Privacy policy of our FCT website

FCT electronic gmbh website and the handling of your personal data in accordance with the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG)

Protecting personal information of our customers and visitors is of great importance to us. That is why we strictly act towards complying with any Data Protection laws or any other applicable laws. In the following you will be informed about how we collect, store, proceed and if necessary to whom we forward your personal data.
Personal data (German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG § 3.,1))
We do not collect any personal relevant details (e. g. name, telephone number or e-mail addresses) through our website, unless previously agreed upon. (e. g. registration) or unless otherwise permitted by applicable laws and regulations for the protection of your personal data.
Purpose of use
We usually use your personal data you provide us to respond to your inquiry, process your order or provide you access to specific information or offers. Furthermore, in order to support our customer relationship with you:
• we may store and process personal data and communicate it to our worldwide subsidiaries in order to better understand your business needs and how we can improve our products and services; or
• we (or a third party on our behalf) may use personal data to contact you in order to inform you about a FCT offer in support of your business needs or to conduct online surveys to understand better our customers' needs.
However, we will respect your choice not to provide us your personal data to support our customer relationship (especially for direct marketing or market research). We do not sell or otherwise market your personal data to third parties, except to subsidiaries of the FCT Group.
Purpose limitation
FCT electronic gmbh will collect, use or disclose personal data supplied by you online only for the purposes disclosed to you, unless the disclosure

• is a use of the personal data for any additional purpose that is directly related to the original purpose for which the  personal data was collected,
• is necessary to prepare, negotiate and perform a contract with you,
• is required by law or the competent governmental or judicial authorities,
• is necessary to establish or preserve a legal claim or defense,
• is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activities, such as wilful attacks on FCT information technology systems
Communications or Utilization Data
When using telecommunications services to access our website, your communications data (e.g. internet protocol address) or utilization data (e.g. information on the beginning and ending of each access, and information on the telecommunications services used) are technically generated and could possibly relate to personal data. If it is necessary the collection, processing and use of your communications or utilization data will occur and will be performed in accordance with the applicable data privacy protection legal framework.

Non-personal data collected automatically
When you access our websites, we may automatically (not by registration) collect non-personal data (e.g. type of internet browser and operating system used, domain name of the website from which you came, number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed). We may use this data and share it with our worldwide affiliates to monitor the attractiveness of our websites and improve their performance or content.
"Cookies" - information stored automatically on your computer
When visiting one of our websites, we may store some data on your computer in the form of a "cookie" to automatically recognize your PC next time you visit. Cookies can help us in many ways, for example, by allowing us to tailor a website to better match your interests or to store your password to save you having to re-enter it each time. If you do not wish to receive cookies, please configure your Internet browser to erase all cookies from your computer's hard drive, block all cookies or to receive a warning before a cookie is stored.
Children
FCT electronic gmbh will not knowingly collect personal data from children without prior parental consent if required by applicable law. We will only use or disclose personal data about a child to the extent permitted by law, to seek parental consent pursuant to local law and regulations or to protect a child. The definition of "child" or "children" should take into account applicable laws as well as national and regional cultural customs.
Security
FCT electronic gmbh uses technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss or alteration and against unauthorized disclosure or access.
Links to other websites
FCT websites contain links to other websites. FCT is not responsible for their privacy policies or the contents.
Questions and comments
FCT electronic gmbh will respond to requests to review your personal data and to correct, amend or delete any inaccuracies. If you have any questions or comments about this data privacy protection policy please click on "Contact Us”. Together with the further development of the internet our data privacy protection policy will steadily develop, too. Changes to our data privacy protection policy will be released on this page. Please check this page regularly to keep up-to-date.

Munich, 14th November 2006
FCT electronic gmbh