Privacy policy

Scope of application
This Privacy Policy is intended to provide information to users of this website about the type, scope and purpose of using personal data by the website operator www.sw-paratus.de pursuant to the Federal Data Protection Act and German Teleservices Act.

The website operator takes your data protection very seriously and treats your personal data confidentially and in accordance with statutory regulations.

Please take into consideration the fact that data transmission on the internet can always be subject to security loopholes. Complete protection against attacks by third parties is not feasible.

Access data
The website operator, respectively website provider, collects data on your accesses to the site and stores these as “server logfiles”. The following data are logged in this way:

• website visited
• time when accessed
• volume of data sent in bytes
• source/reference from which you are directed to the website
• browser used
• operating system used
• IP address used

The collected data are only used for statistical evaluations and for improving the website. However, the website operator reserves the right to subsequently check the server logfiles to determine if there are specific indications of illegal use.

Cookies

This website uses cookies. These cookies are set after logging on in the CMS backend area. In the case of normal use without logging on, cookies are used for registering your consent for specific cookies being stored in your browser. If you access our website, a DP cookie is stored in your browser where the consents from you or the cancellation of these consents are stored. These data are not passed on. The collected data are stored in the browser until you yourself delete the cookie or let it be automatically deleted by the browser. Cookies are small text files which are sent from our webserver on your browser and are stored on the hard disk of your computer. This does not involve the storage of any personal data, but instead just an individual pseudonym.

You can set your browser in such a way that it informs you about the placing of cookies. This makes the use of cookies transparent for you. Alternatively, you can also view this website without cookies. You can preset this in your respective browser. Please note that then some functions of the website may possibly be partly or completely no longer available.

Dealing with personal data
The website operator only collects, uses and passes on your personal data if this is allowed within the framework of statutory regulations or if you consent to the data collection.
All information which is used for determining who you are as a person and which can be traced back to you—i.e., for instance your name, your email address and telephone number—is designated as personal data.

Dealing with contact data
If you establish contact with the website operator through contact data provided, your data will be stored so that they can be used for processing and answering your inquiry. These data are not sent to third parties without your consent.

Google Analytics
This website uses “Google Analytics”, which is provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) for analyzing the website usage by users. The service uses cookies–text files which are stored on your terminal device. Information collected by the cookies is generally sent to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

The IP anonymization is used on this website. The IP address of the user is abbreviated within the Member States of the EU and the European Economic Area. Through this abbreviation there is no longer a personal connection to your IP address. Within the framework of the agreement on order data processing which the website operator has concluded with Google Inc. this uses the collected information to evaluate the website use and the website activities and provides the services connected with the internet usage.

You have the possibility of preventing the storage of cookies on your device through making the appropriate settings in your browser. If your browser does not allow any cookies, it cannot be guaranteed that you will be able to use all functions of this website without restrictions.

Furthermore, you can use a browser plugin to prevent information collected by cookies (including your IP address) being sent to Google Inc. and being used by Google Inc. The following link takes you to the appropriate plugin: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Alternatively by clicking this link Click here to deactivate Google Analytics, you can prevent Google Analytics collecting data about you within this website. By clicking the above link, you download an “Opt-Out Cookie”. As a matter of principle your browser must allow the storage of cookies for this purpose. If you regularly delete your cookies, you have to click the link again every time you visit this website.

Here you can find further information on data usage by Google Inc.: support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

Visable
For analysis and marketing purposes SW-Paratus GmbH uses products and services which are provided by Visable GmbH (www.visable.com) in cooperation with them. This involves using pixel code technology to collect, process and store data in order to create at least pseudonymized, but where possible and appropriate, completely anonymous user profiles. Data collected, which may initially still include personal data, is transmitted to Visable or is collected directly by Visable and is used to create the aforementioned user profiles there Visitors to this website are not personally identified and, furthermore, no other personal data is merged with the user profiles. If IP addresses are identified as personal, they are immediately deleted. You may object to the processing operations described here with future effect at any time: Exclude visitor recording (note: link sets a 1st-party cookie for an opt-out).

Use of social media plugins
This website uses Facebook social plugins, which are operated by Facebook Inc. (1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA). The connections are recognizable on the Facebook logo, respectively the terms “Like” and “Share” in the colors of Facebook (blue and white). You will find information about all Facebook plugins in the following link:
developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
The plugin establishes a direct link between your browser and the Facebook servers. The website operator has no influence on the type and scope of the data which the plugin provides to the servers of Facebook Inc. You will find information about this here:
www.facebook.com/help/186325668085084
The plugin informs Facebook Inc. that the user visited this website. Here there is a possibility that your IP address is stored. If you are logged into your Facebook account on this website, the aforementioned information will be linked with this.
If you use the functions of the plugin—for instance by sharing or liking—the respective information will also be sent to Facebook Inc.
If you want to prevent Facebook Inc. from linking these data with your Facebook account, please log out of Facebook before you visit this website.
Furthermore, this website uses the “+1” button from Google Plus. This is operated by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). If you visit a website which contains the “+1” button, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Google servers. The website operator therefore has no influence on the type and scope of the data which the plugin provides to the servers of Google Inc. If you click the “+1” button while you are logged into Google +, you share the contents of the website on your public profile.
According to Google Inc., personal data are only collected if you click the button. For logged in Google users, amongst other things the IP address is also stored. If you want to prevent Google Inc. storing this data and linking it to your account, please log out before you visit this website.
You will find information about the “+1” button here: https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy

Data Protection Officer: dsb@sw-paratus.de