Privacy and data security are central and frequently discussed topics in the use of internet services, particularly where personal data is requested by the operator of an internet service. Compliance with data protection requirements when our websites are used is a central concern of IFMG GmbH – Institut für Forensische Molekulargenetik GmbH, enabling us to provide you with the best possible security and transparency in the handling of your personal data. We would therefore like to explain below how IFMG GmbH – Institut für Forensische Molekulargenetik GmbH handles your personal data when you use our website at www.ifmg-ms.de.
As a private-sector company, we are subject to the provisions of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the German Telemedia Act (TMG). We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure that data protection provisions are observed both by us and by external service providers.
This Privacy Policy contains detailed information about what happens to your personal data when you visit our website at www.ifmg-ms.de. Personal data means any data by which you can be personally identified. When processing your data, we strictly comply with statutory provisions, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and attach great importance to ensuring that your visit to our website is completely secure.
Controller
The controller responsible under data protection law for collecting and processing personal data on this website is:
IFMG GmbH
Institut für Forensische Molekulargenetik GmbH
Taubenstraße 51
48282 Emsdetten
Germany
Email: info(at)ifmg-ms.de
The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, email addresses or similar information).
Data Protection Officer
The internal Data Protection Officer of the controller is:
Dr Carsten Hohoff
Taubenstraße 51
48282 Emsdetten
Email: datenschutz(at)ifmg-ms.de
Any data subject may contact our Data Protection Officer directly at any time with questions or suggestions concerning data protection.
Withdrawal of Your Consent to Data Processing
Many data-processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may withdraw consent already given at any time. An informal notification by email is sufficient. The lawfulness of data processing carried out before consent was withdrawn remains unaffected by the withdrawal.
Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority
In the event of infringements of data protection law, the data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority for data protection matters is the State Data Protection Commissioner of the German federal state in which our company has its registered office. A list of Data Protection Commissioners and their contact details is available at: www.bfdi.bund.de.
Right to Data Portability
You have the right to have data that we process by automated means on the basis of your consent or in performance of a contract provided to you or to a third party in a commonly used, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this shall only be performed where technically feasible.
Personal Data
Personal data is information that can be used to determine your identity. This includes, for example, information such as your name, address, postal address or telephone number. Information that cannot be directly linked to your identity is not covered.
Collection, Processing and Use of Personal Data
As a general rule, you may visit all websites of IFMG Institut für Forensische Molekulargenetik GmbH without personal data being collected from you.
When you access our website or retrieve files, information about this process may be stored, such as:
- the name of the internet browser you use,
- the website from which you visit us,
- the page you visit on our website,
- the date and time of the request, or
- your IP address.
This data is evaluated solely for statistical purposes; in other words, your data is anonymised and cannot be used as personal data.
If, before using the website, you consent to the collection and use of your usage data, IFMG Institut für Forensische Molekulargenetik GmbH will create a usage profile on the basis of the aforementioned personal data for advertising and market-research purposes and to tailor the service to users' needs.
You may withdraw this consent at any time without stating reasons. If you withdraw your consent, IFMG Institut für Forensische Molekulargenetik GmbH may no longer use the personal data for the purposes stated above. You may submit your withdrawal in writing to IFMG Institut für Forensische Molekulargenetik GmbH, keyword “Objection”, Taubenstraße xx, xxx Münster.
For the following interactive services, IFMG Institut für Forensische Molekulargenetik GmbH must request certain personal data from you in order to send you the requested information or provide access to specific services:
- contact/emails/general enquiries,
- requests for materials (e.g. brochures),
- registration for closed user groups (e.g. login for medical professionals),
- job vacancies/applications.
Personal data is only collected when products or services are ordered, during registration, when forms are completed, or when emails or enquiries are sent.
In all other cases, your personal data is neither collected nor processed. IFMG Institut für Forensische Molekulargenetik GmbH only collects the data required to use the respective service. If you do not wish to give your consent, please understand that you will not be able to use the respective service.
The personal data collected about you is used by IFMG Institut für Forensische Molekulargenetik GmbH exclusively for the intended purpose, i.e. to provide the requested products or services. Your personal data will not be used beyond this for commercial or non-commercial purposes unless you have given your consent.
By submitting your data, you consent to the purpose-specific storage, processing and use of your personal data, which may be forwarded within IFMG Institut für Forensische Molekulargenetik GmbH for the purpose of processing your enquiry.
Contact Form
When you use our contact form, we process your name, email address, optional telephone number, and the subject and content of your message in order to process and respond to your enquiry. The enquiry is stored in our protected editorial system and can only be viewed there by authenticated, authorised employees. If an email service is configured, the enquiry is also sent to the designated internal contact address. Replies from the editorial system are documented together with their delivery status and responsible user.
Processing is based on your consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may withdraw your consent at any time with future effect. Processing carried out before withdrawal remains lawful. The data will be deleted once the enquiry has been fully processed, provided that no statutory retention obligations prevent deletion.
Registration for Closed User Groups
This personal data is managed in a database and treated as strictly confidential. This data is neither used for unsolicited advertising purposes nor outside This personal data is managed in a database and treated as strictly confidential. This data is neither used for unsolicited advertising purposes nor outside This personal data is managed in a database and treated as strictly confidential. This data is neither used for unsolicited advertising purposes nor disclosed outside IFMG Institut für Forensische Molekulargenetik GmbH, with the exception of external service providers.
Following successful login, your access authorisation is stored in your browser, transmitted with all requests to the same server and deleted when you close your browser, with the exception of disclosure to external service providers.
Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, text files stored on your computer that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is generally transferred to and stored on a Google server in the USA. However, because IP anonymisation (“anonymizeIP”) is activated on this website, Google first truncates your IP address within Member States of the European Union or other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (known as IP masking). Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transferred to a Google server in the USA and truncated there before further processing. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and provide the website operator with other services relating to website and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be combined with other Google data. You may prevent cookies from being stored by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software; however, please note that you may then be unable to use all functions of this website in full. You can also prevent the data generated by the cookie concerning your use of the website (including your IP address) from being collected and processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website by clicking the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent your data from being collected during future visits to this website:
Further information on terms of use and data protection is available at:
Please note that Google Analytics has been extended on this website by the “anonymizeIP;” function to ensure anonymised collection of IP addresses (known as IP masking). This excludes the possibility of identifying individuals through IP addresses.
Storage Period
Personal data communicated to us through our website will only be stored until the purpose for which it was entrusted to us has been fulfilled. This also applies to personal data for which you have given your consent, unless other statutory obligations prevent deletion. Once the purpose for which it was used no longer applies, your personal data will be deleted in full.
Links to Other Websites
Where we advertise other companies on our website, we will identify this advertising as such. Our website contains links to other websites. We have no influence over whether their operators comply with data protection provisions.
As a provider, we are responsible for our own content in accordance with general law. This own content must be distinguished, in some circumstances, from links to content provided by other providers. We accept no responsibility for third-party content made available for use via links and specifically identified as such, nor do we adopt such content as our own. The provider of the website to which a link refers is solely liable for illegal, incorrect or incomplete content and for damage resulting from the use or non-use of the information. The editorial team is only responsible for third-party references if it has positive knowledge of them, including any potentially unlawful or criminal content, and if preventing their use is technically possible and reasonable.
Questions Concerning Data Security
We store your personal data on specially protected servers. IFG Institut für Forensische Genetik GmbH ensures compliance with appropriate technical and organisational security measures corresponding to the state of the art in order to meet data protection requirements. In particular, the personal data you provide is protected against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorised persons. Where your personal data is collected and processed, the information is transmitted in encrypted form. However, IFG Institut für Forensische Genetik GmbH expressly notes that data transmission over the internet (e.g. communication by email) may have security vulnerabilities and cannot be completely protected against access by third parties.
Access to your personal data is only possible for a small number of specially authorised persons involved in the technical, commercial or editorial administration of the servers.
The database and its contents remain with IFMG Institut für Forensische Molekulargenetik GmbH and our provider.
General Data Protection Information Independent of Web Services
As a company, IFMG Institut für Forensische Molekulagenetik GmbH collects, processes and stores personal data in local and global systems.
Personal data may include, for example, names, addresses, contact details, professional information such as field of expertise or position, and bank details. Data is collected, processed and stored for the purposes of contract performance, documenting cooperation with IFMG Institut für Forensische Molekulagenetik GmbH, providing information and advice through IFMG Institut für Forensische Molekulagenetik GmbH, processing enquiries and documenting communications.
Personal data relating to suppliers is collected, processed and stored for the purpose of contract performance and associated communications.
Personal data relating to study participants is only collected, processed and stored on the basis of separate consent.
Personal data is used exclusively for these purposes unless it is required for legal proceedings. In the cases mentioned, it may be necessary to transfer personal data to the competent authorities in countries within and outside the EU where an equivalent level of data protection does not exist.
In accordance with applicable law, data subjects may be entitled to information, erasure, restriction and rectification of their data and, if they have questions, may contact the following address: IFMG Institut für Forensische Molekulagenetik GmbH, Taubenstraße xx, xxxxx Münster.
Exercising Your Rights as a Data Subject (Access, Erasure and Rectification)
In accordance with statutory provisions, as a data subject you have the right to receive information free of charge at any time about your data stored by IFMG Institut für Forensische Molekulargenetik GmbH.
You may also assert your rights to restriction, erasure or rectification against IFMG Institut für Forensische Molekulargenetik GmbH at any time. In the event of restriction or withdrawal, your data will be deleted with immediate effect unless there are important reasons for retaining it or other statutory or contractual provisions prevent deletion.
Use of OpenStreetMap
We embed a map provided by OpenStreetMap on our contact page. The provider is the OpenStreetMap Foundation, St John's Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS, United Kingdom (“OSMF”).
The map is not loaded automatically. Only when you expressly consent by selecting “Load OpenStreetMap” does your browser establish a direct connection to OSMF servers. In particular, your IP address, browser and device type, operating system, referring website, and the date, time and content accessed may be processed. Processing is based on your consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may withdraw your consent at any time with future effect through the cookie settings.
Further information is available in the OpenStreetMap Foundation Privacy Policy:
https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy
Use of Social Plugins
On some pages, we offer you the option of sharing the current page on social networks (Facebook, Google+ and Twitter). Our corresponding icons and buttons function as external links, meaning that no information is transferred to any of these providers unless you click one of the icons. When you click an icon, you are redirected to the respective provider's website. The URL of the current page is passed as a parameter. We have no influence over whether or how the providers use this data for analysis. Further information is available in the respective providers' privacy policies:
- Google+: Google's Privacy Policy is available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. We use a simple share button with a link. The supplementary Button Policy is available here (in English): https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy
- Facebook: Facebook's Data Policy is available at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
- Twitter: Twitter's Privacy Policy is available at https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en
If you do not want the social networks named above to collect data about your use of our websites, please do not click these buttons.
Use of Adobe
For optimised presentation, we use external web fonts on some pages from Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited, 4-6 Riverwalk, City West Business Campus, Saggart, Dublin 24, Ireland.
With regard to the use of images, IFMG recognises Adobe's licence terms.
For technical reasons, your browser establishes a direct connection to Adobe Typekit's servers during each session, during which your IP address may be read, among other information. A temporary session cookie is stored in your browser to improve performance. We have no influence over the scope of the data collected by Adobe Typekit in this manner; according to the provider, however, no personal data is evaluated or stored.
Details of the cookie mentioned above are available at:
http://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html#cookies
Adobe's Privacy Policy is available at: http://www.adobe.com/privacy.html
Contact Information
If you have questions or suggestions, wish to exercise your rights as a data subject, or have questions about data security and the use of the internet services of IFMG Institut für Forensische Genetik GmbH, please contact:
IFMG Institut für Forensische Molekulargenetik GmbH
Taubenstraße 51
48282 Emsdetten, Germany.
To contact us by email, please use the following address: info@ifmg-ms.de
In the event that data protection requirements change, IFMG Institut für Forensische Molekulargenetik GmbH reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy as necessary.