Privacy Policy

SOFTWARE-SERVICE JOHN GMBH would like to thank you for your interest in our homepage and our company and products. The protection of your personal data when it is collected, processed and used during your visit to our website is important to us. Your data is protected in accordance with the statutory regulations. Below you will find information on what data is collected during your visit to our website and how it is used:

We cannot accept any liability for external links to third-party content, despite careful checking of the content.

Collection and processing of data

Every access to our homepage and every retrieval of a file stored on the homepage is logged. The storage serves internal system-related and statistical purposes. The following are logged Name of the retrieved file, date and time of retrieval, amount of data transferred, notification of successful retrieval, web browser and requesting domain. The IP addresses of the requesting computers are also logged.

Further personal data is only collected if you provide this information voluntarily, for example as part of an enquiry or registration.

Use and disclosure of personal data

If you have provided us with personal data, SOFTWARE-SERVICE JOHN GMBH will only use it to answer your enquiries, to process contracts concluded with you and for technical administration. Your personal data will only be passed on or otherwise transmitted to third parties if this is necessary for the purpose of contract fulfilment – in particular the forwarding of order data to suppliers – or for billing purposes, or if you have given your prior consent. You have the right to revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To do so, please contact us directly at any time using the contact details provided in the legal notice. Stored personal data will be deleted if you withdraw your consent to storage, if knowledge of the data is no longer required to fulfil the purpose for which it was stored or if storage of the data is not permitted for other legal reasons.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc (‘Google’). Google Analytics uses ‘cookies’, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of analysing your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

You can object to the collection and storage of data at any time with effect for the future: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. In view of the discussion about the use of analysis tools with complete IP addresses, we would like to point out that this website uses Google Analytics with the extension ‘_anonymizeIp()’ and therefore IP addresses are only processed further in abbreviated form in order to exclude a direct personal reference.’

Privacy policy for the use of Facebook plugins (Like button)

Plugins from the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA are integrated on our pages. You can recognise the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the ‘Like’ button on our site. You can find an overview of the Facebook plugins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.
When you visit our website, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Facebook server via the plugin. Facebook receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click on the Facebook ‘Like’ button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. Further information on this can be found in Facebook’s privacy policy at http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php
If you do not want Facebook to be able to associate your visit to our pages with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

Privacy policy for the use of Google +1

Collection and dissemination of information:
You can use the Google +1 button to publish information worldwide. You and other users receive personalised content from Google and our partners via the Google +1 button. Google stores both the information that you have given +1 for a content and information about the page that you viewed when you clicked +1. Your +1s can be displayed as references together with your profile name and your photo in Google services, such as in search results or in your Google profile, or in other places on websites and adverts on the Internet.
Google records information about your +1 activities in order to improve Google services for you and others. To be able to use the Google +1 button, you need a globally visible, public Google profile, which must contain at least the name chosen for the profile. This name is used in all Google services. In some cases, this name can also replace another name that you have used when sharing content via your Google account. The identity of your Google profile can be displayed to users who know your e-mail address or have other identifying information about you.

Use of the information collected:
In addition to the uses described above, the information you provide will be used in accordance with the applicable Google privacy policy. Google may publish summarised statistics about the +1 activities of users or pass these on to users and partners, such as publishers, advertisers or associated websites.

Right to information

Please send your written enquiry regarding the personal data stored about you to the SOFTWARE-SERVICE JOHN GMBH address given in the legal notice.

Note: Communication by e-mail / FTP

SOFTWARE-SERVICE JOHN GMBH endeavours to take all technical and organisational measures to store your personal data in such a way that it is not accessible to third parties.

We would also like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

We recommend sending confidential information by post.