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Privacy Policy
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Scope and updates 
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This data protection policy applies to the use of the website www.healthcare-supply-chain.com. Steinbeis (representing Healthcare Supply Chain Institute) takes the protection of your personal information extremely seriously and adheres to prevailing data protection laws, including the regulations of the German Telemedia Act (Telemediengesetz, “TMG”) and Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, “BDSG”). Data that we gather or that you submit to us is only acquired, used, processed, stored, or, if necessary, shared with third parties (and in such instances, only if required by law or if stipulated by a contractual obligation) according to prevailing data protection legislation (TMG/BDSG). If our website needs to be updated or has to be adapted to new technology, it may become necessary to make amendments to this data protection policy. Steinbeis therefore reserves the right to amend its data protection policy whenever necessary in accordance with latest developments.

 

Our domains are provided by 1&1 Internet SE. Data processing agreements have been made with1&1Internet.

 

This website has been developed using the Wix platform. The platform is operated by Wix.com Ltd., Namal 40, 6350671 Tel Aviv, Israel, Wixcom Luxembourg S.a.r.l, 5, rue Guillaume Kroll, L-1882 Luxembourg.

Further information about Wix terms of service and privacy policy is available here: https://wix.com/about/terms-of-use, https://wix.com/about/privacy. Our data processing agreements with Wix.com can be accessed here: https://www.wix.com/about/privacy-dpa-users.

 

Data processing on website
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Whenever somebody visits a website, data is gathered and exchanged. Whenever you visit a page on our website, the server automatically gathers and temporarily stores the following information submitted by your browser:

  • IP address of the computer that submitted the query

  • Client file requests

  • The website that directed you to us (referrer URL)

  • Browser type and version

  • The operating system used by the computer that submitted the query

  • Name of the accessed website

  • File, date, and time of access

  • Volume of transferred data

  • Confirmation of successful access


Steinbeis only uses this information for statistical purposes, for example to assess traffic volumes. No personal information is analyzed through the server log files. Steinbeis is not able to link information to individuals. This information is not merged with other sources of data. Data is deleted after completion of the statistical analysis.

 

Contact via our forms
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Your given data (name, e-mail address) will be used project-related for the purpose of creating and processing the project-related registration, contact, implementation and postprocessing. Your data will be forwarded to us by e-mail via our provider.
We only store your data for as long as is necessary to provide our service or for verification purposes, or we have a legitimate interest in further storage. In all other cases, we will delete your personal data with the exception of data that we must continue to store in order to fulfil legal obligations. The data will not be used for any other purpose or passed on to third parties.

 

Use of cookies
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We use cookies on www.healthcare-supply-chain.com. Cookies are small text files that are saved to the hard drive of your computer by websites. They make it possible to analyze your use of a website. Cookies do not allow servers to read personal information on your computer or information stored by other servers. They cause no damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. The cookies used by our website do not store any personal information about you or how you use the website. We use the information stored by cookies to make it easier for you to use our website and to match content to your needs.

Of course you can also use our website without activated cookies. If you do not want us to store cookies on your computer, you can deactivate the corresponding option in the your browser preferences. This may, however, have a negative impact on the functioning of our website. It is possible that certain interactive options on our website cannot be used properly. You can delete cookies stored on your computer by going to the browser settings. To read more about changing cookie settings see the following links (please select the browser you use):

  • Firefox

  • Internet Explorer

  • Chrome

  • Safari

  • Opera

 

In addition, WIX platform places certain cookies in the browser by default. Further information about cookies used by WIX is available here: https://support.wix.com/en/article/cookies-and-your-wix-site.

 

Google Analytics
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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 (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address 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. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html or at www.google.de/intl/en_uk/policies/. Please note that on this website, the settings in  Google Analytics to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).

A data processing agreement has been made with Google.

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Visitor Analytics

Visitor Analytics is a simple website analytics service which measures the traffic and visitors' general details of the customers' websites. Collecting these statistics, a website can make their visitors' experience better (e.g. which pages they visit and when, where they are approximately located, where does a user land first or if they are coming from a specific referral).

Basically, as a website owner using Visitor Analytics, we are using cookies to collect data about visitors' device type and screen size, approximate location, browser, OS, IPs, page visits, bounce rate, conversions and popular content on the website. All this data is pseudonymized and Visitor Analytics will never use the collected data to identify individual users or to match it with additional information on an individual user. Each visitor has control over the cookies placement.

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish by checking your browser settings on each device - for details, see aboutcookies.org.

For further information, please check Visitor Analytics’ Terms Of Use, Cookie Information and Opt-Out / Do Not Track.

 

Sharing information with third parties
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Steinbeis does not share your personal information with third parties. The only times we do not adhere to this fundamental principle are when:

  • you give us your permission to share information

  • information has to be shared in order to deliver products or services that you require

  •  a subcontractor that has been hired by Steinbeis to deliver products or services requires information for its intended purpose

  • it is necessary to adhere to a legal obligation to provide information to parties entitled to receive this information

 

Responsibility for links
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Our website contains hyperlinks to third-party websites and we have no influence over these websites. We expressly state that such websites contain third-party content which is not provided or owned by Steinbeis. The owners or operators of third-party websites are responsible for the content of such websites under all circumstances. Websites linked to by our website were checked for illegal content when the link was programmed. No illegal content was found on third-party websites when links were set up.

 

Standard period for data deletion
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There are certain storage obligations and standard storage periods due to legal requirements. After the obligatory storage period, data is routinely deleted. Personal data is also deleted once it has fulfilled the purposed for which it was gathered, assuming it is no longer required or there is no longer any legal foundation for using the data (e.g., withdrawal of consent).

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Right to information and corrections

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It is your legal right to ask Steinbeis to provide you with details of any personal information held by Steinbeis that relates to you as an individual, at any time and at no cost. If you would like more information on how your personal information is acquired, processed, or used, please write to datenschutz@steinbeis.de. It is also your legal right to ask that incorrect personal information that relates to you as an individual will be corrected, blocked, or deleted, provided that no legal obligation exists to keep it.

 

Right to withdraw consent; right of objection
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At any time and without further ado, you may withdraw your consent to the data protection declaration of Steinbeis with immediate and future effect by getting in touch with us as detailed below. You will incur no cost for getting in touch except for standard applicable rates.
E-Mail: datenschutz@steinbeis.de

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Note: The English text on this page is a translation of the original data protection declarations in German. In all matters of interpretation, the German original shall take precedence.

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