Cookie Policy

Kerecis (also referred to as “we”) respects your right to privacy. This Cookie Policy describes the cookies we use and the personal information we may collect, use, disclose and otherwise process about individuals that visit the global Kerecis website and use services offered herein (including applications) (“Websites”), via the use of cookies.

It is Kerecis’s policy to comply with applicable data protection legislation. This Cookie Policy acknowledges the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”). In addition, Kerecis may be subject to additional requirements when it comes to processing of personal data, depending on national legislation.

Kerecis is the data controller when it comes to processing of personal data collected via cookies on our Websites.

1 WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small files that reside on your data storage device (such as a computer or smartphone) and store information about your use of our Websites. Cookies help us to improve our Websites and deliver a more specialized service. Generally speaking, cookies enable us to:
• estimate our audience size and usage pattern;
• store information about your preferences and choices, and so allow us to customize our Websites according to your individual interests and;
• recognize you when you return to our Websites and with login

2 HOW DOES KERECIS USE COOKIES
We use cookies to collect information regarding customer traffic patterns and Websites’ usage, which may be stored with an IP address, including details of:
• transactions you carry out through our Websites.
• your visits to our Websites, such as location data, traffic, weblogs, referring web addresses and resources you access, including pages visited and search terms entered.

Kerecis uses Google Analytical and targeting cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) to:
• inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our Websites; and
• report on how our ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our Websites.
We use the following specific types of cookies on our Websites:
• “Necessary cookies”: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Websites. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Websites.
• “Analytical/statistic cookies”: These types of cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Websites when using it. This assists us in improving the way our Websites work. Those types of cookies help us to understand how visitors interact with the Websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
• “Preference cookies”: These are used to recognize you when you return to one of our Websites. They enable us to personalize the Websites’ content and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• “Marketing cookies”: These cookies record your visits to our Websites, the individual pages visited and the links followed. If the cookie is set by a third party (for example, an advertising network) which also monitors traffic on our Websites, this type of cookies may also be used to track your movements across different websites and to create profiles of your general online behaviour. Information collected by tracking cookies is commonly used to serve users with targeted online advertising.

The personal data processed by the use of cookies is collected indirectly from you, via your activity on the Websites. We may however collect information about you from third parties through Web Analytics (such as Google).

3 ON WHAT GROUNDS DOES KERECIS USE COOKIES?
Some cookies are simply required for the operation of the Websites, these are necessary cookies that, for example, enable you to log into secure areas of our Website. The processing of your personal data through these types of cookies is based on Kerecis’ legitimate interests of operating secure websites.

The analytical/statistic cookies, preference cookies and marketing cookies are however not necessary in order for Kerecis to provide services on the Websites. We therefore ask for your consent to apply these cookies when you use our Websites. You can always withdraw your consent via the cookie link on our Websites, by changing your browser settings.

With respect to services provided by Google, you may opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads using the following link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads and https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

4 TO WHOM IS YOUR COOKIE DATA DISCLOSED
Kerecis operates globally. The information generated by cookies about your use of our Websites (including your IP address) may be transmitted to and stored by Kerecis entities established outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and by our partners on servers outside the EEA, including Google and Facebook. By accepting the use of cookies you accept the transfer of your data to such third parties that may be located outside of the EEA.

Our partners will use this information collected via cookies to evaluate your use of our Websites, compile reports on Websites activity for us and provide us other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Our business partners perform these services for us under written confidentiality and data protection obligations.

From time to time, our partners may be required to transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where third parties process the information on Kerecis’ or our partner’s behalf.

5 HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR DATA?
Cookies can be “persistent”, remaining on your device after you have left our Websites or can be “session” cookies that are deleted when you close your internet browser.

Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulatory requirements, we are committed to retaining your personal data only for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which the personal data was collected. Personal data collected via cookies will be retained for a maximum of up to two years.

6. TRACKING CODE FOR IDENTIFYING BUSINESSES USING OUR WEBSITES
Our Websites use a sales and marketing tool operated by Lead Forensics (www.leadforensics.com). The tool uses a tracking code for identifying businesses visiting our Websites based on businesses IP addresses. IP addresses are anonymised immediately after collection. On the basis of the tracking code Lead Forensics provides us with information on what companies have visited our Websites, the date and duration of the visit and what web pages they have visited. This information allows us to analyse the use of our Websites and enables us to contact those companies for marketing purposes.
If you would like to opt-out of this tracking, please do so by using this link;  optout.leadforensics.com.  

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how we manage your personal data, please contact us at info@kerecis.com.

Kerecis will occasionally update this Cookie Policy, so please periodically check back with us.

If you are unsatisfied with our response, you are entitled to make a written submission to the respective data protection authorities.

For further information about Kerecis’ processing of personal data we refer to Kerecis Privacy Policy which is accessible on the Websites.

This statement was last updated in June 2023.