Privacy Policy

We would like to inform our website visitors about the purpose, nature, and scope of the collection, processing, and use of personal data on our website. When you visit our website, data is collected, processed, and used, in which a personal reference cannot always be excluded. For example, in order that the pages be properly displayed in your browser, the IP address needs to be recorded, otherwise your browser cannot receive data from this website on your device (e.g. PC, laptop, smartphone). Typically, an IP address is being dynamically assigned by your Internet provider. Since these normally change regularly, we usually cannot make any references to individuals from the IP address anyway. For static IP addresses, however, it is theoretically possible in specific cases to reference individuals. In the log file of the web server, in addition to the IP address, additional information will be saved from the data retrieval. This data typically includes:

Operating system of the calling computer
Browser version of the calling computer
Name of file(s)
Date and time
Amount of data transmitted

Referring URL

The stored data is only kept for statistical and troubleshooting purposes. In reference to individuals, we cannot produce person specific information from this data. Above all, we have no interest in the production of person specific information.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive. The cookies are required to enable certain features of the website. You have the option to stop the use of cookies by the appropriate settings in your browser. However, if you stop the use of cookies, the use of parts of our website may be restricted. Cookies are not programs nor allow other applications to be installed or started on your computer.

Web Analytics

On this website, the web analytics tools “Google Analytics” and “Google Analytics Universal” are used. The purpose of this operation is the “demand-oriented design” of this website. This “legal” term means that we analyze the usage patterns of visitors to this website to understand overall effectiveness of the website. For example, understand what keywords in search engines were used to find a specific page. Also, by the logging of retrieved pages, we can identify what information on our website is particularly interesting (based on frequency) and what we can possibly do to make other pages more compelling. These analytics also allows us to find errors in the website, for example, to find broken links to fix. Google Analytics and Universal Analytics use “cookies” (text files that are stored on your computer) and an analysis of your use of the website. There are so-called “Client IDs” for the application, which serve to create profiles which use pseudonyms, the use of the internet pages with desktop computers and mobile devices together by a user record.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. With the activation of IP anonymization on this website, your IP address from Google will be truncated within Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement of the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this site, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other website and internet related services to the website operator. This is undertaken as part of Google Analytics that your browser sends IP address that cannot be merged with other data of Google. You can refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software; however, we point out that you would not be able to use all the features of this website. You can also prevent the data generated by the cookie generated and on your use of the site-related data (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by using the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de) to get a browser plugin to download and install.
You can prevent the acquisition by Google Analytics by clicking on the link below. It will put an opt-out cookie, which prevents future collection of your information by visiting this website: Google Analytics disable. For more information about the terms of use of Google Analytics and data protection information can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or under http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy.

Use of Google AdWords, Google Remarketing, & DoubleClick

We advertise our products using online advertising. We rely on Google AdWords Conversion Tracking and Google technologies (for example, Google Re-marketing and DoubleClick). This allows us to gain insight into which advertising media has led you to our website. We can optimize our advertising and use more targeted strategies. These technologies set a cookie in the browser of your device from Google. Please note in this context, our notes on cookies (see above). For more information about privacy at Google AdWords and DoubleClick can be found here: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/technologies/ads/.

Use of Facebook Social Plugins

Our website uses social networking plugins (“Plugins”) from the social network facebook.com (“Facebook”). Facebook is operated by the company Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. When you visit a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Facebook servers. By integrating the plugin, Facebook receives the information that you have accessed from the pages of our website. If you are logged into Facebook, Facebook can assign to visit your Facebook account. The purpose and scope of this data collection and the further processing and use of data by Facebook, and your rights and settings options for protecting your privacy, please see the privacy policies of Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php. If you are a Facebook member and do not want our website to collect information about you and link it to your data stored on Facebook member data, you must log out of Facebook before you visit our website. It is also possible to block Facebook social Plugins by using add-ons for your browser, for example, with the “Facebook Blocker”.

Typekit Web Fonts

Our website utilizes Typekit. Typekit is a service that is offered by Adobe. The integration of these Web Fonts is provided by a server call at Adobe (in the USA). To our knowledge, the IP address of the browser of the terminal of the user of our websites will be stored by Adobe. For more information, see the privacy policies of Typekit, which can be found here: http://www.adobe.com/privacy/typekit.html.

Using the Twitter Widgets

Our website also utilizes “Widgets” from Twitter. Widgets connect to Twitter servers, which are located in the United States. A call to an internet site with a Twitter “widget” sends Twitter information about your page views. It includes your IP address, browser type, operating system, and the address of the website where you will find the “Widget” from Twitter. The Twitter “Widget” places a cookie in the browser of your device. In connection with the cookie, Twitter can recognize, theoretically, what pages you have visited. Twitter uses this data for its own account, if necessary, also to you, if you have a Twitter account. For example, to make better suggestions for matching users. Twitter keeps the data for a maximum of 10 days, then deletes the data. The deletion itself should be completed at the latest after an additional week. If you have a Twitter account, you can, if necessary, make additional settings for data processing in their user account settings. For more information, see the privacy policies of Twitter, which can be found here: http://twitter.com/privacy.

Using the Google “+1 button”

We also set the “+1 button” of a Google (“+1 button”). This button results in a call to connect to Google’s servers. The Google servers can typically be found in the USA. Through the page view Google can get the information that you have accessed the website in question. This is especially true if you are logged in at the time of calling the web pages. According to information provided by Google “+1 button”, it is not used to record visits on websites. Google indicates in particular that a browsing history is not stored permanently. However, storing the information about your visit for a period of (usually) two weeks would occur. If you click on the “+1 button”, then, according to Google, be information about your Google profile, the address of the website where the “+1 button” is clicked, your IP address, and other information is saved. If you withdraw its recommendation by clicking again on the “+1 button”, this data will be deleted. Google also uses cookies to process information about the use of Internet sites. For the handling of cookies, please read the relevant passage about cookies in our Privacy Notice. We ourselves have no control over what data Google collects, processes, and uses. You can read the privacy policy of Google, which can be found here: http://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

Using the User Like Live-Chat-Tools

To give you the best possible experience and a direct approach and assistance on our website, we translated the live-chat-tool “user Like” of the company user like UG (limited liability) in the form of a widget. User Like uses “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer, in the form of a real-time chats. The collected data will not be used to identify the visitor, but will not be merged with personal data about the bearer of the pseudonym.

We offer you the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter. For this purpose, we need your e-mail address. We remind you that we are using a service provider for the delivery of the newsletter emails which is headquartered in the USA (Mailchimp). This also saves the IP address that was assigned to your device when you have ordered the newsletter. We note the newsletter provider calculates clicking behavior of newsletter subscribers (like open rates) to help us optimize our Newsletter.

Amend To These Provisions

Due to changing legal regulations or our service, it may be necessary to adapt this privacy policy. The current version of the Privacy Policy can be found at any time at the Privacy Policy link on our website.

Questions?

If you have questions regarding data protection or want to make your affected rights, then you are welcome to contact us: team@protonet.com

Date: 01/26/2016