Last Revised: Februray 5, 2018
Cortex AG understands that users care about their privacy and how their personal information is used and shared. As such, we at Cortex AG have a firm commitment to the privacy and protection of our users.
This privacy policy applies to Cortex-AG.com, owned and operated by Cortex AG. This policy describes how we collect and use the personal information you provide on our web site. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information. By visiting our site, you are consenting to the practices described in this privacy policy.
Please also visit our Terms of Service which establishes the use, disclaimers and limitations of liability governing the users of our website. Capitalized terms that are not defined in this document have been defined in our Terms of Service.
Cortex AG complies with the US-EU Safe Harbor Framework and EU-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the German Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland. We have certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement.
In compliance with the US-EU and EU-Swiss Safe Harbor Principles, Cortex AG commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information. European Union or Swiss citizens with inquiries or complaints regarding this privacy policy should first contact us by emailing us.
User-provided information— Cortex AG only collects personally identifiable information that users have voluntarily provided to us. We only ask for information that's necessary for you to access, use and pay for our Service. This information may include, but is not limited to, names, email addresses, mailing addresses and credit card numbers. If you correspond with us by email, we may retain the content of your email messages and our responses so that we can provide you with better customer service. We also store information that you have indirectly provided to us via your Content and Application(s).
Log file information— Information is automatically reported by your browser each time you access a web page. When you use the Service, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, referring / exit pages and URLs, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other such information. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track averaged usersâ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We use your personal information only to provide you with the expected features and functionality of the Service and respond to customer service requests. By providing Cortex AG your email address you consent to our using the email address to send you critical Service notices, including any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail.
We may also use your email address to send you other messages, including company news, updates, related product or service information, etc. Out of respect for your privacy, you may choose to stop receiving these messages by following unsubscribe instructions included in these emails or you can email us.
Cortex AG does not sell, trade, rent or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you (e.g. to process your credit card transactions or provide customer support services). These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us. If we do this, such third parties' use of your information will be bound by this privacy policy.
We may store personal information in locations outside the direct control of Cortex AG (e.g. on servers at hosting providers).
We may also disclose your personal information:
If you invite another user to share your Application (e.g. by adding an additional account user), we will share the Application and associated Content with that user.
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our Service, you may correct, update, amend or remove it by making the change on our member information page or by contacting us by email, telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below. We will respond to your request to access within 30 days.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
We use cookies on our site. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are required for most of the functionality of our web site and for web tools such as our administrative application. These cookies are used to implement application authentication, allowing us to implement secure access to your data. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser.
A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser's "help" file. Persistent cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users and to improve our site. For security reasons, we do not use persistent cookies for application authentication.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some key areas of our site, such as our administrative application tools, will be disabled.
The security of your personal information is important to us. On those pages where our users can register for our service and/or log-in, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our web site, you can email us.
Our web site includes links to other web sites whose privacy practices may differ from those of Cortex AG. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any web site you visit.
We may update this privacy policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this web site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
If you have any questions, concerns or comments regarding this privacy policy, please do not hesitate to contact us. We're serious about making you feel comfortable about your security and privacy with us.
Cortex AG
Tischlerstraße 1a
30916 Isernhagen, Germany
Registered Office: Isernhagen
Reg. Court: Amtsgericht Hannover HRB 208681
VAT-ID-No.: DE 211126853
CEO: Jan Buss
Proprietary and confidential.
Distribution only by express authority of Cortex AG or its subsidiaries.
Phone: +49 5136 / 89 00 80
e-mail: cortex-info@cortex-ag.com
Privacy policy officer: dsbteam@cortex-ag.com
The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.
The use of our website is usually possible without providing personal data. As far as on our sides personal data (for example name, address or E-Mail addresses) are raised, this takes place, as far as possible, always on freiwilliger basis. These data will not be disclosed to third parties without your express consent.
We point out that data transmission over the Internet (for example, when communicating by e-mail) may have security vulnerabilities. A complete protection of the data from access by third parties is not possible.
At any time you have the right to free information about your stored personal data, their origin and recipient and the purpose of the data processing as well as a right to correct, block or delete this data. For further information on personal data you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint.
The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:
This data can not be assigned to specific persons. A merge of this data with other data sources will not be done. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively, if we become aware of specific indications for illegal use.
The internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and stored by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies". They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser the next time you visit.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and cookies only in individual cases allow, the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally exclude and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this site.
If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provided there, will be stored in order to process the request and in case of follow-up questions. We will not share this information without your consent.
The use of contact data published in the context of the imprint obligation for sending unsolicited advertising and information materials is hereby rejected. The site operators expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited promotional information, such as spam e-mails.
For questions, suggestions or comments on the subject of data protection and the enforcement of your rights, please contact our data protection officer