Scoach Europa AG appreciates your interest in our company and our services. Your privacy is important to us and we want you to feel comfortable visiting our various sites. As with all our business processes, the protection of your privacy in the processing of personal data is an important concern to which we pay special attention. Personal data are collected, processed and used by Scoach Europa AG in accordance with the German Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, abbr. BDSG).

Please note that the websites of Scoach Europa AG may include, however, links to other websites, which are not covered by this privacy policy.

Collection and processing of personal data

In most cases, when visiting our websites, no personal data are required to be provided. Only the current IP address of your computer, date and time, your browser type and computer operating system along with a record of the pages on our site which you access is logged. It is not possible to identify you as a person from this information. The data on your visit to our website which we store automatically in log files is used purely for statistical and security purposes.

Additional personal data (your name, address, phone number or e-mail address) is only required if you contact us directly or register for a newsletter or a closed user group. In these cases the collection of the required personal data takes place at your instigation.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are small configuration files which are stored on your computer.

Scoach Europa AG uses cookies to track the preferences of our users and to optimize the website accordingly. Cookies help us to identify popular pages and areas of our website and thus tailor the site to users’ needs and so improve our Internet offering. Cookies can recognize previous connections to our website by your computer; cookies can identify your computer, they cannot, however, identify you as a person or make a connection between you and your computer.

You can, of course, view our website without cookies. Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You can prevent cookies being saved on your hard disc by selecting the “accept no cookies” option. How to do this varies from one browser type to another; please follow the instructions of your browser manufacturer. You can also delete the cookies stored in your system file at any time.

Use and disclosure of personal data and specification of purpose

We will ensure your privacy and we will not disclose or sell your personal data to third parties. This privacy policy refers to all your personal data regardless of whether they are collected automatically or with your prior consent. We only use your data for internal, statistical purposes, to answer an inquiry or to provide a requested service.

We will not disclose your personal data to governmental authorities except in cases where it is required by the effective financial laws, e.g. Stock Exchange Act (Börsengesetz) or Securities Trading Act (Wertpapierhandelsgesetz). The employees of Scoach (internal and external) are obliged by us to respect data confidentiality.

Use of Google Analytics on scoach.de

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

In case IP-anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated within the area of Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the whole IP address will be first transfered to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP-anonymisation is active on this website.

Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing them other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

The IP-address, that your Browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics, will not be associated with any other data held by Google. 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 opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics with effect for the future by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Addon for your current web browser: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Security

Scoach Europa AG uses appropriate technical and organizational security measures in order to protect the data we have under our control against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction as well as access by unauthorized persons. Our security procedures are continually enhanced as new technology becomes available.

Freedom of information and public statement of data processing

Upon written request, Scoach Europa AG will inform you by letter what personal data we store as defined by the effective law. If such data is incorrect, we will correct that information at your request. In our public statement of data processing we summarize the information according to § 4e BDSG.

If you have further questions regarding data protection and privacy of your personal data at Scoach Europa AG please contact:
Celia Hollbach
Datenschutzbeauftragte
Scoach Europa AG
60485 Frankfurt am Main
or send an e-mail to dataprotection@deutsche-boerse.com. Our Group Data Protection Officer will take care of your request or will personally contact you.

Public statement of data processing

The German Data Protection Act stipulates in § 4g BDSG that the data protection officer has to make available according to § 4e BDSG the following specifications to the public:

Specifications on automated data processing (§ 4e Sentence 1 No. 4-8 BDSG)