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T.A. Cook & Partner Consultants GmbH ("T.A. Cook" or "we") operates the Internet portal, which can be accessed via www.tacook.com and all other domains and related web pages and sub-domains ("tacook.com"). In the following Privacy Policy, T.A. Cook would like to inform you about the type, extent and purpose of the collection and use of your personal data when you visit tacook.com, register for online services such as our newsletter.


We take the protection of personal data very seriously and comply with all applicable data protection laws and directives. T.A. Cook only processes personal data and personally identifiable information when you have given us your express consent to do so or as permitted by law. We assure you that our operational office data practices comply with respective national data protection laws.

 

1. Responsible body and contact possibilities of the data protection officer

The responsible body is the

T.A. Cook & Partner Consultants GmbH
Leipziger Platz 1
10117 Berlin

Tel.: +49 - 30 - 88 43 07-0
Fax: +49 - 30 - 88 43 07-30
E-Mail: [email protected]

Website www.tacook.com

Our data protection officer is:

Thorsten Feldmann, LL.M.
JBB Data Consult GmbH

Christinenstr. 18/19
10119 Berlin

E-Mail: [email protected]
Website: jbbdataconsult.de

 

2. For what purposes we process personal data and on what legal basis this happens

 

a) Personal Data

According to the DSGVO (GDPR) regulation "Personal data" or personally identifiable information (PII) refers to any information relating to a natural person that identifies or can be used to identify said person. A natural person is considered to be identifiable who can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by association with an identifier such as a name, with an identification number, with location data, with an online identifier or with one or more special features, which express the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of this natural person.

b) What data we use from you and from which sources we receive you

In general, you can browse T.A. Cook's web pages anonymously. Unless you voluntarily provide us with such data, we do not collect or store personally identifiable information when you visit tacook.com. Our log files are completely anonymous and are used for the sole purpose of diagnosing and resolving problems with the technical operation of tacook.com and for statistical purposes to improve and optimise the content and design of tacook.com.

However, notwithstanding the foregoing, every web server automatically records each visit to a website. To maintain system security, when you visit our website, our host's web server saves your IP address, the date of access, the URL of the page(s) visited, any content that is viewed and any other transactions. This information is collected anonymously and cannot be used by us to identify the user. Personally identifiable information is only collected when the visitor voluntarily submits such information, for example, to register for our newsletter. Any personal data you provide is used for the sole purpose of answering your questions, completing your orders or for technical administration.

On our website, you may find links to third party websites. We have no control over the data or privacy practices of these websites.

Newsletter and profile

We offer the opportunity to sign up for our Newsletter. We need your e-mail address for that.

Contact by e-mail

Finally, you can contact us by e-mail. In doing so, you should at least provide us with your e-mail address and, if applicable, your name and other personal data.

c) For what purposes and on what legal basis we process your data

Your data sent to us for the newsletter and in your profile will be used to send you interesting information by e-mail. The sending of the newsletter finds its legal basis in Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) DS-GVO and Art. 95 DS-GVO i.V.m. § 7 para. 2 no. 3 UWG.

Your contact details will be processed to answer your request. Its legal basis is found in Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DS-GVO. Our legitimate interest is to respond to your request as well as possible.

The pseudonymous analysis of your user behavior on our website is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DS-GMO. We have a legitimate interest in analyzing the use of our website for the purposes of market research and user-friendly design.

The data collected by Lead Forensics to evaluate your visit to the website, to compile reports about website activitywho visited our website and especially which companies visited our website and to generate additional services with regards to the usage of the website and internet. We use this data as well as where applicable the contact data of decision makers for the purpose of marketing, in particular in order to be able to contact your organization, and the optimization of our website and our business processes. The purposes described justify the legitimate interest that we pursue with data processing. The legal basis for this can be found in Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DS-GVO (GDPR).

The integration of social media buttons is also based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) DS-GMO. Our legitimate interest and purpose of processing is to provide you with the appropriate technical options for distributing our products.

 

3. Who receives your personal data from us

Within our organization, each department has access to your data, which is responsible for handling the concerns. In addition, we use external service providers, as far as we can not or can not sensible perform services ourselves. These external service providers are primarily providers of IT services, telecommunications services and payment services.

Our affiliates have access to your personal information in order to enable efficient processing of your requests and requests in certain cases as necessary. Some of them are located outside the European Union in so-called third countries. These are the USA, Canada, Brazil and the People's Republic of China.

Any other transfer to third countries will only take place if it is necessary for the performance of your orders, if it is required by law or if you have given us your consent.

 

4. How long we save your data

We store our logfiles for 4 weeks.

If you have subscribed to our newsletter, the associated data will be stored until your consent is revoked. Thereafter, the data will be deleted immediately.

If you have contacted us, for example by e-mail, we will store this data as long as we have an active communication relationship and the storage is required to answer your request. Thereafter, the data will be deleted immediately.

 

5. What rights you have

The General Data Protection Regulation guarantees you certain rights that you can assert against us.

- Art. 15 DS-GVO - Right of information of the data subject: You have the right to request confirmation from us as to whether personal data concerning you are being processed and, if so, the details of the data processing.

- Art. 16 DS-GVO - Right to rectification: You have the right to demand immediate correction of incorrect personal data concerning you. You also have the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data, including by means of a supplementary statement, taking into account the purposes of processing.

- Art. 17 DS-GVO - Right to cancellation: You have the right to ask us to delete your personal data without delay.

- Art. 18 DS-GVO - Right to restriction of processing: You have the right to demand that we restrict the processing.

- Art. 20 DS-GVO - Right to data portability: You have the right, in the case of processing on the basis of a consent or to fulfill a contract, to receive the personal data that you have provided us in a structured, common and machine-readable format as well as to transmit this data to another person responsible without hindrance by us or to transmit the data directly to the other person responsible, as far as this is technically feasible.

-  Art. 21 DS-GVO - Right of objection: You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time against the processing of personal data concerning you, processing for us due to a legitimate interest on our part or to fulfill a duty in the public interest, or in the exercise of official authority.

If you object, we will no longer process your personal information unless we can establish compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the purposes of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims.
As far as we process your personal data to operate direct mail, you have the right to object to the processing at any time. If you object to the processing for direct marketing purposes, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes.

- Art. 77 GDPR i. V. m. § 19 BDSG - Right of appeal to a supervisory authority: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority at any time, in particular in the Member State of your residence, place of work or place of alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of the personal data that violates applicable law.

If you give us consent - e.g. for the sending of a newsletter - you have the right to revoke your consent at any time. All data processing that we have done until your cancellation will remain legal in this case. To do this, you can simply click on the link in each email and unsubscribe from the email service or send a message to [email protected] If you tell us in this message that you do not want to receive e-mails in the future, we will stop sending messages to the e-mail address you provided.

6. Your duty to provideus with personal data

You have no contractual or legal obligation to provide us with personal data. However, we will not be able to provide you with our services without the data provided by you.

 

7. The existence of automated decision making (including profiling)

We do not use automated decision making that has legal effects on you or that affects you.

 

8. Internet-specific data processing

a) Cookies

We use cookies on our website. A cookie is a small text file sent by a web server to a web browser and stored locally on your hard drive in accordance with your browser's settings. Cookies contain information which can be subsequently read by a web server in the domain in which the cookie was issued to you.

Cookies cannot execute programs or place viruses on your computer. Their sole purpose is to make our website more user-friendly and efficient.

The cookies we use are of three types:

1. Session Cookies

These cookies identify the user while they are browsing the website and when they register for a conference or purchase a study paper via the website.

These cookies are not used to identify the user of the web page with real data such as a name or email address. The data inside the cookie is a code which is specific for each combination of browser and computer. The cookie is simply used to let our server know that a particular user has already visited the server or web pages.

During an online registration process for a conference or when a user is purchasing a study paper, this type of cookie is necessary to process and protect user input.

The session cookies used by T.A. Cook are:

    A cookie set by Typo3 (a website editing application)
    A cookie set by PHP (a programming language with which the website is created)
    A cookie used by a secure program for registration and purchases

2. Analytical Cookies

These cookies are also called web tracking cookies and they identify the user against Google for their statistics.

These cookies provide us with information about which type of browser and version the user uses, the URL click stream (sequence of web pages that are visited), the date and time of the visit and the cookie number. They do not, however, disclose the name, address, email address or IP addresses of users.

These are exclusively for statistical purposes, for example, to show us which content is viewed most often on our website. This information enables us to create customised content such as our "Most Read" section and to offer visitors to our website a more user-friendly experience.

Furthermore, statistical information regarding browser type and operating system helps us to optimise our web design. We also aim to provide visitors to tacook.com with relevant content and services. To this end, we or our partners automatically analyse information contained in log files or cookies. We do this with the sole intention of supplying users with content and offers specific to their location and needs.

3. User-Specific Cookies

These cookies are used for saving the preference of users to store cookies on their device and for making the cookie notice as unobtrusive as possible. The default setting of these cookies is the user being in agreement of cookies being placed on their device and if the user withdraws their consent, these cookies are deleted with the exception of those cookies which are required to record the user's cookie selection preference. 

If you want to disable the use of cookies your internet browser should give you the option to reject new cookies. You can then either accept or block cookies. Most internet browsers are automatically set to accept cookies. You can change the settings of your internet browser, however, so that cookies are blocked by default. Details on how to change your settings can be found in your browser's help menu. For more information, please refer to www.allaboutcookies.org where you can learn about deleting cookies from your device.

b) Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). Google Analytics uses the above cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We have activated the IP anonymization on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, before it is transmitted to the United States. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there.

On behalf of tacook.com, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide us with other services related to website activity and internet usage.

The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible. You may also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link


http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

We save this data for26 weeks.

c) Lead Forensics

We use technology on our website from Lead Forensics Ltd., 3000 Lakeside, North Harbor, Portsmouth PO6 3EN, company registration number: 7158006, United Kingdom for purposes of marketing and optimizing our website and our business processes. When you visit our site, Lead Forensics determines details of your organization including phone number, web address, SIC code, a description of the company. In addition, Lead Forensics records the actual progress of your visit to this website, including any pages you have visited and viewed, and how long you have spent on this page. Lead Forensics uses cookies for this purpose. You can get details about which cookies are stored for which period and their contents, via your browser software when visiting our page. The data will not be used for the personal identification of an individual visitor or employee.

As far as IP addresses are collected, these will be anonymized immediately after collection.
Lead Forensics uses the information collected to evaluate your visit to the website, to compile reports
on our website activity, in particular to inform us about which companies have visited our website, and
to provide us with other services related to website activity and internet usage. In addition, Lead Forensics will use the corporate information we obtain to communicate and provide publicly available contact information to decision makers in your organization who we may contact.

If you do not agree with the processing described above, you may object to data collection, processing and storage at any time with future effect by following this link:
optout.leadforensics.com.

 

c) Social Media

We also use so-called "social plugins". These plugins provide you with certain comfort features to interact with your favorite social media services, share or link content, and follow us or other members of your social media service. Our website uses social networking buttons "LinkedIn", LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Twitter Company of Twitter International Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland and "Xing", the Xing SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.

In order to prevent you from unintentionally transferring data to the relevant social media services when you visit our website, we use the so-called Shariff solution. This means that you must actively click on the respective plugins before a data transfer takes place between you and the respective provider.

If you activate the respective plugin with a click, a direct connection is established between your browser and the server of the social network, without having to be logged in or having to visit the page. The provider of the social network receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you are logged into the social network while visiting our pages, the provider of the social network can also assign your visit to our pages to your user account. If you click on a social plugin and for example use Twitter's "Tweet this" function, the contents of our pages are linked to your user profile in the respective social network. Data is transferred to the USA. We are neither aware of any data transmitted between you and the respective provider, nor can we influence these data processing.

Twitter privacy policy can be found at: twitter.com/privacy, by Xing at privacy.xing.com/de/ privacy statement, and from LinkedIn at: www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

More information about the Shariff solution can be found on the website of the supplier, Heise Medien GmbH & Co. KG, Karl-Wiechert-Allee 10, 30625 Hannover, Germany at: www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Shariff-Social-Media- buttons-with-privacy 2467514.html.

9. If you have comments or questions

We take all conceivable precautions for the protection and security of your data. If you have any questions or comments about privacy, please contact us at [email protected]

Berlin, March 2018