Privacy Policy | ESCRA

The security of your data is important to us! We comply with the Federal Data Protection Act. Therefore, please find our data protection declaration below.

Anonymous data collection

You can visit our website without providing any personal information. We do not store any personal data in this context. In order to improve our services, we only evaluate statistical data which do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.

Collection, processing and use of personal data

We collect personal data (individual information about personal or factual circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person) only to the extent provided by you. Your personal data is processed and used for the purpose of fulfilling and processing your order and dealing with your enquiries. After the contract has been completely fulfilled, all personal data will initially be stored, taking into account tax and commercial law retention periods, and then deleted after expiry of the period, unless you have consented to further processing and use.

Passing on personal data

Your data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent. The only exceptions to this are our service partners who we need to process the contractual relationship. In these cases we strictly observe the requirements of the Federal Data Protection Act. The scope of data transfer is limited to a minimum.

In order for this internet portal to function properly, we sometimes place small files - known as cookies - on your device. This is common practice on most major websites.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a web portal leaves on your computer, tablet computer or smartphone when you visit it. This allows the portal to 'remember' certain entries and settings (e.g. login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, and you do not need to enter them again each time you visit and navigate the portal. How do we use cookies? On the one hand, we use cookies temporarily during the time you are using our site in order to make the use of your site more convenient for you and to enable technical features, for example a login. However, we also use cookies permanently in order to be able to maintain certain settings on our website for you. We use cookies for the use of Google Analytics as described below.

Control over cookies

You can control and - or delete cookies as you wish. You can find out how here: aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies stored on your computer and set most browsers to prevent cookies from being stored. However, you may then have to make some settings manually each time you visit a site and accept that some functions may be impaired.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ('Google'). Google Analytics uses 'cookies', which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. In the event that IP anonymisation is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states 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. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Use of Google Tag Manager

Java script code of the company Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter: Google) is reloaded on our site. If you have activated JavaScript in your browser and have not installed a JavaScript blocker, your browser may transmit personal data to Google. We do not know what data Google links to the data it receives and for what purposes Google uses this data. To prevent the execution of JavaScript code by Google altogether, you can install a JavaScript blocker (e. g. www.noscript.net).

You have the right to free information about your stored data at any time as well as the right to correction, deletion or blocking. Please contact us if you wish to do so. You will find the contact details in our imprint.

ESCRA

To provide you with the ESCRA software application and to constantly improve our services including customer support, we process following personal data about you and your device: start of the ESCRA software application, IP-address of the device, statistical information about your computer (e.g. CPU-type, screen resolution), time and duration of ESCRA software sessions and ESCRA-IDs of the ESCRA's session participants.

We process the personal data acquired via the ESCRA software and lawful grounds of performance of a contract (performance of ESCRA software license agreement concluded between us and yourself including customer support) and our legitimate interest (ESCRA software development).