The protection of your personal data is an important concern to us, which we take seriously. Thus we keep to applicable statutory provisions for the protection of personal data and data protection with our activities.

In the following we inform you about which information we if necessary acquire, how we process them and whom we provide them if necessary. The subsequent statement gives you an overview about how we assure this protection and what kind of data is acquired for what purpose.

Purpose of the data inquiry, processing or utilisation of

Personal data
We fundamentally do not acquire personal data via our website. Personal data (names, addresses, phone numbers or e-mail-addresses) are only acquired if you provide us such data voluntarily (e.g. by registration, completion of a contact form or a newsletter form) and agreed respectively or if the accordant statutory provisions about the protection of your data allow this.

We generally use the personal data you provide us with to process your request, your order or contract. To care for the customer relationship with you we save personal data if necessary and process them in other electronic data processing systems. If necessary we also communicate your data to our subsidiaries or to enterprises which we influence dominantly via a share to answer your request better. We use your individual-related data to inform you about our offers or offers of the enterprises we have an interest in, if it might be useful for your business activity.

Your personal data can be used, too, if they by virtue of laws or licensing legal dispositions are essential for the justification or protection of legal claims or for the defence of claims or when they serve for the prevention of illegal activities, e.g. intended attacks on our data processing systems. A communication to third parties is not planned.

Of course, we accept your wish, if you do not want to let us use your personal data for the care of our customer relationship (especially direct marketing measures, marketing research). The acquired data are in no way sold or because of other reasons handed on to third persons except to enterprises we directly have an interest in.

Use-related data
When there is an access to our websites communication-related information (internet addresses) and use-related information are automatically generated via telecommunication services. These might possibly admit conclusions to individual-related data. As far as the acquisition, processing and use of your communication-related and use-related information respectively is coercively necessary, they are subject to the legal regulation for the data protection.

Non-personal data
When there is an access to our websites information is automatically (without registration or login) gathered. It is not assigned to a certain person. We acquire and save the information your browser communicates to us automatically in Server Log Files. These are:

• Browser model/ version
• Used system software
• Domain name of the afore visited website
• Host name of the accessing computer (IP address)
• Time of the server request.
• Number of visits
• Average dwell period
• Accessed pages

We cannot assign these data to certain persons. The data are not merged with other data origins. We and the enterprises we have an important interest in use the acquired data to design our websites more attractively and to improve the performance.

Cookies
The websites use so called Cookies in several places. Their task is to make our offer more user-friendly and safer. Cookies are small text data which are deposited on your computer and are saved by your browser. Most of the Cookies used by us are so called “Session-Cookies”. They can be deleted automatically after your visit by configurating your internet browser. Cookies do not do harm on your computer and do not contain viruses.

Child protection
We do not gather personal data of children.

Security
We take technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against accidental or illegal deletion, manipulation or against loss and against unauthorised transfer or unauthorised access.

Links to third websites
Our websites contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the data protection or the content of these third websites.

Newsletter
If you possibly want to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we need an e-mail-address of you and information which allow us to check that you are the proprietor of the given e-mail-address and that the proprietor agrees to the reception of the newsletter respectively. You can anytime withdraw your consent to the saving of the data, the e-mail-address as well as its use for the transmission of the newsletter.

Right of withdrawal
You can anytime withdraw the personal data or have it deleted with us. Equally, you can anytime disagree to the making of a non-personal data in the form of a user profile. Please deactivate the Cookies on your browser for this purpose.

Right of access
You anytime have a right of access to saved data concerning your person, their origin and receiver as well as the purpose of the storage. The data protection officer will inform you about the saved data. On demand we communicate whether and which data is stored about you according to the law in written form to you.

Further information
Your confidence is important to us. Thus, we answer questions concerning the processing of your personal data. If you have questions which this data protection explanation could not answer or if you wish deepened information about one item, please contact our data protection officer anytime.

Data protection officer:
Bernhard van Hal
e-mail: datasecurity@mediadefine.com 

Public index of procedures
According to § 4g BDSG the data protection officer is bound to make the information defined in § 4e BDSG accessible to anyone upon request. We fulfil this obligation voluntarily so that a request on your part is not necessary.

1. Name of the responsible station
mediadefine GmbH
Registriergericht Essen 
Commercial register number:16871
Sales tax identification number: DE813601945

2. Entrepreneurship
Diploma economist Rüdiger van Hal
Tim Hildebrandt

Assigned director of the data processing:
Tim Hildebrandt

3. Address of the responsible station
mediadefine GmbH
Triple-Z-Park (Zeche Zollverein, Schacht 4/11)
Katernberger Str. 107
D-45327 Essen

4. Purpose of the data acquisition, processing or use
Enterprise consultancy and management for business, communication and IT as well as any economic and technical activity relating to it. The enterprise can take interest in other enterprises which pursue the same or similar aims regardless of their legal form.

5. Description of the affected person group, data and data categories
Customer data, employee data as well as data of suppliers if this is necessary for the fulfilment of the purposes mentioned among 4. The affected person groups result from the purposes mentioned among no.4. It is about the following data categories:

• Person group: Customers
  Data: Contact person, address, contract, payment and control data
• Person group: employees
  Data: Strategy, contract and billing data
• Person group: Business partners, suppliers
  Data: Contract and billing data
• Person group: Prospects
  Data: Contact person, address data, product interest

6. Receivers, who may be informed about the data
Receiver is any person or station who/which receives the data. Public stations because of statutory provisions, external clients and contractors according to § 11 BDSG as well as external stations and internal departments for the fulfilment of the purposes mentioned among 4.

7. Rule periods fort he deletion of data
The legislator passed manifold safe-keeping duties and terms. After the expiration of the terms, e.g. 10 years according to § 257 HGB and § 147 AO, the accordant data is deleted routinely when they are not necessary anymore for the fulfilment of a contract. If the data is not affected by this it is deleted as soon as their acquaintance is not necessary anymore fort he fulfilment of the purpose of the storage.

8. Planned data transmission to third states
A transmission into third states does not take place and is not planned either at the moment.