Privacy Policy for prosec.network
Welcome to our website. We appreciate your interest in our company and services. We are committed to safeguarding your privacy when you use our website. As the controller and service provider of the website
Prosec.network
(hereinafter also “website”)
we,
PROSEC gGmbH
Spitalgasse 3
79713 Bad Säckingen
Germany
(hereinafter also „PROSEC“)
would like to inform you about how we process your personal data and explain your rights as a data subject when you use our website.
Your personal data is processed solely in accordance with the provisions of the data protection laws of the European Union, in particular, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter “GDPR“) and supplementary to the Federal Data Protection Act (hereinafter “BDSG“) as well as other statutory provisions on data protection (together “privacy laws”).
If you would like to review the GDPR, you can find it on the Internet at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679.
This Privacy Policy applies solely to the website accessible at the domain prosec.network einschließlich aller Subdomains. The following notices do not apply to other websites of PROSEC or third-party websites to which this website links. The terms used in this policy, such as “personal data” or its “processing”, correspond to the definitions in Article 4 of the GDPR.
1. Subject matter of data protection and legal bases
We, the operator or provider of the website, collect data on access to the website on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1f) GDPR), and store these as (server log files) on the website server. The following data are logged as a result.
– information on the browser type and the version used – user’s operating system
– user’s Internet service provider – user’s IP address
– date and time of access
– websites from which the user’s system reaches our Internet site
– websites called up by the user’s system via our website
The data are also stored in our system’s log files for max. 7 days and afterwards deleted. The storage of the data is done for security reasons, e.g. to clarify cases of abuse. If data must be revoked for reasons of proof, they are excluded from the deletion until the incident has been finally clarified. For this period, processing is restricted.
2. Cookies
This website uses cookies for pseudonymised reach measurement, which are transmitted either from our server or the third-party server to the user’s browser. Cookies are small files, which are stored on your terminal device. Your browser accesses these files. The user friendliness and security of this website is increased by the use of cookies.
If you do not want cookies for reach measurement to be stored on your terminal device, you can object to the use of these files here:
• Network Advertising Initiative cookie deactivation: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1#!/
•Cookie deactivation page of the US American website: http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2#!/
• Cookie deactivation page of the European website: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1#!/
Current browsers offer the setting option of not permitting cookies. Note: There is no guarantee that you will be able to access all functions of this website without restrictions if you make the appropriate settings.
Collection and processing of personal data
The operator of the website processes and passes on your personal data only if this is permitted within the legal framework, or if you consent to the data processing.
Personal information is any information that is used to identify you and which can be traced back to you, such as your name, email address and telephone number.
You can also visit this website without providing any personal information. However, in order to improve our online service, we store your access data for this website (without personal references).
3.Contact data handling
If you contact us as the operator of this website through the contact options offered, your details will be stored so that they can be used to process and respond to your enquiry. This data will not be passed on to third parties or processed for another purpose without your consent.
4. Handling comments and contributions
If you leave a contribution or a comment on this website, your IP address will be stored. This is done on the basis of our legitimate interests pursuant to Article 6 (1)(f) of the GDPR and serves our security as website operator: If your comment should violate applicable law, we can be sued for it, which is why we have an interest in the identity of the comment and/or contributing author.
5. Google Analytics
Due to our legitimate interests in the optimisation and analysis of our online service pursuant to Article 6 (1)(f) of the GDPR, this website uses the “Google Analytics” service, which is provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). The service (Google Analytics) uses “cookies” – text files, which are stored on your terminal device. The information collected by the cookies is usually sent to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
Google LLC complies with European data protection law and is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active
IP anonymisation is used on this website. The IP address of users will be shortened within the member states of the EU and the European Economic Area and in the other states party to the agreement. Only in individual cases, is the IP address initially transmitted in full to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. This shortening eliminates the personal reference to your IP address. The user’s IP address transmitted by the browser is not combined with other data stored by Google.
As part of the agreement on order data processing, which we as website operator have concluded with Google Inc., Google uses the information collected to evaluate the use of the website and website activity and to provide services connected with the use of the Internet.
The data collected by Google on our behalf is used to evaluate the use of our online service by individual users, e.g. to create reports on the activity on the website in order to improve our online service.
You have the option of using a browser plug-in to prevent the information collected by cookies (including your IP address) from being sent to Google Inc. and used by Google Inc. Following link leads you to the corresponding plug-in: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Alternatively, by clicking on this link (deactivate Google Analytics), you prevent Google Analytics from collecting data about you within this website. By clicking on the link above, you can download an “Opt-Out-Cookie”. Your browser must therefore fundamentally allow cookies to be stored. If you delete your cookies regularly, you will need to click on the link again each time you visit this website.
Here you will find further information on the use of data by Google Inc.:
https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners (Data which is collected by Google partners)
https://adssettings.google.de/authenticated (Settings for the advertising shown to you)
https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads (Use of cookies in advertisements)
6. Embedded videos
Our website uses plug-ins from Google’s YouTube site. Operator of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. Only when you play a video on one of our sites which is equipped with a YouTube plug-in is a connection established to YouTube’s servers. The Youtube server will be informed which of our pages you have visited.
If you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to assign your surfing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
Every time you click on a YouTube button on one of our pages, a connection is established to YouTube’s servers. The button can be recognized by the red “YouTube” sign on a white background.
For more information on how user data is handled, please see YouTube’s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/
If you do not want these providers to associate your visit to this website to their local user account, you must log out of the provider’s service before visiting this website. Even if you do not have an account with these providers, websites with enabled plug-ins can use cookies to send data to the providers, allowing them to create a pseudonymized user profile, for example.
The YouTube videos included on this website, which are stored at http://www.youtube.com and can be played directly from this website, are embedded in “enhanced privacy mode.” According to YouTube, this means that if you do not play the videos, you will not be transferring any information about you as a user to YouTube.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by disabling “third-party cookies” (see Section 8) or by configuring your browser settings accordingly or by using browser extensions such as “Adblock Plus” (https://adblockplus.org) in combination with “EasyPrivacy” list (https://easylist.to), However, please be advised that you may not be able to use all the features of our website in that case.
7. Use of Facebook social media plugins
Our pages contain integrated plugins of the social network Facebook that is provided by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. You can recognise these Facebook plugins when you see the Facebook logo or the “like-button” on our internet pages. An overview of the Facebook plugins can be viewed here: https://developers.facebook.com/products/social-plugins/?locale=en_US.
If you visit our website, a direct connection will be established between your browser and the Facebook server via the plugin. Facebook receives notification that you have visited our website with your IP address. If you are logged in to your Facebook account and you click on the “like button”, you can link the contents of our website with your Facebook profile. In this way, Facebook is able to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. Please note that we, as the provider of these websites, are not informed of the contents of the transmitted data and their usage by Facebook. For more information, please refer to the Facebook privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
If you wish to block Facebook’s ability to associate your visit to our website with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account
8. Newsletter subscription
We offer you a newsletter in which we keep you informed about our current events and offers. If you wish to subscribe to the newsletter, you must enter a valid email address. If you subscribe to the newsletter, you declare your agreement with receiving the newsletter and with the procedures explained.
Revocation and cancellation: Your can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time and thus cancel your newsletter subscription. After your cancellation, your personal data will be deleted. Your consent to receive the newsletter lapses at the same time. You can easily find the link to cancel at the end of each newsletter.
9. Rights of the user
As a user, you have the right to request free information on what personal data has been stored about you. You also have the right to have incorrect data corrected and to have the processing of your personal data restricted or deleted. If applicable, you can also assert your right to data portability. If you believe that your data has been processed unlawfully, you can lodge a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority.
10. Deletion of data
If your request does not conflict with a legal obligation to store data (e.g. data retention or a legal obligation to store data), you are entitled to have your data deleted. Data stored by us will be deleted if it is no longer necessary for its intended purpose. If deletion is not possible because the data is required for legal purposes, data processing will be restricted. In this case, the data will be blocked and not processed for other purposes.
11. Right of objection
Users of this website may exercise their right of objection and object to the processing of their personal data at any time in the future.
If you wish personal data stored about you to be corrected, blocked, or deleted, or if you wish tobe informed about the personal data stored about you, or if you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data, or if you wish to revoke your consent, please contact us at the following email address: info@prosec.network or call us at +49 7761 562 331.
Date: January 2019