Privacy Policy
We welcome your interest in our homepage and our company. We cannot take any responsibility for links to external webpages, despite due diligence on our part to test them first.
Protecting your personal data when collecting, processing and using it during your visit of our website is important to us. Your data is protected under the rules of law. The following information describes which data is used during your visit to our homepage and how it is used:
1. Collection and processing of data.
Every access to our homepage and every download of a file from the webpage is logged. The logging serves internal, system-related and statistical purposes. The items logged are the name of the file, date and time when downloaded, volume of data downloaded, notification of a successful download, type of browser and requesting domain. The IP address of the requesting computer is also logged.
Further personal data is only logged when provided voluntarily, such as in the context of a registration request.
2. Use and forwarding of personal data.
If you provide us personal data, we use it only in answering queries, closing contracts and obtaining product information, and for technical administration. In principle, personal data will be used only within Techcast GmbH.
Your personal data will be transmitted or otherwise forwarded to third parties when required within the context of a contract, such as when transferring orders to suppliers is required for billing purposes, with your previous consent. You have the right to revoke any consent for any future transactions.
We will purge the logged personal data if you withdraw any consent to its storage, if its use is no longer needed to meet your objectives, or if its storage is inadmissible for other legal reasons.
Our webpages use cookies in various places. These serve to make our offerings more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files stored on your computer and used by the browser. Most of our cookies are so-called e-session cookies that are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Cookies cannot damage your computer, nor do they contain viruses.
3. Piwik Web analytics.
The Techcast website employs Piwik, an open source Web analysis tool. Piwik uses cookies, small text data that allow for an analysis of your website usage. The information derived from the session cookies during your access to our website (including your IP address) are transferred to, and stored on, the Techcast webserver in Germany. Techcast relies on the cookie data to evaluate website usage and generate reports on website activity.
You can prevent installing cookies through your browser property settings. If you do allow the use of cookies, please be aware that you agree to the processing of data analytics by Piwik in the manner and for the purpose described above.
4. Right to obtain information.
Upon written request, we will inform you about your stored personal data and about any personal data about you that we obtain. Information about stored data is issued by our protection officer at Techcast GmbH (datenschutz@techcast.com).
Security Note:
We take precautions to save your personal data by taking all technical and organizational due diligence so that it is not accessible to third parties. Note that when communicating by email, we cannot guarantee complete data security, so we recommend sending us confidential information through the postal service.
