Privacy policy
Protecting your privacy when you visit our website is of utmost importance to us. We act in accordance with all applicable laws on the protection of personal data and data security. This is why our website may generally be used anonymously. All supplied data is processed according to the following principles:
Privacy statement
The person responsible as defined by current data protection legislation is:
Dr. Jürgen Schlütter (CEO)
Collection of general information
When you visit our website, some general information (server log files) is automatically collected. This information includes for example the type of web browser and the operating system used, the domain name of your internet provider, etc. None of this information allows conclusions on your identity. The information collected is needed to correctly deliver content requested from a website and is technically inevitable. We statistically analyze this type of anonymous information to optimize our web presence and the technology behind it.
SSL encryption
To secure the safety of your data during transfer, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods like SSL with HTTP (HTTPS).
Newsletter
When you subscribe to our newsletter, all data you provide is solely used for this purpose. Subscribers may be informed by e-mail of circumstances which are relevant for the service or registration (for example changes of the type of newsletter or technical conditions).
We need a valid e-mail address for an effective registration. To verify that a registration is done by the provided e-mail account holder, we use the so-called double-opt-in procedure. This means we log the e-mail newsletter order, the confirmation e-mail and the receipt of the requested e-mail reply. No further data is collected. All data is solely used for sending out the newsletter and will not be disclosed to third parties.
You can always revoke your consent to our storing your personal data and our using it for sending out our newsletter by using the corresponding link. Furthermore, you can always unsubscribe on our website or tell us that you want to unsubscribe by using the contact data provided at the end of this privacy statement.
We use the Inxmail software from Inxmail GmbH to register and send our newsletters. Inxmail GmbH acts as the contractor based on a contract for order processing within the meaning of the DSGVO.
Contact form
When you contact us via contact form, the provided information is stored for the purpose of processing your request and for possible future questions.
Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service by Google Inc.
(in the following: Google). Google Analytics uses cookies. Cookies are text files which are stored on your computer and which allow the analysis of the use of our website by you. Usage information created by the cookie is normally transmitted to a Google server in the US and stored there. Because of IP anonymization on these websites, your IP address is shortened by Google in countries within the European Union and other countries which are part of this agreement. Only as exception, the full IP address is transmitted to a Google server in the US and then shortened there. On behalf of the provider of this website, Google will use this information to analyze the usage of this website, to generate reports on the website activities and to provide services related to the website or internet use to the website provider. The IP address transmitted from your browser with Google Analytics is not merged with other data from Google.
You may prevent cookies from being stored on your computer by the corresponding settings in your browser software. Please note, however, that this might reduce the availability of functions of our website. Additionally, you may prevent the data stored by the cookie (incl. your IP address) from being transmitted to and processed by Google by downloading and installing the following plug-in: Browser-Add-on zur Deaktivierung von Google Analytics.
Furthermore or as alternative to the above plug-in you can prevent Google Analytics from tracking your activities on our website by clicking on this link . This will install an opt-out cookie on your device and prevent data collection by Google Analytics for this website and for this browser as long as the cookie is installed in your browser.
Use of script libraries (Google Webfonts)
We use script and font libraries like Google Webfonts on our website to correctly display our contents across browsers (https://www.google.com/webfonts/). Google Webfonts are transferred to your browser to avoid multiple writing to the cache. If the browser does not support Google web fonts or denies access, the content is shown in a standard font.
Accessing script or font libraries will automatically create a connection to the library provider. Theoretically, library providers may also store data. It is not certain whether they do and, if so, what for.
Google’s privacy policy can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Use of Google Maps
This website uses Google Maps API to visualize geographical information. When using Google Maps, Google collects, processes and stores data on the use of maps by visitors on the website. Check Google’s Privacy Policy for more information. Here you may also adapt your personal privacy settings.
Comprehensive instructions on the administration of your personal data in relation to Google products can be found here.
Embedded YouTube videos
On some of our websites we have embedded YouTube videos. The plug-in provider is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you access a website with a YouTube plug-in, you will be connected with servers from YouTube. This informs YouTube of which sites you are visiting. When you are logged in with your YouTube account, YouTube can relate your surf behavior to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.
When a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies to get information on the user behavior.
Deactivating cookies for the Google Ad program will prevent this. YouTube also stores non-personal information on the use of their sites in other cookies. You can prevent this by blocking the storage of cookies in your browser.
Find more information on YouTube’s privacy policy in the provider’s privacy statement: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Social Plug-ins
On our website, we use social plug-ins of the below mentioned providers. All plug-ins are marked by a corresponding logo and can easily be recognized.
These plug-ins may transmit information including personal data to the service provider who might make use of them. We prevent the unconscious and unwanted collection and transfer of data to the service provider by a 2-click solution. To activate a desired plug-in, click on the corresponding button. Activation of the plug-in starts the collection and transmission of information to the service provider. We do not collect personal data by social plug-ins or their use ourselves.
We have no influence on the data collected by an activated plug-in and used by the provider. At the time, we must assume that a direct connection is established to the service provider and that at least the IP address and device-related information is collected and used. There also is a possibility that service providers try to store cookies on the used computer. Get information on the actual data collected and how they are used in the service providers’ privacy statements. Please note: If you are logged into Facebook at the same time, Facebook can identify you as user of a particular website.
On our website, we have embedded social media buttons from the following companies:
Facebook Inc. (1601 S. California Ave - Palo Alto - CA 94304 - USA)
Twitter Inc. (795 Folsom St. - Suite 600 - San Francisco - CA 94107 - USA)
XING AG (Gänsemarkt 43 - 20354 Hamburg - Deutschland)
LinkedIn Corporation (2029 Stierlin Court - Mountain View - CA 94043 - USA)
Google AdWords
Our website uses Google Conversion Tracking. If you have accessed our website by a Google ad, Google AdWords will set a cookie on your computer. The Conversion Tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on a Google ad. These cookies expire 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, Google and we can see that the user has clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Every Google AdWords customer has a different cookie. This means cookies cannot be tracked through websites of AdWords customers. The information collected by conversion cookies are used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have decided to use conversion tracking. Customers learn the total number of users who have clicked on their ad and were forwarded to a page with a conversion tracking tag. They do not, however, get information that would allow personal identification of the user.
If you do not want to participate in conversion tracking, you can reject the setting of the corresponding cookie. This can be done in your browser settings that reject the setting of cookies in general, or you can set your browser to reject cookies from the domain “googleleadservices.com“.
Please note that you must not delete the opt-out cookies as long as you do not want your data to be tracked. If you have deleted all cookies in your browser, you must reset the desired opt-out cookie.
Your right to disclosure, correction, blocking, deletion and objection
You have the right to receive information on the personal data stored by us about you at any time. You also have the right to the correction, blocking or deletion of your personal data (excluding data required for business processing). Please refer to our privacy commissioner for this. Contact data is provided below.
For control purposes, blocked data must be held in a corresponding file. You may demand the deletion of this data, as long as it is not subject to legal archiving obligations. In this case, we will block your data upon request.
If you want to modify or revoke your consent for future transactions, please send us a corresponding note.
If you feel that we violate the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by processing your data, you may file a complaint with the regulatory authority.
Privacy policy changes
We reserve the right to modify our privacy statement to ensure that it meets current legal requirements and to incorporate changes of our services. The new/modified privacy statement comes into effect with your next visit to our website.
Privacy commissioner
If you have questions about data protection, please send us an e-mail to:
dsb@qd-europe.de
Data protection information “Sanctions list comparison”
The protection of personal data and the responsible handling of information that you entrust to us is an important and special concern for us. Quantum Design GmbH processes personal data only in accordance with the statutory regulations. These are in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). The following data protection declaration is intended to inform you about which personal data we process from you in so-called sanction list comparisons.
Data protection authority contact data
Responsible entity in accordance with the data protection law: Quantum Design GmbH, Breitwieserweg 9, 64319 Pfungstadt, germany@qd-europe.com , +49(0)6157 80710-0
Contact of the data protection officer: dsb@qd-europe.com
Sanctions list comparisons and data processing
Quantum Design GmbH is a member of the Quantum Design International Group, headquartered in San Diego, which maintains international trade relations and offers its products and services worldwide.
Quantum Design GmbH and the Quantum Design International Group are therefore subject to various sanction regimes, in particular international sanction regimes (such as the UN), supranational sanction regimes (such as the EU) or national sanction regimes (such as the USA or individual EU member states). These sanction regimes result in a wide range of obligations, such as not being allowed to sell certain products to certain countries or to maintain business relationships with certain countries or individuals. Violations of these obligations are sometimes subject to drastic sanctions.
In order to comply with the obligations of the sanction regimes, Quantum Design GmbH carries out comparisons with sanctions lists that are maintained and published by the UN, the EU or individual states, such as the USA.
For this purpose, we first check the name and country of residence of persons with whom we have or wish to have business contact against sanctions lists. If we do not find a corresponding entry, the check is completed without any further consequences for you. If we find an entry, we verify it in a second step using information on known business activities, date of birth and nationality.
If we are then unable to assign the entry to you on the sanctions list, the check is completed without any further consequences for you. If we are able to assign the entry to you after the second stage, we will inform you of this result, give you the opportunity to comment on it and will take your comments on the result of the sanctions list comparison into account for our decision on the establishment or continuation of a business relationship. For your rights regarding the processing of your personal data, see 6 below.
Purposes of data processing, legal basis and legitimate interests
The purpose of data processing is to identify persons named on sanctions lists in order to make a decision on the establishment and, if necessary, continuation of business relationships.
In the case of comparison with international sanctions lists, in particular from the UN, supranational sanctions lists from the EU and national sanctions lists from EU and EEA member states, the right to process your personal data arises from legal obligations of Quantum Design GmbH pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR. In all other cases, in particular in the case of comparisons with sanctions lists from non-EU or non-EEA member states, such as the USA, the right arises from our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.
Insofar as the processing of your personal data is in our legitimate interest, this interest arises from the obligation of Quantum Design GmbH,
- to identify persons named on sanctions lists,
- to not maintain business relationships with them or to comply with the requirements of the applicable sanction regimes for the business relationship and
- to avoid sanctions against Quantum Design GmbH for violations of sanction regimes.
Information transfer to third parties
We pass your personal data to our suppliers to carry out the sanctions list comparison. The comparison of your personal data against the sanctions list is done with the “ContRaMedida database”.
If we transfer your personal data in this or other cases to suppliers who process your personal data on our behalf, these suppliers will be bound by further contractual data protection requirements in addition to their legal obligation to comply with all data protection regulations. This includes an obligation as a processor in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. If your personal data is transferred to recipients outside the EU, we ensure that the recipient of the data guarantees an adequate level of data protection within the meaning of Chapter V of the GDPR and that no other interests worthy of protection speak against the transfer of data. In particular, we use the EU Commission's model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries (so-called standard contractual clauses) to ensure an adequate level of protection for the recipient data.
If in special cases a transfer of your personal data to public authorities is required, we check the legal requirements for this and only transfer your personal data if these requirements are met. In this case, we will inform you of the intended transfer, unless we are prohibited from doing so by law or by a legally binding order from an authority. In this case, we will inform you as soon as such a prohibition no longer applies.
Deletion
We delete your personal data as soon as it is no longer required for the purposes for which it was processed and if there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary. We delete the results of sanctions list comparisons 7 years after the sanctions list comparison has been carried out.
Your rights
You can request information about the personal data stored about you at any time and - insofar as the legal requirements are met - request the correction, deletion and restriction of the processing of this data.
If Quantum Design GmbH processes your data to pursue legitimate interests, you can exercise your right to object. Quantum Design GmbH will then only process your personal data if there are compelling legitimate grounds for the processing.
Whether and to what extent these rights exist in individual cases and which conditions apply is determined by law. The GDPR also grants you a right to data portability under certain circumstances. If you have given your consent under data protection law, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.
If you have any questions or complaints about data protection at Quantum Design GmbH, we recommend that you first contact our data protection officer.
Obligation to provide personal data
You are not obliged to provide Quantum Design GmbH with personal data. However, if you do not provide your personal data, it is possible that Quantum Design GmbH will not enter into a business relationship with you or will only enter into a limited business relationship with you or will terminate an existing business relationship in whole or in part. If you have a business relationship with Quantum Design GmbH, it is possible that this may result in a contractual obligation to provide personal data. Corresponding information can then be found in the existing contractual agreements between us.
No automated decision in individual cases
We do not use your personal data for automated individual decision-making within the meaning of Art. 22 para. 1 GDPR.
Changes to the privacy policy
New legal requirements, business decisions or technical developments may require changes to our privacy policy. The privacy policy will then be adapted accordingly. We will be happy to send you the latest version on request. Further information on data processing can also be found on our website.