Data protection policy
Thank you very much for visiting our website. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. That is why we comply with all applicable regulations on data protection and security. Our data protection policy is described below. Please accept our protection policy in order to be able to use our website. Thank you.Data collection
Our pages offer several services such as a newsletter, questions to IP Auctions, patent valuation and commercialisation etc.In order to provide some of these services IP Auctions needs your e-mail address or other personal data such as your name, your address, your qualification or information about your innovation or your property rights. Obviously, there is no obligation for you to provide us with your personal and confidential data. In some cases, however, it will be impossible to render our services if we do not have this specific information.
If you would like to use a specific service, please enter your personal data and information about your property rights. We will ask for your permission every time this data is to be used for other than their original purpose.
We will not collect or use confidential data for other purposes than those described in this data protection policy or in the data protection policies for the specific services without your permission.
You decide whether to provide personal data and information about your property rights for our services. However, if you do not, IP Auctions may not be able to render the services you requested.
Release of data
IP Auctions uses personal data and information on property rights only for the purposes for which it was collected and in line with this data protection policy or the data protection policies for the specific services.In addition, IP Auctions uses accumulated data for statistical purposes and the preparation of reports, which may be made available to business partners or government institutions in order to improve the relevant services and/or the content of our homepage. However, these reports will rely only on accumulated data and will not give any confidential information about individual persons or innovations.
Apart from this, IP Auctions will not pass on any data without your express permission. Should IP Auctions be legally obliged to disclose confidential information, this obligation will override the commitment to the protection of personal data.
IP Auctions will treat all data confidentially.
Data security
As an international company, IP Auctions runs numerous international websites and deals with clients and partners world-wide. If you provide personal data to IP Auctions, this data may be sent electronically to servers abroad even if you entered the information in another country. Moreover, the data may be used, stored and processed abroad. Whenever IP Auctions processes personal data – regardless of the jurisdiction in which it does so – it will take all reasonable steps to protect your data.We use appropriate security measures in order to prevent unauthorised access, loss or destruction of data. These measures include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing and the security measures as well as physical access restrictions in order to prevent unauthorised access to systems in which we store personal data.
If nothing to the contrary is described in the data protection policies for the specific services, we restrict access to personal data and information about property rights to IP Auctions employees, suppliers, agents and representatives who need this information in order to operate, develop and improve our services. These persons are subject to special confidentiality agreements. Should they violate their commitments, they may face workplace sanctions up to immediate dismissal and legal prosecution.
Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that data transfer via the internet is completely secure. We do everything in our power to protect your data. Nevertheless, IP Auctions cannot guarantee that your information is secure. Should you therefore prefer another means of communication, such as the phone, fax, traditional mail or other, please discuss this with one of our employees.