Data protection - benchmark.

Data protection:

benchmark. attaches the utmost importance to the protection of data and the preservation of users' personal privacy. In the following, we therefore wish to inform you about the collection and use of personal data when visiting this website www.benchmarkgroup.de

1. Anonymous data collection

You may visit our website without disclosing any personal details. In this regard, we do not store any personal data. We only conduct analyses of statistical data, in order to facilitate the improvement of our offering; these data do not allow any inference to be made about your person.

2. Scope and purpose of the collection, processing and use of personal data

benchmark. only collects personal data in the scope provided by you. Personal data are individual details relating to the personal or professional circumstances of a specified or definable natural person. Your personal data will be used for no other purpose than to fulfil and complete the contractually agreed services, and for the processing of your inquiries. Following complete execution of the contract, the data will be stored in order to fulfil the applicable tax and commercial law archiving obligations; these are then deleted upon expiry of the specified term.

3. Cookies

This website www.benchmarkgroup.de uses so-called Cookies in several places. Cookies are small text files, which are deposited on your computer and stored by your browser. These help us to make our offering more user-friendly, effective and secure. Furthermore, Cookies allow our systems to recognise your browser and offer our services. Cookies do not contain any personal data.

You can object to the use of optional cookies at any time by adjusting your cookie settings accordingly.

4. Google Analytics

This website utilises Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics utilises so-called Cookies (see above). The information the Cookie generates regarding your use of this website is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA, where it is then stored. In the event that IP-anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP-address will, within the member states of the European Union or in other States party to the agreement related to the European economic region, be clipped by Google in advance. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP-address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and clipped there.

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities, and to perform further services for the website operator related to the website use and internet use. The IP-address transmitted as part of the Google Analytics function is not added to data held by Google. You can prevent Cookies being stored by changing the corresponding settings in your browser software. benchmark. does however point out that, in this case, you may not be able to use all website functions in full. In addition, you can prevent the capture of the data which is produced by the Cookie in relation to your use of the website (incl. your IP-address) to Google, and the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the plug-in under the following link. The current link is

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

As an alternative to the browser plug-in, or within browsers on mobile devices, you can prevent capture by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. This sets an opt-out cookie, which prevents the future capture of your data when you visit this website. This opt-out cookie functions only in this browser and only for this domain. If you delete the Cookies held in this browser, you must click on this link once again:

Deactivate Google Analytics Activate Google Analytics

4. Web analysis by Matomo

This website uses the web analysis tool Matomo. Matomo uses cookies for this analysis. The information generated by the cookies, for example time, place and frequency of your website visit including your IP address, is transferred to our own analysis server and stored there. Your IP address is immediately anonymised during this process so that you as a user remain anonymous to us. No data is sent to external analysis and tracking services. 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 our website.

5. Information, correction, blocking and deletion of data

You have the right to information, free of charge, regarding your stored data, and the right to correct, delete or block the same, at all times. Please get in touch with us. You will find our contact data in the Imprint.

6. Contact

If you have any questions regarding data protection, or if you require information or modifications, you can reach us using the contact data provided in the Impressum.