At this point we would like to give you an idea of how we understand data protection and to make transparent what happens to all the accumulated data. Furthermore you will be informed about your statutory rights with reference to the processing of these data.
The guiding principle for the e-Spirit AG is that the protection of your privacy is given the highest priority. This is why for us the compliance with the statutory provisions for data protection is a matter of course. Moreover, it is important for us that you know at any time when we store which data and how we use them.
e-Spirit AG guarantees that information provided by you will be dealt with confidentially according to the provisions laid down in the German data protection law.
Data collection
By calling websites e-Spirit receives user data which are stored for backup purposes and which might allow identification (e.g. of the IP-address, date, time and website viewed). The stored data are exclusively stored for statistical purposes. This data is not passed on to a third party, neither for commercial nor for non-commercial purposes.
Personal data
As long as the internet offer provides the possibility of keying in personal or business data (e-mail address, name, address), the disclosure of this data is on a explicitly voluntary basis on the part of the user. The use of this data is limited to the mentioned purposes (contact-, feedback forms, newsletter, etc.) only.
Public directory of procedures/access right
The Public Directory of Procedures presented on our website gives you a general overview (according to § 4e Federal Data Protection Act) of which groups and for which purpose our company collects, processes or uses data and to whom such data is passed on.
On application we can even inform you in writing, whether and which personal data about you have been stored.
Links
e-Spirit websites contain links to other websites. e-Spirit is not to be held responsible for the data protection policies or for the content of those other websites.
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 (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address 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. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.
Further information can be found under http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/analytics/tos.html (Google Analytics Terms of Service & Privacy).
Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).
