Privacy
We are pleased to welcome you to our homepage and to see your interest in msg systems ag. In addition to the integrated support of our customers, we are also very concerned about the protection of personal data. The following will describe which activities we perform when you visit our website. These activities are permissible according to the applicable legal regulations for data protection. We will also inform you of which information we collect and how this information may be processed.
Consent
With the use of this Internet site, you consent to the saving and use of your data as described in this statement. Any changes in the data privacy statement will be updated on this site, in order to constantly inform you about which data msg systems ag saves and uses.
The most important information on the data privacy can be found under the following topics:
- Data privacy notice
- Why we use data
- General information
- Personal information
- Options
- Right of access
- Security
- Collected information, purpose and terminology
- Contact person
- Public list of procedures
Data Privacy Notice
At msg systems ag, the protection of person-related data has the highest priority. Thus, we would like to take this opportunity to tell you how we protect your privacy, when you share your data with us.
In addition to the natural adherence to legal regulations for data protection, we also promise to handle you data responsible, thus ensuring the protection of your privacy at all times. It is important to us, that you feel secure when visiting our internet sites.
Why We Use Data
We constantly seek to enhance our offer and make it more attractive. However, we can only adjust the msg internet site to your specific interests, if we know which our internet pages are the most frequently visited and for the longest amount of time.
If you entrust us with personal information, msg systems ag will only use the information for the technical administration of websites, customer management, product surveys and marketing and only to the extent necessary. The better we understand your needs, the quicker you will be able to find the relevant information in our Internet pages.
General Information
General information will be registered (not personal data) when you access msg systems ag’s internet pages. This information includes, e.g. the type of web browser, the used operating system, the domain names of your Internet service providers, etc. None of this information can be used to gather personal information, and is the same information that is generated when you access any other web page. Thus, this is not a function used exclusively by the msg systems ag Internet sites. This kind of information is anonymous and is evaluated statistically.
Personal Information
Our pages may request personal information, such as your name, address or telephone number; however, such information will be subject to special conditions and will include the following statement:
“I understand, that my personal data (including telephone number and/or e-mail address) may be retrieved, processed and/or used for the purpose of contract processing, or to gain information on, query or acquire prospective customers.” The forwarding of such data to a third party, with the exception of the msg systems ag subsidiaries, is not allowed. I can revoke this consent at any time by contacting msg systems ag, 85737 Ismaning/Munich.”
This data will be used for the above-mentioned purposes only. msg systems ag will not share this information with third parties. The only exception being msg systems ag's subsidiaries.
In addition to the data you provide, we also use information on how you use our offer, in order to enable the quick access of information, which may be of interest to you, and in order to constantly improve our offer.
Options
We would like to use your data to inform you about our products and services, as well as to ask you about them. You participation is, of course, voluntary. If you do not wish to participate, you can send us a letter by mail at any time, after which we will lock your data accordingly.
Right of Access
Upon request, we will inform you whether and which personal data we have saved for you, according to the applicable laws. If, despite all efforts to maintain correct and current data, we should happen to have incorrect information, we will correct such upon request.
Security
msg systems ag aims to keep their technical and organization measures (especially according to § 9 of the BDSG) up-to-date. msg systems ensures the protection of personal data from manipulation by unwarranted or unauthorized persons. Other measures have also been implemented, which protect against data loss and data destruction.
Collected Information, Purpose and Terminology
IP Addresses
An IP address identified your computer. IP addresses are used to diagnose problems, management web pages and for demographic information. When you visit our site, we only recognize your domain names, however not your e-mail address. We can only identify your e-mail address, if you inform us of such by filling out a form or by sending us an e-mail.
Cookies
Your hard drive has a digital business card, called a cookie.txt (“cookie”), and is a system file. The cookie contains data, which is saved to your hard drive when a Web site is accessed. However, this data is not dangerous. The respective server is thus informed about the activities performed by the user (customer). The server contains information for identifying returning visitors; the data will exclusively be used for the duration of the visit to our sites. This enables us to tailor the contents of our Internet pages to meet your interests. However, you can also deactivate the cookies at any time in your browser settings.
User Registration
If you register your user, you will receive any requested information and/or products, as well as any other product information, news or advertising material.
E-mail Addresses
Providing us with your e-mail address will enable us to contact you. However, if you no longer wish to receive e-mails from msg systems ag, you can unsubscribe from our e-mail mailing list at any time – without having to specify a reason. msg systems ag will not share your e-mail address with any third parties outside the corporate group. When sending an e-mail to msg system ag, personal data may automatically be transferred, depending of the settings of your e-mail program, such as the address listed in your e-mail signature. msg systems ag will handle such data as confidential, in the same manner as all other data you share with us.
Online Applications
If you apply using our online form, your data will be saved in our applicant management system. msg systems ag will not share your data with any third parties outside the corporate group.
Use of Google Analytics, Google Remarketing, AdWords Conversion Tracking and Google Tagmanager as well as functions of partner networks (DoubleClick)
This website uses Google Analytics, Google Remarketing, AdWords Conversion Tracking and Google Tagmanager. Provider of those web services is Google. (Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.)
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.
This website uses the Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to our website. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
Google Adwords and Google Analytics are connected in order to exchange Information between the two service and other partner networks (especially DoubleClick). You can find further information about Google Analytics Privacy Policy under Terms of Services and Privacy Principles.
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 here.
Use of Piwik
This website uses Piwik, a web analytics open-source software. Piwik 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 (including your IP address anonymized prior to its storage) will be stored on the server of the service provider in Germany. 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.
msg’s WebKiosk
Different trackers are used by the vendors on our digital.msg-systems.com WebKiosk. Details on the employed tool can be found in Yumpu’s or i-Magazine AG’s General Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. In addition to the trackers named therein, we ourselves use Google Analytics for analysis purposes (please refer to the “Use of Google Analytics” chapter for details).
Please contact our data protection officer, Claus Bauer, in case of questions.
msg systems ag
Claus Bauer
Robert-Buerkle-Strasse 1
85737 Ismaning/Munich
E-mail: datenschutz@msg.group
Public List of Procedures (§ 4g and § 4e BDSG)
According to § 4g paragraph 2 clause 2, the data protection officer must make the specifications according to § 4e clause 1, numbers 1-8 of the BDSG publicly available.
1. Company with the responsible office:
msg systems ag
2. a. Board of Directors:
Dr. Stephan Frohnhoff (Chairman of the board)
Rolf Kranz
Karsten Redenius
Dr. Jürgen Zehetmaier
2. b. Persons in charge of Data Processing:
Information Security: Dr. Stephan Frohnhoff
3. Address of the responsible company location:
msg systems ag
Robert-Buerkle-Strasse 1
85737 Ismaning
4. Purpose of the data retrieval, processing or use:
msg systems ag is an IT consulting and system integration company with long-term experience in the development and implementation of integrated application solutions.
Subject matter of the company:
System analysis, development, production and sale of programs for IT installations, as well as the creation and delivery of integrated data processing systems.
All data retrieval, processing and usage will only be done for the realization of the purposes stated above.
5. Description of the affected groups and the related data or data categories:
Customer data, employee data and any necessary data from partner companies for fulfilling the purposes listed under item 4.
6. Recipient or categories of recipients, with whom the data may be shared:
Public sites within the overriding legal regulations.
Contractor under the definition of a partner relationship according to § 11 of the BDSG.
msg systems ag’s companies and trade organizations.
Own internal organizational units for the fulfillment of the purposes named in item 4.
7. Standard deadlines for the deletion of data:
Data will be deleted upon expiry of the legal, statutory or contractual retention periods. Any data, which does not fall under that category, will be deleted when not applicable for the purposes stated in item 4.
8. Planned transfer to other countries:
A transfer to other countries has not been planned.
msg systems ag
Officer for Data Protection
Status on 04/2011