Privacy Policy
Responsible under the privacy laws, especially the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:
Your privacy rights
Under the contact data of our data protection officer you are able to exercise the following rights: Ability to know about your saved data and their usage (GDPR, article 15), correction of untruthful personal data (GDPR, article 16), deletion of your saved personal data (GDPR, article 17), limitation of the data usage, if we are not allowed to delete your personal data by legal requirements yet (GDPR, article 18), rejection of the usage of data on Uretao (GDPR, article 21) and data portability, if you accepted the data usage or made a contract with us (GDPR, article 20). If you gave us permission, you are always able to revoke it for the future. You are always able to complain to a supervisory authority, for example to the responsible authority in your state of your domicile or to the for us responsible authority. You are able to find a list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public area) with their address under: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html .
Tracking of general information when visiting our site
Type and purpose of the processing:
If you connect to our website, that means, if you are not registered or transmit other information, data of general nature will be tracked. This information (server logfiles) contains the type of web browser, the used operating system, the domain name of your internet service provider, you IP-address and others. They are processed for the following purposes: Safekeeping of the problem-free connection to the website, evaluation of the system security and stability as well as the optimization of our website. We are not using your data to conclude your person. Information of this type may be evaluated anonymously for statistical purposes to optimize our internet presence and the technic behind it.
Legal basis and legitimate interest:
The processing takes place under GDPR article 6, section 1, letter f due to our legitimate interest to optimize the stability and functionality of the website.
Recipient:
Recipient of the data could be technical service providers that are responsible for the operation and maintenance of our website as an order processor.
Storage time:
The data will be deleted if they are no longer required for the purpose of the collection. This takes place for data that is used for the provision of the website when the specific session is closed. When saving the data in the server log files this will take place at the latest after 14 days. A storage over this duration may be is possible. In such cases the IP-addresses of the users will be made anonymous so that a connection to the requester is no longer possible.
Provision mandatory or required:
The provision of the previously described personal data is not mandatory by law or contract. Without the IP-address we cannot provide you with our services and functionality of our website. Also, single services may not be available or limited. Due to this reason a revocation is not possible.
Cookies
As many other websites we also use so called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that will be saved on your device (laptop, table, smartphone or something similar) if you connect to our website. You are able to delete single cookies or all cookies. You will receive information and guidelines about the deletion of Cookies or how their storage can be blocked. Depending on the browser you are able to find the necessary information under the following links: Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-loeschen-daten-von-websites-entfernen Internet Explorer: https://support.Uretao.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de Opera: http://www.opera.com/de/help Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?locale=de_DE&viewlocale=de_DE
Storage time and used cookies:
If you allow us through your browser setting or consent the following cookies may be used: Login cookies – Deletion with the closure of the browser
Technical required cookies
Type and purpose of the processing:
We use cookies to increase the user experience of our website. Some elements of our website require the identification of the requesting browser when changing a page. The usage of technical cookies is aimed to make the usage of Uretao for the user easier. Some functionalities cannot be offered without cookies. For these it is required to recognize the browser after a page change. For the following applications we require cookies: Takeover of language setting Storage of search terms
Legal basis and legitimate interest:
The processing takes place under GDPR article 6, section 1, letter f due to our legitimate interest to optimize the user experience of our website.
Recipients:
Recipient of the data could be technical service providers that are responsible for the operation and maintenance of our website as a order processor.
Provision mandatory or required:
The provision of the previously described personal data is not mandatory by law or contract. Without the IP-address we cannot provide you with our services and functionality of our website. Also, single services may not be available or limited. Due to this reason a revocation is not possible.
Revocation
Information about your right of opposition through GDPR article 21
Technically non-required cookies
Furthermore, we use cookies to tailor the offer of our website better to the interest of our visitors or to improve the website by using statistical reports. Which providers set cookies can be read at the information further below to the used performance, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies.
Legal basis:
Legal basis for the processing is your consent by GDPR article 6, section 1, letter a.
Recipient:
Recipient of the data could be technical service providers that are responsible for the operation and maintenance of our website as a order processor. Please extract further recipients from the information about performance, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies.
Third country transfer:
Please read the information about the list of the single performance, tracking, re-marketing and web analysis technologies providers.
Legal basis and legitimate interest:
Of course you are able to look at our website without cookies. Web browsers are usually configured to accept cookies. In general, you are able to deactive the usage of cookies in you browser (please read revocation of your consent). Please keep in mind that single functions may not work when you deactive the usage of cookies.
Revocation of the consent:
You are always able to revoke your consent through our cookie consent tool.
Profiling:
In what way we analyze the pseudo anonymous user profiles can be read in the information about the used performance, tracking, re-marketing and web analysis technologies.
Registration on our website
Type and purpose of the processing:
For the registration on our website we require some personal data which will be transmitted to us through an input mask. To time time of the registration the following additional information will be stored: Timestamp of your registration for the provision of specific content and services is necessary.
Legal basis and legitimate interest:
The processing of the entered data follows GDPR, article 6, section 1, letter a, after the consent of the user.
Recipient:
Recipient of the data could be technical service providers that are responsible for the operation and maintenance of our website as a order processor.
Storage time:
We store this data in our system until the legal storage durations are expired. This is in principle 6 or 10 years due to the German accounting standard and relating to tax law requirements.
Provision mandatory or required:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary. Without the provision of your personal data, we are not able to offer you our content or services.
Performance of paid services
Type and purpose of the processing:
For the performance of paid services we ask you for additional data, for example payment information, to process your order.
Legal basis:
The processing of the data is necessary to form the contract based on GDPR, article 6, section 1, letter b.
Recipients:
Recipients of the data are we and if necessary to order processors.
Storage time:
We store this data in our system until the legal storage durations are expired. This is in principle 6 or 10 years due to the German accounting standard and relating to tax law requirements.
Provision mandatory or required:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary. Without the provision of your personal data we are not able to offer you our content or services.
Comment functionality
Type and purpose of the processing:
If the user posts a comment on our website, we save additional to the comment the timestamp of the creation and the previously selected username of the visitor. This is for security purposes since we could be legally prosecuted for unlawful content on our website even when they were created by the user.
Legal basis:
The processing entered data when commenting follows on a basis of a justifiable interest after GDPR, article 6, section 1, letter f. Through the provision of the comment function, we would like to offer you an uncomplicated interaction. Your data will be stored for the purpose of dealing with inquiries as well as further questions.
Recipients:
Recipients of the data are we and if necessary to order processors.
Storage time:
The data will be deleted if they are no longer necessary for the purpose of the processing. This is usually the case when the communication with the user is over and the enterprise knows that the business matter is finished. We reserve us the right of deletion without naming a reason and without previous or later information. Furthermore, you are always able to ask us for the deletion of the comment. Please send us an email to our data protection officer or rather to the for the data protection responsible person. You are able to find their contact information further down below and please enter the link to the comment as well as the for the creation used email address.
Provision mandatory or required:
The provision of the previously described personal data is not mandatory by law or contract. Without the provision of your personal data we are not able to offer you access to the comment function.
Newsletter
Type and purpose of the processing:
For the transmission of our newsletter we process personal data that has been entered through the input mask. For an effective registration we require a valid email address. To check whether the registration has been done by the owner, we use the “double-opt-in”-process. For this, we save the application for the newsletter, the transmission of the confirmation email and the entry of the response. Further data is not requried.
Legal basis:
On basis of the explicit consent by GDPR, article 6, section 1, letter a, we will regularly transmit our newsletter or similar information via email to your entered email address. The consent for the storage of your personal data and their usage for the transmission of the newsletter can be revoked for the future at any time. In every newsletter you will find the respective link. Also, you are always able to revoke it through our website or contact us through our contact data.
Recipients:
Recipients of the data are we and if necessary to order processors.
Storage duration:
The data will only be processed as long as we have a valid consent. Afterwards, they will be deleted.
Provision mandatory or required:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary. Without the provision of your personal data, we are not able to offer you our newsletter.
Revocation of the consent:
You are always able to revoke your consent for the storage and usage of your personal data for the transmission of the newsletter for the future. The cancellation can be conducted through the link inside the email or by contacting our data protection officer.
Contact form
Type and purpose of the processing:
Your entered data will be stored for the purpose of the individual communication with you. For this, a valid email address and your name is required. This helps for the assignment of your inquiry and the response. Further data is optional.
Legal basis:
The processing entered data when commenting follows on a basis of a justifiable interest after GDPR, article 6, section 1, letter f. Through the provision of the contact form, we would like to offer you an uncomplicated communication. Your data will be stored for the purpose of dealing with inquiries as well as further questions. Should you use it to inquire an offer we will process the data for the execution of pre-contractual measures (GDPR, article 6, section 1, letter b).
Recipients:
Recipients of the data are we and if necessary to order processors.
Storage time:
The data will be deleted at the latest after six months of your inquiry. Should we form a contract we have to oblige the storage durations after the German HGB law and delete it after the statutory periods.
Provision mandatory or required:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary. We are only able to work on your inquiry when tell us your name, email address and reason for your inquiry.
Usage of Google Analytics
If you gave us your consent, we will use Google Analytics which is a web analysis service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (following: „Google“). Google Analytics uses “cookies“, also text files, that will be saved on your computer and that allow an analysis of the usage of our website. Die through the cookie generated information about your usage will be transmitted as a rule to a server in the USA of Google and stored. Due to the activation of a IP-anonymization on these websites your IP-address will be shortened inside the member countries of the European Union or in the contracted countries of the treaty over the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP-address be transmitted to a server of Google in the USA and shortened. The from Google Analytics transmitted IP-address of your browser will not be combined with other data of Google. Further information about the terms of service and the privacy policy can be found under https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and under https://policies.google.com/?hl=de. By order of this website’s operator Google will use this information to evaluate your usage to create reports about the website activities and to further perform services that are connected to the usage of the website or usage of the internet. The by us sent and the with cookies, user IDs or similar or advertisement IDs connected data will be deleted after 14 months automatically. The deletion of data that has an expired storage duration will follow automatically once a month.
Revocation of the consent:
You are able to stop the tracking through Google Analytics on our website by setting the Opt-Out-Cookie and pressing this link. With this, an opt-out-cookie will be installed on your device. If the cookie is installed on your device the tracking through Google Analytics for this website and for this browser will be stopped. You are also able to stop the storage of cookies through a setting in your browser software; we would like to point out that in this case where applicable not all functionalities of this website can be used to their full extent. Also, you are able to block the tracking through the cookie created and to the usage applied data of the website (incl. your I-address) to Google as well as the processing of the data when you install a browser-plugin like: Browser Add On for the deactivation of Google Analytics
Embedded YouTube videos
On our website we embed YouTube videos. Operator of the plugin is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (following „YouTube“). YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (following „Google“). If you visit a page with the YouTube-plugin, a connection will be build to the servers of YouTube. By connection, YouTube will be told which sites you are visiting. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube is able allocate your browsing behavior personally. You are able to stop this by logging out of your YouTube account. If a YouTube video is started, the provider will use cookies that tell him your usage behavior. Further information to the purpose and scale of this information gathering and its processing through YouTube can be found in the privacy policy of the provider. There, you are able to receive further information about your rights and setting opportunities to protect your privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Revocation of the consent:
The provider does currently not offer the chance for a simple opt-out or blocking of the transmission. If you would like to prevent a tracking of your activities on our websites, please revoke your consent in our cookie-consent-tool for the specific cookie-categories or all technical non-necessary cookies and transmissions. It could happen that you are not able to use the website or only limited.
Google AdWords
Our website uses the Google Conversion-Tracking. Service provider of the service Google AdWords is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. If you reach our site through an advertisement of Google, Google will set a cookie on your device. The cookie for conversion tracking will be set if the user clicks on an advertisement of Google. If the user visits specific pages of our websites and the cookie did not expire, we and Google will be able to notice that you have clicked the advertisement and have been forwarded to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Other websites are not able to track the AdWords customer by using the cookie. The with the conversion cookies obtained information help us to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers that decided to use conversion tracking. The customers will learn about the total amount of customers that have clicked on the advertisement and have been forwarded to a page with a conversion tracking tag. They do not receive information that could be used to personally identify you. Further information about the data processing through Google can be found in the privacy policy of Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy. In the data protection center, you are able to change your personal privacy settings.
Revocation of the consent:
The provider does currently not offer the chance for a simple opt-out or blocking of the transmission. If you would like to prevent a tracking of your activities on our websites, please revoke your consent in our cookie-consent-tool for the specific cookie-categories or all technical non-necessary cookies and transmissions. It could happen that you are not able to use the website or only limited.
Contact form
Type and purpose of the processing:
Your entered data will be stored for the purpose of the individual communication with you. For this, a valid email address and your name is required. This helps for the assignment of your inquiry and the response. Further data is optional.
SSL encoding
To ensure the security of your data in a transmission we use current encoding system (for e.g. SSL) through HTTPS.
Information about your right of opposition through GDPR article 21
Individual right of opposition
You have the right to contradict the processing of the concerning personal data by GDPR, article 6, section 1, letter f, out of reasons that result of a special situation; this also applies to a profiling through this regulation by GDPR, article 4, number 4. If you file your right of opposition, we will not process your personal data unless there are reasons of worthy protection that predominant your interest, rights and freedom or the processing serves the assertion, practicing or defense of legal entitlements.
Individual right of opposition
Changes of our privacy policy
We reserve us the right to change the privacy policy so that it is always fulfills the legal requirements or to put changes of our services in the privacy policy into practice, for e.g. when introducing new services. For your new visits the new privacy policy is valid.
Questions to the data protection officer
If you have questions to our privacy protection, please write us an email or directly contact the person responsible for the data protection in our organization:
Contact form
Type and purpose of the processing:
Your entered data will be stored for the purpose of the individual communication with you. For this, a valid email address and your name is required. This helps for the assignment of your inquiry and the response. Further data is optional.
Your privacy rights
Under the contact data of our data protection officer you are able to exercise the following rights: Ability to know about your saved data and their usage (GDPR, article 15), correction of untruthful personal data (GDPR, article 16), deletion of your saved personal data (GDPR, article 17), limitation of the data usage, if we are not allowed to delete your personal data by legal requirements yet (GDPR, article 18), rejection of the usage of data on Uretao (GDPR, article 21) and data portability, if you accepted the data usage or made a contract with us (GDPR, article 20). If you gave us permission, you are always able to revoke it for the future. You are always able to complain to a supervisory authority, for example to the responsible authority in your state of your domicile or to the for us responsible authority. You are able to find a list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public area) with their address under: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html .