Privacy Policy

1. Preliminary remarks

In order to ensure your safety when visiting our website, we have done our utmost to protect your data from access by third parties, because your personal data and your trust deserve our commitment to maximum security. It is of primary importance to us to comply with all data protection regulations. We protect you from infringements of your rights through handling of your personal data by us or other business partners. We collect, process and use data for the purpose described in this policy only.

2. Definitions

Personal data includes data and particulars on personal and factual circumstances of a certain or identifiable natural individual.

3. Collection, processing and use of personal data

In the following, we inform you about when and how we collect, process and use personal data. In principal, we collect data disclosed by you for a specific purpose, i.e.

• When visiting our website
• When using our contact form for the purpose of answering a request
• When registering fort he newsletter
• For the Direct-Contact

3.1. Visiting our website

You may visit our website without disclosing your name or address. Whenever you access an internet file, we receive information on

• The name of your internet service provider, operating system and type of browser,
• The IP address which you use,
• The website you are visiting us from,
• The individual pages you visit on our website,
• The date and the duration of your visit.

3.1.1. In addition, we use persistent cookies and session cookies small files containing configuration information which recognize your computer. They help to identify individual settings. Session Cookies will be activated for the duration of your visit und will be automatically deleted after your visit. You can delete persistent cookies or prohibit the saving of them at any time by defining the corresponding settings in your web browser. However, this may lead to restrictions with regard to the use of the website.

The collected data mentioned above is saved by us or our provider hosting our website who makes this data available to us for statistical purposes. We save these statistics and use the data obtained in this way to optimize our website for visitors and to make it more attractive. We cannot identify you personally based on this data without additional effort. However, since we would theoretically be able to identify you by requesting information from your provider and using this data, we regard your IP address as personal data worthy of protection.

3.2. Using our contact form

When you use our contact form we require

• Your form of address
• Your company
• Your name
• Your e-mail-address
• Your phone number
• The reason for your request

to answer your request.

3.3. Registering for our newsletter

You can subscribe to our newsletter. In this case, the data you enter is stored. This includes the following information:

• Your form of address
• Your Name
• Your email address

3.4. Direct contact

You can ask us to contact you. Therefor we require the following information:

• Your name
• Your email address
• Your phone number

4. 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 analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States . In case IP-anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated within the area of Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the whole IP address will be first transferred to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP-anonymisation is active on this website. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing them other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP-address, that your Browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics, will not be associated with any other data held by Google. 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 opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics with effect for the future by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Addon http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

5. Consent

for your current web browser:

5.1. You may withdraw your consent to the future collection, use and storage of data listed under 3.1 at any time.

5.2. By law, we may collect and store the data obtained from use according to 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 to establish, perform and terminate contractual or contract-like debt obligations. Furthermore, your personal data will be deleted if you have not given your consent to further collection and storage.

6. Passing on personal data

The collected data is used for internal purposes only. This principle does not apply if we are obligated by law or by a court decision to disclose or pass on data. The data will not be matched with other data pools.

7. Processing of data to third countries

The data we saved will be processed exclusively within the EU unless the processing to third countries is necessary for the settlement of a contract concluded with us.

8. Deletion

Your personal data from the contact form will be deleted if you withdraw your consent.

9. Right of information

Pursuant to the German Data Protection Act, you are entitled to receive information on your saved data free of charge as well as to have this data corrected, blocked or deleted, if applicable. You will receive information on the saved data from the address below or electronically, if desired.

10. Withdrawal of consent

Please note that you may withdraw your consent at any time with future effect.

11. Contact

If you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data, if you would like information on your data or correction, blocking or deletion of it and/or would like to withdraw your consent, please contact our data security administrator:

Nienhaus Informationssysteme ib Rheinland UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
represented by managing director André Nienhaus

Bosmannshof 5
46485 Wesel
Germany

Phone: +49 281/47360363
E-mail: datenschutz@tis-gmbh.com

or contact us directly:

TIS Technische Informationssysteme GmbH
Müller-Armack-Str. 8
46397 Bocholt
Germany

Phone: +49 2871/27220
E-mail: datenschutz@tis-gmbh.com