In the following we would like to inform you, which of your personal data at -VITARING®- biomedsystems GmbH are inquired and stored and how we deal with these data. Please regularly read the Privacy Policy since they can change every now and then.
Privacy
We strive to make most services available anonymously. The personal data are used only in the context of the consent given by you. You have ant any time the alternative to revoke a given consent. Without your express agreement we do not pass personal data on, unless we are legally bound. Personal Data
Personal data are those information, which allow identification of a person. These include in particular name, date of birth, address and telephone number. Anonymous data are for example information, which you give with regard to your preferences or the like. The evaluation of these data, which cannot be attributed to your person, help us to determine the habits of our users, in order to arrange our range user-friendlier as well as to adapt it to the desires and needs of our users.
Which data are requested? The data are collected by us depending on the service utilized. For certain services a registration is essential. This are e.g. Forum: User name, password and email address. Further data (homepage, ICQ, etc.) are optional. Contact forms: Name and email address.
Sometimes we will ask you in the framework of a survey for information. We need this information in order to make our services more interesting and keep them up-to-date.
Who collects my data? Generally your collected data on our web pages are exclusively stored in our data bases collected, unless expressly stated otherwise.
What do we do with your personal and anonymous data? Iin most cases we need your personal data for the execution of the respective service. Apart from the use of personal information for the respective services, we also collect anonymous data when you are visiting our web pages. This information are helpful both for marketing purposes, and for improving the offered services. In this way we are able to offer many of our services free of charge.
Do I have influence on the use of my data? Of course you have the exclusive right to decide whether or not and for which purposes we may use your data. In this way you have the alternative receiving a newsletter with purposeful information from different services. You can cancel the newsletter at any time. Usually at the end of the newsletter a respective link for trouble-free cancellation is included. Furthermore, you alone determine whether your data are passed on to third parties or whether we may use your data for the purposes of consultation, advertising or market study. Also here of course a once given agreement can be recalled at any time. You can also influence the employment of cookies. By changing your browser setting (mainly in “Options” or “Settings” in the browser menus) you have the choice of accepting all cookies, to be informed when setting cookies or to reject all cookies. If you decide to reject our cookies it is possible that the functionality of some of our sites is reduced and some services cannot be taken used. We appreciate your understanding.
Do you pass my data on to third parties? We do not sell and lend user information. As far as a transmission of your data is necessary for making a service available, this only happens with your agreement. Only in exceptional cases the utilization to of a service depends on the transmission of your data to our partner enterprises. In these cases you are however informed about the fact before the data are collected and you can select whether to give your agreement to passing the data on or rather to refrain from the respective service. Occasionally we are asked by private persons to reveal the identity of our users. We reveal the personal data of our users generally only in those cases where we are legally obligated. This is the case if public institutions (e.g. law enforcement agencies) ask us for information or if we receive a judicial writ in this respect. Otherwise we protect the privacy of your identity.
How can I examine, correct or delete my data? If you registered to utilize a service, then you receive a member name and a password. With this you have access to your data and you can update or deletion them if you do not utilize the respective service any more. Only with our paid services we are entitled to store your data for a longer period for accounting purposes.
What are Cookies? Cookies are the smallest data sets in the form of textual information, which the web server sends to your browser. These are only stored on your hard disk. They can only be read by the server, which before deposited them, and they include information about which web page you visited and when. Cookies help to make the use of the Internet more efficient. The cookies are industry standard. Some Internet providers use them in order to offer useful functions to their customers. Cookies only anonymously identify the IP address of the computer and store no personal information, such as your name. Since from such information not easily a natural person can be individualized, the use of cookies is permissible. With Cookies you have the choice whether or not you permit them. Changes can be made in your browser settings.
What can you do, in order to prevent that your personal data fall into the wrong hands? Possibly you reveal your personal data in the context of different services such as chat, in the context of an email exchange or on your own homepage. This kind of the transmission does not fall under the previous references, since this lies outside of the sphere of our influence. Please always be careful with the publication of personal data. Best use encryption programs when sending mails, such as PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), in order to protect your data from access of third parties. Find more details about PGP at http://www.pgp.com/. When selecting your passwords ensure that you do not use passwords, which are easily connected with your person. Furthermore, we recommend changing the passwords regularly.
