We take the pro­tec­tion of your per­so­nal data very serious­ly. We tre­at your per­so­nal data con­fi­den­ti­al­ly and in accordance with the sta­tu­to­ry data pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons and this pri­va­cy poli­cy.

We assu­re you that we have taken tech­ni­cal and orga­niza­tio­nal mea­su­res to pro­tect your rights and are con­stant­ly working to ensu­re that the legal regu­la­ti­ons are obser­ved by both our employees and exter­nal ser­vice pro­vi­ders. As a gene­ral rule, your data may only be pro­ces­sed in accordance with the law or with your con­sent.

The use of our web­site is gene­ral­ly pos­si­ble wit­hout pro­vi­ding per­so­nal data. Insofar as per­so­nal data (e.g. name, address or e-mail addres­ses) is coll­ec­ted on our web­site, this is always done on a vol­un­t­a­ry basis as far as pos­si­ble. This data will not be pas­sed on to third par­ties wit­hout your express con­sent.

If per­so­nal data is trans­mit­ted, the fol­lo­wing appli­es:
Personal data is infor­ma­ti­on that can be used to find out your iden­ti­ty. This includes infor­ma­ti­on such as your name, address, pos­tal address, tele­pho­ne details and e-mail address. We store and hand­le your per­so­nal data in accordance with the appli­ca­ble data pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons. We assu­re you that we tre­at your per­so­nal data con­fi­den­ti­al­ly and only pass it on to third par­ties with your sepa­ra­te con­sent.
We use your per­so­nal data exclu­si­ve­ly to pro­cess your per­so­nal request. If you call up pages and files within this offer and are reques­ted to enter data about yours­elf, this is sub­ject to your free decis­i­on. The sto­rage and for­war­ding of per­so­nal data within Fresenius Umwelttechnik that takes place in the con­text of the use of our web­site will only be used wit­hout your con­sent for con­tract pro­ces­sing and pro­ces­sing your inqui­ries, in par­ti­cu­lar for the pur­po­se of pro­ces­sing in the pro­s­pec­ti­ve cus­to­mer, appli­ca­ti­on and sup­port pro­cess.
If you order our news­let­ter, we store your e-mail address as well as your first name and sur­na­me and use this data exclu­si­ve­ly for sen­ding news­let­ters. The data will not be pas­sed on to third par­ties unless you have given your sepa­ra­te con­sent. You can unsub­scri­be from the news­let­ter mai­ling list at any time and/or ter­mi­na­te the for­war­ding of your data in accordance with your con­sent. Simply send us an e-mail to info@fresenius-ut.com. You will then recei­ve a con­fir­ma­ti­on e-mail about the dele­ti­on of your data.
We would like to point out that data trans­mis­si­on over the Internet (e.g. when com­mu­ni­ca­ting by e-mail) can have secu­ri­ty gaps and is curr­ent­ly essen­ti­al­ly unse­cu­red over the Internet – ana­log­ous to a post­card writ­ten in pen­cil. Complete pro­tec­tion of data against access by third par­ties is the­r­e­fo­re not pos­si­ble. Third par­ties can poten­ti­al­ly view and fal­si­fy trans­mis­si­ons. We can the­r­e­fo­re only accept con­sent to data pro­ces­sing that you trans­mit to us in elec­tro­nic form to a limi­t­ed ext­ent.

Access data

Each time a page is acces­sed, access data about this pro­cess is stored in a log file. In con­nec­tion with the access, we recei­ve usa­ge data that is tem­po­r­a­ri­ly stored for sta­tis­ti­cal pur­po­ses and then dele­ted.
Log data is coll­ec­ted exclu­si­ve­ly for inter­nal pur­po­ses and is not for­ward­ed to third par­ties. This includes

• IP address of the reques­t­ing com­pu­ter
• Date and time of the request
• Access method/function reques­ted by the reques­t­ing com­pu­ter
• Input values trans­mit­ted by the reques­t­ing com­pu­ter (file name, …)
• Access sta­tus of the web ser­ver (file trans­fer­red, file not found, com­mand not exe­cu­ted, etc.)
• Name of the reques­ted file and amount of data trans­fer­red
• URL from which the file was requested/the desi­red func­tion was initia­ted.

The stored data is anony­mi­zed at the ear­liest pos­si­ble time (dele­ti­on of the last octet of the IP address) and used sole­ly for the pur­po­se of iden­ti­fy­ing and track­ing unaut­ho­ri­zed access attempts and access to the web ser­ver. No fur­ther eva­lua­ti­on, except for sta­tis­ti­cal pur­po­ses in anony­mi­zed form, takes place. This data is not assi­gned to spe­ci­fic per­sons. Individual user pro­files are not crea­ted. We do not coll­ect any per­so­nal data via our web­sites wit­hout your con­sent. Your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of your data in this respect can be revo­ked at any time with effect for the future. We would like to point out that spe­cial legal pro­vi­si­ons may mean that, despi­te your objec­tion, the data must con­ti­nue to be stored by us for a peri­od of time sti­pu­la­ted by law. Data that is coll­ec­ted auto­ma­ti­cal­ly on the web­sites for the pur­po­se of secu­ring the web ser­vices is pro­ces­sed exclu­si­ve­ly within the scope of the EU Data Protection Directive.
In addi­ti­on, data is only used for adver­ti­sing pur­po­ses with your pri­or express con­sent (opt-in). The same appli­es to adver­ti­sing offers spe­ci­fi­cal­ly tail­o­red to you. If you have given this con­sent, your data may also be pro­ces­sed fur­ther within our com­pa­ny. If you have con­sen­ted to this, your data may also be pas­sed on to sel­ec­ted (sales) part­ners. Your data will not be pas­sed on to third par­ties bey­ond this.
We accept no lia­bi­li­ty for any data pro­tec­tion or other legal inf­rin­ge­ments in other web­sites to which we have pro­vi­ded a link. We have careful­ly che­cked lin­ked exter­nal web­sites, but can­not rule out the pos­si­bi­li­ty that the respec­ti­ve pro­vi­ders may chan­ge the con­tent of the pages or the hand­ling of your per­so­nal data wit­hout our know­ledge. If you suspect vio­la­ti­ons of legal pro­vi­si­ons on lin­ked pages, plea­se cont­act our data pro­tec­tion offi­cer. We will then review the offen­ding pages as quick­ly as pos­si­ble and chan­ge or remo­ve the link if neces­sa­ry. All links assi­gned to the “Links” menu item are to be regard­ed as exter­nal links. Links in the rest of the web­site that refer to offers from other pro­vi­ders are mark­ed with the note.
You have the right to request infor­ma­ti­on free of char­ge about the per­so­nal data stored about you and its pro­ces­sing (pro­cess direc­to­ry). You also have the right to rec­ti­fi­ca­ti­on, blo­cking and era­su­re. If sta­tu­to­ry or con­trac­tu­al reten­ti­on peri­ods or other sta­tu­to­ry reasons pre­vent era­su­re, your data will be blo­cked ins­tead of era­sed.

Planned data trans­fer to third count­ries

Data that you vol­un­t­a­ri­ly trans­mit to us in the area of the web­site is pro­ces­sed using the CRM solu­ti­on Salesforce, among others. This solu­ti­on is also hos­ted out­side the scope of the EU Data Protection Directive. Due to con­trac­tu­al obli­ga­ti­ons of the pro­vi­der that go bey­ond the mini­mum requi­re­ments of the Safe Harbor vol­un­t­a­ry com­mit­ment and sub­mit­ted audit cer­ti­fi­ca­tes (see also: trust.salesforce.com/trust), an appro­pria­te level of pro­tec­tion is pro­ven here (see also the exten­ded requi­re­ments of the “Düsseldorfer Kreis”.

Cookies

We use so-cal­led coo­kies on our Internet pages to enable web-based appli­ca­ti­ons to mana­ge the sta­tus of an online visit and to enable smooth navi­ga­ti­on bet­ween the indi­vi­du­al ser­vices and con­tent on the web­site. Cookies are stored on your computer’s hard disk and do not cau­se any dama­ge.
A coo­kie is a small data file that is trans­fer­red from the web ser­ver to your com­pu­ter when you brow­se our web­site. A coo­kie only con­ta­ins infor­ma­ti­on that we our­sel­ves send to your com­pu­ter – pri­va­te data can­not be read out with a coo­kie. If coo­kies are accept­ed by you, we do not have access to your per­so­nal infor­ma­ti­on. Individual user pro­files are not crea­ted. However, we can use coo­kies to iden­ti­fy your com­pu­ter.
Most brow­sers accept coo­kies by default. Cookies can be per­mit­ted or pro­hi­bi­ted in the secu­ri­ty set­tings. Please use the help func­tions of your Internet brow­ser to find out how you can chan­ge the­se set­tings. If coo­kies are pro­hi­bi­ted, cer­tain fea­tures on our pages may not be available and some web pages may not be dis­play­ed cor­rect­ly.

Privacy poli­cy for the use of Facebook plug­ins (Like but­ton)

Plugins from the social net­work Facebook (Facebook Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA) are inte­gra­ted on our pages. You can reco­gni­ze the Facebook plug­ins by the Facebook logo or the “Like” but­ton on our site. You can find an over­view of the Facebook plug­ins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.
When you visit our pages, a direct con­nec­tion is estab­lished bet­ween your brow­ser and the Facebook ser­ver via the plug­in. Facebook recei­ves the infor­ma­ti­on that you have visi­ted our site with your IP address. If you click on the Facebook “Like” but­ton while you are log­ged into your Facebook account, you can link the con­tent of our pages to your Facebook pro­fi­le. This allows Facebook to asso­cia­te your visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the pro­vi­der of the pages, we have no know­ledge of the con­tent of the trans­mit­ted data or its use by Facebook. Further infor­ma­ti­on on this can be found in Facebook’s pri­va­cy poli­cy at http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php
If you do not want Facebook to be able to asso­cia­te your visit to our pages with your Facebook user account, plea­se log out of your Facebook user account.

Privacy poli­cy for the use of Google Analytics

This web­site uses func­tions of the web ana­ly­sis ser­vice Google Analytics. The pro­vi­der is Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics also 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 this web­site is usual­ly trans­mit­ted to a Google ser­ver in the USA and stored the­re.
However, if IP anony­miza­ti­on is acti­va­ted on this web­site, your IP address will be shor­ten­ed by Google within mem­ber sta­tes of the European Union or in other con­trac­ting sta­tes of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before­hand. Only in excep­tio­nal cases will the full IP address be trans­mit­ted to a Google ser­ver in the USA and trun­ca­ted the­re. 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 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 can pre­vent the sto­rage of coo­kies by set­ting your brow­ser soft­ware accor­din­gly; howe­ver, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all func­tions of this web­site to their full ext­ent. You can also pre­vent Google from coll­ec­ting the data gene­ra­ted by the coo­kie and rela­ting to your use of the web­site (inclu­ding your IP address) and from pro­ces­sing this data by Google by down­loa­ding and instal­ling the brow­ser plug-in available at the fol­lo­wing link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Privacy poli­cy for the use of Google +1

Our pages use func­tions of Google +1. The pro­vi­der is Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Collection and dis­se­mi­na­ti­on of infor­ma­ti­on: You can use the Google +1 but­ton to publish infor­ma­ti­on world­wi­de. You and other users recei­ve per­so­na­li­zed con­tent from Google and our part­ners via the Google +1 but­ton. Google stores both the infor­ma­ti­on that you have given +1 for a con­tent and infor­ma­ti­on about the page that you view­ed when you cli­cked +1. Your +1s can be dis­play­ed as refe­ren­ces tog­e­ther with your pro­fi­le name and your pho­to in Google ser­vices, such as in search results or in your Google pro­fi­le, or in other places on web­sites and adver­ti­se­ments on the Internet. Google records infor­ma­ti­on about your +1 acti­vi­ties in order to impro­ve Google ser­vices for you and others. To be able to use the Google +1 but­ton, you need a glo­bal­ly visi­ble, public Google pro­fi­le, which must con­tain at least the name cho­sen for the pro­fi­le. This name is used in all Google ser­vices. In some cases, this name can also replace ano­ther name that you have used when sha­ring con­tent via your Google account. The iden­ti­ty of your Google pro­fi­le may be dis­play­ed to users who know your e-mail address or have other iden­ti­fy­ing infor­ma­ti­on about you.
Use of the infor­ma­ti­on coll­ec­ted: In addi­ti­on to the uses descri­bed abo­ve, the infor­ma­ti­on you pro­vi­de will be used in accordance with the appli­ca­ble Google pri­va­cy poli­cy. Google may publish sum­ma­ri­zed sta­tis­tics about the +1 acti­vi­ties of users or pass them on to users and part­ners, such as publishers, adver­ti­sers or asso­cia­ted web­sites.

Privacy poli­cy for the use of Twitter

Functions of the Twitter ser­vice are inte­gra­ted on our pages. These func­tions are offe­red by Twitter Inc, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the “Re-Tweet” func­tion, the web­sites you visit are lin­ked to your Twitter account and made known to other users. Data is also trans­mit­ted to Twitter. We would like to point out that, as the pro­vi­der of the pages, we have no know­ledge of the con­tent of the trans­mit­ted data or its use by Twitter. Further infor­ma­ti­on on this can be found in Twitter’s pri­va­cy poli­cy at http://twitter.com/privacy.
You can chan­ge your data pro­tec­tion set­tings on Twitter in the account set­tings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.
Privacy poli­cy for the use of XING
Functions of the XING ser­vice are inte­gra­ted on our pages. These func­tions are offe­red by XING AG, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. By using XING. Data is also trans­mit­ted to XING. We would like to point out that we, as the pro­vi­der of the pages, have no know­ledge of the con­tent of the trans­mit­ted data or its use by XING. Further infor­ma­ti­on on this can be found in XING’s pri­va­cy poli­cy at https://www.xing.com/privacy

Privacy poli­cy for the use of YouTube

Functions of the YouTube ser­vice are inte­gra­ted on our pages. These func­tions are offe­red by YouTube, LLC901 Cherry Ave. San Bruno, CA 94066 USA as a goog­le com­pa­ny. By using you­tube, data is also trans­mit­ted to you­tube. We would like to point out that, as the pro­vi­der of the pages, we have no know­ledge of the con­tent of the trans­mit­ted data or its use by YouTube.

Further infor­ma­ti­on on this can be found in youtube’s pri­va­cy poli­cy at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Privacy poli­cy for the use of LinkedIn

Our web­site uses func­tions of the LinkedIn net­work. The pro­vi­der is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Each time one of our pages con­tai­ning LinkedIn func­tions is acces­sed, a con­nec­tion to LinkedIn ser­vers is estab­lished. LinkedIn is infor­med that you have visi­ted our web­site with your IP address. If you click on the LinkedIn “Recommend” but­ton and are log­ged into your LinkedIn account, LinkedIn is able to asso­cia­te your visit to our web­site with you and your user account. We would like to point out that, as the pro­vi­der of the pages, we have no know­ledge of the con­tent of the trans­mit­ted data or its use by LinkedIn.

Further infor­ma­ti­on on this can be found in LinkedIn’s pri­va­cy poli­cy at:
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy