Data privacy statement & Guidance of withdrawal

Introduction	The right of information and withdrawal	Safety advice
Data of page views Google \| Facebook	Cookies, navigation elements and scripting	Guidance of withdrawal
Form data	Timeframe of data storage

Introduction

www.homecompany.de is a service of the association Verband der Mitwohnzentralen e. V. (HomeCompany) and its members and licensees. We are glad that you visit our homepage and you are interested in our products and services.

Data protection and security are important values of HomeCompany. By visiting our homepage, we are collecting, processing and using individual-related data to the extent it is statutory permitted and necessary for the transaction. We also collect, process and use individual-related data, if you consented to it explicitly.

You can find information about the statutory provisions regarding to data protection at www.datenschutz.de .

Individual-related data is recorded only if it is necessary for the transaction of the offered service.

For the usage of some services of our homepage cookies are needed. You can find information about the application of cookies in the corresponding paragraph or just click here .

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Data of page views

The visit of one of our web pages and using the offered services is recorded in an anonymized log file. The record is used solely for internal system related and statistical purposes. The log file contents the following data:

error notices
the name of the selected file
date and time of the file selection
volume of data transfer
information about your browser
the name of the calling domain

Individual-related data is not recorded. We are using this data solely for the purpose of increasing the quality and updating our web services.

The use of Google Analytics

Our homepage makes use of Google Analytics a service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics stores little textfiles (cookies) on your computer. Such cookies allow to analyse your use of the visited webpages. The stored data about your utilization of the homepage stored in the cookies (inclusive your IP-address) is transmitted to a server of Google located in the US. Google records and analyses this data to build a picture of your use of the web pages and generating reports contenting such information about your page visits. Furthermore Google use this data to offer other services related to the use of the web pages. Google will transmit the stored data to third per-sons, if it is statutory obliged to such transmission or third persons process data by order of Google.

Google doesn’t interlink your IP-address with other data. You can prevent the installation of cookies by using the corresponding options in your browser . In this case you must take into account that not all of the services of this website will work to their full extent. By using this website you give your consent to Google processing the raised data to the above described scope. You have got the right to withdraw your consent to the raise and storage of data with regard to the future.

With regard to the discussion of the usage of analytic tools we want you to know that this website uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp()“, which transfers IP-addresses in a abbreviated form so that a direct conclusion from the IP-address to specific person is excluded.

The use of Facebook Social Plugins

This website uses also the Social Plugins (“Plugins”) of the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The Plugins are earmarked with the logo of facebook or the addition “Facebook Social Plugin”). By visiting a web-site, which includes such a Plugin, a connection to the servers of Facebook is established. The content of the Plugin will be transmitted directly from Face-book to your browser, which integrates the Plugin in the website. The Plugin will transmit to Facebook the fact that you have visited this specific website.

If you are logged in at Facebook, Facebook can assign your visit of our homepage to your account. By interacting with the Plugins (for example: use the “I like” button; give a comment) you enable your browser to transmit and Facebook to store the generated data. Please visit facebook.com to get in-formed about the extent an purposes of the raise, processing and usage of the data by Facebook and you rights and options regarding to data and privacy protection.

If you don’t like Facebook collecting data about your use of our homepage, log out your Facebook account before visiting our homepage.

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Form data

Within the framework of our online service we request you to transmit individual-related data (like name, address, date of birth, email or phone number etc.) via a web form or by transmitting a completed PDF-file. Principally we are using the received data solely for the purposes mentioned in such form. In the cases the form makes reference to one of our General Terms of Business (GTB) we want to call to attention that the GTB permits the transmission of your data to credit agencies. Therefore please read our GTB carefully. A further transmission of your data to third persons does not take place, except where the transmission is needed to process the contract (transmission to tenant or lessor). You have got the right to withdraw your consent to the raise and storage of data with regard to the future. We will delete the collected data without undue delay, unless statutory provisions enforce the further storage of the data.

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The right of information and the right of withdrawal

When you send us a request complying to text form, we will inform you about the individual-related data we have stored about your person.

Please send your request or your statement of withdrawal to:

Verband der Mitwohnzentralen e.V.
and its members and licensees

Rolf Poppe (1st chairmain of the board)
Humboldtstr. 28
D-28203 Bremen
Fax: + 49 - (0)421 - 79011929
datenschutz [at] homecompany.de

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Cookies, navigation elements and scripting

Some services of this website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that will be stored on your computer to enable the website to recognize the user by the next visit. The usage of cookies makes it possible that the website can be adapted to your needs or to save your password avoiding you to type the password at each visit again and again. If you dislike cookies, change the options of your browser in a way that cookies are rejected. If you leave our website by selecting a link or clicking to an advertisement, it is possible that the provider of the target website will store a cookie on your computer, too. We are not responsible for such cookies. Please read in respect to the use of such cookies and the stored data within the data protection information of the corresponding providers.

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Timeframe of data storage

In case of a successful procuration of a tenancy agreement the transmitted individual-related data will be stored pursuant to §§ 238, 257 IV HGB / § 147 II AO for a period of 10 years.

In cases a procurement doesn’t takes place the data will stored for the period of one year maximum (corresponding application of the decision of the Fed-eral High Court of Justice, 06.07.2006 – III ZR 379/04, NJW 2006 p. 3062-3063).

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Safety advice

Emails correspondence can’t provide confidentiality. Therefore we advise to transfer confident information via telefax or postal mail.

Parts of this homepage use Java, Active-X-Controls or Java-Script. If you prefer to not use such elements for safety reasons, deactivate the corre-sponding capabilities of your browser.

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Guidance of withdrawal

Right of withdrawal
You can withdraw your contractual declaration without specification of reasons with a notice complying to text form (for example postal letter, email, telefax) within a time limit of fourteen days. The time limit starts with the receipt of this guidance but not before entering into the contract and not before we have accomplished our information duties pursuant to Art. 246 § 2 in association with § 1 paragraph 1 and 2 EGBGB (Introductory Act to the Civil Code) and our duties pursuant to § 312g paragraph 1 sentence 1 BGB (German Civil Code) in association with Art. 246 § 3 EGBGB. For complying with the time limit for withdrawal it is sufficient to dispatch the withdrawal in time. The withdrawal must be sent to:

Verband der Mitwohnzentralen e.V.
and its members and licensees

Rolf Poppe (1st chairmain of the board)
Humboldtstr. 28
D-28203 Bremen
Fax: + 49 - (0)421 - 79011929
info [at] homecompany.de

Consequences of withdrawal
In case of successful withdrawal the mutual performances and emoluments (for example interest) must be returned. Are you not able to give back respectively return the receipted performance and emoluments (for example usage benefits) in whole or in part or solely in declined condition, you must reimburse to this extent the performance and emoluments. This can have the consequence that nevertheless you are obliged to accomplish the contractual payment obligations for the time period ending with the withdrawal.

Obligations to reimburse payments must be accomplished within 30 days. For you the time limit starts with the dispatch, for us with the receipt of your declaration of withdrawal.

Special advices
The right of withdrawal lapses ahead of time, when the contract is mutually performed from both parties on your expressed request before you have exercised your right of withdrawal.

End of Guidance for Withdrawal

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