Thank you very much for your interest in our website. We take the
protection of your personal data very seriously. Therefore, we
should like to inform you here about data protection in our
company. Naturally we comply with the statutory provisions of the
Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG)), the
Telemedia Act (Telemediengesetz (TMG)) and the Personal Information
Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), among other data
protection regulations.
Please also see our
Privacy of Personal Information Statement
Personal Information: Collection and Processing of
Data
- If you access the Internet website www.constud.ca or download
data from this website, we will store and process information about
these events in a log file. This process takes place anonymously.
It is not possible to draw any conclusions as to your person and/or
identify you.
- The following information is stored: Your IP address, date and
time of website access, the page accessed or the name of the file
retrieved, the data volume transmitted and the message as to
whether the access/retrieval was successful.
- These data will not be used for commercial purposes. The
analysis of these data is used solely for the preparation of
statistics and the improvement of our internet presence. For this
purpose we will prepare user profiles by means of a pseudonym. No
connection will be made between the person covered by the pseudonym
and the usage data collected. Following this usage, your data will
be deleted. Any permanent storage is excluded. You may object at
any time to this data collection, storage and processing.
- This processing for analyzing user behavior is effected by
means of Google Analytics. You may object to any such data use and
processing by using the deactivation add-on
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en).
- For data collection and storage we also use so-called cookies.
Cookies are small data packets that your browser stores in your
terminal device at our request. They do not cause any damage there.
They do not contain any viruses and do not permit us to spy on you.
Two types of cookies are used. Temporary cookies are automatically
deleted when you close your browser (session cookies). Permanent
cookies provide allow you to be recognized when you access our
website again after having previously closed it. Using these
cookies allows us to follow and understand your usage behavior for
the above-mentioned purposes and to the corresponding extent.
Additionally, they are to provide you with an optimized surfing
experience on our website. These data, too, are only collected in
an anonymized or pseudonymized form. You can adjust the settings of
your Internet browser such that our cookies cannot be stored on
your terminal device or such that cookies already stored will be
deleted.
Usage and Disclosure: The scope of data collection and
storage
In general, it is not necessary for the use of our Internet website
that you provide any personal data. However, so as to ensure that
we can actually provide our services, we may need your personal
data. This applies when information material is to be sent out as
well as with regard to answering individual enquiries.
If you order the provision of any services or goods from us, we
collect and store your personal data as a matter of principle only
inasmuch as this is necessary for providing the service. For this
purpose it may be necessary to pass on your personal data to
companies we use to provide any such service or in the processing
of contracts. These are e.g. transport companies or any other
service companies. If we perform one of the acts described below or
otherwise or render services, we want to collect and store your
personal data, and we will request your express approval at the
corresponding point on our website:
- Forwarding of the newsletter
- Forwarding of brochures
- Participation in promotional games
Following full completion of contract processing, your data will be
blocked and then deleted on expiry of the applicable taxation and
commerce regulations, if you have not expressly approved any data
use going beyond this application.
If you have registered for our newsletter by using your email
address, we will continue to use your email address beyond the
execution of the contract for our own advertising purposes until
you cancel your subscription to our newsletter.
External Sites
This site contains links to external sites. We are not responsible
for the content and the privacy practices of sites other than our
own. We encourage you to examine each site’s privacy policy and
disclaimers and to make your own decisions regarding the accuracy,
reliability and completeness of material and information found
there.
Data collection as a result of using Google
Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service by Google
Inc. Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies". Then it deals with
text files stored on your computer, allowing an analysis of your
use of the website. Information collected includes for example
information on the operating system, browser, IP address, the
website accessed previously by you (referrer URL) and date and time
of your visit to our website. The information generated by this
text file with regard to the usage of our website will be
transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google
will use this information in order to evaluate your usage of our
website, to prepare reports on website activities for the owners of
the website and in order to provide associated services in
connection with web site and Internet usage. Inasmuch as this has
been prescribed by law, or if any third parties have been
commissioned by Google to process these data, Google will also pass
on this information to such third parties. This use is affected in
an anonymized or pseudonymized form. More detailed information is
provided directly by Google
http://www.google.com/intl/de/privacypolicy.html#information
Your right to information and withdrawal
You may receive information about your data stored with us at any
time, free of charge and without giving any reasons. You can ask at
any time for your data collected by us to be blocked, corrected or
deleted. Also, you may cancel at any time and without giving
reasons the approval you granted us for the collection and use of
your data. For this purpose, please contact us at the address given
in the legal details section.
We shall be happy at any time to answer any further questions you
may have with regard to our information on data protection and the
processing of your personal data.
Sources:
http://www.datenschutzerklaerung-online.de
http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/PDF/P-8.6.pdf