Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At DFG Research we have a few fundamental principles:

  1. We don't ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can't stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
  2. We don't share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  3. We don't store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.

Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:

DFG Research operates dfg-research.com. It is DFG Research's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites and software applications.

WEBSITE VISITORS

Like most website operators, DFG Research collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. DFG Research's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how DFG Research's visitors use its website. From time to time, DFG Research may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

DFG Research also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. DFG Research does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

GATHERING OF PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION

Certain visitors to DFG Research websites choose to interact with DFG Research in ways that require DFG Research to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that DFG Research gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. DFG Research collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitors interaction with DFG Research. DFG Research does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

AGGREGATED STATISTICS

DFG Research may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. DFG Research may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, DFG Research does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

PROTECTION OF CERTAIN PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION

DFG Research discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on DFG Research's behalf or to provide services available at DFG Research's websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using DFG Research's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. DFG Research's will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, DFG Research's discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when DFG Research believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of DFG Research, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an DFG Research website and have supplied your email address, DFG Research may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with whats going on with DFG Research and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. DFG Research takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

COOKIES

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitors computer, and that the visitors browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. DFG Research uses cookies to help DFG Research identify and track visitors, their usage of DFG Research website, and their website access preferences. DFG Research visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using DFG Research's websites, with the drawback that certain features of DFG Research's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES

Although most changes are likely to be minor, DFG Research may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in DFG Research's sole discretion. DFG Research encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.