DATA PROTECTION

Provider and responsible body within the meaning of the Data Protection Act

IQUL GmbH
Technology Park Bergisch Gladbach
Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 75
House 27 / level 10
51429 Bergisch Gladbach

Telephone: 02204 / 585-0
Fax: 02204/585 - 599
E-Mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

External Data Protection Officer:
BGFD – Beratungsgesellschaft für Datenschutz mbH,
represented by Karlheinz Dauber

Scope

With this privacy policy, users receive information about the type, scope and purpose of the collection and use of their data collected and used by the responsible provider.
The legal framework for data protection is the General Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO), the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG neu) and the Telemedia Act (TMG).

Collecting general information

With each access to this offer, information is automatically collected by us or the web hosting provider. This information, also known as server log files, is general in nature and does not allow any conclusions to be drawn.

Included are, among others:

  • name of the website,
  • name and URL of the retrieved file,
  • date and time of access,
  • amount of data,
  • Web browser and web browser version,
  • Operating system,
  • the domain name of your Internet provider,
  • the so-called Referrer URL
  • and the IP address.

Without this data, it would not be technically possible to deliver and display the contents of the website. In this respect, the collection of data is imperative.

The mentioned data are processed by us for the following purposes:

  • ensuring a smooth connection of the website,
  • ensuring comfortable use of our website,
  • Evaluation of system security and stability as well
  • for further administrative purposes

In addition, we reserve the right to subsequently inspect the log files in case of suspected illegal use of our offer.
The legal basis for the data processing results from Art. 6 1 p. Lit. f DS-GMO. Our legitimate interest follows from the data collection purposes listed above. In no case will we use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about you.
In addition, we use cookies and analysis services when visiting our website. Further explanations can be found under the respective headings of this privacy policy.

Disclosure of data

A transfer of your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those listed below does not take place.

We only share your personal information with third parties if:

  • You yours according to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a DS-GVO have given express consent to
  • disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f DS-BER is required to assert, exercise or defend legal claims and there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding interest in not disclosing your data,
  • in the event that disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c DS-GMO is a legal obligation, as well
  • this is legally permissible and according to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b DS-GVO is required for the settlement of contractual relationships with you.

Cookies

This website uses so-called cookies. These are text files that are stored on your computer from the server. They contain information about the browser, the IP address, the operating system and the Internet connection. We do not disclose this information to third parties or link it to personal data without their consent.Cookies fulfill two main tasks. They help us to help you navigate through our offer and enable the correct presentation of the website. They are not used to inject viruses or launch programs.
Users have the opportunity to access our offer without cookies. For this purpose, the corresponding settings must be changed in the browser. Please refer to the help function of your browser, how cookies are deactivated. However, please be aware that this may interfere with some features of this website and reduce its ease of use. The http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ (USA) und http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/ (Europe) sites allow you to manage online ad cookies.

Use of 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 and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by cookies about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on these websites, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there.
On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software. We point out, however, that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website in full.
In addition, you may prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install: Browser Add On to disable Google Analytics.
For more information about Terms of Use and Privacy, please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.

Google AdWords

This website uses the online advertising program "Google AdWords" and as part of that the conversion tracking. In doing so, Google Adwords will set a cookie on your computer if you have reached our website via a Google ad. 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 expired yet, we and Google may recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot be tracked through the websites of advertisers.
Conversion cookie information is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords advertisers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers are told the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a conversion tracking tag page. However, they do not receive information that personally identifies users.
If you do not want to participate in the tracking process, you can easily disable the Google Conversion Tracking cookie through its Internet browser under User Preferences. You will not be included in the conversion tracking statistics. Learn more about Google's privacy policy at http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

Google Web Fonts

We use "Google Web Fonts" on our website, a service of Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, Barrow St, Dublin 4, Ireland (hereinafter referred to as "Google"). Google Web Fonts enables us to use external fonts, so-called Google Fonts. For this purpose, the required Google Font is loaded into the browser cache by your web browser when you access our website. This is necessary so that your browser can display a visually improved representation of our texts. If your browser does not support this function, a standard font will be used by your computer for display. The integration of these web fonts is done by a server call, usually at a Google server in the USA. This transmits to the server which of our Internet pages you have visited. The IP address of the browser of your terminal device is also stored by Google. We have no influence on the scope and further use of the data collected and processed by Google through the use of Google Web Fonts.
We use Google Web Fonts for optimization purposes, in particular to improve the use of our website for you and to make its design more user-friendly. This is also our legitimate interest in the processing of the above data by the third-party provider. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f) DSGVO.
Third party information: Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, Barrow St, Dublin 4, Ireland.
For more information on data protection, please refer to Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de.
You can find more information about Google Web Fonts at https://fonts.google.com/, https://fonts.google.com/, https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq?hl=de-DE&csw=1 and https://www.google.com/fonts#AboutPlace:about

Google Doubleclick

Our website also uses other services of the Google Marketing Platform (formerly "Google Doubleclick"). These services use cookies to serve ads that are relevant to users, to improve campaign performance reports, or to prevent a user from being served ads more than once.
Google uses a cookie ID to record which ads are displayed in which browser and can thus prevent them from being displayed more than once. In addition, Google can use cookie IDs to record so-called conversions, i.e. whether a user sees an ad and later calls up the advertiser's website and purchases something there. According to Google, these cookies do not contain any personal information.
Your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with the Google server. We have no influence on the scope and further use of the data collected by Google through the use of this service. According to Google, by integrating these services, Google receives the information that you have called up the corresponding part of our website or clicked on an advertisement from us. If you are registered with a Google service, Google can assign the visit to your user account. Even if you are not registered with Google or have not logged in, there is the possibility that the provider learns your IP address and stores it.
In addition, cookies allow us to understand whether you take certain actions on our website after you have accessed or clicked (conversion tracking) on one of our ads on Google or on another platform ("Floodlight"). Google uses this cookie to understand the content you have interacted with on our websites in order to later send you targeted advertising.
You can prevent the tracking process by making the appropriate setting in your browser software (e.g. disabling third-party cookies), disabling cookies for conversion tracking by blocking cookies from the domain www.googleadservices.com in your browser settings, regarding interest-based ads from the providers that are part of the self-regulatory campaign "About Ads" via the link http://www.aboutads.info/choices or under the link http://www.google.com/settings/ads/. We would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this offer to their full extent.
For more information on the Google Marketing Platform, visit https://marketingplatform.google.com/. You can also find more information from the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) at https://www.networkadvertising.org/.
The legal basis for the data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DSGVO.

YouTube

Parts of our website use the YouTube service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google") to display video content. When you call up the corresponding pages, your browser loads the code from Google required to display the video. For this purpose, the browser you use must connect to Google's servers. Through this, Google obtains knowledge that our website was accessed via your IP address. At the same time, Google may place cookies on your terminal device or read cookies, unless you have prohibited the use of cookies in your browser.
The YouTube plugins are used for the purpose of an appealing design of our website and to enable the presentation of video content. This is a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. Your IP address is collected by us to enable the transmission to Google.
If you do not want Google to assign the personal data collected via our website to your Google account, you must log out of Google before visiting our website. You can find YouTube's privacy policy as part of Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
You are not obliged to provide this personal data, but use of the affected parts of our website is then not possible.

Stetic

This website uses Stetic (www.stetic.com), a web site statistics and analysis service. With the help of Stetic, anonymous visitor data is collected, evaluated and stored for optimization and marketing purposes. Stetic uses cookies, which are stored in text files in the cache of your browser. These cookies are used to recognize the browser and thus allow a more accurate determination of the statistics. IP addresses are only stored anonymously at Stetic. The data collected in the context of Stetic will not be used to personally identify the visitor to this website without the special consent of the person concerned. The storage of cookies can be prevented by a corresponding setting in your browser software. Likewise, you can prevent the future storage and processing of your data by opting out of www.stetic.com to opt-out of your anonymized visitor data.

Affected rights

You have the right:

  • in accordance with Art. 15 DS-GVO, to request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you may provide information about the purposes of the processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been disclosed, the planned retention period, the right of rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or opposition Existence of a right of appeal, the origin of their data, if not collected from us, and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, where appropriate, meaningful information about their details;
  • in accordance with Art. 16 DS-GVO, immediately demand the correction of incorrect or completed personal data stored by us.
  • to demand the deletion of your personal data stored with us, according to Art. 17 DS-GVO, unless the processing for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for the fulfillment of a legal obligation, for reasons of the public interest or for the assertion, exercise or Defense of legal rights is required;
  • In accordance with Art. 18 DS-GVO, to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data, as far as the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful, but you reject their deletion and we no longer need the data, but you to Asserting, exercising or defending legal claims or you have objected to processing pursuant to Art. 21 DS-GVO;
  • to receive, in accordance with Art. 20 DS-GVO, your personal data provided to us in a structured, standard and machine-readable format or to request transmission to another person responsible.
  • according to Art. 7 para. 3 DS-GVO, to revoke your once given consent to us at any time. As a result, we are not allowed to continue the data processing based on this consent for the future and
  • to complain to a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 DS-BER. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or work or our company headquarters.

Right to

If your personal data are based on legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f DS-GVO are processed, you have the right to file an objection against the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 21 DS-GVO, provided there are reasons for this arising from your particular situation or if the objection is directed against direct mail. In the latter case, you have a general right of objection, which is implemented by us without specifying any particular situation.
If you would like to exercise your right of revocation or objection, please send an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Data security

In part, we use the popular Secure Socket Layer (SSL) method in conjunction with the highest level of encryption supported by your browser. In general, this is a 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we'll use 128-bit v3 technology instead. Whether a single page of our website is encrypted is shown by the closed representation of the key or lock icon in the lower status bar of your browser.
We also take appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or total loss, destruction or against unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

Change of our privacy policy

In order to ensure that our privacy policy always complies with current legal requirements, we reserve the right to make changes at any time. This also applies in the event that the privacy policy has to be adapted due to new or revised services, for example new services. The new privacy policy will then take effect on your next visit to our offer.
This privacy policy is currently valid and is valid as of May 2018.