General guidelines and information of AIT GmbH & Co. KG on privacy policy and safety standards

AIT Applied Information Technologies GmbH & Co. KG (in short: "AIT") as the operator of the German and English website respects your privacy and realizes that any personal data provided to us must be protected adequately. We always adhere to the latest technical standards and permanently monitor our systems.

The term "personal data" refers to personally identifiable information about you, such as your first and last names, private address, and other mailing addresses, as well as email addresses and other contact details. Furthermore, it includes information about your bank details or credit card which requires the utmost protection.

The offer made by AIT via the Internet can be generally retrieved without submitting personal facts or transferring personal data. Sensitive data are only transmitted when retrieving, obtaining, and paying for services or products (if this is possible or desired online). You have to give your express consent when transmitting your data for credit card or direct debit payments to our partner company authorized for this purpose. Our partner is of course obliged to adhere to data protection laws and other laws or regulations of the Federal Republic of Germany intended to protect your personal data. Please also read our General Terms of Use.

Your data will be transferred using state-of-the-art "Secure Socket Layer" (SSL) technology. Moreover, our servers are protected externally by dedicated firewalls.

When sending off your order, you agree to your data being collected, processed, and used for processing the order. Your consent can be withdrawn at any time by writing an email to support(at)aitgmbh.de.
Our website (in selected areas) uses "cookies" and other logging procedures to guarantee correct functioning of our Internet services. A "cookie" is a small text file used, among other things, to collect information about the use of a website. In some cases, cookies and other procedures are used to retrieve personal information about you. Most web browsers allow the control and deletion of cookies through the browser settings.

It is possible to modify the settings of all common web browsers to decline cookies if you prefer. Please note that you will have to re-enter your user name and password to access certain areas of the website after deleting or declining cookies on your computer.

Logging procedures can be used to record data, such as the names of Internet domains and Internet hosts, IP addresses (IP = Internet Protocol), type of applied browser software, and the applied operating system, Click Stream patterns as well as the time and date of access to our website. The use of cookies and other logging procedures allows us to improve our website and make our Internet services more attractive for you. Furthermore, we do not use personal data for trend analysis and statistical purposes.

We have introduced the following principles to protect your data:

• We inform you: When AIT collects personal data via the Internet, we wish to inform you about the purpose of this and whether this data will be transferred to other companies or AIT clients. We will not disclose your personal data to third parties which are not authorized by AIT, unless we are obliged to do so by law.
• You decide: You decide whether your personal data should be made available or not. The information provided when collecting your personal data via the Internet should help to facilitate this decision. The majority of AIT Internet services can still be viewed even if you decide not to make your personal data available. However, this does not include the purchase of goods, offers, and services which require interaction between AIT and the Internet user. Your decision will not affect any contact you may have with AIT through contracts or other business relations or partnerships, unless it relates to the purchase of goods or services.
• Security: Whenever and wherever your personal data is stored by AIT or an authorized AIT contract partner for providing a service, we will take the necessary technical and organizational measures to adequately protect your data from unauthorized access and processing.
• Retrieval and correctness of the data: The correctness and up-to-dateness of your personal data is of the utmost importance to AIT. You can view and, if necessary, update this data using your personal password.
• Our commitment to data privacy: We are committed to protecting your online data. The AIT websites are continuously reviewed and developed, as online data privacy demands are forever changing.
  
  If you have any questions or comments about our online data privacy regulations, please do not hesitate to contact us at privacy(at)aitgmbh.de.
• Your consent: By using this website you declare that you are in agreement with our privacy regulations and that the data collected about you is processed by AIT in the manner described above, and for the previously defined purpose. If the online data privacy regulations change, we intend to take appropriate measures to inform you of such changes by displaying relevant information on our website for a suitable period of time.

 

Information for customers and visitors to the AIT website

Adherence to German and European data protection rules and regulations is considered of the highest priority at AIT. Furthermore, AIT will do its utmost to not only meet the legal regulations governing data protection, but also to adhere to the recommendations of recognized panels regarding voluntary self-control in the area of data protection.

AIT also reserves the right to operate the servers of its foreign customers outside the European Economic Area (EEA). AIT guarantees that the information stored on these servers will be adequately protected as required by German and EC data protection laws.

If you would like to ask us any questions or require further information about data protection, you can do so by emailing to privacy(at)aitgmbh.de. Further information about data protection at AIT can be found here.

We thank you for your support and wish you lots of fun on our website!