Data privacy

In this statement, we inform you about the data we collect from you when you use our website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior. We have taken extensive technical and operational precautions to protect your data from accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons.

Person responsible for data processing

Responsible according to Art. 4 para. 7 EU Data Protection Basic Regulation (DSGVO) is:

DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH
Pascalstr. 28
52076 Aachen
Germany
E-mail: datenschutz@dsa.de

(For more contact opportunities see our imprint.)

Data Protection Officer

You can contact our data protection officer at datenschutz@dsa.de

Contact

You can send us an inquiry using our stated e-mail addresses and our general contact form. The personal data that you provide in the context of this request will be stored by us in order to respond to your request. We delete the collected data after the storage is no longer necessary. We restrict the processing if there are legal obligations to retain the data. Data will not be passed on to third parties.

If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes in this data protection declaration. In doing so, we will also state the defined criteria for the storage period.

Collection of personal data of visitors to our website

In the case of merely informational use of the website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) DS-GVO) and to ensue stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c) DS-GVO in conjunction with Art. 32 DS-GVO):

IP address
Date and time of the request
Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Content of the request (specific page)
Access status/HTTP status code
Amount of data transferred in each case
Website from which the request comes
Browser
Operating system and its interface
Language and version of the browser software

These data with complete, possibly personal IP addresses are stored by us for reasons of technical security, in particular to defend against attempted attacks on our web server. They are anonymized/deleted after seven days at the latest.

Use of cookies

In addition to the data mentioned above, cookies are placed on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive assigned to the browser you are using. They provide the party setting the cookie (in this case, us) with certain information. Cookies cannot execute programs or transmit viruses to your computer.

This website uses the following essential cookies:

Name	PHPSESSID
Provider	Owner of this website
Purpose	Saving the setting of the website user, such as the language
Legal basis	Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) DS-GVO
Duration of storage	One year

Name	klaro
Provider	Owner of this website
Purpose	Storage of the website user's setting related to cookies (cookie consent function).
Legal basis	Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) DS-GVO
Duration of storage	One year

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User convenience functions

For an optimal presentation of our website (e.g. adaptation to different screen sizes, displayable menu, input control of the contact form) we use techniques such as Javascript and CSS (cascading style sheets). You can disable the use of these techniques by making the respective settings in your browser. In this case, however, parts of our website may no longer be accessible to you.

With your consent, you can subscribe to our newsletter, with which we inform you about our current interesting products, events and services. The advertised goods and services are named in the declaration of consent.

For the registration to our newsletter we use the so-called double-opt-in process. This means that after your registration, we will send you an e-mail to the e-mail address you provided, in which we ask you to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter. If you do not confirm your registration within two weeks, your information will be blocked and automatically deleted after one month. In addition, we store your used IP addresses and times of registration and confirmation. The purpose of this procedure is to be able to prove your registration and, if necessary, to clarify a possible misuse of your personal data.

The only mandatory information for sending the newsletter is your e-mail address. The provision of further, separately marked data is voluntary and will be used to address you personally. After your confirmation, we store your e-mail address for the purpose of sending the newsletter. (Legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) DS-GVO).

You can withdraw your consent to the sending of the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can declare the withdrawal by clicking on the link provided in every newsletter e-mail, by sending an e-mail to newsletter@dsa.de or by sending a message to the contact details provided in the imprint. In the event of a withdrawal, we will delete your data that is no longer required within four weeks.

YouTube with extended data protection

This website integrates videos from the YouTube platform. The provider of the video portal is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
We use YouTube in extended data protection mode. According to YouTube, this mode means that YouTube does not store any information about visitors to this website before they watch the video. However, the transfer of data to YouTube partners is not necessarily excluded by the extended data protection mode.
To ensure the best possible protection of your data, embedded YouTube videos on this website are not loaded automatically. To initiate the loading of a video, you must explicitly initiate this by clicking on a corresponding button (two-click solution).
As soon as you start a YouTube video on this website via the corresponding button, a connection to YouTube's servers is established and only then will data be transmitted to YouTube.
In doing so, the YouTube server is informed which of our pages you have visited. If you have a YouTube account which you are logged into while watching the videos, YouTube can directly assign your browsing behavior to your personal profile. You can prevent this by being logged out of your YouTube account.

Furthermore, YouTube can save various cookies on your device after starting a video or use similar identification technologies (e.g. device fingerprinting). In this way, YouTube can obtain information about visitors to this website. This information is used, among other things, to collect video statistics, improve the user experience, and prevent fraud attempts.
Possibly, after the start of a YouTube video, further data processing operations may be triggered, over which we have no control.

YouTube is used in the interest of an adequate presentation of our services. This represents a legitimate interest within the sense of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
For more information about data protection at YouTube, please refer to YouTube's privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Links to third-party websites

DSA's websites may contain links to third-party websites. If you follow these, you will leave DSA's websites and thus the scope of this privacy policy. DSA is not responsible for the data protection policies or the content of the linked websites.

Whitepaper-Download

On our website we offer the option to request information (whitepapers) on various topics related to our fields of activity. We collect your e-mail address in order to decide whether we will provide you with this information (protection of our technical knowledge). (Legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) DS-GVO).

If we provide you with the information, you will receive an email with a download link for the requested whitepaper. After sending this e-mail, we will delete your e-mail address within 14 days, unless you have given us your consent for the further use of your e-mail address.

You can withdraw your consent at any time. To do so, send your withdrawal by e-mail to whitepaper@dsa.de. We will then delete your data within 14 days, unless there is another obligation to retain it. We will then no longer inform you about our whitepapers and our products and services by e-mail.

Your rights

You have the following rights towards us regarding the personal data related to you:

right of information,
right to rectification or deletion,
right to restriction of processing,
right to object to processing,
right to data portability.

You also have the right to raise a complaint at a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us. The supervisory authority responsible for us is the:

State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Kavalleriestr. 2-4
40213 Düsseldorf
Telephone: 0211/38424-0
Fax: 0211/38424-10
E-mail: poststelle@ldi.nrw.de

If you should indeed see a reason for a complaint, our external data protection officer is also available to you as a confidential contact under the contact details given above.

Additional information

The personal data processed in connection with the provision of this website is disclosed to the following categories of recipients:

Providers of technical services and services (e.g., data center services, online store) that are used by us solely as processors
Other providers of technical services, as described in the preceding sections

Recipients in the sense of point 1. are:

Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany, Contact
Carabin Praß GmbH, Bismarckstraße 71, 52066 Aachen, Germany, Contact

Automated decision-making processes that could have legal effect on you or could significantly affect you in a similar way do not take place in connection with your use of this website.

Data in the imprint

We explicitly object to the use of contact data published within the imprint obligation by third parties for the purpose of sending unrequested advertising and information material. We explicitly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unrequested sending of advertising information, for example by spam mails.

Changes to this privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration in agreement with the legal data protection regulations. The currently valid version can be viewed at any time in the data protection section of our website.