The following rules for the collection and use of personal data apply to the use of our free website:
Anonymous data collection
The website is available to you free of charge and without the need to provide personal information. We do not store any personal data in this context. In order to improve our own offer, we only evaluate statistical data which does not allow us to draw any conclusions about your person.
Collection and processing when using the contact form
When using the offered contact formular, we collect personal data (individual details about the personal circumstances of a certain or definable natural person) only to the extent provided by you. We use your e-mail address exclusively to process your inquiry. Your data will then be deleted if you have not consented to further processing and use.
Use of e-mail address for sending newsletters
We will only use your e-mail address for advertising purposes to send the Rockstone Research newsletter, provided you have expressly agreed to the sending to your e-mail address by selecting the appropriate checkbox. Your declaration of consent to this effect is as follows:
"Sign Up" or "anmelden".
You can unsubscribe from the respective newsletter at any time by using the corresponding link in the newsletter or by sending us a message. You will find the contact details on our Contact & Newsletter page or on Disclaimer. Your e-mail address will then be deleted.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer to help the website analyse how visitors use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States . Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google´s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
You can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Please note that this website initializes Google Analytics with the setting "anonymizeIP". This garantees anonymized data collection by masking the last part of your IP address.
Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html or at http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/analytics/privacyoverview.html.
Google AdWords
This website uses Google AdWords, an application form from Google Inc. (" Google"). In this context, we use the Google analysis service "Conversion Tracking" on our website. If you have accessed our website via a Google ad, a cookie is placed on your computer. Cookies are small text files that your Internet browser stores and stores on your computer. These so-called "conversion cookies" lose their validity after 30 days and do not serve your personal identification. If you visit certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google will be able to recognize that you, as a user, have clicked on one of our ads placed on Google and have been redirected to our site.
The information collected by means of the "conversion cookies" is used by Google to compile visit statistics for our website. These statistics tell us the total number of users who clicked on our ad and which pages of our website were visited by the respective user. However, we or others via "Google-Adwords" advertisers do not receive any information that personally identifies users.
You can prevent the installation of the "conversion cookies" by making the appropriate settings in your browser, for example by setting the browser to deactivate the automatic setting of cookies in general or to block cookies from the domain "googleadservices. com" in particular.
Google´s privacy policy can be found under the following link: https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html.
Google Remarketing
This website uses Google Remarketing, a web advertisment service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Remarketing can serve ads to users who have visited our website in the past. Within the Google Ad Network, this allows you to display ads that are tailored to your interests on our site. Google-Remarketing uses cookies for this evaluation. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and allow an analysis of the use of the website. This makes it possible to recognize our visitors as soon as they visit these websites within the Google advertising network.
In this way, within the advertising network, Google can present advertisements related to content previously viewed by the visitor on Google´s web pages of the advertising network that also use Google´s remarketing function. Google does not collect any personal data according to its own statements. You can disable this feature by making the appropriate settings at http://www.google.com/settings/ads.
Alternatively, you can disable the use of cookies by third party providers by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative´s disabling page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices and converting the additional Opt-Out information referred to there. For more information about Google Remarketing and Google´s privacy policy, please visit: http://www.google.com/privacy/ads.
Push notifications
You can sign up to receive our push notifications. To send our push notifications, we use the shipping service "CleverPush", which is provided by CleverPush UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Tondernstr. 1, 22049 Hamburg ("CleverPush").
Our push notifications provide you with regular information about our latest publications on www.rockstone-research.com, such as newly published articles on publicly listed companies or capital markets.
To log in, you must confirm your browser´s request to receive notifications. This process is documented and stored by CleverPush. This includes saving the logon time and your browser ID or device ID. The collection of this data is required so that we can understand the processes in case of misuse and therefore serves our legal protection.
To show you the push notifications, CleverPush collects and processes your browser ID on our behalf and your device ID in the case of mobile access.
By subscribing to our push notifications, you agree to their receipt. Legal basis for the processing of your data after registration for our push notifications is in the presence of your consent Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.
CleverPush also statistically evaluates our push notifications. CleverPush can detect if and when our push notifications were displayed and clicked by you.
Your consent to the storage and use of your personal information to receive our push notifications and the statistical survey described above may be revoked at any time with future effect. To revoke consent, you can change the setting to receive push notifications in your browser. If you use our push notifications on a desktop PC with the operating system "Windows", you can also unsubscribe our push notifications by right-clicking on the respective push notification in the settings that appear there.
Your data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary to achieve the purpose of their survey. Your data will be stored as long as the subscription to our push notifications is active.
Under the following link, the process of staging will be explained in detail: https://cleverpush.com/faq.
What data is collected by CleverPush?
CleverPush does not collect user data such as IP addresses or the like, which can lead directly to the respective user. When entering into the notification mailing list, only one type of identifier, which varies from browser to browser, is sent to CleverPush´s servers. This identifier is given by the browser manufacturers (Google, Mozilla, Apple, etc.) and allows CleverPush to send the notifications to the respective browsers.