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published: 02/05/2010Privacy Notice
Privacy Website
Under normal circumstances, our Internet pages can be visited without supplying any personal data. In some cases, we or our business partners need, however, personal information from you. There may be several potential reasons that will lead you to decide to give us your personal data. For example, you might decide to provide us with personal data such as name and address or e-mail address, so that we are able to correspond with you, to execute an order for you, or to operate a subscription for you. In conjunction with a subscription or another transaction, you may be contacted in the context of a survey on customer satisfaction or for market research purposes. In conjunction with a visit to the websites of the Apaton Media GmbH or its cooperation partners, data is stored for security purposes, which may allow identification, such as IP address, date, time and websites. The storage occurs for reasons of data security, to assure the stability and security of the operating system.
Delivery of data
In certain situations, the Apaton Media GmbH underlies a legal disclosure requirement which requires the delivery of personal data in accordance with court order, a subpoena or other official orders.
Corporate mergers and acquisitions
A situation may occur, in which the Apaton Media GmbH acquires or sells companies or Internet portals, restructures them or merges for strategic or business reasons. Such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal information to a potential or actual buyer or receiving it from sellers. It is a concern of Apaton Media GmbH, in such a case, to protect personal data.
Publications on the websites
The Apaton Media GmbH provides agencies, editors and companies the opportunity to publish analyses, commentaries and news. The authors write their articles in accordance with general journalistic criteria. The Apaton Media GmbH and the authors do not assume liability for the content. No guarantee is assumed for incomplete or falsely reproduced declarations and for editorial oversight in the form of spelling errors, wrong course information, etc. Statements about securities and derivatives are neither a buy or sell recommendation, nor an assurance regarding the further course development of the named financial instruments. We hereby point out, that in principal, particular stock and warrants investments involve risks. The total loss of capital cannot be excluded. The opinions expressed by external authors are for purposes of information only and offer no legal certainty. The contributions are based on sources which Apaton Media GmbH considers trustworthy.
The publisher or its affiliates can hold short or long positions in the share/s of companies or other financial instruments, which are topic of articles on Internet portals of the Apaton Media GmbH or on portals, that are developed or run by the Apaton Media GmbH.
Cookies
The Apaton Media GmbH occasionally collects anonymous information from visits to its websites to improve the customer service. Visitor activities on the website are determined, for example, as are the domains from where the visitors come. The data gained in this manner is completely anonymous and is also known as "click-stream data" . It can be used by the Apaton Media GmbH and third parties on behalf of the Apaton Media GmbH, to analyze trends and statistics and to improve the customer service. If you do not want your transaction data used for such evaluations, you can inactivate cookies in your browser with the cookie option.
To collect the information mentioned above, several technologies can be used, including cookies. A cookie is an element of data that the website sends to your browser to save it there on your system as an anonymous ID, which identifies your system, but not you as a person.
The Apaton Media GmbH or cooperation partners use cookies or other technologies in order to support you more effectively when you return to the website. However, you have the opportunity to set your browser, so that it informs you when you receive a cookie, and that you have the possibility to refuse the cookie. In principle, you can use your browser to turn off cookies. This may result in some websites not working properly.
Online Advertising
The Apaton Media GmbH cooperates with companies, who develop banner advertising and other forms of online advertising for the Apaton Media GmbH. Similarly, advertising agencies and companies place their advertising on the portals of the Apaton Media GmbH or its partners. These companies may also collect customer data and evaluate it, so that the Apaton Media GmbH is more able to asses, which offers and advertising are attractive to you.
Personalized links
The Apaton Media GmbH provides users with personalized customer-orientated websites. When visiting these websites, links with references to products and/or services are displayed, which are of potential interest to the users. These references are based on past actions with the Apaton Media GmbH or their partners and the information provided by the users. The Apaton Media GmbH or its cooperation partners collect information about the visit on these websites, to be able to offer a better, user-customized website.
The invitation for visiting one of these sites usually occurs via a personalized URL in an e-mail or in a note on the registration page, or as a response to a registration on a particular website.
When visiting a personalized website, the Apaton Media GmbH or its cooperation partners receive the affirmation, to collect information about visits on the website and to connect this information with further information about the user concerning the relationship to the Apaton Media GmbH.
If the users do not wish such use of their information, they may not follow the invitation to visit these personalized websites.
Links to websites of other companies
The websites of Apaton Media GmbH or their partners may have links to other websites. The Apaton Media GmbH is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of the referred websites.
Data use
In order to provide our newsletter service properly and to address users personally within the scope of this service, we rely on being allowed to collect various personal data from you, to process and use it. When ordering newsletters and/or product and service offerings, this include first name, surname, e-mail address, cell phone number, country and postal code. The Apaton Media GmbH uses data only in accordance with your consent. For the SMS and e-mail notification service and newsletter, we only require the information provided by you during registration. In addition to this data, we may need your selection of topics, for which you want to receive an overview of the most affordable and high quality offers for the delivery of product and service offerings.
Advertising in the newsletter
In addition to the newsletter, you have the option to order product and service offerings that correspond with your interests. The more detailed you indicate your interests to us, the better we can serve you with customized offers.
User behavior
Evaluations of the usage patterns are only allowed in statistically processed and anonymous form such as: Link X was clicked by n% of all newsletter recipients. In this way we can, for example, determine what issues our customers are especially interested in, so that we can adapt the content of our offers according to their wishes.
Newsletter cancellation
In every mail that you receive from us, you will find a link to unsubscribe - or you contact the operator of the newsletter by referring to the contact details in the imprint.
Data security
The Apaton Media GmbH uses organizational and technical security measures to protect the data against access by unauthorized persons or against accidental or intentional manipulation. Our security measures are in accordance with the latest technological standards.
To receive only the newsletter and/or product and service offerings that you really want, we will send you an e-mail to confirm this order, after your subscription on websites of the Apaton Media GmbH or cooperating websites. This enables us to guarantee that our information is only sent to your desired e-mail address.
Data transfer
For the subscription of newsletters and/or product and service offerings, it is not necessary to provide your personal data to third parties. Advertising partners are only able to receive information about you from you personally., When, for example, through the use of a service of Apaton Media GmbH, you contact an advertising partner to purchase a service or product offered by them, thereby providing your data within the context of a conclusion of contract.
Power to revoke / opt-out
Your consent to the storage of your data, as described in this Privacy Notice, can be revoked at any time. If you provide us with personal data, you may delete these at any time.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the explanation and instructions on this website, please first directly contact the operator of this portal, see imprint.
Right of access to personal data
You have the right of information about your stored personal data, their origin and destination and the purpose of storage. Information about the stored data will give be given to you from our data protection officer on request per e-mail: privacy@german-market-news.com.
For more information
Your trust is important to us. Therefore we will always answer questions concerning the processing of your personal data. If you have any questions, that are not answered to your satisfaction by this Privacy Notice, or if you want to acquire more detailed information regarding a certain aspect, please do not hesitate to contact our data protection officers at any time, for example per e-mail: privacy@german-market-news.com.
