Privacy Statement


This app “Pragati Shri“ is provided by Bayer Crop Science Limited (hereinafter "us" or "we"). For further information regarding the provider of the App, please refer to our imprint.

Handling of personal data

In the following we wish to provide you with information on how we handle your personal data when you use our App. Unless otherwise indicated in the following chapters, the legal basis for the handling of your personal data results from the fact that such handling is required to make available the functionalities of the App as requested by you (Art. 6(1)(b) General Data Protection Regulation).

Dear user, please note the PAN number provided by you in the app will be used for tax deduction at source

Using our App

Accessing our App

In order to make available to you the services of our App, it will transfer the following information to us, every time you use our App:

To protect our legitimate interests, we will store such information for a limited period of time in order to be able to initiate a tracking of personal data in the event of actual or attempted unauthorized access to our servers (Art. 6(1)(f) General Data Protection Regulation).

Registration and login

In order to be able to use our App, you need to first register an account with us, where you are able to determine your personal login credentials that you need to use to log into our App. For this registration and subsequent login procedure, we collect the following information about you:

We process this personal data in order to provide you with an access to our App and the service therein. They are automatically deleted in case you deactivate your user account.

Access to your device’s interfaces

In order for our App to function properly, we need to access and use the following interfaces of your mobile device for the following purposes:

Camera

Scanning the QR codes

Transfer of personal data for commissioned processing

For the processing of your personal data we will to some extent use specialized service contractors. Such service contractors are carefully selected and regularly monitored by us. Based on respective data processing agreements, they will only process personal data upon our instruction and strictly in accordance with our directives.

Information regarding your rights

The following rights are in general available to you according to applicable data privacy laws:

If you wish to exercise your rights, please address your request to the contact indicated below 

Contact

For any questions you may have with respect to data privacy, please write an e-mail or contact our company data protection officer at the following address: 

Data Privacy Manager

dpo_india@bayer.com

Amendment of Privacy Statement

We may update our Privacy Statement from time to time. Updates of our Privacy Statement will be published on our App. Any amendments become effective upon publication on our App. We therefore recommend that you regularly visit the site to keep yourself informed on possible updates. 

Last updated: 02-03-2021.