Privacy Policy

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. Therefore, we treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with our privacy policy. We have appointed a data protection official who has specialized knowledge and guaranties for the performance of the duties concerned. The external data protection official is carried out by UIMC Dr. Vossbein GmbH & Co. KG.

In the following we would like to inform you about the processing of personal data.
 
Collection, processing and use of personal data
In general, you can use our website without disclosing your identity. Should we request personal data (such as name, address or e-mail address) on our website, e.g. within the scope of contact forms or during registration, this is done on a voluntary basis. We use this information for our own business purposes (such as providing the requested materials/ information).
If you have any questions, we offer you to contact us using the form provided on our website. The data marked as mandatory information is required in order to be able to assign and properly respond to the enquiry. Further information can be provided voluntarily. The data will be processed for the purpose of contacting us in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. (a) DSGVO on the basis of your voluntary consent.
The personal data collected for the use of the contact or registration form will be deleted after the completion of your enquiry or after the mandatory storage periods defined in tax and commercial legislation have expired. The user has the right to oppose the use of his personal data at any time without stating any reasons. To do so, please contact:
 
Cookies
This website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files which are automatically stored on your computer and enable an analysis of how our website is being accessed. They additionally automatically recognize you on your next visit. You may refuse the use of cookies by adjusting the browser privacy settings. However, this may cause some of the features of our website not to work.
 
Logging
Each time our website is being accessed, logs are created and processed for statistical purposes. This applies to the following data whereby the identity of the individual user remains anonymous:
· Referrer (page from which you have reached this website)
· Search terms (using search engines for referrers)
· The IP address is evaluated to determine the country of origin and the provider
· Browser, operating system, installed plug-ins and screen resolution
· Time spent on the page
 
The aforementioned data is collected based on our legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Sent. 1 lit. (f) of the GDPR and is processed by us for the following purposes:
· Ensuring a smooth connection to the website,
· Ensuring comfortable use of our website,
· Evaluation of system security and stability, as well as
· for other administrative purposes.
 
We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of any concrete indications of an illegal use. The data will be deleted immediately if it is no longer required, but at the latest after six months.
 
Data transfer
Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for commercial or non-commercial purposes without your explicit consent. We will only pass your personal data to third parties if this is legally permissible and/ or required by law (e.g. Article 6 Para. 1 of the GDPR). In some cases, we use service providers for the statutory data order processing. Our website is hosted by ScaleUp Technologies GmbH & Co. KG, Suederstr. 198, 20537 Hamburg, Germany and maintained by IPC. We retain full responsibility for data processing. Furthermore, we sometimes use plug-ins from other providers on our website, see below for more details.
We are part of the Glatt Group, a global group of companies with databases in different countries. Please note that we may transfer your personal data for the above-mentioned purposes to affiliated companies within our network.
The data transfer takes place on the basis of a legitimate interest in order to be able to offer you a comprehensive range of our services. These may also include companies outside the EU/EEA. We ensure an adequate level of data protection by concluding standard contractual clauses. You can request these at any time free of charge at: datenschutz[at]glatt(dot)com.
 
Liability for own content
The content of this website has been provided with appropriate care. However, we cannot guarantee or warrant for correctness, completeness and topicality of the contents. As a service provider for tele- and media services we are responsible for our own content on these pages in accordance with general laws.
 
Liability for links
(content of external providers)
Our website contains external links to websites operated by third parties over whose contents we have no influence. The provider or owner is always responsible for the contents of these linked pages.
 
Data protection rights
We hereby inform you that you have the right to review, rectify or delete your personal data in accordance with Art. 15 et seq. of the GDPR and under the conditions defined therein. Furthermore, you have the right to retract or to object the processing as well as the transfer of your data. You also have the right to file a complaint according to Art. 77 of the GDPR with a data protection regulatory authority, if you believe that the processing of your personal data violated this regulation. If the processing is based on Article 6 Para. 1 (a) of the GDPR or Article 9 Para. 2 (a) of the GDPR you also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until withdrawal.
 
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). 
Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. 
In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. 
Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. 
On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. 
Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. 
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. 
Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB. You can refuse the use of Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set on the computer, which prevents the future collection of your data when visiting this website: <a href="javascript:gaOptout()">Disable Google Analytics</a> Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at
https://policies.google.com/?hl=en&gl=uk. Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).
Change of our privacy policy
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy from time to time to keep it continually abreast of legal requirements or to implement any changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. Your new visit will then be subject to the new privacy policy.
 
Any Questions?
If you have any questions concerning the procession of your personal data, we are offering to contact our data protection official directly who will be pleased to help you:
 
Contact
Data protection official of IPC Process-Center GmbH & Co. KG:
 
Dr. Joern Vossbein
External Data Protection Official
Nützenberger Straße 119
42115 Wuppertal
Germany
Tel: +49 (202) - 265 74 – 0