Introduction

With the following information we would like to give you as a “data subject” an overview of the processing of your personal data by us and your rights under the data protection laws. In principle, it is possible to use our Internet pages without entering personal data. However, if you wish to make use of special services of our company via our website, it may become necessary to process personal data. If the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no legal basis for such processing, we will generally obtain your consent.

The processing of personal data, such as your name, address, or e-mail address, is always carried out in accordance with the Basic Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO) and in compliance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable to “PROGNOST Systems GmbH”. By means of this data protection declaration, we would like to inform you about the scope and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process.

As the data controller, we have implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure that the personal data processed via this website is protected as completely as possible. Nevertheless, Internet-based data transmissions can generally have security gaps, so that absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, you are free to transmit personal data to us by alternative means, for example by telephone or post.

Responsible

The person responsible within the meaning of the DPR is

PROGNOST Systems GmbH Daimlerstraße 10, 48432 Rheine, Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 5971 / 80819-0
Email: info@prognost.com

Data protection officer

You can contact the data protection officer as follows:

Data protection team of B-IT.Consulting GmbH
Email: Prognost-DSB@B-IT.Consulting

You can contact our data protection officer directly at any time with all questions and suggestions regarding data protection.

Definitions

The data protection declaration is based on the terms used by the European legislator for directives and regulations when the basic data protection regulation (DS-GVO) was adopted. Our data protection declaration should be easy to read and understand for the public as well as for our customers and business partners. To ensure this, we would like to explain the terms used in advance.

We use the following terms, among others, in this privacy policy:

Personal data

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, on-line identification, or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

Person concerned

Person concerned means any identified or identifiable natural person whose personal data are processed by the controller (our company).

Processing

Processing is any operation or set of operations, whether or not performed by automated means, which is performed upon personal data, such as collection, recording, organisation, sorting, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

Restriction of processing

Restriction of processing is the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their future processing.

Profiling

Profiling is any automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of such personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyze or predict aspects relating to the job performance, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, conduct, location or change of location of that natural person.

Pseudonymisation

Pseudonymisation is the processing of personal data in such a way that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that this additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organizational measures which ensure that the personal data is not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Processor

Processor is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

Receiver

The recipient is any natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body to whom personal data are disclosed, whether or not that person is a third party. However, authorities which may receive personal data in the context of a specific investigation mandate under Union or national law shall not be considered as recipients.

Third party

A third party is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, the controller, the processor and the persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or the processor, are authorized to process the personal data.

Consent

Consent shall mean any freely given, informed and unequivocal expression of the data subject’s will in a specific case, in the form of a statement or any other unequivocal affirmative act by which the data subject signifies his or her consent to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

Legal basis of the processing

Article 6 (1) lit. a DS-GVO serves as a legal basis for our company for processing operations for which we obtain consent for a specific processing purpose.
If the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, as is the case, for example, with processing operations necessary for the delivery of goods or the provision of another service or consideration, the processing is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. b DS-GVO. The same applies to such processing operations which are necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures, for example in cases of enquiries about our products or services.

If our company is subject to a legal obligation which makes it necessary to process personal data, for example to fulfil tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. c DS-GVO.
In rare cases, the processing of personal data may be necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor to our company were to be injured and his or her name, age, health insurance details or other vital information had to be disclosed to a doctor, hospital or other third party. The processing would then be based on Article 6 (1) lit. d DS-GVO.

Ultimately, processing operations could be based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f DS-GVO. Processing operations which are not covered by any of the aforementioned legal bases are based on this legal basis if the processing is necessary to safeguard a legitimate interest of our company or of a third party, provided that the interests, fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject do not prevail. We are permitted to carry out such processing operations in particular because they have been specifically mentioned by the European legislator. In this respect, he took the view that a legitimate interest could be assumed if you are a customer of our company (Recital 47 sentence 2 DS-GVO).

Transfer of data to third parties

Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those listed below.
We will only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

  1. you have given your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a DS-GVO
  2. the disclosure is permissible under Art. 6 Para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f DS-GVO in order to safeguard our legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in not disclosing your data,
  3. in the event that there is a legal obligation to pass on the data in accordance with Article 6 (1) sentence 1 letter c of the DS-GVO, and
  4. this is legally permissible and required under Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b DS-GVO for the processing of contractual relationships with you.

Technology

SSL/TLS encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption to ensure the security of data processing and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders, login data or contact requests that you send to us as the operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of your browser contains “https://” instead of “http://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Data collection when visiting the website

If you use our website for informational purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or provide us with information in any other way, we only collect the data that your browser sends to our server (in so-called “server log files”). Our website collects a number of general data and information each time you or an automated system access a page. This general data and information is stored in the server log files. The following can be recorded:

  1. used browser types and versions,
  2. the operating system used by the accessing system,
  3. the date and time of access to the website,
  4. an anonymized Internet Protocol (IP) address,
  5. success or error during loading
  6. amount of data transmitted

When using this general data and information, we do not draw any conclusions about your person. This information is rather required to

  1. to deliver the contents of our website correctly,
  2. to optimize the contents of our website and the advertising for it,
  3. to guarantee the permanent functionality of our IT systems and the technology of our website and
  4. to provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for prosecution in the event of a cyber attack.

This collected data and information is therefore evaluated by us on the one hand statistically and also with the aim of increasing data protection and data security in our company, in order to ultimately ensure an optimum level of protection for the personal data processed by us. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by an affected person at our hoster.

The legal basis for the data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DS-GVO. Our legitimate interest follows from the above-mentioned purposes for data collection.

Cookies

General information on cookies

We use cookies on our website. These are small files that are automatically created by your browser and stored on your IT system (laptop, tablet, smartphone or similar) when you visit our site. Cookies do not cause any damage to your end device, do not contain viruses, Trojans or other malware.

The cookie stores information that is related to the specific terminal device used. This does not mean, however, that we obtain direct knowledge of your identity.

The use of cookies serves on the one hand to make the use of our offer more pleasant for you. For example, we use so-called session cookies to recognize that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These are automatically deleted after leaving our site.

In addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimize user-friendliness, which are stored on your terminal device for a certain defined period of time. If you visit our site again in order to use our services, it is automatically recognized that you have already been with us and which entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.

On the other hand, we use cookies in order to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimizing our offer for you. These cookies enable us to automatically recognize that you have already been with us when you visit our site again. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined time.

The data processed by cookies is required for the above-mentioned purposes in order to safeguard our legitimate interests and those of third parties in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 S. 1 lit. f DS-GVO.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or so that a message always appears before a new cookie is created. However, completely disabling cookies may prevent you from using all the features of our website.

Legal basis for the use of cookies

The data processed by cookies, which are required for the proper functioning of the website, are thus necessary to safeguard our legitimate interests and those of third parties in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DS-GVO.

For all other cookies, you have given your consent to this via our opt-in cookie banner in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 letter a DS-GVO.

Contents of our website

Contact / Contact form

Personal data is collected when you contact us (e.g. via contact form or e-mail). Which data is collected in the case of a contact form can be seen from the respective contact form. These data are stored and used exclusively for the purpose of answering your request or for contacting you and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for the processing of the data is our legitimate interest in answering your request in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DS-GVO. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, an additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. b DS-GVO. Your data will be deleted after the final processing of your request; this is the case if it can be deduced from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and provided that there are no legal obligations to retain data.

Application management / job exchange

We collect and process the personal data of applicants for the purpose of processing the application procedure. The processing can also take place electronically. This is particularly the case if an applicant submits the relevant application documents to us electronically, for example by e-mail or via a web form on the website. If we conclude an employment contract with an applicant, the data transmitted will be stored for the purpose of processing the employment relationship in compliance with the statutory provisions. If we do not conclude an employment contract with the applicant, the application documents are automatically deleted two months after notification of the rejection decision, provided that no other legitimate interests on our part conflict with deletion. Other legitimate interests in this sense include, for example, a duty of proof in proceedings under the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG).
In this respect, data processing is carried out solely on the basis of our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DS-GVO.

Newsletter mailing

Newsletter distribution to existing customers

If you have provided us with your e-mail address when purchasing goods or services, we reserve the right to send you regular email offers on similar goods or services from our range of products to those you have already purchased. In accordance with § 7 paragraph 3 UWG we do not need to obtain your separate consent for this. In this respect, data processing is carried out solely on the basis of our justified interest in personalised direct advertising in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DS-GVO. If you have initially objected to the use of your e-mail address for this purpose, we will not send you an e-mail. You are entitled to object to the use of your e-mail address for the above-mentioned advertising purpose at any time with effect for the future by notifying the person responsible named at the beginning of this document. For this you will only incur transmission costs in accordance with the basic rates. After receipt of your objection, the use of your e-mail address for advertising purposes will be immediately discontinued.

Promotional newsletter

On our website you have the possibility to subscribe to the newsletter of our company. Which personal data is transmitted to us when ordering the newsletter is determined by the input mask used for this purpose.

We inform our customers and business partners at regular intervals about our offers by means of a newsletter. The newsletter of our company can only be received by you if

  1. you have a valid e-mail address and
  2. you have registered for the newsletter.

For legal reasons, a confirmation e-mail will be sent to the e-mail address you entered for the first time for the newsletter dispatch using the double opt-in procedure. This confirmation e-mail is used to check whether you, as the owner of the e-mail address, have authorized the receipt of the newsletter.

When you register for the newsletter, we also save the IP address assigned by your Internet service provider (ISP) for the IT system you are using at the time of registration, as well as the date and time of registration. The collection of this data is necessary to be able to trace the (possible) misuse of your e-mail address at a later date and therefore serves as our legal safeguard.

The personal data collected during registration for the newsletter is used exclusively for sending our newsletter. In addition, subscribers to the newsletter could be informed by e-mail if this is necessary for the operation of the newsletter service or for registration, as could be the case if there are changes to the newsletter offer or if technical conditions change. The personal data collected within the scope of the newsletter service will not be passed on to third parties. The subscription to our newsletter can be cancelled by you at any time. The consent to the storage of personal data, which you have given us for the newsletter dispatch, can be revoked at any time. For the purpose of revoking this consent, you will find a corresponding link in every newsletter. Furthermore, it is also possible at any time to unsubscribe from the newsletter directly on our website or to inform us of this in another way.
The legal basis for data processing for the purpose of sending the newsletter is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. a DS-GVO.

Mailchimp

Our e-mail newsletters are sent via the technical service provider The Rocket Science Group, LLC d/b/a MailChimp, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA (https://www.mailchimp.com/), to whom we pass on the data you provided when you registered for the newsletter. This disclosure is made in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DS-GVO and serves our legitimate interest in using an effective, secure and user-friendly newsletter system. Please note that your data is usually transferred to a server of MailChimp in the USA and stored there.
The legal basis for data processing for the purpose of sending the newsletter is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. a DS-GVO.

MailChimp uses this information for the dispatch and statistical evaluation of the newsletter on our behalf. For the evaluation the sent e-mails contain so-called web beacons or tracking pixels, which are one-pixel image files stored on our website. In this way it can be determined whether a newsletter message has been opened and which links have been clicked on, if applicable. Technical information is also recorded (e.g. time of access, IP address, browser type and operating system). The data is collected pseudonymously and is not linked to your other personal data, a direct personal reference is excluded. These data are used exclusively for statistical analysis of newsletter campaigns. The results of these analyses can be used to better adapt future newsletters to the interests of the recipients.

If you wish to object to the data analysis for statistical evaluation purposes, you must cancel the newsletter subscription.

In addition, MailChimp may use this data according to article 6 paragraph 1 letter f DS-GVO itself on the basis of its own legitimate interest in the needs-based design and optimization of the service and for market research purposes, for example to determine from which countries the recipients come. However, MailChimp does not use the data of our newsletter recipients to write to them itself or to pass them on to third parties.

In order to protect your data in the USA, we have concluded a data processing agreement (“Data-Processing-Agreement”) with MailChimp on the basis of the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission to enable the transfer of your personal data to MailChimp. This Data-Processing-Agreement can be viewed at the following Internet address: https://mailchimp.com/legal/forms/data-processing-agreement/.

MailChimp is also certified under the us European Privacy Agreement “Privacy Shield” and is committed to comply with the EU data protection regulations.
The privacy policy of MailChimp can be viewed here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

Our activities in social networks

So that we can also communicate with you in social networks and inform you about our services, we are represented there with our own pages.

We are not the original provider (responsible party) of these pages, but only use them within the scope of the possibilities offered to us by the respective providers. Therefore, as a precautionary measure we point out that your data may also be processed outside the European Union or the European Economic Area. A use can therefore have data protection risks for you, since the protection of your rights, e.g. to information, deletion, objection, etc., can be difficult and the processing in the social networks is often carried out directly by the providers for advertising purposes or for the analysis of user behavior, without this being able to be influenced by us. If the provider creates user profiles, cookies are often used or the user behavior is directly assigned to your own member profile of the social networks (if you are logged in here).

In accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DS-GVO, the processing of personal data described above is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest and the legitimate interest of the respective provider, in order to be able to communicate with you in a contemporary manner or to inform you about our services. If you must give your consent to data processing as a user with the respective providers, the legal basis refers to Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. a DS-GVO in conjunction with Art. 7 DS-GVO.

Since we do not have access to the data stocks of the providers, we would like to point out that your rights (e.g. to information, correction, deletion, etc.) are best exercised directly with the respective provider. Further information on the processing of your data in the social networks and the possibility of making use of your right of objection or revocation (so-called opt-out), we have listed below with the respective provider of social networks used by us:

Facebook

Responsible for data processing in Europe: Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland

Google+ / YouTube

Responsible for data processing: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland

LinkedIn

Responsible for data processing in Europe: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland

XING

Responsible for data processing in Germany: XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany

Web analysis

Google Analytics

On our websites we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited (https://www.google.de/intl/de/about/) (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; hereinafter “Google”). In this context, pseudonymised user profiles are created and cookies (see item “Cookies”) are used. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website such as

  1. browser type/version,
  2. the operating system used,
  3. referrer URL (the previously visited page),
  4. host name of the accessing computer (IP address),
  5. time of the server request,

are transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The information is used to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities and to provide further services associated with the use of the website and the Internet for the purposes of market research and the design of these Internet pages in line with requirements. This information may also be transferred to third parties if required by law or if third parties process this data on our behalf. Under no circumstances will your IP address be merged with other Google data. The IP addresses are made anonymous, so that an assignment is not possible (IP masking).
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
These processing operations will only be carried out if you have given your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 letter a DS-GVO.

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

As an alternative to the browser add-on, especially for browsers on mobile devices, you can also prevent the collection by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link: Deactivate Google Analytics. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent the future collection of your data when you visit this website. The opt-out cookie is only valid in this browser and only for our website and is stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in this browser, you will have to set the opt-out cookie again.

You can find further information on data protection in connection with Google Analytics in the Google Analytics Help (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de).

Demographic data and interests

This website uses Google Analytics reports on demographic characteristics, which use data from interest-based advertising by Google as well as visitor data from third-party providers (e.g. age, gender and interests). This data cannot be traced back to a specific person. The collection can be disabled at any time. To disable the relevant cookie, please click on the following link: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads.

Matomo

We have integrated the component Matomo on this website. Matomo is an open source software tool for web analysis. Web-Analysis is the collection, collection and evaluation of data about the behaviour of visitors of internet pages. A web analysis tool collects, among other things, data about the website from which a person concerned came to a website (so-called referrer), which subpages of the website were accessed or how often and for how long a subpage was viewed. A web analysis is mainly used to optimize a website and for cost-benefit analysis of internet advertising.

The software is operated on the server of the person responsible for processing; the log files, which are sensitive in terms of data protection, are stored exclusively on this server.

The purpose of the Matomo component is the analysis of visitor flows on our website. Among other things, we use the data and information obtained to evaluate the use of this website in order to compile online reports that show the activities on our website.

Matomo sets a cookie on your IT system. The setting of the cookie enables us to analyze the use of our website. Every time you access one of the individual pages of this website, the Matomo component automatically causes the internet browser on your IT system to transmit data to our server for the purpose of online analysis. Within the scope of this technical procedure we receive information about personal data, such as the IP address of the person concerned, which serves us, among other things, to trace the origin of visitors and clicks.

The cookie is used to store personal information such as the time of access, the location from which access was made and the frequency of visits to our website. Each time you visit our website, this personal data, including the IP address of the Internet connection you are using, is transferred to our server. This personal data is stored by us. We do not pass on this personal data to third parties.
You can prevent the setting of cookies by our website at any time by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently object to the setting of cookies. Such a setting of the Internet browser used would also prevent Matomo from setting a cookie on your IT system. In addition, a cookie already set by Matomo can be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software programs.

Furthermore, you have the possibility to object to the collection of data generated by Matomo and related to the use of this website and to prevent such collection. For this you have to set an opt-out cookie. If your IT system is deleted, formatted or reinstalled at a later date, the person concerned must set an opt-out cookie again. With the setting of the opt-out cookie, however, there is a possibility that our Internet pages may no longer be fully usable for you.
The use of Matomo is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Paragraph 1 S. 1 lit. f DS-GVO. With the tracking measures used, we want to ensure that our website is designed to meet your needs and is continuously optimized. These interests are to be regarded as justified in the sense of the aforementioned regulation.

Further information and Matomo’s applicable privacy policy can be found at https://matomo.org/privacy/.

Advertising

Google Ads (formerly AdWords)

These processing operations are carried out only if you have given your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 letter a DS-GVO.

Further data processing will only take place if you have consented to Google linking your internet and app browsing history to your Google Account and using information from your Google Account to personalise ads you view on the web. In this case, if you are logged in to Google while browsing our website, Google will use your information along with Google Analytics data to create and define target audience lists for cross-device remarketing. For this purpose, Google will temporarily link your personal data with Google Analytics data to form target groups.

You can permanently disable the use of cookies for advertising preferences by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/
Alternatively, you can inform yourself about the setting of cookies and adjust the settings for them at the Digital Advertising Alliance at the Internet address www.aboutads.info. Finally, you can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited.
Google Ireland Limited, based in Ireland, is certified under the us European Privacy Shield Convention, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the EU.
Further information and the privacy policy regarding advertising and Google can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/.

Google Ads with conversion tracking

We have integrated Google Ads on this website. Google Ads is an internet advertising service that allows advertisers to display ads in Google’s search engine results as well as in the Google advertising network. Google Ads allows an advertiser to pre-define keywords that will cause an ad to appear in Google’s search results only when the user uses the search engine to retrieve a keyword relevant search result. In the Google advertising network, the ads are distributed to topic-relevant websites by means of an automatic algorithm and in accordance with the keywords previously defined.
The operating company of the Google Ads services is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

The purpose of Google Ads is to advertise our website by displaying interest-relevant advertising on the websites of third parties and in the search engine results of the Google search engine and by displaying third-party advertising on our website.
If you reach our website via a Google ad, a so-called conversion cookie is stored on your IT system by Google. A conversion cookie loses its validity after thirty days and is not used for your identification. If the cookie has not expired, the conversion cookie is used to determine whether certain sub-pages, such as the shopping cart from an online shop system, have been called up on our website. The conversion cookie enables both we and Google to track whether a user who reached our website via an AdWords ad generated sales, i.e. whether he or she completed or abandoned a purchase.
The data and information collected through the use of the conversion cookie is used by Google to create visit statistics for our website. These visit statistics are in turn used by us to determine the total number of users who were referred to us via ads, i.e. to determine the success or failure of the respective ads and to optimize our ads for the future. Neither our company nor other Google Ads advertisers receive information from Google that could be used to identify you.
The conversion cookie is used to store personal information, such as the websites you visit. Accordingly, each time you visit our website, personal data, including the IP address of the Internet connection you use, is transmitted to Google in the United States of America. This personal data is stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass on this personal data collected via the technical process to third parties.
You can prevent the setting of cookies by our website at any time by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently object to the setting of cookies. Such a setting of the Internet browser used would also prevent Google from setting a conversion cookie on your IT system. In addition, a cookie already set by Google Ads can be deleted at any time via the internet browser or other software programs.
You also have the opportunity to opt-out of interest-based advertising by Google. To do so, you must access www.google.de/settings/ads from the internet browser you are using and make the desired settings.
These processing operations are only carried out if you have given your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 letter a DS-GVO.

Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google can be found at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Partner- and affiliate programms

DoubleClick

This website contains components from DoubleClick by Google. DoubleClick is a brand of Google (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) under which special online marketing solutions are marketed to advertising agencies and publishers.

DoubleClick by Google transfers data to the DoubleClick server with every impression, click or other activity. Each of these data transfers triggers a cookie request to your browser. If the browser accepts this request, DoubleClick sets a cookie on your IT system. The purpose of the cookie is to optimize and display advertising. Among other things, the cookie is used to serve and display user-relevant advertisements and to generate reports on or improve advertising campaigns. The cookie is also used to avoid multiple displays of the same advertisement.

DoubleClick uses a cookie ID, which is required to complete the technical process. For example, the cookie ID is required to display an advertisement in a browser. DoubleClick may also use the cookie ID to track which ads have already been displayed in a browser to avoid duplicate ads. The cookie ID also enables DoubleClick to track conversions.
A DoubleClick cookie does not contain any personal information. However, a DoubleClick cookie may contain additional campaign IDs. A campaign ID is used to identify the campaigns you have already been in contact with.

Each time you access one of the individual pages of this website operated by us and on which a DoubleClick component has been integrated, the Internet browser on your IT system is prompted by the respective DoubleClick component to transmit data to Google for the purposes of online advertising and the billing of commissions. As part of this technical process, Google will receive knowledge of data that will also be used by Google to generate commission statements. Among other things, Google can trace that you have clicked on certain links on our website.

You may refuse the use of cookies by DoubleClick and our website at any time by selecting the appropriate settings on your Internet browser. In addition, cookies that have already been set can be deleted at any time via the Internet browser or other software programs.

DoubleClick is used in the interest of making our website convenient and easy to use. This represents a legitimate interest in the sense of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DS-GVO.

Further information and DoubleClick by Google’s applicable privacy policy can be found at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/.

Plugins and other services

Google Maps

On our website we use Google Maps (API) from Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Maps is a web service for displaying interactive (land) maps to visually present geographical information. By using this service, you can, for example, see our location and make it easier for you to find us.

Already when calling up those sub-pages in which the map of Google Maps is integrated, information about your use of our website (such as your IP address) is transmitted to Google servers in the USA and stored there. This happens regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in at Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account. If you don’t want your profile to be associated with Google, you will need to log out of your Google Account. Google stores your data (even for users who are not logged in) as user profiles and evaluates them. In particular, such evaluation is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit.f DS-GVO on the basis of Google’s legitimate interest in the display of personalized advertising, market research and/or needs-based design of its website. You have a right of objection to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact Google to exercise this right.

Google Ireland Limited, headquartered in Ireland, is certified under the U.S. European Data Protection Convention “Privacy Shield”, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the EU.

If you do not agree with the future transmission of your data to Google in the context of the use of Google Maps, there is also the possibility to completely deactivate the web service of Google Maps by switching off the application JavaScript in your browser. Google Maps and thus the map display on this website cannot be used in this case.

The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offers and easy findability of the places we have indicated on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DS-GVO.

You can view Google’s terms of use at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/terms/regional.html. The additional terms of use for Google Maps can be found at https://www.google.com/intl/de_US/help/terms_maps.html.
Detailed information on data protection in connection with the use of Google Maps can be found on the Google website (“Google Privacy Policy”): https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Google reCAPTCHA

On this website we also use the reCAPTCHA feature of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). This function is mainly used to distinguish whether an entry is made by a natural person or whether it is abusive through automatic and automated processing. The service also includes the sending of the IP address and, if applicable, other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service to Google and is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DS-GVO on the basis of our legitimate interest in determining the individual will of individuals to act on the Internet and to avoid abuse and spam.

Google Ireland Limited, headquartered in Ireland, is certified under the U.S. European Data Protection Convention “Privacy Shield”, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the EU.

Further information about Google reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy can be found at: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Google Tag Manager

This website uses Google Tag Manager, a cookie-less domain that does not collect personal information.

This tool allows “website tags” (i.e. keywords that are embedded in HTML elements) to be implemented and managed through an interface. By using Google Tag Manager, we can automatically track which button, link or personalized image you have actively clicked on and can then record which contents of our website are of particular interest to you.

The tool also triggers other tags, which in turn may collect data. Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If you have disabled it at the domain or cookie level, it will remain disabled for all tracking tags implemented with Google Tag Manager.

These processing operations will only take place if you have given your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 letter a DS-GVO.

Google WebFonts

Our website uses so-called web fonts for the uniform display of fonts, which are provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to display text and fonts correctly.
To do this, the browser you are using must connect to Google’s servers. This enables Google to know that our website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our website.

This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6(1)(f) DS-GVO.

Google Ireland Limited, headquartered in Ireland, is certified under the U.S. European Data Protection Convention “Privacy Shield”, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the EU.

More information about Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in the Google Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

YouTube (videos)

We have integrated components from YouTube on this website. YouTube is an Internet video portal that allows video publishers to post video clips for free and other users to view, rate and comment on them, also free of charge. YouTube allows the publication of all types of videos, which is why complete film and television programs, but also music videos, trailers or videos created by users themselves can be accessed via the Internet portal.
YouTube is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

We use YouTube in advanced privacy mode. According to YouTube, this mode means that YouTube does not store any information about visitors to this site before they watch the video. However, the enhanced privacy mode does not necessarily preclude sharing information with YouTube partners. For example, whether you’re watching a video or not, YouTube connects to the Google DoubleClick network.

Each time you call up one of the individual pages of this website, which is operated by us and on which a YouTube component (YouTube video) has been integrated, the Internet browser on your IT system is automatically prompted by the respective YouTube component to download a display of the corresponding YouTube component from YouTube. More information about YouTube can be found at https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/de/. As part of this technical process, YouTube and Google are informed which specific subpage of our website you are visiting.

If the person concerned is logged on to YouTube at the same time, YouTube recognizes which specific page of our website you are visiting by calling up a subpage containing a YouTube video. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and assigned to your YouTube account.

YouTube and Google will receive information through the YouTube component that you have visited our website whenever you are logged in to YouTube at the same time you access our website, whether or not you click on a YouTube video. If you do not want this information to be sent to YouTube and Google, you can prevent the transmission of this information by logging out of your YouTube account before you visit our website.

The use of YouTube is in the interest of a comfortable and simple use of our website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DS-GVO.

The privacy policy published by YouTube, which is available at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/, provides information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.

Collect Chat

On our website we use a self-configured chatbot of an external service provider (collect.chat, 2035 Sunset Lake Road, Newark, 19702, USA) with which visitors can communicate. The use is voluntary. In order to ensure data protection and data security, we have concluded an order processing contract (data protection contract) with the said service provider. We will always remain responsible for your data. When using the chat offer and giving your consent, depending on your location, data will also be transferred to the USA (“unsafe third country”) and processed there in a Microsoft or Amazon data center and Cloudflare, but only to provide the chat offer:

Data entered by you:

  • IP address
  • Timestamp with date and time
  • Amount of data transmitted

The purpose of using the platform is the integration of our configurable chat solution to enable our visitors to make innovative contact.

Legal basis is solely your explicit consent, which you give by using the chat offer and active selection of the appropriate field. If you do not give your consent, the chatbot will automatically terminate the conversation and we will delete the cached data immediately. If you have already given your consent but wish to revoke it (revocation, see above), you can inform us at any time. We will then remove any data you may have already entered.

To protect your privacy, the use of this website is completely voluntary and you can alternatively contact us in other ways, e.g. via the contact form, by phone or e-mail. If you decide to use it, as stated above – depending on your location – the data will also be transferred outside the EU to Microsoft Azure Cloud Services or Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare. These only serve to store the data and make it available on particularly fast servers so that the chatbot can function without error. The above-mentioned service providers are also Privacy-Shield certified and guarantee compliance with data protection standards. To ensure that the data is only used for these purposes, we have concluded a contract with the service provider, which also commits the sub-service providers. We use the service provider’s platform to evaluate and delete the data in accordance with data protection regulations. We automatically remove the data as soon as contact is made with you. Further information can be found under: https://collect.chat/privacy.

Payment provider

PayPal

We have integrated components of PayPal on this website. PayPal is an online payment service provider. Payments are processed through so-called PayPal accounts, which are virtual private or business accounts. In addition, PayPal offers the possibility to process virtual payments via credit cards if a user does not have a PayPal account. A PayPal account is managed via an email address, which is why there is no classic account number. PayPal makes it possible to initiate online payments to third parties or to receive payments. PayPal also assumes trustee functions and offers buyer protection services.

The European operating company of PayPal is PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. & Cie. S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, 2449 Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

If you select “PayPal” as payment option during the ordering process in our online shop, your data will be automatically transmitted to PayPal. By selecting this payment option, you agree to the transmission of personal data required for payment processing.

The personal information submitted to PayPal is usually first name, last name, address, email address, IP address, phone number, mobile phone number or other information necessary to process payments. For the processing of the purchase contract, such personal data are also necessary, which are related to the respective order.

The purpose of the transmission of data is to process payments and prevent fraud. We will transmit personal data to PayPal in particular if there is a legitimate interest in the transmission. The personal data exchanged between PayPal and us may be transmitted by PayPal to credit agencies. The purpose of this transmission is to check identity and creditworthiness.
PayPal may share personal information with affiliates and service providers or subcontractors as necessary to fulfill contractual obligations or to process the data on behalf of PayPal.

You have the possibility to revoke your consent to PayPal to handle personal data at any time. A revocation does not affect personal data that must be processed, used or transmitted for the (contractual) handling of payments.
PayPal is used in the interest of proper and smooth payment processing. This represents a legitimate interest in the sense of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DS-GVO.

PayPal’s applicable privacy policy can be found at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.

Your rights as a data subject

Right to confirmation

You have the right to obtain confirmation from us as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed.

Right to information Art. 15 DS-GVO

You have the right to receive from us at any time and free of charge information about the personal data stored about you and a copy of this data.

Right of rectification Art. 16 DS-GVO

You have the right to request that incorrect personal data concerning you be corrected. The data subject shall also have the right to obtain the completion of incomplete personal data, having regard to the purposes of the processing.

Deletion Art. 17 DS-GVO

You have the right to demand that the personal data concerning you be deleted immediately if one of the reasons provided by law applies and if the processing is not necessary.

Restriction of processing Art. 18 DS-GVO

You have the right to demand that we restrict processing if one of the legal requirements is met.

Data transferability Art. 20 DS-GVO

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you which you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format. You also have the right to have this data communicated to another controller without hindrance from us, to whom the personal data has been made available, provided that the processing is based on the consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 letter a DS-GVO or Art. 9 para. 2 letter a DS-GVO or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 letter b DS-GVO and the processing is carried out by means of automated procedures, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us.

Furthermore, when exercising your right to data transfer in accordance with Art. 20 Paragraph 1 DS-GVO, you have the right to request that personal data be transferred directly from one responsible party to another, as far as this is technically feasible and as long as this does not affect the rights and freedoms of other persons.

Opposition Art. 21 DS-GVO

You have the right to object at any time, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you on the basis of Article 6(1)(e) (data processing in the public interest) or (f) (data processing based on a balancing of interests) of the DPA.

This also applies to profiling based on these provisions within the meaning of Article 4 No. 4 of the DS-GVO.

If you object, we will no longer process your personal data, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

In individual cases, we process personal data in order to carry out direct advertising. You can at any time object to the processing of personal data for purposes of such advertising. This also applies to profiling, insofar as it is related to such direct mail. If you object to our processing for the purposes of direct advertising, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes.

You also have the right to object, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out by us for the purposes of scientific or historical research or for statistical purposes in accordance with Article 89 Paragraph 1 DS-GVO, unless such processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest.

They shall be free to exercise their right to object to the use of information society services by means of automated procedures using technical specifications, without prejudice to Directive 2002/58/EC.

Revocation of a data protection consent

You have the right to revoke your consent to the processing of personal data at any time with effect for the future.

Complaint to a supervisory authority

You have the right to complain to a supervisory authority responsible for data protection about our processing of personal data.

Opposition to advertising e-mails

The use of contact data published within the scope of the imprint obligation for the transmission of not expressly requested advertising and information material is hereby contradicted. The operators of the website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam e-mails.

PROGNOST® Software

Installing and using a product

When you install and use PROGNOST® products, no data is automatically transmitted.
Should you or the software create a so-called error report (crash dump), this will contain information about the PROGNOST® product itself and the environment in which the software is installed. Of course, you are free to send the error report, but you help us to improve our products.

You can influence the contents of the bug report and have it displayed. If you are not sure how to do this, please contact us or have a look at the respective manual. It would also be helpful if you could provide contact information (email address) and information about the circumstances during which the bug occurred.
Of course we will treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the legal data protection regulations and our privacy policy.

Up-to-dateness and modification of the privacy policy

This privacy policy is currently valid and has the status of May 2020.

It may become necessary to amend this data protection declaration as a result of the further development of our websites and offers or due to changes in legal or official regulations. You can call up and print out the current data protection declaration at any time on the website at “https://www.prognost.com/privacy“.