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Data Privacy

Data Privacy

Qualitype GmbH complies with the privacy policy valid in Germany. Following we will inform you how we use the information we collect during your visit on our website.

Data Collection and Processing

Giving personal information is not required for visiting our website. Only access data without reference to persons such as name of accessed files, date and time of visit, transferred amount of data, browser type, operating system, referrer URL (previous visited website) as well as the IP adress are stored. These data will be used for optimizing our web presentation only and do not allow any inference about personal information.

Personal data, however, will only be collected if communicated by your own choice as in cases of request in web forms. These data will be used for the inquired purpose only or to contract as appropriate. Certainly data will not be forwarded to third parties at all.

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).

Cookies

Qualitype website makes use of so called Cookies, which are small text files stored on the user’s computer, typically containing information about visited websites. Most cookies are deleted after closing the browser (session cookies). A few of them however remain stored at the user’s computer (permanent cookies).
Within your browser preferences it is possible to prevent the usage of cookies. This deactivation can narrow the range of website functions, though.

Data Security

Qualitype GmbH has taken precautions to secure your personal data from unauthorized access and misuse. All security measures are constantly conformed in course of the progressing technical development.
Please note that in case of transfering data via internet a manipulation from third parties can always be possible so that a confidentiality of transferred information can not be ensured completly (as when transmitting emails).

Right to Information

According to Federal Data Protection Act regulations all visitors of websites have the right to obtain information about saved data of their activity and its usage. Moreover, visitors have the right to prompt the correction, blocking and deletion of data. Therefore please contact us for detailled information.

Person in Charge in the Interests of Data Protection

Qualitype GmbH
Dr. Frank Götz
Moritzburger Weg 67
01109 Dresden
Germany