Terms of Use

The Association of American European Chambers of Commerce and Business Associations does not assume any liability or guarantee for the content and timeliness of information published herein. Contents of pages accessed via links contain information exclusively from external sources. The AAECCBA does not assume any responsibility for the contents of links.

Data security on the AAECCBA web site
The AAECCBA respects the security requirements for personal data. The following explains how the AAECCBA handles personal data, what data is collected and how the data is used.

Collecting and processing personal data
Personal data represents information on your identity, e.g. your name, e-mail or mailing address. Such data is only stored if you make this information available to the AAECCBA, for instance, to order a publication.

Use and dissemination of personal data
The AAECCBA uses your personal data exclusively for technical purposes in the administration of the web pages. It provides the means for enabling your access to information as well as other communications with you. The AAECCBA will not provide your personal data to third parties or use it for any other purposes. AAECCBA employees are committed to confidentiality.

Options
You are free to decide what information you want to make available to the AAECCBA. In case you choose not to furnish any information, you might be unable to access some contents of our website. If your personal data has changed, notify the AAECCBA to correct or update the information.

Automatically collected data
When you go to a AAECCBA web page, general data, which is not personal, is collected (what Internet browser is being used, number of visits, average duration of visit, what pages were brought up). This information, recorded automatically (thus not via registration), is used to develop a basis for making the site more attractive, enhancing its contents and functionality. In this instance, too, no further use or dissemination of your data takes place.

Cookies
Cookies are small files temporarily stored on your hard drive. They are only intended to gather data on the use of the AAECCBA website. It also enables us to recognize your computer automatically when the AAECCBA website is accessed the next time. Because cookies do not contain personal data private information remains secure. Depending how it is set up, your browser accepts Internet cookies automatically. However, you can adjust your browser at any time and use the AAECCBA website without cookies.

Security
The AAECCBA takes proper precautions to protect personal data from loss, destruction, forgery, manipulation and unauthorized access. It also takes the stipulations of the Federal Republic’s law on data protection into account.

Links to other websites
This declaration on data protection applies to the websites of the AAECCBA. The websites may include links to information providers other than the AAECCBA which are not covered by our data protection statement. Upon leaving the AAECCBA website, we recommend reading the data protection guidelines of each website collecting personal data carefully.

Notification of changes
In the event that the data protection guidelines are changed, a corresponding notice will be posted on the AAECCBA homepage.

Acceptable Use
You must not:

  • use AAECCBA website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;
  • use AAECCBA website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
  • use AAECCBA website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;
  • conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to AAECCBA website without express written consent of AAECCBA;
  • access or otherwise interact with AAECCBA website using any robot, spider or other automated means;
  • use data collected from AAECCBA website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).