Privacy Policy
We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with both applicable data protection regulations as well as this Privacy Policy. In this Privacy Policy, we would like to explain to you in what manner, scope and for what purpose the personal data you supplied us with is processed and used.
Personal Data
Personal data is information relating to your identity and includes information such as name, address, phone number, or e-mail address. In order to be able to use our website it is not required that you communicate personal data to us. In certain cases, we will however require personal data such as name or address in order to provide you with a service you desire. Said services include online registrations / log-ons, shipment of information material, newsletter-requests, or replies to specific questions you ask us. We only store personal data that you deliberately provide us with and process it solely for rendering your desired service and thus fulfilling our legitimate commercial interests.
Cookies
This website uses cookies in order for the system to be able recognize you during your visit. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device. The majority of the cookies that we use are deleted at the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (these are so-called “session cookies”). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us to identify your browser the next time you pay us a visit (these are so-called “persistent cookies”).
You can configure your browser so that you are informed every time a cookie is set, only allow cookies in specific cases, disallow the usage of cookies in specific cases or in general, as well as specify that cookies should be deleted automatically as soon as the browser is closed. The functionality of this website may be limited if cookies are deactivated in your browser.
Log-Files
Whenever you access this website, our web server automatically acquires the following information from your computer system:
- IP address of the requesting computer
- Date and time of access
- Name and URL of the retrieved file
- Website from which access is made (referrer URL)
- The browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer as well as the name of your access provider.
This data cannot be allocated to a specific person and is not merged with data from other data sources. We reserve the right to subsequently inspect log-file data if we become or are made aware of solid indications of unlawful use.
Log-files are saved in order to optimize the website and ensure its operative readiness as well as safeguard the security of our IT-systems. Said purposes form the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. f of the EU General Data Protection Regulation [GDPR].
This data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the aforementioned reasons and no later than four weeks after it was gathered.
Nutzung von YouTube
Our website uses plugins from the Google-powered YouTube page. Site operator is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our YouTube plug-in-enabled sites, you will be connected to the servers of YouTube. When you are logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.For more information on how to handle user data, please refer to the YouTube Privacy Policy at: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy
Nutzung von Vimeo
Our website uses features provided by the Vimeo video portal. This service is provided by Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA. If you visit one of our pages featuring a Vimeo plugin, a connection to the Vimeo servers is established. Here the Vimeo server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo will receive your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged in to Vimeo when you visit our plugin or do not have a Vimeo account. The information is transmitted to a Vimeo server in the US, where it is stored.
If you are logged in to your Vimeo account, Vimeo allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account. For more information on how to handle user data, please refer to the Vimeo Privacy Policy at: https://vimeo.com/privacy
Google Maps
This website uses Google Maps API to display geographical information visually. When using Google Maps, Google also collects, processes and uses data about the use of map functions by visitors. You can find more information about Googles data processing in the Google Privacy Policy. There you can also change your personal data protection settings in the Data Protection Center. https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy
Google Analytics
The website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, LLC. ("Google"). Google Analytics also uses cookies, i.e. text files that are stored on your computer and allow an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the U.S.A. and stored there. Through the activation of IP anonymization on the website, however, your IP address will be truncated by Google within Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the complete IP address transmitted to a Google server in the U.S.A. and truncated there. On behalf of us Google will use this information for the purpose of analyzing your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google will not associate the IP address transmitted by your browser with any other data held by Google. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process this information on Googles behalf.
At any time you may delete cookies placed on your computer by calling up the relevant menu item in your internet browser or deleting the cookies on your hard drive. For details, see the Help menu of your internet browser. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; we advises, however, that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the data generated by the cookie about your use of the website (incl. your IP address) being sent to Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
Further information is available at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. We want to point out that the code "_anonymizeIp();" has been added to Google Analytics on the website to guarantee the anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).
Google Webfonts
On these websites external fonts, Google fonts are used. Google Fonts is a service of Google Inc. (“Google”). The integration of these web fonts is done by a server call, usually a Google server in the USA. This will be transmitted to the server, which of our websites you have visited. Also, the IP address of the browser of the terminal of the visitor of this website is stored by Google. For more information, see the Google Privacy Policy, which you can access here: https://www.google.com/fonts#AboutPlace:about und https://www.google.com/policies/privacy
Links
If you use external links that are offered within the framework of our website, this Data Privacy Policy does not apply to these links. We endeavour to ensure that any links that appear on our web pages also comply with our data protection and security standards. However, we have no influence over whether or not other providers are in compliance with the relevant data protection and security provisions. We would therefore kindly ask you to visit the websites of the other providers and read up on the privacy statements available there.
Rights
If you provided us with personal data, you can request that we delete it at any time, provided that the data does not underlie legal obligation to keep it. This may be the case if applicable tax or accounting regulations require that we store the data for a specific period of time. If this is the case, the data will be deleted as soon as said period has expired. You can request that acquired data be corrected or deleted by contacting the address featured in the imprint of this website https://www.caq.de/en/Enterprise/Imprint.
Changes
We reserve the right to amend our security and data protection measures if this is required due to relevant technical developments or changes in the legal situation. In these cases, we will also amend our data protection information accordingly. For this reason, please refer to the latest version of our Privacy Policy.