Data protection
because your security is important to us
Thank you for visiting our homepage and for your interest in our company. The protection of personal information is of great importance to us. We therefore operate in accordance with applicable German law concerning the protection of personal data and data security. On the following pages, you can see what information we may collect, what we do with it and to whom we make it available if required.
With respect to internet use, we base the protection of your personal data on the Telemedia Act (TMG) that applies in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Personal data – according to section 3 (1) BDSG (German Privacy Act) this is
“individual information about the personal or factual circumstances of a specific person or identifiable person (the person affected).”-
is only collected to the extent that it is technically required when you visit this website.
Collection and processing of personal data
Personal data includes data such as your name, address, your account number, identification number, your telephone number or your email address. Moreover, we shall only collect, process or use your personal data if you have voluntarily disclosed this to us and if it is permitted in law, or if you have provided your consent. This usually happens when you enter into a business transaction with us or if you submit an enquiry to us. The data that you have entered when registering on our website will, of course, always be encrypted when it is transmitted.
Designated purpose, use and disclosure of collected data
We shall only use the personal data that you have supplied to us for the purposes that we have already stated or agreed, in other words this will generally be for the purpose of handling the contract that we have concluded with you or in order to reply to your enquiry.
If you make use of our services, only the data that we require to provide the service will generally be collected. If we request any additional data from you, this information will always be supplied on a voluntary basis. Personal data will only be processed in order to provide the service that has been requested or to protect our own legitimate business interests.
Is personal data disclosed to third parties?
Data that has been collected is never sold or disclosed to third parties, unless this is required in order to execute the contract or to provide the service. Data will only be provided to authorities or government institutions that have the right to obtain information if there is an obligation to disclose this information or if there has been a judicial decision. In these cases, we will submit as little data as possible.
Security
42 GmbH takes technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against unintended or unlawful deletion or modification, and against its loss, unauthorized disclosure, or unauthorized access to it.
Links to other websites
The company websites contain links to other websites. The operators are responsible for the data protection policies and their contents. Please take time to read the data privacy statements that have been provided there.
Protection of children and minors
Children and young people with limited legal capacity may not submit personal data on our website without the permission of their parents or legal guardian. 42 GmbH will never knowingly collect personal data from children or young people with limited legal capacity, or use it in any way or disclose it to third parties without authorization.
Video surveillance
The sole purpose of video surveillance at our corporate locations is to collect evidence in the event of vandalism, burglary, assault or other crimes. When video cameras are present or in use, this is indicated by the relevant warning notices.
Cookies
Cookies are small files that are sent by a webserver to your browser and are stored on the hard drive of your computer. This means that none of the user’s personal data is stored apart from the Internet Protocol address. This information helps to automatically recognize you during your next visit to our website and makes navigation easier for you. When you visit our websites, our webservers automatically save general information in an anonymous form which is then used for the purpose of marketing and improvements. This information basically includes the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider, the IP address assigned to you by your internet service provider, which website you visited us from, which of our websites you have visited and the date and the length of your visit. This only involves information that cannot give any additional indications about you as a person. Personal data is only saved if you specifically give this information to us, for example, when registering, completing a questionnaire or concluding a contract.
The data is not used to personally identify visitors to this website and is not combined with data about the owner of the anonymous profile. You have the right to object to the collection or storage of data with future effect at any time.
Data protection policy for the use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics which is a web analysis service belonging to Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”.
The full IP address will only be passed on to a Google server in the USA and truncated there in exceptional cases. Google will use this information to analyze your use of the website to compile reports on the website activity on behalf of the operator of this website and to offer the website operator additional services linked to the use of the website and the internet. The IP address that your browser provides to Google Analytics will not be combined with other Google data.
You can use the settings in your browser software to prevent cookies from storing your information. However, we wish to point out that you might not be able to make full use of all the functions available on this website. In addition to this, you can prevent the data generated by cookies and relating to your website use (including your IP address) from being sent to Google as well as being processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin which is available under the following link:http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
Social plugins
As an additional service, our website offers you “social plugins” which enable interaction with social media services such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+….. If you do not wish your user data to be used, you can opt out from these services in advance.
The following statements apply to all the social plugins that have been listed here and provided:
When you visit our website and use a social plugin, your browser links directly to the servers offering the above services, and the content of the plugin can then be shared with your browser and integrated by it into the website. This enables the information that you have visited our website to be shared with these services. If you are logged into you user account at Facebook, Twitter and / or Google+ and visit our website using these accounts, these services can assign the website visit to this account. Information is directly passed on to these services and saved there when you interact with the plugins, for example, by clicking on the “Like” buttons, the “+1” buttons for sharing or leaving a comment etc..
We cannot influence the extent to which the data is collected and analyzed.
You can read about the purpose and scope of the data collected by Facebook, Twitter and Google+…….. or how they use and process your data, as well as your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy at:
https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
http://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/
http://de.about.pinterest.com/privacy/
Use of Google Maps
This website uses Google Maps to show maps and to create route maps. Google Maps is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. When you use this website, you agree that Google, one of its representatives or a third party provider may collect, process and use the data that it has automatically collected as well as the data that you have provided. The terms of use for Google Maps are available in the Terms of Service for Google Maps.
Consent
When you use our websites and their range of offers you agree that we can save the personal data that you have voluntarily provided and that we can process and use this whilst complying with this privacy statement.
Public procedure registration for 42 GmbH
In section 4g of the Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz – BDSG), it states that the data protection officer shall disclose the following data to any third party using suitable methods in accordance with section 4e. We shall immediately comply with this obligation and shall not require an individual application from you.
Name of the responsible organization:
42 GmbH
Managing Director:
Thomas Hoffstiepel
Address of the responsible organization:
Eckenerstraße 2
30179 Hanover
Tel.: +49 511 353242-0
Fax: +49 511 353242-42
Email: info@42-gmbh.de
Categories of recipients to whom data may be disclosed
Data may be disclosed to the following recipients:
Public offices which receive the data due to legal regulations (e.g. social insurance carriers)
Internal departments involved in carrying out the relevant business processes (e.g. human resources management and regulation, accounts, marketing, sales, IT organization and the central reservation services (customer service center)
External agents (service companies) according to section 11 BDSG
• Other external bodies (e.g. credit institutions, brokerages acting as intermediaries, companies that belong to the company group if the party concerned has consented in writing or if disclosure is permitted due to an overriding legitimate interest), and partner companies when conducting contractual work on behalf of the customer
Right to information
According to section 34 BDSG, you are fully entitled to receive information about the data we have stored as well as the right to have unacceptable data deleted or blocked and incorrect data corrected free of charge according to section 35 BDSG. If you submit a request, we shall respond in writing as quickly as possible and according to applicable law, stating whether and what kind of personal data we have stored. If we have stored incorrect information in spite of our efforts to store accurate and current data, we shall, of course, correct this upon your request.
Time limits for deleting data
Data is deleted after the retention periods prescribed by the law, the articles of association or contracts have expired. Data that is not subject to retention periods is deleted when it is no longer required for the specific purpose.
Changes to the data protection policy
We reserve the right to change our data protection practices and to change this policy so that it conforms with possible changes in relevant laws and regulations or in order to be able to better meet your requirements. We shall publish any changes to our data protection practices here. Please refer to the date of the current version of the data protection policy in this respect.
Name and address of the data protection officer
SHIELD GmbH
Martin Vogel
Perleberger Str. 10b
25421 Pinneberg
Telephone: +49 4101 77 44 70
Email: shield@42-gmbh.de
Hanover, November 2015