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1. Privacy Statement of element 5 AG
   

Your privacy is important to us - we want to make sure that you have a positive buying experience in our software store and hope to be able to welcome you back many times for your software purchase. Therefore we have set forth privacy rules for us and our suppliers in order to guarantee you maximum privacy when shopping at element 5's web site. Please note that certain information is necessary in order to fulfill your order and authorize your payment - however we do not collect any data without your consent. This statement is based on the OECD guidelines for user privacy which you will find further below.
   
2. About element 5
   

Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of an organisation like element 5 AG which operates at an international level. We are based in Cologne, Germany. Our principal activity is Electronic Software Distribution Services for software companies and buyers alike. Protecting your privacy and your personal data is an important aspect of the way we create, organize and implement our activities on-line and off-line.

Our privacy policy covers element 5 AG and its Web site(s):

Organisation: element 5 AG
Address: Vogelsanger Str. 78
ZIP & City: 50823 Cologne
Country: Germany
URL: www.element5.com , www.element5.de
Physical Location: Germany

If you have any enquiry about our privacy policy, please contact:

Name: Wiltrud Schulte
Address: Vogelsanger Str. 78, 50823 Cologne, Germany
Phone: +49-221-31088-0
Fax: +49-221-31088-99
email: privacy@element5.com
URL: www.element5.com
   
3. Purpose Specification and Data Collection
   

You can access our Web sites home page and browse our sites without disclosing personal data. We collect your personal data only with your knowledge or your consent. Except this automatically logged information, we do not collect any other data about you. We collect the personal data that you volunteer on registration, order, survey, competition, or other forms, or by email.
   
4. Cookies
   

We use cookies only with your explicit consent in order to hold session information, improve security during a visitor's session online or improve the usability of our web site during a visit. We store the following informations in cookies : session information (session ID, random key), login name.

We do not associate the information stored in a visitor's cookie with any other personal data about that visitor without the user's prior consent. All our employees who have access to your personal data and are associated with the processing of that data are obliged to respect a confidentiality of your personal data.

   
5. Visitor Choice
   

You may choose to receive promotional or marketing information from our Web sites or organisation by clicking a box at the point where our site collects personal data.
   
6. Disclosure
   

We only disclose personal data about our Web site's visitors to our subsidiaries and their Web sites or - in case of electronic delivery - the software companies, of which you purchase software products, for their information. They are allowed to use this information to provide you with technical support, inform you of product updates/upgrades or new releases. They are also obliged to let you unsubscribe from any of their mailings. Your personal data will not be disclosed to any other third party, especially not for the purpose of mailings or any other marketing activity. We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation.
   
7. Individual Participation /Access
   

You can ask us whether we are keeping personal data about you, by visiting this URL (www.element5.com (password protected area)). Upon request, which you can indicate by visiting this URL (www.element5.com (password protected area)), we will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you.
We will provide the information almost instantaneously on-line without any charge.
We allow you to change the data that we hold about you, by rectification, completion, amendment.
   
8. Security
   

We have implemented technology and security policies, rules and measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from: unauthorised access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction, accidental loss.
   
9. Privacy Compliance details
   
The Privacy Principles of the OECD Guidelines
  • Collection Limitation Principle 
    There should be limits to the collection of personal data and any such data should be obtained by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the data subject.
     
  • Data Quality Principle
    Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which they are to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate complete and kept up-to-date.
     
  • Purpose Specification Principle
    The purposes for which personal data are collected should be specified not later than at the time of data collection and the subsequent use limited to the fulfilment of those purposes or such others as are not incompatible with those purposes and as are specified on each occasion of change of purpose.
     
  • Use Limitation Principle
    Personal data should not be disclosed, made available or otherwise used for purposes other than those specified in accordance with Paragraph 9 [Purpose Specification Principle] of the OECD Privacy Guidelines except:
    a) with the consent of the data subject; or
    b) by the authority of law.
     
  • Security Safeguards Principle
    Personal data should be protected by reasonable security safeguards against such risks as loss or unauthorised access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure of data.
     
  • Openness Principle
    There should be a general policy of openness about developments, practices and policies with respect to personal data. Means should be readily available of establishing the existence and nature of personal data, and the main purposes of their use, as well as the identity and usual of the Data Controller.
     
  • Individual Participation Principle
    An individual should have the right:
    a) to obtain from a data controller, or otherwise, confirmation of whether or not the data controller has data relating to him;
    b) to have communicated to him, data relating to him within a reasonable time; at a charge, if any, that is not excessive; in a reasonable manner; and in a form that is readily intelligible to him;
    c) to be given reasons if a request made under subparagraphs (a) and (b) is denied, and to be able to challenge such denial; and
    d) to challenge data relating to him and, if the challenge is successful to have the data erased, rectified, completed or amended.
     
  • Accountability Principle
    A Data Controller should be accountable for complying with measures which give effect to the principles stated above.
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