We attach great importance to the protection of personal data entrusted to us. In principle, it is possible to use our Internet pages without providing any personal data. Personal data will only be requested, processed and used to the extent necessary to provide services or content that you have requested.
Purpose of the Data Processing
We collect, store and process data only for our own business purposes.
Below you will find information about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data includes all data that is personally identifiable to you, such as your name, address, email address and telephone number, as well as the IP address of the person concerned. These data are always processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Responsible party under the Data Protection Act
DWS Investment GmbH
Data Protection Officer
Mainzer Landstr. 11-17
60329 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 69 910-12380
Email: privacy@dws.com
Collection of general data and information
The website provider automatically collects and stores information in "server log files", which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:
These data will not be combined with data from other sources.
The basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, which permits the processing of data in order to safeguard the legitimate interests of the person responsible or a third party. These interests are to ensure the general functioning of the services.
Cookies
Our website uses "cookies". This is information that is stored on the hard disk of the computer system by the Internet browser used. This identifies a user for the web server. There are two forms of cookies, "session cookies" and "persistent cookies".
Session cookies
These cookies serve to make the website more user-friendly. Settings such as the language that the user has set on the page are saved so that the user does not have to make them again during his visit. In no case personal are data collected which allow conclusions to be drawn about you as a person. When the browser is closed, the session cookie with all stored data is deleted.
Persistent cookies
This form of cookie is primarily used in the area of online marketing and serves to combine complex usage and surfing behaviour, to deliver personalized advertising or to receive website settings and saved shopping baskets over several browser sessions. Persistent cookies remain on your computer system after you close your browser and contain a tracking code that forwards data to third parties such as Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.
In principle, you can also view our website without cookies. To do this, you can deactivate the use of cookies in your Internet browser. However, we would like to point out that by deactivating cookies you may not be able to use all functions of our website to their full extent.
SSL encryption
In order to protect and secure your personal data collected by us, for example via a web form, we use state-of-the-art HTTPS encryption methods.
Contact form
If a person concerned contacts us by email or via a contact form, the personal data (name, email address, message) voluntarily transmitted by the person concerned are automatically stored. This serves the purpose of assigning the request and subsequently responding to it. This data is not transferred to third parties. After the storage purpose has ceased to apply, personal data will be deleted.
Use of external services
Google Maps
If you have expressly consented to the application, this websites uses Google Maps API to display geographical information visually. When using Google Maps, Google collects, processes and uses visitor data about the use of the map function. If you're signed in to a Google Maps map with a Google account, your browsing habits can be personalised. To prevent this, you should log out of your Google account first.
For more information about how Google processes your information, please see Google Privacy Notices.
Rights of the data subject
You have the following rights towards us regarding your personal data:
If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it permanently at any time. You will find the contact details at the beginning of this Data Protection Declaration.
Deleting and blocking data
We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. We therefore delete or block your personal data as soon as the respective storage purpose has been achieved or the storage periods provided for by law provide for it.
Changes to our Data Protection Declaration
We reserve the right to change this Data Protection Declaration in order to adapt it to current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services.