Privacy

We take the protection of your personal data seriously and ensure that the collection, processing and use of your data on our website is in full compliance with the applicable data protection laws. Despite careful content review, we can assume no liability for external links to third-party contents. Below we inform you which data are collected during your visit to our website and how we use these data.

Cookies

Your Cookie Settings

We use cookies on our website. Cookies are small files that are automatically created by your browser and stored on your IT system (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website. Cookies do not harm your device and do not contain viruses, trojan horses or other malware.

Information generated from the specific device used is stored in cookies. This does not mean, however, that we will gain immediate knowledge of your identity.

The use of cookies helps us make it more convenient for you to use our website. For example, we use session cookies to detect whether you have already visited individual pages on our website. These are erased automatically when you leave our website.

We also use temporary cookies to optimise user-friendliness. These cookies are stored on your device for a specific period of time. If you return to our website to use our services, cookies allow us to automatically recognise that you have visited our website previously and remember the inputs and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.

We also use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and analyse it for the purpose of optimising our services. These cookies allow us to automatically recognise that you have already visited our website when you visit our website again. These cookies are automatically erased after a defined period of time.

The processing of data through cookies for the purposes stated above is necessary in order to safeguard our legitimate interests pursuant to Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1(f) GDPR.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or so a message is always displayed before a new cookie is created. However, if you disable cookies completely, you may not be able to use all the features on our website.

In accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1(a) GDPR, you have given your consent to this through our opt-in cookie banner.

Cookie Overview

Data Collection and Processing

During your visit to www.aconnic.com the following data are collected and analysed automatically. The collection is necessary for technical and statistical reasons. The data will never be assigned to a particular person. Data processing and storage can take place outside the European Union, e. g. on servers in the USA. Recorded are:

• Requesting domain / language
• Location (country, city)
• Web browser type / version
• Operating system
• Internet provider
• Screen resolution
• Date and time of retrieval
• Referrer URL (previously visited website)
• Visit duration
• Cookies on / off
• Request (name of retrieved file)
• Transferred data amount
• Report about successful retrieval

Personal data are only collected if you provide them voluntarily, e. g. as part of a contact request, newsletter subscription or when applying for a job vacancy. Personal data received as part of your application will not be used for any other purpose. In accordance with §35 (2) German Federal Data Protection Act such data will be deleted resp. destroyed as soon as knowledge of them for the purpose of their storage is no longer necessary, however no later than after 6 months from receipt.

Disclosure of Data

Transmitted personal data are exclusively used for a specific purpose, e. g. to answer your inquiry, to execute a contract with you, and for technical administration.

Your personal data are passed to a third party only then if this is necessary for executing the contract, especially to transmit order information to suppliers; if it is necessary for billing purposes, or if you have given your prior consent voluntarily. You have the right to revoke your consent at any time.

Stored personal data are deleted if you revoke your consent for storing, if the purpose of the storing ceases to apply, or if the storing is inadmissible for other legal reasons.

Purposes for the Collection, Use and Disclosure of Your Personal Data

aconnic may use and disclose your personal data for the following purposes:

• responding to your queries and requests;
• managing the administrative and business operations;
• matching any personal data held which relates to you for any of the purposes listed herein;
• resolving complaints and handling requests and enquiries;
• providing additional products and services and benefits to you, including promotions;
• leads generation and management for marketing products and services;
• administering contests, competitions and marketing campaigns, and personalising your experience;
• communicating to you advertisements involving details of our products and services, special offers and rewards, either to our customers generally, or which we have identified may be of interest to you (including but not limited to upselling, cross selling and telemarketing);
• organising promotional events and corporate social responsibility projects;
• purposes which are reasonably related to the aforesaid.

Right of Information

On written demand we will inform you about the stored data regarding your person.

Right of Revocation

If we use data for a purpose that requires your consent under applicable law, we will always ask you for your express agreement and record your consent according to the data protection regulations. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect to the future. To revoke your consent, or to file an opposition, it is sufficient to send us an email.

Security Advice

It is our objective to store your personal data in a secure way by seizing all possible technical and organizational measures, so that they are protected from third-party access. We cannot guarantee full data security for the communication via email. Therefore we recommend you to send confidential information exclusively via post.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). The legal basis for this is §15 (3) Telemedia Act (TMG) in conjunction with Article 1 (6) (f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files stored on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “anonymizeIp” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking). Therefore, the IP addresses are processed in a short form avoiding direct relations to a person. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA.

On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html or at https://www.google.de/intl/en_uk/policies/.

Pardot

aconnic uses the Pardot Marketing Automation System (“Pardot MAS”), a special software for recording and evaluating the use of a website by website visitors and for sending newsletters. When you visit this website, the Pardot MAS captures your click path and creates an individual usage profile using a pseudonym. For this purpose, cookies are used, which allow the recognition of your browser. By using this website, you also agree to the use of Pardot cookies. However, you can disable the creation of pseudonymized user profiles at any time by configuring your internet browser so that cookies of the domain “pardot.com” are not accepted. However, this may result in certain limitations to the features and usability of our offering. In order to provide you with as interesting an offer or product information as possible, and if you actively consent to this, it is possible to combine your personal data with the data of a pseudonymized user profile via the cookies set, provided that: You provide personal data, for example by ordering a newsletter or filling out a form. You may object to this use of your personal data, such as name and address information, at any time in writing or by e-mail to office@aconnic.com. Newsletters sent with Pardot MAS contain so-called web beacons. These are the smallest graphics that allow you to analyze user behavior, such as opening and reading emails and clicking on links. This allows us to make our offered content more relevant and interesting for you.

LinkedIn

We offer functions and content of the LinkedIn service, provided by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.
This service may include e.g. content like images, videos or texts, as well as buttons. If you are a member of the LinkedIn platform, LinkedIn can collect the content and functions you have called and assign them to your profiles. We can also incorporate scripts and measures that allow us to use marketing and statistical functions in LinkedIn.

• LinkedIn Privacy Policy
  For more information please visit the LinkedIn Privacy Policy at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
• Legal Basis
  LinkedIn is used on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
• Objection to Data Collection
  You may object to this use of your personal data at any time in writing or by e-mail to info@aconnic.com.

Facebook Pixel

Within our online offer we use the so-called “Facebook pixel” of the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbor, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Facebook”).
With the help of the Facebook pixel, Facebook is on the one hand able to identify you, being a visitor to our online offer, as a target group for the presentation of advertisements (so-called “Facebook ads”). Accordingly, we use the Facebook pixel to display the Facebook ads we have placed only to those Facebook users who have shown an interest in our online offer or who have certain characteristics (e.g. interests in certain topics or products based on the visited Websites) that we transmit to Facebook (so-called “Custom Audiences”). By using Facebook pixel, we would also like to ensure that our Facebook ads correspond to the potential interests of the users and are not annoying. With the help of the Facebook pixel, we can further evaluate the effectiveness of the Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes by seeing whether users have been redirected to our website after clicking on a Facebook ad (so-called “conversion”). You may object to this use of your personal data at any time in writing or by e-mail to info@aconnic.com.
Facebook´s privacy policy an be viewed at https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php

Data Protection Officer:
Marc Weiß
Marc Weiß Verwaltungs-GmbH
Herrenkellergasse 6
89073 Ulm
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