Statement: Why you cannot find us on facebook
Although facebook is the largest social network in the world, we have as a company decided not to have a profile on the platform due to various reasons. First of all, the privacy policy and the general terms and conditions (GTC) you have to agree to are extremely vague and user-unfriendly. Most notably, for any kind of service facebook offers you have to grant a permit to the corporation for a worldwide licence allowing it to collect and use all your contents (texts, picture, videos, messages, etc.), both provided by yourself but also by others. Consequently, the contents still belong to you but you have to transfer the control completely to the social network. Above that, facebook cooperates with third firms and shares the collected data with them, thereby also transferring them to the
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