We are happy about your interest in DESSIN and about your visit on our website. We appreciate your trust in us and promise you to use the highest safety standards to protect your data from unauthorized access. We also would like to inform you what kind of data we save and how we use it.

As a private company we are subject to data protection requirements and the provisions of the German Data Protection Law. We have undertaken technical and organisational measures to meet all their requirements and to ensure that the requirements are also met by external service providers.

All personal data occurring within this framework will be referred to, processed and used for the objective of contract processing and for the business interests of DESSIN regarding the support of our customers, according to the applicable regulations regarding the protection of personal data.

The personal data you submit on the Internet will not be passed on to any unauthorised third party outside of the company. Data logged during access to the internet gateway will only be transferred to third parties if we are obliged to do so by law or by order or a court, or if such a transfer is required for taking legal action. No data will be transferred for any other reason.

If you have provided us with personal data, you can request that we delete your data at any time. Data for invoicing, legal and accounting purposes are excluded from the deletion process.

You are entitled at all times to be informed about the data that has been stored in respect to your person. We have summarized the details according to § 4e BDSG in our public directory of procedures.

The rapid development of the internet means that we might have to amend our privacy policy from time to time. You will be informed about anything new here.

The German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) specifies that the data protection officer must provide the following Information:

1. Name of the company responsible:

IWW Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wasserforschung gemeinnützige GmbH

2. Management:

Dr.-Ing. Wolf Merkel (technical managing director)
Dipl.-Wi.-Ing. Lothar Schüller (commercial director)

3. Address of company responsible:

Moritzstr. 26
45476 Mülheim an der Ruhr

4. Purpose of use, collection and processing of data:

Objects of the company are to provide service in the fields of resource protection, water catchment, water technology, water quality control, -transport and –distribution, as well as management consulting regarding water in accordance with the benefit of the public.

The broadening and deepening of professional competence in the fields of sustainable use of water in consideration of the scientific, ethnological, ecologically, economically and social context in accordance with the benefit of the public.

Those are the only purposes for recording, processing and using data.

5. Description of groups of people concerned and the regarding data and data categories:

Employee data and customer data as well as data of suppliers, if they are required to fulfil the purposes mentioned at 4.

6. Receivers or categories of receivers that might receive the data:

Public authorities in the case of overriding legal provisions according to §11 BDSG

7. Standard terms for data deletion:

The legislators have released a number of obligations and deadlines regarding data storage. Following expiry of these deadlines or the elimination of the purposes listed at 4, the corresponding data will be routinely erased.

8. Planned data transfer to third countries:

A data transfer to third countries is not planned and will not happen.

Server-Log-Files

The provider who is authorized with the hosting of this websites automatically collects and saves information in so called log-files. These are:

• Browser and browser version
• Operating system
• Referrer URL
• Hostname of the accessing computer
• Time of visit

These data cannot be connected to specific persons. The data will not be merged with data from any other sources. We reserve the right to check the authenticity of this information if we have concrete information about illegal activities.

Google Analytics

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 analyse 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-GB.

Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html

Privacy Statement for the use of Facebook plugins (Like-button)

On our pages are plugins of the social network Facebook, provider Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA, incorporated. The Facebook plugin, you agree to the Facebook logo or the Like-Button (Like) on our side. An overview of the Facebook plugins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

When you visit our pages, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server is established. Facebook gets this information that you have with your IP address visited our page. If you use Facebook to Like-Button Click while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages on your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to assign your visit to our pages to your user account. We point out that we as providers of the sites no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data and use them through Facebook. For more information, please see the privacy policy of Facebook at http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.

If you do not wish that Facebook can assign to visit our pages to your Facebook user account, please log out from your Facebook account.

Privacy Statement for the use of Twitter

Functions of the Twitter service are integrated on our sites. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. Through the use of Twitter and the “Re-Tweet” the web pages you visit are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users. This data is also transmitted to Twitter. We point out that we as providers of the sites no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data and use them through Twitter. For more information, please see the privacy statement of Twitter at http://twitter.com/privacy.

Your privacy settings on Twitter, you can change the account settings under http://twitter.com/account/settings.

Privacy Statement for using Google +

Our Sites use of Google +1. Provider is Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043.

Collection and dissemination of information: MUse the Google +1 button you can publish information worldwide. about the Google +1 button you and other users personalized content from Google and our partners. Google will store both the information that you have given for a content +1, as well as information about the page you viewed when you click on +1. Your +1 can be shown as evidence along with your name and profile photo in Google services, such as in search results or in your Google profile, or elsewhere on websites and ads on the Internet. Google records information about your +1 activities to improve Google’s services for you and others. To use the Google +1 button, you need a globally visible, public Google profile, which must contain at least the chosen profile name. This name is used in all Google services. In some cases, this name can also substitute any other name that you used when sharing content via your Google account. The identity of your Google profile can be shown to users who know your e-mail address or other identifying information from you.

Using the information collected: In addition to the above uses the information you provide in accordance with the applicable Google privacy policies are used. Google may release aggregate statistics on the +1 activities the user or transmits them to users and partners, such as publishers, advertisers or linked sites.