Data Privacy Notice
October 2019
Protecting the security and privacy of your personal data is important to CURRAX. Therefore, CURRAX (for further company details, please see the “Corporate Information” below) processes personal data in compliance with applicable laws on data protection and data security.
1. Processing of personal data related to your use of our websites, applications and online platforms
Categories of personal data processed, purpose of the processing and legal basis
When visiting CURRAX’ websites, applications or online tools (each a “CURRAX Online Offering”), CURRAX may process the following personal data about you:
- Personal data that you actively and voluntarily provide via the CURRAX Online Offering (e.g., when registering, contacting us with your inquiries or participating in surveys, etc.), including name, e-mail address, telephone number, information submitted as part of a support request, comments or forum posts, etc.; and
- Information that is automatically sent to us by your web browser or device, such as your IP-address, device type, browser type, referring site, sites accessed during your visit, the date and time of each visitor request.
We process your personal data for the following purposes:
- To provide the CURRAX Online Offering’s services and functions and to administer your use of the CURRAX Online Offering;
- To verify your identity (if you registered for a CURRAX Online Offering);
- To answer and fulfill your specific requests;
- To send you marketing information or to contact you in the context of customer satisfaction surveys as further explained in Section 3; and
- As reasonably necessary to enforce the applicable terms of use, to establish or preserve a legal claim or defense, to prevent fraud or other illegal activities, including attacks on CURRAX’ information technology systems.
The legal basis for CURRAX processing data about you is that such processing is necessary for the purposes of:
- CURRAX exercising its rights and performing its obligations in connection with any contract we make with you (Article 6 (1) (b) General Data Protection Regulation);
- Compliance with CURRAX’ legal obligations (Article 6 (1) (c) General Data Protection Regulation); and/or
- Legitimate interests pursued by CURRAX (Article 6 (1) (f) General Data Protection Regulation). Generally the legitimate interest pursued by CURRAX in relation to our use of your personal data is the efficient performance or management of your use of the CURRAX Online Offerings.
In some cases, we may ask if you consent to the relevant use of your personal data. In such cases, the legal basis for CURRAX processing that data about you may (in addition or instead) be that you have consented (Article 6 (1) (a) General Data Protection Regulation).
Cookies
We may use cookies within CURRAX Online Offerings. You can find information on CURRAX’ use of cookies in our Cookie Policy. The Cookie Policy also provides information on how to block and object to the use of cookies and the processing of data collected by cookies.
Links to other websites
This Privacy Notice applies only to CURRAX Online Offerings and not to other websites or applications operated by third parties. We may provide links to other websites and applications which we believe may be of interest to you. CURRAX is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites or applications.
2. Processing of personal data related to your business relationship with CURRAX
Categories of personal data processed, purpose of the processing and legal basis
In the context of the business relationship with CURRAX, CURRAX may process the following categories of personal data of consumers and contact persons at (prospective) customers, suppliers, vendors and partners (each a “Business Partner”):
- Contact information, such as full name, work address, work telephone number, work mobile phone number, work fax number and work email address;
- Payment data, such as data necessary for processing payments and fraud prevention, including credit/debit card numbers, security code numbers and other related billing information;
- Further information necessarily processed in a project or contractual relationship with CURRAX or voluntarily provided by the Business Partner, such as personal data relating to orders placed, payments made, requests, and project milestones;
- Personal data collected from publicly available resources, integrity data bases and credit agencies; and
- If legally required for Business Partner compliance screenings: date of birth, ID numbers, identity cards and information about relevant and significant litigation or other legal proceedings against Business Partners.
CURRAX may process the personal data for the following purposes:
- Communicating with Business Partners about products, services and projects of CURRAX or Business Partners, e.g. by responding to inquiries or requests or providing you with technical information about purchased products;
- Planning, performing and managing the (contractual) relationship with Business Partners; e.g. by performing transactions and orders of products or services, processing payments, performing accounting, auditing, billing and collection activities, arranging shipments and deliveries, facilitating repairs and providing support services;
- Administrating and performing customer surveys, marketing campaigns, market analysis, sweepstakes, contests, or other promotional activities or events;
- Conducting customer satisfaction surveys and direct marketing activities as further explained in Section 3;
- Maintaining and protecting the security of our products, services and websites, preventing and detecting security threats, fraud or other criminal or malicious activities;
- Ensuring compliance with legal obligations (such as record keeping obligations), export control and customs, Business Partner compliance screening obligations (to prevent white-collar or money laundering crimes), and CURRAX policies or industry standards; and
- Solving disputes, enforce our contractual agreements and to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
The legal basis for CURRAX processing data about you is that such processing is necessary for the purposes of:
- CURRAX exercising its rights and performing its obligations in connection with any contract we make with you (Article 6 (1) (b) General Data Protection Regulation),
- Compliance with CURRAX’ legal obligations (Article 6 (1) (c) General Data Protection Regulation), and/or
- Legitimate interests pursued by CURRAX (Article 6 (1) (f) General Data Protection Regulation).
Generally the legitimate interest pursued by CURRAX in relation to our use of your personal data is the efficient performance or management of our business relationship with you.
In some cases, we may ask if you consent to the relevant use of your personal data. In such cases, the legal basis for CURRAX processing that data about you may (in addition or instead) be that you have consented (Article 6 (1) (a) General Data Protection Regulation).
3. Processing for personal data for customer satisfaction surveys and for direct marketing
Where and as permitted under applicable law, CURRAX may process your contact information for direct marketing purposes (e.g. trade show invitations, newsletters) and to carry out customer satisfactions surveys, in each case also by e-mail. You may object to the processing of your contact data for these purposes at any time by writing to Datenschutz@currax.net or by using the opt-out mechanism provided in the respective communication you received.
4. Transfer and disclosure of personal data
CURRAX may transfer your personal data to:
- other CURRAX companies or third parties - e.g. sales partners or suppliers - in connection with your use of the CURRAX Online Offerings or our business relationship with you;
- third parties which provide IT services to CURRAX and which process such data only for the purpose of such services (e.g., hosting or IT maintenance and support services); and/or
- third parties in connection with complying with legal obligations or establishing, exercising or defending rights or claims (e.g., for court and arbitration proceedings, to law enforcement authorities and regulators, to attorneys and consultants).
Sometimes the recipients to whom CURRAX transfers your personal data are located in countries in which applicable laws do not offer the same level of data protection as the laws of your home country.
In such cases, CURRAX takes measures to implement appropriate and suitable safeguards for the protection of your personal data. In particular:
- We share your personal data with CURRAX companies in such countries only if they have implemented the Binding Corporate Rules („BCR“) for the protection of personal data. For more information and a copy of the measures implemented, please contact Datenschutz@currax.net.
- We transfer personal data to external recipients in such countries only if the recipient has (i) entered into EU Standard Contractual Clauses with CURRAX, (ii) implemented Binding Corporate Rules in its organization or (iii) – in case of US recipients – the recipient is certified under the Privacy Shield. You may request further information about the safeguards implemented in relation to specific transfers by contacting Datenschutz@currax.net.
Personal data published by you on CURRAX Online Offerings (such as chat rooms or forums) may be globally accessible to other registered user of the respective CURRAX Online Offering.
5. Retention periods
Unless indicated otherwise at the time of the collection of your personal data (e.g. within a form completed by you), we erase your personal data if the retention of that personal data is no longer necessary (i) for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed, or (ii) to comply with legal obligations (such as retention obligations under tax or commercial laws).
6. Withdrawal of consent
In case you declared your consent for the processing of certain personal data by CURRAX, you have the right to withdraw the consent at any time with future effect, i.e. the withdrawal of the consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on the consent before its withdrawal. If the consent is withdrawn, CURRAX may only further process the personal data where there is another legal ground for the processing.
7. Your rights
Under applicable data protection law you may have the right to:
- Obtain from CURRAX confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you are being processed, and where that is the case, access to the personal data;
- Obtain from CURRAX the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you;
- Obtain from CURRAX the erasure of your personal data;
- Obtain from CURRAX restriction of processing regarding your personal data;
- Data portability concerning personal data, which you actively provided; and
- Object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to processing of personal data concerning you.
Further background information and explanations related to the rights described above are available on the European Commissions’ website “Rights for citizens”.
7. Data privacy contact
The CURRAX Data Protection Organization provides support with any data privacy related questions, comments, concerns or complaints or in case you wish to exercise any of your data privacy related rights.
The CURRAX Data Privacy Organization may be contacted at: Datenschutz@currax.net
The CURRAX Data Privacy Organization will always use best efforts to address and settle any requests or complaints you bring to its attention. Besides contacting the CURRAX Data Privacy Organization, you always have the right to approach the competent data protection authority with your request or complaint.
A list and contact details of local data protection authorities is available here.
Cookie Notice
Status: april 2020
This Cookie Policy applies to the websites accessible under “currax.net” (the “website”).
This website uses cookies. Cookies are small files containing certain information that are stored on your device. Cookies are served either by CURRAX GmbH & Co. KG (“CURRAX”) – so-called “first party cookies” – or by third parties providing services to CURRAX; such cookies are referred to as “third party cookies”.
Cookies are necessary to provide certain functionalities on a website, e.g. to maintain a language choice made by a user. Moreover, cookies enable the respective issuer (CURRAX or a third party) to recognize that the website was previously called up by a certain end device, allowing the identification of returning visitors (or rather their end devices) and gathering information about their usage of the website and their presumed interests.
This information is used to improve the website and to deliver relevant advertisement for CURRAX products and services on the website as well as on third party sites.
Cookies can be assigned to three categories, depending on their function and intended purpose: technically necessary cookies, performance cookies (measurement/statistics) and marketing cookies.
Technically Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. Without these cookies, services requested through usage of our website cannot be properly provided.
Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent from the user under applicable law. You may configure your web browser to block strictly necessary cookies, but you might then not be able to use the website’s functionalities as intended.
Performance Cookies (measurement/statistics)
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and how visitors move around the site. They help us to improve the user friendliness of a website and therefore enhance the user’s experience.
Further information collected by performance cookies may include e.g.: internet browser and operating system used, the domain name of the website which you previously visited, the number of visits, average duration of visit, and pages called up.
The information collected by these cookies is aggregated and can normally not be linked to a specific natural person. To the extent that information processed in connection with performance cookies should, in a given case, qualify as personal data, the legal ground for that processing is the user’s consent.
Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies (also referred to as targeting or advertising cookies) are used to deliver adverts on third party websites more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign.
Legal basis for the processing of personal data in connection with marketing cookies (if any) is the user’s consent.
You may find detailed information about the different cookies (e.g. purpose of the cookie and recipient of the information collected by the cookie) here:
Cookie list
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
Technically necessary cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. Without these cookies, services requested through usage of our website cannot be properly provided. Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent from the user under applicable law. You may configure your web browser to block strictly necessary cookies, but you might then not be able to use the website’s functionalities as intended.
Cookie Host | Cookies | Cookies used | Lifespan |
currax.net | ccm_consent | 1st Party | 1 year |
currax.net | PHPSESSID | 1st Party | Session |
Performance cookies (measurement/statistic)
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and how visitors move around the site. They help us to improve the user friendliness of a website and therefore enhance the user’s experience.
Cookie Host | Cookies | Cookies used | Lifespan |
Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Irland | _ga | 1st Party | 24 months |
Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Irland | _gat_gtag_UA_27995711_1 | 1st Party | 1 minute |
Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Irland | _gid | 1st Party | 24 h |
Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies (also referred to as targeting or advertising cookies) are used to deliver adverts on third party websites more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign.
Cookie Host | Cookies | Cookies used | Lifespan |
Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Irland | _gcl_au | 1st Party | 3 months |
Use of Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to analyse usage of the website. The data gathered thereby are used to optimise our website as well as advertising efforts.
Google Analytics is a web analysis service operated and provided by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States). Google processes the website usage data on our behalf and is contractually obliged to undertake measures which guarantee the confidentiality of the processed data.
When you visit the website, the following data will be recorded:
- webpages accessed
- your behaviour on the sites (e.g. clicks and duration of stay)
- your approximate location (country and town/city)
- your IP address (in shortened form to prevent clear identification)
- technical information such as browser, internet provider, terminal device and screen resolution
- the origin of your visit (the website or advert from which you came to our website)
These data will be transmitted to a Google server in the USA. Google observes the data protection regulations of the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement..
Google Analytics stores cookies in your web browser for a duration of two years after your last visit. These cookies contain a randomly generated user ID to allow you to be recognised upon future visits to the website.
The recorded data are stored together with the randomly generated user ID to allow pseudonymous user profiles to be analysed. These user-related data are deleted automatically after 14 months. Other data remain stored indefinitely in aggregate form.
If you object to the acquisition of your data, you can prevent it by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
You can find more detailed information about this in the Google Privacy Policy.
Use of Google Remarketing
We also use the Google Remarketing function. This enables us to display personalised advertisements in designated advertising spaces on other websites based on the interests you have shown on our website.
You can find further information about this in the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent interest-based advertising by installing this browser plug-in.
Source: traffic3.net
Use of Google DoubleClick
Our website uses DoubleClick by Google, a service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (Google). DoubleClick uses cookies and similar technologies to display advertisements which are relevant to you. The use of DoubleClick allows Google and its partner websites to switch advertisements to our website or other websites on the internet based on previous visits. These incoming data can be transferred to a server in the USA by Google for analysis and stored there. For cases in which personal data is transferred to the USA, Google is subject to the EU-US Privacy Shield.
You can prevent the saving of cookies by adjusting the settings of your browser accordingly (as described above). You can also prevent the data generated by the cookies about your use of the website from being collected and transmitted to Google and their further processing by Google by downloading and installing the Browser Plug-in for DoubleClick deactivation. As an alternative to the browser plug-in or in browsers on mobile devices, you can deactivate the “Ad Personalisation” switch in the Google Ad Settings. In this case Google will only display general advertisements which have not been selected using the information gathered about you.
You can find more detailed information about this in the Google Privacy Policy.
Use of Google Tag Manager
This website uses the Google Tag Manager. This service allows website tags to be managed through an interface. The Google Tag Manager only implements tags. This means that no cookies are used and no personal data is collected. The Google Tag Manager triggers other tags, which in turn collect data if necessary. However, the Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If a deactivation has been made at domain or cookie level, it remains valid for all tracking tags if they are implemented with the Google Tag Manager.