Data Protection

BASF is pleased about your visit to our website and your interest in our company.

The topic of data protection has the highest priority at BASF. Therefore, we would like to inform you in detail about it in the following:

Who is responsible for data processing and who is our data protection officer?
What data do we process, for what purposes, for how long and on what legal basis?
Are you obliged to provide us with this data?
To whom do we pass on your personal data?
How do we safeguard your personal data?
What rights do you have?
Where can you complain?
Data protection for minors
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A. Who is responsible for data processing and who is our data protection officer?

You can find the person responsible for data processing at here.

Our data protection officer is:

Alexandra HaugEU Data Protection Officer67056 Ludwigshafen T

elephone: +49 (0) 621 60-0

Email: data-protection.eu@BASF.com

B. What data do we process, for what purposes, for how long and on what legal basis?

In the following, we inform you about the data processing on our site (a), its purposes and legal basis (b) as well as the respective storage period and, if applicable, specific objection and removal options (c).

1. Log files

a. Data processing

If you visit our website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or transmit data in any other way (e.g. via a contact form), the following information is automatically transmitted from your browser to our server:

IP address of your device

Information about your browser

Name of the website from which you visit us

Name of the visited page (URL) or the opened file

Date and time of your visit

Status information such as error messages

Transferred data volume and the access status (file transferred, file not found, etc.)

Operating system and version of your computer's operating system and the name of your access provider

b. Purposes and legal basis

When you visit the BASF web site, we use the IP address and other information automatically transmitted to our server by your browser under B. 1. a. to

(i) provide you with the requested content

(ii) ensure the security and stability of our website and to trace unauthorized use

(iii) enable a comfortable use of our website.

The legal basis for the data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the above listed purposes for data processing. Under no circumstances do we use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person.

c. Storage period

The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary for the purpose for which they were collected. In the case of the collection of data for the provision of the website, this is the case when the respective session is ended. In the case of storage of the data in log files, this is the case after seven days at the latest. Storage beyond this period is possible. In this case, the IP addresses are anonymized by deleting the last eight bits, so that an identification of you is no longer possible