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Windfinder.com, Knorrstraße 24 Hinterhaus, 24106 Kiel respects your privacy and we stand by the national privacy rules. Personal information is collected only as much as it is technically necessary. In no case will these data be sold or given to others.The following terms of contract give you an overview of how we intend to protect your privacy and which kind of data is collected for which purposes.

Data collection on this web page

Windfinder.com automatically collects and saves information from your browser in our server log files. These include:

  • Browser type and version
  • used operating system
  • Referrer URL (last visited website)
  • IP address / host name of your computer
  • Time of access
There is no merging of this data with other data sources, collected data is also deleted after a statistical analysis.

Cookies

Our web page uses cookies in several places. With the help of these cookies our web page should become more user-friendly, more effective and more secure. For example we use cookies to store your personal preferences of measurement units. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer by your browser. Cookies cannot do any harm to your computer and cannot contain viruses or malware.

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 analize how users 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.

ValueClick Media

We have contracted with ValueClick to monitor certain pages of our website for the purpose of reporting website traffic, statistics, advertisement 'click-throughs', and/or other activities on our website. Where authorized by us, ValueClick may use cookies, web beacons, and/or other monitoring technologies to compile anonymous statistics about our website visitors. No personally identifiable information is collected by or transferred to any party other than the Advertiser. For more information about how the information is collected and used by ValueClick, please see ValueClick's privacy policy at http://www.valueclickmedia.com/member_privacy.shtml.

INFOnline

We use services from INFOnline to get statistical measurements about visits and usage of our website. INFOnline only collects statistical measurement that is generated on the counting servers in real time. The IP adresses collected in this process are discarded at the earliest possible time and replaced by an alias. Only aggregated data is processed afterwards. After accessing a website that is measured by INFOnline GmbH a cookie is saved on the computer of the user. A cookie is a text file that cannot contain executable code or 'spyware'-elements. You can find this cookie in the cookie list of your browser under the name 'ivwbox.de'. The validity of this cookie is one year. The cookie contains a random internal number to allow the creation of a market research study about internet usage for 'Arbeitsgemeinschaft Online Forschung (AGOF e.V.)'. The number stored in the cookie cannot be related to a specific person. You can refuse saving of cookies in your browser.

Right of disclosure

You have the right to be informed any time about the data saved concerning your person, its origin and receiver as well as the purpose of saving. Disclosure is given by Windfinder.com, info@windfinder.com

Further information

Your trust in us is important to us. That is why we want to inform you about the usage of personal data. If you have questions that could not be answered in this privacy policy declaration or if you want further information, just contact Windfinder.com, info@windfinder.com.