1. Data transmission and data logging upon access from the internet
When you visit the homepage of PERI, your internet browser transmits data. This data is temporarily saved on the servers of PERI, evaluated for statistical purposes and deleted again afterwards. This for example includes the IP address used by your internet connection, the time as well as date of your access to the homepage of PERI, the URL of the page from which you got to the homepage of PERI, the names and the URL of the file called up by you including the transmitted data volume, a message whether the access has been successful, the identification data of your operation system and your browser as well as the name of your internet access provider. It is not possible for PERI to assign the mentioned data to a specific person.
PERI processes this data in particular to enable the establishment of a connection to its website and its utilization. Furthermore, the data transmission and data logging helps system security and the administration of the servers as well as the improvement of the internet offer. There is principally no evaluation of the IP addresses. One exception, for example, is an attack against the www.peri.de domain.
Additional PERI uses on this website 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 analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case IP-anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated within the area of Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the whole IP address will be first transfered to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP-anonymisation is active on this website. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing them other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP-address, that your Browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics, will not be associated 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. You can also opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics with effect for the future by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Addon for your current web browser: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
2. Inventory data
In case a contractual relationship is meant to be initiated, filled with content or modified between you and PERI, then the PERI SE would collect personal data in this context. Following the legal terminology of § 14 TMG [Telemediengesetz; German Telemedia Act], it is referred to as “Bestandsdaten“ [inventory data]. This inventory data is only collected and utilized by PERI to the extent to which the data is necessary for the realization of the respective contractual relationship. Inventory data is also collected and utilized by companies affiliated to PERI, as far as this is necessary for the realization of the respective contractual relationship.
By order of the relevant authorities, PERI may provide information on the inventory data in individual cases, in so far as this might be necessary for criminal prosecution, averting of danger through state police departments, performing legal tasks of the German federal and state constitution protection agencies, the “Bundesnachrichtendienst” [German Federal Intelligence Service], the “Militärischer Abschirmdienst” [German Military Counter-Intelligence Service], the “Bundeskriminalamt” [Federal Criminal Police Office] or for the protection of intellectual property rights.
3. Usage Data
Beyond this, personal data (usage data) of you is only collected and utilized by PERI and companies affiliated to PERI in so far as this is necessary to enable or calculate the usage of this internet offer (usage data according to § 15 TMG [Telemediengesetz; German Telemedia Act]). This data includes in particular your identification features, information on start and end as well as scope of the particular usage of our offer.
When using pseudonyms, PERI can create user profiles for the purpose of promotion, market research and the demand-oriented design of the internet offer. PERI is not allowed to link these user profiles with data about the carrier of the pseudonym. In so far as PERI makes use of the possibility to use pseudonyms in the framework of its internet offer, this will be pointed out to you at the relevant point. You are entitled to prohibit this type of usage.
By order of the relevant authorities, PERI may provide information on the inventory data in individual cases, in so far as this might be necessary for criminal prosecution, averting of danger through state police departments, performing legal tasks of the German federal and state constitution protection agencies, the “Bundesnachrichtendienst” [German Federal Intelligence Service], the “Militärischer Abschirmdienst” [German Military Counter-Intelligence Service], the “Bundeskriminalamt” [Federal Criminal Police Office] or for the protection of intellectual property rights.
4. Cookies
The homepage of PERI uses cookies. Cookies are files which are exchanged between your browser and the server of PERI and which are deposited on your computer. They help to expand the internet offer of PERI as well as its simplified utilization. There is, for example, the possibility to save passwords with the help of cookies. You can de-activate or limit the utilization of cookies by carrying out the according settings in your browser.
5. Right to information
You receive information on your data which are saved at PERI at any time without indication of reasons and free of charge. You can have your data, which has been collected by PERI and the companies affiliated to PERI at any time blocked, corrected or deleted. For this, please contact our data protection officer Jürgen Block