Sogetto GmbH privacy policy

1. Information on the collection of personal data

Please find below information on the collection of your personal data when using this website.

2. Personal data

Personal data is any data that applies to you personally, such as: your name, address, date of birth, telephone number(s), email address(es), user behaviour.

3. Service provider/service provider identification

The service provider and the responsible authority for this website in accordance with § 13 of the German Telemedia Act (Telemediengesetz, IMG) and § 3 para. 7 of the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BGSG) is Sogetto GmbH. Please also see our imprint.

4. Collection of personal data for informative use

In the event that you use this website merely for informational purposes, that is to say, if you do not sign up or register to use the website or transmit any information to us, we do not collect any personal data about you, except for the data transmitted by your browser to enable you to visit the website. These are:

• Your IP address

• The date and time of your request

• Time zone difference compared to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

• Content of the request (specific page)

• Access status/HTTP status code

• The amount of data transferred in each case

• The website from which the request came

• Your browser

• Your operating system and its interface

• Language and version of the browser software

5. Cookies/data collection through the use of Google Analytics

5.1. Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive to the browser you are using, and which provides certain information about the place set by the cookie (in this case, us). Cookies cannot execute programmes or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make your Internet experience more user-friendly and effective. We employ so-called cookies in several places when using this website.

This site does not use cookies, with the exception of Google Analytics.

5.2. Note on Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer, to help analyse how you use the website. 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.

In the case of activation of the IP anonymisation on this website, your IP address will be truncated within Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the complete IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other website and internet related services to the website operator.

The IP address shared by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not associated with any other data held by Google. You can refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; we would like to point out, however, that in this case you may not be able to use all features of this website. You can also prevent the data generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) being captured or further processed by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

You can prevent data capture by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. This will activate an opt-out cookie which will prevent the future collection of your data when you visit this website:

Disable Google Analytics

Find more information about the terms of use and privacy policy at  http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.  We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code “gat._anonymizeIp();” in order to ensure the anonymised collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

6. Data security

We maintain up-to-date technical measures to ensure data security, in particular to protect your personal data from data transfer risks and from being acquired by third parties. These measures are constantly adapted to employ current state-of-the-art techniques.

7. Revocation and right to information

If you have consented to the collection and use of your data, you may revoke this consent at any time without giving a reason.

You have the right to demand at any time that we provide you with information free of charge on the personal data we have stored about you, as well as the origin and recipients of this data, the authorisation, blocking or deletion of data, the revocation of consent, and the purpose of the data storage and/or processing.

We are happy to provide you with further information on our policies and data protection, and the processing of your personal data.

Please send all queries, requests for information, and data processing revocation requests by email to datenschutz@german-brass.de or by post to the address detailed in point 3 above and in our imprint.