Data protection

This Privacy Policy describes the personal data that is collected or generated (processed) when you use this website. It also explains how your personal data is used, shared and protected and what choices you have regarding your personal data and how you can contact us.

The controller within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

BARLAG werbe- & messeagentur GmbH
Management: Michael Barlag, Stefan Süß
E.-M.-Remarque-Ring 18
49074 Osnabrück
Phone: +49 (0) 541 44045-0
Fax: +49 (0) 541 44045-99
E-Mail: info(at)barlagmessen.de
 

Contact details of the supervisory authority responsible for this website

The State Commissioner for Data Protection of Lower Saxony

Barbara Thiel
Prinzenstraße 5
30159 Hannover
Phone: 05 11/120-45 00
Fax: 05 11/120-45 99
E-Mail: 

Homepage: http://www.lfd.niedersachsen.de
 

Questions for the data protection officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an e-mail or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organisation directly:

Care-office UG (limited liability)
Christian van Hommert
Weißenburger Str. 2a
49076 Osnabrück
E-Mail: anfrage(at)care-office.de
 

Your rights as a data subject

  • You have the right to information about the personal data processed by us in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR
  • You have the right to rectification of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR
  • You have the right to erasure of your personal data stored by us in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, unless further processing is necessary for one of the following reasons:
    • in the event of legal claims (exercise/enforcement/defence)
    • in the fulfilment of a legal obligation
    • in the exercise of the right to freedom of expression/information
    • due to public interest
  • In accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data stored by us if one of the following criteria is met:
    • You dispute the accuracy of your data
    • You object to the erasure of your data in the event of unlawful processing
    • You still need the data due to legal claims (exercise/enforcement/defence), but we would actually erase it because we no longer need it
    • You have objected to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR
  • In accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, you have the right to request a file of your personal data stored by us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transmit this data to another controller.
  • You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR. You can either contact the supervisory authority of your place of residence, registered office or place of work, or the supervisory authority responsible for this website. A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.


Collection of general information when visiting our website

When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically collected by means of a cookie. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider and similar. This is exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.

This information is technically necessary in order to correctly deliver the website content requested by you and is mandatory when using the Internet. It is processed in particular for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring a smooth connection to the website,
  • Ensuring the smooth use of our website,
  • analysing system security and stability and
  • for other administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest from the aforementioned purposes for data collection. We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. Recipients of the data are only the controller and, if applicable, processors.

Anonymous information of this kind may be statistically evaluated by us in order to optimise our website and the technology behind it.
 

Data collection

We collect personal data if you provide it to us when you contact us (e.g. via contact form, application or e-mail). This includes data such as your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number. Here we mark mandatory fields which are absolutely necessary for the purpose of contacting us. Please refer to the respective forms for the exact data collected. This data is used in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR. As soon as we have completed the process (or any resulting contract), the data will be restricted for further/other processing. After expiry of any retention periods due to tax or commercial law provisions, the data will be deleted unless you have expressly consented to further use or we reserve the right to further use permitted by law in accordance with this declaration.


Purposes of data processing by the controller and third parties

We only process your personal data for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those stated. We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

you have given your express consent,
the processing is necessary to fulfil a contract with you,
the processing is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation,
the processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in the non-disclosure of your data.

Our product is also distributed by sales representatives.


Deletion or blocking of data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data minimisation. We therefore only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here or as provided for by the various storage periods stipulated by law. As soon as the respective purpose or these periods end/ cease to apply, the corresponding data is routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.


Cookies

We use cookies on various pages to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, to display suitable products or for market research. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a weighing up of interests, in an optimised presentation of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR. Cookies are small text files that are automatically stored on your end device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted again at the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device and enable us to recognise your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). The duration of storage can be found in the overview in the cookie settings of your web browser.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies. You can also set your browser so that you can decide individually whether to accept a cookie. Furthermore, you can generally exclude the acceptance of certain cookies through a browser setting. As each browser differs in the way it manages cookies, please refer to your browser's help menu for more information. You can find further information for the most common browsers under the following links:

Microsoft Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Google Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html

Please note that the functionality of this website may be restricted if certain cookies are not accepted or excluded.


Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc (hereinafter: Google). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

The purpose of the data processing is to analyse the use of the website and to compile reports on activities on the website. Further related services are then to be provided on the basis of the use of the website and the Internet. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator.

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 prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de .

In addition or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our pages by clicking on this link.

An opt-out cookie will be installed on your device. This will prevent the collection by Google Analytics for this website and for this browser in the future as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.


Use of Lead-Generation-Service from Leadinfo

This website uses the lead generation service of Leadinfo B.V., Rotterdam, Netherlands. This recognises visits to the website by companies on the basis of IP addresses and displays publicly available information, such as company names or addresses. In addition, Leadinfo sets two first-party cookies to evaluate user behaviour on our website and processes domains from form entries (e.g. "leadinfo.com") in order to correlate IP addresses with companies and improve the services. Further information can be found at www.leadinfo.com. On this page: www.leadinfo.com/en/opt-out you have an opt-out option. If you opt out, your data will no longer be collected by Leadinfo.


Use of web fonts

External fonts, Google Fonts, are used on this website. Google Fonts is a service of Google Inc ("Google"). These web fonts are integrated by a server call, usually a Google server in the USA. This tells the server which of our web pages you have visited. The IP address of the browser of the end device of the visitor to this website is also stored by Google. You can find more information in Google's privacy policy, which you can access here:

www.google.com/fonts#AboutPlace:about
www.google.com/policies/privacy/


Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.