Datenschutz

Data privacy policy of Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft Zoologischer Fachbetriebe GmbH (WZF)

Thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in our company. We are very serious about protecting your personal data. We process your data in compliance with the laws and regulations applicable to the protection of personal data, particularly including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) and the country-specific implementing laws that apply to us. In this data privacy policy, we provide you with comprehensive information about how WZF GmbH processes your personal data and what rights you have in this respect.

Personal data means information that makes it possible to identify a natural person, particularly including name, date of birth, address, telephone number, e-mail address and IP address.

Anonymous data means data from which no one can establish a personal connection to the user.

 

1. Controller and Data Protection Officer

The controller as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation and other national data protection laws of the EU member states and other data protection regulations is:
Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft Zoologischer Fachbetriebe GmbH (WZF)
Mainzer Str. 10
65185 Wiesbaden
Germany
T +49 61 14 47 55 30
E-Mail: info@zzf.de
Website: www.zzf.de

Contact information of the Data Protection Officer: datenschutz@zzf.de

 

2. Your rights as a data subject

First, we would like to inform you of your rights as a data subject. These rights are codified in Art. 15 – 22 EU-GDPR. They are:

  • the right of access (Art. 15 EU-GDPR),
  • the right to erasure (Art. 17 EU-GDPR),
  • the right to rectification (Art. 16 EU-GDPR),
  • the right to data portability (Art. 20 EU-GDPR),
  • the right to restriction of data processing (Art. 18 EU-GDPR),
  • the right to object to data processing (Art. 21 EU-GDPR).

To assert these rights, please contact: datenschutz@zzf.de. Any questions about data processing at our company should be directed to the same e-mail address. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority for data protection.

 

3. Rights of objection

Please note the following with respect to the rights of objection:

When we process your personal data for purposes of direct advertising, you have the right to object to such data processing at any time, without stating reasons. The same applies to profiling, to the extent that it is related to direct advertising.

When you object to processing for purposes of direct advertising, we will no longer process your personal data for such purposes. You can notify us of your objection free of charge and with no particular requirements of form, preferably at: datenschutz@zzf.de.

When we process your data for the sake of legitimate interests, you can object to that processing at any time for reasons having to do with your particular situation; the same applies to any profiling on the basis of these provisions.

We will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling, legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or when the processing serves for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

 

4. Purposes and legal grounds of data processing

In processing your personal data, we comply with the EU-GDPR and all other applicable provisions of data protection law. The legal basis for data processing is particularly set out in Art. 6 of the EU-GDPR.

We use your data to initiate business, fulfil contractual and statutory obligations, perform on contracts, offer products and services and strengthen customer relationships, including with analyses for marketing and direct advertising purposes. This particularly pertains to conducting trade fairs, exhibitions, conferences and similar events and to operating the Nuremberg Exhibition Center. Specifically, we use data for the following purposes, although this list is not exhaustive:

  • Processing orders and payments that we place and receive
  • Registration as exhibitor and/or visitor
  • Ticket purchases
  • Voucher redemptions: Vouchers can be redeemed online and an e-ticket can be printed out. That will save you waiting times at the site.
  • Registering future tickets “at a click”: For some trade fairs attended primarily by industry professionals, information for prior authentication is sent by e-mail or letter (registration as an industry professional), to simplify repeat ticket purchases.
  • Delivering, paying for, and online publication of trade fair directories and catalogues (e.g., exhibitor and product database)
  • Verifying your status as an industry professional (industry professional registration)
  • Administrative personalisation of identification cards: exhibitor IDs, setup and tear-down IDs, tickets
  • Planning your trade fair visit with announcements and targeted professional information sent by e-mail and conventional mail
  • Ensuring trouble-free trade fair attendance for exhibitors by providing targeted information about various services
  • Subscribing to newsletters
  • Voluntary participation in surveys for market and opinion research
  • Verifying qualifications for accreditation as a media representative or blogger
  • Analysis of our website usage for performance, user-friendliness and offer improvement and also for marketing purposes.

On our behalf and as the operator of the websites, Google will use various information to evaluate your pseudonymous use of the website and to compile reports on website activity. The reports provided by Google Analytics are used to analyze the performance of our website and the success of our marketing campaigns.

Your consent is also equivalent to a statutory permission under the German data protection laws. In asking for your consent, we will inform you about the purposes for which your data will be processed and your right to revoke your consent. If your consent also applies to processing special categories of personal data, we will expressly point this out in the consent declaration.

Special categories of personal data within the meaning of Art. 9(1) of the EU GDPR will be processed only when required by law and when there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding interest in preventing that processing.

 

5. Transfer to third parties

We will transfer your data only within the limits provided by law or when you have given your consent. Otherwise, your personal data will not be transferred to third parties unless we are obligated to do so by mandatory requirements of law (transfer to external entities such as regulatory or criminal prosecution authorities).

 

6. Recipients of data / categories of recipients

Some of the tasks that we, WZF GmbH, must perform in connection with Interzoo are handled by NürnbergMesse GmbH. For that reason, we will send NürnbergMesse GmbH your data so they can process your order or request. Because NürnbergMesse GmbH operates all over the world, we may also send your data to subsidiaries or international representatives of the NürnbergMesse Group, and specifically to the subsidiary or international representative that is located in your country or is responsible for your territory, in order to process your order or request.

In many cases, service providers and service partners support us, NürnbergMesse GmbH and its departments in performing their and our tasks, such as registering visitors, sending out newsletters and e-mailings, handling payments and incoming or outgoing orders, credit checks, web hosting, and data maintenance and analysis. All service providers and service partners have been carefully selected and have entered into the necessary data protection agreements. They process personal data in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations in order to provide support and information to customers and interested parties and to provide the offered services.

Your data may be transferred to exhibitors in the following cases:

  • If you use a voucher to attend a trade show, you agree for the data you provide in your visitor registration to be sent to the exhibitor who invited you to attend at no charge. This may assist with billing for the tickets between the exhibitor and NürnbergMesse GmbH and with monitoring redeemed vouchers, and can help exhibitors make contact with their visitors. If you do not consent to such uses, of course you may purchase an admission ticket at the box office without providing data.
  • If you participate in what is known as “lead tracking”. You will be participating in lead tracking if during a visit to an event, you permit an exhibitor to scan the bar code on your ticket for the event. Similarly to when you leave a business card, when the bar code is scanned the exhibitor will receive the contact data you provide in your visitor registration (company name, form of address, title, first and last names, registered corporate name, street, postal code, city, e-mail address, business sector information if applicable, and other information you may have provided), irrespective of whether the exhibitor comes from Germany, an EU country, or another third country. Your participation in lead tracking is voluntary, and you will not be tracked without your further cooperation.

Recipients of the web analytics data are/may be:

  • Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (as a processor according to Art. 28 EU-GDPR)
  • Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
  • Alphabet Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

It cannot be excluded that US authorities access the data stored by Google.

 

7. Transmission of data / Intent to transmit data to third countries

Data is transferred to third countries (outside of the European Union or the European Economic Area) only when necessary to fulfil our obligations, or if required by law, or if you have given your consent.

In some cases we may transfer your personal data to subsidiaries or international representatives of NürnbergMesse GmbH outside of the European Economic Area: India, China, Brazil, United States. The international representatives of NürnbergMesse can be found online at www.nuernbergmesse.de/representatives. Standard EU contract terms ensure an appropriate level of data protection.

 

8. Duration of data storage

We will store your data for as long as needed for the given processing purpose. Please note that numerous retention periods require data to be kept on file for longer times. We are particularly required to do so by retention obligations under commercial law or tax law (e.g. the German Commercial Code, Tax Code, etc.). Unless some further retention obligation is in effect, data are routinely erased once they have served their purpose.

We will store your data for as long as needed for the given processing purpose. Please note that numerous retention periods require data to be kept on file for longer times. We are particularly required to do so by retention obligations under commercial law or tax law (e.g. the German Commercial Code, Tax Code, etc.). Unless some further retention obligation is in effect, data are routinely erased once they have served their purpose.

The data sent by us and linked to cookies are automatically deleted after 50 months (but no later than 31.12.2023) by using Universal Analytics (Google Analytics 3) and after 14 months by using Google Analytics 4. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached takes place automatically once a month.

 

9. Secure transmission of your data

We employ appropriate technical and organisational safeguards to ensure that the data on file with us have the best possible protection against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorised persons. The level of security is continually reviewed and revised to meet new security standards in collaboration with security experts.

Data transfers from and to our website are always encrypted. We offer HTTPS as the transfer protocol for our websites, and we always use the latest encryption protocols. There is also the option of using alternative communication channels (e.g. the postal service).

 

10. Obligation to provide data

Some personal data is necessary for the establishment, performance and termination of the obligation and the fulfilment of the related contractual and statutory obligations. The same applies to the use of our website and the various functions it provides.

We summarised the details in the section above. In certain cases, data must also be collected and/or provided due to statutory provisions. Please note that it is not possible to process your request or perform the underlying contractual obligations without having this data provided to us.

 

11. Categories, sources and origin of data

The data we process is determined by the context: This depends, for example, on whether you place an order online or make a request to send us a job application or submit a complaint in our contact form.

Please note that we may also separately provide information for special processing situations in an appropriate place, as when uploading job application documents or making a contact request, for example.

When you visit our website and web shops, we collect and process the following data using "Google Analytics":

Google Analytics uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of our website. The information collected by means of the cookies about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
We use Google Signals. This allows Google Analytics to collect additional information about users who have activated personalized ads (interests and demographics) and ads can be delivered to these users in cross-device remarketing campaigns.
In Google Analytics 4, IP address anonymization is enabled by default. For Universal Analytics (Google Analytics 3), we have enabled the IP anonymization feature at all times. Due to IP anonymization, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. According to Google, the IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
During your website visit, your user behavior is recorded in the form of "events". Events can be:

  • Page views incl. date and time
  • First visit to the website
  • Start of session
  • Your "click path", interaction with the website
  • Scrolls (page depth: 25%, 50%, 75% and 90%)
  • Clicks on external links
  • internal search queries
  • Interaction with videos
  • file downloads
  • ads seen / clicked
  • language setting
  • your approximate location (region)
  • your IP address (in shortened form)
  • technical information about your browser and the devices you use (e.g. language setting, screen resolution)
  • your internet service provider
  • the referrer URL (via which website/ via which advertising medium you came to this website)
  • files requested, amount of data transferred, downloads/file exports
  • your client ID
  • gclid and dclid set by Google Analytics

For reasons of technical security (in particular to defend against attack attempts on our web server), this data is stored in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f. EU-GDPR stored. After 7 days at the latest, anonymization takes place by shortening the IP address so that no reference to the user is made.

When you make a contact request, we collect and process the following data:

  • Last name, first name
  • Contact data
  • Title
  • Indications of desired information

When you place an order, we process the following data:

  • Title
  • Last name, first name
  • Date of birth
  • Shipping address
  • Billing address
  • E-mail address
  • Data that may be permissibly processed from other sources

When you file online job applications, we collect and process the following data:

  • Last name, first name
  • Address
  • Contact data
  • We also use data that we have permissibly obtained from publicly available directories (e.g. professional networks).

For newsletters, we collect and process the following data:

  • Title
  • Last name, first name
  • E-mail address

12. Contact form / Contact by e-mail (Art. 6 para. 1 letter a, b EU-GDPR)

Contact form / Contact by e-mail with Interzoo / WZFGmbH / NürnbergMesse GmbH

A contact form that you can use to contact us electronically is available on our website. When you write to us using the contact form, we will process the data you enter in the form to contact you and respond to your questions and requests.

Here we observe the principle of data minimisation and data avoidance, in that you only need to enter the data that we absolutely need to contact you. That includes your e-mail address and the message field itself. Additionally, your IP address will also be processed as a matter of technical necessity and for legal protection. All other data is requested in optional fields and can be provided or not, as you choose (e.g. so we can answer your questions more specifically for your situation).

If you contact us by e-mail, we will process the personal data you communicate in the e-mail only for the purpose of processing your request.

Contact form for direct contact with exhibitors

On our website, you will find a contact form for each exhibitor in the exhibitor and product database. You can use this form to make direct contact electronically with the exhibitor. If you contact the exhibitor using the form, the data you enter in the input mask will be sent directly to the exhibitor, and stored there. The exhibitor will process the data you provide on the contact form to make appointments, make contact, and respond to your questions and requests.
The principle of data minimisation and data avoidance applies here as well, in that you only need to enter the data that the exhibitor absolutely needs to contact you. That includes your e-mail address and the message field itself. Additionally, your IP address will also be processed as a matter of technical necessity and for legal protection. All other data is requested in optional fields and can be provided or not, as you choose (e.g. so the exhibitor can answer your questions more specifically for your situation).

 

13. Newsletter (Art. 6 para. 1 letter a EU-GDPR)

You can also subscribe to a free newsletter on our website. The e-mail address indicated in the newsletter application and your name will be used to send you this personalised newsletter.

Here we observe the principle of data minimisation and data avoidance, in that only the e-mail address is an obligatory field (and if applicable, your name for a personalised newsletter). When you order the newsletter, your IP address will also be processed as a matter of technical necessity and for legal protection.

Of course you can always cancel the subscription, and thus revoke your consent, by exercising the cancellation option provided in the newsletter. You can also always cancel your newsletter subscription directly on our website.

 

14. Exhibitors’ shop / web shop (Art. 6 para. 1 letter b EU-GDPR)

Unless you consent to a further use, we will process the data you entered on the order form only for the purpose of performing or processing the contractual relationship.

The principle of data minimisation and data avoidance is observed in that you only need to enter the data that we absolutely need to perform the contract and fulfil our contractual obligations (in other words, your name, address, e-mail address and the payment data required for your chosen form of payment), or data that we are legally required to collect.

As a matter of technical necessity and for legal protection, your IP address will also be processed. Without this data, we would regretfully have to decline to make a new contract or to continue an existing contract, because we would not be able to perform it. You can of course provide more data if you wish.

We offer exhibitors the option of registering with us by providing personal data. A particular advantage of registration is that you can view your order history, and the data you have entered into the order form will be kept on file, so that when you place another order, you will not need to enter the data again. Registration is possible either so we can perform a contract with you (via our online shop) or take steps in advance of making a contract. When the registration process is completed, we will keep your data on file so that you can use the protected customer area of the site. As soon as you log in to our website with your e-mail address as your user name and your password, your data will be available for any action you take on our website (e.g. orders in our online shop). Orders that have been filled can be tracked in the order history. You can enter changes to your billing or shipping address here.

Registered persons can make their own changes or corrections to the billing or shipping address in the order history. Our Customer Service will also gladly make such changes or corrections if you contact them. You can of course also cancel your registration and delete your customer account.

 

15. Advertising purposes with established customers (Art. 6 para. 1 letter f EU-GDPR)

We have an interest in cultivating customer relationships with our exhibitors and visitors and providing you with information and offers about our own similar events and services. Consequently we, and possibly our service partners, will process the data that are transferred when you register (company name, address, telephone/fax number and e-mail address) so as to be able to send you event-related information and offers by e-mail, in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) of the EU GDPR.

If this is not something you want, you can object to the use of your personal data for direct advertising purposes at any time; the same applies to profiling, to the extent that it is related to direct advertising. When you notify us of your objection, we will no longer process your data for this purpose.

You can notify us of the objection with no particular formal requirements and without indicating reasons, and at no separate charge aside from customary transmission costs at standard rates. Your objection should be addressed to Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft Zoologischer Fachbetriebe GmbH (WZF), Mainzer Strasse 10, 65185 Wiesbaden, Germany, or datenschutz@zzf.de.

 

16. Automated decision-making

We do not use purely automated processing in making decisions.

 

17. Cookies (Art. 6 para. 1 letter f EU-GDPR, § 25 para. 2 number 2 TTDSG / Art. 6 para. 1 letter a EU-GDPR with consent, § 25 para. 1 TTDSG)

Our web pages use so-called “cookies” in several places. They serve the purpose of making our offering more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer and stored by your browser (locally on your hard drive).

These cookies make it possible for us to analyse how users use our websites. They allow us to design the website contents to meet the needs of users, for example. Cookies also enable us to measure the effectiveness of a given advertisement and place it in accordance with the user’s topical interests, for example.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies.” These are automatically deleted after your visit. Permanent cookies are automatically deleted by your computer when the corresponding period of validity has expired (usually after six months) or when you delete them yourself before the expiration of the period of validity.

Most web browsers accept cookies automatically. Usually, however, you can also change your browser settings if you would rather not send us the information. In this case, you will still be able to use the offerings of our website without restrictions (exception: configurators).

We use cookies to make your offering more user-friendly, effective and secure. We also use cookies so that we can analyse how users use our websites. They allow us to design the website contents to meet the needs of users, for example. Cookies also enable us to measure the effectiveness of a given advertisement and place it in accordance with the user’s topical interests, for example.

Cookies are stored on the user’s computer and transmitted from there to our website. As the user, therefore, you have full control over the use of cookies. You can deactivate or restrict the transmission of cookies by changing the setting in your Internet browser. Furthermore, already placed cookies can always be deleted using the Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all commonly used Internet browsers.

The legal basis for the use of technically necessary cookies is our legitimate interest, Art. 6 para. 1 letter f EU-GDPR. The storage of information in your terminal equipment or access to information already stored in your terminal equipment is absolutely necessary so that we can provide the telemedia service expressly requested by you as a user (§ 25 para. 2 number 2 TTDSG).

Otherwise, the legal basis in each case is generally your consent, if no specific legal basis is mentioned below. You can revoke your consent at any time. You can manage your revocation via the cookie icon placed on the bottom left of each of our web pages. Here you can also find more information about the use of cookies.

Insofar as data is processed outside the EU/EEA and there is no level of data protection corresponding to the European standard, we have concluded EU standard contractual clauses with the service provider to establish an appropriate level of data protection. The parent company of Google Ireland, Google LLC, is based in California, USA. A transfer of data to the USA and access by US authorities to the data stored by Google cannot be ruled out. The USA is currently considered a third country from a data protection perspective. You do not have the same rights there as within the EU/EEA. You may not be entitled to any legal remedies against access by authorities.

Consentmanager

We have integrated the consent management tool Consentmanager (www.consentmanager.net) from Jaohawi AB (Håltgelvågen 1b, 72348 Västerås, Sweden, info@consentmanager.net) on our website to obtain consent for data processing and use of cookies or comparable functions. With the help of Consentmanager you have the possibility to give your consent for certain functionalities of our website, e.g. for the purpose of integrating external elements, integrating streaming content, statistical analysis, measurement and personalized advertising. With the help of Consentmanager you can grant or reject your consent for all functions or give your consent for individual purposes or individual functions. The settings you have made can also be changed afterwards.
The purpose of integrating Consentmanager is to let the users of our website decide about the above-mentioned things and, as part of the further use of our website, to offer the option of changing settings that have already been made. By using Consentmanager, personal data and information from the end devices used, such as the IP address, are processed.

The legal basis for processing is our legitimate interest in Consent Management, Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. lit. f EU-GDPR. By processing the data, we help our customers (according to EU-GDPR this is the responsible party) to fulfill their legal obligations (e.g. obligation to provide evidence). Our legitimate interests in processing lie in the storage of user settings and preferences with regard to the use of cookies and other functionalities. Consentmanager stores your data as long as your user settings are active. After two years after making the user settings, the consent will be asked again. The user settings made are then saved again for this period.

You can object to the processing. You have the right to object to reasons arising from your particular situation.

You can find additional information about the use of cookies and the possibility of objecting to the use of cookies via the cookie icon placed on the bottom left of each of our web pages.

 

18. User profiles / Web tracking processes

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”), on our websites. Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies,” which are text files that are stored on your terminal device and enable us to analyze your use of our websites. The information about your use of our websites that is generated by the cookie is usually transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. Because IP anonymization is activated, however, your IP address is first truncated by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other signatory states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. Google uses this information on our behalf to analyze your use of the website, to compile reports of website activities and to provide other services to us related to website use and Internet use. The IP address transmitted from your browser in connection with Google Analytics is not commingled with other data of Google.

Insofar as data is processed outside the EU/EEA and there is no level of data protection corresponding to the European standard, we have concluded EU standard contractual clauses with the service provider to establish an appropriate level of data protection. The parent company of Google Ireland, Google LLC, is based in California, USA. A transfer of data to the USA and access by US authorities to the data stored by Google cannot be ruled out. The USA is currently considered a third country from a data protection perspective. You do not have the same rights there as within the EU/EEA. You may not be entitled to any legal remedies against access by authorities.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; if you do this, however, we point out that you may not be able to fully use all functions on our websites. You can also prevent the reporting of the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the dissemination of these data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

You can object the collection of your data by Google Analytics. This will place an opt-out cookie on your terminal device that will prevent the collection of your data on future visits to this website.

You can manage your objection via the cookie icon placed on the bottom left of each of our web pages. Here you can also find more information about the use of cookies.

We also use Google Analytics to evaluate data from double-click cookies and AdWords for statistical purposes. If you do not want this to happen, you can deactivate this function in the ad settings manager myadcenter.google.com/?hl=en&sasb=true.

We also point out that we use the Google Tag Manager. This function does not collect any personal data. Instead, the Tag Manager makes it easier for us to integrate and manage our tags. Tags are small code elements that serve to measure traffic and user behavior, register the effects of online advertising and social media channels, set up remarketing and the orientation to target groups and test and optimize websites, among other purposes. You can find additional information about the Google Tag Manager here: marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy.

We have turned on the advertising reports features in Google Analytics. The demographic and interest reports contain information on age, gender and interests. This allows us – without being able to assign this data to individual persons – to get a better impression of our users. You can learn more about advertising features at support.google.com/analytics/answer/3450482?hl=en_AT&utm_id=add.

You can stop the use of the activities and information of your Google account under "Settings for advertising" at myadcenter.google.com/?sasb=true via checkbox.

You can find Google’s data protection notice here: policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

ADITION

On behalf of WZF, NürnbergMesse GmbH uses the ad server of the company ADITION technologies AG, Am Gatherhof 44, 40472 Düsseldorf.

Why does ADITION use cookies?

ADITION uses cookies to adjust and optimise the placement of advertisements purchased by customers of ADITION for the user. For example, this may involve the maximum frequency of advertisements seen by the user. In individual cases, ADITION also uses stored cookie information for statistical surveys.

What data is collected when ADITION uses cookies?

ADITION does not stored personal data such as names, e-mail addresses or other personal information when it uses cookies. All information is purely anonymised and includes technical information such as the frequency and display dates of advertisements, the browser being used and the installed operating system.

How does ADITION handle data protection?

In all its data collection processes, ADITION operates in strict compliance with German data protection laws. All stored data is stored on servers located in the territory of Germany. ADITION also meets all P3P (Privacy Preferences Project) standards.

In addition, ADITION points out that all ADITION employees are bound to uphold data secrecy. ADITION’s customers are similarly bound by clauses in its General Terms and Conditions (GTCs) and separate data protection clauses.

Cookie opt-out / How can I deactivate the collection of anonymised data by ADITION?

The collection of anonymised data can be stopped by clicking on the following link. When you do this, ADITION will replace the current cookie with a new opt-out cookie. This opt-out cookie will delete all information stored to date, including the IP address, and prevent the further collection of anonymised information.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If this opt-out cookie is deleted, ADITION will no longer be able to tell that an opt-out has been performed. In this case, you will have to repeat the opt-out process.

Deactivate the collection of anonymised data by ADITION

How can cookies be completely deactivated?

Commonly used Internet browsers are set by default to accept cookies as a rule. This setting can be changed in the browser’s Internet options.

Google-Adwords

We use the offering of Google Adwords to bring attention to our attractive offerings with the aid of advertisements (so-called Google Adwords) on external websites. Based on data from advertising campaigns, we can determine the success of individual advertising measures. We do this in the interest of showing you ads that are of interest to you, making our website more interesting for you and ensuring the fair charging of advertising costs.

Google delivers these ads via so-called “ad servers”. To this end, we use ad server cookies with which certain parameters of success measurements, such as the placement of ads or clicks by the user. If you come to our website from a Google ad, Google Adwords stores a cookie on your PC. These cookies usually lose their validity after 30 days and are not meant to identify you personally. Analysis values such as the unique cookie ID, number of ad impressions per placement (frequency), last impression (relevant for post-view conversions) and opt-out information (indication that the user no longer wants to be targeted) are generally stored in this cookie.

These cookies allow Google to recognise your Internet browser again. If a user visits certain pages of the website of an Adwords customer and the cookie stored on his computer has not yet expired, Google and the customer can tell that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. A different cookie is assigned to every Adwords customer. Therefore, the cookies cannot be traced back to the web sites of Adwords customers. We ourselves do not collect or process any personal data in the aforementioned advertisement measures. We only receive statistical analyses from Google. Based on these analyses, we can determine which of our advertising measures are especially effective. We do not receive any data from the use of advertisements and in particular, we are unable to identify users on the basis of this data.

Due to the marketing tools in use, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with the Google’s server. We have no influence over the scope and further use of data collected from Google’s use of this tool and therefore the following information reflects our current knowledge: Due to the integration of AdWords Conversion, Google receives the information that you have visited the corresponding part of our website or clicked on one of our ads. If you are registered for a Google service, Google can attribute the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Google or have not logged in, it is possible that the vendor may find out and store your IP address.

You can prevent your participation in this tracking process in different ways: a) by changing the corresponding setting of your browser software; in particular, the suppression of third-party cookies means that you will no longer receive ads from third-party vendors; b) by deactivating the cookies for conversion tracking by setting your browser in such a way that cookies from the domain “www.googleadservices.com” are blocked, www.google.de/settings/ads, these settings being deleted when you delete your cookies c) by deactivating the vendor’s interest-themed ads that are part of the self-regulation campaign “About Ads” at the link optout.aboutads.info, this setting being deleted when you delete your cookies; d) by means of permanent deactivation in the browsers Firefox, Internet explorer or Google Chrome at the link support.google.com/My-Ad-Center-Help/answer/12155656?visit_id=638211210935368028-614144487&rd=1. Please note that if you do this, you may not be able to fully use all the functions of this offering.

The legal basis for processing your data is Art. 6 para. 1 S. 1 letter f EU-GDPR. You can find additional information about Google’s data protection policies here: policies.google.com/privacy and services.google.com/sitestats/en.html. Alternatively, you can visit the website of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) at thenai.org.

Google Remarketing

Besides Adwords Conversion, we also use the Google Remarketing application. This is a process by which we would like to address you again. By means of this application, we can place our advertisements in other websites after you visit our website. This is done by means of cookies stored in your browser that enables Google to collect and analyse information about your usage behaviour when visiting different websites. For example, Google can determine your previous visit to our website. According to its own statements, Google does not combine the data collected within the scope of remarketing with any personal data that Google may have stored. In particular, pseudonymisation is employed for remarketing, according to Google.

Google DoubleClick

Tracking

This website uses Google DoubleClick (Floodlights) cookies. Doubleclick is a service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the browser of a user. The cookies are used to analyze the usage of the website. The data collected will be used only for statistical purposes and in anonymous form. Your browser will be assigned a pseudonymous identification number (ID). All data is recorded anonymously so that no conclusion can be drawn about specific persons. Users can prevent the use of cookies by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under this link. Alternatively, the user can disable the Doubleclick cookies on the Digital Advertising website under the following link.

Retargeting

This website uses Google DoubleClick (Floodlights) cookies. Doubleclick is a service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the browser of a user. The cookies are used to advertise products of this website provider (retargeting). At a later time, advertisements (e.g., banner ads, text-picture advertisements, videos, etc.) may be displayed to the users on other websites. Your browser will be assigned a pseudonymous identification number (ID). All data is recorded anonymously so that no conclusion can be drawn about specific persons. Users can opt-out from retargeting by modifying their ads preferences for Google Remarketing Tags. Alternatively, users may disable the use of 3rd-party cookies by using the opt-out page of the Network Advertising Initiative.

 

Zemanta

This website uses the online advertising programme Zemanta Conversion Tracking. The conversion tracking tag is set when a user clicks on an advertisement in the Zemanta network. These tags are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of this website and that tag has not yet expired, we and Zemanta can recognise that the user has clicked on the advertisement and has been taken to this web page. For more information on the data privacy policy and cookies used by Zemanta Inc. 33 West 17th Street, 9th Floor, 10010 New York NY, USA, please click here: Zemanta Privacy Policy
 
To opt out: www.zemanta.com/opt-out

Dynatrace

This website uses the analysis tool of the monitoring service Dynatrace LLC, 1601 Trapelo Road, #116 Waltham, MA 02451 USA, to gain insights into the performance of our web application and to understand how our users navigate through it. Dynatrace captures data like W3C timings, button clicks, link clicks, JavaScript errors, browser types, and geographic regions. This data helps us to continuously improve the performance of our offering and to identify and fix functional problems. For this to work correctly and effectively, Dynatrace requires use of a set of cookies.

You can enable your browser's 'do-not-track' feature to ensure that no personal data is captured.

Further information is available at www.dynatrace.com/support/help/manage/data-privacy-and-security.

Outbrain

This website uses the online advertising program Outbrain Conversion Tracking. The cookie for conversion tracking is placed when a user clicks on an ad in the Outbrain network. These cookies do not serve the purpose of personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Outbrain can see that the user clicked on the ad and was taken to this page. Further information about the data protection and cookies of Outbrain Inc., 39 West 13th Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10011, can be found here: www.outbrain.com/privacy.
You can find opt-out information at "Outbrain user types (including deactivation / opt-out)": www.outbrain.com/privacy.

Taboola

This website uses the online advertising program Taboola Conversion Tracking. The cookie for conversion tracking is placed when a user clicks on an ad in the Taboola network. These cookies do not serve the purpose of personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Taboola can see that the user clicked on the ad and was taken to this page. Further information about the data protection and cookies of Taboola Inc., 28 West 23rd St., 5th fl., New York, NY 10010, can be found here: www.taboola.com/policies/privacy-policy.
You can find opt-out information at "Site Visitor Choices": www.taboola.com/policies/privacy-policy#site-visitor-choices.

Personyze

We use Personyze in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize our service and customer experience. Personyze is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.), and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback.

Personyze uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices (in particular, devices’ IP addresses, captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and preferred language used to display our website. The information we collect from cookies is only used in conjunction with your use of our services and is not shared by us with any third party. You can read more on opt-out of personalization.
Opt-out link: wiki.personyze.com/knowledgebase/opting-out-visitors-from-personyze-tracking-using-javascript

LinkedIn Analytics und LinkedIn Ads

We use the conversion tracking technology and retargeting function of LinkedIn Corporation on our website.

With the aid of this technology, personalised ads on LinkedIn can be displayed to visitors to this website. This technology also makes it possible to generate anonymous ad performance reports and website interaction information. For this purpose, the LinkedIn Insight Tag is integrated into this website, which creates a connection to the LinkedIn server if you visit this website and are simultaneously logged in to your LinkedIn account.

You can find additional information about data collection and data use, as well as privacy protection possibilities and rights, at the LinkedIn data protection policy at www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?_l=en_US. If you are logged in to LinkedIn, you can always deactivate data collection at the following link: www.linkedin.com/psettings.

 

19. Social media plug-ins of social networks

We currently use the following social media plug-ins: Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Xing, LinkedIn, Instagram. We use the so-called two-click solution for this purpose. This means that when you visit our website, no personal data is transferred to the plug-in provider at first, as a rule. You can recognise the plug-in provider from the marking in the box above its initial letters or its logo. We give you the option of communicating directly with the plug-in provider by clicking on this button. Only when you click on the marked field and thereby activate it will the plug-in provider receive the information that you have visited the corresponding page of our online offering. In the case of Facebook and Xing, the IP address is anonymised immediately after collection, according to the providers. When you activate the plug-in, therefore, your personal data is transmitted to the plug-in provider and stored there (with U.S. providers, in the United States). Because the plug-in provider particularly uses cookies to collect data, we recommend that you delete all cookies in your browser’s security settings before clicking on the greyed-out box.

We have no influence on the data collected and the data processing procedures and we also do not know the full extent of data collection, the purposes of processing or the storage periods. We also have no information about the deletion of collected data by the plug-in provider.

The plug-in provider stores the data collected on you in the form of usage profiles and uses them for purposes of advertising, market research and/or designing its websites to meet the needs of users. Such analysis is particularly performed (also for users who are not logged in) to present relevant advertisements and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the formation of these user profiles, for which purpose you must contact each plug-in provider. With these plug-ins, we give you the opportunity to interact with the social networks and other users so that we can improve our offering and make it more interesting for you as the user.

The basis for the processing of your personal data is your consent, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 letter a EU-GDPR.

The plug-in provider processes and stores your data in the USA. They are obliged by corresponding contractual regulations to comply with the data protection standards and the data protection level of the EU. Data processing or storage in third countries can also take place on the basis of your consent (Art. 49 para. 1 s. 1 letter a EU-GDPR), in which case you will be informed of this separately when obtaining your consent.

You can revoke your consent at any time for the future.

You can manage your revocation via the cookie icon placed on the bottom left of each of our web pages. Here you can also find more information about the use of cookies.

Data is transferred regardless of whether you have an account with the plug-in provider and are logged in to it. When you are logged in to the plug-in provider, your data that is collected by us is directly attributed to your account with the plug-in provider. If you activate the button and link to the page (for example), the plug-in provider will also store this information in your user account and publicly share it with your contacts. We recommend that you always log out after using a social network, but especially before activating the button because this way you can prevent the attribution of information to your profile with the plug-in provider.

You can find additional information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by the plug-in provider in the data protection policies of these providers, which are shared in the following. There you will also find additional information about your rights and setting options to protect your privacy.

Addresses of plug-in providers and URLs with their data protection policies:

Other plug-ins

YouTube

Our website includes links to videos from the external video platform YouTube. The associated plug-ins are operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. By default, only inactivated images from the YouTube channel are embedded and do not provide an automatic connection to YouTube’s servers. Consequently that operator receives no user data when you view these Web pages.

You can decide for yourself whether YouTube videos should be activated. Your consent for the necessary data to be transferred to the operator (including the Internet address of the current page and the user’s IP address) will only be given when you approve for the video to play by clicking “start video.”

To store the setting that a user wishes, we set a cookie that contains these parameters. When we set these cookies, we do not store any personal data – the cookies contain only anonymized data to adjust the browser. Then the videos will be active and you can play them. If you want to inactivate automatic loading for YouTube videos, you can change your Web browser’s settings to reject cookies or limit their acceptance.

You can find out more about data protection on YouTube in YouTube’s data privacy policy at: policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Walls.io

To display social media content on our websites, we also use a plug-in from the provider Walls.io. The provider is "Die Socialisten" Social Software Development GmbH, Andreasgasse 6, Top 1, 1070 Vienna, Austria. When you visit a subpage with social media content displayed by Walls.io, a connection to Walls.io servers is established.

You also have the option to share content displayed via Walls.io using the services of the respective social media providers after clicking on them. For this, the information in the section "Recommend page" function applies accordingly. The integration of social media content via Walls.io is based on Art. 6 para. 1 letter f EU-GDPR for the appealing presentation of our online offers.

You can find more information on data processing by Walls.io at: walls.io/privacy.

 

20. Links to other providers

Our website contains clearly recognisable links to the websites of other companies. When we link to the websites of other companies, we have no influence over their content, and therefore can also assume no responsibility or liability for that content. Each provider or website operator is responsible for the content of their own websites.

The linked pages were checked for potential legal violations and recognisable infringements at the time when the links were placed. No unlawful content was recognisable at the time when the links were placed. However, we cannot be reasonably expected to permanently monitor the content of linked websites unless there are concrete indications of a legal violation. If we discover a legal violation, the associated links are removed immediately.

 

21. Interzoo App

Information on data protection for users of the Interzoo app (PDF)