Thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in German Government securities, our company and our Internet pages.
Protecting your privacy is of the utmost importance for us. We therefore feel it is important for you to know when we store personal data, what personal data we store and how we use this data.
It goes without saying that we comply strictly with the provisions of German data protection law and treat the data confidentially.
Personal data means any information concerning the personal or material circumstances of an identified or identifiable individual. For instance this can be your name, address, telephone number or details concerning your debt register account. Information which cannot be directly linked to a specific individual does not qualify as personal data.
Anonymity when visiting our Internet pages
It is always possible to visit our Internet pages without stating your name or similar details.
When you visit our Internet pages it is standard procedure for our web server to store only the name of your Internet service provider, the website from which you visit us, the pages you visit on our website, and the date and duration of your visit. This data is used for statistical purposes. It is not possible to establish any reference to your person.
Collection, processing and use of personal data; disclosing data to others
We only collect personal data if you provide us with these details of your own free will, for instance for buying or selling German Government securities, or state these details when registering for information services from us, for instance when ordering brochures or a newsletter.
This data is processed and used by us for the purposes of rendering our services. You will also receive (product) information from us if you have agreed to this.
The personal data you provide us with during your visit to our Internet pages will not be used, without your consent, for any other purposes than for the performance of our contractual obligations and for processing your enquiries. The data will not be used for advertising purposes or for the further improvement of our Internet presence except with your express consent.
External links
On our Internet pages we have created links to other websites where further information is available.
Bundesrepublik Deutschland – Finanzagentur GmbH (German Finance Agency) has no influence on the content and design of these third-party Internet pages. We therefore stress that the statements we have made here regarding data protection do not apply to these third-party Internet pages.
Cookies
If you visit our Internet pages we will store a cookie for the duration of your visit to our website (session cookies). This cookie is used when information material is ordered or when forms on our website are used that have to be filled out in several steps (over several pages).
Do you have any questions about data protection?
If you have any questions about the statements we have made here, about data protection generally or about the data we have stored concerning your person, please contact our data protection officer.
Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Finanzagentur GmbH
- Data Protection Commissioner -
Lurgiallee 5
60439 Frankfurt am Main
email: Datenschutz@deutsche-finanzagentur.de
Status 12/2010
