General information
We are pleased that you are visiting our website. The protection of data and data security when using our website are very important to us. We therefore undertake to protect your privacy and to treat your data as confidential. At this point, we would like to inform you which of your personal data we collect in connection with your visit to our website and for what purposes this data is used. Since changes in legislation or changes to our company’s internal processes may make it necessary to adapt this privacy policy, we ask you to read this privacy policy regularly. This privacy policy applies both to the publicly accessible part of the Europe IT Consulting GmbH website, to the password-protected Europe IT Consulting GmbH license database and to the online application area.
What are personal data?
Personal data are information that can be used to learn about your personal or factual circumstances. Information that we cannot relate to you personally (or only by means of a disproportionate effort), for example by pseudonymising or anonymising the information, is not personal data.
Which data do we collect and process?
In connection with the retrieval of the information you request, data is stored on our servers for the provision of the service or for security purposes, which may allow identification. These include the type of browser, the type of operating system, the location of the computer, the IP address, and the time and date of the visit. As long as these data are not evaluated in anonymised form, they are deleted again immediately after the end of the session. Certain services of the Europe IT Consulting GmbH website may require the collection and processing of personal data. This is done exclusively if you agree to the applicability of our privacy policy and to a corresponding use of your data. We store your personal data in a database and use it for the purposes mentioned below:
Email form: In the case of an enquiry via the email form, we collect your name, address, telephone number and email address in order to provide the respective services and to contact you.
License database: In the password-protected license database, personal data are collected for registration purposes, for support purposes or for the purpose of contacting you in case of questions about licensing. These include contact details such as name, address, telephone number, email address, information about your industry and your company, as well as the entry of a password.
Access to information and withdrawal of consent
Europe IT Consulting GmbH stores your data only for as long as permitted by law. Upon your request, we will gladly inform you at any time whether and which data about you are stored with us. Should incorrect data about you be stored with us despite our efforts to ensure accuracy and up-to-dateness, we will correct these without delay at your request. Should you wish the deletion of the stored data, such deletion will also be carried out without delay upon your request. If deletion is not possible for legal reasons, the respective data will be blocked instead. You can also withdraw your consent to the processing and storage of your personal data by Europe IT Consulting GmbH at any time. A simple informal letter or an email to the following address is sufficient for a withdrawal:
Europe IT Consulting GmbH, Schlösslistrasse 11, 6045 Meggen, Switzerland
Telephone +41 61 50 87 096, Call: +41 41 50 87 096
Email kontakt( a t )europe-it-consulting.ch
In the event of a withdrawal of consent, Europe IT Consulting GmbH will delete all personal data. Please note, however, that if your data are deleted, we may no longer be able to offer you the services provided on our websites, either in whole or in part.
Security measures to protect the data stored with us
If we collect personal data, we store them on specially protected servers in Germany. Access to these servers is only possible for a few specially authorised persons who are involved with technical, commercial or editorial support. In order to avoid loss or misuse of the data, we take extensive technical and organisational security precautions, which are regularly reviewed and adapted to technical progress. However, we would like to point out that due to the structure of the Internet it is possible that the rules of data protection and the aforementioned security measures may not be observed by other persons or institutions outside our area of responsibility. In particular, data disclosed without encryption – even if this is done by email – can be read by third parties. We have no technical influence over this. It is the responsibility of the user to protect the data they provide against misuse by means of encryption or in some other way.
Use of “cookies”
We use “cookies” (small files with configuration information). These serve in particular to determine the frequency of use and the number of users of our website, as well as to make your visit to our website easier and more convenient. Use of our website is also possible without cookies. Most browsers are preset to accept cookies automatically. However, you can deactivate the storage of cookies or set your browser so that it notifies you before cookies are stored.
Disclosure to third parties
On the basis of statutory provisions, we are obliged in certain cases to pass on your personal data to third parties. This is the case, for example, if there is suspicion of a criminal offence or misuse of our website. We are then obliged to pass on your data to the competent law enforcement authorities. If Europe IT Consulting GmbH makes use of third-party companies for data processing in order to fulfil its contractual obligations to you (so-called data processing on behalf), these companies are contractually obliged to handle your data carefully in compliance with data protection regulations and in accordance with our instructions, and not to use them for their own purposes or pass them on to third parties.
Use of social plugins
This website uses so-called “social plugins” of the social networks Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Pinterest, which are operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA, Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA, and Pinterest Inc., 635 High Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA. These social plugins are recognisable by the logo of the respective social network. As soon as you visit our website, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of Facebook, Google, Twitter and Pinterest via these social plugins. The content of the respective plugin is transmitted directly from Facebook, Google, Twitter and Pinterest to your browser, which integrates it into the visited website. We therefore have no influence on the scope of the data collected in this way by Facebook, Google, Twitter and Pinterest. According to our knowledge, this includes the following information: the operators of the social networks receive the information that you have accessed the respective page of our website by means of the integration of the social plugins. If you are simultaneously logged in to one of the social networks, the operator can assign the corresponding page visits to your account on the respective social network. If you also interact with the social plugins, that is, for example by clicking the “Like” button or leaving a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted to the respective social network. Even if you are not a member of one of the mentioned social networks, there is the possibility that these networks become aware of and possibly store your IP address via the social plugin. Details on the purpose and scope of data processing, collection and use by Facebook, Google, Twitter and Pinterest and your related rights and settings options can be found in the respective privacy policies: www.facebook.com/policy.php, www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html, www.twitter.com/privacy, www.about.pinterest.com/privacy/, https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung, https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=uno-reg-guest-home-privacy-policy. If you are a member of one of the mentioned social networks and do not want these networks to collect data about you via our website and link them with your respective membership data, please log out of the respective social network before visiting our website. In addition, there is the possibility of blocking social plugins by means of add-ons for your browser, for example the Facebook plugin with the “Facebook Blocker”, which you can download, among other places, here: www.webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. This website uses Google Analytics only with the “_anonymizeIp()” extension for IP anonymisation, which ensures that your IP address is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before transmission, in order to prevent direct personal reference. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities for us and to provide us with other services related to website and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of the use of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google. You can prevent the installation of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software; however, we would point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website in full. You can also prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of these data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
Google Maps
This website uses Google Maps to display interactive maps and to create directions. Google Maps is a mapping service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA. By using Google Maps, information about the use of this website, including your IP address and the (starting) address entered as part of the route planner function, can be transmitted to Google in the USA. When you access a page of our website that contains Google Maps, your browser establishes a direct connection with Google’s servers. The map content is transmitted by Google directly to your browser and integrated by it into the website. We therefore have no influence on the scope of the data collected in this way by Google. According to our knowledge, these include at least the following data: the date and time of the visit to the relevant website, the internet address or URL of the accessed website, the IP address and the address entered as part of the route planning (starting address). We have no influence on the further processing and use of the data by Google and can therefore assume no responsibility for this. If you do not want Google to collect, process or use data about you via our website, you can deactivate JavaScript in your browser settings. In this case, however, you will not be able to use the map display. The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by Google as well as your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in Google’s privacy policy: http://www.google.com/intl/de/privacy/privacy-policy.html.
Within our online offering, functions and content of the Xing service, offered by XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany, may be integrated. This may include, for example, content such as images, videos or texts and buttons that users can use to express their liking of the content, subscribe to the authors of the content or our posts. If users are members of the Xing platform, Xing can assign the access to the above-mentioned content and functions to the user profiles there. Xing’s privacy policy: https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection.
Within our online offering, functions and content of the LinkedIn service, offered by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, may be integrated. This may include, for example, content such as images, videos or texts and buttons that users can use to express their liking of the content, subscribe to the authors of the content or our posts. If users are members of the LinkedIn platform, LinkedIn can assign the access to the above-mentioned content and functions to the user profiles there. LinkedIn’s privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. LinkedIn is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus offers a guarantee to comply with European data protection law (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L0UZAA0&status=Active). Privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy, opt-out: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.
Contact
Your trust is important to us. If you have any questions relating to data protection, please contact in confidence our company data protection officer appointed pursuant to § 4 f BDSG.
Europe IT Consulting GmbH
Steinentorstrasse 35, 4051 Basel
Telephone: +41 61 508 73 34
Email: kontakt(a t)europe-it-consulting.ch
