly Necessary |
3 years |
Facilitates login session of a user |
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SessionId |
Bio-Rad Antibodies |
Strictly Necessary |
3 years |
Facilitates login session of a user |
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WT_FPC |
Webtrends |
Analytics |
2 years |
Webtrends performance analytics |
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ACOOKIE |
Webtrends |
Analytics |
2 years |
Webtrends performance analytics |
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BIGipServerabdweb_mch_https |
Marketo |
Analytics |
Session |
Marketo munchkin tracking cookie |
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_mkto_trk |
Marketo |
Targeting or Advertising |
2 years |
Marketo munchkin tracking cookie |
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AWSELB |
Amazon |
Strictly Necessary |
Session |
Associated with Amazon web hosting services for routing client requests on the server. |
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fr |
Fcebook |
Analytics |
Varying |
Facilitates analytics for Facebook plug-in within the KnowItAll Software browser. |
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fsr.* |
Foresee |
Analytics |
Session |
Foresee survey tracking |
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_4c_ (and more) |
Foresee |
Analytics |
2 years |
Foresee survey tracking |
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_ga, _gat*, _gid, _gat_UA-29008678-1, _gaexp, _gcl_au |
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Analytics |
Varying |
Google Analytics |
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__ut*, __utmz, __utmc |
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Targeting or Advertising |
Varying |
Google analytics |
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SIDCC |
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Strictly Necessary |
3 months |
Google recaptcha |
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IDE |
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Targeting or Advertising |
Varying |
Google Adwords Remarketing |
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kenshoo_id |
KenShoo |
Targeting or Advertising |
6 months |
Targeting or Advertising cookies |
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SLI1_XXX |
SLI Systems |
Functionality |
30 min |
Facilitates user site search on bio-rad-antibodies.com |
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SLI2_XXX |
SLI Systems |
Functionality |
Session |
Facilitates user site search on bio-rad-antibodies.com |
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SLI4_XXX |
SLI Systems |
Functionality |
6 months |
Facilitates user site search on bio-rad-antibodies.com |
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SLIBeacon |
SLI Systems |
Functionality |
2 Years |
Facilitates user site search on bio-rad-antibodies.com |
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SLIBeacon_1589512282 |
SLI Systems |
Functionality |
2 Years |
Facilitates user site search on bio-rad-antibodies.com |
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SLISYNC |
SLI Systems |
Functionality |
2 Years |
Facilitates user site search on bio-rad-antibodies.com |
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_sp_id.0bc5, intercom-lou-rycucve3, us_lang |
Usersnap |
Analytics |
Varying |
Facilitates user feedback on spectrabase.com |
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APISID, LOGIN_INFO, PREF, SAPISID, YSC |
YouTube |
Analytics |
Varying |
Facilitates analytics for YouTube plug-in within the KnowItAll Software browser. |
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HSID, SID, SSID, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
YouTube |
Strictly Necessary |
Varying |
Used for session state management for YouTube plug-in within the KnowItAll Software browser. |
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__cfduid |
Cloudflare |
Strictly Necessary |
1 year |
Facilitates website performance |
You may influence the scope and extent to which we use cookies when you visit our Site. In particular, you may prevent cookies from being stored on our device by adjusting the respective settings on your Internet browser. For more information on how to do so in the settings of your particular Internet browser, please see the following information:
To screen your browser for cookies:
http://optout.networkadvertising.org/
Internet Explorer:
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer-ie11-preview-privacy-statement
Chrome:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/privacy/
Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox/protect-your-privacy
Safari:
http://www.apple.com/privacy/manage-your-privacy/
However, please be aware that this might render certain functions of our Site inoperable or more difficult to use. Depending on the Internet browser you use, you might also be able to specifically reject third-party cookies. In this context, please note, however, that third parties might still have access to your Personal Information to the extent that such information is logged by first-party cookies.
Marketing Communications to You
On Bio-Rad domains, you can register to receive newsletters or similar information on our products or services or the products or services of our affiliated companies. As part of the registration process, we may ask you to provide us with certain mandatory information. Such information includes first name, last name, email address, country, and organization name.
When receiving a registration, we log and store the date/time of registration and the IP address the registration was received from. This solely serves evidentiary purposes for consent management.
When registering to receive newsletters or similar information, you need to explicitly declare your consent in our processing of your personal data for this purpose. You are under no obligation to provide such consent and, if you choose to do so nonetheless, you may withdraw your consent at any time, with future effect and for any or no reason by following the unsubscribe link contained in any email communication to you.
RECIPIENTS OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
For the following purposes, we may disclose your personal data to the following third parties, as required or permitted by applicable law:
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Who Is your Personal Data Disclosed To? |
What Is the Purpose Underlying the Disclosure? |
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Companies affiliated with Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. including: Registered Channel Partners |
Regional distributors contracted to facilitate sales and customer support processes. |
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Third-party suppliers and service providers including: Auth0 Marketo Google Analytics WebTrends Kenshoo World Land Trust Verint ForeSee SessionCam S.L.I. Systems, Inc. |
Auth0 Marketo and Kenshoo World Land Trust Google Analytics, WebTrends, Verint ForeSee, S.L.I. Systems and SessionCam |
DATA TRANSFERS TO RECIPIENTS OUTSIDE OF THE EU/EEA
We and many of our affiliated companies and third-party service providers are located outside the EU/EEA in jurisdictions that are not subject to an unqualified adequacy decision by the EU Commission finding them to provide an adequate level of protection of personal data, i.e. a level of protection of fundamental rights and freedoms that is essentially equivalent to that guaranteed within the EU.
However, to ensure an adequate level of protection of your personal data, we enter into data processing and data transfer agreements with our affiliated companies and third-party service providers outside of the EU/EEA that incorporate the provisions of the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the EU Commission or implement other appropriate safeguards with them. You can ask for a copy of such appropriate safeguards by contacting us at dataprivacy@bio-rad.com.
HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We have implemented appropriate retention periods for your personal data collected or otherwise processed on or through the Site as set forth in our records management policy. Personal data processed in the context of a contract with you will be retained by us for the term of the contract and for a reasonable time afterwards as might be required to determine and settle any related claims. Where our processing of your personal data is based on legitimate interests or the compliance with legal obligations, it will be deleted as soon as the underlying purpose has expired. Personal data processed based on your consent will be deleted if and when you withdraw such consent.
YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Subject to the conditions set out in the applicable law, you have, without limitation, the rights to
You may exercise the above mentioned rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and data portability by contacting us under dataprivacy@bio-rad.com, even to the extent that such claims relate to the processing of personal data by one or more of the data recipients identified in this privacy statement.
YOUR PROVISION OF PERSONAL DATA TO US
Your use of the Site and your provision of personal data to us in the process is purely voluntary on your part. Subject to your sole discretion, you can, at any point, stop to use the Site or, where applicable, opt in or modify your preferences of certain data processing operations while on the Site as described in this Supplemental Statement. An exception applies if and to the extent that you want to enter into or perform a contract with us on or through the Site. In this event, providing us with your related personal information is necessary for us to be able to enter into the contract with or provide any contractual services to you.
EFFECTIVE DATE AND CHANGES
This Supplemental Statement is effective 5 February 2020. We may make changes, including material changes, to this Supplemental Statement from time to time. You should review the Supplemental Statement each time you visit our Site to learn of any changes.
If you have questions about this Supplemental Statement, please contact us at dataprivacy@bio-rad.com