Privacy Policy

This is a translation from the original German which should be used for reference purposes. The German version is authoritative. If there is a conflict between the German and English versions, the German version prevails.

Due to the technology of the internet and electronic data processing the individual may have the feeling that they lose overview of when and for what purpose his or her data were stored. Especially in the field of finances the trust in a careful and safe handling of customer data is of major importance. Therefore we want to explain to you as a visitor of our website, how CPB Software (Germany) GmbH safeguards the confidentiality of your personal data and respects your personal rights.

Validity of the Privacy Policy

The privacy policy applies for all websites within the range of responsibility of CPB Software (Germany) GmbH. CPB Software (Germany) GmbH guarantees the confidentiality of your personal data as follows:

our employees must keep the obligation of secrecy
our safety measures correspond to the latest state of the art
our data protection officer guarantee the keeping of the privacy policy.

§ 1 Information on the collection of personal data

(1) In the following declaration we provide information on the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data includes all data personally identifiable to you, e.g. name, address, e-mail address, and user behaviour.

(2) The party responsible for the content of this website pursuant to Art. 4 (7) of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is CPB Software (Germany) GmbH, Im Bruch 3, 63897 Miltenberg, Germany, germany@cpb-software.com (please refer to our legal information). You can contact our data protection officer at datenschutz-de@cpb-software.com or at our postal address with the reference: "Data Protection Officer".

(3) When you contact us by e-mail, the data you provide (your e-mail address and potentially your name and telephone number) will be stored by us in order to respond to your questions. We delete the data provided in this way once the need to store this data has expired, or limit the processing of such data should statutory obligations to retain this data apply.

(4) Where we use contracted service providers for individual aspects of our services or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we inform you in detail about the respective processes below. We also state the specific criteria that determine the data retention period.

§ 2 Your rights

(1) You have the following rights regarding our storage of personal data relating to you:

Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR),
Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR),
Right to erasure ('right to be forgotten') (Art. 17 GDPR),
Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR),
Right to object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR),
Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)

Please contact our Data Protection Officer regarding these matters.

(2) If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates data protection law or your rights to data protection are otherwise violated in any way, you can submit a complaint to the following data supervisory authority:

Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht (BayLDA)
Promenade 27
91522 Ansbach, Germany
Phone: +49 981/53 1300
Fax.: +49 981/53 98 1300
E-Mail: poststelle@lda.bayern.de

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§ 3 Collection of personal data when visiting our website

(1) When using the website solely for information purposes, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data transmitted to our server by your browser. We collect the following data when you choose to visit our website, which are required for technical reasons in order to allow us to display our website to you and to ensure the website's reliability and security (the legal basis for this is outlined in Art. 6 (1.1) (f) of the GDPR):

IP address
Date and time of your request
Access status/HTTP status code
Quantity of data uploaded and downloaded
Referrer URL
Browser type
Operating system
Content encoding
Session ID
TLS protocol version
TLS cipher suite

(2) In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files stored on your hard disk in the browser you use and through which certain information is transmitted to the point defined by the cookie (in this case by us). Cookies cannot run programs or transfer viruses to your computer. Their purpose is to make the internet more user-friendly and effective in general.

(3) Use of cookies:

a) This website uses transient cookies, the scope and function of which are explained below (see point b)

b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. This particularly includes session cookies. Session cookies store what is known as a session ID, which assigns the various requests made by your browser to the same session. This makes it possible to recognise your computer the next time you visit our website. Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser.

c) You can configure your browser settings in accordance with your preferences and, for example, reject third party cookies or all cookies. Please note that in this case you may not be able to access all the functions of this website.

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§ 4 Additional functions and services offered on our website

(1) Aside from the purely informational function of our website, we also offer various services through our website that you can use if you are interested (by applying for free test access). You must provide additional personal data to acquire access to this, as we use these data to provide the respective service. The aforementioned data processing principles apply to these data.

(2) In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions, and are regularly monitored.

(3) Where our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you of the consequences of this in our description of the service offered.

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§ 5 Objection to or revocation of the right to process your data

(1) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke this at any time in accordance with Art. 7 (3.1) of the GDPR. Such a revocation alters the permissibility of processing your personal data after you have provided it to us.

(2) If the processing of your personal data by us is based on the weighing of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case especially if the processing of your data is not required to fulfil a contract with you, which is described by us in the following description of the functions. When exercising such objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event we receive a justified objection, we will examine the situation and either stop or adjust the processing of your data or explain to you our compelling and legitimate reasons, on the basis of which we will continue the processing of your data.

(3) You can object to the processing of your personal data for advertising purposes and data analysis at any time. You can inform us of your objection to our processing of your data for advertising purposes by contacting CPB Software (Germany) GmbH, Im Bruch 3, 63897 Miltenberg, Germany or germany@cpb-software.com.

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§ 6 Using our free test access

(1) Aside from the purely informational function of our website, we also offer you the option to request free test access. We provide relevant information below pursuant to Art. 13 of the GDPR in relation to the collection of your personal data, which apply should you decide to request free test access. Personal data includes all data personally identifiable to you, e.g. name, address, and e-mail address.

(2) The party responsible for the processing of your personal data pursuant to Art. 4 (7) of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is CPB Software (Germany) GmbH, Im Bruch 3, 63897 Miltenberg, Germany, germany@cpb-software.com.

(3) You can contact our data protection officer, Mr Ulf Mulka, via our postal address by including the reference "Data Protection Officer", by telephone on +49 30 44058503, or by e-mail to datenschutz-de@cpb-software.com.

(4) Our free test access allows you to try out our web application without obligation before you enter into a contract with us. If you would like to request free test access, you must enter your e-mail address and your first and last name. You must also create a password of your choice to complete the application. Once you have requested free test access, we will use your e-mail address to send you a username generated by our system. You can then use the password you chose before together with the user name generated and sent to you via e-mail to log into this website and test our web application without obligation and free of charge. The reason for this procedure is the need to detect and prevent abuse of our free test access, to ensure our paid service is not undermined by repeated applications for free test access. For this purpose, we use your first and last name and e-mail address to check for abuse. If this is the case, you will not receive an e-mail from us with the generated user name you would use to log in for free test access.

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is Art. 6 (1.1) (f) of the GDPR. The legitimate interest as provided for by this provision, which we follow here, is the recognition and prevention of misuse of our free test access service.

(5) We store your name and your e-mail address, which you provide when applying for a test account, for two years following the expiry of the test account. We will delete your data after two years.

(6) You have rights pursuant to Articles 15 to 21 of the GDPR.

Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR)
Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)
Right to erasure ('right to be forgotten') (Art. 17 GDPR)
Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
Right to object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR)

Please contact our Data Protection Officer regarding these matters.

If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates data protection law or your rights to data protection are otherwise violated in any way, you can submit a complaint to the following competent data supervisory authority:

Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht (BayLDA)
Promenade 27
91522 Ansbach, Germany
Phone: +49 981/53 1300
Fax.: +49 981/53 98 1300
E-Mail: poststelle@lda.bayern.de

(7) The connection is encrypted using TLS technology to prevent unauthorised access to your personal data by third parties.

(8) If you apply for free test access, you have the opportunity to provide us with your consent so that we may contact you once by e-mail after the expiration of your test access so that we may request your feedback. Consent for us to contact you for this purpose is purely voluntary. You can still apply for test access even if you do not wish to give us your consent to later request feedback. The decision over whether or not we will send you a username for you to access our site will not be affected by whether or not you decided to grant us this consent. As already explained above, we will only decide to not send you a username in the event we detect an abuse.

If you should give us your consent that we may contact you once by e-mail after your test access expires for the purpose of requesting feedback, you can still revoke your consent at any time in accordance with Art. 7 (3.1) of the GDPR. Such a revocation alters the permissibility of processing your personal data for this purpose after you have provided it to us. You also have the rights mentioned in paragraph (6).

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§ 7 Links on this website

This website contains links (URLs) that direct to the websites of various other providers. If you click on such a link, you will be redirected from our website directly to the corresponding website of the other provider. You can identify this, for example, through the change in URL. In this event, CPB Software (Germany) GmbH cannot assume any responsibility for the confidential handling of your data, as CPB Software (Germany) GmbH has no influence on whether the providers of the linked websites adhere to data protection regulations. Information on how your personal data is processed when you visit the linked websites can be found in the data protection information of the respective providers of these websites.

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§ 8 Use of Google reCAPTCHA

(1) We use the reCAPTCHA service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94103, United States, to protect the transmission of forms used to register for free test access.

(2) The service includes sending your IP address and any other data Google requires to operate the reCAPTCHA service to Google. Google's data protection policies can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/?hl=en.

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§ 9 Integration of Google's Custom Search Engine (CSE)

(1) The Custom Search Engine service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, United States, is integrated into this website to make our website easier for you to use. This enables you to enter search terms directly on this website and then display the hits on our website as provided by the Google index.

(2) By visiting this website, Google is informed that you have accessed our website. The data specified in Section 3 of this declaration will also be transmitted. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides you with a user account that you are logged into, or if no such user account exists. If you are logged into Google, your data will be directly associated with your account. If you do not wish to be associated with your profile on Google, you must log out before clicking the button. Google stores your data in the form of a user profile and uses this for advertising purposes, market research, and/or to support the customisation of its website design. Analysis of this kind is used to support the provision of needs-based advertising in particular (even for users who are not logged in). You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, however you must contact Google to exercise this right.

(3) Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and the processing of such data by Google can be found in the Privacy Policy. This policy also provides further information about your corresponding rights and how to set options to protect your privacy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/?hl=en.

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Version May 31, 2024