Privacy Policy

4.3 Social Media Plugins

We have integrated social media plugins on our website
in order to be able to recommend and share articles on social networks, for
example LinkedIn. Data is only transmitted to third parties when users click on
one of the icons displayed in the social media list. We have no influence on
cookies set by social networks, nor do we have access to them.

We use plugins from the following social media
services and other third-party providers:

4.3.1 Facebook

We use selected Facebook tools on our website.
Facebook is a social media network of the company Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4
Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland. With the aid of this
tool we can provide the best possible offers to you and anyone interested in
our products and services. In the following we will give you an overview on the
different Facebook tools, as well as on what data is sent to Facebook and how
you can delete these data.

What are Facebook tools?

Along with many other products, Facebook also offers
so called “Facebook Business Tools”. This is Facebook’s official name for the
tools, but it is not very common. Therefore, we decided to merely call them
“Facebook tools”. They include the following:

Facebook-Pixel

social plugins (e.g. the “Like” or “Share“ button)

Facebook Login

Account Kit

APIs (application programming interface)

SDKs (Softwart developmept kits)

Plattform-integrations

Plugins

Codes

Specifications

Documentations

Technologies and Services

With these tools Facebook can extend its services and
is able to receive information on user activities outside of Facebook.

Why do we use Facebook tools on our website?

We only want to show our services and products to
people who are genuinely interested in them. With the help of advertisements
(Facebook Ads) we can reach exactly these people. However, to be able to show
suitable adverts to users, Facebook requires additional information on people’s
needs and wishes. Therefore, information on the user behaviour (and contact
details) on our website, are provided to Facebook. Consequently, Facebook can
collect better user data and is able to display suitable adverts for our
products or services. Thanks to the tools it is possible to create targeted,
customised ad campaigns of Facebook.

Facebook calls data about your behaviour on our website
“event data” and uses them for analytics services. That way, Facebook can
create “campaign reports” about our ad campaigns’ effectiveness on our behalf.
Moreover, by analyses we can get a better insight in how you use our services,
our website or our products. Therefore, some of these tools help us optimise
your user experience on our website. With the social plugins for instance, you
can share our site’s contents directly on Facebook.

What data is saved by the Facebook tools?

With the use of the Facebook tools, personal data
(customer data) may be sent to Facebook. Depending on the tools used, customer
data such as name, address, telephone number and IP address may be transmitted.

Facebook uses this information to match the data with
the data it has on you (if you are a Facebook member). However, before the
customer data is transferred to Facebook, a so called “Hashing” takes place.
This means, that a data record of any size is transformed into a string of
characters, which also has the purpose of encrypting data.

Moreover, not only contact data, but also “event data“
is transferred. These data are the information we receive about you on our
website. To give an example, it allows us to see what subpages you visit or
what products you buy from us. Facebook does not disclose the obtained
information to third parties (such as advertisers), unless the company has an
explicit permission or is legally obliged to do so. Also, “event data“ can be
linked to contact information, which helps Facebook to offer improved,
customised adverts. Finally, after the previously mentioned matching process,
Facebook deletes the contact data.

To deliver optimised advertisements, Facebook only
uses event data, if they have been combined with other data (that have been
collected by Facebook in other ways). Facebook also uses event data for the
purposes of security, protection, development and research. Many of these data
are transmitted to Facebook via cookies. Cookies are little text files, that
are used for storing data or information in browsers. Depending on the tools
used, and on whether you are a Facebook member, a different number of cookies
are placed in your browser. In the descriptions of the individual Facebook
tools we will go into more detail on Facebook cookies. You can also find
general information about the use of Facebook cookies here.

How long and where are the data saved?

Facebook fundamentally stores data, until they are no
longer of use for their own services and products. Facebook has servers for
storing their data all around the world. However, customer data is cleared
within 48 hours after they have been matched with their own user data.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

In accordance with the General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR) you have the right of information, rectification, transfer
and deletion of your data.

The collected data is only fully deleted, when you
delete your entire Facebook account. Deleting your Facebook account works as
follows:

1) Click on settings in the top right side in
Facebook.

2) Then, click “Your Facebook information“ in the left
column.

3) Now click on “Deactivation and deletion”.

4) Choose “Permanently delete account“ and then click
on “Continue to account deletion“.

5) Enter your password, click on “continue“ and then
on “Delete account“.

The retention of data Facebook receives via our site
is done via cookies (e.g. with social plugins), among others. You can
deactivate, clear or manage both all and individual cookies in your browser.
How this can be done differs depending on the browser you use. The following
instructions show, how to manage cookies in your browser:

Chrome: Clear, enable and manage
cookies in Chrome

Safari: Manage cookies and website
data in Safari

Firefox: Clear cookies and site data
in Firefox

Internet Explorer: Delete and manage
cookies

Microsoft Edge: Delete cookies in
Microsoft Edge

If you generally do not want to allow any cookies at
all, you can set up your browser to notify you whenever a cookie is about to be
set. This gives you the opportunity to decide upon the permission or deletion
of every single cookie.

Facebook is an active participant in the EU-U.S.
Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates correct and secure transfer of
personal data. You can find more information here.
We hope we could give you an understanding of the most important information
about the use of Facebook tools and data processing. If you want to find out
more on how Facebook use your data, we recommend reading the data policies.

4.3.2 Facebook Social Plugins Privacy
Policy

We installed so-called social plugins from Facebook
Inc. to our website. You can recognise these buttons by the classic Facebook
logo, the “Like” button (hand with raised thumb) or by a “Facebook plugin”
label. A social plugin is a small part of Facebook that is integrated into our
page. Each plugin has its own function. The most used functions are the
well-known “Like” and “Share” buttons.

Facebook offers the following social plugins:

“Save” button

“Like” button, Share, Send and Quote

Page plugin

Comments

Messenger plugin

Embedded posts and video player

Group Plugin

At you
will find more information on how the individual plugins are used. On the one
hand, we use the social plug-ins to offer you a better user experience on our
site, and on the other hand because Facebook can optimise our advertisements
with it.

If you have a Facebook account or have already
visited facebook.com, Facebook has already placed at
least one cookie in your browser. In this case, your browser sends information
to Facebook via this cookie as soon as you visit our website or interact with
social plugins (e.g. the “Like” button).

The received information will be deleted or anonymised
within 90 days. According to Facebook, this data includes your IP address, the
websites you have visited, the date, time and other information relating to
your browser.

In order to prevent Facebook from collecting much data
and matching it with your Facebook data during your visit to our website, you
must log out of Facebook while you visit our website.

If you are not logged in to Facebook or do not have a
Facebook account, your browser sends less information to Facebook because you
have fewer Facebook cookies. Nevertheless, data such as your IP address or
which website you are visiting can be transmitted to Facebook. We would like to
explicitly point out that we do not know what exact data is collected. However,
based on our current knowledge, we want to try informing you as best we can
about data processing. You can also read about how Facebook uses the data in
the company’s data policy.

At least the following cookies are set in your browser
when you visit a website with social plugins from Facebook:

Name: dpr
Value: no information
Purpose:This cookie is used to make the social plugins work on our
website.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: fr
Value: 0jieyh4111583687c2GnlufEJ9..Bde09j…1.0.Bde09j
Purpose:The cookie is also necessary for the plugins to function
properly
Expiry date: after 3 months

Note: These
cookies were set after our test and may be placed even if you are not a
Facebook member.

If you are registered with Facebook, you can change
your settings for advertisements yourself.
If you are not a Facebook user, you can manage your usage-based online advertising. There you have the option to
deactivate or activate providers.

If you want to learn more about Facebook’s data
protection, we recommend the company’s own data policies at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

4.3.3 Facebook Login Privacy Policy

We integrated the convenient Facebook Login to our
website. With it, you can easily log into our site with your Facebook account,
without having to create a new user account. If you decide to register via the
Facebook Login, you will be redirected to the social media network Facebook.
There, you can log in with your Facebook user data. By using this method to log
in, data on you and your user behaviour is stored and transmitted to Facebook.

To save the data, Facebook uses various cookies. In the
following we will show you the most significant cookies that are placed in your
browser or that already exist when you log into our site via the Facebook
Login:

Name: fr
Value: 0jieyh4c2GnlufEJ9..Bde09j…1.0.Bde09j
Purpose: This cookie is used to make the social plugin function
optimally on our website.
Expiry date: after 3 months

Name: datr
Value: 4Jh7XUA2111583687SEmPsSfzCOO4JFFl
Purpose: Facebook sets the “datr” cookie, when a web browser
accesses facebook.com. The cookie helps to identify login activities and
protect users.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: _js_datr
Value: deleted
Purpose: Facebook sets this session cookie for tracking purposes,
even if you do not have a Facebook account or are logged out.
Expiry date: after the end of the session

Note: The
cookies we stated are only a small range of the cookies which are available to
Facebook. Other cookies include for example _ fbp, sb or wd. It is not possible
to disclose an exhaustive list, since Facebook have a multitude of cookies at
their disposal which they use in variation.

On the one hand, Facebook Login enables a fast and
easy registration process. On the other hand, it gives us the opportunity to
share data with Facebook. In turn, we can customise our offer and advertising
campaigns better to your needs and interests. The data we receive from Facebook
by this means, is public data such as

your Facebook name

your profile picture

your stored email address

friends lists

button clicks (e.g. “Like“ button)

date of birth

language

place of residence

In return, we provide Facebook with information about
your activities on our website. These include information on the terminal
device you used, which of our subpages you visit, or what products you have
bought from us.

By using Facebook Login, you agree to the data
processing. You can terminate this agreement anytime. If you want to learn more
about Facebook’s data processing, we recommend you to read Facebook’s Data
Policy at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

If you are registered with Facebook, you can change your advertisement settings anytime.

4.3.4 LinkedIn

On our website we use social plugins from the social
media network LinkedIn, of the LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court,
Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Social plugins can be feeds, content sharing or a
link to our LinkedIn page. Social plugins are clearly marked with the
well-known LinkedIn logo and for example allow sharing interesting content
directly via our website. Moreover, LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company Wilton
Place in Dublin is responsible for data processing in the European Economic
Area and Switzerland.

By embedding these plugins, data can be sent to, as
well as stored and processed by LinkedIn. In this privacy policy we want to
inform you what data this is, how the network uses this data and how you can
manage or prevent data retention.

What is LinkedIn?

LinkedIn is the largest social network for business
contacts. In contrast to e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn focuses exclusively on
establishing business connections. Therefore, companies can present services
and products on the platform and establish business relationships. Many people
also use LinkedIn to find a job or to find suitable employees for their own
company. In Germany alone, the network has over 11 million members. In Austria
there are about 1.3 million.

Why do we use LinkedIn on our website?

We know how busy you are. You just cannot keep up with
following every single social media channel. Even if it would really be worth
it, as it is with our channels, since we keep posting interesting news and
articles worth spreading. Therefore, on our website we have created the
opportunity to share interesting content directly on LinkedIn, or to refer
directly to our LinkedIn page. We consider built-in social plugins as an
extended service on our website. The data LinkedIn collects also help us to
display potential advertising measures only to people who are interested in our
offer.

What data are stored by LinkedIn?

LinkedIn stores no personal data due to the mere
integration of social plugins. LinkedIn calls the data generated by plugins
passive impressions. However, if you click on a social plugin to e.g. share our
content, the platform stores personal data as so-called “active impressions”.
This happens regardless of whether you have a LinkedIn account or not. If you
are logged in, the collected data will be assigned to your account.

When you interact with our plugins, your browser
establishes a direct connection to LinkedIn’s servers. Through that, the
company logs various usage data. These may include your IP address, login data,
device information or information about your internet or cellular provider. If
you use LinkedIn services via your smartphone, your location may also be
identified (after you have given permission). Moreover, LinkedIn can share
these data with third-party advertisers in “hashed” form. Hashing means that a
data set is transformed into a character string. This allows data to be
encrypted, which prevents persons from getting identified.

Most data on of your user behaviour is stored in
cookies. These are small text files that usually get placed in your browser.
Furthermore, LinkedIn can also use web beacons, pixel tags, display tags and
other device recognitions.

Various tests also show which cookies are set when a
user interacts with a social plug-in. We do not claim for the information we
found to be exhaustive, as it only serves as an example. The following cookies
were set without being logged in to LinkedIn:

Name: bcookie
Value: =2&34aab2aa-2ae1-4d2a-8baf-c2e2d7235c16111583687-
Purpose: This cookie is a so-called “browser ID cookie” and stores
your identification number (ID).
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: lang
Value: v=2&lang=en-gb
Purpose:This cookie saves your default or preferred language.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: lidc
Value: 1818367:t=1571904767:s=AQF6KNnJ0G111583687…
Purpose:This cookie is used for routing. Routing records how you found
your way to LinkedIn and how you navigate through the website.
Expiry date: after 24 hours

Name: rtc
Value: kt0lrv3NF3x3t6xvDgGrZGDKkX
Purpose:No further information could be found about this cookie.
Expiry date: after 2 minutes

Name: JSESSIONID
Value: ajax:1115836872900777718326218137
Purpose: This is a session cookie that LinkedIn uses to maintain
anonymous user sessions through the server.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: bscookie
Value: “v=1&201910230812…
Purpose: This cookie is a security cookie. LinkedIn describes it as
a secure browser ID cookie.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: fid
Value: AQHj7Ii23ZBcqAAAA…
Purpose: We could not find any further information about this
cookie.
Expiry date: after 7 days

Note: LinkedIn
also works with third parties. That is why we identified the Google Analytics
cookies _ga and _gat in our test.

How long and where are the data stored?

In general, LinkedIn retains your personal data for as
long as the company considers it necessary for providing its services. However,
LinkedIn deletes your personal data when you delete your account. In some
exceptional cases, LinkedIn keeps some summarised and anonymised data, even
account deletions. As soon as you delete your account, it may take up to a day
until other people can no longer see your data. LinkedIn generally deletes the
data within 30 days. However, LinkedIn retains data if it is necessary for
legal reasons. Also, data that can no longer be assigned to any person remains
stored even after the account is closed. The data are stored on various servers
in America and presumably also in Europe.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

You have the right to access and delete your personal
data at any time. In your LinkedIn account you can manage, change and delete
your data. Moreover, you can request a copy of your personal data from
LinkedIn.

How to access account data in your LinkedIn profile:

In LinkedIn, click on your profile icon and select the
“Settings & Privacy” section. Now click on “Privacy” and then on the
section “How LinkedIn uses your data on”. Then, click “Change” in the row with
“Manage your data and activity”. There you can instantly view selected data on
your web activity and your account history.

In your browser you also have the option of preventing
data processing by LinkedIn. As mentioned above, LinkedIn stores most data via
cookies that are placed in your browser. You can manage, deactivate or delete
these cookies. Depending on which browser you have, these settings work a
little different. You can find the instructions for the most common browsers
here:

Chrome: Clear, enable and manage
cookies in Chrome

Safari: Manage cookies and website
data in Safari

Firefox: Clear cookies and site data
in Firefox

Internet Explorer: Delete and manage
cookies

Microsoft Edge: Delete cookies in
Microsoft Edge

You can generally set your browser to always notify
you when a cookie is about to be set. Then you can always decide individually
whether you want to allow the cookie or not.

LinkedIn is an active participant in the EU-U.S.
Privacy Shield Frameworks. This framework ensures correct data transmission
between the USA and the European Union. You can find out more about it here.
We gave our best to provide you the most essential information about LinkedIn’s
data processing. Here you
can find out more about data processing of the social media network LinkedIn.

4.3.5 Twitter

We have incorporated Twitter functions on our website.
These are, for example, embedded tweets, timelines, buttons or hashtags.
Twitter is a short message service and social media platform from the firm
Twitter Inc., One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2 D02 AX07, Ireland.

To our knowledge, in the European Economic Area and
Switzerland, a mere integration of the Twitter function does not transfer any
personal data or data about your web activities to Twitter. Only when you
interact with the Twitter functions, such as by clicking a button, data could
be sent to Twitter and get saved as well as processed there. We have no
influence on this processing of data and do not bare any responsibility for it.
Within this privacy statement, we want to give you an overview of what data
Twitter stores, what Twitter does with this data and how you can largely
protect yourself from data transmission.

What is Twitter?

For some, Twitter is a news service, for others, a
social media platform, and for others still it is a microblogging service. All
these terms are justified and mean pretty much the same.

Both individuals as well as companies use Twitter for
communicating with interested people via short messages. Twitter only allows
280 characters per message. These messages are called “tweets”. In contrast to
Facebook, for example, the service does not focus on the expansion of a network
of “friends”, but strives to be regarded as an open, worldwide news platform.
On Twitter you can also have an anonymous account and tweets can be deleted by
both, either the company or the users themselves.

Why do we use Twitter on our website?

Like many other websites and companies, we try to use
different channels for offering our services and communicating with our
customers. Twitter is a truly useful “small” news service, which is why it has
grown dear to us. We regularly tweet or retweet exciting, funny or interesting
content. We understand that you do not have the time to follow every channel
after channel, as you surely have enough other things to do. That is why we
also have integrated Twitter functions to our website. That way, you can
experience our Twitter activities “on site” or come to our Twitter page via a
direct link. With the integration, we want to strengthen the service and
user-friendliness on our website.

What data is stored by Twitter?

You will find integrated Twitter functions on some of
our subpages. If you interact with Twitter content, such as by clicking a
button, Twitter may collect and save data. This can happen even if you don’t
have a Twitter account yourself. Twitter calls this data “log data”. It
includes demographic data, browser cookie IDs, your smartphone’s ID, hashed
email addresses, and information on which pages you have visited on Twitter and
what actions you have taken there. Of course, Twitter stores more data if you
have a Twitter account and are logged in. This retention is usually done via
cookies. Cookies are small text files that are usually set in your browser and
transmit various information to Twitter.

We will now show you which cookies are placed if you
are not logged in to Twitter but visit a website with built-in Twitter
functions. Please consider this list as an example. We do not claim for this
list to be extensive, since the array of cookies always changes and depends on
your individual actions with Twitter content.
The following cookies have been used in our test:

Name: personalization_id
Value: “v1_cSJIsogU51SeE111583687”
Purpose: This cookie stores information on how you use the website
and what ad may have led you to Twitter.

Expiry date: after
2 years

Name: lang
Value: en
Purpose: This cookie stores your deafault or preferred language.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: guest_id
Value: 111583687v1%3A157132626
Purpose: This cookie is set to identify you as a guest.
Expiry date: after 2 years

Name: fm
Value: 0
Purpose: Unfortunately, we could not find out the purpose of this
cookie.
Expiry date: after end of session

Name: external_referer
Value: 1115836872beTA0sf5lkMrlGt
Purpose: This cookie collects anonymous data, such as how often you
visit Twitter and how long you visit Twitter.
Expiry date: after 6 days

Name: eu_cn
Value: 1
Purpose: This cookie stores user activity and is used for Twitter’s
various advertising purposes.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: ct0
Value: c1179f07163a365d2ed7aad84c99d966
Purpose: Unfortunately we could not find any information on this
cookie.
Expiry date: after 6 hours

Name: _twitter_sess
Value: 53D%253D–dd0248111583687-
Purpose: With this cookie you can use functions within Twitter’s
website.
Expiry date: after end of session

Note: Twitter
also works with third parties. Therefore, we have recognized the three Google
Analytics cookies _ga, _gat, _gid in our test.

On the one hand, Twitter uses the collected data for
gaining better understand on user behaviour, and thus to improve their own
services and advertising offers. On the other hand, the data are also used for
internal security measures.

How long and where are the data stored?

When Twitter collects data from other websites, after
a maximum of 30 days, they will be deleted, summarized or otherwise concealed.
Twitter’s servers are in various server centres in the United States.
Accordingly, it can be assumed that the gathered data will be collected and
stored in America. In our research we could not clearly determine whether
Twitter also owns servers in Europe. Generally, Twitter may keep collected data
stored until either the data are no longer useful to the company, until you delete
the data or until a potential legal deletion period has been reached.

How can I delete my data or prevent data retention?

In their Privacy Policy, Twitter repeatedly emphasize
that they do not save data from external website visits, provided you or your
browser are in the European Economic Area or Switzerland. However, if you
interact directly with Twitter, the company will of course store your data.

If you have a Twitter account, you can manage your
data by clicking on “More” under the “Profile” button. Then click on “Settings
and privacy”. Here you can manage data processing individually.

If you do not have a Twitter account, you can go
to twitter.com and
click “Settings”. At “Personalization and data” you can manage data that is
collected on you.

As mentioned above, most data are stored via cookies,
which you can manage, deactivate or delete in your browser. Please note that
when changing cookie settings in your browser, the edits will only affect that
very browser. This means that if you use another browser in the future, you
will have to manage your cookie settings there again. In the following you will
find instructions for managing cookies in the most popular browsers.

Chrome: Clear, enable and manage
cookies in Chrome

Safari: Manage cookies and website
data in Safari

Firefox: Clear cookies and site data
in Firefox

Internet Explorer: Delete and manage
cookies

Microsoft Edge: Delete cookies in
Microsoft Edge

You can also set your browser to notify you about each
individual cookie. This lets you decide individually whether you want to allow
or deny a cookie.

Twitter also uses the data for personalised
advertising in-and outside of Twitter. You can switch off personalised
advertising in the settings under “Personalization and data”. If you use
Twitter on a browser, you can deactivate personalised advertising at http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN.

Twitter is an active participant in the EU-U.S.
Privacy Shield Framework. This framework ensures correct data transmission
between the USA and the European Union. You can learn more about it at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TORzAAO.

We hope we could give you a basic overview of
Twitter’s data processing. We do not receive any data from Twitter and are not
responsible for what Twitter does with your data. If you have any further
questions on this topic, we recommend reading Twitter’s privacy statement
at https://twitter.com/en/privacy

5 Google reCAPTCHA

Our primary goal is to provide you an experience on
our website that is as secure and protected as possible. To do this, we use
Google reCAPTCHA from Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA
94043, USA). With reCAPTCHA we can determine whether you are a real person from
flesh and bones, and not a robot or a spam software. By spam we mean any
electronically undesirable information we receive involuntarily. Classic
CAPTCHAS usually needed you to solve text or picture puzzles to check. But
thanks to Google’s reCAPTCHA you usually do have to do such puzzles. Most of
the times it is enough to simply tick a box and confirm you are not a bot. With
the new Invisible reCAPTCHA version you don’t even have to tick a box. In this
privacy policy you will find out how exactly this works, and what data is used
for it.

What is reCAPTCHA?

reCAPTCHA is a free captcha service from Google that
protects websites from spam software and misuse by non-human visitors. This
service is used the most when you fill out forms on the Internet. A captcha
service is a type of automatic Turing-test that is designed to ensure specific
actions on the Internet are done by human beings and not bots. During the
classic Turing-test (named after computer scientist Alan Turing), a person
differentiates between bot and human. With Captchas, a computer or software
program does the same. Classic captchas function with small tasks that are easy
to solve for humans but provide considerable difficulties to machines. With
reCAPTCHA, you no longer must actively solve puzzles. The tool uses modern risk
techniques to distinguish people from bots. The only thing you must do there,
is to tick the text field “I am not a robot”. However, with Invisible reCAPTCHA
even that is no longer necessary. reCAPTCHA, integrates a JavaScript element
into the source text, after which the tool then runs in the background and
analyses your user behaviour. The software calculates a so-called captcha score
from your user actions. Google uses this score to calculate the likelihood of
you being a human, before entering the captcha. reCAPTCHA and Captchas in
general are used every time bots could manipulate or misuse certain actions
(such as registrations, surveys, etc.).

Why do we use reCAPTCHA on our website?

We only want to welcome people from flesh and bones on
our side and want bots or spam software of all kinds to stay away. Therefore,
we are doing everything we can to stay protected and to offer you the highest
possible user friendliness. For this reason, we use Google reCAPTCHA from
Google. Thus, we can be pretty sure that we will remain a “bot-free” website.
Using reCAPTCHA, data is transmitted to Google to determine whether you
genuinely are human. reCAPTCHA thus ensures our website’s and subsequently your
security. Without reCAPTCHA it could e.g. happen that a bot would register as
many email addresses as possible when registering, in order to subsequently
“spam” forums or blogs with unwanted advertising content. With reCAPTCHA we can
avoid such bot attacks.

What data is stored by reCAPTCHA?

reCAPTCHA collects personal user data to determine
whether the actions on our website are made by people. Thus, IP addresses and
other data Google needs for its reCAPTCHA service, may be sent to Google.
Within member states of the European Economic Area, IP addresses are almost
always compressed before the data makes its way to a server in the USA.
Moreover, your IP address will not be combined with any other of Google’s data,
unless you are logged into your Google account while using reCAPTCHA. Firstly,
the reCAPTCHA algorithm checks whether Google cookies from other Google
services (YouTube, Gmail, etc.) have already been placed in your browser. Then
reCAPTCHA sets an additional cookie in your browser and takes a snapshot of
your browser window.

The following list of collected browser and user data
is not exhaustive. Rather, it provides examples of data, which to our
knowledge, is processed by Google.

Referrer URL (the address of the page the visitor has
come from)

IP-address (z.B. 256.123.123.1)

Information on the operating system (the software that
enables the operation of your computers. Popular operating systems are Windows,
Mac OS X or Linux)

Cookies (small text files that save data in your
browser)

Mouse and keyboard behaviour (every action you take
with your mouse or keyboard is stored)

Date and language settings (the language and date you
have set on your PC is saved)

All Javascript objects (JavaScript is a programming
language that allows websites to adapt to the user. JavaScript objects can
collect all kinds of data under one name)

Screen resolution (shows how many pixels the image
display consists of)

Google may use and analyse this data even before you
click on the “I am not a robot” checkmark. In the Invisible reCAPTCHA version,
there is no need to even tick at all, as the entire recognition process runs in
the background. Moreover, Google have not given details on what information and
how much data they retain.

The following cookies are used by reCAPTCHA: With the
following list we are referring to Google’s reCAPTCHA demo version  here.
For tracking purposes, all these cookies require a unique identifier. Here is a
list of cookies that Google reCAPTCHA has set in the demo version:

Name: IDE
Value: WqTUmlnmv_qXyi_DGNPLESKnRNrpgXoy1K-pAZtAkMbHI-111583687-8
Purpose:This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to
register and report a user’s interactions with advertisements. With it, ad
effectiveness can be measured, and appropriate optimisation measures can be
taken. IDE is stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net.
Expiry date: after one year

Name: 1P_JAR
Value: 2019-5-14-12
Purpose: This cookie collects website usage statistics and measures
conversions. A conversion e.g. takes place, when a user becomes a buyer. The
cookie is also used to display relevant adverts to users. Furthermore, the
cookie can prevent a user from seeing the same ad more than once.
Expiry date: after one month

Name: ANID
Value: U7j1v3dZa1115836870xgZFmiqWppRWKOr
Purpose:We could not find out much about this cookie. In Google’s privacy
statement, the cookie is mentioned in connection with “advertising cookies”
such as “DSID”, “FLC”, “AID” and “TAID”. ANID is stored under the domain
google.com.
Expiry date: after 9 months

Name: CONSENT
Value: YES+AT.de+20150628-20-0
Purpose: This cookie stores the status of a user’s consent to the use of
various Google services. CONSENT also serves to prevent fraudulent logins and
to protect user data from unauthorised attacks.
Expiry date: after 19 years

Name: NID
Value: 0WmuWqy111583687zILzqV_nmt3sDXwPeM5Q
Purpose: Google uses NID to customise advertisements to your Google searches.
With the help of cookies, Google “remembers” your most frequently entered
search queries or your previous ad interactions. Thus, you always receive
advertisements tailored to you. The cookie contains a unique ID to collect
users’ personal settings for advertising purposes.
Expiry date: after 6 months

Name: DV
Value: gEAABBCjJMXcI0dSAAAANbqc111583687-4
Purpose: This cookie is set when you tick the “I am not a robot” checkmark.
Google Analytics uses the cookie personalised advertising. DV collects
anonymous information and is also used to distinct between users.
Expiry date: after 10 minutes

Note: We do not claim for this list to be extensive,
as Google often change the choice of their cookies.

How long and where are the data stored?

Due to the integration of reCAPTCHA, your data will be
transferred to the Google server. Google have not disclosed where exactly this
data is stored, despite repeated inquiries. But even without confirmation from
Google, it can be assumed that data such as mouse interaction, length of stay
on a website or language settings are stored on the European or American Google
servers. The IP address that your browser transmits to Google does generally
not get merged with other Google data from the company’s other services.
However, the data will be merged if you are logged in to your Google account
while using the reCAPTCHA plug-in. Google’s diverging privacy policy applies
for this.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?

If you want to prevent any data about you and your
behaviour to be transmitted to Google, you must fully log out of Google and
delete all Google cookies before visiting our website or use the reCAPTCHA
software. Generally, the data is automatically sent to Google as soon as you
visit our website. To delete this data, you must contact Google Support
at https://support.google.com/?hl=en-GB&tid=111583687.

If you use our website, you agree that Google LLC and
its representatives automatically collect, edit and use data.

You can find out more about reCAPTCHA on Google’s Developers page.
While Google do give more detail on the technical development of reCAPTCHA
there, they have not disclosed precise information about data retention and
data protection. A good, basic overview of the use of data however, can be
found in the company’s internal privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB.

6 TLS encryption with https

We use https to transfer information on the internet
in a tap-proof manner (data protection through technology design Article 25 Section 1 GDPR).
With the use of TLS (Transport Layer Security), which is an encryption protocol
for safe data transfer on the internet, we can ensure the protection of
confidential information. You can recognise the use of this safeguarding tool
by the little lock-symbol, which is situated in your browser’s top left corner,
as well as by the use of the letters https (instead of http) as a part of our
web address.

7 Mouseflow

This website uses features of the web analytics
service Smartlook provided by:

Mouseflow, Inc.
01 Congress Ave
Suite 150
Austin, TX 78701
United States

Flaesketorvet 68
1711 Copenhagen V
Denmark

With the help of this service, mouse movements and
heat maps on our website are recorded – anonymously – in order to constantly
improve the user-friendliness of our website.

8 Responsibility for the storage of data

Lawgitise GmbH

Address: Sieveringerstrasse 65/2/11 A-1190 Wien

Object of the company:

– Business consulting including business organization

– Marketing consulting

VAT number: ATU64378845 (Jurisdiction Vienna)

Company registration number: 314835 v (Member of the
Vienna Chamber of Commerce)

Mail: dataprivacy at lawfirmrankingsreport.com

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