This privacy statement supplements the terms & conditions for using the SABiDU services.

"SABiDU" means the services here under and/or the SABiDU OHG.

The protection of your personal data is of utmost concern to SABiDU. In these terms and conditions SABiDU would like to inform you about how ensure privacy in our services. Gaining your trust is among our main goals. In case you have any questions, please write us via our contact form so we can answer your questions as soon as possible. Responsible institution according to data privacy laws is SABiDU OHG.

The following terms used in these Terms and Conditions on Data Protection shall have the following meanings:

• "Personal Data" shall mean all data and/or information about your profession or your person.

• "SABiDU Websites" shall mean all websites on which SABiDU provides the SABiDU Services.

• "SABiDU Services" shall mean all registration based services provided by SABiDU on the SABiDU Websites.

• "SABiDU Members" shall mean all registered users of SABiDU on the SABiDU Websites.

• "Registration Data"shall mean the Personal Data you are obliged to make available to SABiDU in the registration process for the SABiDU Services (mandatory fields).

• "Profile"shall mean the SABiDU webpage where the Personal Data you have made available to SABiDU is displayed in accordance with your specifications and your consent.

SABiDU strictly adheres to the following principles for the protection of your Personal Data:

• SABiDU shall collect, process and use your Personal Data in accordance with the laws and statutes on data protection of the Federal Republic of Germany and those of the European Union.

• SABiDU shall use your Personal Data solely to provide you the SABiDU Services on the Internet for which you have registered. SABiDU will never pass your Personal Data on to any third party, neither for advertising, nor for marketing for any other purposes.

Your SABiDU account is protected by a password which you have chosen during the registration to your account. This means that you are the only person having access to your account. To ensure this, you should chose a complex password and change it on a regular basis.

It is furthermore possible to access the SABiDU websites via a specially secured server.

To securely use the SABiDU Services, SABiDU needs to collect and process personal data in the course of the registration process. Initially, these are the following data:

• User name

• Password

Your password and/or your user name are never visible to any SABiDU Member at any time. SABiDU shall never disclose or pass your password and/or your user name on to any third party.

Additionally, the following fields are mandatory during the registration:

• First name, surname, form of address

• valid email account

• valid mobile phone number

The email address is needed to send you text messages that are legally obligated. Your mobile phone number is needed to send you a confirmation to your end device after successful registration.
 

If you wish, you may provide additional information about yourself on a voluntary basis (hereinafter referred to as "Voluntary Data"), apart from the mandatory data. If not marked otherwise, these data can be made visible to other SABiDU members such as your direct contacts. SABiDU shall never disclose or pass your password and/or your user name on to any other third party. In some cases, due to law or reason, we have to make an exception. This is the case if support-members access user accounts on their requests to diagnose problems or if the account needs to be accessed due to legal reasons and we see us forced to make personal data available to others to protect rights, ownership or security of SABiDU, SABiDU members, and the public. We continuously enhance the SABiDU services and their functions and activate them for the use by SABiDU members. Again, it is our concern to offer those services free of charge and it is our opinion that target-oriented advertisement will be accepted by our members. In order to use the advantages of SABiDU-services, a membership is mandatory, which means that if you would like to communicate via SABiDU, both parties need to have a SABiDU-account. As a SABiDU member you can invite friends and colleagues to become a member of SABiDU, anytime. Please note that for the transmission of those invitations, we will implement security mechanisms. This is to avoid that mass mails or invitation mails are sent to false or incorrect addresses.

Our SABiDU services are to a large extent free of charge. And we would like to continue to offer you these services for free. Like all of large free web services, we use some areas on the SABiDU websites for selected advertisement. We believe that relevant and target-oriented information and advertisement is also in the interest of our customers, instead of being harassed with banners and pop-ups. This is the result of numerous surveys. Information and advertisements are not regarded as a necessary evil, but are rather welcome if they are target-oriented and of interest to the respective user. This is the reason why we would like to offer you a free service including an obvious added value by using advertisements and information. These advertisements are clearly marked as "advertisements" and are displayed outside the main user section.

We believe to meet the basic requirements because each member can administer their preferences and therefore can immediately influence the incoming information and advertisements.

We accept that our opinion on an ideal value-added service and on advertisement might not be commonly shared. At the same time, we believe that every user can decide on their own which services to use or not to use at any time.

SABiDU is still at a test stage. Yet, users and large surveys have proved that there are no concerns regarding privacy policy in our processes.

Your profile and personal information are not displayed to third parties. We regularly update and check our security measurements to secure your data in the best way possible.

After you have logged in to the SABiDU Services with your user name and password, SABiDU uses cookies in order to identify you during the course of your session. A cookie will be stored on your computer. Upon the termination of your session the cookie will be automatically deleted if you have not explicitly decided to save it permanently.

On the SABiDU websites anonymised data can be stored and collected for marketing and improvement reasons to create anonymous user profiles. The data will not be used to personally identify the visitor of the website and will not be merged with data on the anonymised user profiles.

Any personal data is only transferred in encrypted form. The server's identity is fixed and protected from the access of third parties. Efficient algorithms verify that the data reaches its addressees completely and unmodified.

On the SABiDU websites, information which are continuously selected and checked are displayed. Yet, we would like to inform you that we cannot guarantee the accuracy and completeness as well as the relevancy of the information presented here. This is especially the case for links of third parties whose contents we are not responsible for.

The content of the website is protected by copyright. So is the design of the website. No part of the contents is to be reproduced, printed out, translated, modified in digital form, filed, or to be made accessible to third parties under a different URL without formal written permission by SABiDU OHG. Links can only be placed on SABiDU websites if the SABiDU website to be accessed will be the only content of the new browser window.

SABiDU is a registered trademark of SABiDU OHG. Other user, product or company descriptions can be trademarks by third parties. The use of these trademarks is not allowed, if such a right has not been formally permitted in written form by SABiDU or the respective owner.

Like any other web service provider, we want to ensure a high protection against the loss of data. In order to restore data and user profiles in case of errors and system failures, SABiDU performs backups of the contents of user profiles. During that process, your data is temporarily stored in our Backup systems, but is still protected from the access and insights of third parties.

Each time you access a website, access data will be saved in a log file ("server log"). The set of data stored during that process contains the following data:

• Your IP address (by which your computer can be clearly identified),

• The remote host computer (meaning name and IP address of the computer requesting the respective page)

• The time, status, and amount of the transferred data as well as the Internet website you have reached the requested page from("referrer")

• The product and release information from your Internet browser ("user agent").

SABiDU therefore uses a standardised procedure and uses the data from this log file in anonymous form without reference to your person for statistical purposes. In doing so, SABiDU may analyze on which days and at which time the SABiDU Services are particularly frequented and the data volume is created on the SABiDU Websites. Furthermore, by using the log file, SABiDU can identify defects on the SABiDU Websites, such as defective hyperlinks or program defects, and thus continually improve the quality of the SABiDU Websites. SABiDU does not attribute the website demands stored in the log file to specific individual users. However, SABiDU reserves the right to review the log files from the last known IP address of a SABiDU-Member where SABiDU has reasonable cause to believe that the member is using SABiDU Services in breach of contractual agreements or the applicable legislation. In doing this, SABiDU is protecting other SABiDU Members, the safety of SABiDU Members’ data, as well as SABiDU Websites and the SABiDU Services. There is no linking of the page’s views and uses of individual persons stored in the server log.

SABiDU reserves the right to amend these Terms and Conditions on Data Protection, in the event that this becomes necessary due to gaps in these Terms and Conditions on Data Protection identified after their release, or in the event that it becomes necessary with respect to additional or amended services provided by SABiDU. SABiDU will notify you of any amendments to these Terms and Conditions on Data Protection by email to the email account you provided to SABiDU in the course of your registration.

Cologne: August 24, 2008