Privacy protection
The protection of personal information is an important concern for us. Therefore we run our business in accordance with the applicable legal provisions concerning privacy protection and data security. In the following you will learn which information we collate when necessary, what we do with it and to whom we make it available if need be.

Personal information
We gather no personal data of any kind (e.g. name, address, telephone number or email addresses) through our web site except when you voluntarily give us or have approved such information (e.g. during registration, survey) or the appropriate legal provisions about the protection of your data allow it.

Purpose
We generally use the personal information supplied by you to answer your enquiry, to deal with your questions or to provide you with access to certain information or offers. Furthermore, it may be necessary for the maintenance of customer relations:-
• that we store your personal details, process them and pass them on to our global subsidiaries to be better able to respond to your wishes or to improve our products and services; or
• that we (or a third party on our behalf) use this personal information to inform you about our offers which may be useful for your business or to carry out online surveys designed to better meet the needs and demands of our customers.