Privacy Policy (Data Protection Statement)

The controller of this website (responsible person) within the meaning of data protection legislation, including, but not limited to, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

iTAC Software AG
Aubachstraße 24
56410 Montabaur
Germany

Your rights as a data subject

You are, at any time, entitled to exercise a number of rights with respect to your personal data by getting in touch with our Data Protection Officer, whose contact information is published on this site. These rights include:

• the right to request information about the data we hold about you as well as about its processing,
• the right to request rectification of  inaccurate personal data,
• the right to request erasure (irretrievable deletion) of the data we hold about you,
• the right to request restriction of data processing if, due to statutory requirements, we are obliged to store the information for longer than you wish,
• the right to object to our processing of your data, and
• the right to request data transferability (portability), if you have given your (prior) consent to our processing of your data or if you have concluded a contract with us.

If you have given your consent to our processing of your data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future ("ex nunc" effect).

You can lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority in the appropriate jurisdiction at any time. This appropriate supervisory authority will be that of the jurisdiction in which the Land of your habitural residence, by the Land in which your place of work is located or by the Land in which the alleged breach was committed, as the case may be. A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Purposes of data processing by the controller and third parties

As a matter of principle, we process personal data only for the purposes indicated in this data protection statement. Your personal data will not be passed on to third parties for purposes other than those mentioned, and we will only pass it on

• if you have given your express consent to this effect, 
• if processing is necessary to transact a contract with you, 
• if processing is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation,
• if processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests and provided that there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in not disclosing your data.

Erasure (irretrievable deletion) or blocking of data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. Therefore, we store personal data for no longer than is necessary to meet the purposes set forth herein or as may be required by applicable statutory storage/retention schedules. Upon completion or elimination of the specific purpose or expiry of the scheduled storage/retention period, the data concerned is routinely blocked or erased in accordance with the statutory provisions.

Collection of general information when visitors access our website

When you visit (access) our website, information of a general nature is automatically collected by way of a cookie. This information (which is collected in the form of server log files) includes the type of web browser accessing the site, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider and further, similar information. This type of information cannot be associated with you personally so that you are non-identifiable from it.

This information is technically necessary to ensure flawless delivery of website content requested by you and is necessarily generated when using the Internet. It is processed for a number of purposes including, but not limited to:

• ensuring trouble-free website connection setup,
• enabling smooth use of our website,
• evaluation of system security and stability, as well as
• other administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is solely based on our legitimate interest derived from the aforementioned data collection purposes. We will not use your personal data to identify you personally. The controller and, if applicable, the processor are the only data recipients.

We use anonymous information of this nature for statistical evaluation purposes, with a view to optimising our website and the technology behind it.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we use so-called "cookies". Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a website server to your hard drive. This automatically provides us with certain data, such as your IP address, the browser used, the operating system and your connection to the Internet.

Cookies cannot be used to start programmes or to transmit viruses to a computer. The information contained in cookies enables us to make navigation easier for you, and it ensures correct display of our web pages.

Under no circumstances will the data we collect be passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.

Although most browsers are set by default to accept cookies, our website can, of course, also be viewed without them.  In general, you can disable the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings. Please use the help functions of your Internet browser to find out how to change these settings. Please note that some features of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.

SSL encryption

In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) over HTTP.

Contact form

If you contact us with questions of any kind by e-mail or via our contact form, you voluntarily consent that we contact you back. For this purpose, we need a valid email address from you. The email address will be used to assign the request and then reply to it. Provision of further data is optional. The information you submit will be stored for the purpose of processing your request and for possible follow-up questions. After your request has been completed, your personal data will be automatically erased.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (hereinafter referred to as "Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called cookies, i.e. text files deployed on your computer to help analyse how you use the website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website will usually be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Since the IP anonymisation feature is enabled on this website, your IP address will be truncated within the Member States of the European Union or other states party to the Agreement of the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there.

Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, for compiling reports on website activity as well as for providing to the website operator other related services associated with website and Internet usage. The IP address communicated by your browser under the Google Analytics service will not be associated or merged with any other data held by Google.

The purposes of data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on website activities. Based on insight gained into the use of the website and the Internet, other related services will be provided. The processing of this data is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator.

You can prevent the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser; however, please be aware that if you do so you may not be able to fully use all the features of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent Google's capture of data generated by the cookie about your website usage (including your IP address) as well as Google's processing of this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: Browser Add On zur Deaktivierung von Google Analytics [Browser add-on to disable Google Analytics].

In addition or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can disallow the Google Analytics tracking function on our pages by clicking on this link: An opt-out cookie will be installed on your device to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data for this website and for this browser for as long as the cookie remains installed on your browser.

Use of Google Maps

This website makes use of Google Maps API to visually display geographic information. When visitors access Google Maps, Google also collects, processes and uses data about their use of map features. For more information about Google's data processing practice, please refer to Google-Datenschutzhinweisen [Google's Privacy Notice], where you can also change your personal settings in the "Privacy Center".

For detailed instructions on how to manage your own data related to Google products, please click here.

Social Plugins

We do not use social plug-ins on our website, just links to our social accounts. These do not include plug-in functions.

Our website includes social media buttons representing the following companies: Twitter, Facebook, Xing, LinkedIN, google+, YouTube and Competence Site.

Data protection officer

If you have any questions relating to the processing of your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact our data protection officer, who is also available to respond to information enquiries, requests and complaints.

Designated Data Protection Officer:
Mr Achim Hildebrand - Email: datenschutz[ad]itacsoftware.com