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This website (hereinafter the “Website“) is provided by Alcmaeon CO.  (hereinafter “us” or “we”).

A. Handling of personal data

In the following we wish to provide you with information on how we handle your personal data when you use our Website. Unless otherwise indicated in the following chapters, the legal basis for the handling of your personal data results from the fact that such handling is required to make available the functionalities of the Website requested by you (Art. 6(1)(b) General Data Protection Regulation).

I. Using our Website

1. Accessing our Website

When you call up our Website, your browser will transfer certain data to our web server. This is done for technical reasons and required to make available to you the requested information. To facilitate your access to the Website, the following data are collected, briefly stored and used:

  • IP address
  • Date and time of access
  • Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Content of request (specific site)
  • Status of access/HTTP status code
  • Transferred volume of data
  • Website requesting access
  • Browser, language settings, version of browser software operating system and surface

Moreover, to protect our legitimate interests, we will store such data for a limited period of time in order to be able to initiate a tracking of personal data in the event of actual or attempted unauthorized access to our servers (Art. 6(1)(f) General Data Protection Regulation).

2. Setting of cookies

What are cookies?

This Website uses so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the memory of your terminal via your browser. They store certain information (e.g. your preferred language or site settings) which your browser may (depending on the lifespan of the cookie) retransmit to us upon your next visit to our Website.

What cookies do we use?

We use functional cookies, without which the functionality of our Website would be reduced.

Subject to your consent

We only use optional cookies if we have obtained your prior consent (Art. 6(1)(a) General Data Protection Regulation). Upon your first access to our Website, a banner will appear, asking you to give us your consent to the setting of cookies. If your consent is given, we will place a cookie on your computer and the banner will not appear again as long as the cookie is active. After expiration of the cookie’s lifespan, or if you actively delete the cookie, the banner will reappear upon your next visit to our Website and again ask for your consent.

How to prevent the setting of cookies

Of course, you may use our Website without any cookies being set. In your browser, you can at any time configure or completely deactivate the use of cookies. This may, however, lead to a restriction of the functions or have adverse effects on the user-friendliness of our Website.

3. Website Analysis

Google Analytics

On our Website we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“Google”).

Google will analyze your use of our Website on our behalf. To this purpose we use, among others, the cookies described in more detail in the above table. The information collected by Google in connection with your use of our Website (e.g. the referring URL, our webpages visited by you, your browser type, your language settings, your operating system, your screen resolution) will be transmitted to a server of Google in the US, where it will be stored and analyzed. The respective results will then be made available to us in anonymized form. Your usage data will not be connected to your full IP address during this process. We have activated on our Website the IP anonymizing function offered by Google, which will delete the last 8 digits (type IPv4) or the last 80 bits (type IPv6) of your IP address. Moreover, Google is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield, which ensures that an adequate level of data protection is maintained with respect to the processing of data by Google in the US.

You may revoke your consent to the use of web analysis at any time, either by downloading and installing the provided Google Browser Plugin or by administrating your consents in the above table, in which case an opt-out cookie will be placed. Both options will prevent the application of web analysis only as long as you use the browser on which you installed the plugin and do not delete the opt-out cookie.

Further information on Google Analytics is available in the Google Analytics Terms of Use, the Privacy and Data Protection Guidelines of Google Analytics and in the Google Privacy Policy.

4. Use of contact forms

You can contact us directly via the contact forms available on our Website. You may provide us with the following information:

  • Name
  • Contact data (e.g. e-mail address)
  • Message

We collect, process and use the information provided by you via the contact forms exclusively for the processing of your specific issue.

5. Subscription to our newsletter

On our Website, you may subscribe to receive our newsletter. Based on your prior consent, we will collect and use the email address you indicate for providing you with the newsletter (Art. 6(1)(a) General Data Protection Regulation).

For subscription to our newsletter we use the so-called double opt-in procedure. After you have subscribed to the newsletter on our Website, we will send you a message to the indicated email address asking for your confirmation. If you do not confirm your subscription, your subscription will automatically be deleted. In order to prevent any misuse of your personal data, we will log your subscription and confirmation, filing the IP address you use when subscribing, the time of your subscription and confirmation, the messages sent by us regarding your subscription, and the wording of your subscription and confirmation.

You may at any time with future effect revoke your consent to receive our newsletter. To declare that you wish to unsubscribe, you may use the respective link included in all newsletters or refer to the contacts indicated below.

6. External services or content on our Website

We include third-party services and/or content on our Website. When you use such third-party services or when third-party content is displayed, communication data are exchanged between you and the respective provider for technical reasons.

The respective provider of the services or content may also process your data for own additional purposes. To the best of our knowledge, we have configured the services and content of providers known to process data for own purposes in such a way that either any communication for other purposes than to present their services or content on our Website is blocked, or communication only takes place once you have actively opted to use the respective service. However, since we have no control over data collected and processed by third parties, we are not able to provide binding information regarding the scope and purpose of such processing of your data.

7. Social Media Plug-ins

We add in our website Social Plugins of Facebook and Instagram in order to make the website more popular. Responsibility for this function, which is compatible with personal data protection, must be ensured by the respective providers. The plugins integration is by the so-called «two-click” solution for the best possible protection of the website visitors.

a) Facebook

Facebook plugins in our website are for personalized use. Therefore, you can use the “LIKE” and “SHARE” button. This is an offer from Facebook.

If you visit a page of our website containing such a plugin, your Browser creates a direct connection to the Facebook servers. The content of the plugins is transferred from Facebook directly to your browser which then embeds it into the «company’s» website.

Through this embedding, Facebook receives information about your browser having accessed the respective page of our website, regardless whether you have a Facebook account, or you are logged in. This information (including the IP address) is transmitted from your browser directly to a Facebook server in the USA and stored there.

If you sign in with Facebook, Facebook can link the visit to our website directly with your Facebook account. If you interact with the respective plugins, e.g. by clicking “LIKE” or “SHARE” the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to Facebook server and stored there. The information will also be published on Facebook and will be displayed to your friends on Facebook.

Facebook can use this information for advertising purposes, market research, and personalized pages on Facebook. For this purpose, Facebook creates user profiles about interests, relationships, etc., to evaluate, for example, the use of our website in relation to the Facebook ads, to inform other Facebook users about your activities on the website and provide other services related to the use of Facebook.

If you do not want Facebook to associate the data collected by our website with your account on Facebook, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website.

For the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by Facebook, as well as the related rights and privacy settings, please refer to the privacy policy (https://www.facebook.com / about / privacy /) of Facebook.

b) Instagram

Our website uses plugins of the social network Instagram, operated by Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Instagram”).

The plugins are usually marked with an Instagram logo, for example in the form of an Instagram camera.

By visiting a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of Instagram.  Instagram directly transfers the plugin content to your browser which embeds the latter into the «company’s» website. Through this embedding, Instagram receives information about your browser having accessed the respective page of our website, regardless whether have an Instagram account or you are logged in.

This information (including the IP address) is transmitted from your browser directly to an Instagram server in the USA and stored there. If you sign in with Instagram, Instagram can link the visit to the «company’s» website directly with your Instagram account. If you interact with the plugins, e.g. by clicking “Instagram” the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to Instagram server and stored there.

The information will be posted to your Instagram account and will appear there in your contacts.

If you do not want the collected data by the «company’s» website to be associated with your Instagram account, you must log out of Instagram before visiting the website.

For more information please refer to the Instagram privacy policy (https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388).

B. Information regarding your rights

You have the right:

  • according to the article 15 of the GDPR, to require information related to the personal data processes by us. In particular, you have the right to ask us to provide you with information about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been disclosed or the period for which the personal data will be stored, the right to rectification, to erasure, or to restriction of processing or the right to object to processing.
  • according to the article 16 of the GDPR, to demand without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data stored by us.
  • according to the art. 17 of the GDPR to obtain from us to erase personal data without undue delay, unless the processing is necessary or exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims
  • according to the art. 18 of the GDPR to obtain from us restriction of processing where accuracy of the personal data is contested, the processing is unlawful or no longer necessary but required for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, or you have objected to processing pursuant to Article 21 par. 1 of the GDPR
  • according to the article 20 of the GDPR to receive your personal data which have been provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request their transmission to another controller.
  • according to the article 7 par. 3 of the GDPR, to withdraw your consent to processing your personal data. As a result, data processing will not be allowed based on this consent in the future
  • according to the article 77 of the GDPR to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. You can contact the national supervisory authority.

If processing of your personal data is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests pursuant to Article 6 par. 1 (f) of the GDPR, you have the right to object to processing of personal data pursuant to Article 21 of the GDPR, on grounds relating to your particular situation or in case you object to direct marketing purposes.  In the latter case, you have a general right of objection, which is applied by us without any obligation to determine a particular situation.

C. Contact

For any questions you may have with respect to data privacy, please use the provided contact form.

D. Amendment of Privacy Statement

We may update our Privacy Statement from time to time. Updates of our Privacy Statement will be published on our Website. Any amendments become effective upon publication on our Website. We therefore recommend that you regularly visit the site to keep yourself informed on possible updates.

Last updated: September 22, 2019

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