You have the right at any time to inquire free of charge and to promptly receive information about the data we have collected about your person. You can also revoke your consent at any time to the use of your personal data with immediate effect.
If you have any queries regarding data protection at BAL, please contact our company’s data protection officer, Mr Bernd Hecht at datenschutz@bal-berlin.de, or Tel.: 030 – 26 49 59 – 26.
Data Protection (general)
Whenever you access our website, general information is automatically collected in the form of server log files. These data include details of the web browser you use, your operating system and your Internet service provider. These data do not allow us to draw any conclusions about your person and are evaluated statistically by us in order to improve our Internet presence both technically and in terms of content. The collection of this information is necessary to ensure that the content of the website is delivered and displayed correctly.
You can use our website without providing any personal data. Insofar as we do collect personal data (for example your name, address or email address), this is, as far as possible, always done with your express consent. We will not pass these data on to third parties without your express consent.
Insofar as your use of our website is designed to establish a contractual relationship or to amend the content or structure of an existing contractual relationship, or to send us an enquiry, we will collect and process personal data only to the extent necessary for this purpose (inventory data). We also collect and process personal data to the extent necessary to enable you to use the website (usage data). All personal data will only be stored for as long as required to fulfil the stated purpose (processing your request or processing a contract). We also comply with statutory tax and commercial data retention periods. When requested to do so by responsible authorities, we are required in individual cases to provide information about this data (inventory data), insofar as this is necessary for the purposes of criminal prosecution, for averting danger, for fulfilling the statutory duties of the constitutional protection authorities or the Military Counter Intelligence Service, or for enforcing intellectual property rights.
Please be aware of the fact that there is a certain level of risk involved in any transmissions of data via the Internet (for example, when communicating via email). No transmission of data over the Internet can ever be guaranteed to be completely secure.
The use for marketing purposes of any postal addresses, telephone or fax numbers and email addresses published in this Legal Notice in fulfilment of our legal obligations is strictly prohibited. We will take legal action against any parties who send us unwanted spam messages. This prohibition does not apply if you have an existing business relationship with us or have been granted our express consent.
The website’s operator and all third parties named on this website expressly reserve the right to take legal action should they receive unsolicited marketing materials. The same applies to the commercial use and dissemination of the companies’ contact details.
Privacy Policy for Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are small text files stored on your device to help the website analyse how users navigate and use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is generally transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. However, if IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will first be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the complete IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and anonymised there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and Internet usage to the website operator. At no point is your IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics associated with other data stored by Google.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, you should note that if you do so, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting and processing data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser add-on available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is compatible with Chrome, Internet Explorer 8 to 11, Safari, Firefox and Opera.
Further information on Terms of Use and Data Protection can be found at the following links: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html and https://policies.google.com/?hl=en&gl=de.
Privacy Policy for Google AdSense
This website uses Google AdSense, an Internet advertising service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google AdSense uses “cookies”, which are small text files placed on your device to help analyse your usage of our website. Google AdSense also uses “Web Beacons” (small invisible images), which allow Google to analyse information such as visitor traffic to this website. Information about your use of this website (including your IP address) is typically transmitted to Google and stored on a server in the United States. Google uses this information to evaluate your use of this website in relation to advertising, in order to generate reports on website use and advertising for the website’s operator and in order to provide additional services related to website and Internet use. This information may also be transmitted by Google to third parties, insofar as this is permitted by law and insofar as these third parties process data on behalf of Google. However, your IP address will not be associated with any other data held by Google.
You may refuse the use of cookies and Web Beacons by selecting the appropriate setting in your browser; however, you should note that if you do so, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Privacy Policy for Google Plus
This website uses plugins (“+1” button, etc.) from the social network Google Plus, which is operated by Google Inc. (“Google”), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. The +1 button allows you as a registered Google Plus user to register and publish your interest in our web content on Google Plus. When you click the +1 button, Google records information that you have awarded a +1 to a particular web content and information about the site that you viewed it on. The +1 you award, along with your Google profile information (including your name and photo, if applicable), may be displayed on Google Plus and other Google services. For more information about Google’s data collection, processing and privacy policies, please visit: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
Privacy Policy for Google Remarketing and similar audiences features
This website uses plugins for Google Remarketing and similar audience features operated by Google Inc. (“Google”), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. This involves the use of “cookies” (small text files), which are stored on your device to enable the analysis of your usage of this website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. The cookie makes it possible to display relevant and personalised advertising to you on other websites in the “Google Display Network”. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser, however please note that if you do so, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting and processing the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser add-on available at the following link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin?hl=de. The browser add-on to disable Google Analytics is compatible with Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari and Firefox. In addition, you can disable the use of cookies by third parties. If you wish to do so, please follow the instructions of the Network Advertising Initiative (http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/).
For more information about Google Remarketing’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, please visit the following link: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/.
Google AdWords Conversion Tracking Privacy Policy
This website uses a plugin for “Google AdWords Conversion Tracking”, a service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Whenever you click on an ad served by Google, a “cookie” (a small text file) is created and stored on your device to enable Google to analyse your use of our website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is stored for 90 days. No personalised data is stored. For the period the cookie is valid, Google and the website’s operator can recognise that you have clicked on an advertisement and have navigated to the advertised page. The stored cookies cannot be tracked across multiple websites by different AdWords customers. The Google AdWords service collects conversion statistics, which record the number of users who clicked on an ad. In addition, Google records how many users clicked on an ad and proceeded to visit a “conversion tracking tag page”.
If you do not want to participate in tracking, you can opt-out of this and easily disable the Google Conversion Tracking cookie by changing your browser settings. However, if you do so, you may not be able to enjoy the full functionality of our website.
By using this website, you consent to the processing of your personal data by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Further information on Terms of Use and Data Protection can be found under the following links: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/93148?ctx=tltp and http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.
Pursuant to Section 7, Paragraph 1 of the German Telemedia Act (TMG), we as service providers are liable for our own content on our website in accordance with general laws. However, pursuant to Sections 8 to 10 of the German Telemedia Act (TMG), we as service providers are under no obligation to monitor content transmitted or stored by third parties or to investigate circumstances that may indicate illegal activity. Our obligation to remove or block content in accordance with general laws remains unaffected by this. However, any such liability shall only apply from the moment we are made aware of a specific infringement. Upon notification of such violations, we will remove or block the content immediately.
Liability for Links
This website contains links to third-party websites and resources, over which we have no control. For this reason, we cannot accept any liability for such external content. The relevant providers and/or operators of linked third-party websites are solely responsible for the content of such linked websites. We checked the content of any linked websites for possible legal infringements at the time we created the link. There was no identifiable illegal content at the time we created the link. It is, however, unreasonable to expect us to constantly monitor the content of linked websites without firm suspicion of legal infringement. As soon as we become aware of any such legal infringement, we will remove such links immediately.
Copyright
The content and works presented on these pages and created by the website’s operator, its employees and third parties commissioned by the website’s operator are subject to German copyright law. The duplication, modification, distribution and any type of use outside the limits of copyright law shall require the prior written approval of the respective author or creator. Downloads and copies of these pages are only permitted for private, non-commercial use. Insofar as content was not created by the website’s operator, the copyrights of third parties are respected. In particular, third-party content is marked as such. Should you nevertheless become aware of a copyright infringement, please inform us accordingly. As soon as we become aware of a copyright infringement, we will remove the offending content immediately.
