This policy is intended for all visitors to our website, our employees, applicants, customers and partners and is always impor tant if we receive data about you. Therefore, it doesn’t matter whether you have become a customer or even if a contractual arrangement exists between us. In each case, this policy should make it to transparent for you how we deal with data. In the following, we explain which information is collected during your visit to our website, how we use this information and for what purpose and who we share it with. In addition, we explain your rights in relation to the processing of your personal data, such as right to information, rectification, objection and erasure. We will only use your personal data (hereinafter: ‘Data’) in accordance with the applicable data protection law. If we use your Data for purposes other than those stated in this privacy policy, we will inform you about these purposes and where necessary obtain your permission for this.

1. Data Controller
Within the legal meaning of Data, the Data Controller is the company named in our ‘Imprint’ on our website. You can also cont act our management representatives mentioned there or contact our Data Protection Officer. A Data Protection Officer is not b ound to the instructions given by management. You can contact them by email at datenschutz@statista.com or by post at the a ddress stated in the ‘Imprint’ with the note ‘for the attention of the Data Protection Officer’.

2. Process and purpose of storage
When you visit our website, your computer transmits your IP address to us, and depending on the nature of your visit to our we bsite and your computer’s settings, we save small text files on your hard drive (‘Cookies’) as part of this process. We create th ese files so that our website functions better for you. It is a form of short-term memory of your browser. You can switch off th is short-term memory by making the appropriate adjustments within your browser.

We also place text files on our system, which could contain the following information about you: type of browser and browser version, operating system used, the URL of the website which you came from, the name of your computer and the time of your visit (‘Log files’). The Log files are not assignable to a specific person by us.

We do not combine this Data with Cookies or IP addresses. We do, however, reserve the right to subsequently assess this Data in individual cases if there are specific reasons that indicate unlawful use. The Log files help us to understand on which kind of computers our web pages must function and when a particularly large (or small) number of people are using our web pages. In this way, website structure, servers and database systems can be adjusted accordingly.