As a provider and responsible body of the website www.scheelen-institut.com the SCHEELEN® AG takes privacy matters seriously and designs its website in a manner that as little personal data as possible is collected, processed and used. Under no circumstances is your personal data rented or sold to third parties for advertising purposes. Without the express consent of the user, no personal data are used for advertisement and marketing.

At the SCHEELEN® AG, only those persons have access to personal data that need this data to carry out their position-related tasks and those that have been informed about the legal regulations of data protection and obliged themselves to comply with the legal regulations of Article 5 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU-GDPR). Personal data is collected, processed, utilized and transmitted in accordance to Article 6 Paragraph 1 of the EU-GDPR. Hence, personal data is collected, processed, utilized and transmitted only to the extent necessary for carrying out the contractual relationship between the SCHEELEN AG, as the party responsible, and the user of the website, as the data subject.

Change in the Purpose of Data Processing and Use of Data

As the processing methods currently used may change/be further developed, taking into account technological developments and organizational changes, we reserve the right to adopt the present data privacy statements in accordance with new technological developments. Therefore we kindly ask you to regularly check the data privacy statement of the SCHEELEN® AG. If you do not agree with the modifications made over time, you can request the deletion of your data in written from, in accordance with Art. 17 EU GDPR; however, this does not affect the data that we are obliged to retain due to commercial law or fiscal regulations.

Anonymous Data Collection

In general, you can visit the websites of the party responsible without giving information of who you are. We only learn the name of your internet provider, the referring website and the pages you visit on our website. This information is evaluated for statistical purposes. Your anonymity as an individual user is preserved.

Collection and Processing of Personal Data

Personal data will only be collected, if you yourself provide us with this information on a voluntary basis, for example, if you subscribe to our newsletter. The party responsible complies with the specifications set in Art 5 and 6 of the EU GDPR. Furthermore, within the framework of the personalized services, the party responsible shall process your registration data, on condition of your prior consent, for the purpose of sending our newsletter to you, as well as for a tailor-made design of the electronical services provided. You have the right to revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data at any time.

To do so, please send a message to rolf@lauser-nhk.de with the subject: “Datenbestände austragen“ (Deletion of datasets).

The processing and use of your personal data is carried out according to the provisions of the EU GDPR.

Use and disclosure of personal data

The personal data collected during your visit to the websites of the party responsible is only used without your consent to the extent necessary to fulfill contractual obligations and to answer requests made. Beyond that, your data is only used for advertisement and marketing purposes by the party responsible upon your prior consent. Moreover, your data is not disclosed to any third parties. You have the right to revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.

External links

For your information, you will find links on our website which lead you to the sites of third parties. To the extent that these are not clearly identifiable as such, we shall point out to you that the relevant links refer to an external website. As the party responsible we have no influence on the content or design of the sites of other providers. The guarantees given by this privacy policy thus naturally do not apply there.

Use of cookies

The party responsible uses so-called „cookies“ to develop and optimize the online experience and online time of the customers individually. A cookie is a text file, either stored temporarily in the memory of the computer (“session” cookie) or on the hard drive (“permanent” cookie). Cookies contain information about previous accesses to the corresponding server or information about the offer accessed. Cookies are not used to run programs or to load any viruses onto your computer. The main purpose of cookies is to provide the client with an offer suited to his/her needs and to design the use of the service as comfortable as possible. The party responsible uses „session“ cookies as well as „permanent“ cookies.

Session Cookies

The party responsible mainly uses “session cookies” that are not stored onto the hard drive of the client’s computer and are deleted once the client closes the browser. Session cookies are used for login authentication and load balancing (balancing of the system load) purposes.

Permanent Cookies

Moreover, the party responsible uses permanent cookies to store personal usage settings that a client provides when using the services of the responsible body and by doing so, the party responsible personalizes and improves the services provided. The use of permanent cookies ensures that the client automatically finds his/her personal settings on every new visit of the website of the party responsible. In addition, the service providers that assigned the party responsible with the analyses of user behavior use permanent cookies to recognize returning users. These services store the data transferred by the cookie only in an anonymous form - IP addresses are not allocated to the client.

Refusal of the Use of Cookies

The user of the websites has the possibility to object to the use of cookies at any time. This generally happens through changes in the settings of the browser or through additional programs. Please check the help function of your browser for further information. If the client decides to deactivate cookies this can reduce the scope of services provided and can have negative effects on the use of the services provided by the party responsible.

Use of Analyses Programs

The party responsible conducts analyses of the clients’ behavior when he/she uses its services or has these analyses carried out. For this purpose anonymous or pseudonymous user profiles are created. The creation of these user profiles fulfills the sole purpose to improve the services of the responsible body.

As part of its web analyses the responsible body also uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizelp()”, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Therefore, the IP addresses are only processed further in abbreviated form to prevent them being directly linked to a particular individual. You can object to the data collection and storage carried out as part of this process at any time with effect for the future. To do so, please contact Google directly >>www.google.de

Google asks its users, such as the responsible body, to provide the following information in its privacy statement. The SCHEELEN® AG complies with this request of Google by the publication of the following information:

“Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer, to analyze the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) is transmitted to a Google server in the U.S. and stored there. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website providers and providing other website activity and internet related services. Also, Google will transmit this information to third parties if required by law or if third parties process the information on behalf of Google. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google Inc. You may refuse the use of cookies by your individual browser settings, but we point out that in this case you might not be able to use all features of this website. Through the use of this website you express your consent to the processing of data collected by Google about you as described above.”

Further Information and Contact Details
If you have any further questions regarding “data protection of the party responsible“, please contact the data protection officer of our company. You can make a request to inform yourself about the data we have stored about you. Furthermore, please feel free to contact us by letter or e-mail to get information about your right to erasure and right to rectification of personal data or for any comments and suggestions on this privacy statement.

Prof. Dr. Rolf Lauser
Data Protection Officer
Dr. Gerhard-Hanke-Weg 31
D-85221 Dachau (Germany)
E-Mail: rolf@lauser-nhk.de