Privacy statement

Privacy statement

The bc-technology GmbH with the head office at Carl-Zeiss-Straße 4, 72636 Frickenhausen (Germany) is the operator of this website and takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. The collection, processing and use of personal data under the German Telemedia Act and the Federal Data Protection Act is always confidential and in accordance with this Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement covers all websites of bc-technology. These may contain links to external websites to which this Privacy Statement does not extend.

We will inform you in the following which data we collect, how they are processed by us and what rights can you expect from us.

§ 1 Information on the collection of personal data

(1) In the following we would like to inform you about the collection of personal data while using our website. Personal data is all data that is personally identifiable to you, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behaviour.

(2) Responsible as per Article 4 Paragraph 7 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is

bc-technology GmbH
Carl-Zeiss-Straße 4
72636 Frickenhausen
Germany
 
Phone: +49 7022 729 71-0
E-Mail: datenschutz(at)bc-technology(dot)de

You can contact our data protection officer under datenschutz(at)bc-technology(dot)de or by using our postal address with the addition “Data Protection Officer”.

(3) When contacting us per email or via our contact form, the data you provide (your email address, if applicable your title, name, company and your telephone number and/or address as well as areas of interest) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data arising in this context after the storage is no longer necessary, or limit the processing if statutory storage obligations exist.


(4) If we make use of contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you below in detail about the respective processes. We will also specify the defined criteria for the storage period.

§ 2 Your rights

 1) You have the following rights towards us with regard to personal data concerning you:

 – Right to information,
– Right to correction or deletion,
– Right to restrict processing,
– Right to object to processing,
– Right to data portability.

 (2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.

§ 3 Collection of personal data while visiting our website

(1) When using the website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data which is necessary for us to display our website to you and to guarantee stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 Para 1 s. 1 lit. f GDPR):

– IP address
– Date and time of the request
– Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
– Content of the request (specific page)
– Access status/http status code
– The amount of data transferred in each case
– Website from which the request comes
– Browser
– Operating system and its interface
– Language and version of the browser software.

(2) In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard disk specifically allocated to the browser you use through which the party setting the cookie receives certain information (here by us). Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make Internet services more user-friendly and effective overall.

(3) Use of cookies:

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

– Transient cookies (see b)
– Persistent cookies (see c).

b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. This includes in particular the session cookies. These save a so-called session ID, with which different requests of your browser can be assigned to the common session. This will allow your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log off or close the browser.

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

d) You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes 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.

e) Analysis Tools
The tracking measures listed below and used by us are based on Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. With the tracking measures to be used, we want to ensure a needs-based design and the continuous optimisation of our website. On the other hand, we use the tracking measures to statistically record the use of our website and evaluate it for the purpose of optimising our offer for you. These interests are to be regarded as justified within the meaning of the aforementioned provision.

The respective data processing purposes and data categories can be found in the corresponding tracking tools.

 1) Google Analytics

For the purpose of customising and continually optimising our pages, we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (https://www.google.de/intl/de/about/) (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter "Google"). In this context, pseudonymised usage profiles are created and cookies (see point 4) are used. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website such as

- Browser Type/Version,
- operating system used,
- Referrer URL (the previously visited page),
- Host name of the accessing computer (IP-Address),
- Time of the server query,

are transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the United States. The information is used to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage for the purposes of market research and tailor-made website design. Google may also send this information to third parties, to the extent required by law or if third parties process this data on order. Under no circumstances will your IP address be merged with any other data provided by Google. The IP addresses are anonymised, so that an assignment is not possible (IP masking).

You can prevent the installation of cooking through a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, please note that by doing so you might not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible.

You may also prevent the collection of the cookie-generated and website-related information (including your IP address) by Google and the processing of such data by Google by downloading and installing the browser add-on  (https://tools.google.com/ dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

As an alternative to the browser add-on, especially for browsers on mobile devices, you can prevent the collection by Google Analytics by clicking on this link. This method sets an opt-out cookie that prevents the future collection of your data when you visit this site. The opt-out cookie is only valid in this browser and only for our website and is stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in this browser, you must reset the respective opt-out cookie again.

For more information about data protection related to Google Analytics, see the Google Analytics Help Centre  (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de).

2) Google Adwords Conversion Tracking

To statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimising our website, we also use Google conversion tracking. Thereby Google Adwords sets a cookie (see Item 4) on your computer if you have reached our website via a Google ad.

These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of the Adwords customer's website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and the customer can recognise that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page.

Every Adwords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can not be tracked through AdWords customer websites. The information gathered using the conversion cookie is used to generate visit action evaluation statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Adwords customers learn about the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a conversion tracking tag page. However, they do not receive information that personally identifies users. If you do not wish to participate in the tracking process, you can also refuse the required setting of a cookie - for example, via a browser setting that generally disables the automatic setting of cookies. You can also disable cookies for conversion tracking by setting your browser to block cookies from the domain „www.googleadservices.com“ . Google's privacy policy for conversion tracking can be found here (https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html).
 
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