Cookie Statement

We (“BioNTech”) use Cookies primarily to ensure that your visit to our websites including its subdomains is as pleasant as possible. Additionally, cookies allow us to save preferences, conduct marketing activities, measure our website traffic, and implement security features.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your terminal device by our web application, and which enable us to recognise your internet browser. We use the term cookies synonymously for pixels, tracking tools, and all type of cookies. The most common internet browsers are set to automatically accept cookies. However, you can deactivate this or set your internet browser so that it informs you about the use of cookies. Please note that the functionality of our website can be impaired when you deactivate cookies in your browser.

Which cookies do we use?

In general, we are using technically necessary cookies and other functional, marketing, or analytics cookies.

Type of Cookie	Legal basis
Technically necessary cookies	§ 25 (2) TTDSG for saving the cookie on your device and reading the saved cookie on a later visit Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR for any further processing as it is our legitimate interest to provide you our website as some features or technical functions are not possible without using cookies like saving your consent into setting cookies
Other cookies	§ 25 (1) TTDSG Your consent for saving the cookie on your device and reading the saved cookie on a later visit Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR Your consent for any further processing, like tracking or website analysis

Some cookies are set by us (“first party cookies”) whereas others are set by third party providers (“third party cookies”).

Third party cookies are cookies placed by our approved business partners from a different website. This might be the case if a page has embedded content from other sites and then you may be sent cookies from these websites. We do not control the setting of third party cookies and recommend you to check the privacy and cookie policies of those website providers for information about them and how to manage them.

Technically necessary cookies

Technically necessary cookies cannot be deactivated in your systems and are required to enable core site functionalities. They are essential to provide website functionalities and its features. Generally, these cookies are only set in response to actions you take that correspond to a request for service, such as setting your cookie preferences, logging in or completing forms.

We may use cookies besides the technically necessary cookies for performance and marketing purposes. These cookies collect information on how you use our website.

Nasdaq Financial Data API

Description	To show the current BioNTech share price at the Wall Street we have included a graphics on our investor relations website.
Service Provider	Nasdaq Inc. ,151 W. 42nd Street, New York City, NY, 10036, United States
Country of recipients	USA
Legal basis	Our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR)
Privacy statement	https://www.nasdaq.com/privacy-statement
Information regarding the processing of the data	https://data.nasdaq.com/tools/api
Data processing agreement	https://www.nasdaq.com/data-processing-addendum-1-october-2021 (with incorporated Standard Contractual Clauses)

Functional cookies

Functionality cookies store information about options you have chosen so that we can customize our website for you.

Adobe Fonts

Description	Via Adobe Fonts we are including fonts and symbols to provide the website visitor uniform presentation of the website on all devices and to optimize the loading time of our website and the needed maintenance of the website
Service Provider	Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited, 4-6 Riverwalk, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24, Ireland
Legal basis	Your consent (Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR)
Privacy statement	https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html
Information regarding the processing of the data	https://www.adobe.com/ie/privacy/policies/adobe-fonts.html https://www.adobe.com/ie/privacy/eudatatransfers.html (On possible third country data transfers)

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site and will not be able to monitor its performance.

Marketing Cookies

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

Analytics

Currently, we use Google and Adobe Analytics on our websites.

Google Analytics is a web analytics tool used to measure BioNTech’s website activities. By analysing how our website is used and how often, we better understand what you found useful. This allows us to design more relevant experiences and guide business decisions. Details regarding the technology you use (e.g., browser type) help BioNTech identify and resolve technical issues.

The USA is a country that does not provide adequate protection for personal data within the meaning of EU Regulation 2016/679. This implies, among other things, that government authorities in the US may have the right to access your data without effective remedies being available.

Processing company

Data processing purposes

Processed data

Location of processing

Recipients

Retention period

Google Ireland Limited

Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland

Website analytics

Time information (e.g., event time)
Page information (e.g., page type)
Browser information (e.g., browser version)
Device information (e.g. advertising ID)
Personal data (e.g., IP address or email address)
Cookie data (e.g., session ID)
Behavioural data (e.g. surfing behaviour)
Location information (e.g., city)

European Union/ Ireland
USA

Alphabet Inc.

5 years

Adobe Analytics is a web analytics tool used to measure BioNTech’s website activities. By analysing how our website is used and how often, we better understand what you found useful. This allows us to design more relevant experiences and guide business decisions. Details regarding the technology you use (e.g., browser type) help BioNTech identify and resolve technical issues.

Processing company

Data processing purposes

Processed data

Location of processing

Recipients

Retention period

Adobe Systems Software
Ireland Limited, 4-6 Riverwalk, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24, Ireland

Website analytics

Time information (e.g., event time)
Page information (e.g., page type)
Browser information (e.g., browser version)
Device information (e.g. advertising ID)
Personal data (e.g., IP address or email address)
Cookie data (e.g., session ID)
Behavioural data (e.g. surfing behaviour)
Location information (e.g., city)

European Union/ Ireland
USA

Adobe
Inc.

25 months

Which cookies do we use exactly? Our cookie directory:

Cookie	Category	Websites	Associated service	Party	Explanation/ purpose	Retention
OptanonConsent	Technically necessary cookie	biontech.com investors.biontech.com clinicaltrials.biontech.com pro.biontech.com	Website operator	1.	This cookie saves the preferences you selected in our cookie banner.	364 days
Optanon AlertBox Closed	Technically necessary cookie	biontech.com investors.biontech.com clinicaltrails.biontech.com pro.biontech.de	Website operator	1.	This cookie saves the information that a cookie banner has been displayed. It enables the website not to show the cookie banner each visit.	364 days
DrupalVisitorMobile	Technically necessary cookie	investors.biontech.de	Website operator	1.	The cookie determines whether the visitor is originating from a mobile device, so he/she can be routed to the optimized page or content.	session
JSESSIONID	Technically necessary cookie	jobs.biontech.com rmk-map-12.jobs2web.com	SAP / New Relic	1.	This cookie stores data about the visitor when they access the website in order to compile statistical data on this activity.	session
route	Technically necessary cookie	jobs.biontech.com	SAP / New Relic	1.	This cooie is used for session stickiness.	session
careerSiteCompanyId	Technically necessary cookie	jobs.biontech.com	SAP / New Relic	1.	This cookie is used to identify the company BioNTech[AW4] [AW5] , so the request is sent to the correct data center.	session
Load balancer cookie	Technically necessary cookie	jobs.biontech.com	SAP / New Relic	1.	prevents a visitor from bouncing from one instance to another.	session
affinity	Technically necessary cookie	biontech.com	Webserver / Akamai	1.	Registers which server cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in conjunction with load balancing to optimise the user experience.	session
AMCV_2E3F6E6D6093E6AA0A 495E98%40AdobeOrg	Performance cookie	biontech.com investors.biontech.de clinicaltrails.biontech.com pro.biontech.de	Adobe Experience Cloud	1.	This cookie contains Adobe Experience Cloud visitor ID. This unique persistent identifier enables visitor recognition and cross-solution data sharing.	180 days
AMCVS_2E3F6E6D6093E6AA0A 495E98%40AdobeOrg	Performance cookie	biontech.com investors.biontech.de pro.biontech.de	Adobe Experience Cloud	1.	This cookie serves as a flag indicating that the session has been initialized. Its value is always 1 and discontinues when the session has ended.	session
_gcl_xxxx	Marketing cookie	biontech.com	Google Ads	1.	This cookie is used to distinguish unique users for Google Ads conversion tracking.	90 days
demdex	Performance cookie	biontech.com investors.biontech.de pro.biontech.de	Adobe Experience Cloud	3.	This cookie contains demdex ID used for visitor identification and ID synchronization. It persists across different domains and allows ID service to return and identify a site visitor with the right visitor ID.	180 days
kndctr_2E3F6E6D6093E6AA0A 495E98_AdobeOrg_identity	Performance cookie	biontech.com investors.biontech.de clinicaltrails.biontech.com pro.biontech.de	Adobe Experience Cloud	3.	The cookie contains Adobe Experience Cloud visitor ID, tying all the events that occur during and across web sessions to a specific device.	395 days
kndctr_2E3F6E6D6093E6AA0A 495E98_AdobeOrg_consent	Performance cookie	clinicaltrials.biontech.com	Adobe Experience Cloud	3.	The cookie stores the user’s consent preference for the website.	180 days
kndctr_2E3F6E6D6093E6AA0A 495E98_AdobeOrg_cluster	Performance cookie	jobs.biontech.de	Adobe Experience Cloud	3.	The cookie contains location hint associated with the distribution servers network scope to route the tracking requests.	30 minutes
GZIP	Performance cookie	investors.biontech.com	api. nasdaqomx. wallst.com	3.	Third Party Cookie. This cookie allows us to save your selected convenience settings for your current and future visits to the site and to show you certain website information.	permanent
per_GRECAPTCHA	Marketing cookie	pro.biontech.de	Google	3.	To protect forms on our website we have included reCAPTCHA to prevent bots from sending information into the forms. To achieve this reCAPTCHA provides tasks to the website visitor which must be solved e.g., before submitting a form.	180 days
_vistor_info1_live	Marketing cookie	jobs.biontech.com	Google	3.	Tries to estimate the user bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.	179 days
_ysc	Marketing cookie	jobs.biontech.com	Google	3.	Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of the videos from YouTube that the user has watched.	session
_gid	Analytics	biontech.com investors.biontech.de pro.biontech.de	Google Analytics	3.	This cookie is used to distinguish unique users.	1 day
_ga	Analytics	biontech.com investors.biontech.de pro.biontech.de	Google Analytics	3.	This cookie is used to distinguish unique users.	729 days
_ga(_xxxxxxx)	Analytics	biontech.com investors.biontech.de pro.biontech.de	Google Analytics	3.	This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier to define persistent session state.	729 days
_gat_UA-XXXXXX-	Analytics	biontech.com investors.biontech.de pro.biontech.de	Google Analytics	3.	Google Analytics cookie for reducing the number of requests.	session

How to turn off cookies?

You can disable cookies that we use on our website (apart from the technically necessary cookies) by clicking on the cookie settings at the end of our web pages. You can also adjust the cookie settings by modifying the settings in your browser. However, if you choose to disable Cookies in your browser, you may be unable to use the full functionality of this website. More information about cookies can be find here: www.allaboutcookies.org.

Questions? Contact us

If you have any questions about our cookies, complaints or if you wish to exercise your rights such as deletion or correction, please contact the Global Privacy Officer or the Global Privacy Team:

BioNTech SE
An der Goldgrube 12
55131 Mainz
Germany

E-Mail: data.privacy@biontech.de

Adjustments to this cookie statement

The BioNTech’s internet presence may be subject to change, which means that it may be necessary to amend the cookie statement accordingly. BioNTech reserves the right to change this data privacy statement at any time.

This cookie statement was last updated: October 2024