The protection of your personal data is an important concern to us, which we take seriously. Therefore, we keep to the applicable statutory provisions for the protection of personal data and data protection in our activities.
In the following, we inform you which information we gather if necessary, which way we process them, and whom we provide them with if necessary. The following declaration will give you an overview about the way we guarantee that protection and which kind of data is gathered for which purpose.
Purpose of data acquisition, processing or usage of
Personal data
We basically do not gather personal data via our web site. Personal data (names, addresses, telephone numbers or e-mail addresses) are only gathered if you provide us with such data voluntarily (e. g. by registration, filling in a contact form or a newsletter form) or if you agreed or it or if the correspondent statutory provisions for the protection if your data allow it.
The personal data you provide us with are basically used to process your enquiry, order or contract. If necessary, we record personal data to maintain our customer relationship to you and process them in other electronic data processing systems. We also forward your personal data to our subsidiary or to enterprises in which we execute a commanding influence because of an interest to be able to answer your request superiorly. We use your personal data to inform you about our offers of about offers from companys, in which we have an interest, if they might be useful for your business operations.
Your personal data may also be used if they are required for the justification or protection of legal claims or for the defence of complaints according to laws or official or judicial decrees or if they are required to prevent illegal activities, e. g. deliberate aggressions on our data processing systems. We do not plan forwarding the data to third party countries.
Of course, we will accept it, if you do not want us to use your personal data to maintain our customer relationship (especially direct marketing actions, marketing research). There is no way that the data gathered will be sold or forwarded to third parties because of other reasons. The only exception are companies we have an interest.
Data referring to the use
When you access our web sites, telecommunications services automatically generate data referring to communication (internet addresses) or use with technical means. These may allow conclusions regarding personal data. As far as it is mandatory to gather, process and use your data referring to communication or use, it is subject to the laws for data protection.
Non-personal data
When you access our web sites, information is gathered automatically (without registration or login), but they cannot be related to a certain person. We gather and save information forwarded to us by your browser in Server Log Files automatically. These data are:
- Browser type/ version
- used operating system
- Domain name of the previously visited web site
- Host name of the accessing computer (IP address)
- Time of the server request
- Number of visits
- Average dwell
- accessed pages
We are not able to relate these data to certain persons. These data are not merged with other data sources. We and the companies we have a decisive interest in use the data collected to make our web sites more attractive and to improve the performance.
Cookies
The web sites use so-called cookies in several places. Their purpose is making our offer more user-friendly and safer. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your computer and which your browser saves. Most of the cookies used by us are so-called "session cookies". You can set up your internet browser to delete them automatically when you leave the web sites. Cookies do not do any damage on your computer and do not contain viruses.
Child protection
We do not gather personal data from children.
Security
We take technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data from accidental or illegal deletion, manipulation, and from loss, illegal transmission or unjustified access.
Links to third web sites
Our web sites contain links to other web sites. We are not responsible for the data protection or the contents of these third web sites.
Newsletter
In case you want to receive the newsletter offered on the web site, we require an e-mail address and information which enable us to check that you are the owner of that e-mail address or that the owner of that e-mail address agrees with the receipt of the newsletter. You can cancel your consent to saving the data, the e-mail address and their use for sending the newsletter anytime.
Right of withdrawal
You can withdraw and delete the personal data left to us anytime. Equally, you can disagree to making a user profile based on non-personal data. For this purpose, please deactivate the cookies in your browser.
Right to access
You have got the right to get information as to the data saved about your person, their origin and recipient as well as the purpose of the saving. The data protection offier will give you information on the data saved. On request we will inform you in writing according to the applicable law, whether we saved personal data from you and which ones.
Further information
Your trust is important to us. Therefore, we will answer all your questions regarding the processing of your personal data. Should you have any questions that are not answered by this data protection declaration or should you require further information on one of the issues, please contact our data protection officer.
Data protection officer:
Rüdiger van Hal
E-Mail: datasecurity@mediadefine.com
Public register of processing information
According to § 4g BDSG, the data protection officer has to make the information set in § 4e BDSG conveniently available to anyone upon request. We filfill these obligation voluntarily so that there is no need for a request from you.
1. Name of the company responsible
mediadefine GmbH
Registrier court Essen
HRB 16871
sales tax identification number: DE813601945
2. Management
Dipl.-Ökonom Rüdiger van Hal
Tim Hildebrandt
Appointed director of data processing:
Tim Hildebrandt
3. Address of the company responsible
mediadefine GmbH
Triple-Z-Park (Zeche Zollverein, Schacht 4/11)
Katernberger Str. 107
D-45327 Essen
4. Purpose of data gathering, processing and use
Company consulting and management for business, communication and IT as well as any economic or technical activity related to it. The company may hold an interest in other companies which have the same or similar aims with no regard of their legal form.
5. Description of groups of people, data and data categories concerned
Customer data, employee data and the data of suppliers, if they are required for the purposes named among 4. . The groups of people concerned result from the purposes named among No. 4. It is about the following data categories:
- Group of people: Customers
Data: Contact persons, address data, contract data, payment data and control date - Group of people: Employees
Data: Anticipation data, contract master data and billing data - Group of people: Business partners, suppliers
Data: Contract master data and billing data - Group of people: Suitors
Data: Contact persons, address data, product interest
6. Recipients that may receive the data
Recipient is any person or company that receives data. Public companies because of statutory provisions, external employers and employees according to § 11 BDSG as well as external companies and internal departments to fulfill the purposes named among 4..
7. Prescribed terms for the deletion of data
The legislator decreed many obligations and terms to retain data. After the end of these terms, e. g. 10 years according to § 257 HGB and § 147 AO, the correspondent are deleted routinely when they are not required for the fulfillment of a contract. If the data are not concerned by this, they are deleted as soon as they are not required anymore for fulfilling the purpose of the storage.
8. Planned data forwarding to third countries
We do not forward data into third countries and do not it at present.