QSC AG: Privacy Statement
The following statement contains information from QSC AG on collecting, processing and storing personal data.
QSC AG takes great effort to comply with privacy laws and provisions when handling personal data, particularly the German Telecommunications Act (TKG) and German Data Protection Act (BDSG).
We only collect personal data, (master data) such as your last name, first name, address, and date of birth, if required to do so for establishing, amending or processing information of a contractual nature. When the contractual relationship comes to an end, we delete or block the master data referred to above at the end of the year following the year in which the contractual relationship comes to an end.
QSC AG only collects, processes and utilizes traffic data for the purposes and extent specified in the TKG.
You can ask questions concerning QSC AG or our products at any time over our website, or by contacting our Press and Information Departments. We will respond to you by email or in writing. You can also subscribe to our Investor Relations Newsletter, which we publish regularly. We also need to save and use personal data, and in particular, your email address, to process any inquiries and requests you may make. This means, that in making an inquiry or request, you also consent to QSC AG using your personal data at the same time. We only collect and use this data for the purpose to which you have consented. Please accept our apologies in advance for instances where we ask you to provide a written statement of consent or an online statement of consent for statements that you have already provided verbally. You can retract this statement at any time. To do so, please write to:
QSC AG
Data Protection Officer
Mathias-Brüggen-Str. 55
D-50829 Cologne
QSC AG undertakes comprehensive technical, organizational and operational measures to guarantee the security of master and traffic data. The measures are revised and checked regularly.
This website uses Piwik (http://de.piwik.org/) and New Elements Ltd. (www.newelements.de) are used on this website, and during the use of our portals and live chats, to collect and save data for marketing and optimization purposes. We then create user profiles under pseudonyms from the data collected and saved. Cookies may be used for this purpose. Cookies are small text files stored locally in the cache on the website visitor's browser. They enable the website visitor's browser to be identified uniquely. We never use the data gathered with the above named technologies to record the personal identity of a visitor to our website or compile it with personal data on the bearer of the pseudonym unless that person gives us his/her permission. Any visitor to our website can object to this process of data collection and storage in Piwik's systems with immediate effect.
This website uses 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.
Find further information under http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de and http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html (basic information regarding Google Analytics and data privacy). This website uses the code „gat._anonymizeIp();“ in order to anonymize IP-addresses.
