Privacy Statement
This Privacy Statement applies to the website http://www.benu.eu only. For information about
privacy protection of the local BENU websites we encourage you to examine the privacy
statement on the respective BENU website.
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Your Data
We are particularly committed to privacy protection when processing and using personal
information. We therefore attach great importance to the protection of your personal data.
If personal data is collected by us (e.g. your name, your e-mail address or other contact details),
any processing and use will be in accordance with the applicable data privacy provisions,
especially the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz) and the German
Telecommunication Media Act (Telemediengesetz).
We have taken technical and organisational measures, meeting the current standards of state of
the art (e.g. encrypted transmission) technology, to protect your personal data from
manipulations and unauthorised access.
We will use your personal data exclusively for the purpose for which you provided it to us. To
some extent we will engage subcontractors to reply to your enquiries who will receive data only
for the purpose and to the extent necessary to perform the respective task.
If you contact us via e-mail, we will store your information for the purpose of replying to your
enquiry and in case there are further enquiries.
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Automated data processing on the internet
Web servers store a log file recording access to the system. Data processing of our website
includes the automated storage of data transmitted by the browser. This includes:
Data identifying the browser software, operating system, page views, namely which of our sites
were accessed, IP address of the Load balancer, to ensure a correct function of the website.
This data is anonymised and cannot be attributed to individual persons. This data will not be
combined with other data sources. Data will be analysed for statistical purposes only and will be
deleted after statistical analysis in addition. Data containing further personal references such as,
for example, your name or your e-mail address will not be stored, unless this data is provided by
you on a voluntary basis, for example by contacting us via e-mail.
The websites use so-called cookies in several places. These are used to make our offer more
user-friendly, more effective and safer. Cookies are small data text files which are stored on a
computer’s hard drive by the browser. Most cookies used on this website are so-called "session
cookies”. These are deleted automatically after the visit. Cookies do not cause any damage to
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your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies can be blocked or deleted by you at any
time
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Changes to this privacy statement
We reserve the right to modify its data protection conditions at any time. This may become
necessary especially because of technical developments. We therefore would kindly request you
to download this Statement from time to time to take notice of the most current version.
If you have any questions regarding data protection please contact us here.
Date of the last review and update: 21 April 2015
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