disclaimer

Pieris AG (hereafter “Pieris”) on data protection
Protection of personal data (such as name, address, telephone number and electronic contact details) is fundamentally important to Pieris. All electronic communications are conducted in accordance with the laws on data protection and data security. In the following Disclaimer it is stated what information is collected by Pieris, under what circumstances and how such information is handled.

personal information
We do not store any personal data of any kind without your prior express permission. You, and you alone, have the power of veto over whether to supply this information, via electronic means (such as an online application or survey) or otherwise.

Pieris shall use your personal data solely to respond to any inquiry you may make to the Company. In order to manage our customer relations however, we may process and store your personal data for the purpose of continuing to meet our customers’ needs and improve our products and services. In addition, Pieris (or an authorised third party acting on our behalf) may use this information to inform you about aspects of the business of Pieris that could be useful to your own business, either in the form of online surveys or otherwise.

Pieris respects your right to withhold your personal data from any activity of Pieris in the area of customer relations, direct marketing or market research. Accordingly Pieris will not sell or market your personal data to any third party in any way whatsoever.

information collected automatically that is not personal information
When you access the Pieris website, data is collected automatically and without your prior registration (e.g. the internet browser and operating system you use, the domain name of the website you came from, number of hits, average time you spent at the site, pages you accessed). This data, however, is not associated with a specific named person. We use this information to determine interest in and usefulness of the information on our website and to continue to update and improve its content.

“Cookies” – information that is automatically stored on your computer. If you visit our website, we may store information on your computer in the form of a “cookie” so that our system will automatically recognize your computer the next time you visit. Among other things, cookies allow us to adapt the website to your specific interests. If you do not want us to be able to recognize your computer, please set your Internet browser so that it will delete any cookies from your hard disk, will automatically block all cookies or will warn you before a cookie is stored.

security
Pieris has installed certain security measures to ensure the security of your personal data. We use “best practice” to protect your data against loss, destruction, falsification, manipulation and unauthorized access or unauthorized disclosure.

links to other websites
The Pieris website includes links to other websites. Pieris is in no way responsible for the data protection strategies or the contents of these linked websites.

contact
Please use the corresponding contact form to submit to Pieris any questions or complaints you may have with respect to data protection or data recording on the Pieris website and its compliance with the principles described above.

Pieris AG, Freising-Weihenstephan, November 2006