Protecting the security and privacy of your personal data is important to the Website responsible. Therefore, Prof. Dr. Benoit conducts the site in compliance with applicable laws on data privacy protection and data security. Prof. Dr. Benoit will use your personal data for the sole purpose of technical administration of the websites. Your personal data will not be disclosed to third parties.

1. Collection and Processing of Personal Data

When you visit our websites our web server automatically records information, which your browser transfers. This are:

• Browser type and version
• Used system software
• Referrer URL
• IP Address
• Time of the server request

Prof. Dr Benoit is not able to assign this data to a specific person. These data will not be compared with other data source. The Data will be deleted after a statistical evaluation.

2. Cookies

When you view our Web sites, we may store some data on our computer in the form of a “cookie”. Cookies help us, to make our Web sites more user-optimized, effective and secure. The most of the used Cookies are so called “session-cookies”. They are deleted automatically after your visit. Cookies do no damage on your computer and are virus-free.

3. Right of information

If you have any queries, requests or complaints on the subject of data protection, please do not hesitate to contact Prof. Dr. Benoit.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

You can refuse the use of Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set on the computer, which prevents the future collection of your data when visiting this website:

Disable Google Analytics

Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html or at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).