Person responsible for data processing
Responsible according to Art. 4 para. 7 EU Data Protection Basic Regulation (DSGVO) is:
S4 International GmbH
Pascalstr.26
52076 Aachen
Germany
E-mail: dataprotection@s4international.de
(For more contact opportunities see our imprint.)
Data Protection Officer
You can contact our data protection officer at dataprotection@s4international.de
1. Contact
You can send us an inquiry using our stated e-mail addresses and our general contact form. The personal data that you provide in the context of this request will be stored by us in order to respond to your request. We delete the collected data after the storage is no longer necessary. We restrict the processing if there are legal obligations to retain the data. Data will not be passed on to third parties.
If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes in this data protection declaration. In doing so, we will also state the defined criteria for the storage period.
2. Collection of personal data of visitors to our website
In the case of merely informational use of the website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) DS-GVO) and to ensure stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c) DS-GVO in conjunction with Art. 32 DS-GVO):
- IP address
- Date and time of the request
- Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
- Content of the request (specific page)
- Access status/HTTP status code
- Amount of data transferred in each case
- Website from which the request comes
- Browser
- Operating system and its interface
- Language and version of the browser software
This data with complete, possibly personal IP addresses are stored by us for reasons of technical security, in particular to defend against attempted attacks on our web server. They are anonymized/deleted after seven days at the latest.
3. Use of cookies
In addition to the data mentioned above, cookies are placed on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive assigned to the browser you are using. They provide the party setting the cookie (in this case, us) with certain information. Cookies cannot execute programs or transmit viruses to your computer.
This website uses the following essential cookies:
| Cookie | Description | Duration | Type |
| pll_language | Polylang sets this cookie to keep track of the language chosen by the user when they return to the website and to maintain the language information when it is not available by other means. | 1 year | functional |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | This cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and records the user’s consent for cookies in the “Necessary” category. | 1 year | functional |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | The GDPR Cookie Consent plugin sets the cookie to record the user’s consent for the cookies in the “Functional” category. | 1 year | functional |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie stores the user’s consent for the cookies in the “Performance” category. | 1 year | functional |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent Plugin, this cookie stores the user’s consent for the cookies in the category “Analytics”. | 1 year | functional |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent Plugin, this cookie stores the user’s consent for the cookies in the category “Advertising”. | 1 year | functional |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie stores the user’s consent for cookies in the “Other” category. | 1 year | functional |
View the cookie banner again to change your settings by clicking on “Manage consent” at the bottom left of this page.
4. User convenience functions
For an optimal presentation of our website (e.g., adaptation to different screen sizes, displayable menu, input control of the contact form) we use techniques such as Javascript and CSS (cascading style sheets). You can disable the use of these techniques by making the respective settings in your browser. In this case, however, parts of our website may no longer be accessible to you.
5. Links to third-party websites
S4 International‘s websites may contain links to third-party websites. If you follow these, you will leave S4 International‘s websites and thus the scope of this privacy policy. S4 International is not responsible for the data protection policies or the content of the linked websites.
6. Your rights
You have the following rights towards us regarding the personal data related to you:
- right of information,
- right to rectification or deletion,
- right to restriction of processing,
- right to object to processing,
- right to data portability.
You also have the right to raise a complaint at a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us. The supervisory authority responsible for us is the:
State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Kavalleriestr. 2-4
40213 Düsseldorf
Telephone: 0211/38424-0
Fax: 0211/38424-10
E-mail: poststelle@ldi.nrw.de
If you should indeed see a reason for a complaint, our external data protection officer is also available to you as a confidential contact under the contact details given above.
7. Hosting
We host the contents of our website with the following provider:
Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen (in the following Hetzner).
Details can be found in Hetzner’s data protection declaration: https://www.hetzner.com/de/rechtliches/datenschutz.
The use of Hetzner is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. We have a legitimate interest in ensuring that our website is presented as reliably as possible. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a DSGVO and § 25 Para. 1 TTDSG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user’s terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) as defined by the TTDSG. The consent can be revoked at any time.
8. Plugins and Tools
Font Awesome (local hosting)
This site uses Font Awesome for the consistent display of fonts. Font Awesome is installed locally. A connection to servers of Fonticons, Inc. does not take place.
For more information about Font Awesome, please see the Font Awesome privacy policy at: https://fontawesome.com/privacy.
9. Data in the imprint
We explicitly object to the use of contact data published within the imprint obligation by third parties for the purpose of sending unrequested advertising and information material. We explicitly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unrequested sending of advertising information, for example by spam mails.
10. Changes to this privacy policy
We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration in agreement with the legal data protection regulations. The currently valid version can be viewed at any time in the data protection section of our website.