Data Protection Principles

Respecting the privacy rights of our customers and partners is a fundamental principle for us. Of course, this also applies to dealing with your personal data when you visit our website. The individual’s right to determine what happens with information about them is derived from the general right to privacy. It is protected by legal provisions such as the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG – German Federal Data Protection Act) and the Telemediengesetz (TMG – German Telemedia Act). Our website has been designed to comply with statutory data protection regulations. We are convinced that, as an Internet user, you will want to know that your privacy is respected.

Overview

• You can navigate anonymously through all public pages at www.dresdner-bank.com.
• Where we want to collect, process, or use personal data obtained during your visit to our website, we inform you of this.
• The decision about what personal data we receive and the purposes we may process or use it for rests with you.
• We respect your data protection rights, especially your right to be informed about any data we have stored.
• Our staff are obliged to maintain strict confidentiality.
• Our data security measures conform to the state of the art.

Open access

• As an Internet user you have free access to all public web pages at www.dresdner-bank.com

How you can protect yourself

We leave it completely up to you to decide on the information you would like to entrust us with during your visit.

Anonymity: You can navigate anonymously through all public web pages at www.dresdner-bank.com.

Pseudonyms: While using our dialog boxes you can simply specify an e-mail address for contact purposes. We will not identify the holder of this address.

Consent/voluntary provision of information: Personal information obtained during your visit to our website will not be automatically captured, processed, or used without your explicit consent. If you request a personal product offer, you enter the information required voluntarily.

Personal advertising by Dresdner Bank: You may object to the Bank’s internal use of your personal data for advertising purposes at any time.

Your data protection rights

According to the German Federal Data Protection Act and the EU data protection directive (95/46/EC), you have the right

• to access free of charge of the information about yourself stored by us and its use, as well as in certain circumstances
• to rectify, block, or delete this data.

According to the German TMG (Telemediengesetz - German Telemedia Act), you also have the right

• to revoke any consent given to the collectcapture, processing and use of Internet usage data at any time without giving reasons, as well as
• to rectify any Internet usage data stored about yourself or a pseudonym at any time.

Processing and use of data

We will inform you if we want to, process, or use your personal data obtained during your visit to our website. The decision about what personal data we receive and the purposes we may process or use it for rest with you.
In order to facilitate the continuous improvement of our website, we collect statistical information such as the number of visitors to each web page. The information collected comprises the computer and browser type, Internet service provider, date and time of access as well as calculation data.
The access data is saved every time a file is downloaded from our download service.
Each record consists of

• the page from which the file was requested,
• the name of the file,
• the date and time of the request,
• the volume of data transferred,
• the access status (file transferred, file not found, etc.) as well as
• a description of the type of web browser being used.

It is not possible to create user profiles. The data stored is analysed for statistical purposes only. No information is communicated to third parties, in whole or in part.
We amend and update the data we have stored as soon as we are informed of changes. Where necessary we also notify the data recipients of this fact.
We do not sell or lease personal information to people or organisations outside of Dresdner Bank, including user groups and e-mail lists. Personal information may be used internally for advertising purposes unless you have objected to this. Information may also be communicated within the Dresdner Bank Group for advertising purposes, if you have given written approval for this in the product request. We comply with the restrictions laid down in data protection and competition law.

Protection measures

Strict and continuously monitored security precautions guarantee the protection of your personal data.

E-mail correspondence

We will use the e-mail address you have given us to answer your questions and provide the information you have requested.
If the contents of your message relate to a contractual relationship, we will store the e-mail. Before sending us an unprotected e-mail via your Internet provider, you should remember that the contents of your message are not necessarily protected on the Internet from access by unauthorised persons, falsification, etc.

Confidentiality obligations

Depending on the precise Group company they work for, employees of Dresdner Bank must comply with the following obligations:

• banking secrecy,
• data secrecy,
• confidentiality of telecommunications,
• preservation of business and operating secrets,
• personal privacy,
• social work confidentiality and
• where appropriate, insurance secrecy.

Contact for data protection questions

If you have any questions concerning the capture, processing, or use of your personal data, please contact:

Dresdner Bank AG
Data Protection Officer
Dr. Uwe Deppisch
60301 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
E-mail: Datenschutz@dresdner-bank.com