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We are very happy that you are interessted in our website and services. Your personal data and privacy are valued very highly at TALENTARENA. We are fully committed to respecting your privacy and to protecting any information you provide to us. Please read our privacy policies carefully. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us. We we will be glad to help you.

TALENTARENA GmbH
E-Mail: kontakt < at > talentarena.de

1. Consent to use of data
2. Protection pursuant to the Federal Data Protection Act and the Telecommunications Act
3. Future changes to this data protection declaration are possible
4. Collection and recording of data when accessing our website
5. Collection of additional personal information only on a voluntary basis
6. Use and sharing of personal information
7. Legal succession or new holder of rights
8. Inviting friends; recommendations
9. Personal responsibility of the user for keeping the password secret
10. Forwarding of personal information
11. Protection against disclosure of personal information to third parties
12. Does TALENTARENA use cookies?

1. Consent to use of data

The mere use of our website or reading of this data protection policy does not replace your legally required consent to our collecting, transferring, processing and using your personal information in the form stated below and for the purposes described below. We would furthermore like to draw your attention to the fact that, after providing your consent you have the right at any time to withdraw said consent to data collection or use of data with future effect.

2. Protection pursuant to the Federal Data Protection Act and the Telecommunications Act

We will fully protect your data within the scope of the legal provisions. Such protective statutory provisions are contained in particular in the Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG) and the Telemedia Act (Telemediengesetz, TMG).

3. Future changes to this data protection declaration are possible

As experience has shown, the legal situation regarding data protection is subject to regular reforms, to which our data protection policy must also be adjusted. The contents of our service are also subject to constant change and further developments. We therefore reserve the right to adjust this data protection policy accordingly and, if necessary, to send you notices regarding the changes to our data protection policy. In addition, however, you are advised to visit our website regularly to find out about possible changes to the data protection policy and other conditions of use of our website.

4. Collection and recording of data when accessing our website

Below you will find some notes as to which personal information is collected when you visit our website and how we use this information. Each visit to our website (and its subpages) is automatically registered and recorded. In particular the IP address of the computer accessing the site can be registered and recorded. If necessary, each click, download or other access to files available on our website will also be registered and recorded accordingly. The storage involved merely serves our own internal statistical evaluation purposes. The following information is recorded: file name, time of access (date and time) volume of data accessed or transferred; browser type; notification of whether access or transfer was successful; name of domain or e-mail accessing the site. If necessary, confirmation of receipt and e-mail read confirmation are also registered and recorded and, where applicable on our website, login names and passwords.

5. Collection of additional personal information only on a voluntary basis

Other personal data than that specified in the preceding section shall be collected and stored by us only if this information is provided voluntarily e.g. as part of an e-mail request, through the invitation of a registered user (see below), via a contact form provided, as part of registration of other use of our website or in the course of obtaining the services on offer on our website. You have the right at any time to withdraw your consent to the collection of data with effect for the future.

6. Use and sharing of personal information

If you have transferred or provided personal information to us, we shall use this only to respond to your requests, for internal communication with you, to processes contracts agreed with you, to assert our claims and conditions of use, to process your orders placed with us and for the technical administration and processing of your account, file management and accounting. If you make personal information publicly available or share such information internally with other users, your personal information will also be used and exploited to this extent. Subject to your consent, we shall also send you information at regular intervals in the form of a free newsletter, which may also contain information about our partners' products. We will forward to, or otherwise share your personal information with, third parties only if this is necessary for purposes of the implementation of the contract or for accounting purposes, or if you provided prior consent, or if we are entitled or required to do so on the basis of statutory provisions (e.g. provision of information to criminal prosecution services). You have the right at any timeto withdraw your consent with effect for the future.

7. Legal succession or new holder of rights

In the event of legal succession or new holder of rights as regards our website, the personal data shall be transferred to the legal successor or the new holder of rights in our website. He/she shall continue the work of his/her predecessor and takes over his/her rights and duties (e.g. regarding the general terms and conditions or the data protection provisions).

8. Inviting friends; recommendations

On our website, registered users can invite friends or recommend works to friends. This is done via an automated system by an invitation e-mail sent by the registered user to his/her friend. We will store the e-mail address of the friend in each case only when said friend voluntarily confirms the invitation from the registered user. The friend has the right at any time to withdraw his/her consent to the storage of his/her e-mail address with effect for the future.

9. Personal responsibility of the user for keeping the password secret

Responsibility for keeping secret a password allocated to the user or selected by him/her lies solely with the user. The same applies to access codes or other passwords.

10. Forwarding of personal information

As a rule, we do not transfer data abroad or to supranational or interstate authorities. If it is necessary to transfer data abroad or to supranational or interstate authorities, this shall be done only in accordance with the statutory rules on the permissibility of such transfer pursuant to Sections 4b and 4c Federal Data Protection Act.

11. Protection against disclosure of personal information to third parties

We would like to assure you that we shall protect your personal information stored by us against unauthorised access by third parties insofar as it is feasible and reasonable for us to do so with the help of modern technical and organisational means. Insofar as wecontact you, or you contact us by e-mail, we are unable to ensure complete data security, despite the various protective measures employed by us; as a result, we recommend that you send confidential information by post. Please also note that, despite all security measures, we cannot guarantee the complete security of the user account data; in particular, we cannot guarantee that this is safe from unauthorised third party access and use by third parties, or from hardware or software defects. For further information on the security measures employed by us, please feel free to contact our data protection officer (contact details above).

12. Does TALENTARENA use cookies?

We use cookies to help you use TALANTARENA to collect data that we can use to improve the efficiency and quality of our service. We currently employ persistent cookies which stay in the „cookies“ folder on your computer after you have gone offline and closed your browser.

Most browsers have cookies turned on as a default, but you can always disable cookies or only allow non-persistent cookies via your browser preferences. If you choose to disable cookies, however, you won’t be able enjoy a significant proportion of TALENTARENA’s functionality. Please remember that cookies cannot read your hard drive or give any information collected to any third party. A cookie can only be read by the organisation that sets it. 

Updated on: 15th of June 2008