Privacy Notice

Privacy Notice – Straumann Webinars

1. Our Data Protection Principles


This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you sign up for online e-learning and webinars and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

It is important to us that you are always aware of which personal data is collected during your visit on our website and during the use of our services and offers as well as how we use said data afterwards. The following notices are intended to provide you with information about this and also to inform you of how we protect your personal data from manipulation, loss, destruction or improper use.

2. Collection and Use of Personal Data


Personal data is any data that allow for your personal identification, i.e. your name, address, phone number or email address (“Personal Data”). Personal Data is only collected, processed or used by us if permitted by law or if you have given your prior consent.

The collection, processing or use of your Personal Data is used in particular for the following purposes:

a. Contact Request
We may use your Personal Data to process your request to get in contact with you.

b. Online and Offline Advertising
We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties' goods and services that may be of interest to you.

c. Disclosure
We may disclose personal information that we collect or that you provide as described in this privacy policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

d. Right to Object to Data Sharing or Advertising
You can object at any time to the storage, use, or disclosure of your Personal Data, and you may also withdraw your consent at any time. For this, simply send a short message by mail to Straumann USA 60 Minuteman Road, Andover, MA 01810 or via email to datainquiries.us@straumann.com

e. Right to Know and Right to Deletion (California Residents)
You have the right to request that Straumann disclose what Personal Information is collected, used and disclosed. You further have the right to request that Straumann delete your Personal Information collected or maintained by Straumann. In order to comply with a request for information or deletion and verify the identity of the requester, Straumann may require the requester to verify up to 3 pieces of Personal Information maintained by Straumann. To request data on Personal Information collected, used or disclosed or to request a deletion of your Personal Information contact Straumann at
datainquiries.us@straumann.com

3. Cookies and Web Tracking


a. Cookies
"Cookies" are used in some areas to make our website user-friendly and to customize it to fit your needs in an optimal way. "Cookies" are small text files stored locally on the hard drive of your computer. They are there to keep available information for retrieval at a later time in order to facilitate the use of our online services. When your visit is over and you close the browser you were using cookies are deleted automatically.

b. Web Tracking
When using our website, we also use cookies to allow for the analysis of your use of the website (web tracking). The information generated by the cookies about your use of our website (search engines used, search terms used, languages used, visitors origins by country, browser and plugins used, the referrer, the length of stay, entry and exit pages, cancellation rates and IP address) is anonymous and used solely for statistical purposes. This information is used separately from Personal Data. The two sets of data are not merged; therefore, they are not indicative of Personal Data and one cannot generate any such conclusions therefrom.

c. Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a Google Inc. ("Google") provided web analysis service. Google Analytics uses "cookies" – small text files stored on your hard drive to enable an analysis of your use of the website. Cookies-generated information concerning your use of the website is transmitted to and stored on one of Google's servers in the US.
However, by activation of the IP anonymization on this website your IP address will be abbreviated beforehand by Google within Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the complete IP address transmitted to a Google server in the US and abbreviated there.
On behalf of this website's operator, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compiling website activity reports and providing the website’s operator with further website and Internet related services. The abbreviated IP address transmitted in the context of Google Analytics by your browser is not associated with any other data held by Google.
You may prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser's software settings; in this case however, we must point out that you might not be able to access the full extent of all of the website's features.
Additionally you can prevent the cookie-generated data concerning your use of the website (including your abbreviated IP address) from being transferred and processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: [
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de].

d. Approval or Rejection of Cookies
You can approve or reject the use of cookies – also for web tracking – through the settings of your web browser. You can set your browser so that it either notifies you when cookies are being enabled or reject cookies altogether. However, when you reject cookies you cannot use all the features of our website. The following links allow you to inquire about this possibility for the most popular browsers:

  • Internet Explorer: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cookies/en
  • Firefox: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Cookies
  • Google Chrome: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
  • Safari: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/3.0/en/9277
  • Opera: http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/

4. Data Security


We and our service providers take technical and organizational security measures to protect stored Personal Data against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or against access by unauthorized persons. Our data processing and security measures are improved continuously to fall in line with technological developments.

5. Information


If you have any questions about Straumann’s collection and use of your Personal Data, we will gladly provide you with information concerning the data stored about you immediately at any time and free of charge. Please send your message by mail to Institut Straumann AG, Customer Marketing, Peter Merian-Weg 12, 4052 Basel, Switzerland.

6. Amendments


It is necessary to adapt the content of the present privacy notice from time to time. Therefore, we reserve the right to amend it at any time. The amended version of the privacy notice will also be published here. Therefore, when you revisit us you should read through the privacy notice again.

Last updated April 2020.