Privacy Policy

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 regu­la­ti­ons and this pri­va­cy policy.

Data pro­tec­tion is a fun­da­men­tal right, which is why FABES For­schungs-GmbH would like to inform you in detail about the hand­ling of per­so­nal data. Per­so­nal data is data that can be used to iden­ti­fy you personally.

This data pro­tec­tion decla­ra­ti­on informs cus­to­mers to what ext­ent and for what pur­po­se per­so­nal data is coll­ec­ted and processed.

You can visit the web­site from FABES wit­hout having to dis­c­lo­se any infor­ma­ti­on about your iden­ti­ty. In accordance with data pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons, we do not use track­ing tools, auto­ma­ted decis­i­on-making or pro­fil­ing. The brow­ser used on your device auto­ma­ti­cal­ly sends infor­ma­ti­on to the FABES web­site’s ser­ver (e.g. brow­ser type and ver­si­on, date and time of access) in order to enable the web­site to estab­lish a con­nec­tion. This also includes the IP address of your reques­t­ing device. This is tem­po­r­a­ri­ly stored in a so-cal­led log file and auto­ma­ti­cal­ly dele­ted after 9 weeks.

The IP address is pro­ces­sed for tech­ni­cal and admi­nis­tra­ti­ve pur­po­ses of estab­li­shing and main­tai­ning the con­nec­tion in order to ensu­re the secu­ri­ty and func­tion­a­li­ty of the FABES web­site and to be able to pro­se­cu­te any ille­gal attacks on it if necessary.

The legal basis for pro­ces­sing the IP address is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest ari­ses from the afo­re­men­tio­ned secu­ri­ty inte­rest and the need to ensu­re the smooth pro­vi­si­on of the web­site from FABES.

If you request or order ana­ly­ses or other goods from FABES For­schungs-GmbH using the online cont­act form, the per­so­nal data pro­vi­ded (first and last name, com­pa­ny, e‑mail, tele­pho­ne num­ber, com­pa­ny address) will be stored in the FABES For­schungs-GmbH cus­to­mer data­ba­se once an order has been pla­ced. You can also vol­un­t­a­ri­ly pro­vi­de your title, depart­ment, fax num­ber and website

If you request or order ana­ly­ses or other goods from FABES For­schungs-GmbH by e‑mail, the per­so­nal data pro­vi­ded (first and last name, com­pa­ny, e‑mail, tele­pho­ne num­ber, com­pa­ny address) will be stored in the FABES For­schungs-GmbH cus­to­mer data­ba­se once an order has been pla­ced. You can also vol­un­t­a­ri­ly pro­vi­de your title, depart­ment, fax num­ber and website.

Your per­so­nal data will be pro­ces­sed at your request in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, pro­vi­ded that you send FABES data in the con­text of pre-con­trac­tu­al ful­film­ent or an order. For gene­ral cont­act enqui­ries, FABES pro­ces­ses your data on the basis of legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest of FABES in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR in the pro­per pro­ces­sing of your enquiry.

Your data will be dele­ted after the expiry of the sta­tu­to­ry reten­ti­on peri­ods (usual­ly 10 years accor­ding to the Ger­man Com­mer­cial Code/tax law), pro­vi­ded that no fur­ther claims are asser­ted or reten­ti­on obli­ga­ti­ons pre­vent this.

In the case of access from the Inter­net, the auto­ma­ti­cal­ly stored data is not used for analyses.

In the case of orders (via the Inter­net or by e‑mail) the data is only used for the pur­po­se of ful­fil­ling and pro­ces­sing the order and for cus­to­mer sur­veys that are neces­sa­ry for qua­li­ty assu­rance as part of accre­di­ta­ti­on. Par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on is voluntary.

In addi­ti­on, in cer­tain cases it is neces­sa­ry to pro­vi­de your com­pa­ny name to your sup­pli­ers in order to obtain spe­ci­fic reci­pe infor­ma­ti­on about your samples. This infor­ma­ti­on is then requi­red for the pre­pa­ra­ti­on of a spe­ci­fic offer.

You have the fol­lo­wing rights vis-à-vis FABES with regard to your per­so­nal data:

i) With­dra­wal of con­sent (Art. 7(3) GDPR)
You may with­draw your con­sent at any time with effect for the future. Data pro­ces­sing car­ri­ed out pri­or to with­dra­wal remains unaffected.

ii) Infor­ma­ti­on (Art. 15 GDPR)
You have the right to request infor­ma­ti­on about whe­ther and which per­so­nal data FABES pro­ces­ses about you. This includes, in par­ti­cu­lar, infor­ma­ti­on on the pur­po­ses of pro­ces­sing, the cate­go­ries of per­so­nal data, the reci­pi­ents or cate­go­ries of reci­pi­ents to whom your data has been or will be dis­c­lo­sed, the plan­ned sto­rage peri­od, the exis­tence of fur­ther rights (rec­ti­fi­ca­ti­on, era­su­re, rest­ric­tion of pro­ces­sing, objec­tion), the exis­tence of a right of appeal, infor­ma­ti­on on the ori­gin of your data (unless it was coll­ec­ted by us).

iii) Rec­ti­fi­ca­ti­on (Art. 16 GDPR)
You have the right to request the imme­dia­te rec­ti­fi­ca­ti­on of inac­cu­ra­te per­so­nal data stored by FABES or the com­ple­ti­on of your per­so­nal data.

iv) Era­su­re (Art. 17 GDPR, ‘Right to be forgotten’)
You may request the era­su­re of your per­so­nal data stored by FABES, unless its pro­ces­sing is neces­sa­ry for exer­cis­ing the right of free­dom of expres­si­on and infor­ma­ti­on, for com­pli­ance with a legal obli­ga­ti­on, for reasons of public inte­rest or for the estab­lish­ment, exer­cise or defence of legal claims.

v) Rest­ric­tion of pro­ces­sing (Art. 18 GDPR)
You have the right to request the rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data if one of the con­di­ti­ons spe­ci­fied in Art. 18 GDPR applies.

vi) Data por­ta­bi­li­ty (Art. 20 GDPR)
You have the right to recei­ve your per­so­nal data that you have pro­vi­ded to FABES in a struc­tu­red, com­mon­ly used and machi­ne-rea­da­ble for­mat or, whe­re tech­ni­cal­ly fea­si­ble, to request that it be trans­fer­red to ano­ther controller.

Exer­cis­ing your rights
The rights men­tio­ned here can be exer­cis­ed free of char­ge at any time by tele­pho­ne, e‑mail, fax or post wit­hout giving reasons (cont­act details: see sec­tion ‘Respon­si­ble body’).

Infor­ma­ti­on on your right to object pur­su­ant to Artic­le 21 GDPR

You have the right to object at any time, on grounds rela­ting to your par­ti­cu­lar situa­ti­on, to the pro­ces­sing of per­so­nal data con­cer­ning you which is based on Artic­le 6(1)(e) GDPR (data pro­ces­sing in the public inte­rest) or Artic­le 6(1)(f) GDPR (data pro­ces­sing based on a balan­cing of interests).
In the event of an objec­tion, we will no lon­ger pro­cess your per­so­nal data unless

i) FABES can demons­tra­te com­pel­ling legi­ti­ma­te grounds for the pro­ces­sing which over­ri­de your inte­rests, rights and free­doms, or

ii) the pro­ces­sing ser­ves to assert, exer­cise or defend legal claims.
Plea­se note that your right to era­su­re, rec­ti­fi­ca­ti­on or rest­ric­tion of pro­ces­sing may be rest­ric­ted by sta­tu­to­ry reten­ti­on obli­ga­ti­ons or other man­da­to­ry legal requirements.
If your objec­tion is direc­ted against the pro­ces­sing of per­so­nal data for direct mar­ke­ting pur­po­ses, we will imme­dia­te­ly cea­se pro­ces­sing the data con­cer­ned for the­se pur­po­ses. In this case, it is not neces­sa­ry to spe­ci­fy a par­ti­cu­lar situation.
You can lodge your objec­tion free of char­ge and wit­hout giving reasons at any time via the fol­lo­wing cont­act chan­nels: pho­ne, e‑mail, fax or post (see the ‘Respon­si­ble body’ sec­tion for cont­act details).

You have the right, pur­su­ant to Artic­le 77 GDPR, to lodge a com­plaint with a super­vi­so­ry authority.

In the event of brea­ches of data pro­tec­tion law, the data sub­ject has the right to com­plain to the com­pe­tent super­vi­so­ry aut­ho­ri­ty. The com­pe­tent super­vi­so­ry aut­ho­ri­ty for data pro­tec­tion issues is the sta­te data pro­tec­tion offi­cer of the fede­ral sta­te in which FABES is based (Bava­ria). A list of data pro­tec­tion offi­cers and their cont­act details can be found at the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

So-cal­led “coo­kies” are used on the FABES For­schungs-GmbH web­site. The­se are text files that are stored on your com­pu­ter in order to opti­mi­se the pro­vi­si­on of con­tent. No per­so­nal data is stored in cookies.

This web­site only uses tech­ni­cal­ly neces­sa­ry coo­kies that are requi­red for the ope­ra­ti­on of the web­site and its basic func­tions. No ana­ly­sis or track­ing coo­kies are used.

You can set your brow­ser so that you are infor­med about the set­ting of coo­kies and only allow coo­kies in indi­vi­du­al cases, exclude the accep­tance of coo­kies for cer­tain cases or in gene­ral and acti­va­te the auto­ma­tic dele­ti­on of coo­kies when clo­sing the browser.

If your brow­ser does not accept coo­kies, this can lead to func­tion­al rest­ric­tions of the FABES offers.

The web­site of FABES For­schungs-GmbH con­ta­ins links to web­sites of third-par­ty providers/hyperlinks. If you access the­se, the exter­nal pro­vi­der may recei­ve infor­ma­ti­on from your brow­ser as to which page you came from. The exter­nal pro­vi­der is respon­si­ble for this data. We, like any other pro­vi­der, are not in a posi­ti­on to influence this pro­cess. FABES For­schungs-GmbH would like to point out that this data pro­tec­tion decla­ra­ti­on appli­es exclu­si­ve­ly to the FABES website.

By using this web­site, you con­sent to the use of your data as descri­bed abo­ve. The pri­va­cy poli­cy is curr­ent­ly valid and dated 27/11/2025.

Due to the fur­ther deve­lo­p­ment of the web­site from FABES or the imple­men­ta­ti­on of new tech­no­lo­gies (e.g. for the intro­duc­tion of new ser­vices) or chan­ges in legal or regu­la­to­ry requi­re­ments, it may beco­me neces­sa­ry to adapt this pri­va­cy poli­cy. FABES For­schungs-GmbH reser­ves the right to amend the pri­va­cy poli­cy at any time with effect for the future.

FABES For­schungs-GmbH recom­mends that you re-read the cur­rent data pro­tec­tion decla­ra­ti­on from time to time.

Your per­so­nal data will only be pas­sed on to third par­ties – in com­pli­ance with data pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons – in the fol­lo­wing cases:

1. Con­tract processing
if this is neces­sa­ry in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR for the per­for­mance of a con­tract with you or for the imple­men­ta­ti­on of pre-con­trac­tu­al mea­su­res (e.g. trans­fer to accoun­ting, pro­ject mana­gers, exter­nal ser­vice pro­vi­ders, ship­ping companies).

2. Con­sent
if you have given FABES your express con­sent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR.

3. Legal obligation
if FABES is legal­ly obli­ged to dis­c­lo­se data in accordance with Art. 6 (1) © GDPR (e.g. to tax aut­ho­ri­ties or other public bodies).

If FABES uses exter­nal ser­vice pro­vi­ders within the scope of so-cal­led order pro­ces­sing in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR (e.g. IT or hos­ting ser­vice pro­vi­ders), this is done exclu­si­ve­ly in accordance with our ins­truc­tions and in com­pli­ance with data pro­tec­tion regulations.
Your per­so­nal data will not be trans­fer­red to third par­ties for pur­po­ses other than tho­se men­tio­ned here.

All data you sub­mit per­so­nal­ly is trans­mit­ted in encrypt­ed form using the gene­ral­ly accept­ed and secu­re TLS (Trans­port Lay­er Secu­ri­ty) stan­dard. TLS is a pro­ven and secu­re stan­dard that is also used in online ban­king, for exam­p­le. You can reco­g­ni­se a secu­re TLS con­nec­tion by the ‘s’ appen­ded to http (https://…) in your brow­ser­’s address bar or by the pad­lock sym­bol in your browser.

In addi­ti­on, FABES uses appro­pria­te tech­ni­cal and orga­ni­sa­tio­nal mea­su­res to pro­tect your data against acci­den­tal or inten­tio­nal mani­pu­la­ti­on, par­ti­al or com­ple­te loss, des­truc­tion and unaut­ho­ri­sed access by third par­ties. The secu­ri­ty mea­su­res from FABES are con­ti­nuous­ly impro­ved in line with tech­no­lo­gi­cal deve­lo­p­ments and legal requirements.

The con­trol­ler respon­si­ble for data pro­ces­sing on this web­site is

FABES For­schungs-GmbH
Dr. Moni­ka Rüter; Dr. Man­fred Oßberger
Schra­gen­hof­stra­ße 35
D‑80992 Munich
Pho­ne: +49 (0) 89 149009–50

E‑Mail:
manfred.ossberger@fabes-online.de
monika.rueter@fabes-online.de

The respon­si­ble body is the natu­ral or legal per­son who alo­ne or joint­ly with others deter­mi­nes the pur­po­ses and means of the pro­ces­sing of per­so­nal data (e.g. names, e‑mail addres­ses, etc.).

Do you have any fur­ther ques­ti­ons? Do you have any sug­ges­ti­ons or com­plaints regar­ding the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data? Plea­se get in touch with the cont­act per­son men­tio­ned under the hea­ding “Respon­si­ble body”.