2022-07-11

Terms of Use – Heidelberg Engineering GmbH

Please read these terms of use very carefully.

Heidelberg Engineering GmbH, Max-Jarecki-Str. 8, 69115 Heidelberg (hereinafter referred to as "Heidelberg Engineering") provides a distributor portal for business partners at the web address he-information-portal.com (hereinafter referred to as the "Portal"), through which visitors can purchase equipment, spare parts and software, download files and access other available content. As well as use the other currently available free services within the scope of the respective availability.

Welcome to our distributor portal (“portal”). We maintain this portal as a service to our customers. BY USING THE PORTAL, YOU ARE AGREEING TO COMPLY WITH AND BE BOUND BY THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF USE (“Terms of Use”). For purposes of these Terms of Use, the terms “we,” “us,” “our” and “Heidelberg” refer to Heidelberg Engineering GmbH, domiciled in Heidelberg, Germany, and “you” and “your” refers to you as a user of our portal.

Information on the service provider, Heidelberg Engineering GmbH, is available at: Publisher

As far as the service provider offers paid services (e.g. products) to the user via the portal, the General Terms and Conditions of Sale (GTCS) of the service provider, which are made available on the corporate website of Heidelberg Engieneering GmBH under Terms and Conditions, shall apply additionally and supplementary.

We may change these Terms of Use at any time, without prior notice. If you access or use the portal after we post a change, you accept that change. If you do not accept the change, we ask you not to access or use the portal. You should check these Terms of Use periodically for changes.

Use of this portal constitutes your acceptance of all the following terms of use, in their current form or as modified.

1. Subject to your compliance with all of the provisions of these Terms of Use, Heidelberg hereby grants you a single, terminable, non-transferrable, non-exclusive license to access and use the portal solely as provided herein and not the right to download (other than page caching and other than the product brochures, tutorials, quick guides and training videos that you are permitted to download through links on the portal) or modify the portal or any information or data therein. You may use the portal to browse Heidelberg’s product information, to request technical support and to communicate with us. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, all rights not specifically granted in the license set forth above shall be reserved and remain always with Heidelberg.
   A claim to the use of the services or content available on the portal exists only within the scope of the technical and operational possibilities of the service provider. The service provider endeavors to ensure that the usability of its services is as uninterrupted as possible. However, temporary restrictions or interruptions may occur due to technical malfunctions (such as interruption of the power supply, hardware and software errors, technical problems in the data lines).
   
   
2. Except specifically with respect to product brochures, tutorials, quick guides and training videos that you are permitted to download through links on the portal, none of the other material on our portal may be downloaded, distributed, reproduced, republished, posted, transmitted, copied or made publicly accessible in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of Heidelberg. All downloadable brochures, tutorials, quick guides and training videos are provided solely for your personal use and you may not distribute, reproduce, republish, copy, alter them or make them publicly accessible in any way. The provision of this portal and the content therein shall not be construed by implication or otherwise as granting to the user rights to any copyright, trademark, patent or other protective rights or intellectual property right (in the portal or the content therein) of Heidelberg or any third party.
   
   
3. You will use the portal in accordance with all applicable laws. Heidelberg may, without notice, terminate your access to the portal or take other actions as are reasonably necessary to comply with legal requirements and as necessary to protect the security and integrity of the portal, especially in the case of violation of these Terms of Use or misuse of the portal.
   
   
4. You are solely responsible for any and all acts and omissions that occur under your login to the Site. You also shall not engage in unacceptable use of the Site, in particular to:
   (a) create a false identity or to intentionally make misleading statements as to your identity or the origin of any communication with us;
   (b) provide false or misleading information or otherwise engage in fraudulent or deceptive conduct;
   (c) interfere, disrupt or attempt to gain unauthorized access to other accounts on the Site or any other computer network or to portions of the Site that are restricted;
   (d) store, distribute or make publicly accessible any content with viruses, Trojan horses or any other malicious code or program on the Site; or
   (e) engage in any other activity deemed by Heidelberg to be in conflict with these Terms of Use.
   
   
5. The content, in particular all product brochures, tutorials, quick guides and training videos, contained within or linked into the Site as well as organization, graphics, design, compilation, and other matters related to the Site are protected under applicable European and international copyright, trademark, protective and other rights (in particular, intellectual property). “Heidelberg Engineering”, our logos and other marks are either protected trademarks or registered trademarks of Heidelberg and/or our subsidiary Heidelberg Engineering Inc. The posting of information or materials on the Site by Heidelberg does not constitute a waiver of any rights in such information and materials. Heidelberg and/or our subsidiary Heidelberg Engineering Inc. exclusively owns all worldwide right, titles and interests in and to all documentation, software, contents, graphics, designs, data, computer codes, ideas, know-how, layout, compilations, magnetically stored translations, digital conversions and other materials included on the Site or available via the Site, and all modifications and derivative works thereof, and all intellectual property rights related thereto. You shall not challenge, contest or otherwise call into question Heidelberg’s or Heidelberg Engineering GmbH’s rights in the Site and the content therein and/or the validity Heidelberg Engineering GmbH’s intellectual property rights in the Site and the content therein. We reserve the right at our sole discretion to edit or delete any documents, information or other content appearing on the Site at any time without notice. Product, terms and other information provided on this Site are subject to change without notice.
   
   
6. Any and all data that we obtain from you personally or from transactions processed through our Site, including names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and any other information concerning use, transactions, and traffic through the Site may be collected and used by us as provided by the relevant data protection provisions in our Privacy Policy.
   
   
7. Heidelberg shall have no liability for damage that results from misuse or incorrect entry of data during login or on our Site. You are responsible for the information you provide.
   7.1 Otherwise, the following applies to Heidelberg Engineering GmbH’s liability:
   7.1.1 Heidelberg shall be liable for damage that is caused willfully or by negligence by Heidelberg or its legal representatives or vicarious agents, to an unlimited amount.
   7.1.2 In the case of damage resulting from the loss of life, bodily injury or damage to health, the liability of Heidelberg shall be unlimited, even in the case of slightly negligent violation of duty on its own part or on the part of its legal representatives or vicarious agents.
   7.1.3 In the case of slightly negligent violation of duty, Heidelberg shall be liable for damage from the violation of essential contractual duties, without which the achievement of the purpose of the contract is not possible and the compliance of which you rely on regularly, limited to the foreseeable damage typical of the contract. This applies accordingly for the negligent violation of essential contractual duties of Heidelberg’s legal representatives, organs or vicarious agents.
   7.1.4 Except in the case of intent or gross negligence, Heidelberg shall not be liable for indirect damage, such as additional expenses, lost profit or missed savings.
   
   
8. If any provision of these Terms of Use is or becomes invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of the Terms of Use remain unaffected thereby and retain their full validity.
   
   
9. Legal notes on data protection: Please refer to our information on data protection for notes on data protection

Privacy Policy for the portal he-information-portal.com of Heidelberg Engineering GmbH

15.02.2024

Table of contents

1. General
2. Contact
3. Collection of personal data when visiting our portal
4. Cookies
5. Registration, login and account
6. Online orders
7. File exchange
8. Convenience functions
9. Social Media
10. Newsletters
11. Webinars and online events
12. Download Tracking
13. Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
14. Google Analytics
15. Google Tag Manager
16. Integration of YouTube videos
17. Integration of Google reCaptcha
18. Use of Usercentrics
19. Your rights
20. Right to object
21. Withdrawal of consent
22. Information in the Publisher section
23. Changes of this Privacy Policy

1. General

We appreciate your interest in our portal and our company. Below we inform you about personal data collected when you visit this portal. Personal data is factual or personal information about a specific or specifically identifiable person, for example name, address, email address and user behavior.

Controller in accordance with Article 4 no. 7 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

Heidelberg Engineering GmbH
Max-Jarecki-Strasse 8
69115 Heidelberg
Germany

Email: info[at]HeidelbergEngineering.com

For further contact information please refer to the Publisher section.

 

You can reach our Data Protection Officer at:

CL Compliance und Datenschutz GmbH & Co KG
Douglasstraße 11 – 15
76133 Karlsruhe
Germany

Phone: +49 721 91250880

Email: HeidelbergEngineering[at]compliance-datenschutz.de

2. Contact

You can send an inquiry by using the provided email addresses or our general contact form. The personal data that you provide to us as part of your inquiry will solely be stored and used by us to respond to your inquiry. We delete this personal data after the storage is no longer necessary or restrict the processing if there are statutory storage obligations.

The legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR, when using the contact form also Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you contact us in connection with an existing contract or a contract you wish to enter into with us, additional legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. b GDPR.

3. Collection of personal data when visiting our portal

When using our website for informational purposes only, without registering or transmitting information to us, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. Upon accessing our website, we collect the following data:

• IP address
• Date and time of the request
• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Content of request (concrete page)
• Access status/http status code
• Amount of data transferred with each request
• The requesting domain
• Browser
• Operating system and its surface
• Language and version of browser software

This data is technically necessary for us to display the website to you and to ensure stability and security. The legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR.

4. Cookies

In addition to the data mentioned above, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your terminal device, assigned to the browser you are using, and through which certain information flows to the site that sets the cookie. Cookies cannot execute programs or transfer viruses to your computer. They are used to make the Internet offer as a whole more user-friendly and effective.

This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and function of which are explained below:

Transient cookies

Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. This includes in particular the session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the shared session. This enables your computer to be recognised when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.

Persistent cookies

Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period of time, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete the cookies in the security settings of your browser at any time.

You can configure your browser settings according to your preferences and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.

Here you will find information about the cookie logoff of the most common browsers:

• Mozilla Firefox
• Internet Explorer
• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge
• Opera
• Safari

Depending on their function and purpose, cookies can be divided into the following categories:

Essential cookies

Essential cookies are required to be able to use the navigation and basic functions of the website.

Marketing cookies

Marketing cookies are used for the targeted, user-relevant presentation of content. This allows individual advertising to be controlled.

Analytic cookies

Analytics Cookies enable us to count visits and traffic sources to analyze and improve our websites performance.

Functional cookies

Functional cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we utilize on our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, some or all of these services may not function properly.

 

When you access our website, you will be informed about the use of cookies and your consent to the processing of personal data used in this context will be obtained (see the section “Use of Usercentrics” of this Privacy Policy). This also includes a reference to this Privacy Policy.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data using essential cookies is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data using cookies that are not required is, if the user has consented to the use, Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. a GDPR.

The cookie settings can be adjusted in Usercentrics at any time and consent already granted can be withdrawn(see the section “Use of Usercentrics” of this Privacy Policy). You can reach Usercentrics by clicking on the fingerprint displayed at the bottom left of the screen.

5. Registration, login and account

In order to use our portal, pre-registration is necessary. The registration requires a salutation, first and last name, company address, email address, a password of your choice, and a country.

In order to complete the registration successfully, it is necessary to have read the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use and to accept them by clicking on the respective checkbox. Furthermore, the captcha field must be filled in correctly.

In order to be able to access the portal as a registered user, you must log in before each use using your email address and the password of your choice.

Within the registered area you can manage and edit your personal password and newsletter settings. To change the shipping or billing address, a shop admin has to be contacted via the contact form.

The legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. b GDPR or Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR.

6. Online orders

The permission to order products via our web shop is reserved exclusively for buyers designated by the General Manager of our Distributors.

The data stored in the user profile is used to process your order: name of the user, company address, company payment conditions, data of carriers. The completed order is forwarded to the Heidelberg Engineering Order Processing or the Heidelberg Engineering Support Team. The order data is permanently stored and visible in the Order History within the registered area.

The legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. b GDPR.

7. File exchange

The file exchange in the portal serves to forward larger files to the predefined contacts/departments of Heidelberg Engineering. The uploaded files are deleted after 14 days.

It is not permitted to transmit personal data via the Heidelberg Engineering file exchange without the explicit consent of the data subject to forwarding the data to third parties.

8. Convenience functions

For an optimal presentation of our website (e.g. adaptation to different screen sizes, fade-in menu, input control of the contact form) we use techniques such as Javascript and CSS (cascading style sheets). You can disable the use of these techniques by making the appropriate settings in your browser. Please be aware that some areas of our website may not function properly then.

9. Social Media

This website contains links to our appearances on various social media platforms. You can recognize these by the logo of the respective social media provider. When you use our website, no personal data is passed on to the providers of the social media platforms. Only when clicking on these links, you will be forwarded to the platform of the respective social media provider and then the referral URL (the information about the page of our website that you accessed) may be transferred to the provider. We have no influence on this data transfer.The legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR.

By clicking on such a link, you leave our website and we have no influence on the then collected data and data processing procedures, nor are we aware of the full scope of the data collection, the purposes and the storage periods. The respective social media provider processes your data regardless of whether you have an account on this social media platform and are logged in there. If you are logged in, the data collected by the social media provider will be directly assigned to your account. If you do not want the assignment with your social media account, you must log out before clicking on the link.

The social media provider stores your data as user profiles and uses them for purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-driven design of its website. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (also for users who are not logged in) for the display of demand-driven advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact the respective social media provider to exercise this right.

For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by the social media provider, please refer to the privacy policies of these providers, which are provided below. There you will also receive further information about your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy.

Addresses of the providers including URLs of their privacy policy:

	LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W. Maude Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA; in the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland; http://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
	YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA; in the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

10. Newsletter

With your consent to the collection, processing and use of your data, you can subscribe to our newsletters on various topics, with which we inform you regularly about products, training offers, learning materials, events and news. To subscribe to our newsletter, we use the so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that after your registration, we will send you an email to the email address you provided, in which we ask you to confirm your newsletter subscription. In order to prove your registration and, if necessary, to be able to clarify a possible misuse of your personal data, we log the subscription to the newsletter. We save the sending of the confirmation mail and the receipt of your hereby requested response as well as the data of the registration and confirmation. The data will be used solely by Heidelberg Engineering and will not be passed on to third parties. If you do not confirm your registration within two weeks, your information will be deleted.

The only mandatory data for sending the newsletter is your email address. The provision of further, separately marked data is voluntary and will be used to address you personally. The legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. a GDPR.

You can withdraw your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time. To do so, click on the link provided in each newsletter, send an email to Newsletter[at]HeidelbergEngineering.com or send a message to the contact details of the controller as stated in this privacy policy.

Please note that we analyze your user behavior when sending the newsletter. For this analysis, the emails sent contain tracking pixels, so-called one-pixel image files, and personalized tracking links. We use this data to find out which topics are of interest to you and to improve the content provided. We record whether and when the newsletters we send to you are opened and which links are clicked on. The legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Tracking based on the one-pixel image files is prevented if you have deactivated the display of images in your email program by default. In this case the newsletter will not be displayed completely and you may not be able to use all functions. If you display the images manually, the above-mentioned tracking will take place. Clicks on personalized tracking links are always logged.

To provide our newsletter service, we use the marketing automation solution Pardot, which we explain in the “Pardot” section of this Privacy Policy.

11. Webinars and online events

On this website, we offer various webinars and online events using different services.

Webinars with GoToWebinar

We offer webinars using the “GoToWebinar” service provided by LogMeIn USA, Inc., 320 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210, USA. In the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland, the service is provided by LogMeIn Ireland Limited, The Reflector, 10 Hanover Quay, Dublin 2, D02R573, Ireland (“LogMeIn”).

The registration button takes you directly to the appropriate GoToWebinar registration page created by us, where you have to enter your name and email address and, if applicable, further data like zip code, city, country and job title. Once you register for the webinar, you will subsequently receive confirmation, reminder and follow-up emails via the GoToWebinar service. The confirmation email will contain the link to join the GoToWebinar webinar.

We process your personal data collected in connection with the registration for the webinar and during the performance of the webinar for the purpose of fulfilling the contract you have concluded with us for participation in the webinar, in particular for the performance of the webinar as well as for the provision of the teaching materials, the evaluation of the test results and the issuance of the certificate. In addition, we use data entered by you at your request to subsequently answer your open questions. The legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. b GDPR.

LogMeIn processes your personal data collected in connection with the registration for the webinar and during the performance of the webinar for the purpose of providing and operating the GoToWebinar service. If the processing is directly related to the registration for the webinar and the performance of the webinar, the legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. b GDPR. For the processing in order to ensure error-free operation and to improve the GoToWebinar service, the legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Upon registration for one of our webinars, your data will be transferred to Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (see the “Marketing Cloud Account Engagement” section of this Privacy Policy). The legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR.

For more Information on LogMeIn, please visit: https://www.logmeininc.com/legal and https://www.logmein.com/legal/privacy

Webinars with Microsoft Teams

We offer webinars using the "Microsoft Teams" service provided by Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington 98052, USA. In the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, the service is provided by Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland ("Microsoft").

The registration button takes you to a registration page where you can enter the names and email addresses as well as the country of the desired participants after logging in with your Business Lounge account. If you do not yet have a Business Lounge account, you must create one as part of the registration process in order to register. Once you have registered for the webinar, you and any additional participants will receive confirmation and reminder emails from us. The confirmation email will contain the link to join the Microsoft Teams webinar.

We process your personal data collected in connection with the registration for the webinar and during the performance of the webinar as well as the additionally required data in your Business Lounge account for the purpose of fulfilling the contract that you have concluded with us for participation in the webinar, in particular for the performance of the webinar as well as for the evaluation of the test results and the issuance of the certificate. In addition, we use data entered by you at your request to subsequently answer your open questions. The legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. b GDPR.

Furthermore, we use your data for anonymous evaluation of the use of the online course room. Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Microsoft processes your personal data collected during the performance of the webinar for the purpose of providing and operating the Microsoft Teams service. If the processing is directly related to the performance of the webinar, the legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. b GDPR. For the processing in order to ensure error-free operation and to improve the Microsoft Teams service, the legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Upon registration for one of our webinars, your data will be transferred to Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (see the "Marketing Cloud Account Engagement" section of this Privacy Policy). The legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR.

For more Information on Microsoft, please visit: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/privacystatement

Online events with Venueless

We offer online events using the streaming platform "Venueless" and the ticketing system "Pretix" of rami.io GmbH, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany ("Rami.io"). The data processing takes place exclusively in the European Union.

The registration button takes you to the corresponding Pretix website, where you can select the event and the number of participants and add them to a shopping cart. Before registering for the event, you must enter your email address and the name, email address, company and postal address for each participant. Once you have registered for the online event, you and any additional attendees will subsequently receive a confirmation email and, if applicable, reminder and follow-up emails via the Pretix service. The confirmation email will contain the link to join the online event, which will be performed via the Venueless platform.

When using the Venueless platform, rami.io collects the following data from you: Browser type and version used, internet service provider, IP address, date and time of access, duration of your access and the times at which you switched between different parts of the event. In addition, the content you have entered, such as the display name you have chosen and, if applicable, a chosen image for communication with other users, chat messages you have sent or content of video calls are processed. A web token is stored in your browser's local memory at the start of platform use. This is used to check whether you are entitled to participate in the event.

We process your personal data collected in connection with the registration for the online event and during the performance of the online event for the purpose of fulfilling the contract that you have concluded with us for participation in the event. The legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. b GDPR.

Rami.io processes your data for the purpose of providing and operating its services used by us in relation to the event. If the processing is directly related to the registration for the online event and the performance of the online event, the legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. b GDPR. For the processing in order to ensure error-free operation and to improve the Venueless platform, the legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Further information from the provider Rami.io about Pretix can be found at: https://pretix.eu/about/en/privacy and https://pretix.eu/about/en/security

12. Download Tracking

On this portal we offer you the possibility to download a wide range of documents and software in different categories. All downloads are tracked for quality assurance purposes and, if necessary, for the fast transfer of information (e.g. recall in case of serious bugs in a software).

Within the registered area the download history with file name, file size and date is permanently stored and visible to the user under My downloads.

The legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR.

13. Marketing Cloud Account Engagement

We use Marketing Cloud Account Engagement - MCAE (formerly known as Pardot), the marketing automation solution of Salesforce.com, Inc., Salesforce Tower, 415 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA, which is linked to our Salesforce CRM system. In addition to the Salesforce infrastructure, MCAE uses Amazon Web Services, Inc. as a hosting provider (third-party hosting provider). The data processing is carried out on our behalf on the basis of a contract data processing agreement that we have concluded with Salesforce.

We use the MCAE software in online marketing for:

• systematically recording, analyzing and optimizing our website
• provision of personalized content and product recommendations
• implementation of (automated) marketing campaigns and advertising activities
• measuring the success of marketing campaigns
• implementation of our email newsletter service
• provision of landing pages and forms

The legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR.

To register for our email newsletter service, we provide you with a MCAE form embedded in our website or – if your browser does not display the form – directly with a link to the form created in MCAE. When you click on the subscribe button in this MCAE form, a session cookie called “Pardot” is set in your browser by MCAE. We have no influence on the setting of the cookie and its content.

For more information on Salesforce, please visit:

• https://www.salesforce.com/company/privacy/

14. Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics tool provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). In the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland, the service is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files saved on your computer, to help the website to analyze how you use the site. The cookies are only generated if you have activated “Google Analytics” in our consent management tool Usercentrics. The legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. a GDPR.

The information generated by the cookies and regarding your behavior when using the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. If the IP anonymization is activated, 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 before transferring data. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to Google servers in the USA and then shortened.

On behalf of the website provider, Google will use this information for the purpose of analyzing your behavior when you are using the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not link your IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics to any other data stored by Google.

You may disable cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in 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 object to forwarding the data collected with cookies when you visit this website (including the IP address) to Google and prevent Google from processing of data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-US.

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 you visit this website: Disable Google Analytics

Please be aware that if you choose to disable all cookies, also opt-out cookies will be disabled as well.

This website uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”. With this extension, all IP addresses will be shortened what makes it impossible to link data to a particular individual. If for some reason data can be linked to a specific individual this link will be directly excluded and personal data will be deleted.

Google Analytics Terms of Service: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/

Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

15. Google Tag Manager

We additionally use the Google Tag Manager provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). In the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland, the Service is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. With this service, website tags can be managed. The Google Tag Manager only sets up tags. Tags are code that is used to measure traffic and visitor behavior. The tags are provided by other services – for example, Google Analytics. The Google Tag Manager only manages these tags, does not set cookies and does not collect any personal data. Google Tag Manager places a pixel in your browser to collect aggregate data about tag triggering. The legal basis for the use of Google Tag Manager is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR.

For more information about Google Tag Manager, please visit: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/tag-manager/

16. Integration of YouTube videos

We have included YouTube videos in our online offering, which are stored on http://www.YouTube.com and are directly playable from our website. The YouTube website is operated by YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA ("YouTube"), a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. In the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland, the service is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. These videos are all integrated in the “extended privacy mode”, which means that no data about you as a user is transmitted to YouTube if you do not play the videos. Only when you play the videos, the data listed below will be transferred. We have no influence on this data transfer. The legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR.

YouTube receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. In addition, the data listed in the section "Collection of personal data when visiting our website" of this Privacy Policy will be transmitted. This occurs regardless of whether YouTube provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to YouTube, your data will be directly assigned to your account. If you do not want the assignment with your profile at YouTube, you must log out before activating the button. YouTube stores the data as user profiles and uses them for purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-driven design of its website. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (also for users who are not logged in) for the display of demand-driven advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact YouTube to exercise this right.

For more information on the purpose and scope of the data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider, please refer to the provider’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en There you will also find further information about your rights and settings options for the protection of your privacy.

17. Integration of Google reCaptcha

During registration for the "File exchange" offered on this website, we use the service “reCAPTCHA”, Version 3, provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). In the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland, the service is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. We use reCAPTCHA to detect abusive, automated machine processing (“bots”) when entering information into the registration form. User behavior – such as mouse movements, IP addresses, or queries performed – is evaluated by reCAPTCHA to distinguish individuals from bots. So in most cases it is sufficient to simply check the box to confirm that you are not a bot. Only in exceptional cases you have to solve a text or picture puzzle.

We are legally obligated to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures in order to protect user data. reCAPTCHA is such a technical measure. Furthermore, the use of an alternative captcha variant for the registration to "File exchange" is technically not supported. The legal basis is Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. c GDPR in accordance with Article 32 paragraph 1 GDPR.

Google does not provide comprehensive information about which personal data of the user is processed when using reCAPTCHA, but here are some examples:

• IP address of the user
• Resources loaded on the page
• whether a Google account is registered
• Cookies placed by Google
• Interactions of the user on the page
• CSS information of the page
• Date
• Language the browser is set to
• all plugins installed for the browser
• all JavaScript objects (JavaScript is a programming language with which, among other things, user interactions can be evaluated. The objects can contain any user data.)

Google will use and analyse this data even before you click on the "I'm not a robot" check box.

The information collected by reCAPTCHA is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, your IP address is almost always shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting countries to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Your IP address is not linked to  other data held by Google unless you are logged in with your Google account while using reCAPTCHA.

For more information on reCAPTCHA, please visit: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/

For information on the purpose and scope of your data collection and processing through Google, please please refer to the provider's privacy policy. There you will also find further information about your rights and setting options for the protection of your privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

18. Use of Usercentrics

On this website we use the Consent Management Tool Usercentrics of Usercentrics GmbH, Sendlinger Str. 7, 80331 Munich, Germany ("Usercentrics"). The tool enables you to give consent to data processing via the website, in particular to set cookies, as well as to exercise your right to withdraw consent already given. The data processing serves the purpose of obtaining and documenting required consents to data processing and thus to comply with legal obligations. Cookies may be used for this purpose. The following information, among others, may be collected and transmitted to Usercentrics: Date and time of the page view, information about the browser and the device you are using, opt-in and opt-out data. This data is not passed on to other third parties. The data processing is carried out to fulfill a legal obligation on the basis of Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. c GDPR.

For more information on data protection at Usercentrics, please visit: https://usercentrics.com/privacy-policy/

19. Your rights

You have the following rights concerning your personal data:

• Right of access regarding the personal data concerning you that we process as controller (Article 15 GDPR)
• Right to rectification of the personal data concerning you if they are stored incorrectly or incompletely (Article 16 GDPR)
• Right to erasure (Article 17 GDPR)
• Right to request the restriction of the processing of personal data concerning you (Article 18 GDPR)
• Right to data portability (Article 20 GDPR)
• Right to object to the processing of personal data concerning you (Article 21 GDPR).

Furthermore, you have the right  to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data (Article 77 GDPR).

Pursuant to Article 22 GDPR, you principally have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. However, we do not use such automated decision-making processes.

20. Right to object

If we process your personal data as part of a weighing of interests based on our overriding legitimate interests (legal basis Article 6 paragraph 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR), you have the right to object to this processing at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation.

If you exercise your right to object, we will no longer process this personal data unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

If your personal data is processed by us for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing.

If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data concerning you will no longer be processed for such purposes.

21. Withdrawal of consent

If you have given consent to the processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

22. Information in the Publisher section

We expressly object to the use of contact data published within the scope of the obligation to provide publisher information by third parties for sending advertising and information material that has not been expressly requested. We expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, for example through spam emails.

23. Changes of this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy in accordance with legal data protection regulations. The currently valid version can be viewed at any time in the Privacy Policy area of our website.