We have drawn up this data protection declaration (version 12.08.2020) in order to explain to you, in accordance with the legal requirements, what information we collect, how we use data and what decision-making options you have as a visitor to this website.

Unfortunately, it is in the nature of things that these explanations sound very technical, but we have tried to describe the most important things as simply and clearly as possible.

Data Protection

THE Business Training Company GmbH (hereinafter referred to as “BTCO” or “we”) attaches great importance to data protection and to openness and transparency in the processing of personal data. For this reason, we have a data protection declaration, from which data subjects can see how their personal data is processed and protected.

Personal data is understood to mean all information relating to an identified or identifiable person. In doing so, we comply with the applicable data protection regulations.

If you provide us with personal data of other persons (e.g. family members, accompanying persons, in case of recommendation etc.), please ensure that these persons are aware of this data protection declaration and only inform us of their personal data if you are allowed to do so and if this personal data is correct.

This data protection declaration is based on the Swiss Data Protection Act (DSG) and the EU Data Protection Basic Regulation (DSGVO).

Person Responsible for Data Processing

Responsible for the data processing which we describe here is our Marketing & Communication department, unless otherwise stated in individual cases. If you have data protection concerns, you can communicate these to the following contact address: THE Business Training Company GmbH, Jacqueline Steffen Oberholzer, CEO, Lerchenbergstrasse 94, CH-8703 Erlenbach, steffen@btco.ch.

Collection and Processing of Personal Data

We primarily process the personal data which we receive from our customers and other persons involved in our business relations with them, or which we collect from their users when operating our website and other applications.

These are in particular name, date of birth, address, e-mail address, telephone number, profession, employer and industry, as well as data in connection with the use of the website (e.g. anonymised IP address, MAC address of the smartphone or computer, details of your device and settings, details of the browser type, operating system used, cookies, date, time and duration of the visit, pages and content called up, functions used, referring website, location details).

Purpose of the Data Processing

We therefore only use your personal data for communication with those visitors who expressly wish to contact us and for the processing of the services and products offered on this website.

If you send us personal data by e-mail – thus off this website – we cannot guarantee secure transmission and protection of your data. We recommend that you never send confidential data by e-mail without encryption.

We use the personal data collected by us primarily to conclude and process our contracts with our customers and secondarily to be able to offer the services of our cooperation partners in the interest of our customers.

In addition, we also process personal data about you, as far as permitted and as we consider it appropriate, for the following purposes in which we (and our cooperation partners) have a legitimate interest corresponding to the purpose:

Offering and developing our offers, services and websites, apps and other platforms on which we are present:
Communication with third parties and processing of their enquiries (e.g. media enquiries);
Assertion of legal claims and defence in connection with legal disputes and official proceedings;
Guarantees of our operations, especially IT, our websites, apps and other platforms.

If you have given us your consent to process your personal data for specific purposes (for example, when registering for a newsletter, using live chat, filling out forms, downloading documents, etc.), we will process your personal data within the scope of and based on this consent, unless we have another legal basis and we require such a basis. Consent that has been granted can be revoked at any time, but this has no effect on data processing that has already taken place.

Links to Other Websites

It is possible to use links from our website to other internet sites that are not maintained by us. No liability is assumed for data processing by these third parties.

Data Transfer

In the course of our business activities and for the purposes described above, we disclose your data to third parties or cooperation partners, to the extent permitted and where we consider it appropriate, because they work for us or because they would like to offer you, as a BTCO customer, a service.

If you object to your data being passed on to third parties or our cooperation partners, you can send an e-mail to steffen@btco.ch at any time. We ensure by means of agreements that the data transmitted is used exclusively for the agreed purposes.

Duration of Storage of Personal Data

We process and store your personal data for as long as it is necessary for the fulfilment of our contractual and legal obligations or otherwise for the purposes pursued with the processing, i.e. for the duration of the entire business relationship (from the initiation, processing to the termination of a contract) and, in addition, in accordance with the statutory storage and documentation obligations. It is possible that personal data may be retained for the time during which claims can be made against our company and insofar as we are otherwise legally obliged to do so or legitimate business interests require it (e.g. for evidence and documentation purposes). As soon as your personal data is no longer required for the above-mentioned purposes, it will be deleted or made anonymous as far as possible.

Data Security

We take appropriate technical and organisational security precautions to protect your personal data stored with us from unauthorised access and misuse, i.e. from illegal or unauthorised manipulation, deletion, modification, access, disclosure or use or even partial or complete loss. Our security measures are continuously adapted and improved in line with technological developments. We accept no liability for the loss of data or its knowledge and use by third parties. You should always treat payment and access information confidentially and close the browser window when you have finished communicating with us, especially if you share a computer with others.

Obligation to Provide Personal Data

Within the scope of our business relationship, you must provide us with those personal data that are necessary for the initiation and execution of a business relationship and for the fulfilment of the associated contractual obligations (as a rule, you do not have a legal obligation to provide us with data). Without this data, we will generally not be able to conclude or execute a contract with you or offer you services. Nor can the website be used if certain details to ensure data traffic (such as IP address) are not disclosed.

Rights of the Data Individuals

Within the scope of the data protection law applicable to you and to the extent provided for therein (such as in the case of the DSGVO), you have the right to information as to whether and which personal data about you are being processed by us, to correction and deletion, as well as the right to limit data processing (e.g. you can revoke the right to have your data processed for marketing and advertising purposes and to have your data forwarded to steffen@btco.ch at any time) and otherwise the right to object to our data processing and to have certain personal data released for the purpose of transfer to another body (so-called data portability). Please note, however, that we reserve the right to assert the restrictions provided for by law, for example if we are obliged to store or process certain data, if we have an overriding interest in doing so (insofar as we are entitled to invoke this) or if we need them for the assertion of claims.

The exercise of such rights generally requires that you clearly prove your identity (e.g. by producing a copy of your identity card where your identity is otherwise not clear or cannot be verified). To exercise your rights you can contact us at steffen@btco.ch .

Every data subject also has the right to enforce his or her rights in court or to lodge acomplaint with the competent data protection authority. The competent data protection authority in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (www.edoeb.admin.ch).

Automatic Data Storage

When you visit websites today, certain information is automatically created and stored, including on this website.

When you visit our website as you are doing right now, our web server (computer on which this website is stored) automatically saves data such as

the address (URL) of the web page accessed
Browser and browser version
the operating system used
the address (URL) of the previously visited page (referrer URL)
the host name and IP address of the machine being accessed
Date and time
in files (web server log files).

Usually web server log files are saved for a fortnight and then automatically deleted. We do not pass on this data, but cannot exclude the possibility that this data may be viewed in the event of illegal behaviour.

Cookies

Our website uses HTTP cookies to store user-specific data.

Below we explain what cookies are and why they are used, so that you can better understand the following privacy policy.

What exactly are cookies?

Whenever you surf the Internet, use a browser. Well-known browsers include Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. Most websites store small text files in your browser. These files are called cookies.

One of them cannot be dismissed: Cookies are really useful little helpers. Almost all websites use cookies. More precisely, they are HTTP cookies, as there are other cookies for other areas of application. HTTP cookies are small files that are stored on your computer by our website. These cookie files are automatically stored in the cookie folder, quasi the “brain” of your browser. A cookie consists of a name and a value. When defining a cookie, one or more attributes must also be specified.

Cookies store certain user data about you, such as language or personal page settings. When you visit our site again, your browser transmits the “user-related” information back to our site. Thanks to the cookies, our website knows who you are and offers you the setting you are used to. In some browsers each cookie has its own file, in others, such as Firefox, all cookies are stored in a single file.

There are both first-party cookies and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are created directly by our site, third-party cookies are created by partner sites (e.g. Google Analytics). Each cookie is evaluated individually, as each cookie stores different data. The expiration time of a cookie also varies from a few minutes to a few years. Cookies are not software programs and do not contain viruses, trojans or other “pests”. Cookies also cannot access information on your PC.

For example, cookie data may look like this:

Name: _ga
Value: GA1.2.1326744211.152211131810-6
Intended Use: Differentiation of website visitors
Expiry Date: after 2 years

A browser should be able to support these minimum sizes:

in minimum 4096 Bytes per Cookie
in minimum 50 Cookies per Domain
in minimum 3000 Cookies in total

What types of cookies are there?

The question of which cookies we use in particular depends on the services used and is clarified in the following sections of the privacy policy. At this point we would like to briefly discuss the different types of HTTP cookies.

One can distinguish between 4 types of cookies:

Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary to ensure basic functions of the website. For example, these cookies are needed when a user places a product in the shopping cart, then continues surfing on other pages and only goes to the checkout later. These cookies do not delete the shopping cart, even if the user closes his browser window.

Appropriate cookies
These cookies collect information about user behaviour and whether the user receives any error messages. In addition, these cookies also measure the loading time and the behaviour of the website with different browsers.

Target-oriented Cookies
These cookies ensure a better user experience. For example, entered locations, font sizes or form data are stored.

Advertising Cookies
These cookies are also called targeting cookies. They are used to deliver individually tailored advertising to the user. This can be very practical, but also very annoying.

Usually the first time you visit a website you will be asked which of these types of cookies you would like to allow. And of course this decision is also stored in a cookie.

How can I delete Cookies?

How and whether you want to use cookies is up to you. Regardless of which service or website the cookies come from, you always have the option of deleting, deactivating or only partially allowing cookies. For example, you can block third-party cookies, but allow all other cookies.

If you want to find out which cookies are stored in your browser, if you want to change or delete cookie settings, you can find this in your browser settings:

Chrome: Cookies in Chrome löschen, aktivieren und verwalten

Safari: Verwalten von Cookies und Websitedaten mit Safari

Firefox: Cookies löschen, um Daten zu entfernen, die Websites auf Ihrem Computer abgelegt haben

Internet Explorer: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

Microsoft Edge: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can set up your browser so that it always informs you when a cookie is to be set. In this way, you can decide for each individual cookie whether or not you wish to accept it. The procedure varies depending on the browser. The best way to find the instructions is to search in Google using the search term “Delete Chrome cookies” or “Deactivate Chrome cookies” in the case of a Chrome browser.

What about my data protection?

The so-called “cookie guidelines” have been in place since 2009. These state that the storage of cookies requires your consent. Within the EU countries, however, there are still very different reactions to these guidelines. In Austria, however, this Directive was transposed into § 96 (3) of the Telecommunications Act (TKG).

If you want to know more about cookies and are not afraid of technical documentation, we recommend https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265, the Request for Comments of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) called “HTTP State Management Mechanism”.

Analysis of visitor behaviour

In the following data protection declaration we inform you whether and how we evaluate data from your visit to this website. The evaluation of the collected data is usually anonymous and we cannot draw any conclusions about your personal behaviour on this website.

You can find out more about how to object to this evaluation of visit data in the following data protection declaration.

TLS encryption with https

We use https to transmit data tap-proof on the Internet (data protection through technology design article 25 paragraph 1 DSGVO). By using TLS (Transport Layer Security), an encryption protocol for secure data transmission on the Internet, we can ensure the protection of confidential data. You can recognise the use of this data transmission security by the small lock symbol in the top left-hand corner of your browser and the use of the https scheme (instead of http) as part of our Internet address.

Google Maps Privacy Policy

We use Google Maps from Google Inc. on our website. For the European area, the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. With Google Maps we can show you locations better and thus adapt our service to your needs. By using Google Maps, data is transferred to Google and stored on Google’s servers. Here we will go into more detail about what Google Maps is, why we use this Google service, what data is stored and how you can stop it.

What is Google Maps?

Google Maps is an Internet map service provided by Google. With Google Maps you can search online for exact locations of cities, sights, accommodation or companies using a PC, tablet or app. If companies are represented on Google My Business, additional information about the company is displayed next to the location. In order to display the directions, map sections of a location can be integrated into a website using HTML code. Google Maps shows the surface of the earth as a road map or as an aerial or satellite image. Thanks to the Street View images and the high-quality satellite images, very accurate representations are possible.

Why do we use Google Maps on our website?

All our efforts on this site are aimed at providing you with a useful and meaningful time on our website. Through the integration of Google Maps we can provide you with the most important information about various locations. You can see at a glance where we have our headquarters. The route description always shows you the best or fastest way to reach us. You can call up the directions for routes by car, public transport, on foot or by bicycle. For us the provision of Google Maps is part of our customer service.

Which data is stored by Google Maps?

In order for Google Maps to offer its service in its entirety, the company must collect and store data about you. This includes the search terms entered, your IP address and also the latitude and longitude coordinates. If you use the route planner function, the start address entered will also be saved. However, this data storage happens on the websites of Google Maps. We can only inform you about it, but we cannot influence it. Since we have integrated Google Maps into our website, Google sets at least one cookie (name: NID) in your browser. This cookie stores data about your user behaviour. Google uses this data primarily to optimise its own services and to provide individual, personalised advertising for you.

The following cookie is set in your browser due to the integration of Google Maps:

Name: NID
Value: 188=h26c1Ktha7fCQTx8rXgLyATyITJ211131810-5
Intended use: NID is used by Google to match ads to your Google search. Google uses the cookie to “remember” your most frequently entered search queries or your previous interaction with ads. This way you will always receive customised ads. The cookie contains a unique ID that Google uses to collect your personal preferences for advertising purposes.
Expiry date: after 6 month

Note: We cannot guarantee the completeness of the data stored. Especially when using cookies, changes can never be ruled out. In order to identify the cookie NID, a separate test page was created, where only Google Maps was integrated.

How long and where is the data stored?

The Google servers are located in data centres all over the world. However, most servers are located in America. For this reason, your data is also increasingly stored in the USA. Here you can read exactly where the Google data centres are located: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de

Google distributes the data on various data carriers. This means that the data can be accessed more quickly and is better protected against any attempts at manipulation. Each data centre also has special emergency programs. If, for example, there are problems with the Google hardware or a natural disaster paralyses the servers, the data will still be protected.

Some data is stored by Google for a fixed period of time. For other data, Google only offers the possibility to delete them manually. The company also anonymises information (such as advertising data) in server logs by deleting part of the IP address and cookie information after 9 and 18 months respectively.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

With the automatic deletion of location and activity data introduced in 2019, location and web/app activity information is stored for either 3 or 18 months, depending on your decision, and then deleted. You can also manually delete this data from your history at any time via your Google Account. If you want to completely prevent your location data from being recorded, you must pause the Web and App activity section of your Google Account. Click ‘Data and personalisation’ and then click the ‘Activity setting’ option. Here you can turn the activities on or off.

You can also disable, delete or manage individual cookies in your browser. Depending on which browser you use, this always works slightly differently. The following instructions show you how to manage cookies in your browser:

Chrome: Cookies in Chrome löschen, aktivieren und verwalten

Safari: Verwalten von Cookies und Websitedaten mit Safari

Firefox: Cookies löschen, um Daten zu entfernen, die Websites auf Ihrem Computer abgelegt haben

Internet Explorer: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

Microsoft Edge: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

Google is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information on this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI. If you would like to learn more about Google’s data processing, we recommend that you read the company’s own privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Google Fonts Privacy Policy

We use Google Fonts on our website. These are the “Google fonts” of the company Google Inc. For the European area the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services.

To use Google fonts, you do not need to log in or set a password. Furthermore, no cookies are stored in your browser. The files (CSS, fonts) are requested via the Google domains fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com. According to Google the requests for CSS and fonts are completely separate from all other Google services. If you have a Google Account, you don’t need to worry about your Google Account information being submitted to Google while using Google Fonts. Google records the use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and the fonts used and stores this information securely. We will be looking into the details of how this data is stored.

What are Google Fonts?

Google Fonts (formerly Google Web Fonts) is a directory of over 800 fonts that Google makes available to your users free of charge.

Many of these fonts are published under the SIL Open Font License, while others are published under the Apache License. Both are free software licenses.

Why do we use Google Fonts on our website?

With Google Fonts, we can use fonts on our own website and do not have to upload them to our own server. Google Fonts is an important component to keep the quality of our website high. All Google fonts are automatically optimised for the web and this saves data volume and is a great advantage especially for use on mobile devices. When you visit our site, the low file size ensures a fast loading time. Furthermore, Google Fonts are secure web fonts. Different image synthesis systems (rendering) in different browsers, operating systems and mobile devices can lead to errors. Such errors can visually distort some texts or entire web pages. Thanks to the fast Content Delivery Network (CDN), there are no cross-platform problems with Google Fonts. Google Fonts supports all common browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera) and works reliably on most modern mobile operating systems, including Android 2.2+ and iOS 4.2+ (iPhone, iPad, iPod). So we use Google Fonts to make our entire online service as beautiful and consistent as possible.

Which data is stored by Google?

When you visit our website, the fonts are reloaded via a Google server. This external call transfers data to the Google servers. In this way Google also recognises that you or your IP address is visiting our website. The Google Fonts API was developed to reduce the use, storage and collection of end user data to what is necessary for the proper provision of fonts. By the way, API stands for “Application Programming Interface” and serves, among other things, as a data transmitter in the software sector.

Google Fonts stores CSS and font requests securely at Google and is therefore protected. Through the collected usage figures, Google can determine how well the individual fonts are received. Google publishes the results on internal analysis pages, such as Google Analytics. Google also uses data from its own web crawler to determine which websites use Google fonts. This data is published in the BigQuery database of Google Fonts. Entrepreneurs and developers use the Google web service BigQuery to examine and move large amounts of data.

However, it should also be noted that every Google Font request also automatically transfers information such as language settings, IP address, browser version, browser screen resolution and browser name to the Google servers. Whether this data is also stored cannot be clearly determined or is not clearly communicated by Google.

How long and where is the data stored?

Google stores requests for CSS assets for one day on its servers, which are mainly located outside the EU. This allows us to use the fonts using a Google style sheet. A style sheet is a style template that allows you to easily and quickly change, for example, the design or font of a web page.

The font files are stored at Google for one year. Google’s aim is to improve the loading time of web pages. If millions of web pages link to the same fonts, they are cached after the first visit and reappear immediately on all other web pages visited later. Sometimes Google updates font files to reduce file size, increase language coverage and improve design.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

The data that Google stores for a day or a year cannot simply be deleted. The data is automatically transmitted to Google when the page is called up. To delete this data prematurely, you must contact Google Support at https://support.google.com/?hl=de&tid=211131810 contact us. In this case you only prevent data storage if you do not visit our site.

Unlike other web fonts, Google allows us unlimited access to all fonts. This means we have unlimited access to a sea of fonts and can thus get the best out of our website. You can find more about Google Fonts and other questions at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq?tid=211131810. Although Google addresses data protection issues there, it does not provide really detailed information about data storage. It is relatively difficult to get really detailed information from Google about data stored.

Which data is generally collected by Google and for what purpose this data is used can also be checked by you externally.f https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ .

Facebook Privacy Policy

We use selected tools from Facebook on our website. Facebook is a social media network operated by Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland. These tools enable us to provide you and people interested in our products and services with the best possible offer. Below we provide an overview of the various Facebook tools, what data is sent to Facebook and how you can delete this data.

What are Facebook tools?

Among many other products, Facebook also offers the so-called “Facebook Business Tools”. This is the official name of Facebook. But since the term is hardly known, we have decided to call them simply Facebook Tools. Amongst others you will find

Facebook pixels
social plug-ins (such as the “Like” or “Share” button)
Facebook Login
Account Kit
APIs (Application Programming Interface)
SDKs (collection of programming tools)
Platform Integrations
Plugins
Codes
Specifications
Documentation
Technologies and services

Through these tools, Facebook extends services and has the possibility to receive information about user activities outside of Facebook.

Why do we use Facebook tools on our page?

We want to show our services and products only to people who are really interested in them. With the help of advertisements (Facebook Ads) we can reach exactly these people. However, in order to be able to show users suitable ads, Facebook needs information about people’s wishes and needs. For example, information about user behaviour (and contact details) is provided to the company on our website. This enables Facebook to collect better user data and to show interested people the appropriate advertising about our products or services. The tools thus enable customised advertising campaigns on Facebook.

Facebook calls data about your behaviour on our website “event data”. This data is also used for measurement and analysis services. Facebook can thus produce “campaign reports” on our behalf about the impact of our advertising campaigns. Furthermore, analyses give us a better insight into how you use our services, website or products. This enables us to use some of these tools to optimise your user experience on our website. For example, you can use the social plug-ins to share content on our site directly on Facebook.

What data is stored by Facebook tools?

By using individual Facebook tools, personal data (customer data) can be sent to Facebook. Depending on the tools used, customer data such as name, address, telephone number and IP address can be sent.

Facebook uses this information to compare the data with the data it has about you (if you are a Facebook member). Before customer data is sent to Facebook, a so-called “hashing” process takes place. This means that a data record of any size is transformed into a character string. This also serves to encrypt data.

In addition to contact data, “event data” is also transmitted. Event data” refers to the information that we receive about you on our website. For example, which subpages you visit or which products you buy from us. Facebook does not share the information it receives with third parties (such as advertisers) unless the company has explicit permission or is legally obliged to do so. “Event data” may also be linked to contact information. This allows Facebook to offer better personalised advertising. After the aforementioned matching process, Facebook will delete the contact data again.

In order to be able to deliver advertisements in an optimised way, Facebook only uses the event data if it has been combined with other data (which has been collected by Facebook in another way). Facebook also uses this event data for security, protection, development and research purposes. Much of this data is transferred to Facebook via cookies. Cookies are small text files that are used to store data or information in browsers. Depending on the tools used and whether you are a Facebook member, different numbers of cookies are created in your browser. In the descriptions of the individual Facebook tools we will go into more detail about individual Facebook cookies. General information about the use of Facebook cookies can also be found on https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies.

How long and where is the data stored?

In principle, Facebook stores data until it is no longer required for its own services and Facebook products. Facebook has distributed servers all over the world where its data is stored. However, customer data is deleted within 48 hours after it has been compared with its own user data.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

In accordance with the Data Protection Basic Regulation, you have the right to information, correction, transferability and deletion of your data.

A complete deletion of your data will only take place if you completely delete your Facebook account. And this is how deleting your Facebook account works:

1) Click on Settings on the right side of Facebook.

2) Then click on “Your Facebook information” in the left column.

3) Now click “Deactivation and deletion”.

4) Now select “Delete account” and then click on “Continue and delete account

5) Now enter your password, click on “Next” and then on “Delete account

The data that Facebook receives via our site is stored using cookies (e.g. social plugins). You can deactivate, delete or manage individual or all cookies in your browser. Depending on which browser you use, this works in different ways. The following instructions show you how to manage cookies in your browser:

Chrome: Cookies in Chrome löschen, aktivieren und verwalten

Safari: Verwalten von Cookies und Websitedaten mit Safari

Firefox: Cookies löschen, um Daten zu entfernen, die Websites auf Ihrem Computer abgelegt haben

Internet Explorer: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

Microsoft Edge: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

Facebook is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information about this on https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC. We hope we have provided you with the most important information about the use and data processing by the Facebook tools. If you want to learn more about how Facebook uses your data, we recommend that you read the data guidelines https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.

Facebook Social Plug-ins Privacy Policy

So-called social plug-ins of the company Facebook Inc. are integrated on our website. You can recognise these buttons by the classic Facebook logo, such as the “Like” button (the hand with raised thumb) or by a clear “Facebook Plug-in” label. A social plug-in is a small part of Facebook that is integrated into our site. Each plug-in has its own function. The most commonly used functions are the familiar “Like” and “Share” buttons.

The following social plug-ins are offered by Facebook:
– “Save” button
– “Like” button, share, send and quote
– Page plug-in
– Comments
– Messenger plug-in
– Embedded contributions and video players
– Group plug-in

On https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins you will receive more detailed information on how to use the individual plug-ins. We use the social plug-ins on the one hand to offer you a better user experience on our site and on the other hand because Facebook can use them to optimise our advertisements.

If you have a Facebook account or have visited facebook.com before, Facebook has already set at least one cookie in your browser. In this case your browser sends information to Facebook via this cookie as soon as you visit our site or interact with social plug-ins (e.g. the “Like” button).

The information received is deleted or made anonymous within 90 days. According to Facebook, this data includes your IP address, which website you visited, the date, time and other information concerning your browser.

In order to prevent Facebook from collecting a lot of data during your visit to our website and linking it with Facebook data, you must log off (log out) from Facebook during your visit to the website.

If you are not logged in to Facebook or do not have a Facebook account, your browser sends less information to Facebook because you have fewer Facebook cookies. Nevertheless, data such as your IP address or which website you visit can be transmitted to Facebook. We would like to point out that we do not know the exact content of the data. However, according to our current state of knowledge, we try to inform you as well as possible about data processing. How Facebook uses the data can also be found in the company’s data guidelines at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update .

The following cookies are set in your browser at least when you visit a website with social plug-ins from Facebook:

Name: dpr
Value: keine Angabe
Intended use: This cookie is used to make the social plug-ins on our website work.
Expiry date: after the end of the session

Name: fr
Value: 0jieyh4211131810c2GnlufEJ9..Bde09j…1.0.Bde09j
Intended use: The cookie is also necessary for the plug-ins to work properly.
Expiry date:: after 3 month

Note: These cookies were set after a test, even if you are not a Facebook member.

If you are logged in to Facebook, you can change your settings for advertisements at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen change themselves. If you are not a Facebook user, you can go to http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/ basically manage your usage-based online advertising. There you have the possibility to deactivate or activate providers.

If you want to learn more about Facebook’s privacy policy, we recommend that you read the company’s own data policy at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

Twitter Privacy Policy

On our website we have integrated functions of Twitter. These are for example embedded tweets, timelines, buttons or hashtags. Twitter is a short message service and social media platform of Twitter Inc, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2 D02 AX07, Ireland.

To our knowledge, in the European Economic Area and Switzerland, the mere inclusion of Twitter functionality does not yet transfer any personal data or data relating to your web activities to Twitter. Only when you interact with the Twitter functions, such as clicking on a button, can data be sent to Twitter, stored and processed there. We have no influence on this data processing and bear no responsibility for it. Within the framework of this data protection declaration, we would like to give you an overview of which data Twitter stores, what Twitter does with this data and how you can protect yourself to a large extent from data transfer.

What is Twitter?

For some, Twitter is a news service, for others it is a social media platform and yet others speak of a microblogging service. All these terms have their justification and mean more or less the same thing.

Both individuals and companies use Twitter to communicate with interested people via short messages. Twitter only allows 280 characters per message. These messages are called “tweets”. Unlike Facebook, for example, the service does not focus on expanding a network for “friends”, but wants to be understood as a worldwide and open message platform. Twitter also allows users to maintain an anonymous account and tweets can be deleted by the company on the one hand and by the users themselves on the other.

Why do we use Twitter on our website?

Like many other websites and companies, we try to offer our services through different channels and communicate with our customers. Twitter in particular has grown dear to our hearts as a useful “little” news service. Again and again we tweet or retweet exciting, funny or interesting content. We are aware that you cannot follow every channel separately. After all, you also have something else to do. That’s why we have also integrated Twitter functions on our website. You can experience our Twitter activity “on site” or come to our Twitter page via a direct link. Through the integration we want to strengthen our service and the user-friendliness of our website.

What data is stored by Twitter?

On some of our subpages you will find the built-in Twitter functions. When you interact with the Twitter content, such as clicking a button, Twitter can collect and save data. Even if you do not have a Twitter account yourself. Twitter calls this data “log data”. This includes demographic data, browser cookie IDs, the ID of your smartphone, hashed email addresses, and information about which pages you have visited on Twitter and what actions you have taken. Twitter naturally stores more data if you have a Twitter account and are logged in. Most of the time this storage is done via cookies. Cookies are small text files that are usually set in your browser and transmit various information to Twitter.

We will now show you which cookies are set when you are not logged in to Twitter but visit a website with built-in Twitter functions. Please consider this list as an example. We can in no way guarantee a claim to completeness here, as the choice of cookies is always changing and depends on your individual actions with the Twitter content.

These cookies were used in our test:

Name: personalization_id
Value: „v1_cSJIsogU51SeE211131810“
Intended Use: This cookie stores information about how you use the website and which advertisements may have brought you to Twitter.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: lang
Value: de
Intended Use: This cookie saves your preset or preferred language.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: guest_id
Value: 211131810v1%3A157132626
Intended Use: This cookie is set to identify you as a guest.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: fm
Value: 0
Intended Use: Unfortunately we could not find out the purpose of this cookie.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: external_referer
Value: 2111318102beTA0sf5lkMrlGt
Intended Use: This cookie collects anonymous data, such as how often you visit Twitter and how long you visit Twitter.
Expiry date: after 6 days

Name: eu_cn
Value: 1
Intended Use: This cookie stores user activity and is used for various Twitter advertising purposes.
Expiry date: after 1 year

Name: ct0
Value: c1179f07163a365d2ed7aad84c99d966
Intended Use: Unfortunately we have not found any information about this cookie.
Expiry date: after 6 hours

Name: _twitter_sess
Value: 53D%253D–dd0248211131810-
Intended Use: With this cookie you can use functions within the Twitter website.
Expiry date: after end of session

Anmerkung: Twitter also works with third party providers. That’s why our test also identified the three Google Analytics cookies _ga, _gat, _gid.

Twitter uses the collected data on the one hand to better understand user behaviour and thus improve its own services and advertising offers, and on the other hand the data also serves internal security measures.

How long and where is the data stored?

If Twitter collects data from other websites, it will be deleted, aggregated or otherwise concealed after a maximum of 30 days. The Twitter servers are located at various server centres in the United States. It can therefore be assumed that the collected data is collected and stored in America. After our research we could not clearly determine whether Twitter also has its own servers in Europe. In principle, Twitter can store the collected data until they are no longer useful to the company, until you delete the data or until there is a statutory period for deletion.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

Twitter’s privacy policy repeatedly emphasises that it does not store any data from external website visits if you or your browser is located in the European Economic Area or Switzerland. However, if you interact directly with Twitter, Twitter will of course also store data about you.

If you have a Twitter account, you can manage your data by clicking on “More” under the “Profile” button. Then click on “Settings and privacy”. Here you can manage your data individually.

If you do not have a Twitter account, you can go to twitter.com and then click on “Individualisation”. Under the item “Individualisation and data” you can manage your collected data.

As mentioned above, most data is stored via cookies and you can manage, deactivate or delete these in your browser. Please note that you only “edit” the cookies in the browser you have selected. This means that if you use a different browser in future, you will have to manage your cookies there again according to your wishes. Here you can find the instructions for cookie management of the most popular browsers.

Chrome: Cookies in Chrome löschen, aktivieren und verwalten

Safari: Verwalten von Cookies und Websitedaten mit Safari

Firefox: Cookies löschen, um Daten zu entfernen, die Websites auf Ihrem Computer abgelegt haben

Internet Explorer: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

Microsoft Edge: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

You can also manage your browser in such a way that you are informed about every single cookie. Then you can always decide individually whether you want to accept a cookie or not.

Twitter also uses the data for personalised advertising inside and outside Twitter. You can switch off personalised advertising under “Individualisation and data” in the settings. If you use Twitter on a browser, you can turn off personalised advertising under http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN disable.

Twitter is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. This framework ensures correct data transmission between the USA and the European Union. At https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TORzAAO learn more about it.

We hope we have given you a basic overview of the data processing by Twitter. We do not receive any data from Twitter and are not responsible for what Twitter does with your data. If you have any further questions on this subject, we recommend that you read the Twitter data protection declaration at https://twitter.com/de/privacy.

LinkedIn Privacy Policy

We use on our website social plug-ins from the social media network LinkedIn, the company LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. The social plug-ins may be feeds, content sharing or linking to our LinkedIn site. The social plug-ins are clearly marked with the well-known LinkedIn logo and allow, for example, to share interesting content directly through our website. For the European Economic Area and Switzerland, LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company Wilton Place in Dublin is responsible for data processing.

By embedding such plug-ins, data can be sent to LinkedIn, stored and processed there. In this privacy policy, we would like to inform you what data is involved, how the network uses this data and how you can manage or prevent data storage.

What is LinkedIn?

LinkedIn is the largest social network for business contacts. Unlike Facebook, for example, it focuses exclusively on building business contacts. Companies can present services and products on the platform and establish business relationships. Many people also use LinkedIn for job searches or to find suitable employees for their own company. In Germany alone the network has over 11 million members. In Austria the figure is around 1.3 million.

Why do we use LinkedIn on our website?

We know how busy you are. You can’t watch all social media channels one by one. Even if, as in our case, it would be worth it. Because we always post interesting news or reports that are worth spreading. This is why we have created the possibility on our website to share interesting content directly on LinkedIn or to link directly to our LinkedIn page. We consider built-in social plug-ins as an extended service on our website. The information that LinkedIn collects also helps us to target potential promotions to people who are interested in our services.

What data is stored by LinkedIn?

Simply by integrating the social plug-ins, LinkedIn does not store any personal data. LinkedIn calls these data, which are generated by plug-ins, passive impressions. However, if you click on a social plug-in, for example to share our content, the platform stores personal data as so-called “active impressions”. This is the case regardless of whether you have a LinkedIn account or not. If you are logged in, the data collected is assigned to your account.

Your browser connects directly to LinkedIn’s servers when you interact with our plug-ins. In this way the company logs various usage data. In addition to your IP address, this may include login information, device information, or information about your Internet or mobile phone provider. If you access LinkedIn services via your smartphone, your location (after you have allowed it) can also be determined. LinkedIn may also share this information in “hashed” form with third party advertisers. Hashing means that a data record is converted into a character string. This allows you to encrypt the data in such a way that people cannot be identified.

Most data on your user behaviour is stored in cookies. These are small text files which are usually set in your browser. However, LinkedIn can also use web beacons, pixel tags, display tags and other device identifiers.

Various tests also show which cookies are set when a user interacts with a social plug-in. The data found cannot claim to be exhaustive and is only used as an example. The following cookies were set without being logged in to LinkedIn:

Name: bcookie
Value: =2&34aab2aa-2ae1-4d2a-8baf-c2e2d7235c16211131810-
Intended use: The cookie is a so-called “browser ID cookie” and therefore stores your identification number (ID).
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: lang
Value: v=2&lang=de-de
Intended use: This cookie saves your preset or preferred language.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: lidc
Value: 1818367:t=1571904767:s=AQF6KNnJ0G211131810…
Intended use: This cookie is used for routing. Routing records how you got to LinkedIn and how you navigate through the website.
Expiry date: after 24 hours

Name: rtc
Value: kt0lrv3NF3x3t6xvDgGrZGDKkX
Intended use: No further information could be obtained about this cookie.
Expiry date: after 2 minutes

Name: JSESSIONID
Value: ajax:2111318102900777718326218137
Intended use: This is a session cookie that LinkedIn uses to maintain anonymous user sessions through the server.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: bscookie
Value: „v=1&201910230812…
Intended use: This cookie is a security cookie. LinkedIn describes it as a secure browser ID cookie.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: fid
Value: AQHj7Ii23ZBcqAAAA…
Intended use: No further information could be found for this cookie.
Expiry date: after 7 days

Note: LinkedIn also works with third party providers. That’s why we recognised the two Google Analytics cookies _ga and _gat during our test.

How long and where is the data stored?

As a general rule, LinkedIn will retain your personal information for as long as the company considers it necessary to provide its services. However, LinkedIn will delete your personal information if you delete your account. In some exceptional cases, LinkedIn may retain some information in aggregate and anonymous form even after you delete your account. Once you delete your account, other people will not be able to see your information within one day. LinkedIn generally deletes the data within 30 days. LinkedIn does, however, retain data if required to do so by law. Data that can no longer be attributed to any person remains stored even after the account has been closed. The data is stored on various servers in America and probably also in Europe.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You have the right to access and delete your personal data at any time. In your LinkedIn account you can manage, modify and delete your data. You may also request a copy of your personal information from LinkedIn.

To access the account information in your LinkedIn profile

In LinkedIn, click on your profile icon and select the “Settings and privacy” section. Now click on “Privacy” and then click on “Change” in the section “How LinkedIn uses your data”. In a short time you will be able to download selected data about your web activity and account history.

You also have the option to disable LinkedIn’s data processing in your browser. As mentioned above, LinkedIn stores most data through cookies that are set in your browser. You can manage, disable or delete these cookies. Depending on which browser you have, the administration works slightly differently. The instructions for the most common browsers can be found here:

Chrome: Cookies in Chrome löschen, aktivieren und verwalten

Safari: Verwalten von Cookies und Websitedaten mit Safari

Firefox: Cookies löschen, um Daten zu entfernen, die Websites auf Ihrem Computer abgelegt haben

Internet Explorer: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

Microsoft Edge: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

You can also configure your browser so that you are always informed when a cookie is to be set. Then you can always decide individually whether you want to accept the cookie or not.

LinkedIn is an active participant of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. This framework ensures correct data transmission between the USA and the European Union. At https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L0UZAA0 learn more about it. We have tried to provide you with the most important information about data processing by LinkedIn. At https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy learn more about the data processing of the social media network LinkedIn.

XING Privacy Policy

On our website we use social plugins from the social media network Xing, the company Xing SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. These features allow you, for example, to share content on Xing directly via our website, log in via Xing or follow interesting content. You can recognise the plug-ins by the company name or the Xing logo. If you call up a website that uses a Xing plug-in, data can be transmitted to the “Xing servers”, stored and evaluated. In this data protection declaration, we would like to inform you about what data is involved and how you can manage or prevent this data storage.

What is Xing?

Xing is a social network with its headquarters in Hamburg. The company specialises in the management of professional contacts. This means that, unlike other networks, Xing is primarily about professional networking. The platform is often used for job searches or to find employees for your own company. Xing also offers interesting content on various professional topics. The global counterpart is the American company LinkedIn.

Why do we use Xing on our website?

There is now a flood of social media channels and we are well aware that your time is very precious. Not every social media channel of a company can be closely examined. That’s why we want to make life as easy as possible for you, so that you can share or follow interesting content directly through our website on Xing. With such “social plug-ins” we are expanding our service on our website. Furthermore, the data collected by Xing helps us to carry out targeted advertising measures on the platform. This means that our service is only shown to people who are really interested in it.

What data is stored by Xing?

Xing offers the Share button, Follow button and Log-in button as plug-ins for websites. As soon as you open a page where a social plug-in from Xing is installed, your browser connects to servers in a data centre used by Xing. In the case of the Share button, according to Xing, no data should be stored that could be directly related to a person. In particular, Xing does not store any IP address of yours. Furthermore, no cookies are set in connection with the Share button. Therefore, no evaluation of your user behaviour takes place. You can obtain further information about this via https://www.xing.com/app/share%3Fop%3Ddata_protection.

With the other Xing plug-ins, cookies are only set in your browser when you interact with the plug-in or click on it. Personal data such as your IP address, browser data, date and time of your page view at Xing can be stored here. If you have a XING account and are logged in, any data collected is assigned to your personal account and the data stored in it.

The following cookies are set in your browser when you click on the follow or log-in button and are not yet logged in to Xing. Please remember that this is an exemplary list and we cannot claim to be complete:

Name: AMCVS_0894FF2554F733210A4C98C6%40AdobeOrg
Value: 1
Intended use: This cookie is used to create and store site visitor identification.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: c_
Value: 157c609dc9fe7d7ff56064c6de87b019211131810-8
Intended use: We could not find any further information about this cookie.
Expiry date: after 1 day

Name: prevPage
Value: wbm%2FWelcome%2Flogin
Intended use: This cookie stores the URL of the previous website you have visited.
Expiry date: after 30 minutes

Name: s_cc
Value: true
Intended use: This Adobe Site Catalyst cookie determines whether cookies are always enabled in the browser.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: s_fid
Value: 6897CDCD1013221C-39DDACC982217CD1211131810-2
Intended use: This cookie is used to identify a unique visitor.
Expiry date: after 5 years

Name: visitor_id
Value: fe59fbe5-e9c6-4fca-8776-30d0c1a89c32
Intended use: The visitor cookie contains a unique visitor ID and the unique identifier for your account.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name:_session_id
Value: 533a0a6641df82b46383da06ea0e84e7211131810-2
Intended use: This cookie creates a temporary session ID that is used as an in-session user ID. The cookie is absolutely necessary to provide the functions of Xing.
Expiry date: after end of session

As soon as you log in to Xing or become a member, further personal data is definitely collected, processed and saved. Xing also passes on personal data to third parties if this is necessary for the fulfilment of its own business purposes, if you have given your consent or if there is a legal obligation to do so.

How long and where is the data stored?

Xing stores the data on different servers in various data centres. The company stores this data until you delete the data or until a user account is deleted. Of course, this only affects users who are already Xing members.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

You have the right to access and delete your personal data at any time. Even if you are not a Xing member, you can use your browser to prevent possible data processing or manage it according to your wishes. Most data is stored via cookies. Depending on which browser you have, the administration works slightly differently. The instructions for the most common browsers can be found here:

Chrome: Cookies in Chrome löschen, aktivieren und verwalten

Safari: Verwalten von Cookies und Websitedaten mit Safari

Firefox: Cookies löschen, um Daten zu entfernen, die Websites auf Ihrem Computer abgelegt haben

Internet Explorer: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

Microsoft Edge: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

You can also configure your browser so that you are always informed when a cookie is to be set. Then you can always decide individually whether you want to accept the cookie or not.

We have tried to provide you with the most important information about data processing by Xing. At https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung learn more about the data processing of the social media network Xing.

YouTube Privacy Policy

We have included YouTube videos on our website. So we can present interesting videos directly on our site. YouTube is a video portal that has been a subsidiary of Google since 2006. The video portal is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you call up a page on our website that has an embedded YouTube video, your browser automatically connects to the servers of YouTube or Google. Various data is transferred (depending on the settings). Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all data processing in the European area.

In the following we would like to explain to you in more detail what data is processed, why we have included YouTube videos and how you can manage or delete your data.

What is YouTube?

On YouTube, users can view, rate, comment on and upload videos for free. Over the last few years, YouTube has become one of the most important social media channels worldwide. To enable us to display videos on our website, YouTube provides a code snippet that we have integrated into our site.

Why do we use YouTube videos on our website?

YouTube is the video platform with the most visitors and the best content. We strive to provide you with the best possible user experience on our website. And of course, interesting videos should not be missing. With the help of our embedded videos, we provide you with further helpful content in addition to our texts and images. In addition, the embedded videos make our website easier to find on the Google search engine. Even if we use Google Ads to place advertisements, Google can – thanks to the data collected – really only show these ads to people who are interested in our offers.

What data is stored by YouTube?

As soon as you visit one of our pages that has a YouTube video embedded, YouTube at least sets a cookie that stores your IP address and our URL. If you are logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube can associate your interactions on our site with your profile, usually using cookies. This includes data such as session duration, bounce rate, approximate location, technical information such as browser type, screen resolution or your internet service provider. Other data may include contact information, any ratings, sharing content via social media or adding to your favourites on YouTube.

If you’re not signed in to a Google Account or YouTube account, Google stores data with a unique identifier associated with your device, browser or app. For example, your preferred language setting is retained. However, much interaction data cannot be stored because fewer cookies are set.

In the following list we show cookies that were set in a test in the browser. On the one hand, we show cookies that are set without a registered YouTube account. On the other hand we show cookies that are set with a registered account. The list cannot claim to be complete, because user data always depend on the interactions on YouTube.

Name: YSC
Value: b9-CV6ojI5Y211131810-1
Intended use: This cookie registers a unique ID to store statistics of the video viewed.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: PREF
Value: f1=50000000
Intended use: This cookie also registers your unique ID. Google gets statistics from PREF on how you use YouTube videos on our website.
Expiry date: after 8 month

Name: GPS
Value: 1
Intended use: This cookie registers your unique ID on mobile devices to track your GPS location.
Expiry date: after 30 minutes

Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Value: 95Chz8bagyU
Intended use: This cookie attempts to estimate the user’s bandwidth on our websites (with built-in YouTube video).
Expiry date: after 8 month

Other cookies that are set when you are logged in with your YouTube account:

Name: APISID
Value: zILlvClZSkqGsSwI/AU1aZI6HY7211131810-
Intended use: This cookie is used to create a profile of your interests. The data is used for personalised advertisements.
Ablaufdatum: after 2 years

Name: CONSENT
Value: YES+AT.de+20150628-20-0
Intended use: The cookie stores the status of a user’s consent to use various Google services. CONSENT is also used for security purposes, in order to verify users and protect user data from unauthorised attacks.
Expiry date: after 19 years

Name: HSID
Value: AcRwpgUik9Dveht0I
Intended use: This cookie is used to create a profile of your interests. This data helps us to display personalised advertising.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: LOGIN_INFO
Value: AFmmF2swRQIhALl6aL…
Intended use: Information about your login data is stored in this cookie.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: SAPISID
Value: 7oaPxoG-pZsJuuF5/AnUdDUIsJ9iJz2vdM
Intended use: This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. It is used to create a profile of your interests.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: SID
Value: oQfNKjAsI211131810-
Intended use: This cookie stores your Google Account ID and your last sign-in date in digitally signed and encrypted form.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: SIDCC
Value: AN0-TYuqub2JOcDTyL
Intended use: This cookie stores information about how you use the website and which advertisements you may have seen before visiting our site.
Expiry date: after 3 month

How long and where is the data stored?

The data that YouTube receives from you and processes are stored on Google’s servers. Most of these servers are located in America. At https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de you can see exactly where the Google data centres are located. Your data is distributed on the servers. So the data can be retrieved faster and is better protected against manipulation.

Google stores the collected data for varying lengths of time. Some data can be deleted at any time, others are automatically deleted after a limited time and some are stored by Google for a longer period of time. Some data (such as items from “My Activity”, photos or documents, products) stored in your Google Account will remain stored until you delete them. Even if you’re not signed in to a Google Account, you can delete some data associated with your device, browser, or app.

How can I delete my data or prevent the data storage?

In principle, you can manually delete data in your Google Account. With the automatic deletion function of location and activity data introduced in 2019, information is stored for either 3 or 18 months, depending on your decision, and then deleted.

Regardless of whether you have a Google Account or not, you can configure your browser to delete or disable Google cookies. This works in different ways depending on which browser you use. The following instructions will show you how to manage cookies in your browser:

Chrome: Cookies in Chrome löschen, aktivieren und verwalten

Safari: Verwalten von Cookies und Websitedaten mit Safari

Firefox: Cookies löschen, um Daten zu entfernen, die Websites auf Ihrem Computer abgelegt haben

Internet Explorer: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

Microsoft Edge: Löschen und Verwalten von Cookies

If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can set up your browser so that it always informs you when a cookie is to be set. In this way, you can decide for each individual cookie whether you wish to allow it or not. Since YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, there is a common data protection declaration. If you want to learn more about how we handle your data, we recommend you read the privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Zoom Privacy Policy

We use the video conferencing tool Zoom from the American software company Zoom Video Communications for our website. Headquartered in San Jose, 55 Almaden Boulevard, 6th Floor, CA 95113, Zoom enables us to hold video conferences with customers, business partners, clients and even employees easily and without installing any software. In this privacy policy, we go into more detail about the service and inform you about the most important aspects relevant to data protection.

What is Zoom?

Zoom is one of the world’s most popular video conferencing solutions. With the Zoom Meetings service, for example, we can hold an online video conference with you, but also with employees or other users via a digital conference room. In this way, we can very easily establish digital contact, exchange information on various topics, send text messages or even make phone calls. In addition, you can also use zoom to split the screen, exchange files and use a whiteboard.

Why do we use Zoom on our website?

It is important to us that we can communicate with you quickly and easily. And this is exactly what Zoom offers us. The software programme also works directly via a browser. This means we can simply send you a link and start the video conference. Of course, additional functions such as screen sharing or the exchange of files are also very practical.

What data is saved by Zoom?

If you use Zoom, data is also collected from you so that Zoom can provide its services. On the one hand, this is data that you consciously provide to the company. This includes, for example, your name, telephone number or e-mail address. However, data is also automatically transmitted to Zoom and stored. This includes, for example, technical data of your browser or your IP address. In the following we will go into more detail about the data that Zoom can collect and save from you:

If you provide data such as your name, user name, e-mail address or telephone number, this data is stored by Zoom. Content that you upload while using Zoom is also stored. This includes, for example, files or chat transcripts.

The technical data that Zoom automatically saves include, in addition to the IP address already mentioned above, the MAC address, other device IDs, device type, which operating system you use, which client you use, camera type, microphone and loudspeaker type. Your approximate location is also determined and stored. Furthermore, Zoom also stores information about how you use the service. For example, whether you “zoom” via desktop or smartphone, whether you use a telephone call or VoIP, whether you participate with or without video, or whether you request a password. Zoom also records so-called metadata such as the duration of the meeting/call, the start and end of the meeting participation, the meeting name and chat status.

Zoom mentions in its own privacy policy that the company does not use advertising cookies or tracking technologies for your services. Only on its own marketing websites such as www.zoom.us these tracking methods are used. Zoom does not sell on personal data and does not use them for advertising purposes.

How long and where is the data stored?

Zoom gibt diesbezüglich keinen konkreten Zeitrahmen bekannt, sondern betont, dass die erhobenen Daten solange gespeichert bleiben, wie es zur Bereitstellung der Dienste bzw. für die eigenen Zwecke nötig ist. Länger werden die Daten nur gespeichert, wenn dies aus rechtlichen Gründen gefordert wird.

Grundsätzlich speichert Zoom die erhobenen Daten auf amerikanischen Servern, aber Daten können weltweit auf unterschiedlichen Rechenzentren eintreffen.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

If you do not want data to be saved during the zoom meeting, you will have to skip the meeting. However, you always have the right and the possibility to have all your personal data deleted. If you have a zoom account, you can find it under https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201363243-How-Do-I-Delete-Terminate-My-Account instructions on how to delete your account.

Zoom Video Communications is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. More information can be found on https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TNkCAAW&status=Active.
We hope to have given you an overview of the data processing by zoom. Of course, it can always happen that the company’s data protection guidelines change. For more information, we therefore also recommend that you read the Zoom data protection declaration at https://zoom.us/de-de/privacy.html.

Google reCAPTCHA Privacy Policy

Our ultimate goal is to make our website as secure and secure as possible for you and for us. To ensure this, we use Google reCAPTCHA from Google Inc. For the European area, the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. With reCAPTCHA we can determine whether you are really a flesh and blood human being and not a robot or other spam software. By spam we mean any unsolicited information sent to us by electronic means. With the classic CAPTCHAS, you usually had to solve text or image puzzles in order to check them. With reCAPTCHA from Google we usually do not have to bother you with such puzzles. In most cases it is sufficient to simply check the box and confirm that you are not a bot. With the new Invisible reCAPTCHA version, you don’t even have to check the box. How exactly this works and above all which data is used for this purpose, you will learn in the course of this data protection declaration.

What is reCAPTCHA?

reCAPTCHA is a free captcha service from Google that protects websites from spam software and abuse by non-human visitors. This service is most often used when you fill in forms on the internet. A captcha service is a kind of automatic Turing test, which is intended to ensure that an action on the internet is performed by a human and not a bot. In the classic Turing test (named after the computer scientist Alan Turing) a human being determines the difference between a bot and a human being. In captchas this is also done by the computer or a software program. Classical Captchas work with small tasks that are easy to solve for humans, but have considerable difficulties for machines. With reCAPTCHA you don’t have to actively solve puzzles anymore. The tool uses modern risk techniques to distinguish humans from bots. Here you only have to tick the text field “I am not a robot” or with Invisible reCAPTCHA even this is no longer necessary. With reCAPTCHA a JavaScript element is integrated into the source code and then the tool runs in the background and analyses your user behaviour. From these user actions the software calculates a so-called Captcha-Score. Google uses this score to calculate the probability that you are a human being even before you enter the captcha. reCAPTCHA or captchas in general are always used when bots could manipulate or abuse certain actions (such as registrations, surveys, etc.).

Why do we use reCAPTCHA on our website?

We only want to welcome flesh and blood people on our side. Bots or spam software of all kinds can safely stay at home. That is why we do our utmost to protect ourselves and offer the best possible user-friendliness for you. For this reason we use Google reCAPTCHA from the company Google. So we can be pretty sure that we remain a “bot-free” website. Through the use of reCAPTCHA, data is transmitted to Google to determine whether you are really a human being. reCAPTCHA thus serves the security of our website and consequently your security. For example, without reCAPTCHA it could happen that a bot registers as many e-mail addresses as possible during registration in order to “spam” forums or blogs with unwanted advertising content. With reCAPTCHA we can avoid such bot attacks.

Which data is stored by reCAPTCHA?

reCAPTCHA sammelt personenbezogene Daten von Usern, um festzustellen, ob die actions on our website really do come from people. The IP address and other data that Google requires for the reCAPTCHA service can therefore be sent to Google. IP addresses are almost always shortened within the member states of the EU or other states that are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before the data lands on a server in the USA. The IP address is not combined with any other data held by Google unless you are logged into your Google Account while using reCAPTCHA. First, the reCAPTCHA algorithm checks whether Google cookies from other Google services (YouTube, Gmail, etc.) are already placed on your browser. Then reCAPTCHA sets an additional cookie in your browser and takes a snapshot of your browser window.

The following list of collected browser and user data does not claim to be complete. Rather, they are examples of data which, to our knowledge, are processed by Google.

Referrer URL (the address of the page from which the visitor comes)
IP address (for example, 256.123.123.1)
Information about the operating system (the software that enables your computer to operate. Known operating systems are Windows, Mac OS X or Linux)
Cookies (small text files that store data in your browser)
Mouse and keyboard behaviour (every action you perform with the mouse or keyboard is saved)
Date and language settings (which language or date you have preset on your PC is saved)
All Javascript objects (JavaScript is a programming language that enables websites to adapt to the user. JavaScript objects can collect all kinds of data under one name)
Screen resolution (shows how many pixels the image consists of)

It is indisputable that Google uses and analyses this data even before you click on the checkbox “I am not a robot”. With the Invisible reCAPTCHA version, even the ticking is omitted and the whole recognition process runs in the background. How much and what kind of data Google exactly stores, you will not find out from Google in detail.

The following cookies are used by reCAPTCHA: Here we refer to the reCAPTCHA demo version of Google at https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo. All these cookies require a unique identifier for tracking purposes. Here is a list of cookies that Google reCAPTCHA has set on the demo version

Name: IDE
Value: WqTUmlnmv_qXyi_DGNPLESKnRNrpgXoy1K-pAZtAkMbHI-211131810-8
Intended use: This cookie is set by DoubleClick (also owned by Google) to register and report the actions of a user on the website in handling advertisements. This allows the effectiveness of the advertising to be measured and appropriate optimisation measures to be taken. IDE is stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net.
Expiry date: after 1 year

Name: 1P_JAR
Value: 2019-5-14-12
Intended use: This cookie collects statistics on website usage and measures conversions. A conversion occurs, for example, when a user becomes a buyer. The cookie is also used to show users relevant advertisements. Furthermore, the cookie can be used to prevent a user from seeing the same advertisement more than once.
Expiry date: after 1 month

Name: ANID
Value: U7j1v3dZa2111318100xgZFmiqWppRWKOr
Intended use: We could not find out much information about this cookie. In Google’s privacy policy, the cookie is mentioned in connection with “advertising cookies” such as “DSID”, “FLC”, “AID”, “TAID”. ANID is stored under the domain google.com.
Expiry date: after 9 months

Name: CONSENT
Value: YES+AT.de+20150628-20-0
Intended use: The cookie stores the status of a user’s consent to use various Google services. CONSENT is also used for security purposes to verify users, prevent fraudulent use of login information and protect user data from unauthorised attacks..
Expiry date: after 19 years

Name: NID
Value: 0WmuWqy211131810zILzqV_nmt3sDXwPeM5Q
Intended use: NID is used by Google to match ads to your Google search. Google uses the cookie to “remember” your most commonly entered search queries or your previous interaction with ads. So you always get tailor-made ads. The cookie contains a unique ID in order to collect the user’s personal settings for advertising purposes.
Expiry date: after 6 month

Name: DV
Value: gEAABBCjJMXcI0dSAAAANbqc211131810-4
Intended use: As soon as you tick the “I am not a robot” box, this cookie is set. The cookie is used by Google Analytics for personalised advertising. DV collects information in anonymous form and is also used to make user distinctions.
Expiry date: after 10 minutes

Note: This list cannot claim to be exhaustive, as experience has shown that Google always changes the choice of its cookies.

How long and where is the data stored?

By inserting reCAPTCHA, data is transferred from you to the Google server. Where exactly this data is stored is not clearly shown by Google, even after repeated requests. Without having received confirmation from Google, it can be assumed that data such as mouse interaction, time spent on the website or language settings are stored on the European or American Google servers. The IP address that your browser transmits to Google is generally not merged with other Google data from other Google services. However, if you are logged into your Google account while using the reCAPTCHA plug-in, the data will be merged. The different data protection regulations of Google apply to this.

How can I delete my data or prevent the data storage?

If you do not want any data about you or your behaviour to be transmitted to Google, you must log off completely from Google and delete all Google cookies before you visit our website or use the reCAPTCHA software. In principle, the data is automatically transmitted to Google as soon as you visit our website. In order to delete this data again, you must contact Google Support at https://support.google.com/?hl=de&tid=211131810 .

So when you use our website, you agree that Google LLC and its agents may automatically collect, process and use data.

You can learn more about reCAPTCHA on Google’s web development page at https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/. Google goes into more detail about the technical development of reCAPTCHA, but exact information about data storage and data protection relevant topics is also searched for there in vain. A good overview of the basic use of data at Google can be found in the company’s own privacy policy at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

jQuery CDN Privacy Policy

In order to deliver our website or all our individual sub-pages (web pages) to you quickly and easily on different devices, we use services of jQuery CDN of the jQuery Foundation company. jQuery is distributed via the Content Delivery Network (CDN) of the American software company StackPath (LCC 2012 McKinney Ave. Suite 1100, Dallas, TX 75201, USA). This service stores, manages and processes personal data about you.

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a network of regionally distributed servers that are connected to each other via the Internet. Through this network, content, especially very large files, can be delivered quickly, even during large load peaks.

jQuery uses JavaScript libraries to deliver our website content quickly. A CDN server loads the necessary files. As soon as a connection to the CDN server is established, your IP address is recorded and saved. This only happens if this data has not already been saved in your browser as a result of a previous website visit.

In StackPath’s privacy policy it is explicitly mentioned that StackPath uses aggregated and anonymised data from various services (such as jQuery) to enhance security and for its own services. However, this data cannot identify you as a person.

If you do not want this data transmission to occur, you always have the option of using Java Script blockers such as ghostery.com oder noscript.net to be installed. You can also simply deactivate the execution of JavaScript codes in your browser. If you decide to deactivate JavaScript codes, the usual functions will also change. For example, a website will no longer load as quickly.

StackPath is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. More information can be found on https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000CbahAAC&status=Active.
More information about StackPath’s privacy policy can be found at https://www.stackpath.com/legal/privacy-statement/ and to jQuery at https://openjsf.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/84/2019/11/OpenJS-Foundation-Privacy-Policy-2019-11-15.pdf.

Cloudflare privacy policy

We use Cloudflare from Cloudflare, Inc. on this website (101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA) to make our website faster and more secure. Cloudflare uses cookies and processes user data. Cloudflare, Inc. is an American company that offers a content delivery network and various security services. These services are located between the user and our hosting provider. What this all means exactly, we try to explain in the following.

What is Cloudflare?

A Content Delivery Network (CDN), as provided by Cloudflare, is nothing more than a network of connected servers. Cloudflare has distributed such servers all over the world to bring websites to your screen faster. Simply put, Cloudflare makes copies of our website and places them on their own servers. When you visit our website now, a load balancing system ensures that most of our website is delivered from the server that can display our website the fastest. The distance of data transfer to your browser is considerably shortened by a CDN. This means that the content of our website is delivered to you by Cloudflare not only from our hosting server, but from servers all over the world. The use of Cloudflare is especially helpful for users from abroad, because here the page can be delivered from a server nearby. Besides the fast delivery of websites Cloudflare also offers various security services, such as DDoS protection or the Web Application Firewall.

Why we use Cloudflare on our website?

Of course we want to offer you the best possible service with our website. Cloudflare helps us to make our website faster and more secure. Cloudflare offers us web optimizations as well as security services like DDoS protection and web firewall. This also includes a reverse proxy and the content distribution network (CDN). Cloudflare blocks threats and limits abusive bots and crawlers that waste our bandwidth and server resources. By storing our website in local data centres and blocking spam software, Cloudflare enables us to reduce our bandwidth usage by around 60%. Delivering content from a data centre near you and some web optimisations performed there reduces the average loading time of a website by about half. According to Cloudflare, the “I’m Under Attack Mode” setting can mitigate further attacks by displaying a JavaScript calculation task that must be solved before a user can access a website. Overall, this makes our website much more powerful and less susceptible to spam or other attacks..

What data is stored by Cloudflare?

Cloudflare generally only forwards those data that are controlled by website operators. The contents are therefore not determined by Cloudflare, but always by the website operator himself. In addition, Cloudflare may collect certain information about the use of our website and process data that is sent by us or for which Cloudflare has received appropriate instructions. In most cases Cloudflare receives data such as IP address, contact and protocol information, security fingerprints and performance data for websites. Log data helps Cloudflare to identify new threats, for example. In this way Cloudflare can ensure a high level of security protection for our website. Cloudflare processes this data within the framework of the services in compliance with the applicable laws. Of course, this also includes the basic data protection regulation (DSGVO).

For security reasons Cloudflare also uses a cookie. The cookie (__cfduid) is used to identify individual users behind a shared IP address and to apply security settings for each individual user. This cookie is very useful if, for example, you are using our website from a location where there are a number of infected computers. However, if your computer is trustworthy, we can recognise this from the cookie. In this way, you can surf through our website without any worries or problems, even if there are infected PCs in your environment. It is also important to know that this cookie does not store any personal data. This cookie is absolutely necessary for the Cloudflare security functions and cannot be deactivated.

Cookies from Cloudflare

Name: __cfduid
Value: d798bf7df9c1ad5b7583eda5cc5e78211131810-3
Intended use: Security settings for each individual visitor
Expiry date: after one year

Cloudflare also works together with third party suppliers. These may only process personal data under instructions from Cloudflare and in accordance with the privacy policy and other confidentiality and security measures. Cloudflare will not pass on personal data without our explicit consent.

How long and where is the data stored?

Cloudflare stores your information mainly in the USA and the European Economic Area. Cloudflare can transfer and access the above described information from all over the world. In general Cloudflare stores user level data for domains in the Free, Pro and Business versions for less than 24 hours. For Enterprise domains that have Cloudflare Logs (formerly Enterprise LogShare or ELS) enabled, data can be stored for up to 7 days. However, if IP addresses trigger security warnings during cloudflare, exceptions to the above retention period may occur.

How can I delete my data or prevent the data storage?

Cloudflare keeps data logs only as long as necessary and in most cases these data are deleted within 24 hours. Cloudflare also does not store any personal data, such as your IP address. However, there is information that Cloudflare stores indefinitely as part of its permanent logs to improve the overall performance of Cloudflare Resolver and to identify any security risks. Exactly which permanent logs are stored can be viewed at https://www.cloudflare.com/application/privacypolicy/ read more. All data that Cloudflare collects (temporary or permanent) will be cleaned from all personal data. All permanent logs are also anonymised by Cloudflare.

Cloudflare states in their privacy policy that they are not responsible for the content they receive. For example, if you ask Cloudflare whether they can update or delete your content, Cloudflare will always refer to us as the website operator. You can also completely stop the entire collection and processing of your data by Cloudflare by deactivating the execution of script code in your browser or by integrating a script blocker into your browser.

Cloudflare is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure data transfer of personal data. You can find more information about this on https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnZKAA0.
More information on data protection at Cloudflare can be found at https://www.cloudflare.com/de-de/privacypolicy/

BootstrapCDN privacy policy

In order to be able to deliver all our individual web pages (subpages of our website) to you quickly and securely on all devices, we use the Content Delivery Network (CDN) BootstrapCDN of the American software company StackPath, LLC 2012 McKinney Ave. Suite 1100, Dallas, TX 75201, USA.

BootstrapCDN works by delivering so-called JavaScript libraries to your browser. If your browser now downloads a file from BootstrapCDN, your IP address is transmitted to the company StockPath during the connection to the BootstrapCDN server.

StackPath also mentions in its own privacy policy that the company uses aggregated and anonymised data from various services (such as BootstrapCDN) for backup enhancement and for other StackPath services and clients. However, all this data cannot identify any person.

If you want to prevent this data transfer, you can use a JavaScript blocker (see for example https://noscript.net/) or disable the execution of JavaScript codes in your browser. Please note, however, that this means that the website can no longer offer the usual service (such as fast loading speed).

StackPath is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. More information can be found on https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000CbahAAC&status=Active.
You can find more information about StackPath or BootstrapCDN data protection at https://www.bootstrapcdn.com/privacy-policy/.

Source: Created with the data protection generator of firmenwebseiten.at