The protection of your privacy is extremely important to us. This data protection declaration provides information on how and for what purpose we process data and explains the rights to which you are entitled.

We do not collect any personally identifiable information about you. Some of the personally unidentifiable data that is collected are:

IP address
Date and time of enquiry
Respectively transferred data quantity
Website from which the request comes
Browser
Operating system and its surface
Language and version of the browser software

The data are saved in the logfiles of our system. This data can never be connected to personal data of our users. The data are deleted once they are no longer required to achieve the purpose of your gathering. In the event that the data are saved in log files, this occurs at the most seven days later.

It is possible to save the data for longer than this. In this case, the users’ IP addresses are deleted or anonymized so that they can no longer be associated with the visiting client.

In addition, while you are using our website, cookies are saved on your computer.

We gather anonymous data in order to identify and gather errors and problems in HeroSearcher products and services. These data include data in connection with program crashes. We use several third-party providers for the gathering of error logs. During the use of the HeroSearcher’s website, various pieces of personal data that are necessary for the performance are saved on the technical infrastructure of the third-party supplier a limited period of time in encrypted form.

Cookies:

Cookies are small text files which are saved on your hard drive assigned to the browser you have used and through which the location which the cookie sets (here by us) accrues specific pieces of information. Cookies cannot execute any programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make HeroSearcher more user-friendly and more effective in general.

We set one or several persistent cookies in order to save the user’s settings and to make our website more user-friendly, to analyse user behaviour and as necessary carry out web analytics (see below in this regard) or A/B testing (see below also).

Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified length of time, which may differ from one cookie to another. You may delete the cookies in the security settings of your browser at any time. You may configure your browser setting the way you want it and e.g. refuse the acceptance of third-party cookies or all cookies. Cookies that have already been saved may be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. Please note that you may not be able to use all functions of this website within the full scope if you deactivate cookies for our website.

Special forms of use of the HeroSearcher website:

HeroSearcher search is a search which is supported by third-party suppliers. If a search is carried out with HeroSearcher, data are transferred to our search partners such as Bing. Bing is operated by: Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd, Carmanhall Road, Sandyford Industrial Estate, Dublin 18, Ireland (referred to below as: Bing). This is done in order to display search results and to prevent fraudulent activities. The following data are transferred to Bing during a search enquiry: IP address, user agent string, search term, country and language settings, filter settings for adult content, active search filter settings (e.g. filter search results by date).

HeroSearcher also assigns a “Bing Client ID” in order to improve the quality of the search results. This value is a user-specific ID which enables Bing to deliver more relevant search results also based on previous searches. The ID is saved in the HeroSearcher cookie and retrieved during future visits. In both cases, the legal basis for the processing of these data is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f of the General Data Protection Regulation.

However, you have full control over the use of this “Client ID”. If “Do not track” is activated in your browser, the Client ID is automatically deactivated and neither saved nor sent. The Client ID and personalised search results can also be switched off specifically in the HeroSearcher search settings.

Microsoft/Bing is certified under the “Privacy Shield” US-EU data protection agreement and undertakes to uphold the EU data protection provisions. For information on data protection at Bing, go to: https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement

Contact

Feel free to contact us at emailus@herosearcher.com, if you have any questions.