Source: https://bp-consultants.de/privacy-policy/?lang=en
Timestamp: 2019-04-23 11:57:05+00:00

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The provider of the Websites, and the party responsible for data protection and privacy issues in regard to the Websites, is the company B+P Communications GmbH, Englerallee 40, 14195 Berlin, Germany, managing partner: Dipl.-Ing. Karsten Beutner, M.Sc. Stephan Heckmann, info@berndtundpartner.de (hereinafter referred to as “we”, “us” and “our”). For further information about us and contact details please refer to our legal information: https://bp-communications.de/en/imprint/.
The personal data of the users processed in the context of our Service include inventory data (e. g., names and addresses of customers), contract data (e. g., services used, names of staff), usage data (e. g., the websites visited, interest in our products), Meta/communication data (e. g., device IDs, IP addresses) and content data (e. g., entries in the contact form, data processed within the scope of our contract fulfilment).
We process inventory data (e. g., names and addresses as well as contact data of users) and contract data (e. g., services used, names of contact persons) of our customers and interested parties for the purpose of fulfilling our contractual obligations and services in accordance with Art. 6 (1) b. GDPR.
Furthermore, we process the data of our customers (e. g., the visited websites of our online offer as well as concerning the use of our services) on the basis of our legitimate interests in advertising and market research purposes in accordance with Art. 6 (1) f. GDPR, in order to offer customers services based on their previous contractual interests or the events they have attended and to analyse the development of our business operations. Furthermore, we process the data insofar as we are legally required to do so, e. g. due to commercial and tax obligations, in accordance with Art. 6 (1) c. GDPR, are obligated.
For the purposes of our legitimate interests according to Art. 6 (1) f. GDPR, we collect data every time the server on which the service is located is accessed. This data is collected in the form of server log files. These access logs include the name of the webpage and/or file accessed by the User, the date and time of access, the amount of data transferred, notification of successful retrieval, details of the web browser used (including the version), the User’s operating system, the referrer URL (of the previous page linking to our website), the IP address and the requesting provider.
Users can block cookies that are used for tracking and online advertising by visiting the opt-out page of the network advertising initiative (https://optout.networkadvertising.org/) and also by managing their preferences on the U.S. websitehttps://www.aboutads.info/choices or the European website https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/.
The IP address transmitted by the User’s browser is not associated with any other data held by Google. Users can prevent cookies from being installed on their computer by adjusting their browser settings accordingly. Users can also prevent Google from collecting data generated by cookies concerning their use of the Websites and can prevent Google from processing this data by downloading and installing a browser plug-in from the following link:https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
For more information on how Google uses data and how to opt out, please refer to Google’s websites:https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners (“How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps”), https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads (“How Google uses data in advertising”), https://www.google.com/settings/ads (“Control the information Google uses to show you ads”).
For the purposes of our legitimate interests (i.e. our interest in analyzing, optimizing and running our Websites in a commercially viable manner within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) f. of the GDPR), we use third-party content and service delivery services on our Websites in order to incorporate content and services such as videos and fonts, for example (hereinafter jointly referred to as “content”). The third-party provider of this content always requires the User’s IP address in order to send the content to the browser of the respective User. In other words, the IP address is required to display this content. We endeavor only to use such content where the respective provider uses the IP address exclusively to deliver said content. Third-party providers may additionally use “pixel tags” (invisible image files, also known as web beacons) for statistical or marketing purposes. Pixel tags can be used to analyze information such as the number of visitors accessing the pages of this website. The pseudonymized information may additionally be stored on User devices in the form of cookies. This information includes technical information on the browser and operating system, referring websites, time spent on the website, and further details on how Users make use of our Websites, as well as possibly information about the location of the Users plus it can also be combined with comparable information from other sources.
In accordance with statutory requirements, the records are kept for 6 years in accordance with § 257 (1) German Commercial Code (HGB) (trading books, inventories, opening balance sheets, annual financial statements, commercial letters, accounting documents, etc.) and for 10 years in accordance with § 147 (1) German General Fiscal Law (AO) (books, records, management reports, accounting documents, commercial and business letters, documents relevant to taxation, etc.).

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