Privacy Policy

Controller
For the purposes of data protection legislation, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the data controller is:

Peter Hofmann
Eichendorffstr. 9
D-65520 Bad Camberg (Germany)
Phone: +49 6434 / 9 06 68 - 49
Fax: +49 6434 / 9 06 68 - 50
Email: info@hofmann-qa.de

Rights of the data subject/your rights under data protection law
Under the contact details provided for our Controller you may exercise the following rights at any time:

Right to access the personal data we hold about you and information about how it is processed,
Right to rectification of inaccurate personal data, Right to erasure of your personal data held by us, Right to restriction of processing where we are not yet permitted to delete your data due to statutory obligations,
Right to object to the processing of your personal data,
Right to data portability where you have given your consent to the processing of your data or have entered into a contract with us.
Where you have provided us with your consent, you may withdraw it at any time with effect for the future.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority competent for your case at any time. The relevant authority depends on the federal state in which you reside, work, or where the alleged infringement took place. A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector), including their contact details, can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Purposes of Data Processing by the Controller and Third Parties
We process your personal data only for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice. Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for any purposes other than those stated.
We will only share your personal data with third parties where:

you have given your express consent to do so, the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation, the processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in your data not being disclosed.

SSL Encryption
To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.

Contact Form
If you contact us with any queries by email or via our contact form, you provide us with your voluntary consent for the purpose of making contact. A valid email address is required for this purpose, as it is used to assign your enquiry and provide a response. The provision of any further information is optional. The details you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing your enquiry and for any follow-up questions. Once your enquiry has been dealt with, your personal data will be deleted automatically.

Use of Cookies
In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we and certain third parties use cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a web server to your hard drive. This allows us to automatically receive certain data such as your IP address, the browser you are using, your operating system and your connection to the internet.

Cookies cannot be used to launch programmes or to transfer viruses to a computer. The information contained in cookies enables us to facilitate your navigation of our website and to ensure that our web pages are displayed correctly.

In no circumstances will the data we collect be passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.

Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Most internet browsers are set to accept cookies by default. In general, you can disable the use of cookies at any time through your browser settings. Please refer to your browser's help function to find out how to change these settings. Please note that certain features of our website may not function correctly if you have disabled the use of cookies.

Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (hereinafter: Google). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", which are text files stored on your computer that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is generally transferred to and stored on a server operated by Google in the United States. However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on this website, your IP address will first be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide the website operator with further services relating to website and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by Google.

The purposes of the data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on website activity. Further related services are to be provided on the basis of website and internet usage. The processing is carried out on the basis of the legitimate interests of the website operator.

You can prevent cookies from being stored by adjusting the settings in your browser software; however, please note that in this case you may not be able to make full use of all the features of this website. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google, as well as the processing of such data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: Browser Add-on to Deactivate Google Analytics.

In addition to, or as an alternative to, the browser add-on, you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our pages by clicking this link. This will install an opt-out cookie on your device, which will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website and in this browser for as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

Use of Script Libraries (Google Web Fonts)
In order to display our content correctly and in a visually appealing manner across all browsers, we use script libraries and font libraries on this website, such as Google Web Fonts (https://www.google.com/webfonts/). Google Web Fonts are transferred to your browser's cache to avoid multiple loading. If your browser does not support Google Web Fonts or prevents access, content will be displayed in a default font.

Calling up script libraries or font libraries automatically triggers a connection to the operator of the library. It is theoretically possible — though currently unclear whether and, if so, for what purposes — that the operators of such libraries may collect data.

The privacy policy of the library operator Google can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Use of Adobe Typekit
We use Adobe Typekit for the visual design of our website. Typekit is a service provided by Adobe Systems Software Ireland Ltd. that grants us access to a library of fonts. In order to embed the fonts we use, your browser must establish a connection to an Adobe server in the United States and download the font required for our website. Adobe thereby receives the information that our website has been accessed from your IP address. Further information about Adobe Typekit can be found in Adobe's privacy policy, which you can access here: www.adobe.com/privacy/typekit.html

Use of Google Maps
This website uses the Google Maps API to display geographical information visually. When using Google Maps, data about visitors' use of the map functions is also collected, processed and used by Google. Further information about data processing by Google can be found in Google's privacy policy, where you can also change your personal privacy settings in the Privacy Centre.

Detailed instructions on managing your own data in connection with Google products can be found here.

Embedded YouTube Videos
Some of our web pages contain embedded YouTube videos. The operator of the relevant plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page containing a YouTube plugin, a connection is established to YouTube's servers. YouTube is thereby informed which pages you are visiting. If you are logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube is able to associate your browsing behaviour with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

When a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies to collect information about user behaviour.

If you have disabled the storage of cookies for the Google Ad programme, you will not encounter any such cookies when watching YouTube videos. However, YouTube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you wish to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in your browser.

WFurther information on data protection at YouTube can be found in the provider's privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Google AdWords
Our website uses Google Conversion Tracking. If you have reached our website via an advertisement placed by Google, Google AdWords will set a cookie on your computer. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an advertisement placed by Google. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, both we and Google can recognise that the user clicked on the advertisement and was directed to that page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot therefore be tracked across the websites of AdWords customers. The information obtained via the conversion cookie is used to compile conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted in to conversion tracking. Customers are informed of the total number of users who clicked on their advertisement and were directed to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that could be used to personally identify users.

If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can decline the setting of the cookie required for this purpose, for example via your browser settings, which allow you to generally disable the automatic setting of cookies, or by configuring your browser to block cookies from the domain "googleleadservices.com".

Please note that you must not delete your opt-out cookies for as long as you do not wish any measurement data to be recorded. If you have deleted all cookies in your browser, you will need to set the relevant opt-out cookie again.

Changes to our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Notice at any time in order to ensure it reflects current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services, for example when introducing new features. Your next visit to our website will be governed by the updated Privacy Notice.

Contact for Data Protection Enquiries
If you have any questions regarding data protection, please send us an email or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organisation directly:

Mr Hofmann:
Tel.: +49 6434 / 9 06 68 - 49

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