This data privacy policy applies to data processing by:
mesonic datenverarbeitung gmbh (hereafter: mesonic)
Herzog-Friedrich-Platz 1, 3001 Mauerbach, Austria
E-Mail: info@mesonic.com
Telefon: +43-(0)1-970 30-0
Fax: +43-(0)1-970 30-75
The data privacy officer at mesonic can be contacted at the address above, attn. Dr. Gerald Schnabl, or by email to datenschutz@mesonic.com.
When our website www.mesonic.com is opened in the browser operating on your end device, your browser automatically sends information to the server of our website. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following data is saved without your action and is saved until automated deletion:
This data will be processed by us for the following purposes:
This data processing conforms to the regulations of the European General Data Protection Regulations (hereafter "GDPR"), see Article 6, section 1, page 1, item 1. Our legitimate interest results from the data processing purposes as listed above. In no case will we use the data thus obtained for the purposes of analysis regarding your person.
We employ cookies and analysis services when visiting our website. Further information is contained in this document in sections 4 and 5.
When you have consented to data processing according to the EU GDPR (Art. 6, sec. 1, p. 1, item 1a), your email address will be used regularly to send you our newsletter. It is sufficient to merely provide an email address in order to receive the newsletter.
You can opt-out of newsletter reception at any time by using the corresponding link at the end of the newsletter. You can also opt-out of the newsletter by sending an email at any time to newsletter@mesonic.com.
We offer a contact form on our website for questions of any type. At a minimum, a valid email address must be stated in the form, letting us know who entered the request, as well as enabling us to answer the question. Further data can voluntarily be entered when desired.
Data processing for the purpose of establishing contact is conducted once you have consented to data processing in accordance with EU GDPR (Art. 6, sec. 1, p. 1, item 1a).
Personal data entered during usage of the contact form will be deleted once your request has been handled and completed.
We will not pass on data to third parties except under the following circumstances or for the following purposes:
We employ cookies on our website. Cookies are small files, which are automatically generated by your browser and saved on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.), when you open our website. Cookies do no damage to your end device; they contain no viruses, trojans or other malware.
Information in connection with your specific end device is stored in the cookie. This does not mean, however, that we receive direct knowledge of your identity.
Cookies serve on the one side to make using your visit to our website more pleasant. We employ so-called session cookies, for example, to recognize that you have already visited a particular page on our website. These cookies are automatically deleted when our website is exited.
We also employ temporary cookies, which are saved on your end device for a particular, determined period of time, to optimize the user-friendliness of our website. When you revisit our website and reuse our services, entered data and settings from your previous visit to our website are automatically reloaded so you will not have to reenter or reset data.
We also use cookies to statistically analyze the usage of our website and thereby optimize our website offerings for you (see section 5). These cookies allow us to detect that you have already visited our website, for example. These cookies are deleted after a particular, defined period of time.
Processing of data by means of cookies for the stated purposes above is necessary for the pursuance of our legitimate interests, and the interests of third parties, according to the EU GDPR (Art. 6, sec. 1, p. 1, item 1f).
Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You can configure your browser so that cookies cannot be saved on your end device, or at least that a message is displayed before a new cookie is saved. Full deactivation of cookies can mean, however, that you may not be able to use all the functions of our website.
We employ tracking measures listed in the following in accordance with the stipulations of EU GDPR (Art. 6, sec. 1, p. 1, item 1f). The tracking tools are employed to enable a needs-based design and continuing optimization of our website. We also employ tracking tools to generate usage statistics on our website, which in turn help us to improve our website content for you. These goals represent legitimate interests on our side in accordance with the named regulations.
The purposes of data processing and related data categories can be obtained from the respective tracking tools.
We employ Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc., for the purpose of needs-based design and continuous optimization of our website. (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; named "Google" hereafter in this document). Pseudonymized user profiles are generated in this regard (see section 5) through the use of cookies. Information generated by the cookie when using our website is transmitted to and saved on a Google server in the USA, including:
Browser type/version,
Operating system used,
Referrer URL (webpage used in advance),
Host name of the accessing computer (IP address),
Time of the server request,
This information is used to analyze website usage, to generate reports on website activities, and to enable services in connection with website and internet usage for the purpose of market research and needs-based design of said internet webpages. This information may be passed on to third parties when legally required or when third parties are subcontracted to process the data. Under no circumstances will your IP address be merged with other Google data. IP addresses are anonymized to ensure no linkage is possible (IP masking).
You can prevent installation of the cookie with corresponding browser settings; we would like to inform you in this case, however, that it will not be possible to use all features of our website to the fullest extent.
You can also prevent data detection by the cookie and data in connection with your usage of the website (including your IP address), as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the corresponding Browser Add-on.
As an alternative to the Browser Add-on, in particular for mobile end devices, you can allow deactivate data generation by Google Analytics, by clicking on this link: Google Analytics Opt-out. Status: Opt-out. An Opt-out cookie is created in this case, which prevents data from being collected when visiting our website. The Opt-out cookie only applies on this browser and for our website, and is saved directly on your end device. When you delete cookies for the browser, you must reset the Opt-out cookie again.
Further information on data protection in connection with Google Analytics can be found here: Google Analytics-Help.
We use Google Conversion Tracking to statistically track usage of our website for the purposes of optimizing our website. A cookie is generated by Google Adwords (see item 4) on your computer, when you have reached our website by means of a Google advertisement.
These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not for the purpose of personal identification. When the user visits particular pages on the website of an Adwords customer and the cookie has not expired yet, Google and the customer can detect that the user has clicked on the advertisement and was subsequently directed to the web page.
Each Adwords customer receives a different cookie. This makes it impossible to track cookies through the web pages of Adwords customers. Information obtained by means of the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for Adwords customers, who have opted to employ conversion tracking. Adwords customers are informed of the total number of users who have clicked on their advertisement and who were directed to a web page, which is linked to a conversion tracking tag. They do not, however, receive information that would allow them to personally identify users.
If you do not want to participate in the tracking process, you can refuse permission to have the cookie generated on your computer; e.g., with browser settings that generally deactivate cookies generation. You can also deactivate cookies for conversion tracking using the appropriate browser settings. Google's data protection instructions with regard to conversion tracking can be found here.
Social media plug-ins from Facebook are used on our website in order to personalize usage of the website. We use the "LIKE" or "SHARE" button. These represent features from Facebook.
When you call up a page of our website that contains such a plug-in, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Facebook server. The content of the plug-in is sent directly to your browser from Facebook and then inserted in the webpage.
Facebook receives information by usage of the plug-in that your browser called up the corresponding page of our website, even when you may not have a Facebook account or currently are not logged on to Facebook. This information (including your IP address) is sent by your browser directly to the Facebook server in the USA and stored there.
When you are logged onto Facebook, Facebook can directly associate the visit of our website to your Facebook account. When you interact with plug-ins, e.g., the "LIKE" or "SHARE" buttons, the corresponding information is sent directly to the Facebook server and stored there. This information is published in Facebook and displayed to your Facebook friends.
Facebook can use this information for advertising, market research or needs-based design of Facebook pages. Facebook generates usage, interests and relationship profiles in this regard, for example, in order to report on your usage of our website with regards to personalizing for you advertisement selections displayed in Facebook, to inform other Facebook users about your activities on our website so that other services can be supplied related to the usage of Facebook.
When you do not want to associate data collected in connection with our web offerings with your Facebook account, you must log off of Facebook before visiting our website.
The purpose and the extent of data collection and subsequent processing and usage of data by Facebook, as well as your rights in this regard, including options and settings to protect your privacy, can be obtained from the Data Protection Instructions from Facebook.
You have the following rights:
As long as your personal data has been processed on the basis of legitimate interests in conformance with EU GDPR, Art. 6, sec. 1, p. 1, item f, you have the right in accordance with Article 21 EU GDPR to object to the processing of your personal data, assuming the reasons arising from your particular circumstances or the objection is in reference to direct marketing. In the latter case, you have a general right to object, which we will implement without further statement of particular circumstance.
If you would like to exercise your right to object, send an email to datenschutz@mesonic.com.
We employ the widely-used SSL method (Secure Socket Layer) in our website, which uses the highest level of encryption that is supported by your browser. As a rule, this is 256 Bit encryption. When your browser does not support this, we revert to a 128 Bit V3 encryption technology. You can see whether web pages of our website have been transmitted on an encrypted basis through the display of the "key and lock" icon in the IP address entry field of your browser.
We also employ suitable technical and organizational measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional misuse, partial or complete loss, destruction or undesired access by third parties. Our security measures are constantly being improved to keep pace with technological developments.
This policy is currently in force and is valid from May 2018. Due to further developments of our website and offerings or changes in legal and regulatory requirements, this policy may have to be altered. The current version of the Data Privacy Policy can be called up at any time on our website at https://en.mesonic.com/data-privacy-policy/.
We use a selection of our own and third-party cookies on the pages of this website: Essential cookies, which are necessary for the use of the website; functional cookies, which enable easier use of the website; performance cookies, which we use to generate aggregated website usage data and statistics; and marketing cookies, which are used to display relevant content and advertising. If you select “ACCEPT ALL”, you consent to the use of all cookies.