• Use and Circulation of Data

  All personal data communicated to us via web page or email (such as your name and address or your e-mail address) are only used to communicate with you solely for the purpose for which you made this information available.
  
  All information collected on this website is transferred to the responsible department within our group. Should you send us an initial application through our job pages, your data may be viewed by our recruitment staff responsible for open vacancies as well as by human resources supervisors. Beyond this we assure you never to disclose your personal information to a third party, unless we are legally obligated or you allow us to do so. Certainly you are entitled to object at any time to our handling of your data.
  
  Articles in our discussion forum are open to everyone. You should carefully check your contribution previous to publication to make sure that they do not contain details that are off the record. You must reckon that your comments might be detected by search engines and are accessible globally even without explicit visit to our website.

• Approval and Cancellation

  You may delete any personal information at any time. Data concerning claims or accounting purposes are not affected by termination/cancellation and deletion, respectively. Incidentally, your e-mail address, your phone and/or mobile and fax number may not be used for advertising or market and opinion research without your consent. You may give your consent electronically when entering your data and at any other time in the future you may withdraw it.
  
  Personal data that was provided through our website are only stored for as long as they serve the purpose for which you have entrusted them to us. As far as book and tax law retention periods must be obeyed, certain data might be kept up to 10 years.

• Rights of all Concerned

  Should you no longer agree to storing your personal information or should they no longer be valid, we will - on instructions received - initiate purging or blocking of your information or carry out necessary updates as far as this is permitted by legal regulations. By request you will receive details of all your personal data that we have stored free of charge.

• Links to other Websites

  Occasionally we refer to websites of third parties. Even though we handpick these third parties carefully we can not guarantee or assume responsibility for the correctness or the integrity of the content of third party websites and their data security. Thus, web pages that we link to are not covered by this Internet Privacy Policy.

• Updates to our Internet Privacy Policy

  When introducing new products or services or when changing Internet proceedings, or if web and IT security techniques are further developed this Internet Privacy Policy will be updated. Therefore, we reserve our right to adjust or update this policy as required. Modifications will be announced here. In order to be informed about our latest policy, you should visit this web page regularly.

• Liability

  All information on this website has been checked with great care. Still, we can not guarantee that the content of our own website is at all times correct, complete and fully up-to-date.

• Transmission Mode

  Generally the World Wide Web is considered to be an insecure medium. Compared to a telephone circuit or transmission of data over the Internet for example may easily be tapped, recorded or even modified by unauthorized third parties. To ensure confidential communication, we use SSL (secure socket layer) encryption. At the current standard of knowledge the possible encryption of 128 Bit is regarded as safe. All browsers of the latest generation achieve this security level. You may need to update your browser.

• Control and Monitoring Measures

  A firewall system inhibits external admission. When transmitting, several levels of encryption and identification exclude unauthorized requests or trapping of customer data.

• Use of Cookies

  A cookie is a small text file, that is stored on the computer of the Internet user. The intended purpose is to control access during your visit to websites. They can contain purely technical information and no personal data. We do not use cookies.
  
  You do not need cookies to benefit from our websites. Most browsers are set up to automatically accept cookies.
  You can deactivate the saving of cookies or set your browser so that, you are notified as soon as a cookie is sent to you.

• Individual Access to Pages

  Your personal information is used to display contents and promotion matching your interests.

• In-House Safety Measures

  To guarantee confidentiality and safety of your personal data we apply the following in-house safety measures:

  • We only use your information – as far as disclosed on our website or within email communication - to meet your request or concern.
  • Our employees are bound to a non-disclosure agreement.
  • Our safety precautions meet best available technology to a fair extent.
  • ·Our systems are regularly safety controlled in order to effectively safeguard against possible damage, loss of or access to data maintained.
  • Our data security officer ensures that the Internet Privacy Policy is observed.

• Important Information to Improve Data Security

  • You can set your browser, so that you are notified as soon as cookies come in. You can then either accept or reject them in general or in each individual case. See further details on browser configurations here.
  • You can identify a secure Internet connection by the address. If it starts with https (https://…de) you can rest assured that it is safe. A further indication is the locked lock in the status bar of your browser.
  • We will never ask confidential data of you by email, by phone or by SMS such as your account/customer number, your PIN or your password. And we will also never ask you to indicate this information or to enter such data, directly.
  • Install only programmes received from trustworthy sources. Take highest precautions particularly with regard to downloads from the Internet.
  • Never install or start programmes received from unknown persons or install and start programmes which arrive unsolicited by email from strangers or acquaintances. Caution: screen savers are programmes, too.
  • If you have the slightest doubt as to the integrity of a programme, refrain from installing it.
  • Install a virus scanner and activate it frequently to check for viruses. Make sure that you install the available updates regularly which are provided by all major manufacturers of virus scanner.

Should you not approve of the above stated measures for data protection or should they not meet your expectations do not hesitate to contact us. And if you have any questions concerning input, processing and/or use of your personal data we will be happy to hear from you. We will come back to you as quickly as possible and will consider your suggestions.

Please contact our Data Protection Rep! E-Mail Contact