Last updated: Dec 13th, 2024
1 Controller Information
The entity in charge of the control of any information obtained through this web form (referred hereinafter as the “Controller” or “Eurofins” or “BioA”) is:
Eurofins Pharma BioAnalytics Services US Inc. Address:
Eurofins Bioanalytical Services
15 Research Park Drive
St. Charles, MO 64403Eurofins respects the privacy of all users of its website and ensures that the personal information received or provided by you through our website(s) is treated as confidential.
This Cookie Notice sets out the basis on which all data that Eurofins collects on you through tracking technologies like cookies will be processed by Eurofins and provides you with information about cookies and explains why they are used. This information is intended to give you a better understanding of what cookies are and the role they play in your visit to our website(s). European and California legislation requires all sites that use cookies to ensure that you are well informed about this and that you give your express permission to collect and store information collected through the use of cookies. If you have any questions regarding this Cookie Notice or if you want to lodge a request in relation to your personal information, please contact us through our website or you can reach our DPO at the following email address:
Attn. BioA Data Privacy Officer
DG_BioA_DPO@bcl.eurofins.com
2 What Information Does Eurofins Collect About Me?
Eurofins may obtain information about you when you use this website.
The information we collect about you includes:
3 How Does Eurofins Collect Information About Me?
We collect information about you when you use our website or view content provided by Eurofins. Part of this information is automatically collected through cookies and stored in server logs. We also use various technologies to determine location, including IP address that may, for example, provide Eurofins with information on what country or city you are in.
4 What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the website. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you do not have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
5 What Cookies Does BioA Website Use and For Which Purposes?
BioA sets and accesses our own cookies on the domains operated by BioA. We also use third party cookies for certain purposes. Generally speaking, BioA uses cookies in the following categories:
5.1 Essential/Necessary Cookies
Essential/Necessary Cookies are required for us to provide our websites and services and ensure they work. These cookies enable core functionality such as network management and page navigation. The websites and services cannot function properly without these cookies. As such you cannot disable Essential/Necessary Cookies and still use the websites and services.
5.2 Performance Cookies
Performance Cookies collect information about users such as page load speeds, internet connection speeds, browser type, device type, screen size, etc. for the purpose of assessing the performance of a website and allowing its improvement. Once collected, the information is directly anonymized. They are set by a third party service called Google Analytics. It collects information in an aggregated (i.e., anonymous) form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors come from and the pages they visited. These cookies are divided into session cookies, which are erased when the user closes the browser and persistent cookies, which remains on the user’s computer/device for a pre-defined period of time (usually two years).
5.3 Functionality Cookies
Functional Cookies automatically remember choices that users have previously made in order to improve their experience next time they visit the website (where users select their preferred language or remember settings such as whether or not they have logged in already for example). These cookies are also used to prevent a user being offered a service that had previously been offered and rejected. These cookies are persistent ones and generally kept for one year. These cookies are first-party cookies, which are set by the web server of the visited page and share the same domain.
5.4 Targeting or Advertising Cookies
Targeting or Advertising Cookies track users’ browsing activities on websites and collect information about user’s browsing habits. These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to website users and their interests; to limit the number of times users see an advertisement and to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These cookies contain a unique key that is able to distinguish individual users’ browsing habits or store code that can be translated into a set of browsing habits or preferences using information stored elsewhere. They remember that a user has visited a website, and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers.
Thanks to these cookies, we collect information about you when you interact with the ads located on our website. We do so through, amongst others, Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics’ to better understand the behavior of our visitors, their activities on our website, identify important content so we can structure our website according to visitors needs and properly plan for and meet performance expectations based on aggregated visitor data. These cookies are set by third parties such as Google Analytics when visiting third party websites that are part of advertising networks such as Google AdWords. The data contained in these cookies is set and controlled by these third parties and only anonymized demographic data about visitors is collected from their contents such as gender, age and general aggregated internet content preference categories when you visit our website.
All cookies will only be only used for the purposes stated above and to provide better services to all our website visitors so we can present our website, services and products to you in the most appropriate manner.
6 How to Control Cookies?
We allow you to opt in or opt out of certain types of cookies by following the instructions on the cookie banner when you first visit our websites.
In addition, you can delete all cookies that are already on your computer, and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site, and some services and functionalities may not work.
For more general information about cookies and how to disable them through your browser, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
7 We Collect information About You via Third Parties
We use Google Analytics’ 3rd-party audience data such as age, gender and interests to work with companies that collect information about your online activities to provide advertising targeted to suit your interests and preferences. For example, you may see certain ads on this website or other websites because we contract with Google and other similar companies to target our ads based on information we or they have collected, including information that was collected through automated means (such as cookies and web beacons). These companies also use automated technologies to collect information when you click on our ads, which helps track and manage the effectiveness of our marketing efforts.
You may opt out of the automated collection of information by third-party ad networks for the purpose of delivering advertisements tailored to your interests, by visiting the consumer opt-out page for the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioural Advertising at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ and edit or opt-out your Google Display Network ads’ preferences at http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/. Because those opt-out and preference control pages are specific to the individual browser used to visit it, and because that page is not operated by Eurofins, we are unable to perform the opt-outs on your behalf.
8 Revisions to Privacy Notice
We reserve the right to change the terms of this Cookie Notice and the right to make the new notice provisions effective for all personal data we maintain, regardless of when it was created or received. We will keep our current Notice posted on our website at https://www.eurofins-viracorbiopharma.com/bioanalysis/ and are obligated to follow the terms of the notice currently in effect. If you would like a paper copy of a revised notice, contact our Privacy Officer at DG_BioA_DPO@bcl.eurofins.com; or send a request to Eurofins Pharma BioAnalytics Services, Attn: Privacy Officer; 15 Research Park Drive St. Charles, MO 64403