We are very pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest in our company, the products and services we provide. The protection of your privacy and your personal data is important to us. In order to guarantee you the highest possible degree of transparency and security, our data protection declaration below informs you about the nature, scope and purpose of the collection, use and processing of the information and data collected by us.
This privacy policy only applies to the publicly accessible web pages of Thinking Networks AG. Our software solutions for desktop and web applications may have their own, deviating privacy statements; we will inform you within these applications about the storage and use of your personal data.
When you access our website a connection with our server is established. The access paths of the pages, the time of the establishment of the connection as well as your current IP address are collected and stored for the prevention of malfunctions and problems. During your visit to our website, data (“cookies”) may be stored on your computer to facilitate your use of our offer. We do not use this data to identify you or to contact you.
Personal data is collected and stored exclusively in accordance with the statutory provisions of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the German Telemedia Act (TMG). We store and use your personal data (name, address, e-mail address, bank details, etc.) to process your orders and any returns, for individual product support and, if desired, for our newsletter and product information.
We do not pass on your personal data to third parties. Exceptions to this are our service partners who require your data for order processing, such as parcel and mail delivery companies, printing companies and our banks (for the collection of direct debits). Your data will only be passed on to third parties if and to the extent that it is legally permissible or necessary for the assertion and enforcement of our rights and claims.
You may at any time request information free of charge about your data stored with us or request correction, blocking and deletion of your stored data and its processing. If legal, contractual or commercial or tax retention periods or other legally anchored reasons prevent deletion, your data will not be deleted but blocked. To do so, please contact our data protection officer in writing at Thinking Networks AG, André Maslo, Markt 45-47, 52062 Aachen; by telephone at 0241 47072 - 0; by e-mail at andre.maslo@thinking-networks.com.
We reserve the right to adapt this information on data protection at any time in compliance with the data protection regulations.
We want to constantly improve our services, keep them up to date with the latest technology and provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient and personal user experience. For this purpose, we evaluate general information such as the number and duration of calls to our web pages and the Internet browsers used for this purpose in accordance with the following points.
To ensure that you only receive ads that may be relevant to you and that really appeal to you, we use cookies to collect information about the things that interest you. This can be, for example, the website you visit. These cookies do not increase the amount of advertising shown to you, only its relevance to you.
Our 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 this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
For more information on terms of use and privacy, please visit https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html, https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/ or https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites/.
This website uses the remarketing function of Google Inc. The function is used to present interest-based advertisements to website visitors within the Google advertising network. A so-called “cookie” is stored in the browser of the website visitor, which makes it possible to recognize the visitor when they visit websites that belong to the Google advertising network. On these pages, the visitor can be presented with advertisements that relate to content that the visitor has previously accessed on websites that use Google’s remarketing function.
According to its own information, Google does not collect any personal data during this process. If you nevertheless do not wish to use Google’s remarketing function, you can generally deactivate it by making the appropriate settings at https://www.google.com/settings/ads. Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of cookies for interest-based advertising via the advertising network initiative by following the instructions at https://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
As an AdWords customer, we use Google Conversion Tracking. If you have accessed our website via an ad placed by Google, Google AdWords will set a cookie on your computer. The cookie for conversion tracking is set when a user clicks on an ad placed by Google. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked across AdWords customers’ websites. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. The customers are told the total number of users who clicked on their ad and who were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can identify users personally.
If you do not wish to participate in the tracking, you can refuse the setting of a cookie required for this - for example, via a browser setting that generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies or set your browser so that cookies from the domain “googleleadservices.com” are blocked. Please note that you can not delete the opt-out cookies as long as you do not want any measurement data to be recorded. If you have deleted all your cookies in the browser, you must set the respective opt-out cookie again.
Google Tag Manager is also a product of Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”), which allows us to manage website tags from applications such as Google Analytics through one interface. The Tag Manager is a cookie-less domain and does not collect any personal data.
We inform you about the processing of personal data on behalf of Albacross Nordic AB (“Albacross”).
Information collected from cookies set on your device that is considered personal data is processed by Albacross, a company that provides lead identification and ad targeting services and has offices in Stockholm and Krakow. Full contact details can be found below.
The purpose of processing the personal data is to enable Albacross to improve a service provided to us and our website (e.g. the “Lead Generation” service) by including data in their database about companies. In addition to the Lead Generation service, the Albacross database is also used for targeted advertising to businesses, and for this purpose the data is transferred to third-party data service providers. For clarity, targeted advertising refers to businesses, not individuals.
The data Albacross collects and uses for this purpose is information about the IP address from which you visited our website and technical information that allows Albacross to distinguish different visitors from the same IP address. Albacross stores the domain from form submissions to associate the IP address with your employer.
For detailed information about the processing of personal data, please refer to Albacross’ Privacy Policy.
Albacross Nordic AB, Company Reg. No. 556942-7338, Tegelbacken 4A, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden, www.albacross.com – contact@albacross.com
A visitor pixel and cookies of Taboola Inc, 28 West 23rd St, 5th fl, New York, NY 10010, USA are used on the advocado website for conversion measurement within the scope of legitimate interest according to Art. 6 para. I lit f DSGVO. This allows the behavior of users to be tracked after they have been redirected to the provider’s website by clicking on a Taboola ad. This procedure is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the Taboola advertisements for statistical and market research purposes and can help to optimize future advertising measures. The data collected is anonymous for us, so it does not allow us to draw any conclusions about the identity of the users. You can object to tracking by Taboola at any time; to do so, click on the “Reject” (opt-out) field under Taboola’s privacy policy, available at https://www.taboola.com/de/privacy-policy. Here you can also obtain further information on the data protection of Taboola Inc. The opt-out only applies to the device used by you in each case and also loses its validity when you delete your cookies. A erasure of the data transmitted in this way takes place within 3 months.
Zur Optimierung unserer Web-Dienste und zur Steigerung der Usability nutzen wir Tools der Pendo.io, Inc., 150 Fayetteville St., Raleigh, NC 27601, USA („Pendo“), um zu ermitteln, welche Produktbereiche und Funktionen am meisten genutzt werden und zu analysieren, wie Kunden unsere Anwendung nutzen. Damit können wir Möglichkeiten zur Verbesserung der Benutzerfreundlichkeit identifizieren und Nutzer zu relevanten Funktionen leiten. In diesen Zwecken liegt auch unser berechtigtes Interesse in der Verarbeitung der Daten nach Art. 6 Abs. 1 S. 1 lit. f, DS-GVO.
QVANTUM uses hashed and thus anonymous user IDs when using Pendo, which do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about you in person for this service provider. The data is only processed within the European Union. We have concluded an order processing agreement with Pendo order processing agreement. You can find more information about Pendo here.
We would like to reach as many interested parties as possible and therefore use social plugins on our websites to reach social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. To ensure that this does not happen unintentionally, these buttons must first be activated by you. As usual, we also inform you about the data transfer by displaying a notice next to these buttons.
We offer links or plugins for sharing the content of our online offers via social networks. You can recognize the links by the respective logo of the provider. Before calling up the corresponding links or plugins, no personal information is transmitted to the respective providers, as we use the data protection-friendly 2-Click or Shariff solution.
Thus, a Shariff button establishes direct contact between the social network and the visitor only when the visitor actively clicks on the Share button. Shariff thus prevents you from leaving a digital trail on every page you visit and improves data protection. By using Shariff, we can protect your personal data and still integrate social sharing buttons. For more information on c’t Shariff, please visit https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Shariff-Social-Media-Buttons-mit-Datenschutz-2467514.html.
We also offer online services on various social media platforms in order to provide information there and in order to be able to contact you.
We have no influence on the processing of personal data by the respective platform operator. Generally, when you visit our social media offerings, cookies are stored in your browser by the platform operator, in which your usage behavior or interests are stored for market research and advertising purposes. The processing of your personal data when visiting one of our social media offers is based on our legitimate interests in a diverse external presentation of our company and the use of an effective information resource as well as the ability to communicate with you.
The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. Under certain circumstances, you may also have given a platform operator consent to data processing, in which case Art. 6 (1) lit. a DSGVO is the legal basis. Detailed information about data processing in connection with the use of our social media offerings, opt-out options and the assertion of information rights can be found in the privacy policy of the relevant platform operator.
This online offer uses plugins of the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). An overview of the Facebook plugins and their appearance can be found at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you call up a website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection with Facebook’s servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Facebook directly to your browser, which then integrates it into the website. By integrating the plugins, Facebook receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a Facebook account or are not currently logged in to Facebook. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted by your browser directly to a Facebook server in the USA and stored there.
If you are logged in to Facebook, Facebook can directly assign your visit to our website to your Facebook user account. If you do not want Facebook to assign the data collected via our website to your Facebook user account, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the “Like” button or posting a comment, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a Facebook server and stored there. The information is also published on Facebook and displayed to your Facebook friends. The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook, as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy, can be found in Facebook’s privacy policy (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/).
Our website uses HubSpot, a software of HubSpot Inc, USA. This is an integrated software solution that we use to control and optimize our email marketing, in particular through so-called workflows.
HubSpot works with cookies to enable recognition and to allow us to personalize our communication with you.
If you generally do not want HubSpot to collect data, you can prevent the storage of cookies at any time by changing your browser settings accordingly.
HubSpot, Inc. participates in the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement and is certified for its compliance. To regulate the transfer of data, the EU standard contractual clauses have also been concluded between us and HubSpot. For more information on “HubSpot and data protection”, please visit: http://legal.hubspot.com/de/privacy-policy.
Contact: HubSpot, 2nd Floor 30 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, Ireland, Phone: +353 1 5187500.
This online offer uses the Twitter button from twitter.com, which is operated by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107 (“Twitter”). When you visit a website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection with the servers of Twitter. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Twitter directly to your browser and integrated by it into the website. By integrating the plugins, Twitter receives the information that your browser has called up the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a Twitter account or are not currently logged into Twitter. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted by your browser directly to a Twitter server in the USA and stored there. If you are logged in to Twitter, Twitter can directly assign your visit to our website to your Twitter user account. If you do not want Twitter to assign the data collected via our website to your Twitter user account, you must log out of Twitter before visiting our website. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the “Tweet” button or posting a comment, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a Twitter server and stored there. The information is also published on Twitter and displayed to your followers. For the purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Twitter, as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to the privacy policy of Twitter (https://twitter.com/privacy).
Plugins of the social network LinkedIn of LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter “LinkedIn”) are integrated on this website. You can recognize the LinkedIn plugins by the LinkedIn logo or the “Share button” (“Recommend”) on this website. When you visit this website, a direct connection between your browser and the LinkedIn server is established via the plugin. LinkedIn thereby receives the information that you have visited this website with your IP address. If you click the LinkedIn “share button” while logged into your LinkedIn account, you can link the content of this website on your LinkedIn profile. This allows LinkedIn to associate your visit to this website with your user account. 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 LinkedIn. Details on data collection (purpose, scope, further processing, use) as well as your rights and setting options can be found in LinkedIn’s privacy policy at https://www.linkedin.com/static?key=privacy_policy&trk=hb_ft_priv.
Please also read our information according to Art.13 DSGVO.
Cookies are small files that enable specific information related to the device to be stored on the user’s access device (PC, smartphone or similar). On the one hand, they serve the user-friendliness of websites and thus the users (e.g. storage of login data). On the other hand, they serve to collect statistical data on website usage and to be able to analyze it for the purpose of improving the offer. As a user, you can influence the use of cookies. Most browsers have an option to restrict or completely prevent the storage of cookies. However, it should be noted that the use and especially the comfort of use will be limited without cookies.
You can manage many online ad cookies from companies via the US site http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU site
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/.
A German language alternative can be found here:
http://www.meine-cookies.org/cookies_verwalten/praeferenzmanager-beta.html
You may at any time request information free of charge about your data stored with us or request correction, blocking and deletion of your stored data and its processing. If legal, contractual or commercial or tax retention periods or other legally anchored reasons prevent deletion, your data will not be deleted but blocked. To do so, please contact our data protection officer in writing at Thinking Networks AG, André Maslo, Markt 45-47, 52062 Aachen; by telephone at 0241 47072 - 0; by e-mail at andre.maslo@thinking-networks.com.
We reserve the right to adapt this information on data protection at any time in compliance with data protection regulations.