Introduction
Business-In-Europe ("BiE")
measures visits to its websites in order to increase
their efficiency.
The measuring of visits to websites of our customers
is covered in our Privacy Notes. The provisions
below apply to measuring visits to our own website
and to other data you provided to us.
Measuring
data
BiE measure visits to its websites in order to
increase their efficiency. The measuring data
may contain personal data, in particular IP-addresses
and/or cookies. These are discussed below.
IP-addresses
An IP-address is a series of numbers that identify
computers on the internet. IP-addresses can
theoretically be linked to an individual.
Such linking requires
additional information (particularly from the
internet provider who issued the IP-address
or from the
visitor himself). For that reason IP-addresses
are considered personal data. BiE uses IP-addresses
of visitors of our websites for internal research
and promotion purposes. In addition, BiE uses
the IP-addresses to update an IP-database which
is
required for our services. This database contains
the following information:
• which domain name is linked to the IP-address
and the registered owner thereof;
• the owner's type of organisation (government,
ICT, education, etc) and geographic location;
• the geographic location of the IP-address
(city or larger geographic unity);
• the type of connection of the IP-address
to the internet (cable, ADSL, etc).
IP-addresses of visitors of our websites are
not provided to third parties.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file that is stored on
the computer of a visitor when he visits
a website.
If he visits the website again, the cookie
shows that it is a repeat visit. Because
the visitor
is recognized though the cookie, cookies
are considered personal data. In addition,
cookies
may contain
personal data themselves. BiE does not use
Cookies and does not link cookies to individuals.
It
is often possible to configure your web browser
to
refuse cookies or to be informed if a cookie
is set. We refer to the manual of your web
browser.
Other
data
In case you provide personal data to us
yourselves, for example on a web form,
though e-mail
or in a contract, we will use such data
only for
the
purpose for which the data has been provided.
This includes contacting you to inform
you of developments
if we expect these to be relevant to you.
Storage
BiE will store personal data no longer
than is necessary for the purpose for
which it
has been
collected.
Legislation
In the Europe Union, the processing of
personal data is governed by Directive
No 95/46/EC
of 24 October 1995 (OJ EC L 281). The
directive is available
at http://www.europa.eu.int/. Said Directive
underlies
the legislation of the countries of
the European Union. For the United Kingdom,
that is the
Data Protection Act 1998 (the 'Act').
For the text
of the Act, see: http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk.
Contact
BiE strives to explain its Privacy
Notes as clearly as possible. If
you nevertheless
have
questions
or complaints concerning our Privacy
Notes, or if you wish to exercise
your right of
access or to rectify your personal
data or to oppose
the
processing thereof,
please send an
e-mail to privacy@business-in-europe.biz.
Postal
Adress:
Business-in-Europe
Möhlstraße 19
D-81675 München
Germany
Tel. +49 (0) 89 – 97 34 81 62
Fax +49 (0) 89 – 97 34 81 64
Amendments to
this Privacy Notes
BiE reserves the right to amend the content
of this Privacy Notes. If BiE changes the policy
to increase our rights to use your personal data,
you will be notified on our website of such changes
and we will only apply such wider uses to personal
data we obtain after the date that the policy
was
changed.
Liability Note
Despite accurate check and control of the content
we are not liable for contents of external
links. The owner of the respective linked-to
page is
solely liable for illegal, faulty, or incomplete
contents.
