Privacy Policy

Information on the collection of personal data

Data content

Etiscan informs you here about the protection of your personal data.

Personal data 

are all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, email addresses and user behaviour (information that relates to an identifiable natural person (Art. 4 No. 1 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)).

Data controller
 pursuant to Art. 4 para. 7 GDPR is

Etiscan GmbH
v.d.d. Managing Directors Michael Schmidt, Jens Hantschel
Rodheimer Str.1,
61206 Wöllstadt,
info(at)etiscan.de
(see imprint)

Data protection officer

You can reach our data protection officer Dr Peter Kath at

peter.kath(at)protonmail.com
or at
Dr. Kath Consult,
Dorfwiesenweg 11,
60439 Frankfurt a.M..

Data storage when contacting us

When you contact us with us by e-mail or via our contact form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, possibly your name and telephone number) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data collected in this context after storage is no longer necessary, or restrict processing if there are statutory retention obligations.

The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by email) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Collection of personal data

When using the website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server according to the settings you have made (server log files). To view our website, we collect the data that is technically necessary for this and to ensure stability and security in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1, sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR:

– Anonymised IP address

– Date and time of the enquiry

– Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

– Content of the request (specific page)

– Access status/HTTP status code

– Amount of data transferred in each case

– Website from which the request originates

– Browser

This data cannot be assigned to specific persons. This data is not merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of specific indications of unlawful use.

Contact/registration form

If you send us enquiries via the form, for example for enquiries, appointments, to receive press information or our newsletter , your details from the form, including the contact details you provide there, will be storedby us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

We use the so-called double opt-in procedurefor registration, i.e. your registration is not complete until you have confirmed your registration by clicking on the link contained in a confirmation e-mail sent to you for this purpose. If you do not confirm your registration within 48 hours, your registration will be automatically deleted from our database.

The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

SSL encryption

This site uses SSL encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as the enquiries you send to us as the site operator. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from ‘http://’ to ‘https://’ and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

If SSL encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot generally be read by third parties.

Your rights

(1) You have the following rights with regard to the personal data concerning you:

  • Right of access,
  • Right to rectification or erasure,
  • Right to restriction of processing,
  • Right to object to processing,
  • Right to data portability.

(2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.

(3) For details of your rights, please refer to the information pages of the supervisory authorities such as the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection..

Cookies

In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer by the browser you use and through which certain information flows to us (the server of our website). Cookies cannot execute programmes or transfer viruses to your computer. They are used to make the website more user-friendly and effective, and above all faster. A distinction is made between session cookies (transient cookies) and permanent (persistent) cookies.

Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include session cookies in particular. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the joint session. This allows your computer to be recognised when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.

We only use session cookies. We do not use persistent cookies or flash cookies.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be restricted. Please note that the complete deletion of your cookies means that any opt-out cookies you have set will also be deleted and may have to be reactivated by you.

If you have consented to the use of cookies in the data protection settings, we use technologies from the companies listed below.

Use of Google Analytics, Akamai, LinkedIn and CleanTalk

Data is collected and stored on this website using the web analysis service software Google Analytics from the communication service Calendly, the content delivery network Akamai and the social network LinkedIn.

Pseudonymised user profiles can be created and evaluated from this data. Cookies can be used for this purpose. Cookies are small text files that are stored locally in the cache of the website visitor's Internet browser. Among other things, cookies make it possible to recognise the Internet browser. The data collected using Google and Calendly technology (including your pseudonymised IP address) is processed on our servers and the servers of the providers.

Google, YouTube, Akamai, LinkedIn and Clean Talk are responsible for the embedded services themselves. Subject to your consent, your browser will establish a direct connection to the server of these third-party providers. In doing so, the third-party provider processes your IP address, which is required to establish the connection to the third-party provider's server and to display the content. Information on data processing by the respective third-party provider can be found in the privacy policy of the respective third-party provider:

The information generated by the cookie in the pseudonymous user profile is not used by us to personally identify the visitor to this website and is not merged with personal data about the bearer of the pseudonym.

CleanTalk is a service that protects Etiscan from unlawful use of resources through spam. Etiscan has a legitimate interest in protecting its website as effectively as possible from spam activities.

The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

The information is required in order to

  1. correctly provide the user with the content of our website,
  2. optimise the content of our website and measures to make it easier to find and use,
  3. to ensure the long-term functionality of our IT systems and the technology of our website,
  4. to provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for prosecution in the event of a cyber attack, and
  5. ensure an optimum level of protection for the personal data we process.

The data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.

Etiscan has a legitimate interest in processing the personal data of users of this website based on the aforementioned purposes. The legal basis for this is the freedom to conduct a business, the general freedom to act and the right to conduct a trade or business (Art. 12 (1), 2 (1), 14 of the German Basic Law and Art. 16 of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights).

It corresponds to the reasonable expectation of users that the owner of a website created and maintained with considerable effort in the interests of Etiscan and its customers as well as the users of the website collects data about visitors in order to use it for the aforementioned purposes.

There are no indications that the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject, which require the protection of personal data, prevail. Visiting the site and accessing functions is voluntary and your own responsibility.

Use of SalesViewer® technology:

This website uses SalesViewer® technology from SalesViewer® GmbH to collect and store data for marketing, market research and optimisation purposes on the basis of the website operator's legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

This website uses SalesViewer® technology from SalesViewer® GmbH on the basis of the website operator’s legitimate interests (Section 6 paragraph 1 lit.f GDPR) in order to collect and save data on marketing, market research and optimisation purposes. In order to do this, a javascript based code, which serves to capture company-related data and according website usage. The data captured using this technology are encrypted in a non-retrievable one-way function (so-called hashing). The data is immediately pseudonymised and is not used to identify website visitors personally. The data stored by Salesviewer® will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for their intended purpose and there are no legal obligations to retain them. The data recording and storage can be repealed at any time with immediate effect for the future, by clicking on https://www.salesviewer.com/opt-out in order to prevent SalesViewer® from recording your data. In this case, an opt-out cookie for this website is saved on your device. If you delete the cookies in the browser, you will need to click on this link again.

The data stored within the framework of Salesviewer® will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for its intended purpose and the deletion does not conflict with any statutory retention obligations.

You can object to the collection and storage of data at any time with effect for the future by clicking on this link https://www.salesviewer.com/opt-out to prevent the collection of data by SalesViewer® within this website in the future. An opt-out cookie for this website will be stored on your device. If you delete your cookies in this browser, you must click this link again.

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