E-mail privacy, security, and confidentiality

HYDROMOD has adopted and maintains the following privacy, security and confidentiality policy for message transmission by electronic mail (e-mail) via the Internet:

• It is impossible to guarantee origin, confidentiality, and integrity of messages by transmission on the Internet. In case of any doubts on originality, integrity, or contents of a message originating from a HYDROMOD sender please refer back to the author of the message at HYDROMOD.
• Original HYDROMOD senders addresses are always <last name>@hydromod.<domain> whereas <last name> is always a company companion or an employee authorised by the management to communicate in HYDROMOD’s name or on behalf of the company. The domain name for communication to Third Parties is generally “hydromod.de” or “hydromod.com”. In particular HYDROMOD does not send e-mails with 'system', 'webmaster', 'information' or project addresses (i.e. sender addresses beginning with e.g. 'root', 'admin', 'postmaster', 'webmaster', 'info', 'arcdev', 'strice', 'ferrybox', etc.).
• Confidential, sensible, integrity or security relevant content is usually attached as PDF file (Portable Document Format). Originals are secured against changes. If necessary or applicable, additional security measures (e.g. protection by a separately transmitted opening password) may be applied. Please note that attachments of other applications are usually not protected against changes and in case of doubts it shall always be referred to the secured PDF version of such documents.
• Generally HYDROMOD does not distribute executable software or elements like screen savers, scripts, or macros to Third Parties without special notice.
• Although not possible to fully guarantee it is almost impossible that computer viruses, worms, trojans, or other malicious elements are spread through HYDROMOD’s e-mail accounts or servers. All messages sent from or received by HYDROMOD are swept by up-to-date anti-virus software.
• HYDROMOD’s e-mail systems are secured against SPAM intruders. SPAM messages camouflaging a HYDROMOD sender’s address are not sent by HYDROMOD’s messaging systems but contain faked or spoofed sender addresses and are distributed through other systems than those maintained or used by HYDROMOD.
• Moreover, computer viruses and SPAM can spread through infected computer systems by retrieving entries from address books, files, or databases to spoof or fake sender addresses. In case spurious messages are received with a HYDROMOD sender address the message’s delivery protocol can be used to identify that the messages originates from a strange mailing system.
• SPAM e-mails represent a potential security risk and thus spurious or unwanted e-mails are filtered accordingly. Messages sent to HYDROMOD are controlled for SPAM contents. To avoid blocking by SPAM controllers please reference the message subjects and adjust the contents accordingly.

Web site and Internet information policy

• HYDROMOD maintains public information services through the company’s web sites. All information and documents available on HYDROMOD’s web sites are intended for public information and non-commercial use only. References must be accordingly cited and referenced by “Source: HYDROMOD Scientific Consulting” followed by the respective URL of the page.
• For all web site contents an unrestricted and unlimited copyright maintains ( Copyright © HYDROMOD Scientific Consulting – all rights reserved).
• Use of web site contents from HYDROMOD’s web sites for publications and commercial applications is always subject to a written permission by HYDROMOD. Please refer by e-mail to the site's webmaster for related information.
• HYDROMOD’s web sites are best viewed with state of the art web browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer™ , Netscape™, Mozilla® ) on computer screens with a resolution of 1.024 x 768 pixels or better. To achieve original displays and layouts please disable browser settings which overwrite e.g. font definitions, styles, sizes, colours, and backgrounds of web pages. Web browsers shall be enabled to interpret JavaScript.
• HYDROMOD’s web sites do not distribute cookies and no actions are taken to change browser or computer settings on the Client’s site. In case of very high resolution computer screen displays (e.g. in excess of 1.280 pixels) please adjust display options manually.
• HYDROMOD’s web sites are compiled in a valid and quality controlled hypertext language (e.g. HTML 4.x or XHTML 1.x). JavaScript is used where applicable.
• HYDROMOD’s web sites do not contain downloadable viruses and other malicious program components, executables, or software elements and do not use elements coded with Java or other program code which execute on client's host computers.
• Documents distributed through HYDROMOD’s web sites are usually provided in Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF files can be accessed by the Adobe PDF Reader which is freely available under "http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html".

For further information please visit HYDROMOD’s web site.