Terms of Use



General Information

The Site is operated by DBC and all rights thereto are owned and reserved by DBC.

Liability for Content

The content provided has been created with greatest care. For the accuracy, completeness, reliability, usability and timeliness of the content, DBC cannot guarantee. The respective user is therefore generally obliged to professionally check or to have professionally checked the suitability of all content for its intended use.

DBC is responsible for own contents on these websites under the general laws. However, DBC is not obliged to monitor transmitted or stored third-party information or to investigate circumstances that indicate illegal activity. Obligations to remove or block the use of information under the general laws remain unaffected. However, liability is only possible from the date of knowledge of a specific infringement. Upon notification of such violations, DBC will remove the content immediately.

This website and any product information are provided "as is" and to the extent permitted by law, without any kind of guarantee, commitment or liability. Except in case of willful misconduct, DBC is not liable for damages that are caused by or in connection with the use of this information. In any case, DBC is not responsible for and assumes no liability for any indirect, incidental or consequential damages that are caused by or in connection with the use of such content.

Liability for Links

The contents on this website possibly also contain links to external websites on which DBC has no control. Therefore DBC cannot accept any responsibility for their content. The respective provider or operator of these external websites is always responsible for their content. The linked websites were checked at the time of linking for possible violations of law. Illegal contents were not recognizable. A permanent control of the linked pages is unreasonable without concrete evidence of a violation. Upon notification of violations, DBC will remove such links immediately. Further DBC is not responsible for the availability of these sites or their contents.

Copyright Law

The contents and works on these pages compiled by DBC are subject to copyright law. Copying, processing, distribution and any kind of use outside the limits of copyright law require the written consent of DBC. In case the content is not created by DBC, the copyrights of third parties are being observed. In particular contents of third parties are marked as such. However, if a user becomes aware of a copyright infringement, DBC asks the user for notification. Upon notification of such violations, DBC will remove the content immediately.

Changes and Updates

Without liability whatsoever DBC may without notice modify and/or discontinue operation of all or portions of this Site at any time in its sole discretion, and assumes no responsibility to update the Site.

Final Provisions

Any claims or suits associated with the Site or its use shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Germany, excluding its conflicts of law principles.








Privacy statement

→ DBC Data Privacy Policy, Status May 25 th, 2018



Data protection policy of DBC

Thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in DBC and our services. In order for you to feel safe and comfortable when visiting our website, we take the protection of your personal data and its confidential treatment very seriously.

With these notes on data protection, we would therefore like to inform you about when we store which data and for what purpose we use it - of course in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations of the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR with legal validity on 25 May, 2018.

If you have any further questions regarding the handling of your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact our Commissioner for Data Protection, whose contact details you will find below.

The constant technological development, changes to our services or the legal situation as well as other reasons may require adjustments of our data protection information. We therefore reserve the right to change this data protection declaration at any time and ask you to inform yourself regularly about the current status.



Definition of personal data

The concept of personal data is defined in the “Federal Data Protection Act”. Accordingly, these are individual details of the personal or factual circumstances of a certain or definable natural person.

The “EU Data Protection Basic Regulation (GDPR)”, which will enter into force in 25 May 2018, defines personal data as follows:

"Personal data" contain all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, a natural person is considered identifiable if he or she can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier (e.g. name etc.) or to one or more specific characteristics, the expression of the physical, physiological, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity of that person - persons on image presentations (photos etc.) including.





DBC respects your privacy

The protection of your privacy in the processing of your personal data is an important concern to which we pay special attention during our business processes. We process personal data collected during your visit to our websites confidentially and solely in compliance with legal provisions. Data protection and information security are part of our corporate policy.

Collection and processing of personal data

Personal data is only stored when voluntarily given by you for a determined purpose e.g. in context of a correspondence or in performance of a contract. In addition also the following information does not collected when visiting our website: IP addresses, the website from which you visit us, pages viewed, files downloaded, videos viewed or audio tracks listened to, individual links clicked, search words or search phrases, duration of visit, browser used, etc. Also, if the visit is a result of online advertising such as banners, video ads or search engine advertising, etc., we also do not record, which banner, adword, etc. motivated the visit to Bosch websites. Therefore, the insights do not enable DBC to further optimize our websites and tailor them even better to our visitors‘ needs.



Use of cookies

1) DBC cookies

DBC does not use cookies and active components e.g. JavaScript to track visitors‘ preferences and customise the design of the websites. Cookies genereally are small text files stored on your computer when you visit a website.

2) Third-party cookies

Some DBC websites incorporate content and services from other providers e.g. YouTube, Facebook, Google or Twitter, who, in turn, may use cookies and active components. DBC has no influence on the processing of personal data by these providers. Please refer to the respective provider‘s websites for information about how your data is handled.



Use of the Webtrends web analytics tool

DBC does not use Webtrends web analytics tools to carry out access measurements, also not Webtrends web analytics tools, which are prepared by the 1&1 Internet SE as the internet provider for DBC. After this, access data will not collected in anonymized form so that a contact can not longer be traced back to a user. In particular, this isn’t also done by anonymizing the IP address. Cookies are used for metrics to enable website usage to be analyzed. In particular, DBC also can not use them to improve data quality. Therefore, the information generated about the use of websites insofar will not transmitted anonymized to the statistics server, also not to a statistics server, which is operated by DBC’s provider 1&1 Internet SE, Eigendorfer Straße 57 in 56410 Montabaur, GERMANY. Use of social plugins as part of social media

1) Facebook

Bosch websites use social plugins ("plugins") from the social network Facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA ("Facebook"). The plugins are identified with the Facebook logo. If you visit a page on our website that contains such plugins, they are initially disabled. The plugins are not enabled until you click the button that is provided. By enabling the plugins, you establish the connection to Facebook and declare your consent to the transmission of data to Facebook. If you are logged into Facebook, Facebook can associate the visit with your Facebook account. If you press the respective button, the corresponding information is transmitted directly to Facebook by your browser and stored there. For information about the scope and purpose of data collection, the further processing and use of the data by Facebook, and your rights and the settings you can configure to protect your privacy, please refer to the Facebook Data Protection Notice. If you do not want Facebook to collect data about you via our website, you have to log out of Facebook before visiting our site.

2) Google+

DBC websites use social plugins ("plugins") from the social network plus.google.com, which is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States ("Google"). The plugins are identified with the logo of Google+. If you visit a page on our website that contains such plugins, they are initially disabled. The plugins are not enabled until you click the button that is provided. By enabling the plugins, you establish the connection to Google and declare your consent to the transmission of data to Google. If you are logged into Google+, Google can associate the visit with your Google+ account. If you press the respective button, the corresponding information is transmitted directly to Google by your browser and stored there. For information about the scope and purpose of data collection, the further processing and use of the data by Google+ and your rights and the settings you can configure to protect your privacy, please refer to the Google Data Protection Notice. If you do not want Google to collect data about you via our website, you have to log out of Google+ before visiting our site.

3) YouTube

DBC websites use the YouTube video platform operated by YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave. San Bruno, CA 94066 USA. YouTube is a platform that enables playback of audio and video files. When you load a page on our website, the integrated YouTube player establishes a connection to YouTube in order to ensure the technical transmission of the video or audio file. When the connection to YouTube is established, data can be transferred to YouTube - also in face of conducted settings as "advanced privacy" by the add on "youtube-nocookie" in every currently linked youtube-address on the website of DBC. For information about the scope and purpose of data collection, the further processing and use of the data by YouTube and your rights and the settings you can configure to protect your privacy, please refer to the YouTube Data Protection Notice.

4) Twitter

DBC websites use social plugins ("plugins") of the social network Twitter, which is operated by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA ("Twitter"). The plugins are identified with a Twitter logo or the suffix "tweet". If you visit a page on our website that contains such plugins, they are initially disabled. The plugins are not enabled until you click the button that is provided. By enabling the plugins, you establish the connection to Twitter and give your consent to the transmission of data to Twitter. If you are logged into Twitter, Twitter can associate the visit with your Twitter account. If you press the respective button, the corresponding information is transmitted directly to Twitter by your browser and stored there. For information about the scope and purpose of data collection, the further processing and use of the data by Twitter and your rights and the settings you can configure to protect your privacy, please refer to the Twitter Data Protection Notice.

Use of external links

DBC websites may contain links to third-party websites operated by providers that are not associated with DBC. After you click the link, we no longer have any influence over the collection, storage, or processing of any personal data transmitted by clicking the link (such as the IP address or URL of the page that contains the link), as the behaviour of third parties is, by nature, beyond our control. Therefore, DBC is not responsible for the processing of personal data by third parties.

Use of personal data and purpose specification

DBC or a service provider engaged by DBC does not use your personal data for the purpose of technical administration of websites, customer administration, product surveys, enquiries you submit to DBC or in the scope necessary for this purpose or according to the description of processing purposes given at the corresponding locations of DBC’s websites. DBC’s employees and the service providers engaged by DBC are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to comply with the provisions of the German Federal Data Protection Act. In addition, the compliance to all necessary technical and organizational measures will be ensured.

Security

DBC takes security precautions to ensure that your data we have under our control is protected against tampering, loss, destruction, access by unauthorised persons, or unauthorised disclosure. DBC’s security measures are being continuously improved in accordance with the state of technological developments.

Advertising

When you provide us with personal data, we use it to inform you about our services and, where applicable, to include you in surveys about them, provided you have given us your express consent to use your personal data for advertising purposes. If you have granted your consent for such use, but no longer wish to receive advertising from DBC, you can revoke your consent at any time. Your data is then deleted, or provided that it is necessary for billing and accounting purposes, blocked accordingly.

Revoking consent

You can revoke your consent to the use of your personal data. The personal data will be deleted if the consent for the storage will be revoked, if the knowledge of the personal data for the performance of the purpose is no longer necessary or if the storage of the personal data is inadmissible due to other legal reasons. Data which is necessary for billing and accounting purposes or which is subject to the legal obligation to preserve is not affected.

Questions and comments; changes

DBC will respond to all legitimate requests for information and where applicable, to correct, amend, or delete your personal data. If you wish to make such a request or if you have questions or comments about this Data Privacy Policy, please click on “Contact” to send DBC your questions and suggestions. This Data Privacy Policy is updated from time to time. You will find the date of the last update at the top of this page.

Contact

To obtain more information or to submit suggestions or complaints regarding the processing of your personal data, you can contact our Commissioner for Data Protection. If incorrect information has been stored despite our efforts to maintain correct and up-to-date data, DBC will correct this upon your request.



Group Data Protection Officer:

Law firm Dr. Bauch & Kollegen Rechtsanwälte

Group Data Protection Officer
Frauentorgraben 43
90443 Nuremberg
GERMANY
Send Mail: info(at)drbauch.de



Contact detail of the data controller:

DBC Managementberatung Dr. Bauch Consult GbR
Mr. Norbert Bernhard Köhler
Commissioner for Data Protection
Frauentorgraben 43
D-90443 Nuremberg
Telephone: + 49 (0) 9 11 - 24 37 77
Send Mail: datenschutz(at)drbauch-consult.de

DBC is represented by the Board of Management:
Dr. iur. Jürgen Bauch M.A. (Managing Director)
Norbert Bernhard Köhler (Managing Partner)