The teleservice provider is

SEMA Consult GmbH
Aurikelweg 17
D-33739 Bielefeld
Phone: +49 (0)521 1425 9003
Email: info@sema-consult.com

VAT no.: DE344649093
Commercial Register: AG Bielefeld HRB44384
Management: Matthias Senft
Tax no. 349/5752/4876

 

Gender notice: For better legibility, we use the generic masculine form for person designations and person-related nouns on this website, e.g., “the employee”. Corresponding terms generally apply to all genders within the scope of equal treatment. The abbreviated linguistic form is used for editorial reasons only and does not imply any valuation.

 

 

Disclaimer

Disclaimer

We have compiled the content of our online offer to the best of our knowledge and belief and with the greatest care. Sometimes, however, the content may deviate from the current status due to new developments. Therefore, we cannot assume any guarantee for the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided.

Any liability for content being accurate, up to date, and complete and any liability claims relating to damage of material or immaterial nature caused by use or non-use of the content or by use of incorrect and incomplete content is, therefore, excluded in principle, unless there is evidence of intent or gross negligence.

If you feel that your rights have been violated by the content of our online offer, please contact us! We will review your request and modify the content accordingly if necessary.
 In spite of careful review of the content, we assume no liability for the content of external links. The operators of the linked-to pages are solely responsible for their content. We explicitly exclude any liability for their contents. Any liability for direct or indirect damage caused by information on our website or on websites that can be reached via our website is excluded.

Data protection at a glance

• General notes: The following communication provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data include all data that make it possible to identify you in person. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be taken from our data protection policy listed below this text.   Data collection on our website      Who is the controller for data collection on this website? Processing activities on this website are performed by the website operator. For contact details, see the imprint of this website.
• Datenerfassung auf unserer Website
  • Who is the controller for data collection on this website? Processing activities on this website are performed by the website operator. For contact details, see the imprint of this website.
  • How do we record your data? Your data will be collected when you communicate them to us. These may be data you enter in a contact form, for example. Other data will be recorded automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. These are in particular technical data (e.g., web browser, operating system, or time at which the page was called up). These data are collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.
  • What do we use your data for? Part of the data are collected in order to ensure correct provision of the website. Other data may be used for analyzing your user behavior. 
  • What rights do you have concerning your data?You have the right to receive information on the origin, recipients and purpose of the personal data concerning you that are stored at all times free of charge. You also have the right to demand rectification, blocking, or erasure of such data. You may contact us at any time concerning this and any other questions relating to data protection using the address indicated in the imprint. Furthermore, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
• Analysis tools and tools of third-party providers: Your surfing behavior may be statistically evaluated when you visit our website. This is done in particular using cookies and analysis programs. Analysis of your surfing behavior usually takes place anonymously; your surfing behavior cannot be tracked back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. For detailed information on this, see the following data protection statement. You can object to this analysis. We will inform you about the objection options in this data protection policy.

General notes and mandatory information

• Data protection: We as the providers of these pages take protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and comply with the statutory data protection provisions and this data protection policy. When you use this website, various personal data will be collected. Personal data include data that make it possible to identify you in person. This data protection policy explains which data we collect and what we use them for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done. We would like to point out that data transmission on the internet (e.g., in the case of email communication) may be subject to gaps in security. Complete protection of the data from third-party access is not possible.
• Information on the controller: The data processing controller on this website is
  • SEMA Consult GmbH | Aurikelweg 17 | D-33739 Bielefeld | Telefon: +49 (0) 521 1425 9003 | E-Mail: info@sema-consult.com
  • The controller is the natural person or legal entity who, solely or together with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, email addresses, or similar).
• Withdrawal of your consent to processing activities: Many processing activities are only permitted with your explicit consent. You may withdraw consent once given at any time. An informal notification by email to us is sufficient for this. The lawfulness of the processing activities performed until the withdrawal shall remain unaffected by this.
• Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority:  In case of violations of data protection law, the data subject has a right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority. The relevant supervisory authority in matters of data protection is the state data protection officer of the Federal state in which the company is registered. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found under the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.
• Right to data portability: You have the right to have any data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or compliance with a contract transferred to you or a third party in a commonly used machine-readable format. If you demand direct transmission of the data to another controller, this shall be done only as far as it is technically feasible.
• Information, blocking, erasure: You have the right to free information concerning your personal data stored by us, their origin and recipients, as well as the purpose of processing activities, and potentially a right to rectification, blocking or erasure of such data at any time within the context of the applicable statutory provisions. You may contact us at any time concerning this and any other questions relating to personal data using the address indicated in the imprint.
• Objection to advertising emails: We hereby object to the use of the contact details published within the framework of the imprint obligation for the transmission of any marketing and information materials not explicitly requested. The providers of the pages explicitly reserve the right to take legal action in the case of transmission of non-solicited advertising material, for example, by way of spam emails.

Data collection on our website

• Cookies: The websites partially use cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer user-friendly, more effective and safe. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and that your browser stores. Most of the cookies we use are “session cookies”. They are deleted automatically after the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser again on your next visit. You can set your browser so that you will be informed when cookies are set and only permit cookies in individual cases, prevent acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate automatic deletion of the cookies when you close the browser. If you deactivate cookies, the function of this website may be limited. Cookies that are needed to perform electronic communication or to provide certain functions desired by you (e.g., shopping cart functions) are stored based on point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR. The website operator has as legitimate interest in storage of cookies for technically correct and optimized provision of its services. As far as any other cookies (e.g., cookies for analysis of your surfing behavior) are stored, these are treated separately in the data protection statement.
•  Server log files: The provider of the website will automatically collect and store information in server log files that your browser transmits to us automatically. These data will not be combined with any other data sources. The basis for processing activities shall be point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR, which permits processing of data to meet a contract or pre-contractual measures. The following information will be processed
  • Browser type and browser version  
  • Operating system used  
  • Referrer URL  
  • Host name of the accessing computer  
  • Time of the server query  
  • Internet protocol address
• Contact form: If you send us any queries via the contact form, your information from the contact form, including the contact details you indicate there, will be stored by us for processing of the request and in case we have any subsequent questions. We will not pass on your data without your consent. The data entered in the contact form shall thus only be processed based on your consent (point (a) of Article 6(1) GDPR). You may withdraw your consent at any time. An informal notification by email to us is sufficient for this. The lawfulness of the processing activities performed until the withdrawal shall remain unaffected by this. The data you entered in the contact form will remain with us until you request that we erase them, withdraw your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g., after your request has been completely processed). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular archiving periods – shall remain unaffected by this.

Social media

• Twitter Plugin:Our pages integrate functions of the service Twitter. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. Using Twitter and the function “Re-Tweet” will link the website visited by you to your Twitter account and disclose it to other users. Data will also be transmitted to Twitter in the scope of this. Note that we as providers of the websites do not have any knowledge of the content of the transmitted personal data and their use by Twitter. For further information on this, see the data protection policy of Twitter at: https://twitter.com/privacy. You can change your data privacy settings at Twitter in your account settings at https://twitter.com/account/settings.
• Google+ Plugin: Our pages use functions of Google+. The provider is Google inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
  • Collection and disclosure of information: You can publish information worldwide using the Google+ button. The Google+ button gives you and other users personalised content from Google and our partners.
  • Google will store both the information that you gave +1 for content and information on the page you viewed when you clicked +1. Your +1s may be displayed as notices along with your profile name and photo in Google services, such as search results or your Google profile, or elsewhere on websites and ads on the Internet.   Google will record information on your +1 activities to improve Google services for you and others. You will need a globally visible, public Google profile that must contain at least the name chosen for the profile in order to use the Google+ button. That name will be used across all Google services. In some cases, that name may also replace another name you used when sharing content through your Google Account. The identity of your Google profile may be displayed to users who know your email address or have other identifying information about you.
  • Use of the information collected: In addition to the uses explained above, the information you provide will be used in accordance with the applicable Google privacy policy. Google may publish aggregate statistics about users’ +1 activities or share them with users and partners, such as publishers, advertisers, or affiliated websites.
• Instagram Plugin: Our pages integrate functions of the service Instagram. These functions are provided by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. If you are logged in with your Instagram account, you can click the Instagram button to link the contents of our pages with your Instagram profile. This way, Instagram can assign your visit of our sites to your user account. Note that we as providers of the websites do not have any knowledge of the content of the transmitted personal data and their use by Instagram. For further information on this, see the data protection policy of Instagram at: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
• LinkedIn Plugin: Our website uses functions of the LinkedIn network. The provider is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Every time one of our pages containing LinkedIn functions is accessed, a connection to LinkedIn servers is established. LinkedIn will be informed that you have visited our web pages with your IP address. If you click the LinkedIn “Recommend” button while logged into your LinkedIn account, LinkedIn will be able to assign your visit to our website to you and your user account. Note that we as providers of the websites do not have any knowledge of the content of the transmitted personal data and their use by LinkedIn. For further information on this, see the data protection policy of LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
• XING Plugin:  Our website uses functions of the XING network. The provider is XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, D-20354 Hamburg, Germany. Every time one of our pages containing XING functions is accessed, a connection to XING servers is established. According to our knowledge, no personal data will be stored in the scope of this. In particular, no internet protocol addresses will be stored, nor will the usage behavior be evaluated. For further information on data protection and the XING Share button, see the data protection policy of XING at: https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection.

Analytics tools and advertising

• WordPress Stats: This website uses the WordPress tool Stats to evaluate visitor accesses statistically. The provider is Automattic Inc., 60 29th Street #343, San Francisco, CA 94110-4929, USA. WordPress Stats uses cookies that are stored on your computer and that permit analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookies concerning the use of our website is stored on servers in the USA. The internet protocol address is anonymised after processing and before storage. “WordPress-Stats” cookies remain on your end device until you delete them. “WordPress Stats” cookies are stored based on point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in anonymised analysis of the user behavior in order to optimize both its web offer and its advertisement. You can set your browser so that you will be informed when cookies are set and only permit cookies in individual cases, prevent acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate automatic deletion of the cookies when you close the browser. If you deactivate cookies, the function of our website may be limited. You can object to future collection and use of your data by clicking the following link to set an opt-out cookie in your browser:: https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/. If you delete the cookies from your computer, you need to set the opt-out cookie again.
• Google Analytics Remarketing:Our websites use the functions of Google Analytics Remarketing in connection with the device-comprehensive functions of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. The provider is Google inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. These functions make it possible to link the advertising target groups compiled with Google Analytics Remarketing to the device-comprehensive functions of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. This way, interest-based personalised advertising messages that were adjusted to you based on your earlier usage and surfing behavior on an end device (e.g., mobile phone) can also be shown on any other of your end devices (e.g., tablet or computer). If you have given the corresponding consent, Google will link your web and app browser history to your Google account for this purpose. This way, the same personalised advertising messages can be shown on every end device on which you log in with your Google account. Google Analytics records google-authenticated IDs of the users that are temporarily linked to our Google-Analytics data in order to define and compile target groups for device-comprehensive advertisements to support this function. You can object to cross-device remarketing/targeting permanently by deactivating personalised advertisements in your Google account; follow this link for this: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/. The data recorded in your Google account will only be combined based on your consent that you can give to or revoke towards Google (point (a) of Article 6(1) GDPR). For data collection processes that are not merged in your Google account (e.g., because you do not have a Google account or have objected to the merging), the collection of the data is based on point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR. The legitimate interest results from the website operator having an interest in anonymised analysis of the website visitors for purposes of marketing. For further information and the data protection provisions, see the data protection policy of Google at: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/.
• Google AdWords und Google Conversion-Tracking: This website uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising programme of Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“Google”). We use conversion tracking within the framework of Google AdWords. If you click an ad placed by Google, a cookie for conversion tracking will be placed. Cookies are small text files that the web browser will store on the user’s computer. These cookies will be rendered invalid after 30 days and are not used to identify the users in person. If the user visits specific pages of this website before the cookie has expired, Google and we can recognize that the user clicked the ad and was redirected to that page. Each Google AdWords client will receive a different cookie. The cookies cannot be tracked via the websites of AdWords clients. The information collected by the conversion cookie is used to compile conversion statistics for AdWords clients who have decided to use conversion tracking. The clients learn the total number of users who have clicked their ad and have been forwarded to a site supplied with a conversion tracking tag. However, they will not receive any information with which the users can be identified in person. If you do not want to participate in tracking, you can object to this use by easily deactivating the cookie for Google conversion tracking via your internet browser in the user settings. They are then not included in the conversion tracking statistics. “Conversion cookies” are saved on the basis of point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analysis of the user behavior in order to optimize both its web offer and its advertisement. For more information on Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking, see the privacy policy of Google: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/. You can set your browser so that you will be informed when cookies are set and only permit cookies in individual cases, prevent acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate automatic deletion of the cookies when you close the browser. If you deactivate cookies, the function of this website may be limited.
• Google reCAPTCHA: We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. The provider is Google inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). reCAPTCHA is meant to review whether the data input on our websites (e.g., in a contact form) is done by a person or an automated program. For this, reCAPTCHA analyses the behavior of the website visitor based on various features. This analysis will commence automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For analysis, reCAPTCHA will evaluate various information (e.g., internet protocol address, time the website visitor stays on the website or mouse movements made by the visitor). The data recorded during the analysis will be passed on by Google. The reCAPTCHA analyses will run in the background entirely. Website visitors are not informed that analysis is performed. Data processing takes place in the basis of point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR. The website provider has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offers from abusive automated spying and from SPAM. For more information on Google reCAPTCHA and the data protection policy of Google, see the following link: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.

Plugins und Tools

• YouTube: Our website uses plugins of the page YouTube operated by Google. The provider of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to servers of YouTube will be established. This informs the YouTube server on which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged in to your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to associate your surfing behavior with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. YouTube is used in the interest of attractive display of our online offer. This is a legitimate interest within the meaning of point (f) of Article 6 (1) GDPR. For more information on the handling of user data, please see the data protection policy of YouTube at:https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
• Google Web Fonts: This website uses web fonts provided by Google for uniform display of fonts. When calling up a website, your browser will load the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to properly display texts and fonts. For this purpose, the browser you use must connect to the servers of Google. This way, Google will learn that our website was called up from your internet protocol address. Google Web Fonts are used in the interest of homogeneous and attractive display of our online offer. This is a legitimate interest within the meaning of point (f) of Article 6 (1) GDPR. If your browser does not support Web Fonts, a standard font of your computer will be used. For more information on Google Web Fonts, see https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in the data protection policy of Google: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
• Google Maps: This page uses the map service Google Maps via an API. The provider is Google inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Your internet protocol address must be stored for using the functions of Google Maps. This information will usually be transmitted to a server of Google in the USA and stored there. The provider of this page cannot influence this data transmission. Google Maps are used in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offer and to make it easier to find the places named by us on the website. This is a legitimate interest within the meaning of point (f) of Article 6 (1) GDPR. For more information on the handling of user data, please see the data protection policy of Google at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.