Privacy policy — Polaris Diagnostics Europe GmbH

1. Data protection at a glance

General information

The following notes give a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data by which you can be personally identified.

Data collection on this website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You will find their contact details in the legal notice on this website.

How do we collect your data?

Some of your data is collected because you provide it to us. This may be, for example, data you enter into a contact form.

Other data is collected automatically, or with your consent, by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is mainly technical data (for example your browser, operating system or the time of the page view). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter this website.

2. Hosting

We host the content of our website with an external provider. The personal data collected on this website is stored on the host's servers. This may include IP addresses, contact requests, metadata and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website access data and other data generated through a website.

3. General information and mandatory disclosures

Data protection

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection provisions and this privacy policy.

Information on the controller

The controller for data processing on this website is:

Polaris Diagnostics Europe GmbH

Große Bleichen 1 - 3

20354 Hamburg, Germany

Email: contact@polarisdx.net

Retention period

Unless a more specific retention period is stated within this privacy policy, your personal data remains with us until the purpose of the data processing no longer applies. If you assert a justified request for erasure or withdraw consent to data processing, your data will be deleted unless we have other legally permissible grounds for storing your personal data (for example retention periods under tax or commercial law); in the latter case, deletion takes place once those grounds cease to apply.

4. Data collection on this website

Contact form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, the details you provide in the enquiry form, including the contact details you enter there, are stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not pass this data on without your consent.

Retention period for contact enquiries: We store your data from the contact form for a period of up to 12 months so that we remain available for any follow-up questions, unless statutory retention periods require longer storage.

This data is processed on the basis of Article 6(1)(b) GDPR where your enquiry relates to the performance of a contract or is necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in effectively handling the enquiries addressed to us (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR) where this has been requested.

5. Analytics tools and advertising

Where you have given your consent, cookies and similar technologies are used on this website. You can withdraw your consent at any time via our cookie banner or the settings in your browser.