Privacy Policy Table of Contents Privacy Automatic Data Storage Cookies Storage of Personal Data Rights under the General Data Protection Regulation Evaluation of Visitor Behavior TLS Encryption with https Google Maps Privacy Policy Google Fonts Privacy Policy Google Fonts Local Privacy Policy OpenStreetMap Privacy Policy Google Tag Manager Privacy Policy Embedded Social Media Elements Privacy Policy Facebook Privacy Policy Instagram Privacy Policy Twitter Privacy Policy LinkedIn Privacy Policy Pinterest Privacy Policy XING Privacy Policy YouTube Privacy Policy Vimeo Privacy Policy SoundCloud Privacy Policy Zoom Privacy Policy AdSimple Cookie Manager Privacy Policy Google reCAPTCHA User Defined Google Search Privacy Policy Sofortüberweisung Privacy Policy We have created this privacy policy (version 10/14/2020-11. 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. Automatic data storage When you visit websites these days, 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 stores data such as the address (URL) of the accessed website 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 device from which access is made date and time in files (web server log files). As a rule, web server log files are stored for two weeks and then automatically deleted. We do not pass on this data, but we cannot exclude the possibility that this data may be viewed in the event of unlawful behavior. Cookies Our website uses HTTP cookies to store user-specific data. In the following, 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 browse the Internet, you use a browser. Popular 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 thing can’t be denied: Cookies are really useful little helpers. Almost all websites use cookies. More precisely, they are HTTP cookies, as there are other cookies for other applications. HTTP cookies are small files that are stored on your computer by our website. These cookie files are automatically placed in the cookie folder, effectively 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 return to our site, your browser transmits the “user-related” information back to our site. Thanks to the cookies, our site 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 websites (e.g. Google Analytics). Each cookie must be evaluated individually, as each cookie stores different data. Also, the expiration time of a cookie 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: GA1.2.1326744211.152111432979-9 Purpose: to distinguish website visitors Expiration date: after 2 years A browser should be able to support these minimum sizes: At least 4096 bytes per cookie At least 50 cookies per domain At least 3000 cookies total What are the types of cookies? The question of which cookies we use in particular depends on the services we use 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. We can distinguish 4 types of cookies: Essential cookies These cookies are necessary to ensure basic website functionality. For example, these cookies are needed when a user adds a product to the shopping cart, then continues browsing on other pages, and only later goes to the checkout. These cookies do not delete the shopping cart even if the user closes his browser window. Purposeful cookies These cookies collect information about user behavior and whether the user receives any error messages. In addition, these cookies are also used to measure the loading time and the behavior of the website with different browsers. Target-oriented cookies These cookies provide 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 customized advertising to the user. This can be very convenient, but also very annoying. Usually, when you visit a website for the first time, you are asked which of these cookie types you want 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 to delete, disable or only partially allow cookies. For example, you can block third-party cookies but allow all other cookies. If you want to find out which cookies have been stored in your browser, if you want to change or delete cookie settings, you can find it in your browser settings: Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies If you generally don’t want cookies, you can set your browser to notify you whenever a cookie is about to be set. This way, you can decide for each individual cookie whether you allow it or not. The procedure varies depending on the browser. It is best to search for the instructions in Google using the search term “delete cookies Chrome” or “disable cookies Chrome” in the case of a Chrome browser. What about my privacy? Since 2009, there are the so-called “Cookie Guidelines”.This states that storing cookies requires your consent. Within the EU countries, however, there are still very different reactions to these directives. In Austria, however, this directive was implemented in Section 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”. Storage of personal data Personal data that you transmit to us electronically on this website, such as name, e-mail address, address or other personal information in the context of submitting a form or comments on the blog, will be used by us together with the time and IP address only for the purpose stated in each case, kept secure and not disclosed to third parties. We thus use your personal data only for communication with those visitors who expressly request contact and for the processing of the services and products offered on this website. We do not disclose your personal data without your consent, but we cannot exclude the possibility that this data may be accessed in the event of unlawful conduct. If you send us personal data by e-mail - thus away from 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. Rights according to the General Data Protection Regulation According to the provisions of the DSGVO and the Austrian Data Protection Act (DSG), you are generally entitled to the following rights: Right to rectification (Article 16 DSGVO) Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”) (Article 17 DSGVO) Right to restriction of processing (Article 18 DSGVO) Right to notification - obligation to notify in connection with the rectification or erasure of personal data or the restriction of processing (Article 19 DSGVO) Right to data portability (Article 20 DSGVO) Right to object (Article 21 DSGVO) Right, Not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing - including profiling (Article 22 DSGVO) If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or your data protection rights have otherwise been violated in any way, you may lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, which in Austria is the Data Protection Authority, whose website can be found at https: //www. dsb.gv.at/. Evaluation of visitor behavior In the following privacy policy, 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 can not conclude from your behavior on this website to your person. You can find out more about ways to object to this analysis of visit data in the following privacy policy. TLS encryption with https We use https to transmit data tap-proof on the Internet (data protection by design of technology Article 25(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 recognize the use of this protection of data transmission by the small lock symbol at the top left of the browser and the use of the scheme https (instead of http) as part of our Internet address. Google Maps Privacy Policy We use on our website Google Maps 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. Google Maps allows us to better show you locations and thus adapt our service to your needs. By using Google Maps, data is transmitted to Google and stored on Google servers. Here we will now go into more detail about what Google Maps is, why we use this Google service, what data is stored and how you can prevent this. What is Google Maps? Google Maps is an internet map service provided by Google. With Google Maps, you can search for exact locations of cities, landmarks, accommodations or businesses online via a PC, tablet or app. If companies are represented on Google My Business, other information about the company is displayed in addition to the location. To show how to get there, map sections of a location can be embedded in a website using HTML code. Google Maps shows the earth’s surface as a street 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. By integrating Google Maps we can provide you with the most important information about various locations. You can see at a glance where we are located. The directions always show you the best or fastest way to us. You can get the directions for routes by car, by public transport, on foot or by bike. For us, the provision of Google Maps is part of our customer service. What data is stored by Google Maps? In order for Google Maps to fully provide their service, the company must record and store data from you. This includes, among other things, the search terms entered, your IP address and also the latitude or longitude coordinates. If you use the route planner function, the start address entered is also stored. However, this data storage happens on the websites of Google Maps. We can only inform you about this, but have no influence. 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 behavior. Google uses this data primarily to optimize its own services and to provide individual, personalized advertising for you. The following cookie is set in your browser due to the integration of Google Maps: Name: NID Value: 188=h26c1Ktha7fCQTx8rXgLyATyITJ111432979-5 Purpose: NID is used by Google to customize advertisements to your Google search. With the help of the cookie, Google “remembers” your most frequently entered search queries or your previous interaction with ads. This way, you will always get tailored ads. The cookie contains a unique ID that Google uses to collect your personal preferences for advertising purposes. Expiration date: after 6 months Note: We cannot guarantee completeness in the details of the stored data. Especially when using cookies, changes can never be excluded. 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? Google servers are located in data centers 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 centers are located: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de Google distributes the data on different data carriers. This means that the data can be retrieved more quickly and is better protected against any attempts at manipulation. Each data center also has special emergency programs. For example, if there are problems with Google’s hardware or a natural disaster cripples the servers, the data will pretty much remain protected anyway. Google stores some data for a set period of time. For other data, Google only offers the option to delete it manually. Furthermore, the company also anonymizes 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 location and activity data deletion feature introduced in 2019, location and web/app activity information will be stored for either 3 or 18 months, depending on your decision, and then deleted. In addition, 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 tracking, you need to pause the “Web and App Activity” section in Google Account. Click “Data and Personalization” and then click the “Activity Setting” option. Here you can turn the activities on or off. In your browser, you can also deactivate, delete or manage individual cookies. Depending on which browser you use, this always works slightly differently. The following instructions show how to manage cookies in your browser: Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies If you generally don’t want cookies, you can set up your browser so that it always informs you when a cookie is to be set. This way, you can decide for each individual cookie whether you allow it or not. Google is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. For more information, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI. If you want to learn more about Google’s data processing, we recommend that you read the company’s in-house 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. For the use of Google Fonts you do not have to log in or provide 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 do not need to worry that your Google account information, while using Google Fonts, will be transmitted to Google. Google records the usage of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and the fonts used and stores this data securely. We’ll take a detailed look at exactly what this data storage looks like. What are Google Fonts? Google Fonts (formerly Google Web Fonts) is a directory of over 800 fonts that Google makes available to its users free of charge. Many of these fonts are released under the SIL Open Font License, while others are released under the Apache license. Both are free software licenses. Why do we use Google Fonts on our website? Google Fonts allows us to use fonts on our own website, and 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 optimized for the web and this saves data volume and is a big advantage especially for mobile use. 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 sometimes visually distort 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 major 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 so that we can present our entire online service as beautifully and consistently as possible. What data is stored by Google? When you visit our website, the fonts are reloaded via a Google server. Through this external call, data is transmitted to the Google servers. In this way, Google also recognizes that you or your IP address is visiting our website. The Google Fonts API is designed to reduce the use, storage, and collection of end-user data to what is necessary for proper font delivery. API, by the way, stands for “Application Programming Interface” and is used, among other things, as a data transmitter in software. Google Fonts stores CSS and font requests securely at Google and is thus 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. In addition, Google also uses data from its own web crawler to determine which websites are using Google fonts. This data is published to the Google Fonts BigQuery database. Entrepreneurs and developers use Google’s BigQuery web service to be able to examine and move large amounts of data. However, it is still important to remember that each Google Font request also automatically transmits information such as language settings, IP address, browser version, browser screen resolution, and browser name to Google’s 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 fonts with the help of a Google stylesheet. A stylesheet is a format template that can be used to easily and quickly change the design or font of a website, for example. The font files are stored by Google for one year. Google thus pursues the goal of fundamentally improving the loading time of web pages. If millions of web pages refer to the same fonts, they are cached after the first visit and immediately reappear 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? Those data that Google stores for a day or a year cannot be easily deleted. The data is automatically transmitted to Google when the page is called up. In order to delete this data prematurely, you must contact Google support at https://support.google.com/?hl=de&tid=111432979. Data storage you prevent in this case only if you do not visit our site. Unlike other web fonts, Google allows us unlimited access to all fonts. So we can have unlimited access to a sea of fonts and get the most out of our website. You can find out more about Google Fonts and other issues at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq?tid=111432979. Google does address privacy-related issues there, but it doesn’t really include detailed information about data storage. It is relatively difficult to get really precise information from Google about stored data. You can also read about what data is basically collected by Google and what it is used for at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/. Google Fonts Local Privacy Policy On our website, we use Google Fonts from the company Google Inc. For the European area, the company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible. We have embedded the Google Fonts locally, i.e. on our web server - not on Google’s servers. This means that there is no connection to Google servers and thus no data transfer or storage. What are Google Fonts? Google Fonts used to be called Google Web Fonts. This is an interactive directory of over 800 fonts that Google provides for free. With Google Fonts, you could use fonts without uploading them to your own server. However, in order to prevent any information transfer to Google servers in this regard, we have downloaded the fonts to our server. This way we act privacy compliant and do not send any data to Google Fonts. Unlike other web fonts, Google allows us unlimited access to all fonts. So we have unlimited access to a sea of fonts to get the most out of our website. You can find out more about Google Fonts and other issues at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq?tid=111432979. OpenStreetMap privacy policy We have integrated map excerpts from the online mapping tool “OpenStreetMap” on our website. This is a so-called open source mapping, which we can access via an API (interface). This function is offered by OpenStreetMap Foundation, St John’s Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS, United Kingdom. By using this map function, your IP address will be forwarded to OpenStreetMap. In this privacy policy, you will learn why we use features of the OpenStreetMap tool, where which data is stored and how you can prevent this data storage. What is OpenStreetMap? The OpenStreetMap project was launched in 2004. The goal of the project is and was to create a free map of the world. Users collect worldwide data about buildings, forests, rivers and roads. Over the years, an extensive digital world map has been created by users themselves. Of course, the map is not complete, but in most regions it contains a lot of data. Why do we use OpenStreetMap on our website? First and foremost, our website should be helpful to you. And from our point of view, it is always helpful if you can find information quickly and easily. On the one hand, this is of course about our services and products, but on the other hand, we also want to provide you with other helpful information. That’s why we also use the OpenStreetMap map service. Because this way we can show you, for example, exactly how to find our company. The map shows you the best way to us and your journey becomes a breeze. What data is stored by OpenStreetMap? When you visit one of our websites that offers OpenStreetMap, user data is transmitted to the service and stored there. For example, OpenStreetMap collects information about your interactions with the digital map, your IP address, data about your browser, device type, operating system and on what day and time you used the service. Tracking software is also used to record user interactions for this purpose. The company specifies the analysis tool “Piwik” here in its own privacy policy. The collected data is subsequently accessible to the corresponding working groups of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. According to the company, personal data is not passed on to other persons or companies unless this is legally necessary. The third-party provider Piwik does store your IP address, but in a shortened form. The following cookie may be set in your browser when you interact with OpenStreetMap on our website: Name: _osm_location Value: 9.63312%7C52.41500%7C17%7CM Purpose: The cookie is needed to unlock OpenStreetMap content. Expiration date: after 10 years If you want to view the full screen of the map, you will be linked to the OpenStreetMap website. There, the following cookies, among others, may be stored in your browser: Name: _osm_totp_token Value: 148253111432979-2 Purpose: This cookie is used to ensure the operation of the map section. Expiration date: after one hour Name: _osm_session Value: 1d9bfa122e0259d5f6db4cb8ef653a1c Purpose: The cookie is used to store session information (i.e. user behavior). Expiration date: after session end Name: _pk_id.1.cf09 Value: 4a5.1593684142.2.1593688396.1593688396111432979-9 Purpose: This cookie is set by Piwik to store or measure user data such as click behavior. Expiration date: after one year How long and where is the data stored? The API servers, databases and ancillary services servers are currently located in the United Kingdom (Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and the Netherlands. Your IP address and user information, which is stored in an abbreviated form by the Piwik web analytics tool, is deleted after 180 days. How can I delete my data or prevent data storage? You have the right to access your personal data and object to its use and processing at any time. You can manage, delete or deactivate cookies that may be set by OpenStreetMap in your browser at any time. However, this will prevent the service from working to its full extent. For each browser, managing, deleting or disabling cookies works slightly differently. Below you will find links to instructions for the most popular browsers: Chrome: Delete, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies If you want to learn more about OpenStreetMap’s data processing, we recommend that you read the company’s privacy policy at https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy. Google Tag Manager Privacy Policy For our website, we use the Google Tag Manager 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. This Tag Manager is one of many helpful marketing products from Google. Through the Google Tag Manager, we can centrally incorporate and manage code sections from various tracking tools that we use on our website. In this privacy policy, we want to explain in more detail what Google Tag Manager does, why we use it, and in what form data is processed. What is the Google Tag Manager? Google Tag Manager is an organizational tool that allows us to incorporate and manage website tags centrally and through a user interface. Tags are small sections of code that, for example, record (track) your activities on our website. For this purpose, JavaScript code sections are inserted into the source code of our page. The tags often come from Google-internal products such as Google Ads or Google Analytics, but tags from other companies can also be included and managed via the manager. Such tags perform different tasks. They can collect browser data, feed marketing tools with data, embed buttons, set cookies and also track users across multiple websites. Why do we use Google Tag Manager for our website? As the saying goes: organization is half the battle! And of course, this also applies to the maintenance of our website. In order to make our website as good as possible for you and all the people who are interested in our products and services, we need various tracking tools such as Google Analytics. The collected data from these tools show us what you are most interested in, where we can improve our services and which people we should still show our offers to. And for this tracking to work, we need to embed appropriate JavaScript codes into our website. In principle, we could include each code section of each tracking tool separately in our source code. However, this requires quite a lot of time and it’s easy to lose track. That’s why we use the Google Tag Manager. We can easily incorporate the necessary scripts and manage them from one place. Moreover, Google Tag Manager offers an easy-to-use interface and you don’t need any programming skills. This is how we manage to keep order in our tag jungle. What data is stored by Google Tag Manager? The Tag Manager itself is a domain that does not set any cookies or store any data. It acts as a mere “manager” of the implemented tags. The data is collected by the individual tags of the different web analytics tools. The data is virtually passed through to the individual tracking tools in Google Tag Manager and is not stored. However, the situation is quite different with the embedded tags of the various web analytics tools, such as Google Analytics. Depending on the analysis tool, various data about your web behavior is usually collected, stored and processed with the help of cookies. For this, please read our privacy texts on the individual analysis and tracking tools that we use on our website. In the account settings of the Tag Manager, we have allowed Google to receive anonymized data from us. However, this is only about the use and usage of our Tag Manager and not your data stored via the code sections. We allow Google and others to receive selected data in anonymized form. We thus consent to the anonymous sharing of our website data. Which summarized and anonymous data is forwarded exactly, we could not find out - despite long research. In any case, Google deletes all information that could identify our website. Google combines the data with hundreds of other anonymous website data and creates user trends as part of benchmarking measures. Benchmarking compares our own results with those of our competitors. Processes can be optimized on the basis of the information collected. How long and where is the data stored? When Google stores data, this data is stored on Google’s own servers. The servers are distributed all over the world. Most of them are located in America. You can find out exactly where Google servers are located at https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de. How long the individual tracking tools store data from you can be found in our individual privacy texts for the individual tools. How can I delete my data or prevent data storage? The Google Tag Manager itself does not set cookies, but manages tags from various tracking websites. In our privacy texts for the individual tracking tools, you will find detailed information on how you can delete or manage your data. Google is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. For more information, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&tid=111432979. If you want to learn more about Google Tag Manager, we recommend that you visit the FAQs at https://www.google.com/intl/de/tagmanager/faq.html. Embedded Social Media Elements Privacy Policy We embed elements of social media services on our website to display images, videos and text. By visiting pages that display these elements, data is transmitted from your browser to the respective social media service and stored there. We do not have access to this data. The following links will take you to the pages of the respective social media services where it is explained how they handle your data: Instagram privacy policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875 For YouTube, the Google privacy policy applies: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de Facebook privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy Twitter privacy policy: https://twitter.com/de/privacy Facebook privacy policy We use selected tools from Facebook on our website. Facebook is a social media network of the company Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland. With the help of these tools we can offer you and people who are interested in our products and services the best possible offer. Below we provide an overview of the different 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. However, since the term is hardly known, we decided to just call them Facebook Tools. Among them are: Facebook Pixel social plug-ins (such as the “Like” or “Share” button) Facebook Login Account Kit APIs (programming interface) SDKs (collection of programming tools) Platform Integrations Plugins Codes Specifications Documentations Technologies and Services Through these tools, Facebook extends services and has the ability to obtain information about user activity outside of Facebook. Why do we use Facebook tools on our website? 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 show suitable ads to users, Facebook needs information about people’s wants and needs. Thus, information about user behavior (and contact data) on our website is made available to the company. As a result, Facebook collects better user data and can show interested people the appropriate advertising about our products or services. The tools thus enable tailored advertising campaigns on Facebook. Data about your behavior on our website is called “event data” by Facebook. This is also used for measurement and analysis services. Facebook can thus create “campaign reports” on our behalf about the impact of our advertising campaigns. Furthermore, analytics give us better insight into how you use our services, website or products. As a result, we use some of these tools to optimize your user experience on our website. For example, social plug-ins allow you 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) may be sent to Facebook. Depending on the tools used, customer data such as name, address, phone number and IP address may be sent. Facebook uses this information to match the data with the data it itself has from you (if you are a Facebook member). Before customer data is sent to Facebook, a process called “hashing” 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 required to do so. “Event data” may also be associated with contact information. This allows Facebook to offer better personalized advertising. After the matching process already mentioned, Facebook deletes the contact data again. In order to be able to deliver ads in an optimized way, Facebook only uses event data if it has been combined with other data (collected by Facebook in other ways). 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 used to store data or information in browsers. Depending on the tools you use and whether you are a Facebook member, different numbers of cookies are created in your browser. We go into more detail about individual Facebook cookies in the descriptions of each Facebook tool. You can also find general information about the use of Facebook cookies at https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies. How long and where is the data stored? Basically, Facebook stores data until it is no longer needed for its own services and Facebook products. Facebook has servers spread all over the world where its data is stored. However, customer data is deleted within 48 hours after it has been matched with its own user data. How can I delete my data or prevent data storage? In accordance with the Basic Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to information, correction, transferability and deletion of your data. A complete deletion of the data only occurs if you delete your Facebook account completely. And this is how deleting your Facebook account works: On the right side of Facebook, click Settings. Then click “Your Facebook information” in the left column. Now click “Deactivation and deletion”. Now select “Delete account” and then click “Continue and delete account”. Now enter your password, click “Next” and then click “Delete account” The storage of data that Facebook receives via our site is done, among other things, via cookies (e.g. for social plugins). In your browser, you can disable, delete or manage individual or all cookies. Depending on which browser you use, this works in different ways. The following instructions show how to manage cookies in your browser: Chrome: Delete, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies If you generally don’t want cookies, you can set your browser to notify you whenever a cookie is about to be set. This way, you can decide for each individual cookie whether you allow it or not. 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 at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC. We hope we have brought you closer to the most important information about the use and data processing by Facebook tools. If you want to learn more about how Facebook uses your data, we recommend that you read the data policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update. Facebook Social Plug-ins Privacy Policy So-called social plug-ins from the company Facebook Inc. are installed on our website. You can recognize 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 well-known “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 posts and video player Group plug-in Visit https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins for more information on how each plug-in is used. We use the social plug-ins on the one hand to provide you with a better user experience on our site, and on the other hand because it allows Facebook to optimize 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 again or anonymized within 90 days. According to Facebook, this data includes your IP address, which website you visited, the date, the time and other information concerning your browser. To prevent Facebook from collecting a lot of data during your visit to our website and connecting it with Facebook data, you must log out of Facebook during your website visit (log out). If you are not logged into Facebook or do not have a Facebook account, your browser will send less information to Facebook because you have fewer Facebook cookies. Nevertheless, data such as your IP address or which website you visit may be transmitted to Facebook. We would still like to explicitly point out that we do not know exactly about the exact content of the data. However, we try to inform you as best as possible about the data processing according to our current state of knowledge. You can also read how Facebook uses the data in the company’s data policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update. The following cookies are set in your browser as a minimum when you visit a website with social plug-ins from Facebook: Name: dpr Value: not specified Purpose: This cookie is used to make the social plug-ins on our website work. Expiration date: after session end Name: fr Value: 0jieyh4111432979c2GnlufEJ9..Bde09j…1.0.Bde09j Purpose: The cookie is also necessary for the plug-ins to work properly. Expiration date:: after 3 months Note: These cookies were set after a test, even if you are not a Facebook member. Provided you are logged in to Facebook, you can change your ad settings yourself at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. If you are not a Facebook user, you can manage your usage-based online advertising at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/grundsätzlich. There you have the option 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. Facebook Login Privacy Policy We have integrated the practical Facebook Login on our site. This allows you to easily log in to our site using your Facebook account without having to create another user account. If you decide to make your registration via the Facebook Login, you will be redirected to the social media network Facebook. There, the registration takes place via your Facebook user data. Through this login process, data about you or your user behavior is stored and transmitted to Facebook. To store the data, Facebook uses various cookies. Below we show you the most important cookies that are set in your browser or already exist when you log in to our site via the Facebook login: Name: fr Value: 0jieyh4c2GnlufEJ9..Bde09j…1.0.Bde09j Purpose: This cookie is used to make the social plugin on our website work in the best possible way. Expiration date: after 3 months Name: datr Value: 4Jh7XUA2111432979SEmPsSfzCOO4JFFl Purpose: Facebook sets the “datr” cookie when a web browser accesses facebook.com, and the cookie helps identify login activity and protect users. Expiration date: after 2 years Name: _js_datr Value: deleted Purpose: This session cookie is set by Facebook for tracking purposes even if you do not have a Facebook account or are logged out. Expiration date: after session end Note: The cookies listed are only a small selection of the cookies available to Facebook. Other cookies are, for example, _ fbp, sb or wd. A complete enumeration is not possible, as Facebook has a large number of cookies and uses them variably. On the one hand, the Facebook login offers you a quick and easy registration process, and on the other hand, it gives us the opportunity to share data with Facebook. This allows us to better tailor our offer and promotions to your interests and needs. Data that we receive from Facebook in this way is public data such as your Facebook name your profile picture a stored e-mail address friend lists button details (e.g. “Like” button) birthday date language place of residence In return, we provide Facebook with information about your activities on our website. This includes information about the device you are using, which subpages you visit on our site or which products you have purchased from us. By using Facebook Login, you consent to the data processing. You can revoke this agreement at any time. If you want to learn more information about data processing by Facebook, we recommend the Facebook privacy policy at https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php. Provided you are logged in to Facebook, you can change your settings for advertisements yourself at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. Instagram privacy policy We have incorporated features from Instagram on our website. Instagram is a social media platform of the company Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025, USA. Instagram has been a subsidiary of Facebook Inc. since 2012 and is one of the Facebook products. Embedding Instagram content on our website is called embedding. This allows us to show you content such as buttons, photos or videos from Instagram directly on our website. When you call up web pages on our website that have an Instagram function integrated, data is transmitted to Instagram, stored and processed. Instagram uses the same systems and technologies as Facebook. Your data is thus processed across all Facebook companies. In the following, we want to give you a more detailed insight into why Instagram collects data, what kind of data it is and how you can largely control the data processing. Since Instagram is part of Facebook Inc., we draw our information on the one hand from the Instagram policies, but on the other hand also from the Facebook data policies themselves. What is Instagram? Instagram is one of the most popular social media networks in the world. Instagram combines the advantages of a blog with the advantages of audiovisual platforms like YouTube or Vimeo. You can upload photos and short videos on “Insta” (as many of the users casually call the platform), edit them with various filters and also distribute them on other social networks. And if you don’t want to be active yourself, you can just follow other interesting users. Why do we use Instagram on our website? Instagram is that social media platform that really went through the roof in the last few years. And of course, we have also responded to this boom. We want you to feel as comfortable as possible on our website. That’s why a varied preparation of our content is a matter of course for us. Through the embedded Instagram features, we can enrich our content with helpful, funny or exciting content from the Instagram world. Since Instagram is a subsidiary of Facebook, the data collected can also serve us for personalized advertising on Facebook. This way, only people who are really interested in our products or services receive our ads. Instagram also uses the collected data for measurement and analysis purposes. We get aggregate statistics and thus more insight about your preferences and interests. It is important to note that these reports do not identify you personally. What data is stored by Instagram? When you come across one of our pages that have Instagram features (such as Instagram images or plug-ins) built in, your browser automatically connects to Instagram’s servers. In the process, data is sent to Instagram, stored and processed. And this is regardless of whether you have an Instagram account or not. This includes information about our website, about your computer, about purchases made, about advertisements you see and how you use our offer. Furthermore, the date and time of your interaction with Instagram is also stored. If you have an Instagram account or are logged in, Instagram stores significantly more data about you. Facebook distinguishes between customer data and event data. We assume that this is exactly the case with Instagram. Customer data is, for example, name, address, phone number and IP address. This customer data will only be transmitted to Instagram if you have been “hashed” beforehand. Hashing means that a data record is transformed into a character string. This makes it possible to encrypt the contact data. In addition, the “event data” mentioned above is also transmitted. By “event data” Facebook - and consequently Instagram - understands data about your user behavior. It may also happen that contact data is combined with event data. The collected contact data is matched with the data that Instagram already has from you. Via small text files (cookies), which are usually set in your browser, the collected data is transmitted to Facebook. Depending on the Instagram functions used and whether you yourself have an Instagram account, different amounts of data are stored. We assume that Instagram’s data processing works the same as Facebook’s. This means that if you have an Instagram account or have visited www.instagram.com, Instagram has at least set a cookie. If this is the case, your browser sends info to Instagram via the cookie as soon as you come into contact with an Instagram function. At the latest after 90 days (after matching), this data is deleted again or anonymized. Although we have intensively studied Instagram’s data processing, we cannot say exactly what data Instagram collects and stores. In the following, we show you cookies that are set in your browser at least when you click on an Instagram function (such as button or an Insta image). In our test, we assume that you do not have an Instagram account. Of course, if you are logged into Instagram, significantly more cookies are set in your browser. These cookies were used in our test: Name: csrftoken Value: "" Purpose: This cookie is most likely set for security reasons, to prevent falsification of requests. However, we could not find out more precisely. Expiration date: after one year Name: mid Value: "" Intended use: Instagram sets this cookie to optimize its own services and offers on and off Instagram. The cookie sets a unique user ID. Expiration date: after end of session Name: fbsr_111432979124024 Value: none Intended use: this cookie stores the log-in request for users of the Instagram app. Expiration date: after the end of the session Name: rur Value: ATN Purpose: This is an Instagram cookie that ensures functionality on Instagram. Expiration date: after the end of the session Name: urlgen Value:"{“194.96.75.33”: 1901}:1iEtYv:Y833k2_UjKvXgYe111432979" Purpose: This cookie is used for Instagram’s marketing purposes. Expiration date: after the end of the session Note: We cannot claim completeness here. Which cookies are set in individual cases depends on the embedded features and your use of Instagram. How long and where is the data stored? Instagram shares the information received between Facebook companies with external partners and with people you connect with around the world. The data processing is done in compliance with its own data policy. Your data is distributed on Facebook servers around the world, partly for security reasons. Most of these servers are located in the USA. How can I delete my data or prevent data storage? Thanks to the Basic Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to information, portability, correction and deletion of your data. You can manage your data in the Instagram settings. If you want to completely delete your data on Instagram, you must permanently delete your Instagram account. And this is how deleting your Instagram account works: first, open the Instagram app. On your profile page, go down and click on “Help section”. Now you will get to the company’s website. On the website, click “Manage account” and then click “Delete your account”.When you delete your account entirely, Instagram deletes posts such as your photos and status updates. Information that other people have shared about you does not belong to your account and consequently will not be deleted. As mentioned above, Instagram stores your data primarily via cookies. You can manage, disable or delete these cookies in your browser. Depending on your browser, the management always works a bit differently. Here we show you the instructions for the most important browsers. Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have stored on your computer Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies You can also basically set up 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 allow the cookie or not. Instagram is a subsidiary of Facebook Inc. and Facebook is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. This framework ensures proper data transfer between the U.S. and the European Union. You can learn more about it at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC. We have tried to bring you closer to the most important information about data processing by Instagram. At https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875, you can learn even more about Instagram’s data policies. Twitter privacy policy We have incorporated functions from Twitter on our website. These are, for example, embedded tweets, timelines, buttons or hashtags. Twitter is a short message service and a social media platform of the company Twitter Inc, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2 D02 AX07, Ireland. To our knowledge, in the European Economic Area and in Switzerland, no personal data or data relating to your web activities are transmitted to Twitter by the mere inclusion of the Twitter function. Only when you interact with the Twitter functions, such as clicking on a button, can data be sent to Twitter, stored there and processed. We have no influence on this data processing and bear no responsibility for it. Within the scope of this privacy policy, we want to give you an overview of what data Twitter stores, what Twitter does with this data and how you can protect yourself from the data transmission to a large extent. What is Twitter? For some, Twitter is a news service, for others a social media platform, and still others speak of a microblogging service. All these terms have their justification and mean more or less the same thing. Both private 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 news platform. On Twitter, you can also have 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 and communicate with our customers through different channels. Especially Twitter has grown on us as a useful “little” news service. Time and again we tweet or retweet exciting, funny or interesting content. We realize that you can’t follow every channel separately. After all, you also have something else to do. That’s why we have included Twitter functions on our website. You can follow our Twitter activity “on the spot” or follow a direct link to our Twitter page. Through the integration, we want to strengthen our service and user-friendliness on our website. What data is stored by Twitter? On some of our sub-pages you will find the built-in Twitter functions. When you interact with the Twitter content, such as clicking on a button, Twitter may collect and store data. This is the case 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 performed. Twitter naturally stores more data when you have a Twitter account and are logged in. Mostly this storage happens via cookies. Cookies are small text files that are usually set in your browser and transmit different 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 features. Please consider this list as an example. We can in no way guarantee a claim to completeness here, as the choice of cookies always changes and depends on your individual actions with Twitter content. These cookies were used in our test: Name: personalization_id Value: “v1_cSJIsogU51SeE111432979” Purpose: This cookie stores information about how you use the website and through which advertisements you may have come to Twitter. Expiration date: after 2 years Name: long Value: en Purpose: This cookie stores your default or preferred language. Expiration date: after session end Name: guest_id Value: 111432979v1%3A157132626 Purpose: This cookie is set to identify you as a guest. Expiration date: after 2 years Name: fm Value: 0 Purpose: Unfortunately, we could not find out the purpose of this cookie. Expiration date: after session end Name: external_referer Value: 1114329792beTA0sf5lkMrlGt Intended use: This cookie collects anonymous data, such as how often you visit Twitter and how long you visit Twitter. Expiration date: After 6 days Name: eu_cn Value: 1 Purpose: This cookie stores user activity and is used for various advertising purposes by Twitter. Expiration date: After one year Name: ct0 Value: c1179f07163a365d2ed7aad84c99d966 Purpose: Unfortunately, we have not found any information about this cookie. Expiration date: after 6 hours Name: _twitter_sess Value: 53D%253D-dd0248111432979- Purpose: This cookie allows you to use features within the Twitter website. Expiration date: after end of session Note: Twitter also works with third-party providers. That is why we also detected the three Google Analytics cookies _ga, _gat, _gid during our test. Twitter uses the collected data on the one hand to better understand user behavior 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? When Twitter collects data from other websites, it is deleted, aggregated or otherwise obscured after a maximum of 30 days. Twitter’s servers are located on various server centers in the United States. Accordingly, it can 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 it is no longer useful to the company, you delete the data or there is a legal deletion period. How can I delete my data or prevent data storage? Twitter repeatedly emphasizes in its privacy policy that it does not store data from external website visits if you or your browser are located in the European Economic Area or Switzerland. However, if you interact with Twitter directly, Twitter will of course store data from 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 the data processing individually. If you do not have a Twitter account, you can go to twitter.com and then click on “Individualization”. Under the “Individualization and data” item, you can manage your collected data. Most of the data is stored via cookies, as mentioned above, and you can manage, disable or delete them in your browser. Please note that you only “edit” cookies in the browser you choose. That means: if you use another browser in the future, you will have to manage your cookies there again according to your wishes. Here are the instructions for cookie management of the most popular browsers. Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies You can also manage your browser to notify you each time you receive a cookie. Then you can always decide individually whether you allow a cookie or not. Twitter also uses the data for personalized advertising inside and outside of Twitter. You can disable personalized advertising in the settings under “Individualization and data”. If you use Twitter on a browser, you can disable personalized advertising at http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN. Twitter is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. This framework ensures proper data transfer between the U.S. and the European Union. You can learn more about it at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TORzAAO. We hope we have given you a basic overview of Twitter’s data processing. We do not receive any data from Twitter, nor do we bear any responsibility for what Twitter does with your data. If you have any further questions about this topic, we recommend that you read the Twitter privacy statement at https://twitter.com/de/privacy. LinkedIn privacy policy We use social plug-ins of the social media network LinkedIn, of the company LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA on our website. The social plug-ins may be feeds, sharing content or linking to our LinkedIn page. The social plug-ins are clearly marked with the familiar LinkedIn logo and allow, for example, interesting content to be shared directly via 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 want to inform you about 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, the company focuses exclusively on building business contacts. Companies can present services and products on the platform and establish business relationships. Many people also use LinkedIn to look for jobs or to find suitable employees for their own company. In Germany alone, the network has over 11 million members. In Austria, there are about 1.3 million. Why do we use LinkedIn on our website? We know how busy you are. That’s why you can’t follow all social media channels individually. Even if it would be worth it, as in our case. Because time and again we post interesting news or reports that are worth spreading. That’s why we’ve made it possible 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 data that LinkedIn collects also helps us to show possible advertising measures only to people who are interested in our offer. What data is stored by LinkedIn? Only through the mere integration of the social plug-ins LinkedIn does not store any personal data. LinkedIn calls this data generated by plug-ins passive impressions. However, when you click on a social plug-in to share our content, for example, the platform stores personal data as so-called “active impressions”. And this is regardless of whether you have a LinkedIn account or not. If you are logged in, the collected data is assigned to your account. Your browser establishes a direct connection 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 can be login data, device information or info about your internet or mobile provider, for example. If you access LinkedIn services via your smartphone, your location (after you have allowed this) can also be determined. LinkedIn may also share this data in “hashed” form with third-party advertisers. Hashing means turning a record into a string of characters. This can be used to encrypt the data in such a way that individuals can no longer be identified. Most data about your user behavior is stored in cookies. These are small text files that are usually set in your browser. Furthermore, 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 complete and is provided as an example only. The following cookies were set without being logged in to LinkedIn: Name: bcookie Value: =2&34aab2aa-2ae1-4d2a-8baf-c2e2d7235c16111432979- Purpose: The cookie is a so-called “browser ID cookie” and consequently stores your identification number (ID). Expiration date: After 2 years Name: lang Value: v=2&lang=en- Purpose: This cookie stores your default or preferred language. Expiration date: after session end Name: lidc Value: 1818367:t=1571904767:s=AQF6KNnJ0G111432979… Purpose: This cookie is used for routing. Routing records the ways you came to LinkedIn and how you navigate through the website there. Expiration date: after 24 hours Name: rtc Value: kt0lrv3NF3x3t6xvDgGrZGDKkX Intended use: No further information could be found about this cookie. Expiration date: after 2 minutes Name: JSESSIONID Value: ajax:1114329792900777718326218137 Purpose: This is a session cookie that LinkedIn uses to maintain anonymous user sessions through the server. Expiration date: after session end Name: bscookie Value: “v=1&201910230812… Purpose: This cookie is a security cookie. LinkedIn describes it as a secure browser ID cookie. Expiration date: after 2 years Name: fid Value: AQHj7Ii23ZBcqAAAA… Purpose: No further information could be found about this cookie. Expiration date: after 7 days Note: LinkedIn also works with third-party providers. That is why we also detected the two Google Analytics cookies _ga and gat during our test. How long and where is the data stored? In principle, LinkedIn keeps your personal data for as long as the company considers it necessary to offer its own services. However, LinkedIn deletes your personal data when you delete your account. In some exceptional cases, LinkedIn retains some data in aggregate and anonymized form even after you delete your account. Once you delete your account, other people will not be able to see your data within one day. LinkedIn generally deletes data within 30 days. However, LinkedIn retains data if it is necessary due to legal obligation. Data that can no longer be assigned to individuals remain stored even after the account is 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 also delete your personal data at any time. In your LinkedIn account, you can manage, change and delete your data. In addition, you can also request a copy of your personal data from LinkedIn. This is how you access the account data in your LinkedIn profile: In LinkedIn, click on your profile icon and select the “Settings and Privacy” section. Now click on “Privacy” and then in the “How LinkedIn uses your data” section click on “Change”. In just a short time, you will be able to download selected data about your web activity and account history. You also have the option in your browser to prevent LinkedIn from processing your data. As mentioned above, LinkedIn stores most data via cookies that are set in your browser. You can manage, deactivate or delete these cookies. Depending on which browser you have, the management works slightly differently. You can find the instructions for the most popular browsers here: Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies You can also basically set up your browser to notify you whenever a cookie is about to be set. Then you can always decide individually whether you want to allow the cookie or not. LinkedIn is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. This framework ensures proper data transfer between the U.S. and the European Union. You can learn more about it at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L0UZAA0. We have tried to bring you closer to the most important information about LinkedIn’s data processing. At https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy you can learn even more about the data processing of the social media network LinkedIn. Pinterest Privacy Policy We use buttons and widgets of the social media network Pinterest, of the company Pinterest Inc.,808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA on our site. By calling up pages that use such functions, data (IP address, browser data, date and time, cookies) are transmitted to Pinterest, stored and evaluated. The privacy policy, what information Pinterest collects and how they use it can be found at https://policy.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy. XING Privacy Policy We use social plugins of the social media network Xing, of the company Xing SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany, on our website. Through these functions, you can, for example, share content on Xing directly via our website, log in via Xing or follow interesting content. You can recognize the plug-ins by the company name or the Xing logo. If you call up a website that uses a Xing plug-in, data may be transmitted to the “Xing servers”, stored and analyzed. In this privacy policy, we want 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, Germany. The company specializes in managing professional contacts. That is, unlike other networks, Xing is primarily about professional networking. The platform is often used for job searches or to find employees for one’s own company. In addition, Xing 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 company’s social media channel can be scrutinized closely. That’s why we want to make your life as easy as possible, so you can share or follow interesting content directly from our website on Xing. With such “social plug-ins” we expand our service on our website. In addition, 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, the follow button and the log-in button as plug-ins for websites. As soon as you open a page where a social plug-in from Xing is built in, your browser connects to servers in a data center used by Xing. In the case of the share button, no data is to be stored - according to Xing - that could infer a direct reference to a person. In particular, Xing does not store your IP address. Furthermore, no cookies are set in connection with the share button. Thus, no evaluation of your user behavior takes place. You can obtain more information about this at 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. Here, personal data such as your IP address, browser data, date and time of your page view on Xing may be stored. If you have a XING account and are logged in, collected data will be assigned to your personal account and the data stored therein. 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 keep in mind that this is an exemplary list and we cannot claim completeness: Name: AMCVS_0894FF2554F733210A4C98C6%40AdobeOrg Value: 1 Purpose: This cookie is used to create and store website visitor identifiers. Expiration date: after session end Name: c Value: 157c609dc9fe7d7ff56064c6de87b019111432979-8 Purpose: We could not find out more information about this cookie. Expiration date: after one day Name: prevPage Value: wbm%2FWelcome%2Flogin Purpose: This cookie stores the URL of the previous web page you visited. Expiration date: after 30 minutes Name: s_cc Value: true Intended use: This Adobe Site Catalyst cookie determines whether cookies are generally enabled in the browser. Expiration date: after session end Name: s_fid Value: 6897CDCD1013221C-39DDACC982217CD1111432979-2 Purpose: This cookie is used to identify a unique visitor. Expiration date: after 5 years Name: visitor_id Value: fe59fbe5-e9c6-4fca-8776-30d0c1a89c32 Purpose: The visitor cookie contains a unique visitor ID and the unique identifier for your account. Expiration date: after 2 years Name:_session_id Value: 533a0a6641df82b46383da06ea0e84e7111432979-2 Purpose: This cookie creates a temporary session ID that is used as an in-session user ID. The cookie is absolutely necessary to provide Xing’s features. Expiration date: after the end of the session As soon as you are logged in or a member of Xing, further personal data is definitely collected, processed and stored. Xing also discloses personal data to third parties if this is necessary for the fulfillment of its own business purposes, if you have given your consent, or if there is a legal obligation. How long and where is the data stored? Xing stores the data on various servers in various data centers. 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 also 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 management works slightly differently. You can find the instructions for the most popular browsers here: Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have stored on your computer Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies You can also basically set up 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 allow the cookie or not. We have tried to provide you with the most important information about data processing by Xing. You can learn even more about the data processing of the social media network Xing at https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung. YouTube privacy policy We have incorporated YouTube videos on our website. This allows us to 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 a YouTube video embedded, your browser automatically connects to the YouTube or Google servers. In the process, various data are 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 in more detail what data is processed, why we have embedded YouTube videos and how you can manage or delete your data. What is YouTube? On YouTube, users can watch, rate, comment on and upload videos themselves free of charge. Over the last few years, YouTube has become one of the most important social media channels in the world. In order for us to display videos on our website, YouTube provides a snippet of code that we have included on 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 are committed to providing you with the best possible user experience on our website. And of course, interesting videos can’t be missing from that. With the help of our embedded videos, we provide you with other helpful content in addition to our text and images. In addition, the embedded videos make our website easier to find on the Google search engine. Also, when we run ads through Google Ads, Google - thanks to the data it collects - can really only show these ads to people who are interested in what we have to offer. What data is stored by YouTube? As soon as you visit one of our pages that has a YouTube video embedded, YouTube sets at least one cookie that stores your IP address and our URL. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can usually assign your interactions on our website to your profile using cookies. This includes data such as session duration, bounce rate, approximate location, technical information such as browser type, screen resolution or your internet provider. Other data may include contact details, any ratings, sharing content via social media or adding to your favorites on YouTube. If you are not logged into a Google account or a YouTube account, Google stores data with a unique identifier associated with your device, browser, or app. For example, your preferred language setting is retained. But a lot of interaction data can’t 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 logged-in YouTube account. On the other hand, we show cookies that are set with a logged-in account. The list cannot claim to be complete because the user data always depends on the interactions on YouTube. Name: YSC Value: b9-CV6ojI5Y111432979-1 Purpose: This cookie registers a unique ID to store statistics of the video watched. Expiration date: after session end Name: PREF Value: f1=50000000 Purpose: This cookie also registers your unique ID. Google gets statistics about how you use YouTube videos on our website through PREF. Expiration date: after 8 months Name: GPS Value: 1 Purpose: This cookie registers your unique ID on mobile devices to track GPS location. Expiration date: after 30 minutes Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Value: 95Chz8bagyU Purpose: This cookie tries to estimate the user’s bandwidth on our web pages (with embedded YouTube video). Expiration date: after 8 months Other cookies set when you are logged in with your YouTube account: Name: APISID Value: zILlvClZSkqGsSwI/AU1aZI6HY7111432979- Purpose: This cookie is used to create a profile about your interests. Used for personalized advertisements. Expiration date: after 2 years Name: CONSENT Value: YES+AT.en+20150628-20-0 Purpose: The cookie stores the status of a user’s consent to use different services from Google. CONSENT is also used for security purposes to verify users and protect user data from unauthorized attacks. Expiration date: after 19 years Name: HSID Value: AcRwpgUik9Dveht0I Purpose: This cookie is used to create a profile about your interests. This data helps to display personalized advertisements. Expiration date: after 2 years Name: LOGIN_INFO Value: AFmmF2swRQIhALl6aL… Purpose: This cookie is used to store information about your login details. Expiration date: after 2 years Name: SAPISID Value: 7oaPxoG-pZsJuuF5/AnUdDUIsJ9iJz2vdM Purpose: This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. It is used to create a profile about your interests. Expiration date: after 2 years Name: SID Value: oQfNKjAsI111432979- Purpose: This cookie stores your Google account ID and your last login time in digitally signed and encrypted form. Expiration date: after 2 years Name: SIDCC Value: AN0-TYuqub2JOcDTyL Intended use: This cookie stores information about how you use the website and what advertisements you may have seen before visiting our site. Expiration date: after 3 months How long and where is the data stored? The data that YouTube receives from you and processes is stored on Google servers. Most of these servers are located in America. You can see exactly where Google data centers are located at https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de. Your data is distributed across the servers. Thus, the data can be retrieved more quickly and is better protected against manipulation. Google stores the collected data for different lengths of time. Some data you can delete at any time, others are automatically deleted after a limited time, and still others 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 it. Even if you are not signed into a Google Account, you can delete some data associated with your device, browser, or app. How can I delete my data or prevent data storage? Basically, you can delete data in Google Account manually. With the automatic deletion feature of location and activity data introduced in 2019, information will be stored depending on your decision - either 3 or 18 months and then deleted. Whether you have a Google account or not, you can configure your browser to delete or disable cookies from Google. Depending on which browser you use, this works in different ways. The following instructions show how to manage cookies in your browser: Chrome: Delete, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies If you generally don’t want cookies, you can set your browser to notify you whenever a cookie is about to be set. This way, you can decide for each individual cookie whether you allow it or not. Since YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, there is a common privacy policy. If you want to learn more about how your data is handled, we recommend the privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de. YouTube Subscribe Button Privacy Policy We have included the YouTube Subscribe button on our website. You can usually recognize the button by the classic YouTube logo. The logo shows the words “Subscribe” or “YouTube” in white letters against a red background and the white “Play” icon to the left. But the button can also be displayed in a different design. Our YouTube channel always offers you funny, interesting or exciting videos. With the built-in “Subscribe” button, you can subscribe to our channel directly from our website and do not have to call up the YouTube website specifically. In this way, we want to make it as easy as possible for you to access our extensive content. Please note that YouTube may store and process data about you as a result. If you see a built-in subscribe button on our site, YouTube sets - according to Google - at least one cookie. This cookie stores your IP address and our URL. YouTube can also learn information about your browser, your approximate location and your preset language this way. In our test, the following four cookies were set without being logged into YouTube: Name: YSC Value: b9-CV6ojI5111432979Y Purpose: This cookie registers a unique ID to store statistics of the video watched. Expiration date: after session end Name: PREF Value: f1=50000000 Purpose: This cookie also registers your unique ID. Google gets statistics about how you use YouTube videos on our website through PREF. Expiration date: after 8 months Name: GPS Value: 1 Purpose: This cookie registers your unique ID on mobile devices to track GPS location. Expiration date: after 30 minutes Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Value: 11143297995Chz8bagyU Purpose: This cookie tries to estimate the user’s bandwidth on our web pages (with embedded YouTube video). Expiration date: after 8 months Note: These cookies were set after a test and cannot claim to be complete. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can store many of your actions/interactions on our website using cookies and assign them to your YouTube account. YouTube thereby receives, for example, information on how long you surf our site, which browser type you use, which screen resolution you prefer or which actions you perform. YouTube uses this data on the one hand to improve its own services and offers, and on the other hand to provide analyses and statistics for advertisers (who use Google Ads). Vimeo Privacy Policy We also use videos from the company Vimeo on our website. The video portal is operated by Vimeo LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA. With the help of a plug-in, we can show you interesting video material directly on our website. In the process, certain data may be transferred from you to Vimeo. In this privacy policy, we will show you what data is involved, why we use Vimeo and how you can manage or prevent your data or the data transfer. What is Vimeo? Vimeo is a video platform that was founded in 2004 and has enabled streaming of videos in HD quality since 2007. Since 2015, it has also been possible to stream in 4k Ultra HD. The portal is free to use, but paid content can also be published. Compared to the market leader YouTube, Vimeo prioritizes high-quality content. Thus, on the one hand, the portal offers a lot of artistic content such as music videos and short films, but on the other hand, it also offers documentaries worth knowing about a wide variety of topics. Why do we use Vimeo on our website? The goal of our web presence is to provide you with the best possible content. And to do so as easily accessible as possible. Only when we have achieved this, we are satisfied with our service. The video service Vimeo helps us to achieve this goal. Vimeo gives us the opportunity to present you with high-quality content directly on our website. Instead of just giving you a link to an interesting video, you can watch the video right there on our site. This expands our service and makes it easier for you to access interesting content. Thus, in addition to our texts and images, we also offer video content. What data is stored on Vimeo? When you visit a page on our website that has a Vimeo video embedded, your browser connects to the servers of Vimeo. This results in a data transmission. This data is collected, stored and processed on the Vimeo servers. Regardless of whether you have a Vimeo account or not, Vimeo collects data about you. This includes your IP address, technical info about your browser type, operating system or very basic device information. Furthermore, Vimeo stores information about which website you use the Vimeo service and which actions (web activities) you perform on our website. These web activities include, for example, session duration, bounce rate or which button you clicked on our website with built-in Vimeo function. Vimeo may track and store these actions using cookies and similar technologies. If you are logged into Vimeo as a registered member, more data can usually be collected because more cookies may have already been set in your browser. In addition, your actions on our website are directly linked to your Vimeo account. To prevent this, you must log out of Vimeo while “surfing” our website. Below we show you cookies that are set by Vimeo when you are on a website with an integrated Vimeo function. This list is not exhaustive and assumes that you do not have a Vimeo account. Name: player Value: "” Purpose: This cookie saves your settings before you play an embedded Vimeo video. This will give you your preferred settings again the next time you watch a Vimeo video. Expiration date: after one year Name: vuid Value: pl1046149876.614422590111432979-4 Purpose: This cookie collects information about your actions on web pages that have a Vimeo video embedded. Expiration date: after 2 years Note: These two cookies are always set once you are on a web page with an embedded Vimeo video. When you watch the video and click the button to “share” or “like” the video, for example, other cookies are set. These are also third-party cookies such as _ga or _gat_UA-76641-8 from Google Analytics or _fbp from Facebook. Exactly which cookies are set here depends on your interaction with the video. The following list shows a sample of possible cookies that are set when you interact with the Vimeo video: Name: _abexps Value: %5B%5D Purpose: This Vimeo cookie helps Vimeo remember the settings you have made. For example, it may be a preset language, region, or username. In general, the cookie stores data about how you use Vimeo. Expiration date: after one year Name: continuous_play_v3 Value: 1 Purpose: This cookie is a first-party cookie from Vimeo. The cookie collects information about how you use the Vimeo service. For example, the cookie stores when you pause or replay a video. Expiration date: after one year Name: _ga Value: GA1.2.1522249635.1578401280111432979-7 Purpose: This cookie is a third-party cookie from Google. By default, analytics.js uses the _ga cookie to store the user ID. Basically, it is used to distinguish website visitors. Expiration date: after 2 years Name: _gcl_au Value: 1.1.770887836.1578401279111432979-3 Purpose: This third-party cookie from Google AdSense is used to improve the efficiency of ads on websites. Expiration date: after 3 months Name: _fbp Value: fb.1.1578401280585.310434968 Purpose: This is a Facebook cookie. This cookie is used to display ads or advertising products from Facebook or other advertisers. Expiration date: after 3 months Vimeo uses this data, among other things, to improve its own service, to communicate with you and to set its own targeted advertising measures. Vimeo emphasizes on its website that only first-party cookies (i.e. cookies from Vimeo itself) are used for embedded videos, as long as you do not interact with the video. How long and where is the data stored? Vimeo is headquartered in White Plains in the state of New York (USA). However, the services are offered worldwide. In doing so, the company uses computer systems, databases and servers in the USA and also in other countries. Your data can therefore also be stored and processed on servers in America. The data remains stored by Vimeo until the company no longer has an economic reason for storing it. Then the data is deleted or anonymized. Vimeo complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and is therefore allowed to collect, use and transfer data of users from the EU to the USA. How can I delete my data or prevent data storage? You always have the option to manage cookies in your browser according to your preferences. For example, if you do not want Vimeo to set cookies and thus collect information about you, you can always delete or disable cookies in your browser settings. Depending on your browser, this works a bit differently. Please note that after disabling/deleting cookies, various features may no longer be available to the full extent. The following instructions show how to manage or delete cookies in your browser. Chrome: Delete, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies If you are a registered Vimeo member, you can also manage the cookies you use in the settings at Vimeo. Vimeo is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which governs the accurate and secure transfer of personal data. For more information, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt00000008V77AAE&status=Active. You can learn more about Vimeo’s use of cookies at https://vimeo.com/cookie_policy, and you can read information about Vimeo’s privacy policy at https://vimeo.com/privacy. SoundCloud privacy policy We use functions (widgets) of the social media network SoundCloud of the company SoundCloud Limited, Rheinsberger Str. 76/77, 10115 Berlin, Germany on our website. You can recognize the widgets by the familiar orange logo. By using functions such as playing music, data is transmitted to SoundCloud, stored and analyzed. In this privacy policy, we will show you what data is involved, why we use SoundCloud and how you can manage or prevent your data or the data transfer. What is SoundCloud? The social media network SoundCloud is an online music platform that serves the exchange and distribution of audio files. On SoundCloud, musicians or podcasters offer their audio files for download. In addition, SoundCloud allows you to embed the audio files in other websites. And that’s exactly what we did. Typical for SoundCloud are the graphical representations of the audio files in wave form and the comment bar. This way, logged-in users can listen to and comment on music tracks or podcasts at any time. Why do we use SoundCloud on our website? Our goal is to provide you with the best possible service on our website. By that, we don’t just mean our products or services. Holistic customer service also includes how comfortable you feel on our website and how helpful our website is to you. Through the embedded SoundCloud playback feature, we can deliver acoustic content directly to you, free of charge. You don’t have to follow some link first to listen to an audio file, you can start right from our website. What data is stored on SoundCloud? As soon as you visit one of our websites that has a widget (like or share button or play function) built in, your browser connects to a SoundCloud server. In the process, data from you may be transferred to SoundCloud, managed and stored there. For example, SoundCloud learns in this way your IP address and which page (in this case ours) you visited and when. If you have a SoundCloud account and are logged in while browsing our website, the collected data will be directly assigned to your account/account. You can only prevent this by logging out of SoundCloud while you are on our website. In addition to the information mentioned above, data about your user behavior is also stored in the cookies. For example, whenever you click a button, play or pause a piece of music, this information is stored in the cookies. The widget or SoundCloud is thus able to recognize you and sometimes the widget is also used to provide you with personalized content. SoundCloud not only uses its own cookies, but also cookies from third-party providers such as Facebook or Google Analytics. These cookies serve the company to get more information about your behavior on external websites and its own platform. We as the website operator do not receive any information about your user behavior through the cookies used by SoundCloud. The data transfer and therefore the information about technical devices and your behavior on the website takes place between you and SoundCloud. Below we show cookies set when you go to a website that has SoundCloud features embedded. This list is only an example of possible cookies and cannot claim to be exhaustive. In this example, the user does not have a SoundCloud account: Name: sc_anonymous_id Value: 208165-986996-398971-423805111432979-0 Purpose: This cookie makes it possible to embed files or other content in websites and stores a user ID. Expiration date: after 10 years Note: The sc_anonymous_id cookie is set immediately when you are on one of our websites that has a Soundcloud feature built in. You do not need to interact with the feature yet for this to happen. Name: __qca Value: P0-1223379886-1579605792812111432979-7 Purpose: This cookie is a third-party cookie from Quantcast and collects data such as how often you visit the page or how long you stay on the page. The information collected is then shared with SoundCloud. Expiration date: after one year Name: Sclocale Value: en Purpose: The cookie stores the language setting you have preset. Expiration date: after one year Name: _soundcloud_session Value: / Intended use: We could not find out any specific information about this cookie. Expiration date: after session end Name: _session_auth_key Value: / Purpose: This cookie can be used to store session information (i.e. user behavior) and authenticate a client request. Expiration date: after 10 years In addition, SoundCloud also uses other third-party cookies such as _fbp, _ga, gid from Facebook and Google Analytics. All the information stored in the cookies is used by SoundCloud to improve its own services and to play personalized advertising. How long and where is the data stored? Basically, the collected data remains stored at SoundCloud as long as a user account exists or it is necessary for SoundCloud to achieve its business objectives. How long exactly is stored changes depending on the context and legal obligations. Even if you do not have an account and personal data has been stored, you have the right to request data deletion. How can I delete my data or prevent data storage? If you have a SoundCloud account, you can manage data processing or delete your entire account via “Settings”. However, you can also manage, delete or disable cookies in your browser exactly according to your needs. The approach always depends on the browser you use. If you decide to delete or disable cookies, please note that all features may then no longer be available. The following instructions tell you how to manage, delete or disable cookies in your browser. Chrome: Delete, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies We hope we have provided you with a good overview of the traffic through SoundCloud. If you want to learn more about SoundCloud’s privacy policy and general handling of data, we recommend that you read the company’s privacy policy at https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy. Zoom Privacy Policy We use the Zoom video conferencing tool from the American software company Zoom Video Communications for our website. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, 55 Almaden Boulevard, 6th Floor, CA 95113. Thanks to “Zoom”, we can easily hold a video conference with customers, business partners, clients and also employees without installing any software. In this privacy statement, we go into more detail about the service and inform you about the most important privacy-related aspects. What is Zoom? Zoom is one of the world’s best-known video conferencing solutions. With the “Zoom Meetings” service, we can hold an online video conference with you, for example, but also with employees or other users via a digital conference room. This makes it very easy for us to get in touch digitally, exchange information on various topics, send text messages or even talk on the phone. Furthermore, Zoom also allows us to share the screen, exchange files and use a whiteboard. Why do we use Zoom on our website? It is important for us to be able to communicate with you quickly and easily. And this is exactly the possibility that Zoom offers us. The software program also works directly via a browser. That means we can simply send you a link and start the video conference. Of course, additional functions such as screen sharing or file exchange are also very practical. What data does Zoom store? When you use Zoom, data is also collected from you so that Zoom can provide their services. On the one hand, this is data that you consciously provide to the company. This includes, for example, name, telephone number or your 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 may collect from you and store: If you provide data such as your name, user name, email address or phone number, this data will be stored by Zoom. Content that you upload while using Zoom is also stored. This includes files or chat logs, for example. In addition to the IP address already mentioned above, the technical data that Zoom automatically stores includes the MAC address, other device IDs, device type, which operating system you are using, which client you are using, camera type, microphone type, and speaker type. Your approximate location is also determined and stored. Furthermore, Zoom also stores information about how you use the service. So, for example, whether you “zoom” via desktop or smartphone, whether you use a phone call or VoIP, whether you participate with or without video, or whether you request a password. Zoom also records so-called metadata such as duration of the meeting/call, start and end of meeting participation, meeting name and chat status. Zoom mentions in its own privacy policy that it does not use advertising cookies or tracking technologies for its services. Only its own marketing websites, such as www.zoom.us, use these tracking methods. Zoom does not resell personal data or use it for advertising purposes. How long and where is the data stored? Zoom does not disclose a specific time frame in this regard, but emphasizes that the collected data is stored for as long as it is necessary to provide the services or for its own purposes. Data is only stored longer if this is required for legal reasons. In principle, Zoom stores the collected data on American servers, but data can arrive at different data centers around the world. How can I delete my data or prevent data storage? If you do not want data to be stored during the Zoom meeting, you must opt out of the meeting. However, you always have the right and option to have all your personal data deleted. If you have a Zoom account, please visit https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201363243-How-Do-I-Delete-Terminate-My-Account for instructions on how to delete your account. Zoom Video Communications is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which governs the accurate and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information about this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TNkCAAW&status=Active. We hope we have provided you with an overview of Zoom’s data processing. Of course, it is always possible that the company’s privacy policy may change. Therefore, for more information, we also recommend that you review Zoom’s privacy policy at https://zoom.us/de-de/privacy.html. AdSimple Cookie Manager Privacy Policy We use the AdSimple Cookie Manager of the software development and online marketing company AdSimple GmbH, Fabriksgasse 20, 2230 Gänserndorf on our website. The AdSimple Cookie Manager offers us, among other things, the possibility to provide you with a comprehensive and privacy-compliant cookie notice, so that you can decide for yourself which cookies you allow and which you do not. By using this software, data from you will be sent to AdSimple and stored. In this privacy policy, we inform you why we use the AdSimple Cookie Manager, what data is transferred and stored, and how you can prevent this data transfer. What is the AdSimple Cookie Manager? The AdSimple Cookie Manager is a software that scans our website and identifies and categorizes all existing cookies. In addition, you as a website visitor will be informed about the use of cookies via a cookie hint script and decide for yourself which cookies you allow and which not. Why do we use the AdSimple Cookie Manager on our website? We want to offer you maximum transparency in the area of data protection. To ensure this, we first need to know exactly which cookies have ended up on our website over time. By having AdSimple’s Cookie Manager regularly scan our website and locate all cookies, we have full control over these cookies and can thus act in a DSGVO-compliant manner. We can thus inform you accurately about the use of cookies on our website. Furthermore, you will always receive an up-to-date and privacy-compliant cookie notice and decide for yourself via checkbox system which cookies you accept or block. What data is stored by the AdSimple Cookie Manager? If you agree to cookies on our website, the following cookie will be set by the AdSimple Cookie Manager: Name: acm_status Value: “:true, “statistics”:true, “marketing”:true, “socialmedia”:true, “settings”:true} Purpose: This cookie stores your consent status. This allows our website to read and follow your current status on future visits. Expiration date: after one year How long and where is the data stored? All data collected by the AdSimple Cookie Manager is transmitted and stored exclusively within the European Union. The collected data is stored on AdSimple’s servers at Hetzner GmbH in Germany. Only AdSimple GmbH and Hetzner GmbH have access to this data. How can I delete my data or prevent data storage? You have the right to access and also delete your personal data at any time. You can prevent data collection and storage, for example, by rejecting the use of cookies via the cookie hint script. Another possibility to prevent the data processing or to manage it according to your wishes is offered by your browser. Depending on the browser, cookie management works slightly differently. Here you can find the instructions for the currently most popular browsers: Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Chrome Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies We hope we have provided you with a good overview of AdSimple Cookie Manager traffic and data processing. If you want to learn more about this tool, we recommend you to visit the description page on https://www.adsimple.at/adsimple-cookie-manager/. Google reCAPTCHA Privacy Policy Our primary goal is to secure and protect our website as best as possible for you and for us. To ensure this, we use Google reCAPTCHA 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. 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 electronically. With the classic CAPTCHAS, you usually had to solve text or image puzzles to verify the information. With reCAPTCHA from Google, we usually don’t have to bother you with such puzzles. Here, in most cases, it is enough to simply check a box to confirm that you are not a bot. With the new Invisible reCAPTCHA version, you don’t even have to set a checkmark anymore. You’ll learn exactly how this works and, more importantly, what data is used to do it later in this privacy policy. What is reCAPTCHA? reCAPTCHA is a free captcha service from Google that protects websites from spam software and abuse by non-human visitors. The most common use of this service is when you fill out forms on the web. A captcha service is a kind of automatic Turing test, designed to ensure that an action on the Internet is performed by a human and not by a bot. In the classic Turing test (named after computer scientist Alan Turing), a human determines the distinction between a bot and a human. In captchas, the computer or a software program also does this. Classic captchas work with small tasks that are easy for humans to solve, but present significant difficulties for machines. With reCAPTCHA, you no longer have to actively solve puzzles. The tool uses modern risk techniques to distinguish humans from bots. Here, you only need to check the “I am not a robot” text box, or with Invisible reCAPTCHA, even that is no longer necessary. With reCAPTCHA, a JavaScript element is included in the source code and then the tool runs in the background and analyzes your user behavior. From these user actions, the software calculates a so-called captcha score. Google uses this score to calculate even before the captcha is entered how likely you are to be a human. 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 to our site. Bots or spam software of any kind may confidently stay at home. That’s why we pull out all the stops to protect ourselves and offer the best possible user experience for you. For this reason we use Google reCAPTCHA from the company Google. This way we can be pretty sure that we remain a “bot-free” website. By using reCAPTCHA, data is transmitted to Google to determine whether you are actually a human. reCAPTCHA therefore serves the security of our website and, by extension, 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. What data is stored by reCAPTCHA? reCAPTCHA collects personal data from users to determine whether the actions on our website really come from people. Thus, the IP address and other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service may be sent to Google. IP addresses are almost always shortened beforehand within the member states of the EU or other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before the data ends up on a server in the USA. The IP address is not combined with other data from Google unless you are logged in with 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 places an additional cookie on your browser and collects a snapshot of your browser window. The following list of collected browser and user data, does not claim to be exhaustive. Rather, it is examples of data that, to our knowledge, Google processes. Referrer URL (the address of the page from which the visitor came) IP address (e.g. 256.123.123.1) Information about the operating system (the software that enables the operation of your computer. Known operating systems are Windows, Mac OS X or Linux) Cookies (small text files that store data in your browser) Mouse and keyboard behavior (every action you perform with the mouse or keyboard is stored) Date and language settings (which language or date you have preset on your PC is stored) All JavaScript objects (JavaScript is a programming language that allows 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 display consists of) It is undisputed that Google uses and analyzes 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 which data Google stores exactly, Google does not tell you in detail. The following cookies are used by reCAPTCHA: Here we refer to the reCAPTCHA demo version from 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-111432979-8 Purpose: This cookie is set by the DoubleClick company (also owned by Google) to register and report a user’s actions on the website when dealing with advertisements. In this way, advertising effectiveness can be measured and appropriate optimization measures can be taken. IDE is stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net. Expiration date: after one year Name: 1P_JAR Value: 2019-5-14-12 Purpose: 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 display relevant advertisements to users. Furthermore, the cookie can be used to prevent a user from seeing the same ad more than once. Expiration date: after one month Name: ANID Value: U7j1v3dZa1114329790xgZFmiqWppRWKOr Purpose: We could not find out much info about this cookie. Google’s privacy policy mentions the cookie in the context of “advertising cookies” such as “DSID”, “FLC”, “AID”, “TAID”. ANID is stored under domain google.com. Expiration date: after 9 months Name: CONSENT Value: YES+AT.en+20150628-20-0 Purpose: The cookie stores the status of a user’s consent to use different services from Google. CONSENT is also used for security purposes to verify users, prevent credential fraud, and protect user data from unauthorized attacks. Expiration date: after 19 years Name: NID Value: 0WmuWqy111432979zILzqV_nmt3sDXwPeM5Q Purpose: NID is used by Google to customize ads to your Google search. With the help of the cookie, Google “remembers” your most typed search queries or your previous interaction with ads. This way you will always get tailored ads. The cookie contains a unique ID to collect personal settings of the user for advertising purposes. Expiration date: after 6 months Name: DV Value: gEAABBCjJMXcI0dSAAAANbqc111432979-4 Purpose: Once you tick the “I am not a robot” box, this cookie is set. The cookie is used by Google Analytics for personalized advertising. DV collects information in anonymous form and is further used to make user distinctions. Expiration date: after 10 minutes Note: This list cannot claim to be exhaustive, as Google’s experience shows that the choice of cookies is always changing. 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, Google does not make clear, even after repeated inquiries. 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 Google’s European or American 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 deviating data protection provisions of the Google company apply to this. How can I delete my data or prevent data storage? If you do not want any data about you and your behavior to be transmitted to Google, you must log out of Google completely and delete all Google cookies before you visit our website or use the reCAPTCHA software. Basically, as soon as you visit our site, the data is automatically transmitted to Google. To delete this data again, you must contact Google support at https://support.google.com/?hl=de&tid=111432979. So, when you use our website, you agree that Google LLC and its agents automatically collect, process and use data. You can learn a little more about reCAPTCHA on Google’s web developer page at https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/. Google does go into more detail about the technical development of reCAPTCHA here, but you will search in vain for precise information about data storage and privacy-related issues there as well. A good overview of Google’s basic use of data can be found in the in-house privacy policy at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/. Custom Google Search Privacy Policy We have integrated the Google custom search plug-in on our website. Google is the largest and best-known search engine in the world and is operated by the US company Google Inc. The company Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for the European area. Google Custom Search may transfer data from you to Google. In this privacy policy, we inform you why we use this plug-in, what data is processed and how you can manage or prevent this data transfer. What is Google Custom Search? The custom Google search plug-in is a Google search bar directly on our website. The search takes place as on www.google.com, only the search results focus on our content and products or on a limited search circle. Why do we use custom Google search on our website? A website with a lot of interesting content often gets so big that it is possible to lose the overview. Over time, we have also accumulated a lot of valuable material and as part of our service, we want you to find our content as quickly and easily as possible. Custom Google search makes finding interesting content a breeze. The built-in Google plug-in improves the overall quality of our website and makes searching easier for you. What data is stored by Google Custom Search? Google Custom Search only transfers data from you to Google when you actively use Google Search built into our website. This means that only when you enter a search term in the search bar and then confirm this term (e.g. click “Enter”), in addition to the search term, your IP address is also sent to Google, stored and processed there. Based on the cookies set (such as 1P_JAR), it can be assumed that Google also receives data on website usage. If you search for content during your visit to our website using the built-in Google search function and are logged in with your Google account at the same time, Google can also assign the collected data to your Google account. As the website operator, we have no influence on what Google does with the collected data or how Google processes the data. The following cookies are set in your browser when you use Google Custom Search and are not logged in with a Google account: Name: 1P_JAR Value: 2020-01-27-13111432979-5 Purpose: This cookie collects website usage statistics and measures conversions. For example, a conversion occurs when a user becomes a buyer. The cookie is also used to display relevant advertisements to users. Expiration date: after one month Name: CONSENT Value: WP.282f52111432979-9 Purpose: The cookie stores the status of a user’s consent to use different services from Google. CONSENT is also used for security purposes to verify users and protect user data from unauthorized attacks. Expiration date: after 18 years Name: NID Value: 196=pwIo3B5fHr-8 Purpose: NID is used by Google to customize ads to your Google search. With the help of the cookie, Google “remembers” your entered search queries or your previous interaction with ads. This way you will always get tailored ads. Expiration date: after 6 months Note: This enumeration cannot claim to be complete, as Google also changes the choice of their cookies again and again. How long and where is the data stored? Google servers are distributed all over the world. Since Google is an American company, most of the data is stored on American servers. At https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de you can see exactly where the Google servers are located. Your data is distributed on different physical data carriers. This means that the data can be retrieved more quickly and is better protected against possible manipulation. Google also has appropriate emergency programs for your data. For example, if there are internal technical problems at Google and servers stop working as a result, the risk of service interruption and data loss still remains low. Depending on the data in question, Google stores it for different lengths of time. Some data you can delete yourself, others are automatically deleted or anonymized by Google. However, there is also data that Google stores longer if this is necessary for legal or business reasons. How can I delete my data or prevent data storage? According to the data protection law of the European Union, you have the right to obtain information about your data, to update it, to delete it or to restrict it. There is some data that you can delete at any time. If you have a Google account, you can delete data about your web activity there or specify that it should be deleted after a certain time. In your browser, you also have the option to disable cookies, delete them, or manage them according to your wishes and preferences. Here you can find instructions for the most important browsers: Chrome: Delete, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies Google is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which governs the accurate and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information about this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI. We hope we have been able to provide you with the most important information regarding data processing by Google. If you want to learn more about it, we recommend Google’s comprehensive privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de. Sofortüberweisung Privacy Policy We offer on our website the payment method “Sofortüberweisung” of the company Sofort GmbH for cashless payment. Sofort GmbH has been part of the Swedish company Klarna since 2014, but has its headquarters in Germany, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 Munich. If you decide to use this payment method, among other things, personal data will be transmitted to Sofort GmbH or Klarna, stored and processed there. With this data protection text we give you an overview of the data processing by Sofort GmbH. What is an “Sofortüberweisung”? Sofortüberweisung is an online payment system that allows you to place an order via online banking. In this case, the payment processing is carried out by Sofort GmbH and we immediately receive information about the payment made. This method can be used by any user who has an active online banking account with PIN and TAN. Only a few banks do not support this payment method yet. Why do we use “Sofortüberweisung” on our website? Our goal with our website and our integrated online store is to provide you with the best possible service. In addition to the overall experience on the website and in addition to our offers, this also includes a smooth, fast and secure payment processing of your orders. To ensure this, we use “Sofortüberweisung” as a payment system. What data is stored by “Sofortüberweisung”? When you make an instant transfer via the Sofort/Klarna service, data such as name, account number, bank code, subject, amount and date are stored on the company’s servers. We also receive this information via the payment confirmation. As part of the account coverage check, Sofort GmbH checks whether your account balance and overdraft facility cover the payment amount. In some cases, it is also checked whether Sofort transfers have been successfully carried out in the last 30 days. In addition, your user identification (such as user number or contract number) in abbreviated (“hashed”) form and your IP address are collected and stored. For SEPA transfers, the BIC and IBAN are also stored. According to the company, no other personal data (such as account balances, turnover data, drawing limits, account lists, cell phone number, authentication certificates, security codes or PIN/TAN) is collected, stored or passed on to third parties. Sofortüberweisung also uses cookies to make its own service more user-friendly. When you order a product, you will be redirected to the Sofort or Klarna website. After successful payment, you will be redirected to our thank you page. Here the following three cookies are set: Name: SOFUEB Value: e8cipp378mdscn9e17kajlfhv7111432979-5 Purpose: This cookie stores your session ID. Expiration date: after browser session ends Name: user[user_cookie_rules] Value: 1 Purpose: This cookie stores your consent to use cookies. Expiration date: after 10 years Name: _ga Value: GA1.2.69759879.1589470706 Intended use: by default, analytics.js uses the _ga cookie to store the user ID. Basically, it is used to distinguish the website visitors. This is a cookie from Google Analytics. Expiration date: after 2 years Note: The cookies listed here do not claim to be complete. It can always be that Sofortüberweisung also uses other cookies. How long and where is the data stored? All collected data is stored within the legal obligation to keep records. This obligation can last between three and ten years. Klarna/Sofort GmbH tries to store data only within the EU or the European Economic Area (EEA). If data is transferred outside the EU/EEA, the data protection must comply with the GDPR, the country must be in an EU adequacy decision or have the US Privacy Shield certificate. How can I delete my data or prevent data retention? You can withdraw your consent for Klarna to process personal data at any time. You also always have the right to information, correction and deletion of your personal data. To do so, you can simply contact the company’s data protection team by emailing datenschutz@sofort.com. Possible cookies that Sofortüberweisung uses, you can manage, delete or disable in your browser. Depending on your preferred browser, this works in different ways. The following instructions show how to manage cookies in the most popular browsers: Chrome: Delete, activate and manage cookies in Chrome Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have stored on your computer Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies If you want to learn more about data processing by the “Sofortüberweisung” company Sofort GmbH, we recommend that you read the privacy policy at https://www.sofort.de/datenschutz.html. Source: Created with the privacy generator of AdSimple® Linkbuilding in cooperation with aboutbusiness.at