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Hereinafter we inform you about the collection of personal data during the use of our website. Personal data means all data that is relatable to you, such as name, address, email address and user behaviour.
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According to art. 4 par. 7 GDPR the Verbatim GmbH, Düsseldorfer Strasse 13, 65760 Eschborn, Germany (Phone: +49 (0) 6196 900 10; Email: info.germany@verbatim-europe.com) is responsible. Our data protection officer (CTM-COM GmbH, In den Leppsteinswiesen 14, 64380 Roßdorf, Germany) can be contacted via email to datenschutz@ctm-com.de or via phone call to +49 (0) 6154 57605 111.
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If you contact us via email or are using a dedicated contact form, we store the data transmitted by you (your email address and possibly your name and phone number) to answer your request. All data collected in this context is either deleted as soon as its retention is no longer required, or its processing is restricted, if there is a legal obligation to preserve it.
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If we task third parties to provide and/or fulfill certain functions related to our services or use your data for promotional purpose, we will inform you about these processes in detail within this document. We will also state fixed criteria for the duration of data retention.
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Besides the informational use of our website, we offer several additional services, which you can use if interested. Usually these services require you to provide personal data, which we need to carry out such service and to which the previously mentioned principles of data processing apply.
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Sometimes we utilize third parties to process your personal data. These third parties were selected and instructed carefully by us, are bound to our instructions and are audited frequently.
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Furthermore, we may transfer your personal data to a third party, if raffles, contracts, or similar services are offered in cooperation with the respective third party. Detailed information about this is provided either in relation to the collection of such personal data or in the description of the respective offer.
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If our service providers or partners are located in a country outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you about the consequences of this circumstance within the description of the related offer.
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This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (”Google“). Google Analytics uses so-called ”cookies“, text files, which are stored on your computer and allow for analysis of your usage of our website. The information about your usage of this website created by the cookie will usually be transferred to a server of Google located in the USA and be stored there. If IP anonymisation is activated, your IP address is shortened within a country inside the European Union or within a contractual state of the agreement for the European Economic Area, before being transferred to the USA. Only in exceptional cases the entire IP address will be transferred to a Google server located in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information by order of the operator of this website to assess your usage of it, to assemble reports about the website activities and to provide additional services related to website and internet usage to the website operator.
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The IP address provided by your browser will not be combined with any other data of Google within the scope of Google Analytics.
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You can prevent the storage of cookies by using the respective configuration of your browser software. We want to point out, that in this case, some functions or services of this website may not function to their full extent and/or cannot be used. Additionally, you can prevent the collection of personal data (incl. your IP address) related to your usage of this website created by the cookie, as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the following browser plugin: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
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This website uses Google Analytics with the „_anonymizeIp()“ extension. Thus, all IP addresses are shortened before being processed in order to prevent any possibility of relating it to a person. Hence all personal data collected about you is deleted immediately.
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We use Google Analytics to analyse the usage of our website and to improve it frequently. By using the generated statistics, we are able to improve our services and to make them more appealing for you as a user. For those cases where personal data is transferred to the USA, Google subjected to the EU-US Privacy Shield (https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework). Legal basis for the usage of Google Analytics is art. 6 par. 1 p. 1 lit. f GDPR.
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Third party information: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. Terms of use http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html, Data protection overview: http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html, Privacy policy: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy
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We are currently using the following social media plugins: Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn. We are using the so-called Two-Click-Solution, meaning if you are visiting our site, we are generally not transferring any personal data to the plugin provider. You can recognise the provider of a plugin by the first letter of its name to be found in the tag of the box or the by the logo. We provide the option to directly communicate with the plugin provider using the button. Only if you click on the marked field and thus activate it, the plugin provider will receive information about that you visited our service. In addition, the data described in §3 will be transferred. Given the statements of the providers in Germany, Facebook and Xing anonymise your IP address immediately after collection. By activating the plugin, your personal data will be transferred to the plugin provider and is stored there (in case of an US-American provider, in the USA). Since the plugin provider collects data especially by using cookies, we recommend deleting all cookies by using the security configuration of your browser, before clicking the grayed-out box.
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Neither can we influence the collected personal data or processing proceedings, nor do we know about the full extent of data collection, the reasons for processing or the duration of storage. We don't have any information about the deletion of collected data by the plugin provider.
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The plugin provider stores the collected personal data as user profiles and uses these for advertisement, market research and/or adequate design of their website. Such evaluation is done especially (also for non-logged-in users) to display adequate advertisement and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You are can object against the creation of these user profiles to the respective plugin provider. By using these plugins, we provide the option to interact with social networks and other users, in order to improve our service and to make it more appealing for you. Legal bases for the use of plugins is art. 6 par. 1 p. 1 lit. f GDPR.
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Independent of if you own an account of the plugin provider and are logged in, the data transfer takes place. If you are logged in, the collected data is directly associated to your account by the plugin provider. If you click the activated button and for example link the page, the plugin provider will also store this information in your user profile and will share it publicly with your contacts. We recommend to logout every time you use a social network, especially before activating the button in order to prevent the association with your user profile.
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Additional information about purpose and extent of data collection and its processing by the plugin provider can be viewed in the privacy policies of the plugin providers, which are referred to hereafter. You will also find further information about your respective rights and configuration options to protect your privacy.
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Addresses of the plugin providers and links to their privacy policies:
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Facebook Inc., 1601 S California Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA; http://www.facebook.com/policy.php; further information about data collection: http://www.facebook.com/help/186325668085084, http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-on-other#applications and https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.
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Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountainview, California 94043, USA; https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/?hl=de. Google subjected to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.
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Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, California 94103, USA; https://twitter.com/privacy. Twitter subjected to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.
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LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, California 94043, USA; http://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. LinkedIn subjected to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.
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Our website contains the AddThis plugin. This plugin allows you to set bookmarks and to share interesting content with other users. By using this plugin, we provide the option to interact with social networks and other users, in order to improve our service and to make it more appealing for you. Legal bases for the uses of plugin is art. 6 par. 1 p. 1 lit. f GDPR.
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With this plugin, your internet browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of AddThis and possibly of the selected social media or bookmarking service. The recipients receive information about that you visited the respective website of our services, as well as the data stated in §3. This information will be processed on the servers of AddThis in the USA. If you send content to social networks of bookmarking services from our website, your visit of our website can be related to your user profile at the respective network. Neither can we influence the collected personal data or processing proceedings, nor do we know about the full extent of data collection, the reasons for processing or the duration of storage. We don't have any information about the deletion of collected data by the plugin provider.
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The plugin provider stores the collected personal data as user profiles and uses these for advertisement, market research and/or adequate design of their website. Such evaluation is done especially (also for non-logged-in users) to display adequate advertisement and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You can object against the creation of these user profiles to the respective plugin provider.
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If you don't want to participate in this proceeding, you can object to data collection and storage at any time, by setting an out-out-cookie with future-effect: http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out. Alternatively you can configure your browser to prevent the acceptance of cookies.
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Additional information about purpose and extent of data collection and its processing by the plugin provider, as well as additional information about your respective rights and configuration options to protect your privacy, can be received at: AddThis LLC, 1595 Spring Hill Road, Sweet 300, Vienna, VA 22182, USA, www.addthis.com/privacy.