Introduction

The HybridHeart Consortium places great store on your privacy and the security of your personal data. The following information will therefore give you a survey of how we handle your personal data and ensure their protection:

Collection of data

Any data collected in connection with your visit to the website of The HybridHeart Consortium will be treated in strict confidence in accordance with the applicable legal provisions on data protection.
When you visit our website, we store the date and duration of your visit, the name of your Internet service provider and the website from which you have reached us as a standard. The HybridHeart Consortium collects such data in anonymized form and analyses them statistically to determine the appeal of our web presence (also see statistical analysis) and to improve its contents on an ongoing basis.
Any further personal details such as name, address, telephone number or e-mail address will not be stored unless you provide them voluntarily in connection with a registration or a request for information.. However, such personal data collected will be exclusively stored and processed for the purpose of looking after you individually or sending information. Such data will not be transferred to third parties.

Transfer of data

The HybridHeart Consortium will take the necessary precautions to ensure the security of your personal data. Your data will be protected diligently against loss, destruction, falsification, manipulation and unauthorized access. We will neither sell your personal data to third parties nor exploit them in any other manner.

Statistical analysis

We analyse information in log files which your browser transmits to us automatically. These are the browser type/browser version, the operating system used, the referrer URL and the time of the server query. Under no circumstances can such data be matched to a certain individual. Such data will not be combined with data from other sources.

Cookies

In part, the websites use so-called cookies, for example to prepare a memo in the vehicle inventories. Cookies are small text files which are filed on your computer and stored by your browser. Most of the cookies we use are so called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Cookies do not do any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Apart from that, you can delete cookies yourself at any time by setting your browser accordingly.

Privacy declaration for the use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies, text files stored on your computer, which permit analyzing the use of the website by you. The information about your use of the website generated by the cookie is usually transferred to a Google server in the United States where it is then stored. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated by Google in member countries of the European Union and other contract states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Only in exceptional cases is the entire IP address transferred to the Google server in the United States and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to create reports on website activities and to provide further services linked to website use and Internet use to the website operator. The IP address transferred by Google Analytics from your browser is not combined with other data from Google.

You can prevent cookies being stored by making the appropriate setting in your browser software; we would, however, point out that if you do so, certain functions of this website may not work to their full extent. You can also prevent the data generated by the cookie relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) being saved, as well as the processing of such data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Anonymous use

As a matter of principle, you are using our websites anonymously. Even if your data permit identification, we will never use them for personal exploitation. These data will be used anonymously exclusively and for statistical purposes only. Even if you send us personal data by e-mail or via our online forms, we will use such data only within The HybridHeart Consortium.

Right to obtain information

At all times, you have the right to obtain information on any data relating to your person which are stored, their origin, the recipient and of the purpose of storage. We will inform you of stored data if you send us an e-mail: info@hybridheart.eu